Identification and Classification of Atmospheric Particles Based on SEM Images Using Convolutional Neural Network with Attention Mechanism

Changchang Yin, Xuezhen Cheng, Xilu Liu and Meng Zhao

Complexity, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-13

Abstract:

Accurate identification and classification of atmospheric particulates can provide the basis for their source apportionment. Most current research studies mainly focus on the classification of atmospheric particles based on the energy spectrum of particles, which has the problems of low accuracy and being time-consuming. It is necessary to study the classification method of atmospheric particles with higher accuracy. In this paper, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model with attention mechanism is proposed to identify and classify the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of atmospheric particles. First, this work established a database, Qingdao 2016–2018, for atmospheric particles classification research. This database consists of 3469 SEM images of single particulates. Secondly, by analyzing the morphological characteristics of single particle SEM images, it can be divided into four categories: fibrous particles, flocculent particles, spherical particles, and mineral particles. Thirdly, by introducing attention mechanism into convolutional neural network, an Attention-CNN model for the identification and classification of the four types of atmospheric particles based on the SEM images is established. Finally, the Attention-CNN model is trained and tested based on the SEM images database, and the results of identification and classification for four types of particles are obtained. Under the same SEM images database, the classification results from Attention-CNN are compared with those of CNN and SVM. It is found that Attention-CNN has higher classification accuracy and reduces significantly the misclassification number of particles, which shows the focusing effect of attention mechanism.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/9673724

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