Will Kulture have The Breakfast Klub's famous grits?
Updated 4:20 p.m. January 9, 2017, Editor's note: A representative of The Breakfast Klub contacted us to let us know that the Paper City item we referred to had listed the wrong cuisine for Kulture, their new venture. We have corrected below.
The Breakfast Klub's owner, Marcus Davis, is set to open another Houston restaurant, Kulture, 701 Avenida De Las Americas, in early 2018, according to Paper City magazine. Described as an "urban komfort kitchen" by Davis, the new restaurant will feature lunch, dinner, and drinks inspired by the Caribbean and Gulf Coast in a "re-imagined Southern Comfort Classic" style. With the line out the door, down the sidewalk popularity of The Breakfast Klub and The Reggae Hut, with its focus on Caribbean specialties, Davis is expanding his empire to include his own line of The Breakfast Klub branded items like " koffees" and pancake mixes. There is also an outpost of The Breakfast Klub at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Barringer's Bar, 108 Main, is closing after three years at the current location, as reported by Eater Houston. Originally located at 410 Main, it briefly closed in 2014 after the owners of Clutch City Squire, with whom they shared a space, allegedly chained the doors shut due to a lease dispute between the owners. The speakeasy-style bar hosted a farewell party on December 22 for its loyal clientele.
Owners, Chieko and Robby Cook, both native Houstonians, made the decision because the current lease is expiring this year, according To Paper City.
Poke in the Bowl, 515 Westheimer, opened in early December. The Hawaiian poke place has a six-step ordering process of base, side, protein, mix-ins, sauce, and toppings. The seventh step is for drinks. The regular order is $9.95, the large,$11.95. Open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., it also offers ice cream mochi, daifuku, and organic teas.
Line 'em up at Bee Fresh.
Bee Fresh, 4826 Highway 6 N. opened November 25. The Vietnamese restaurant specializes in pho, spring rolls and a variety of drinks such as smoothies and boba teas. The mayo and pate for the Vietnamese sandwich are made from scratch. Kimchi fries are a popular item and there is a kids menu. A grand opening is planned for January 15.
Juicy Burgers, 12341 FM 1960 West, opened December 1. The burger joint serves 100 percent Halal meat and beef bacon, along with shakes, wings, and of course, burgers.
Texas BBQ and Smokehouse, 2800 N. Terminal, Gate E2, opened in IAH Airport late November. With its steampunk brass styling, it's hard to miss. Expect airport prices like $4.75 for a side of bacon and $8.25 for apple cobbler. The BBQ plates are a more reasonable $9-10.
Just GRK, 11325 Katy Freeway, opened November 22. Brother and sister, Anastasia and Chris Nikolas, originally from Chicago and onetime residents of Greece, are bringing authentic Greek food, such as pork and chicken gyros, to Houston. There are house-made pita chips, and loukoumades ( fried Greek doughnuts) but we are looking forward to trying the tomato and zucchini fritters (keftedes).
Gyro Guys, 12403 Scarsdale Boulevard, opened in late November on the south side of Houston. Gyros are on the menu, but so is chicken shawarma and a variety of rice platters with Halal meats.
Poppy's Links Bbq, 17105 Westheimer, opened in early November.
Patron Grill, 9710 FM 1960 Bypass W., opened November 27. This is the second outpost for the Tex-Mex restaurant with another location in Livingston. Its margaritas get good reviews, as does the red and green salsas.
David Keck and Peter McCarthy bring honky-tonking to Montrose.
Goodnight Charlie's, 2531 Kuester, opened December 22, as reported here in the Houston Press. The honky-tonk concept from Master Sommelier, David Keck, and business partner, Peter McCarthy, is situated in a newly built Montrose building and will feature live music, Texas craft brews and wines on tap, and simple cocktails. There will also be a small food menu from Alvin Schultz, a former Master Chef contestant.
NOLA Poboys, 20503 FM 529, opened its third Houston area location, December 5.The original restaurant was founded in New Orleans by Murray Tate, after Hurricane Katrina. Noticing that there weren't many restaurants still open in the flood-ravaged city, Tate opened a makeshift kitchen in a Central Business District warehouse and began serving poboys. After food critics began praising his poboys, he opened a storefront on Bourbon Street in 2012. NOLA Poboys has three Houston area locations with a fourth one planned for Missouri City, though the Old Spanish Trail store closed after less than a year. With bread from Gendusa Bakery for the classic muffalettas, Da Bris poboys, and boudin balls, there's no need to make the six-hour drive along I-10 for authentic Louisiana cuisine. Now, if you're looking for some of the Big Easy's other delights, that's a different story.


