Visualizes classification results with class maps.
problem Label bias in classification predictions.
method Class maps reflecting probability, distance, and mislabeling likelihood.
result Insight into classification results and data structure.
GMNN combines conditional random fields and graph neural networks for relational data.
problem Semi-supervised object classification in relational data.
method Combines conditional random fields and graph neural networks. Uses variational EM algorithm for training.
result GMNN achieves state-of-the-art results on object classification, link classification, and unsupervised node representation learning.
This research uses PointNets to detect 2D objects from radar data.
problem Detecting 2D objects from sparse radar data for automated driving.
method Adapting PointNets for radar data, performing 2D object classification and bounding box regression.
result Demonstrates the potential of PointNets for 2D object detection in radar data.
Collective classification has been intensively studied due to its impact in many important applications, such as web mining, bioinformatics and citation analysis. Collective classification approaches exploit the dependencies of a group of linked objects whose class labels are correlated and need to be predicted simulta…
Proposes interpretable filters in CNNs for object classification.
problem Learning interpretable filters in deep CNNs without additional annotations.
method Assigns each filter in a CNN to an object part during training.
result Interpretable filters are more semantically meaningful than traditional filters.
Proposes a fairness criterion for multi-objective optimization in classification.
problem Ensuring fairness in classification models across different groups.
method Formulates a minimax Pareto fairness criterion and provides an optimization algorithm.
result Demonstrates improved fairness compared to existing methods on various real-world datasets.
Improved object classification using neural networks with known and unknown features.
problem Improving classification accuracy for objects described by both known and unknown features.
method Modernized Informational Neurobayesian Approach with consideration of unknown features.
result The method completely solved the problem of misclassification for queries with combining known and unknown features.
Theory for soft-margin classifiers on object manifolds.
problem Classifying object manifolds with variability.
method Mean-field theory of soft-margin classifiers applied to object manifolds.
result Prediction of classification errors and their dependence on regularization.
InSphereNet uses infilling spheres for 3D object classification, improving accuracy with fewer parameters.
problem 3D object classification using points, voxels, or images.
method Constructs infilling spheres from signed distance field (SDF) for classification.
result InSphereNet achieves superior accuracy with fewer inputs and parameters.
Paper classifies pedestrians and vehicles detected by LiDAR.
problem Classifying objects from LiDAR data for self-driving cars.
method Used LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks classifier.
result Real-time object detection for self-driving vehicles.
Perceptual manifolds arise when a neural population responds to an ensemble of sensory signals associated with different physical features (e.g., orientation, pose, scale, location, and intensity) of the same perceptual object. Object recognition and discrimination requires classifying the manifolds in a manner that is…
DeepHybrid uses radar data to classify objects accurately.
problem Challenges in classifying objects using automotive radar sensors.
method Combines radar signal processing and Deep Learning; uses neural architecture search.
result Improves object classification performance compared to models using only spectra.
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.
Proposes CMP method for reducing tensor object dimensions in binary classification.
problem Reduction of tensor object dimensions while maintaining class separability.
method Proposes Common Mode Patterns (CMP) method considering class labels.
result CMP method increases inter-class separability compared to MPCA.
New CNN approach reduces overconfidence in object classification predictions.
problem Overconfident predictions from deep models, especially SoftMax layer.
method Introduces CNN probabilistic approach using Logit layer for Bayesian inference.
result Proposed approach shows promising performance compared to SoftMax.
Recognizing an object's material can inform a robot on the object's fragility or appropriate use. To estimate an object's material during manipulation, many prior works have explored the use of haptic sensing. In this paper, we explore a technique for robots to estimate the materials of objects using spectroscopy. We d…
When working with three-dimensional data, choice of representation is key. We explore voxel-based models, and present evidence for the viability of voxellated representations in applications including shape modeling and object classification. Our key contributions are methods for training voxel-based variational autoen…
We describe a method for predicting a classification of an object given classifications of the objects in the training set, assuming that the pairs object/classification are generated by an i.i.d. process from a continuous probability distribution. Our method is a modification of Vapnik's support-vector machine; its ma…
End-to-end audio recognition system improves accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in auditory object recognition.
method Proposes an end-to-end deep neural network with an 'inception nucleus' to learn features from raw waveforms.
result Bests current state-of-the-art approaches by 10.4 percentage points on Urbansound8k dataset.
BFPM improves machine learning accuracy by considering object types and memberships flexibly.
problem Inaccurate learning due to missing important parameters.
method BFPM relaxes fuzzy and possibilistic constraints, allowing arbitrary object memberships and movement analysis.
result BFPM enhances object movement analysis and provides flexible search space.
Proposes a method for weakly-supervised object localization to improve few-shot learning.
problem Challenges of few-shot learning, especially with fine-grained categories.
method Introduces a Self-Attention Based Complementary Module (SAC Module) for weakly-supervised object localization.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets, especially for fine-grained few-shot tasks.
This research improves multimodal systems by adding a second objective and regularisation methods.
problem Improving performance of multimodal systems with multiple objectives and regularisation.
method Introduces a second objective over multimodal fusion using variational inference and regularisation methods.
result Demonstrates potential for multiple objectives and probabilistic methods to lower variance and improve generalisation.
