Abnormal events detection using deep neural networks: application to extreme sea surface temperature detection in the Red Sea

Mohamad Mazen Hittawe; Shehzad Afzal; Tahira Jamil; Hichem Snoussi; Ibrahim Hoteit; Omar Knio

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.28.2.021012

13 March 2019 Abnormal events detection using deep neural networks: application to extreme sea surface temperature detection in the Red Sea

Mohamad Mazen Hittawe, Shehzad Afzal, Tahira Jamil, Hichem Snoussi, Ibrahim Hoteit, Omar Knio

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 28, Issue 2, 021012 (March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.28.2.021012

Abstract

We present a method based on deep learning for detecting and localizing abnormal/extreme events in sea surface temperature (SST) of the Red Sea images using training samples of normal events only. The method operates in two stages; the first one involves features extraction from each patch of the SST input image using the first two convolutional layers extracted from a pretrained convolutional neural network. In the second stage, two methods are used for training the model from the normal training data. The first method uses one-class support vector machine (1-SVM) classifier that allows a fast and robust abnormal detection in the presence of outliers in the training dataset. In the second method, a Gaussian model is defined on the Mahalanobis distances between all normal training data. Experimental tests are conducted on satellite-derived SST data of the Red Sea spanning for a period of 31 years (1985–2015). Our results suggest that the Gaussian model of Mahalanobis distances outperformed 1-SVM by providing better performance in terms of sensitivity and specificity.

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Mohamad Mazen Hittawe, Shehzad Afzal, Tahira Jamil, Hichem Snoussi, Ibrahim Hoteit, and Omar Knio "Abnormal events detection using deep neural networks: application to extreme sea surface temperature detection in the Red Sea," Journal of Electronic Imaging 28(2), 021012 (13 March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.28.2.021012

Received: 2 October 2018; Accepted: 26 February 2019; Published: 13 March 2019

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