A new system combines vision and language for person re-identification.
problem Real-world surveillance lacks visual data for person re-identification.
method Two-stream CNN framework with shared logits, CCA for modalities, multi-modal testing protocol.
result 22% improvement in re-identification performance with multi-modal queries.
A video-based re-identification method using attention mechanisms.
problem Associating videos of the same person from different cameras.
method Siamese framework with attention mechanisms for spatial and temporal information.
result Achieves better performance than state-of-the-art on iLIDS-VID dataset.
Person Re-Identification (person re-id) is a crucial task as its applications in visual surveillance and human-computer interaction. In this work, we present a novel joint Spatial and Temporal Attention Pooling Network (ASTPN) for video-based person re-identification, which enables the feature extractor to be aware of …
MobileNet-v2 improves re-ID on edge devices with mixed precision.
problem Real-time person re-identification in edge devices with limited resources.
method Mixed precision training (FP32 and FP16) for MobileNet-v2 on edge nodes.
result Mixed precision training improves inference throughput and reduces power consumption.
Person re-identification is particularly challenging due to significant appearance changes across separate camera views. In order to re-identify people, a representative human signature should effectively handle differences in illumination, pose and camera parameters. While general appearance-based methods are modelled…
Person Re-identification (re-id) faces two major challenges: the lack of cross-view paired training data and learning discriminative identity-sensitive and view-invariant features in the presence of large pose variations. In this work, we address both problems by proposing a novel deep person image generation model for…
Person re-identification (re-id), an emerging problem in visual surveillance, deals with maintaining entities of individuals whilst they traverse various locations surveilled by a camera network. From a visual perspective re-id is challenging due to significant changes in visual appearance of individuals in cameras wit…
Domain adaptation in person re-identification (re-ID) has always been a challenging task. In this work, we explore how to harness the natural similar characteristics existing in the samples from the target domain for learning to conduct person re-ID in an unsupervised manner. Concretely, we propose a Self-similarity Gr…
Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims at matching images of the same person across disjoint camera views, which is a challenging problem in multimedia analysis, multimedia editing and content-based media retrieval communities. The major challenge lies in how to preserve similarity of the same person across video footag…
This paper solves deep learning's edge sensitivity issue by swapping important and irrelevant segments in synthetic data.
problem Edge sensitivity and high computational cost in deep learning classification models.
method Synthetic data with swapped segments to implicitly define receptive fields, preserving label information.
result The method drives networks to early convergence and appropriate solutions, improving person re-identification.
Beta-SOD detects and corrects noisy object re-identification using cosine similarity and Beta mixtures.
problem Noisy object re-identification in image datasets.
method Reframed Re-ID as a similarity task, using Siamese networks and Beta mixture models.
result Superior performance in noisy conditions compared to state-of-the-art methods.
This paper analyzes the stability and generalization of triplet learning algorithms.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of triplet learning's generalization performance.
method Stability analysis and high-probability generalization bounds for triplet learning algorithms.
result Established general high-probability generalization bound for triplet learning algorithms.
ACNet improves CNNs by adaptively connecting feature nodes.
problem Improving traditional CNNs for better performance and handling non-Euclidean data.
method Adaptively connects feature nodes to switch between global and local inference.
result ACNet achieves state-of-the-art performance and overcomes limitations of MLP and CNN.
Proposes privacy-preserving sensor data transformations to prevent user re-identification and sensitive activity inference.
problem Privacy threats from shared sensor data and potential user re-identification.
method Mechanisms to transform sensor data to eliminate patterns for re-identification and sensitive activity inference, while maintaining minor utility loss.
result Reduced user re-identification accuracy to random guess level and prevented inference of sensitive activities.
Unified bounds for DP risks reduce noise and improve accuracy.
problem Difficult interpretation and calibration of DP mechanisms.
method Hypothesis-testing interpretation of DP (f-DP) and unified bounds. result Unified bounds are tighter and tunable for specific risks.
A novel method to prevent bias in authentication models.
problem Bias in data-driven authentication models trained in one domain but required to apply in others.
method Two-stage method involving one-versus-rest disentangle learning and additive adversarial learning.
result Demonstrated effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method through comprehensive evaluation.
