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A new 2.5D U-net for 3D segmentation reduces memory constraints.
Boolean matrix has been used to represent digital information in many fields, including bank transaction, crime records, natural language processing, protein-protein interaction, etc. Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) aims to find an approximation of a binary matrix as the Boolean product of two low rank Boolean matri…
We introduce a new multi-dimensional nonlinear embedding -- Piecewise Flat Embedding (PFE) -- for image segmentation. Based on the theory of sparse signal recovery, piecewise flat embedding with diverse channels attempts to recover a piecewise constant image representation with sparse region boundaries and sparse clust…
WS-II algorithm segments trajectories with high accuracy.
Stochastic Sparse Subspace Clustering improves subspace clustering by reducing over-segmentation through dropout.
Binary autoencoder with sparse hidden layer preserves information and zero reconstruction error.
A new hashing method improves accuracy by learning an orthogonal transform.
White matter hyperintensity (WMH) is commonly found in elder individuals and appears to be associated with brain diseases. U-net is a convolutional network that has been widely used for biomedical image segmentation. Recently, U-net has been successfully applied to WMH segmentation. Random initialization is usally used…
Quantum algorithm improves sparse vector recovery from noisy measurements.
New algorithm learns sparse GLMs for binary outcomes efficiently.
Inspired by the advances in biological science, the study of sparse binary projection models has attracted considerable recent research attention. The models project dense input samples into a higher-dimensional space and output sparse binary data representations after the Winner-Take-All competition, subject to the co…
TPM improves medical image segmentation by separating foreground and background.
LatticeNet segments 3D point clouds faster and more efficiently.
A new method for measuring prediction uncertainty in classifiers.
Algorithm minimizes regret in non-stationary dueling bandits with unknown parameters.
In this paper, we consider the problem of unsupervised video object segmentation via background subtraction. Specifically, we pose the nonsemantic extraction of a video's moving objects as a nonconvex optimization problem via a sum of sparse and low-rank matrices. The resulting formulation, a nonnegative variant of rob…
Machine learning and statistics typically focus on building models that capture the vast majority of the data, possibly ignoring a small subset of data as "noise" or "outliers." By contrast, here we consider the problem of jointly identifying a significant (but perhaps small) segment of a population in which there is a…
The performance of the state-of-the-art image segmentation methods heavily relies on the high-quality annotations, which are not easily affordable, particularly for medical data. To alleviate this limitation, in this study, we propose a weakly supervised image segmentation method based on a deep geodesic prior. We hypo…
We first, introduce a deep learning based framework named as DeepIrisNet2 for visible spectrum and NIR Iris representation. The framework can work without classical iris normalization step or very accurate iris segmentation; allowing to work under non-ideal situation. The framework contains spatial transformer layers t…
Efficient methods for sparse random projections improve classification accuracy in very high-dimensional data.
A new framework for sparse regression models with slow variations.
Efficiently poisons offline RLHF models by flipping preference labels.
A fast binary embedding method preserves Euclidean distances in high-dimensional data.
Improved road segmentation on low-res LIDAR data for autonomous vehicles.
We consider the problem of robust compressed sensing whose objective is to recover a high-dimensional sparse signal from compressed measurements corrupted by outliers. A new sparse Bayesian learning method is developed for robust compressed sensing. The basic idea of the proposed method is to identify and remove the ou…
This study uses neural networks to solve interpolation problems with sparse, infinitely wide layers.
RGAM builds more accurate models by preferring linear features over non-linear ones.
In this paper we propose a mixture model, SparseMix, for clustering of sparse high dimensional binary data, which connects model-based with centroid-based clustering. Every group is described by a representative and a probability distribution modeling dispersion from this representative. In contrast to classical mixtur…
Novel approximation hierarchy for sparse quadratic programs.
A new method for binary ICA using non-stationary sources.
The pseudo-likelihood method is one of the most popular algorithms for learning sparse binary pairwise Markov networks. In this paper, we formulate the regularized pseudo-likelihood problem as a sparse multiple logistic regression problem. In this way, many insights and optimization procedures for sparse logistic…
Automated melodic phrase detection and segmentation is a classical task in content-based music information retrieval and also the key towards automated music structure analysis. However, traditional methods still cannot satisfy practical requirements. In this paper, we explore and adapt various neural network architect…
Pruning is an efficient model compression technique to remove redundancy in the connectivity of deep neural networks (DNNs). Computations using sparse matrices obtained by pruning parameters, however, exhibit vastly different parallelism depending on the index representation scheme. As a result, fine-grained pruning ha…
This paper presents Sparse Partitioning, a Bayesian method for identifying predictors that either individually or in combination with others affect a response variable. The method is designed for regression problems involving binary or tertiary predictors and allows the number of predictors to exceed the size of the sa…
Piecewise Aggregate Approximation (PAA) is a competitive basic dimension reduction method for high-dimensional time series mining. When deployed, however, the limitations are obvious that some important information will be missed, especially the trend. In this paper, we propose two new approaches for time series that u…
Novel method improves load estimation in power grids using anomaly and change point detection.
We consider the problem of learning the inhomogeneous intensity of a counting process, under a sparse segmentation assumption. We introduce a weighted total-variation penalization, using data-driven weights that correctly scale the penalization along the observation interval. We prove that this leads to a sharp tuning …
A new model reduces noise and speeds up subspace segmentation.
ENTED efficiently decomposes binary and count tensors using nonparametric Gaussian processes.
Study compares DL models for medical image segmentation, finds synergistic ensemble strategies improve performance.
New algorithm recovers sparse binary vectors from generalized linear measurements efficiently.
Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is an elegant approach for unsupervised segmentation if the data points of each cluster are located in linear subspaces. This model applies, for instance, in motion segmentation if some restrictions on the camera model hold. SSC requires that problems based on the -norm are solved …
Study on recovering sparse linear classifiers from mixed binary responses.
Prototype for adaptive electron microscopy scans reduces dose and time.
The term "CoRE kernel" stands for correlation-resemblance kernel. In many applications (e.g., vision), the data are often high-dimensional, sparse, and non-binary. We propose two types of (nonlinear) CoRE kernels for non-binary sparse data and demonstrate the effectiveness of the new kernels through a classification ex…
Proposes novel wSVMs for sparse learning and accurate probability estimation.
In this paper, we propose majority voting neural networks for sparse signal recovery in binary compressed sensing. The majority voting neural network is composed of several independently trained feedforward neural networks employing the sigmoid function as an activation function. Our empirical study shows that a choice…
In this paper, we study the problem of compressed sensing using binary measurement matrices and -norm minimization (basis pursuit) as the recovery algorithm. We derive new upper and lower bounds on the number of measurements to achieve robust sparse recovery with binary matrices. We establish sufficient conditi…