ImageNet pre-training has been regarded as essential for training accurate object detectors for a long time. Recently, it has been shown that object detectors trained from randomly initialized weights can be on par with those fine-tuned from ImageNet pre-trained models. However, the effects of pre-training and the diff…
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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…
Generative models create indistinguishable adversarial objects for object detection.
problem Creating unrestricted adversarial examples for object detection.
method Search over latent space of GAN for adversarial objects.
result Generated adversarial objects are indistinguishable from non-adversarial objects and transferable.
With the proliferation of social media, fashion inspired from celebrities, reputed designers as well as fashion influencers has shortened the cycle of fashion design and manufacturing. However, with the explosion of fashion related content and large number of user generated fashion photos, it is an arduous task for fas…
A novel UNet detector detects sheep in UAV imagery.
problem Detecting small objects (sheep) in UAV imagery.
method Developed a novel dataset, used various object detectors, and evaluated their performance.
result UNet detector with weighted Hausdorff distance is best for sheep detection.
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.
Estimates uncertainty in bounding box regression for object detection.
problem Reliable deployment of deep object detectors in safety-critical tasks.
method Training variance networks with energy score as a proper scoring rule.
result Energy score leads to better calibrated and lower entropy predictive distributions.
Develops methods for training models with few annotations in computer vision tasks.
problem Training models with limited labeled data in computer vision.
method Theoretical, algorithmic, and experimental contributions for Meta-Learning and Semi-Supervised Learning.
result Improves Contrastive Learning and proposes a semi-supervised method for transformer-based object detectors.
3D adversarial logos can fool object detectors in real-world settings.
problem Creating robust adversarial attacks in 3D rendering views.
method Constructing 3D adversarial logos via texture mapping and differentiable rendering.
result 3D adversarial logos are more versatile and robust than traditional adversarial patches.
Given the ability to directly manipulate image pixels in the digital input space, an adversary can easily generate imperceptible perturbations to fool a Deep Neural Network (DNN) image classifier, as demonstrated in prior work. In this work, we propose ShapeShifter, an attack that tackles the more challenging problem o…
Selecting and combining the outlier scores of different base detectors used within outlier ensembles can be quite challenging in the absence of ground truth. In this paper, an unsupervised outlier detector combination framework called DCSO is proposed, demonstrated and assessed for the dynamic selection of most compete…
This paper explores object detection in the small data regime, where only a limited number of annotated bounding boxes are available due to data rarity and annotation expense. This is a common challenge today with machine learning being applied to many new tasks where obtaining training data is more challenging, e.g. i…
Novel framework for unbiased confidence estimates in object detection.
problem Unbiased confidence estimates for safety-critical object detection.
method Combines regression output with additional information for calibration.
result Calibrated confidence estimates for image location and scale.
Unsupervised learning classifies transient noise in gravitational wave detectors.
problem Transient noise interferes with gravitational wave signals, causing instability.
method Combines variational autoencoder and invariant information clustering.
result Consistent classification with Gravity Spy project labels.
Proposes class-agnostic object detection to handle all objects without class labels.
problem Difficulty and cost in creating annotated datasets limit conventional object detection models to specific object types.
method Proposes class-agnostic object detection as a new problem and proposes training and evaluation protocols. Uses adversarial learning to exclude class-specific information.
result Adversarial learning improves class-agnostic detection efficacy.
Meta-learning approach improves object detection on new classes.
problem Deterioration of object detection performance on old classes in incremental settings.
method Meta-learning to reshape model gradients for optimal task adaptation.
result Meta-learning approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in incremental object detection.
PiVoT improves real-time multi-object detection and tracking in clutter.
problem Challenges in multi-object detection and tracking from noisy point clouds.
method Variational inference for fast, clutter-resilient multi-object tracking.
result Substantial performance improvement over existing Bayesian trackers.