Cross-domain visual data matching is one of the fundamental problems in many real-world vision tasks, e.g., matching persons across ID photos and surveillance videos. Conventional approaches to this problem usually involves two steps: i) projecting samples from different domains into a common space, and ii) computing (…
End-to-end method learns geometry and appearance for multi-view object detection.
problem Challenges in multi-view object detection, including viewpoint, lighting, and scale variability.
method Jointly learns multi-view geometry and warping for robust cross-view object detection.
result Superior performance compared to baselines on a new street-level panorama data set.
DeepBark improves tree bark re-identification accuracy.
problem Challenging illuminations make tree bark hard to re-identify.
method Used a large dataset of 2,400 bark images to train DeepBark and SqueezeBark.
result DeepBark achieves 87.2% mAP in retrieving relevant bark images.
Knowledge distillation is an effective technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a shallow student. However, just like massive classification, large scale knowledge distillation also imposes heavy computational costs on training models of deep neural networks, as the softmax activations at the la…
The group membership prediction (GMP) problem involves predicting whether or not a collection of instances share a certain semantic property. For instance, in kinship verification given a collection of images, the goal is to predict whether or not they share a {\it familial} relationship. In this context we propose a n…
Recent advances suggest that a wide range of computer vision problems can be addressed more appropriately by considering non-Euclidean geometry. This paper tackles the problem of sparse coding and dictionary learning in the space of symmetric positive definite matrices, which form a Riemannian manifold. With the aid of…
Challenge hides and seeks privacy in clinical time-series data.
problem De-identifying clinical time-series data while preserving utility and privacy.
method Synthetic data generation to preserve temporal dynamics and limit re-identification risk.
result A novel competition tracks synthetic data generation and patient re-identification.
Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account manifold geometry is typically done via (1) embedding the manifolds in tangent space…
Deep learning model developers often use cloud GPU resources to experiment with large data and models that need expensive setups. However, this practice raises privacy concerns. Adversaries may be interested in: 1) personally identifiable information or objects encoded in the training images, and 2) the models trained …
In this paper, we study the problem of transfer learning with the attribute data. In the transfer learning problem, we want to leverage the data of the auxiliary and the target domains to build an effective model for the classification problem in the target domain. Meanwhile, the attributes are naturally stable cross d…
New deep learning model for matching sets of items, preserving exchangeability.
problem Matching two different sets of items while preserving exchangeability.
method Exchangeable deep neural networks architecture and efficient training framework.
result Significant improvements in fashion set recommendation and group re-identification.
New method identifies drivers from car logs without reverse-engineering CAN protocol.
problem Identifying drivers from in-vehicle network logs without access to exact signal semantics.
method Machine learning techniques applied to off-the-shelf data.
result Driver re-identification accuracy of 75-85% on a dataset of 33 drivers.
Method generates visual explanations for similarity models without classification.
problem Lack of visual explanations for similarity models trained without classification loss.
method Gradient-based visual attention using learned feature embeddings.
result Attention maps improve model performance and can be used as constraints.
We introduce a new representation learning approach for domain adaptation, in which data at training and test time come from similar but different distributions. Our approach is directly inspired by the theory on domain adaptation suggesting that, for effective domain transfer to be achieved, predictions must be made b…
Deep metric learning aims to learn a deep embedding that can capture the semantic similarity of data points. Given the availability of massive training samples, deep metric learning is known to suffer from slow convergence due to a large fraction of trivial samples. Therefore, most existing methods generally resort to …
Aims to eliminate domain bias in authentication without domain labels.
problem Authentication models are biased due to domain differences.
method Discover latent domains and eliminate domain difference alternately, using a meta-learning framework.
result Eliminates domain difference in authentication without domain labels.
This paper proposes a method to compress and adapt CNNs for real-world applications.
problem Differences in data distributions and high computational costs limit CNN adoption.
method Joint optimization of CNNs for unsupervised domain adaptation and knowledge distillation.
result The proposed method achieves the highest accuracy with comparable or lower time complexity.
