Focusing on the Big Picture: Insights into a Systems Approach to Deep Learning for Satellite Imagery

• Main Authors: Gupta, Ritwik, Sestili, Carson D, Vazquez-Trejo, Javier A, Gaston, Matthew E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 12-11-2018
• Subjects: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04893

Deep learning tasks are often complicated and require a variety of components
working together efficiently to perform well. Due to the often large scale of
these tasks, there is a necessity to iterate quickly in order to attempt a
variety of methods and to find and fix bugs. While participating in IARPA's
Functional Map of the World challenge, we identified challenges along the
entire deep learning pipeline and found various solutions to these challenges.
In this paper, we present the performance, engineering, and deep learning
considerations with processing and modeling data, as well as underlying
infrastructure considerations that support large-scale deep learning tasks. We
also discuss insights and observations with regard to satellite imagery and
deep learning for image classification.