Defense against small image patches using occlusions.
problem Vulnerability of deep learning to small adversarial patches.
method Partially occlude image around each patch location.
result Certified security against patch attacks of a certain size.
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Patch priors have become an important component of image restoration. A powerful approach in this category of restoration algorithms is the popular Expected Patch Log-Likelihood (EPLL) algorithm. EPLL uses a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) prior learned on clean image patches as a way to regularize degraded patches. In th…
Efficiently processes high res images by selecting relevant patches.
problem High memory and compute requirements for processing large images.
method Differentiable Top-K operator to select relevant patches.
result End-to-end trainable model using backpropagation.
New method makes neural networks more resilient to location-optimized adversarial patches.
problem Neural networks' vulnerability to adversarial patches that are visible but still effective.
method Developed a practical approach to optimize patch locations and applied adversarial training.
result Significantly improved robustness against adversarial patches on CIFAR10 and GTSRB.
Ano-SuPs: Multi-size anomaly detection for manufactured products by identifying suspected patchesstat.ML
Ano-SuPs detects anomalies in images of manufactured products by identifying suspected patches.
problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in image-based manufacturing systems, including complexity of background and various anomaly patterns.
method Two-stage strategy anomaly detection method: first, remove suspected patches; second, refine anomaly identification using normal patches.
result Demonstrated effectiveness through simulation and case studies, identifying key parameters and steps impacting model performance and efficiency.
Patch augmentation boosts neural network accuracy and robustness.
problem Improving neural network accuracy and robustness to adversarial attacks.
method Data augmentation technique creating new images by superimposing patches from image pairs.
result Significant accuracy improvements on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets.
BagCert efficiently certifies robustness against adversarial patches on image classifiers.
problem Adversarial patches pose a threat to autonomous systems' perception component.
method BagCert combines model architecture and certification procedure for efficient inference.
result BagCert certifies 10,000 examples in 43 seconds on a single GPU, achieving 86% clean and 60% certified accuracy against 5x5 patches.
In this paper, we demonstrate a physical adversarial patch attack against object detectors, notably the YOLOv3 detector. Unlike previous work on physical object detection attacks, which required the patch to overlap with the objects being misclassified or avoiding detection, we show that a properly designed patch can s…
MAT combines meta-learning and adversarial training to defend against universal patches.
problem Defending against universal patches that fool models in various contexts.
method Meta adversarial training (MAT) integrates meta-learning with adversarial training.
result MAT increases robustness against universal patch attacks on image classification and traffic-light detection.
Perturbation of the Eigenvectors of the Graph Laplacian: Application to Image Denoisingphysics.data-an
The original contributions of this paper are twofold: a new understanding of the influence of noise on the eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian of a set of image patches, and an algorithm to estimate a denoised set of patches from a noisy image. The algorithm relies on the following two observations: (1) the low-index e…
New image restoration method using localized patches and external databases.
problem Image restoration challenges.
method Localized structured prediction and non-linear multi-task learning for optimizing a penalized energy function.
result Strong statistical guarantees and practical effectiveness demonstrated on various image restoration problems.
SaliencyMix augments images with salient patches to improve model generalization.
problem Improving deep learning model generalization through better data augmentation.
method Carefully selects salient patches from images and mixes them with the target image.
result Achieves state-of-the-art top-1 error rates and robustness against adversarial attacks.
Deep neural network models used for medical image segmentation are large because they are trained with high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) images. Graphics processing units (GPUs) are widely used to accelerate the trainings. However, the memory on a GPU is not large enough to train the models. A popular approach to …
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease where early detection benefits the survival rate. COPD can be quantified by classifying patches of computed tomography images, and combining patch labels into an overall diagnosis for the image. As labeled patches are often not available, image labels are p…
Patients initially diagnosed with early mild cognitive impairment (eMCI) are known to be a clinically heterogeneous group with very subtle patterns of brain atrophy. To examine the boarders between normal controls (NC) and eMCI, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was extensively used as a non-invasive imaging modality to…
New method defends against patch attacks with high-certainty guarantees.
problem Patch attacks on images, especially physical adversarial attacks.
method Randomized smoothing, exploiting patch constraints.
result Meaningfully large robustness certificates against patch attacks.