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Knock National Novena postponed until later this year
The Parish Priest and Rector of Knock Shrine, Father Richard Gibbons, has announced today that the National Novena to Our Lady of Knock is being postponed until later this year. The annual novena of prayer and reflection was due to take place next month from the 14 to 22 August.
Father Richard said, "We have taken this difficult decision in the interest of the health and safety of our pilgrims and staff here at the Shrine. Given the recent concern from both government and health agencies regarding the Delta variant of the coronavirus, the responsible course of action is to postpone the National Novena at this time."
Father Richard expressed his disappointment at the postponement of the Novena for the second year in a row, and his hope that the national celebration of faith will take place later this year. He said, "It is vital that we allow the national vaccination programme to proceed across all age groups. Once we can safely gather again at Knock Shrine a full programme will be announced for the Novena to take place later in the year."
Father Richard continued, "At this time the national Marian Shrine is open to the public and pilgrims for the celebration of daily Mass with restricted capacity at Knock Basilica. The Sacrament of Confession is available daily as well as other services including the Mass Enrolment Office, Knock Museum and Knock Counselling Centre."
"We continue to welcome pilgrims to the Shrine. All who visit can be rest assured that Knock is a very safe place and that every precaution is in place to ensure the safety of all our pilgrims. We have queueing systems in place at all public buildings on the grounds of the Shrine, as well as ushers and staff that are present to ensure everything is done correctly and in line with latest public health guidelines," Father Richard said.
Throughout the month of August additional Masses will be available. Full details are available on the Knock Shrine website www.knockshrine.ie
The story of Knock began on 21 August 1879 when Our Lady, Saint Joseph and Saint John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church. This miraculous silent apparition was witnessed by fifteen people, young and old. Knock is an internationally recognised Marian Shrine and was visited by Pope Saint John Paul II in 1979 as part of his apostolic pilgrimage, and in 2018 by Pope Francis as part of the celebrations in Ireland for the IX World Meeting of Families. On 19 March 2021, Pope Francis officially recognised Knock as an International Marian Shrine through the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation. Archbishop Michael Neary, Archbishop of Tuam, is the custodian of the Marian Shrine and Father Richard Gibbons is parish priest of Knock and rector of the shrine. Please see www.knockshrine.ie for more information.

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Steelers WR Diontae Johnson Reportedly Underwent Sports Hernia Surgery
By Jack Murphy | Feb 13, 2020, 7:40 PM EST
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson has underwent surgery for a sports hernia | Steven Ryan/Getty Images
The football gods weren't kind to the Steelers in the 2019-20 season, as Pittsburgh lost the likes of Ben Roethlisberger and JuJu Smith-Schuster, among others, for long stretches of time.
Now, their 23-year-old wide receiver Diontae Johnson, who was a rare bright spot for the offense last season, underwent surgery for a sports hernia.
Report: Diontae Johnson underwent sports hernia surgery https://t.co/YQZpSYrBC5
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) February 13, 2020
Johnson does not seem discouraged by this minor setback as he took to Instagram to tell the world he will come back even stronger. He posted this last week when it was not yet announced why Johnson was in the hospital, sending Steeler fans into a mini-panic.
Diontae Johnson on IG. Not sure what happened. Hope everything is okay. #Steelers pic.twitter.com/z3fLbAE1Jv
— Blitzburgh (@SteelBlitzburgh) February 6, 2020
Johnson was very productive in his rookie season with the Steelers. He played in all 16 games and was a starter in 12 of them. Johnson finished the season with 59 catches which led all rookie wide receivers, recording 680 yards and five touchdowns.
Not only was Johnson a threat on offense but he was productive on special teams as well. He returned 20 punts last year and averaged an NFL-leading 12.4 yards-per-return. He also took one kick back for a touchdown.
As a sports hernia surgery usually just takes several weeks to heal, Johnson should be healthy and ready to go for the 2020 season. He will be joining Roethlisberger on the gridiron to see if the duo can form some semblance of chemistry.