The paper explores how machine learning personalization aligns with humanistic views of the person.
problem Aligning machine learning personalization with humanistic views of the person.
method Explicating the concept of personalization and contrasting it with humanistic views of the person.
result Proposes dimensions for evaluating the degree of personalization of ML personalized scores.
Federated learning framework extended for personalizing global models.
problem Evaluate personalization strategies for global models on-device.
method Extend federated learning framework, develop tools for analysis and evaluation.
result Personalization yields significant benefits for a large user population.
Adaptive personalized federated learning improves local model personalization.
problem Maximizing global model performance limits local model personalization.
method APFL algorithm trains local models while contributing to global model, with optimal mixing parameter and communication-efficient optimization.
result Demonstrates effectiveness of personalization schema and correctness of generalization theories.
A new personality-based recommender system tackles data sparsity without feedback.
problem Data sparsity without common feedback among users.
method Implicitly identifying users' personality type and incorporating it with personal interests and knowledge level.
result The model's effectiveness, especially in data sparsity situations, demonstrated on a real-world dataset.
Framework generates personalized insulin treatment strategies using deep models.
problem Developing optimal personalized treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
method Combines deep generative time series models with decision theory.
result Demonstrated improved personalized insulin treatment strategies for diabetes patients.
Paper uses language models to predict MBTI personality types with high accuracy.
problem Predicting Myers-Briggs personality types from text.
method Fine-tuned BERT model for predicting MBTI types and generating personality-specific language.
result BERT model achieves high accuracy in predicting MBTI types and personality-specific language generation.
FMP improves personalized ASR models on private devices.
problem Limited accuracy and privacy in federated fine-tuning of ASR models.
method FMP estimates global and personalized marginal distributions and adjusts NNLM probabilities.
result FMP achieves modest WER reductions on ASR rescoring tasks.
Background doesn't affect personality predictions in deep networks.
problem Understanding how background images influence personality attribution in deep learning models.
method Explicitly studied the effect of background images on personality prediction in deep residual networks, controlling for confounds.
result Adding background information to input decreases model performance for personality trait prediction.
Generative framework unifies and improves personalized learning and estimation methods.
problem Statistical heterogeneity in client data motivates personalized learning models.
method Generative framework unifies and suggests new personalized learning and estimation algorithms.
result AdaPeD algorithm numerically outperforms known algorithms.
A new federated multi-armed bandit framework with personalization balances generalization and personalization.
problem Balancing generalization and personalization in federated multi-armed bandits.
method Proposed a Personalized Federated Upper Confidence Bound (PF-UCB) algorithm to achieve a O(log(T)) regret. result PF-UCB achieves an O(log(T)) regret regardless of personalization degree and has similar instance dependency to lower bound. The paper explores methods to personalize deep learning models.
problem Optimizing deep learning models for individual performance.
method Curriculum learning and data augmentation techniques.
result Personalized methods improve performance on individual data but degrade on general datasets.
Unified proof for scalable personalized federated learning.
problem Personalized federated learning under asynchronous updates.
method Unified proof for asynchronous federated learning with bounded staleness applied to MAML and ME personalization frameworks.
result Unified proof for convergence to first-order stationary point for smooth and non-convex functions.
Explanation in machine learning and related fields such as artificial intelligence aims at making machine learning models and their decisions understandable to humans. Existing work suggests that personalizing explanations might help to improve understandability. In this work, we derive a conceptualization of personali…
This paper analyzes the trade-off between accuracy and communication in personalized federated learning.
problem The accuracy-communication trade-off in personalized federated learning.
method The paper provides a quantitative characterization of the personalization degree on the trade-off, establishing minimax optimality.
result The paper offers theoretical insights for choosing the personalization degree and validates the results on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Personalized sleep staging achieved with single-night data using KL-divergence regularization.
problem Improving automatic sleep staging accuracy with limited single-night data.
method KL-divergence regularization for transfer learning from a pretrained model to a personalized model.
result Personalized sleep staging accuracy of 79.6% with KL-divergence regularization.