The paper simplifies quickshift hyperparameter tuning for larger images.
problem Understanding and tuning hyperparameters for quickshift image segmentation.
method Theoretical analysis of a modified quickshift algorithm for homogeneous patches with i.i.d. noise.
result A heuristic to scale quickshift hyperparameters based on image size.
A new tensor network method for image classification reduces computation cost.
problem Efficiently classifying images in high-dimensional spaces.
method Proposes a multi-layered tensor network (MLTN) that performs one MPS operation per layer, reducing computation cost.
result Reduces computation cost without degrading performance.
Image understanding is an important research domain in the computer vision due to its wide real-world applications. For an image understanding framework that uses the Bag-of-Words model representation, the visual codebook is an essential part. Random forest (RF) as a tree-structure discriminative codebook has been a po…
A random walk on image patchesphysics.data-an
In this paper we address the problem of understanding the success of algorithms that organize patches according to graph-based metrics. Algorithms that analyze patches extracted from images or time series have led to state-of-the art techniques for classification, denoising, and the study of nonlinear dynamics. The mai…
Cell detection and cell type classification from biomedical images play an important role for high-throughput imaging and various clinical application. While classification of single cell sample can be performed with standard computer vision and machine learning methods, analysis of multi-label samples (region containi…
A new image interpolation model using sparse representation and nonlocal linear regression.
problem Image interpolation without blurring and noise.
method Sparse representation, nonlocal self-similarity, nonlocal linear regression, adaptive sub-dictionary learning, weighted encoding.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in quantitative measures and visual quality.
We introduce a pretraining technique called Selfie, which stands for SELFie supervised Image Embedding. Selfie generalizes the concept of masked language modeling of BERT (Devlin et al., 2019) to continuous data, such as images, by making use of the Contrastive Predictive Coding loss (Oord et al., 2018). Given masked-o…
Paper presents certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks.
problem Certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks are needed.
method Proposes the first certified defense and faster training methods.
result Demonstrates robustness transfer across different patch shapes.
A tree-based dictionary learning model is developed for joint analysis of imagery and associated text. The dictionary learning may be applied directly to the imagery from patches, or to general feature vectors extracted from patches or superpixels (using any existing method for image feature extraction). Each image is …
Proposes a new approach to time series representation learning by embedding patches independently.
problem Capturing dependencies between time series patches is not optimal for representation learning.
method 1) Patch reconstruction task, 2) Patch-wise MLP, 3) Complementary contrastive learning.
result Improves time series forecasting and classification performance compared to state-of-the-art models.
Recently, impressive denoising results have been achieved by Bayesian approaches which assume Gaussian models for the image patches. This improvement in performance can be attributed to the use of per-patch models. Unfortunately such an approach is particularly unstable for most inverse problems beyond denoising. In th…
A method for concept-based learning using probabilistic inference and expert rules.
problem Concept-based learning with limited training data.
method Divide images into patches, transform into embeddings, cluster, and use frequentist inference to find concepts.
result FI-CBL outperforms concept bottleneck model in small data scenarios.
Most existing image denoising approaches assumed the noise to be homogeneous white Gaussian distributed with known intensity. However, in real noisy images, the noise models are usually unknown beforehand and can be much more complex. This paper addresses this problem and proposes a novel blind image denoising algorith…
Patch ranking improves CNN performance by focusing on object content, not location.
problem CNNs lack rotation and translation invariance, limiting model capacity.
method Patch ranking before convolution and pooling to encode invariance.
result Patch ranking module improves CNN performance on various tasks.
TorchIO simplifies medical image processing for deep learning.
problem Challenges in processing medical images like MRI and CT.
method Efficient loading, preprocessing, augmentation, and patch-based sampling.
result Enables researchers to focus on deep learning experiments.
Deploying machine learning systems in the real world requires both high accuracy on clean data and robustness to naturally occurring corruptions. While architectural advances have led to improved accuracy, building robust models remains challenging. Prior work has argued that there is an inherent trade-off between robu…
Universal adversarial patches prevent face detection in various frameworks.
problem Preventing face detection in state-of-the-art face detection systems.
method Investigated the phenomenon of patches that suppress face detection and proposed optimization-based approaches for automatic design.
result Universal adversarial patches can prevent face detection without introducing false positives.