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With land mines gone, Mass to be celebrated at West Bank baptismal site
For the first time in 54 years, a Mass will be celebrated on 10th January, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, at St John the Baptist Chapel on the banks of the Jordan River. "It will be a very special day," said Franciscan Fr Ibrahim Faltas, chancellor of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy... Read More
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Banksy's migrant crossing paintings fetch £2.2m in charity sale
A triptych of Banksy paintings which reference the European migrant crisis have sold for £2.2 million in a charity auction. Proceeds from the sale will be used to help build a new acute stroke unit and purchase children's rehabilitation equipment for Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation. The paintings, titled Mediterranean Sea View 2017, were originally estimated... Read More
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Vatican's top diplomat meets about Mideast with US and Israeli ambassadors
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, met with the US and Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican to express concern that "possible unilateral actions" on their part would further jeopardise peace in the region. "The Holy See reiterates that the state of Israel and the state of Palestine have the right to exist and to... Read More
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Bishops visiting Holy Land urge governments to uphold international law
Bishops from Europe and North America visiting for the annual Holy Land Co-ordination said countries must reject political or economic support for settlements but address security concerns of Israel and the right of all to live in safety. 'Our governments must do more to meet their responsibilities for upholding international law and protecting human dignity.... Read More
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Bishops express unity with Israeli Christians, warn of Palestinian crisis
Bishops from Europe, North America and South Africa who joined this year's Holy Land Co-ordination reiterated their solidarity with all of Israel's Christians and called for their equal inclusion in Israeli society. "Throughout our visit, we have experienced how there are Israeli citizens from many different backgrounds who coexist and work together for the common... Read More
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Catholic workers say US aid cuts to Palestinians could be disastrous
The US budgetary cuts to humanitarian aid institutions helping Palestinians could lead to long-term disastrous consequences, said Catholic aid workers in the region. "There is concern that the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is already dire, will be made worse," Hilary DuBose, who represents Catholic Relief Services in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza, told Catholic... Read More
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Dozens killed in protests as US embassy inaugurated in Jerusalem
As the new United States embassy was inaugurated in Jerusalem on 14th May, violence broke out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers. International media reported that in Gaza, at least 52 people were killed, including five under the age of 18, and some 2,000 were injured. The death toll was expected to rise. Palestinians claim... Read More
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Key Matchups to Watch in the Week 12 'Sunday Night…
1. QB Jimmy Garoppolo vs. LB Za'Darius Smith
Jimmy Garoppolo has been on a tear since Week 8. The 49ers signal caller has thrown for 1,164 yards from Weeks 8-11, the second-most in the league during that span behind Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston who has amassed 1,307 passing yards in that time frame. Garoppolo is coming off a career-day in Week 11 against the Arizona Cardinals, where he threw for a career-high 424 yards and four touchdowns.
Trying to chase down Garoppolo will be Packers linebacker Za'Darius Smith. A new acquisition this offseason, Smith has thrived in Mike Pettine's defensive scheme. The linebacker has posted 33 total tackles, 8.5 sacks, eight tackles for loss and 20 quarterback hits this season. Smith has been a thorn in quarterbacks' sides since 2017, posting a league-high 61 quarterback hits.
"They're fast, the D-line gets after it, usually four, maybe five guys, but they're pretty talented across the board," Garoppolo said of the Packers defense. "There's really no weak links in the defense. They'll make you earn everything all the way down the field."
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These two gestures—zooming in on Web pages and then scrolling around them—have probably sold more people on the iPhone and the iPod Touch than any other feature. It all happens with a fluid animation, and a responsiveness to your finger taps, that's positively addicting. New owners often spend time just zooming in and out of Web pages, simply because they can.
When you first open a Web page, you get to see the entire thing. Unlike Web browsers on most cellphones, the Touch crams the entire Web site onto its 3.5-inch screen, so you can get the lay of the land.
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Rotate the iPod. Turn the device 90 degrees in either direction. The Touch rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view.