One of the grand challenges of deep learning is the requirement to obtain large labeled training data sets. While synthesized data sets can be used to overcome this challenge, it is important that these data sets close the reality gap, i.e., a model trained on synthetic image data is able to generalize to real images. …
Object tracking is an ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications such as remote sensing, audio processing, computer vision, human-machine interfaces, human-robot interaction, etc. Although thoroughly investigated in computer vision, tracking a time-varying number of persons remains a challenging open problem.…
This letter presents the sparse vector signal detection from one bit compressed sensing measurements, in contrast to the previous works which deal with scalar signal detection. In this letter, available results are extended to the vector case and the GLRT detector and the optimal quantizer design are obtained. Also, a …
We present a novel approach to weakly supervised object detection. Instead of annotated images, our method only requires two short videos to learn to detect a new object: 1) a video of a moving object and 2) one or more "negative" videos of the scene without the object. The key idea of our algorithm is to train the obj…
Lidar based Detection and Classification of Pedestrians and Vehicles Using Machine Learning Methodscs.CV
The goal of this paper is to classify objects mapped by LiDAR sensor into different classes such as vehicles, pedestrians and bikers. Utilizing a LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks-based classifier, a novel real-time object detection is presented essentially with respect to aid self-driving vehicles in rec…
This paper examines to what degree current deep learning architectures for image caption generation capture spatial language. On the basis of the evaluation of examples of generated captions from the literature we argue that systems capture what objects are in the image data but not where these objects are located: the…
The combination of a CNN detector and a search framework forms the basis for local object/pattern detection. To handle the waste of regional information and the defective compromise between efficiency and accuracy, this paper proposes a probabilistic model with a powerful search framework. By mapping an image into a pr…
We consider the problem of anomaly detection in images, and present a new detection technique. Given a sample of images, all known to belong to a "normal" class (e.g., dogs), we show how to train a deep neural model that can detect out-of-distribution images (i.e., non-dog objects). The main idea behind our scheme is t…
Adversarial perturbations fool deepfake detectors with high accuracy.
problem Improving deepfake detection accuracy against adversarial attacks.
method Used adversarial perturbations and two defenses: Lipschitz regularization and Deep Image Prior (DIP).
result Deepfake detectors achieved 27% accuracy on perturbed images, compared to 95% on unperturbed.
This paper studies concept drift detectors for financial time series.
problem Improving accuracy on financial time series with concept drifts.
method Three simple concept drift detectors tailored to financial time series.
result Two of the detectors are as effective as state-of-the-art detectors.
Paper generates full events from partons using machine learning.
problem Challenges of multiplicity variations between parton and reconstructed object spaces.
method Employing transformers, score-based models, and normalizing flows.
result Achieves remarkably accurate results in generating full events.
We advance the state of the art in polyphonic piano music transcription by using a deep convolutional and recurrent neural network which is trained to jointly predict onsets and frames. Our model predicts pitch onset events and then uses those predictions to condition framewise pitch predictions. During inference, we r…
Object detection is a computer vision field that has applications in several contexts ranging from biomedicine and agriculture to security. In the last years, several deep learning techniques have greatly improved object detection models. Among those techniques, we can highlight the YOLO approach, that allows the const…
Learning representations of irregular particle-detector geometry with distance-weighted graph networksphysics.data-an
We explore the use of graph networks to deal with irregular-geometry detectors in the context of particle reconstruction. Thanks to their representation-learning capabilities, graph networks can exploit the full detector granularity, while natively managing the event sparsity and arbitrarily complex detector geometries…
In this paper, deep neural network (DNN) is utilized to improve the belief propagation (BP) detection for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A neural network architecture suitable for detection task is firstly introduced by unfolding BP algorithms. DNN MIMO detectors are then proposed based on two m…
New method optimizes expensive simulations for complex systems.
problem Optimizing complex systems with limited expensive experiments.
method Black-box Optimization via Marginal Means (BOMM) approach.
result BOMM improves optimization performance in high dimensions.
