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New landmark states improve transfer learning in multi-task RL.
Method maps state space using landmarks for universal goal reaching.
In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning framework for anatomy segmentation and automatic landmark- ing. Specifically, we focus on the challenging problem of mandible segmentation from cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans and identification of 9 anatomical landmarks of the mandible on the geodesic space. T…
Deep learning model detects landmarks in X-ray cephalograms.
Study uses stacked hourglass networks to improve facial landmark detection for medical diagnosis.
We address the problem of vehicle self-localization from multi-modal sensor information and a reference map. The map is generated off-line by extracting landmarks from the vehicle's field of view, while the measurements are collected similarly on the fly. Our goal is to determine the autonomous vehicle's pose from the …
Study reveals biases in facial landmark detection methods for dementia patients.
Successor Options discovers reusable skills using landmark states.
The study extends stochastic completeness to landmark spaces with any number of landmarks.
Landmark2Vec maps unknown landmarks without GPS.
Purpose: We perform anatomical landmarking for craniomaxillofacial (CMF) bones without explicitly segmenting them. Towards this, we propose a new simple yet efficient deep network architecture, called \textit{relational reasoning network (RRN)}, to accurately learn the local and the global relations among the landmarks…
Proposes landmark selection for kernel methods.
LA-VDM accelerates VDM using landmarks to improve data analysis.
Landmark AD improves AD's efficiency without sacrificing performance.
Paper proposes a new landmark selection method for kernel ridge regression.
Bayesian method learns optimal momentum for landmark matching.
For their ability to capture non-linearities in the data and to scale to large training sets, local Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have received a special attention during the past decade. In this paper, we introduce a new local SVM method, called L-SVMs, which clusters the input space, carries out dimensionality r…
Researchers prove long-time existence for two landmark Brownian motion.
Landmark-based node embeddings approximate shortest path distances in random graphs.
Exact universal interpolation property for landmark configurations in Euclidean space.
Paper evaluates CNN-based facial landmark detection methods.
Learning automatically the structure of object categories remains an important open problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach that can discover and learn landmarks in object categories, thus characterizing their structure. Our approach is based on factorizing image deformations…
Neumann eigenmaps improve landmark-based diffusion map embeddings.
Paper introduces conformal prediction for reliable uncertainty quantification in landmark localization.
A key step to driver safety is to observe the driver's activities with the face being a key step in this process to extracting information such as head pose, blink rate, yawns, talking to passenger which can then help derive higher level information such as distraction, drowsiness, intent, and where they are looking. I…
The paper explores a new method for landmark matching using sub-Riemannian geometry and neural networks.
Characterizes geodesic completeness for landmark spaces.
Kernel methods obtain superb performance in terms of accuracy for various machine learning tasks since they can effectively extract nonlinear relations. However, their time complexity can be rather large especially for clustering tasks. In this paper we define a general class of kernels that can be easily approximated …
This work predicts and interpolates long-range videos using unsupervised landmarks.
This paper puts forth a novel bi-linear modeling framework for data recovery via manifold-learning and sparse-approximation arguments and considers its application to dynamic magnetic-resonance imaging (dMRI). Each temporal-domain MR image is viewed as a point that lies onto or close to a smooth manifold, and landmark …
Our goal is to design architectures that retain the groundbreaking performance of CNNs for landmark localization and at the same time are lightweight, compact and suitable for applications with limited computational resources. To this end, we make the following contributions: (a) we are the first to study the effect of…
Registration, which aims to find an optimal 1-1 correspondence between shapes, is an important process in different research areas. Conformal mappings have been widely used to obtain a diffeomorphism between shapes that minimizes angular distortion. Conformal registrations are beneficial since it preserves the local ge…
Efficiently clusters large datasets with a subset of landmarks.
In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for performing spectral clustering efficiently. Spectral clustering is a powerful clustering algorithm that suffers from high computational complexity, due to eigen decomposition. In this work, we first build the adjacency matrix of the corresponding graph of the dataset. To bui…
Landmark Ordinal Embedding improves scalability of ordinal embedding.
This paper addresses the mapping problem. Using a conjugate prior form, we derive the exact theoretical batch multi-object posterior density of the map given a set of measurements. The landmarks in the map are modeled as extended objects, and the measurements are described as a Poisson process, conditioned on the map. …
This paper deals with the computation of sectional curvature for the manifolds of landmarks (or feature points) in D dimensions, endowed with the Riemannian metric induced by the group action of diffeomorphisms. The inverse of the metric tensor for these manifolds (i.e. the cometric), when written in coordinates, i…
Feature engineering plays an important role in the success of a machine learning model. Most of the effort in training a model goes into data preparation and choosing the right representation. In this paper, we propose a robust feature engineering method, Randomized Union of Locally Linear Subspaces (RULLS). We generat…
Diverse sampling improves kernel methods' performance in sparse regions.
Robotic clothing manipulation improved with fashion image analysis techniques.
Predicts clinical events using a landmark approach with machine learning for large biomarker histories.
We present a method for synthesizing a frontal, neutral-expression image of a person's face given an input face photograph. This is achieved by learning to generate facial landmarks and textures from features extracted from a facial-recognition network. Unlike previous approaches, our encoding feature vector is largely…
We study the problem of column selection in large-scale kernel canonical correlation analysis (KCCA) using the Nyström approximation, where one approximates two positive semi-definite kernel matrices using "landmark" points from the training set. When building low-rank kernel approximations in KCCA, previous work mostl…
A new landmark sampling method improves TDA performance on biomedical data.
The Nystrom method has been popular for generating the low-rank approximation of kernel matrices that arise in many machine learning problems. The approximation quality of the Nystrom method depends crucially on the number of selected landmark points and the selection procedure. In this paper, we present a novel algori…
In recent years, the spectral analysis of appropriately defined kernel matrices has emerged as a principled way to extract the low-dimensional structure often prevalent in high-dimensional data. Here we provide an introduction to spectral methods for linear and nonlinear dimension reduction, emphasizing ways to overcom…
Geomstats introduces shape module for analyzing shapes of objects.
Diffusion maps are a nonlinear manifold learning technique based on harmonic analysis of a diffusion process over the data. Out-of-sample extensions with computational complexity , where is the number of points comprising the manifold, frustrate applications to online learning applications requiring…