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FDA grants emergency use authorization to Eli Lilly's experimental COVID-19 antibody drug
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By: WRTV Staff
INDIANAPOLIS — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday granted emergency use authorization to Eli Lilly and Company's experimental COVID-19 antibody treatment bamlanivimab.
According to a statement from the company, the drug is authorized for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients 12 years and older with a positive COVID-19 test who are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.
Lilly said in a statement the drug should be administered as soon as possible after a positive COVID-19 test and within 10 days of symptom onset. The authorization allows for the distribution and emergency use of bamlanivimab, which is administered via a single intravenous infusion.
"This emergency authorization allows us to make bamlanivimab available as a COVID-19 treatment for recently diagnosed, high-risk patients — adding a valuable tool for doctors fighting the now-increasing burden of this global pandemic," David A. Ricks, Lilly's chairman and CEO, said. "The rapid development and availability of bamlanivimab could not have been achieved without the relentless work of our Lilly team, collaboration across the industry and the urgent work being done by the government to ensure appropriate allocation to patients who need it the most."
The emergency use authorization is based on data from BLAZE-1, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 study in patients with recently diagnosed mild to moderate COVID-19 in the outpatient setting. Patients treated with the drug showed reduced viral load and rates of symptoms and hospitalization, Lilly said in the statement.
Infusion reactions and other allergic hypersensitivity events have been reported, Lilly said. The emergency use authorization includes a warning for hypersensitivity including anaphylaxis and infusion-related reactions.
Lilly said the drug is not authorized for use in patients who are hospitalized due to COVID-19 or who require oxygen therapy due to COVID-19 or who require an increase in baseline oxygen flow rate due to COVID-19 in those on chronic oxygen therapy due to underlying non-COVID-19 related comorbidity.
"The BLAZE-1 data show bamlanivimab, when given early in the disease course, may help patients clear the virus and reduce COVID-related hospitalizations, supporting our belief that neutralizing antibodies can be an important therapeutic option for patients fighting this virus," Daniel Skovronsky, M.D., Ph.D., Lilly's chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Research Laboratories, said. "We're proud of the speed with which we have been able to bring patients this therapy specifically designed to treat COVID-19. We thank those who have contributed to this medical advancement, particularly the clinical trial investigators and participants around the country."
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The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. The name Namib is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place". According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa. The Namib's northernmost portion, which extends 450 kilometres from the Angola-Namibia border, is known as Moçâmedes Desert, while its southern portion approaches the neighboring Kalahari Desert. Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world and contains some of the world's driest regions, with only western South America's Atacama Desert to challenge it for age and aridity benchmarks.
Very hot with high temperatures, during the day it reaches a temperature of 60 degrees Celsius, and at night it varies between 10 to 15 below zero. Formed by numerous dunes, slopes and plains, permeated by intermittent lakes and valleys, which by the action of the wind is constantly changing and changing. Its area exceeds 30 thousand km² and is integrally part of the Namib – Naukluft National Park, in Namibia, and constitutes the largest game reserve in Africa.
Among the plants on the site stands out Welwitschia mirabilis, which can live for over a hundred years, whose leaves absorb moisture from the air, as well as aloe-quiver, which can reach four hundred years. Among the animals, we highlight the desert viper, the African elephant, the pink-faced inseparable, the oryx, as well as some species of lizards, among other animals that manage to survive in the harsh climate of the region.
The culture of the tribes of the Namibe desert, with habits and ways of living or dressing still practically ancestral, totally dependent on pastoralism, is another reason that explains the tourist potential.
The most representative tribe of Namibe are the Mucubais, who have very curious habits. They are shepherds, but now they are embracing agriculture, due to the drought that is felt in this place.
Due to local characteristics, the desert is mainly inhabited by the Himba, Tjimba and Mucubal tribes, but with the bulk of the population close to the sea. There are also the Vatua, a people that are ethnically subdivided into the Kwepe, Kwisi and Kuroca tribes.
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Last month, three third-year students from BA (Hons) Fine Art were selected to take part in an online video exhibition called Camouflage in Milan. This year's theme was Public Space and Relational Attitudes.
Organised by Fine Art Course Leader, Richard Waring, Camouflage is a collaborative project set up in Vegapunk, Milan between Ex-voto, Visualcontainer Videoart Platform, Spazio Tilde and Viafarini-in-residence. The project is curated and run by artists: Marisol Malatesta, Simona Da Pozzo and Alessandra Arnò, and is commissioned by Non Riservato and Arts University Bournemouth.
The opportunity is designed to encourage students to consider the most recent developments in video art, and to explore language and relations with the viewer within their work.
"The purpose of this project is to open a network through which students can acquire experience in the field of independent production. This screening will be an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and experiences between those who teach, practice and explore video."– Vegapunk.
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\section{Introduction}

Deep learning methods have proven themselves in recent years with their success in remote sensing applications \citep{Zhu, Ma, Liang, Lu}. Among these, CNN based models have high accuracy in solving the land classification problem using satellite or aerial images. On the other hand, traditional feature extraction methods were the only option before the deep learning era to solve such problems. Hence, they became mature in time. These two methods, deep learning based and traditional, have been used separately most of the times up to now.

