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48 results for image search

A new hashing framework learns multiple hash codes for each image to improve hash bucket search efficiency.

problem Existing hashing methods fail to handle complex image retrieval scenarios efficiently.
method Multiple Code Hashing (MCH) framework with deep reinforcement learning.
result Significant improvement in hash bucket search performance compared to single-code methods.

Efficient search methods can outperform random search on challenging tasks.

problem Comparing the performance of efficient and random search methods in neural architecture search.
method Comparison of weight sharing and random search methods on progressively larger search spaces for image classification and detection.
result Efficient search methods can provide substantial gains over random search on large, realistic tasks.

Content based image retrieval, a technique which uses visual contents of image to search images from large scale image databases according to users' interests. This paper provides a comprehensive survey on recent technology used in the area of content based face image retrieval. Nowadays digital devices and photo shari…

2014-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved person detection in occluded conditions with AOS images.

problem Inaccurate classification of partially occluded people, animals, or objects.
method Combining multi-perspective images captured by Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS) to achieve better precision and recall.
result Precision/recall of 96/93% for automated person detection.

Neural Architecture Search has shown potential to automate the design of neural networks. Deep Reinforcement Learning based agents can learn complex architectural patterns, as well as explore a vast and compositional search space. On the other hand, evolutionary algorithms offer higher sample efficiency, which is criti…

2018-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, a neural architecture search (NAS) framework is proposed for 3D medical image segmentation, to automatically optimize a neural architecture from a large design space. Our NAS framework searches the structure of each layer including neural connectivities and operation types in both of the encoder and deco…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a deterministic method for diverse subset selection.

problem Diverse subset selection problems in recommendation, summarization, and search.
method Greedy deterministic adaptation of k-DPP for low-rank approximations and image search.
result The method yields low-rank approximations of kernel matrices and demonstrates effectiveness in image search.

Data augmentation is an essential technique for improving generalization ability of deep learning models. Recently, AutoAugment has been proposed as an algorithm to automatically search for augmentation policies from a dataset and has significantly enhanced performances on many image recognition tasks. However, its sea…

2019-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) represents a class of methods to generate the optimal neural network architecture and typically iterate over candidate architectures till convergence over some particular metric like validation loss. They are constrained by the available computation resources, especially in enterprise e…

2019-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has shown promising signs of improving GAN training via architectural change. Despite some early success, at present the design of GAN architectures requires human expertise, laborious trial-and-error testings, and often draws inspiration from its image classifi…

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a multimodal visual-textual search refinement method for fashion garments. Existing search engines do not enable intuitive, interactive, refinement of retrieved results based on the properties of a particular product. We propose a method to retrieve similar items, based on a query item image and textual re…

2019-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) enabled the discovery of state-of-the-art architectures in many domains. However, the success of NAS depends on the definition of the search space. Current search spaces are defined as a static sequence of decisions and a set of available actions for each decision. Each possible sequenc…

2018-12-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Aim: To review how machine learning (ML) is applied to imaging biomarkers in neuro-oncology, in particular for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response monitoring. Materials and Methods: The PubMed and MEDLINE databases were searched for articles published before September 2018 using relevant search terms. The sear…

2019-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

VINNAS uses variational inference to avoid mode collapse in neural architecture search.

problem Mode collapse in gradient-based NAS methods, leading to suboptimal architectures.
method Differentiable variational inference with variational dropout and automatic relevance determination.
result State-of-the-art accuracy with up to twice fewer non-zero parameters.

