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Red tides caused by Margalefidinium polykrikoides occur continuously along the southern coast of Korea, where there are many aquaculture cages, and therefore, prompt monitoring of bloom water is required to prevent considerable damage. Satellite-based ocean-color sensors are widely used for detecting red tide blooms, but their low spatial resolution restricts coastal observations. Contrarily, terrestrial sensors with a high spatial resolution are good candidate sensors, despite the lack of spectral resolution and bands for red tide detection. In this study, we developed a U-Net deep learning model for detecting M. polykrikoides blooms along the southern coast of Korea from PlanetScope imagery with a high spatial resolution of 3 m. The U-Net model was trained with four different datasets that were constructed with randomly or non-randomly chosen patches consisting of different ratios of red tide and non-red tide pixels. The qualitative and quantitative assessments of the conventional red tide index (RTI) and four U-Net models suggest that the U-Net model, which was trained with a dataset of non-randomly chosen patches including non-red tide patches, outperformed RTI in terms of sensitivity, precision, and F-measure level, accounting for an increase of 19.84%, 44.84%, and 28.52%, respectively. The M. polykrikoides map derived from U-Net provides the most reasonable red tide patterns in all water areas. Combining high spatial resolution images and deep learning approaches represents a good solution for the monitoring of red tides over coastal regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malware detection of non-executables has recently been drawing much attention because ordinary users are vulnerable to such malware. Hangul Word Processor (HWP) is software for editing non-executable text files and is widely used in South Korea. New malware for HWP files continues to appear because of the circumstances between South Korea and North Korea. There have been various studies to solve this problem, but most of them are limited because they require a large amount of effort to define features based on expert knowledge. In this study, we designed a convolutional neural network to detect malware within HWP files. Our proposed model takes a raw byte stream as input and predicts whether it contains malicious actions or not. To incorporate highly variable lengths of HWP byte streams, we propose a new padding method and a spatial pyramid average pooling layer. We experimentally demonstrate that our model is not only effective, but also efficient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four data-driven methods—random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), feed-forward neural network (FNN), and convolutional neural network (CNN)—are applied to discriminate surface and underwater vessels in the ocean using low-frequency acoustic pressure data. Acoustic data are modeled considering a vertical line array by a Monte Carlo simulation using the underwater acoustic propagation model, KRAKEN, in the ocean environment of East Sea in Korea. The raw data are preprocessed and reorganized into the phone-space cross-spectral density matrix (pCSDM) and mode-space cross-spectral density matrix (mCSDM). Two additional matrices are generated using the absolute values of matrix elements in each CSDM. Each of these four matrices is used as input data for supervised machine learning. Binary classification is performed by using RF, SVM, FNN, and CNN, and the obtained results are compared. All machine-learning algorithms show an accuracy of >95% for three types of input data—the pCSDM, mCSDM, and mCSDM with the absolute matrix elements. The CNN is the best in terms of low percent error. In particular, the result using the complex pCSDM is encouraging because these data-driven methods inherently do not require environmental information. This work demonstrates the potential of machine learning to discriminate between surface and underwater vessels in the ocean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]