Despite their unprecedented performance in various domains, utilization of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in safety-critical environments is severely limited in the presence of even small adversarial perturbations. The present work develops a randomized approach to detecting such perturbations based on minimum uncertainty…
New method uses neural networks to estimate parameters without needing detector simulations.
problem Estimating parameters in high-energy physics with detector effects.
method Two-level fitting approach: SRGN (Simulation-level fit based on Reweighting Generator-level events with Neural networks).
result Demonstrated using simulated datasets, SRGN can estimate parameters without detector effects.
Paper proposes an efficient method for bounding box annotation in object detection.
problem Manual annotation of bounding boxes is tedious and resource-intensive.
method Iterative training of object detector on small batches of labeled images, with human annotator correcting errors.
result Significant reduction in human annotation effort, up to 75%.
The anomaly detection of time series is a hotspot of time series data mining. The own characteristics of different anomaly detectors determine the abnormal data that they are good at. There is no detector can be optimizing in all types of anomalies. Moreover, it still has difficulties in industrial production due to pr…
This paper proposes an approach for rapid bounding box annotation for object detection datasets. The procedure consists of two stages: The first step is to annotate a part of the dataset manually, and the second step proposes annotations for the remaining samples using a model trained with the first stage annotations. …
This research generates synthetic data streams for handling concept drifts and novel classes.
problem Handling concept drifts and novel classes in dynamic data streams.
method Synthetic data stream generation for both concept drifts and novel classes.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of unsupervised drift detectors in open set recognition.
This paper introduces a novel deep learning framework for image animation. Given an input image with a target object and a driving video sequence depicting a moving object, our framework generates a video in which the target object is animated according to the driving sequence. This is achieved through a deep architect…
We introduce a Bayesian defect detector to facilitate the defect detection on the motion blurred images on rough texture surfaces. To enhance the accuracy of Bayesian detection on removing non-defect pixels, we develop a class of reflected non-local prior distributions, which is constructed by using the mode of a distr…
Deep Recurrent Electricity Theft Detection in AMI Networks with Random Tuning of Hyper-parameterscs.LG
Modern smart grids rely on advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) networks for monitoring and billing purposes. However, such an approach suffers from electricity theft cyberattacks. Different from the existing research that utilizes shallow, static, and customer-specific-based electricity theft detectors, this paper p…
New security patch for object tracking in self-driving cars mitigates vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerability of object tracking in self-driving cars, especially Kalman Filter-based trackers.
method Adaptive strategy to balance focus on observations and predictions based on deviation anomaly index.
result Certified effectiveness against a generalized hijacking attack model.
TomOpt: Differential optimisation for task- and constraint-aware design of particle detectors in the context of muon tomographyphysics.ins-det
TomOpt optimizes muon detector designs using differentiable programming.
problem Designing efficient particle detectors for muon tomography.
method Differentiable programming for muon interaction modeling, inference, and optimisation.
result Demonstrated end-to-end differentiable and inference-aware optimisation of particle physics instruments.
Improves relevancy of black-box anomaly detectors with user feedback.
problem Users often ignore many detected anomalies, requiring a method to identify and prioritize relevant ones.
method Uses user feedback to adjust anomaly selection process based on identified anomaly types.
result Significant improvements in precision and recall over various anomaly detectors.
Scaling the training of particle classification on simulated MicroBooNE events to multiple GPUsphysics.comp-ph
Deep learning for particle classification on large event images.
problem Training deep learning models on large, high-fidelity event images from MicroBooNE is challenging and time-consuming.
method Scaling training to multiple GPUs and architectures, using simulated MicroBooNE events.
result Demonstrated successful scaling of particle classification training to multiple GPUs and architectures.
Object detection in point cloud data is one of the key components in computer vision systems, especially for autonomous driving applications. In this work, we present Voxel-FPN, a novel one-stage 3D object detector that utilizes raw data from LIDAR sensors only. The core framework consists of an encoder network and a c…
The paper uses conformal prediction to detect railway signals with confidence.
problem Deploying deep learning models in certified systems requires accurate uncertainty estimates.
method The paper uses conformal prediction and risk control to detect railway signals.
result The conformal prediction framework provides reliable and trustworthy uncertainty estimates for model performance.