Neural architecture search methods are able to find high performance deep learning architectures with minimal effort from an expert. However, current systems focus on specific use-cases (e.g. convolutional image classifiers and recurrent language models), making them unsuitable for general use-cases that an expert migh…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

An attractive approach for fast search in image databases is binary hashing, where each high-dimensional, real-valued image is mapped onto a low-dimensional, binary vector and the search is done in this binary space. Finding the optimal hash function is difficult because it involves binary constraints, and most approac…

2015-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Learning has enabled remarkable progress over the last years on a variety of tasks, such as image recognition, speech recognition, and machine translation. One crucial aspect for this progress are novel neural architectures. Currently employed architectures have mostly been developed manually by human experts, whi…

2018-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

NAS improves gliomas segmentation on MRI scans.

problem Designing optimal deep learning architectures for brain tumor segmentation.
method Neural architecture search with probabilistic parameter learning for MRI brain tumor segmentation.
result Two optimal neural architectures for brain tumor segmentation were discovered.

Simple policy search outperforms advanced learnable test-time augmentation techniques.

problem Improving predictive performance through test-time data augmentation.
method Greedy policy search (GPS) for learning test-time augmentation policies.
result Augmentation policies learned with GPS achieve superior predictive performance and robustness.

This paper addresses the scalability challenge of architecture search by formulating the task in a differentiable manner. Unlike conventional approaches of applying evolution or reinforcement learning over a discrete and non-differentiable search space, our method is based on the continuous relaxation of the architectu…

2018-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Studies have shown that the people depicted in image search results tend to be of majority groups with respect to socially salient attributes. This skew goes beyond that which already exists in the world - e.g., Kay et al. showed that although 28% of CEOs in US are women, only 10% of the top 100 results for CEO in Goog…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We explore efficient neural architecture search methods and show that a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm can discover new architectures with excellent performance. Our approach combines a novel hierarchical genetic representation scheme that imitates the modularized design pattern commonly adopted by human ex…

2017-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

CNNs improve signal-background classification in particle physics experiments.

problem Improving accuracy in classifying signal from background in particle physics experiments.
method Extensive convolutional neural architecture search for 2D and 3D image data.
result Achieved high accuracy for signal/background discrimination with CNNs, less parameters than ResNet.

Architecture design has become a crucial component of successful deep learning. Recent progress in automatic neural architecture search (NAS) shows a lot of promise. However, discovered architectures often fail to generalize in the final evaluation. Architectures with a higher validation accuracy during the search phas…

2019-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Asynchronous method for hyperparameter and neural architecture search.

problem Efficiently searching for optimal hyperparameters and neural architectures.
method Model-based, asynchronous multi-fidelity method combining Hyperband and Gaussian process-based Bayesian optimization.
result Substantial speed-ups over current state-of-the-art methods on various benchmarks.

We present a novel framework of knowledge distillation that is capable of learning powerful and efficient student models from ensemble teacher networks. Our approach addresses the inherent model capacity issue between teacher and student and aims to maximize benefit from teacher models during distillation by reducing t…

2019-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper evaluates robustness of NAS against poisoning attacks.

problem Robustness of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) against poisoning attacks.
method Evaluation of Efficient NAS (ENAS) against carefully designed ineffective operations in poisoning attacks.
result Demonstrates how poisoning attacks exploit design flaws in ENAS controller.

Can we automatically design a Convolutional Network (ConvNet) with the highest image classification accuracy under the latency constraint of a mobile device? Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for ConvNet design is a challenging problem due to the combinatorially large design space and search time (at least 200 GPU-hours…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Image recognition using Deep Learning has been evolved for decades though advances in the field through different settings is still a challenge. In this paper, we present our findings in searching for better image classifiers in offline and online environments. We resort to Convolutional Neural Network and its variatio…

2019-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates design of lightweight neural networks for image classification.

problem Designing efficient neural networks for edge devices with limited computational resources.
method Uses the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm to optimize network architecture.
result Achieves comparable performance to standard methods with fewer design trials.

Study uses multi-task Bayesian optimization to speed up SVM hyperparameter tuning for nodules diagnosis.

problem Redundant and time-consuming hyperparameter tuning for SVM classifiers in medical imaging.
method Employed multi-task Bayesian optimization to accelerate hyperparameter search.
result Multi-task Bayesian optimization significantly accelerates hyperparameter search.