PACE explains ViTs by modeling patch-level concept distributions, surpassing existing methods.
problem Lack of trustworthy post-hoc explanations for Vision Transformers (ViTs)
method Variational Bayesian explanation framework (PACE)
result PACE surpasses state-of-the-art methods in meeting desiderata for ViT explanations.
Improved CNN model accuracy and generalizability through data pre-processing.
problem Enhancing accuracy and generalizability of CNN-based LULC classification.
method Trials of different data preparation methods, including patch selection, size, and augmentations.
result Combining multiple grids and rotations of patches improved model accuracy and generalizability.
Hyperspectral images (HSI) contain a wealth of information over hundreds of contiguous spectral bands, making it possible to classify materials through subtle spectral discrepancies. However, the classification of this rich spectral information is accompanied by the challenges like high dimensionality, singularity, lim…
Semantic segmentation is an established while rapidly evolving field in medical imaging. In this paper we focus on the segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) into cerebral structures using convolutional neural networks (CNN). CNNs achieve good performance by finding effective high dimensional image featu…
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained astounding successes for important pattern recognition tasks, but they suffer from high computational complexity and the lack of interpretability. The recent Tsetlin Machine (TM) attempts to address this lack by using easy-to-interpret conjunctive clauses in propositio…
TokenCut detects and segments objects in images and videos without supervision.
problem Detecting and segmenting salient objects in images and videos without labeled data.
method Graph-based approach using self-supervised transformer features and Normalized Cut algorithm.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on various detection and segmentation tasks.
The development of machine learning systems for the diagnosis of rare diseases is challenging mainly due the lack of data to study them. Despite this challenge, this paper proposes a system for the Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) of low-prevalence, congenital muscular dystrophies from confocal microscopy images. The pro…
To alleviate the burden of gathering detailed expert annotations when training deep neural networks, we propose a weakly supervised learning approach to recognize metastases in microscopic images of breast lymph nodes. We describe an alternative training loss which clusters weakly labeled bags in latent space to inform…
In this paper, computer-based techniques for stylistic analysis of paintings are applied to the five panels of the 14th century Peruzzi Altarpiece by Giotto di Bondone. Features are extracted by combining a dual-tree complex wavelet transform with a hidden Markov tree (HMT) model. Hierarchical clustering is used to ide…
PatchGuard defends against localized adversarial patches with provable robustness.
problem Localized adversarial patches induce misclassification in machine learning models.
method PatchGuard uses CNNs with small receptive fields and robust masking to detect and mask corrupted features.
result PatchGuard achieves state-of-the-art provable robust accuracy and clean accuracy.
Deep neural networks are powerful machine learning approaches that have exhibited excellent results on many classification tasks. However, they are considered as black boxes and some of their properties remain to be formalized. In the context of image recognition, it is still an arduous task to understand why an image …
Many signal processing algorithms break the target signal into overlapping segments (also called windows, or patches), process them separately, and then stitch them back into place to produce a unified output. At the overlaps, the final value of those samples that are estimated more than once needs to be decided in som…
Recently, it was demonstrated in [CS2012,CS2013] that the robustness of the classical Non-Local Means (NLM) algorithm [BCM2005] can be improved by incorporating regression into the NLM framework. This general optimization framework, called Non-Local Patch Regression (NLPR), contains NLM as a spe…
Generative model connects physical properties to latent vectors for solar magnetic patches.
problem Disconnection between generative latent vectors and scientifically relevant quantities.
method Integrating GAN, SVM, and SSL to generate and retrieve physically interpretable solar magnetic patches.
result GAN-SVM combination enables smooth changes in physical parameters with generated patches.
A depth surface of E^3 is a range image observed from a single view can be represented by a digital graph (Monge patch) surface . That is, a depth or range value at a point (u,v) is given by a single valued function z=f(u,v). In the present study we consider the surfaces in Euclidean 4-space E^4 given with a Monge patc…