Successful CNN models usually have large size due to the number of parameters they have. Therefore, they need significant processing power and memory space. Although this may not cause a problem in server-based or cloud applications, it limits the usage of such large sized models on low-power embedded platforms such as the ones on UAV \cite{Osco}. Several studies emphasize this limitation on object detection and land classification via UAV platforms \citep{Nuri, Wang, Rui}. The main bottleneck for these systems is the computing power limits. Hence, the model size, complexity, and data processing capacity of the hardware are of great importance, especially in real-time image processing tasks. Therefore, quantization, pruning, filter compression, and matrix factorization are usually applied to the CNN model at hand \cite{Goel}. The aim here is to decrease the complexity of the model such that it becomes suitable to be deployed on embedded low-powered devices. However, the model performance and accuracy of the model generally decreases as a result of these operations.

In this study, we propose a novel method to increase the performance of CNN models, especially the ones with small size. Our method injects traditional features to CNN models for this purpose. The method is developed especially for low-complexity models deployed on embedded systems such as the ones on UAVs. Detailed literature review reveals that such a method has not yet been used in remote sensing as we proposed. The closest study was developed by \cite{Jbene} in which statistical features are used to increase the performance of the CNN model. The authors did not report a significant performance increase with their method.

Next, we introduce the candidate CNN models used in this study. Then, we summarize the traditional feature extraction methods that we use in the proposed method. Afterward, we explain the feature injection method we proposed in detail. We next provide the performance of the proposed method on the EuroSAT dataset to for land classification. Finally, we provide comments and ways of extending the proposed method.

\section{Candidate CNN Models for Land Classification}

We picked five candidate CNN models to be used in the proposed method. We briefly summarize them in this section. While using these models, we apply transfer learning by freezing the top layer of each model with pre-trained "ImageNet" weights. ImageNet is the dataset used for classification tasks \citep{5206848}. We provide the number of parameters and model size for these models at the end of the section.

\subsection{SqueezeNet}

The first CNN model we picked in this study is SqueezeNet proposed by \cite{squeezeNet}. This model has a small size specifically developed to be used in embedded systems. Therefore, it represents the low end of the models available in literature. After freezing the top layer, we consider 512 SqueezeNet features (tensors) to be used in Section~\ref{section:feature_injection}.

\subsection{MobileNetV2}

MobileNetV2 is the next CNN model considered in this study. It has been proposed by \cite{mobilenetv2}. As in SqueezeNet, it has small model size such that it can be safely used on mobile and edge devices. After freezing the top layer, we consider 1280 MobileNetV2 features (tensors) to be used in Section~\ref{section:feature_injection}.

\subsection{ShuffleNetV2}

ShuffleNetV2 is the third CNN model used in this study. It has been proposed by \cite{ShuffleNet}. ShuffleNetV2 has similar number of parameters and model size as in MobileNetV2. Hence, it also represents the low model size option. After freezing the top layer, we consider 1024 ShuffleNetV2 features (tensors) to be used in Section~\ref{section:feature_injection}.

\subsection{VGG16}

Besides small sized models considered in previous sections, we also picked large models in this study. The aim for this selection is to observe the effect of the proposed feature injection method on them. Therefore, we picked the VGG16 model proposed by \cite{VGG16}. After freezing the top layer, we consider 512 VGG16 features (tensors) to be used in Section~\ref{section:feature_injection}.

\subsection{ResNet50V2}

ResNet50V2 is the fifth and final CNN model considered in this study. It has been proposed by \cite{ResNet50V2}. The reason for choosing this model was to see how the largest model that we have selected, would behave in the proposed method. After freezing the top layer, we consider 2048 ResNet50V2 features (tensors) to be used in Section~\ref{section:feature_injection}.

\subsection{Summary of the Candidate CNN Models}

We summarize the CNN models considered in the previous section next. The aim is to compare these models in terms of their number of parameters and mode size. Therefore, we tabulate these values in Table~\ref{tab:comparisonCNN}. As can be seen in this table, the selected CNN models have size between 0.5 MB and 528 MB. The number of parameters in these models are within the range of 729 K to 23.5 M. We will use these models while injecting traditional features to them.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The parameter and model size of the candidate CNN models.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}ccc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Model}& \textbf{\# Parameters} & \textbf{Model Size} \\
\midrule
SqueezeNet & 729 K & 0.5 MB\\
MobileNetV2 & 2.2 M & 14 MB\\
ShuffleNetV2 & 4 M & 10 MB \\
VGG16 & 14.7 M & 528 MB \\
ResNet50V2 & 23.5 M & 98 MB\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}\label{tab:comparisonCNN}
\end{table}

\section{Traditional Features for Land Classification}

Our aim in this study is to improve the performance of known CNN models by injecting traditional features to them. Therefore, we summarize the traditional feature extraction methods in this section. To note here, the proposed system is not limited by the features extracted in this section. Other traditional feature extraction methods can also be used in the proposed framework.

