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Music generation research has grown in popularity over the past decade, thanks to the deep learning revolution that has redefined the landscape of artificial intelligence. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to music generation inspired by musical segment concatenation methods and hash learning algorithms. Given…

2018-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning-based methods for visual segmentation have made progress on particular types of segmentation tasks, but are limited by the necessary supervision, the narrow definitions of fixed tasks, and the lack of control during inference for correcting errors. To remedy the rigidity and annotation burden of standard appro…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Flow-SSN improves segmentation efficiency and accuracy.

problem Challenges in medical imaging segmentation, especially high-rank pixel-wise covariances.
method Generative segmentation model using discrete-time autoregressive and continuous-time flow variants.
result Flow-SSNs can estimate high-rank pixel-wise covariances efficiently without assuming rank or storing parameters.

Scene understanding and semantic segmentation are at the core of many computer vision tasks, many of which, involve interacting with humans in potentially dangerous ways. It is therefore paramount that techniques for principled design of robust models be developed. In this paper, we provide analytic and empirical evide…

2019-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a novel Deep Learning framework, which quantitatively estimates image segmentation quality without the need for human inspection or labeling. We refer to this method as a Quality Assurance Network -- QANet. Specifically, given an image and a `proposed' corresponding segmentation, obtained by any method inc…

2019-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an approach for building an active agent that learns to segment its visual observations into individual objects by interacting with its environment in a completely self-supervised manner. The agent uses its current segmentation model to infer pixels that constitute objects and refines the segmentation model …

2018-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

TPM improves medical image segmentation by separating foreground and background.

problem Few-shot medical image segmentation challenges due to background variability.
method Tied Prototype Model (TPM) focusing on foreground, adapting thresholds, and using class priors.
result TPM leads to improved segmentation accuracy compared to ADNet.

The paper extends influence functions to sequence tagging tasks for better model interpretability.

problem Lack of interpretability methods for sequence tagging models.
method Define and compute influence of training instance segments on test segment predictions.
result The segment influence method tracks with true influence and identifies annotation errors.

Deep learning has thrived by training on large-scale datasets. However, in robotics applications sample efficiency is critical. We propose a novel adaptive masked proxies method that constructs the final segmentation layer weights from few labelled samples. It utilizes multi-resolution average pooling on base embedding…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Clinical notes are text documents that are created by clinicians for each patient encounter. They are typically accompanied by medical codes, which describe the diagnosis and treatment. Annotating these codes is labor intensive and error prone; furthermore, the connection between the codes and the text is not annotated…

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Meta-learning improves image segmentation performance.

problem Improving image segmentation accuracy using meta-learning.
method Extending FOMAML and Reptile to image segmentation, using EfficientLab architecture, and leveraging test error definition.
result Meta-learned initializations provide value for few-shot image segmentation but are quickly matched by conventional transfer learning.

Paper proposes a method to improve semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images.

problem Semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images is challenging due to distortion and lack of large datasets.
method A seven degrees of freedom augmentation method is proposed to transform rectilinear images into fisheye images.
result Training with seven-DoF augmentation improves model accuracy and robustness against distorted fisheye data.

SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.

problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.

We introduce Compositional Imitation Learning and Execution (CompILE): a framework for learning reusable, variable-length segments of hierarchically-structured behavior from demonstration data. CompILE uses a novel unsupervised, fully-differentiable sequence segmentation module to learn latent encodings of sequential d…

2018-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the most important applications of seismic reflection is the hydrocarbon exploration which is closely related to salt deposits analysis. This problem is very important even nowadays due to it's non-linear nature. Taking into account the recent developments in deep learning networks TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company …

2018-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Adapts CNN for robust medical image segmentation across different scanners and protocols.

problem Performance degradation of CNNs in medical image segmentation due to mismatch between training and test images.
method Designs a segmentation CNN as a concatenation of a shallow normalization CNN and a deep CNN. At test time, adapts the normalization sub-network for each test image using a denoising autoencoder.
result Consistently improves performance on multi-center MRI datasets of brain, heart, and prostate.

Study compares DL models for medical image segmentation, finds synergistic ensemble strategies improve performance.

problem Improving DL models for specialized medical image segmentation using transfer learning.
method Detailed comparisons of TII and LMI models for binary segmentation of medical images.
result Ensemble strategies improve performance by 10% in certain scenarios.

