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48 results for image difficulty

Study shows perceptual boost of visual attention varies with task difficulty and size.

problem Understanding how task-dependent the perceptual boost of visual attention is in natural settings.
method Designed and trained neural networks on various visual tasks, comparing results to baseline.
result Perceptual boost of attention is stronger with more difficult tasks and weaker with larger task sets.

RB-Modulation trains free diffusion models without external adapters.

problem Training-free personalization of diffusion models with style and content control.
method Stochastic optimal control with a style descriptor and cross-attention aggregation.
result Precise content and style extraction and control without external adapters.

Study challenges neural models in compositional learning tasks.

problem Challenges in neural models for compositional and relational learning.
method Introduced ConceptWorld environment for generating images from compositional concepts, tested various neural architectures.
result Neural models struggle with longer compositional chains and substitutivity tests.

Paper proposes an active learning method to improve remote sensing object detection with less labeled data.

problem High labor and time costs in annotating remote sensing images for CNN object detectors.
method Uncertainty-based active learning that selects images with more information for annotation.
result Detector achieves high performance with a fraction of the training images.

SVMs improve forest fire detection accuracy on challenging datasets.

problem Rapid and accurate detection of forest fires.
method Training SVMs on labeled fire image datasets, focusing on data preprocessing, feature extraction, and model training.
result SVMs enhance detection accuracy on complex datasets, revealing key parameters affecting performance.

Training neural networks is traditionally done by providing a sequence of random mini-batches sampled uniformly from the entire training data. In this work, we analyze the effect of curriculum learning, which involves the non-uniform sampling of mini-batches, on the training of deep networks, and specifically CNNs trai…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

BiDVL improves EBLVMs for visual tasks by optimizing two variational distributions.

problem Training EBLVMs is challenging due to intractable distributions.
method Bi-level doubly variational learning with two tractable distributions.
result BiDVL achieves impressive image generation and reconstruction performance.

Adversarial training adds dynamic perturbations to neural networks for robustness.

problem Accuracy trade-off and lack of diversity in adversarial examples.
method Dynamic adversarial perturbations in the parameter space of neural networks, updating perturbation biases during training.
result Adversarial training with negligible cost and reduced accuracy trade-off.

Paper provides conditions for reliable use of pre-trained embeddings in econometrics.

problem Uncertainty in using pre-trained embeddings for econometric tasks.
method Derives sufficient conditions and convergence rates for machine learning models with pre-trained embeddings.
result Establishes theoretical foundations for reliable use of pre-trained embeddings in econometrics.

Automated generation of medical reports from chest x-rays using expert annotations.

problem Generating long, unstructured text from medical images with context and consistency.
method First learn visually-informative medical concepts from raw reports, then use these concepts to auto-generate structured reports from images.
result Validation on OpenI dataset shows auto-generated reports are consistent with manual annotations.

It is important to detect anomalous inputs when deploying machine learning systems. The use of larger and more complex inputs in deep learning magnifies the difficulty of distinguishing between anomalous and in-distribution examples. At the same time, diverse image and text data are available in enormous quantities. We…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

This work embeds annotations into a multidimensional space to measure classification difficulty.

problem Uncertainty in machine learning models during annotation phase.
method Develops a Bayesian Dirichlet-Multinomial framework to embed annotations and uses stochastic Expectation Maximization with MCMC.
result Embeddings reflect semantic similarities of original classes, aiding in measuring classification difficulty.

VLM judges rank well but score poorly; task difficulty and annotation quality affect interval width.

problem VLMs as judges lack reliability indicators in multimodal evaluations.
method Conformal prediction using score-token log-probabilities.
result Evaluation uncertainty is task-dependent, affecting interval width and reliability.

The challenge of object categorization in images is largely due to arbitrary translations and scales of the foreground objects. To attack this difficulty, we propose a new approach called collaborative receptive field learning to extract specific receptive fields (RF's) or regions from multiple images, and the selected…

2014-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

This research tackles image classification with noise, proposing committees of CNNs.

problem Image classification with concurrent feature and label noise.
method Committees of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for MNIST, CIFAR-10, and CIFAR-100 datasets.
result Committees outperform single models in noisy conditions, especially on difficult datasets.

In the original version of the Variational Autoencoder, Kingma et al. assume Gaussian distributions for the approximate posterior during the inference and for the output during the generative process. This assumptions are good for computational reasons, e.g. we can easily optimize the parameters of a neural network usi…

2019-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Even though active learning forms an important pillar of machine learning, deep learning tools are not prevalent within it. Deep learning poses several difficulties when used in an active learning setting. First, active learning (AL) methods generally rely on being able to learn and update models from small amounts of …

2017-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient-based framework for optimizing text prompts in diffusion models.

problem Efficiently optimizing prompts in text-to-image diffusion models with large domain space and non-differentiable embeddings.
method Formulated as discrete optimization over language space, designed compact subspaces, and introduced shortcut text gradient.
result Empirically discovered prompts that enhance or destroy image faithfulness.

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network generalization. Besides, Dropout can be interpreted as an approximate model aggregat…

2017-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The impressive success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is often overshadowed by the difficulties in their training. Despite the continuous efforts and improvements, there are still open issues regarding their convergence properties. In this paper, we propose a simple training variation where suitable weights …

2018-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Image segmentation is one of the most fundamental tasks of computer vision. In many practical applications, it is essential to properly evaluate the reliability of individual segmentation results. In this study, we propose a novel framework to provide the statistical significance of segmentation results in the form of …

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Detect facial keypoints is a critical element in face recognition. However, there is difficulty to catch keypoints on the face due to complex influences from original images, and there is no guidance to suitable algorithms. In this paper, we study different algorithms that can be applied to locate keyponits. Specifical…

2017-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