\subsection{Sample Mean}

The first traditional feature extraction method used in this study is the sample mean. A mean value can be considered as a first-order statistical feature extraction method that can be used to summarize information in color bands. Therefore, we obtain the average (sample mean) normalized value for each band in the color image at hand. Normalization refers to re-scaling real-value numbers into a 0 to 1 range. As a result, we extract three features based on sample mean.

\subsection{Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix Features}

Another traditional feature extraction method considered in this study is based on gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) proposed by \cite{haralick} for texture analysis. This method has been generalized to other problems, including land use classification in satellite images. Haralick~\emph{et al.} introduced several second-order statistical features based on GLCM as correlation, contrast, homogeneity, energy, and ASM matrix features calculated on the grayscale image at hand. We use them as the second set of traditional features in this study.

\subsection{Hu Moments}

The third traditional feature extraction method used in this study is moments proposed by \cite{hu}. In this study, we calculate seven such features obtained from the grayscale image at hand.

\subsection{Local Binary Patterns}

The fourth traditional feature extraction method used in this study is the local binary patterns proposed by \cite{lbp}. This method has been initially developed for texture analysis. As in other methods, it has also been applied to land use classification studies. We extracted LBP 64 features from the grayscale image at hand.

\subsection{Histogram of Oriented Gradients}

The fifth traditional feature extraction method used in this study is the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) proposed by \cite{hog}. It has been widely used in computer vision to solve object detection problems. HOG counts the occurrence of gradient orientations of a portion of the image. After using the grayscale data in the HOG method, we collected HOG values created for the single color band in a one-dimensional array, as we did in the LBP. As a result, we obtain 64 features for the image at hand.

\subsection{Color Invariants}

The sixth and final traditional feature extraction method used in this study is based on color information. We extract it via color invariants introduced by \cite{colorinvariance}. As a result, we obtain 64 features for the image at hand.

\section{Proposed Feature Injection Method for Land Classification}\label{section:feature_injection}

We can divide a CNN model into two parts as feature extraction and classification. The feature extraction part extracts features from a given source via successive filtering and nonlinear operations. Here, filter coefficients are learnt via training. Hence, an adaptive structure can be formed for the image set at hand. Thanks to the transfer learning method that we are using, we do not learn filter coefficients every time. Instead, we learn them for the ImageNet dataset once and keep these coefficients as fixed. The classification part is composed of a fully-connected neural network (FCNN) most of the times.

We provide the visual representation of the proposed feature injection method in Figure~\ref{fig:wideDeep}. As can be seen in this figure, the CNN feature extraction part provides its own features. Traditional feature extraction methods extract their own features. Then, these two feature sets are merged with the concatenating method. Hence, the concatenate layer takes both inputs, and returns a single vector as merging of all inputs just before the classification step of the CNN model. This way, we inject the traditional features to the CNN model.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=6cm]{images/Figure1.png}
	\caption{Visual representation of the proposed feature injection method.}
	\label{fig:wideDeep}
\end{figure}

The concatenated traditional and CNN features are fed to the FCNN for the land use classification operation. We used max pooling and batch normalization operations just before concatenating the traditional features. We have 10 classes in our problem. Hence, the FCNN has 10 outputs. We train the parameters of the classification part (FCNN) of each CNN model for the problem at hand. While doing so, we also adjust weights of the injected traditional features fed to the FCNN. Hence, the overall model is reconfigured to solve the land classification problem at hand.

\section{Experiments}

We conducted experiments to measure the performance of the proposed method in this section. The body of the methods are written in Python language to run on a Jupyter notebook. The hardware power comes from the Google Colaboratory environment. We used Keras with the TensorFlow framework in implementation. During training, the epoch number is set to 16 with batch size 64. In optimizer side "Adam" is used in training. Each test has been repeated five times and the average values are listed in the following sections. The test code block can be accessed from Github by \cite{Aksoy_Object_Recognition_in}.

\subsection{Dataset used in Experiments}

We tested the proposed method on the EuroSAT dataset announced by \cite{eurosat} as a benchmark for land cover classification tasks. This dataset consists of 27000 RGB images with a resolution of 10  meters and hold labels with information of 10 different classes as annual crop, forest, herbaceous vegetation, highway, industrial, pasture, permanent crop, residential, river, and sea lake. We picked 80\% of the dataset for training and the rest is used for testing. Hence, we have 21600 and 5400 images for training and testing, respectively.

