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Main Authors: Konstantakos, Sotirios, Chalkiadaki, Despina Ioanna, Mademlis, Ioannis, Chrysochoou, Adamantia Anna Rebolledo, Papadopoulos, Georgios Th.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07975
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author Konstantakos, Sotirios
Chalkiadaki, Despina Ioanna
Mademlis, Ioannis
Chrysochoou, Adamantia Anna Rebolledo
Papadopoulos, Georgios Th.
author_facet Konstantakos, Sotirios
Chalkiadaki, Despina Ioanna
Mademlis, Ioannis
Chrysochoou, Adamantia Anna Rebolledo
Papadopoulos, Georgios Th.
contents Automated visual firearms classification from RGB images is an important real-world task with applications in public space security, intelligence gathering and law enforcement investigations. When applied to images massively crawled from the World Wide Web (including social media and dark Web sites), it can serve as an important component of systems that attempt to identify criminal firearms trafficking networks, by analyzing Big Data from open-source intelligence. Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are the state-of-the-art methodology for achieving this, with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) being typically employed. The common transfer learning approach consists of pretraining on a large-scale, generic annotated dataset for whole-image classification, such as ImageNet-1k, and then finetuning the DNN on a smaller, annotated, task-specific, downstream dataset for visual firearms classification. Neither Visual Transformer (ViT) neural architectures nor Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) approaches have been so far evaluated on this critical task..
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spellingShingle Self-supervised visual learning for analyzing firearms trafficking activities on the Web
Konstantakos, Sotirios
Chalkiadaki, Despina Ioanna
Mademlis, Ioannis
Chrysochoou, Adamantia Anna Rebolledo
Papadopoulos, Georgios Th.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Automated visual firearms classification from RGB images is an important real-world task with applications in public space security, intelligence gathering and law enforcement investigations. When applied to images massively crawled from the World Wide Web (including social media and dark Web sites), it can serve as an important component of systems that attempt to identify criminal firearms trafficking networks, by analyzing Big Data from open-source intelligence. Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are the state-of-the-art methodology for achieving this, with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) being typically employed. The common transfer learning approach consists of pretraining on a large-scale, generic annotated dataset for whole-image classification, such as ImageNet-1k, and then finetuning the DNN on a smaller, annotated, task-specific, downstream dataset for visual firearms classification. Neither Visual Transformer (ViT) neural architectures nor Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) approaches have been so far evaluated on this critical task..
title Self-supervised visual learning for analyzing firearms trafficking activities on the Web
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07975