Auto-Compressing Subset Pruning reduces model size for faster inference.

problem High parameter counts and slow inference times in semantic segmentation models.
method Learning a channel selection mechanism based on temperature annealing schedule.
result Significant compression of segmentation models with acceptable inference performance.

Method generates anatomically-controllable medical images with segmentation guidance.

problem Challenging to enforce anatomical constraints in generated medical images.
method Segmentation-guided diffusion models with random mask ablation training.
result New state-of-the-art in faithfulness to input anatomical masks.

WeldNet reduces complex dynamics to simpler, manageable segments.

problem Complex, high-dimensional time-dependent datasets from physical processes are costly to simulate.
method Windowed Encoders for Learning Dynamics, splitting time domain into windows for nonlinear dimension reduction and propagator training.
result WeldNet captures nonlinear latent structures and dynamics, outperforming existing methods.

Unsupervised model generates distinct intonation codes for speech synthesis.

problem Lack of understanding of what prosodic variations are controlled in speech synthesis.
method Phrase-level variational autoencoder with multi-modal prior, using mode centres as intonation codes.
result Generated intonation codes are perceptually distinct and carry various affect-related styles.

A novel feedbackward approach for semantic segmentation reduces parameter count.

problem Semantic segmentation challenges in terms of model complexity and performance.
method Reverse-direction encoder-decoder architecture using the same network for both encoding and decoding.
result Significantly outperforms other models using only 13 VGG-16 layers, achieving higher IoU scores.

IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is one of the most effective imaging modalities that provides assistance to experts in order to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. We address a central problem in IVUS image analysis with Fully Convolutional Network (FCN): automatically delineate the lumen and media-adventitia b…

2018-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian method improves segmentation accuracy with noisy labels.

problem Annotation errors in semantic segmentation due to mislabeling and spatial correlations.
method Approximate Bayesian estimation with spatially correlated discrete distributions and variational inference.
result The method achieves performance comparable to clean labels under moderate noise levels.

This work improves medical image segmentation with limited annotations using contrastive learning.

problem Lack of labeled data for medical image segmentation.
method Contrastive learning framework for semi-supervised segmentation with domain-specific and problem-specific cues.
result Significant improvements in segmentation performance compared to other methods.

In this paper, we study statistical classification accuracy of two different Markov field environments for pixelwise image segmentation, considering the labels of the image as hidden states and solving the estimation of such labels as a solution of the MAP equation. The emission distribution is assumed the same in all …

2013-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Fine-grained action segmentation in long untrimmed videos is an important task for many applications such as surveillance, robotics, and human-computer interaction. To understand subtle and precise actions within a long time period, second-order information (e.g. feature covariance) or higher is reported to be effectiv…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Six AI solutions accurately detect growth plate planes in mice bone scans.

problem Manual, time-consuming, and variable bone growth plate detection in micro-CT scans.
method Prepared and annotated a dataset of 3D μCT scans, organized a challenge, and developed six computer vision solutions.
result Achieved mean absolute error of 1.91±0.87 planes from ground truth.

AxCell automates results extraction from machine learning papers.

problem Difficulty in tracking progress in machine learning due to many papers.
method AxCell uses table segmentation and learns structural knowledge to extract results.
result AxCell significantly improves results extraction compared to existing methods.

Proposes feature conformal prediction for broader application in semantic feature spaces.

problem Establishing valid prediction intervals in semantic feature spaces.
method Extends conformal prediction to semantic feature spaces using deep representation learning.
result Feature conformal prediction outperforms regular conformal prediction under mild assumptions.

Seglearn is an open-source python package for machine learning time series or sequences using a sliding window segmentation approach. The implementation provides a flexible pipeline for tackling classification, regression, and forecasting problems with multivariate sequence and contextual data. This package is compatib…

2018-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Gaussian Processes layer detects out-of-distribution data in medical imaging.

problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in medical imaging tasks.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates enable superior out-of-distribution detection compared to previous methods.

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.

We present a multi-task learning formulation for Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs), through non-linear mixtures of latent processes. The latent space is composed of private processes that capture within-task information and shared processes that capture across-task dependencies. We propose two different methods for segmen…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a FoE prior for improving CNN performance in distribution shifts.

problem Improving CNN performance in image analysis tasks with distribution shifts.
method Uses a field-of-experts (FoE) prior to match feature distributions of test and training images.
result Outperforms previous TTA methods in lesion segmentation and most healthy tissue segmentation tasks.