\subsection{The Effect of Injecting Traditional Features to the SqueezeNet Model}

In order to measure the performance of our proposed method, we first used the SqueezeNet model as a base. We injected different traditional feature sets to the model and tabulated the obtained results in Table~\ref{table:squezenet}. As can be seen in this table, the improvement in accuracy reaches 8.4\% when all traditional features are injected to the SqueezeNet model.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The effect of injecting traditional features to the SqueezeNet model.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Test Scenario} &  \textbf{Maximum Accuracy} \\
\midrule
SqueezeNet & 0.6778  \\
SqueezeNet + GLCM features& 0.6656  \\
SqueezeNet + color invariants & 0.7056\\
SqueezeNet + Hu moments + HoG + LBP + sample mean & 0.7403 \\
SqueezeNet + all traditional features & \textbf{0.7618} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\label{table:squezenet}
\end{table}

\subsection{The Effect of Injecting Traditional Features to the MobileNetV2 Model}

We next used the MobileNetV2 model as the base to measure the performance of the proposed method. As in the previous section, we injected different traditional feature sets to the model and tabulated the obtained results in Table~\ref{table:mobilenet}. As can be seen in this table, the improvement in accuracy reaches 2.27\% when all the traditional features are injected to the MobileNetV2 model.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The effect of injecting traditional features to the MobileNetV2 model.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Test Scenario} & \textbf{Maximum Accuracy} \\
\midrule
MobileNetV2 & 0.6062  \\
MobileNetV2 + GLCM features & 0.6101  \\
MobileNetV2 + color invariants & 0.6160\\
MobileNetV2 + Hu moments + HoG + LBP + sample mean & 0.6208 \\
MobileNetV2 + all extracted features & \textbf{0.6289} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\label{table:mobilenet}
\end{table}

\subsection{The Effect of Injecting Traditional Features to the ShuffleNetV2 Model}

Third, we used the ShuffleNetV2 model as the base to measure the performance of the proposed method. As in the previous section, we injected different traditional feature sets to the model and tabulated the obtained results in Table~\ref{table:shufflenet}. As can be seen in this table, the improvement in accuracy reaches 4.96\% when all traditional features are injected to the ShuffleNetV2 model.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The effect of injecting traditional features to the ShuffleNetV2 model.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Test Scenario} & \textbf{Maximum Accuracy} \\
\midrule
ShuffleNetV2 & 0.8502  \\
ShuffleNetV2 + GLCM features & 0.8623  \\
ShuffleNetV2 + color invariants & 0.8862\\
ShuffleNetV2 + Hu moments + HoG + LBP + sample mean & 0.8971 \\
ShuffleNetV2 + all extracted features & \textbf{0.8998} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\label{table:shufflenet}
\end{table}

\subsection{The Effect of Injecting Traditional Features to the VGG16 Model}

Next, we used the VGG16 model as a base in order to measure the performance of our proposed method. As in the previous section, we injected different traditional feature sets to the model and tabulated the obtained results in Table~\ref{table:vgg16}. As can be seen in this table, the improvement in accuracy is only 0.0014\% when all traditional features are injected to the VGG16 model.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The effect of injecting traditional features to the VGG16 model.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Test Scenario} &  \textbf{Maximum Accuracy} \\
\midrule
VGG16 & 0.9091  \\
VGG16 + GLCM features& 0.8995  \\
VGG16 + color invariants & 0.9018\\
VGG16 + Hu moments + HoG + LBP + sample mean & 0.9003 \\
VGG16 + all extracted features & \textbf{0.9105} \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\label{table:vgg16}
\end{table}

\subsection{The Effect of Injecting Traditional Features to the ResNet50V2 Model}

Finally, we used the ResNet50V2 model as a base in order to measure the performance of our proposed method. As in the previous section, we injected different traditional feature sets to the model and tabulated the obtained results in Table~\ref{table:resnet}. As can be seen in this table, the improvement in accuracy is only 0.0158\% when all traditional features are injected to the ResNet50V2 model.

\begin{table}[htbp]
\tbl{The effect of injecting traditional features to the ResNet50V2 model.}
{
\begin{tabular}{@{}lcc@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Test Scenario} & \textbf{Maximum Accuracy} \\ \midrule
ResNet50V2  & 0.6720  \\
ResNet50V2 + GLCM features & 0.6802  \\
ResNet50V2 + color invariants & 0.6826\\
ResNet50V2 + Hu moments + HoG + LBP + sample mean & 0.6804 \\
ResNet50V2 + All extracted Features & \textbf{0.6878} \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\label{table:resnet}
\end{table}

