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Preprocessing-free surface material classification using convolutional neural networks pretrained by sparse Autoencoder

  • Mengqi Ji
  • , Lu Fang
  • , Haitian Zheng
  • , Matti Strese
  • , Eckehard Steinbach
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

Acceleration signals captured during the interaction of a rigid tool with an object surface carry relevant information for surface material classification. Existing methods mostly rely on carefully designed perception-related features or features adapted from audio processing motivated by the observed similarity between acceleration signals and audio signals. In contrast, our proposed method automatically learns features from RAW acceleration data without preprocessing. The approach is based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) trained and tested on RAW data. For better performance and faster convergence of the CNN, we use the weights of a trained sparse Autoencoder (AE) to initialize the weights of the first convolution layers of the CNN. This strategy is named CNN pretrained by sparse AE (ACNN). Our classification results on a publically available Haptic Texture Database demonstrate that the proposed algorithm performs favorably against existing methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing - Proceedings of MLSP 2015
EditorsDeniz Erdogmus, Serdar Kozat, Jan Larsen, Murat Akcakaya
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781467374545
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event25th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2015 - Boston, United States
Duration: 17 Sep 201520 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameIEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP
Volume2015-November
ISSN (Print)2161-0363
ISSN (Electronic)2161-0371

Conference

Conference25th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, MLSP 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period17/09/1520/09/15

Keywords

  • CNN pretraining
  • Sparse Autoencoder
  • convolutional neural networks
  • haptic texture classification

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