\subsection{Overview of the Injection Performance}

We can summarize all the experiments performed in the previous section as follows. When the CNN model size is small, injecting traditional features may increase the accuracy significantly as in the SqueezeNet, MobileNetV2, and ShuffleNetV2 models. Among these, improvement in the SqueezeNet model reaches up to 8.4\% which is a significant improvement. To note here, added parameters to the model (as injecting traditional features) have the size increase of 66 KB. This addition can be accepted when the corresponding improvement in accuracy is considered. On the other hand, the improvement in accuracy for large sized models such as VGG16 and ResNet50V2 is negligible. One reason for this result is that, these large models extract almost all information from the image due to their excessive parameters. Hence, injecting traditional features to such models increase accuracy marginally.

We summarized the accuracy improvements for the selected models in Figure~\ref{fig:paramvsacc}. This figure further justifies our observations such that the accuracy of relatively simple CNN models can be improved significantly by injecting traditional features to them.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
	\centering
	\includegraphics[width=10cm]{images/Figure2.png}
	\caption{Model size vs. accuracy comparison of the selected CNN models before and after injecting traditional features.}
	\label{fig:paramvsacc}
\end{figure}

\section{Final Comments}

In this study, we propose a novel method to improve the accuracy of CNN models, especially the ones with small size, by injecting traditional features to them. To test the effectiveness of the proposed method, we applied it to the CNN models SqueezeNet, MobileNetV2, ShuffleNetV2, VGG16, and ResNet50V2 having size 0.5 MB to 528 MB. We used the sample mean, gray level co-occurrence matrix features, Hu moments, local binary patterns, histogram of oriented gradients, and color invariants as traditional features for injection. We tested the proposed method on the EuroSAT dataset, consisting of 10 land use classes, to perform land classification. We observed that, the improvement in land classification accuracy reaches up to 8.4\% and 4.96\% when all traditional features are injected to the SqueezeNet and ShuffleNetV2 models, respectively. Hence, we can deduce that the proposed method significantly improves the land classification accuracy when applied to the small-sized CNN models. Unfortunately, such improvements in accuracy cannot be reached when the proposed method is applied to large-sized models. One reason for this result is that, these large models extract almost all information from the image due to their excessive parameters. Hence, injecting traditional features to such models increase accuracy only marginally. Increase in accuracy by the proposed method is achieved by adding only 350 extra traditional features. Hence, we can claim that the proposed method can be helpful in solving the land classification problem on edge (low power and low memory) devices.

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Q: Obtener valor de una función async en js y Vue he estado trabajando con javascript para hacer solicitudes con axios para un componente de vue, tengo un archivo js con la siguiente estructura:
import axios from 'axios/dist/axios'

import env from '../environments/environment.js';

var cita={

    get_user: async function(){

        let url_bases = env.url_base;

        try{
            // Consultamos la cita
            const data = await axios(url_bases+'/cliente/get-por-id/1')

            return data

        }catch(error){
            console.log(error)
        }
    }

}

export default cita;

El principal problema es que en el componente necesito obtener el valor de lo que retorna cita.get_user() pero en pantalla me dice [object promise], este es el componente:
import login_component from "@/Login/login_component";

    import script from '../scripts/ejemplo1.js';

    // Servicios
    import cita from '../servicios/cita.js';

    import axios from 'axios'

    export default {
        components:{
            login_component
        },
        data: function () {
            return {
              c:this.mensaje,
              guillermo:[]
            }
        },
        methods:{
            get_client(){
                this.guillermo=cita.get_user()
            }
        },
        created(){
           this.get_client()
        }
    };

Si alguien sabe, quedaría sumamente agradecido

A: Si usas debugger; o imprimes console.logs antes de llamar this.guillermo=cita.get_user() antes de consultar la data, antes de retornar el valor de la data y antes de asignar el valor retornado te daras cuenta que se asigna el valor retornado antes de que termina de obtener la data. Lo que pasa es que aunque tu funcion cita sabe que debes esperar para que axios devuelva la data, la funcion get_client no sabe que cita.get_user() tiene que esperar.
Si usas async/await o then en get_client deberia funcionar
methods:{
    async get_client(){
        this.guillermo= await cita.get_user()
    }
},

PD: No tienes que wrapper el objeto del servicio en un var
import axios from 'axios/dist/axios';
import env from '../environments/environment.js';

async function get_user() {
    let url_bases = env.url_base;
    try{
        // Consultamos la cita
        const data = await axios(url_bases+'/cliente/get-por-id/1')
        return data;
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

export default {
  get_user
};

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