C2G-Net improves image classification of similar objects like cells.
problem Classifying images with many similar objects efficiently and interpretably.
method Combines image compression and a CNN with reduced parameters.
result C2G-Net achieves similar accuracy to conventional CNNs but with reduced training time and improved interpretability.
A common practice in most of deep convolutional neural architectures is to employ fully-connected layers followed by Softmax activation to minimize cross-entropy loss for the sake of classification. Recent studies show that substitution or addition of the Softmax objective to the cost functions of support vector machin…
Machine learning models classify celestial objects like pulsars and black holes.
problem Classifying high-energy celestial objects using photometric data.
method Applied tree-based models and RNN to classify pulsars and black holes.
result RNN showed potential for real-time object discrimination and classification.
This paper proposes an inexpensive way to learn an effective dissimilarity function to be used for k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) classification. Unlike Mahalanobis metric learning methods that map both query (unlabeled) objects and labeled objects to new coordinates by a single transformation, our method learns a trans…
Study quantifies context dependency in image classification and segmentation models.
problem Understanding how much context affects model predictions in image classification and segmentation.
method Developed a method to quantify and control model sensitivity to visual context by removing selected objects from images.
result Discovered that certain objects (e.g., 'sidewalk') rely heavily on the presence of other objects (e.g., 'cars') in the context.
The paper briefly introduces multiple classifier systems and describes a new algorithm, which improves classification accuracy by means of recommendation of a proper algorithm to an object classification. This recommendation is done assuming that a classifier is likely to predict the label of the object correctly if it…
The original problem of supervised classification considers the task of automatically assigning objects to their respective classes on the basis of numerical measurements derived from these objects. Classifiers are the tools that implement the actual functional mapping from these measurements---also called features or …
Pairwise ranking aligns subjective clinical evaluations with objective indicators.
problem Aligning subjective clinical evaluations with objective indicators for improved diagnosis.
method Pairwise ranking methods to align subjective evaluations with objective indicators.
result The resulting score improves classification accuracy and provides a nuanced severity assessment.
Proposes a robust 3D classification method for sparse point clouds.
problem Invariance to rotation, positional shift, scaling, and robustness to point sparsity in point cloud classification.
method Introduces a graph-based feature learning approach with an end-to-end neural network.
result Significantly improves 3D object classification and retrieval tasks with sparse point clouds.
We consider object recognition in the context of lifelong learning, where a robotic agent learns to discriminate between a growing number of object classes as it accumulates experience about the environment. We propose an incremental variant of the Regularized Least Squares for Classification (RLSC) algorithm, and expl…
FairNN learns fair representations and decisions by optimizing a multi-objective loss function.
problem Fairness in machine learning models for decision-making.
method Joint feature representation and classification with multi-objective loss function.
result Joint approach outperforms separate treatment of fairness in representation learning or supervised learning.
Paper estimates optimal ROC curve arc length and AUC, improving classification performance.
problem Estimating optimal ROC curve arc length and AUC in imbalanced binary classification.
method Expresses arc length and AUC as variational objectives, estimating using positive and negative samples.
result Proposed classification procedure maximizes an approximate lower bound of maximal AUC.
This research shows unsupervised GANs can perform object segmentation without labels.
problem Performing object segmentation without pixel or image-level labels.
method Used large-scale unsupervised GAN models to differentiate foreground from background.
result Demonstrated high-quality saliency masks and new state-of-the-art performance.
New method optimizes hierarchical multi-label classification results.
problem Optimizing classification results respecting class hierarchy and classifier scores.
method Introducing CATCH objective function and mLPR metric to rank multi-label classification results.
result HierRank algorithm optimizes CATCH, improving decision accuracy.
MOANOFS tackles online feature selection for big data classification.
problem Online supervised feature selection for binary classification in big data.
method Hybrid of online learning and automated negotiation.
result MOANOFS achieves high accuracy with real-world applications.
PixelHop uses SSL for image classification, outperforming CNN.
problem Image classification accuracy improvement.
method PixelHop combines SSL with supervised and unsupervised dimension reduction.
result PixelHop outperforms CNN on MNIST, Fashion MNIST, and CIFAR-10 datasets.
A new method learns fair classifiers without sacrificing accuracy.
problem Designing fair classifiers that do not discriminate based on sensitive attributes.
method A model-agnostic multi-objective architecture using a differentiable relaxation of fairness notions.
result Our method achieves lower loss of accuracy compared to current debiasing algorithms.
Study shows how correlations between neural activity affect classification capacity.
problem Understanding how correlations between neural activity impact classification performance.
method Calculated the capacity of neural activity on spherical manifolds with and without correlations between centroids and axes.
result Introducing correlations between neural activity centroids pushes spheres closer together, while correlations between axes shrink their radii, revealing a duality between correlations and geometry in classification.
A significantly faster algorithm is presented for the original kNN mode seeking procedure. It has the advantages over the well-known mean shift algorithm that it is feasible in high-dimensional vector spaces and results in uniquely, well defined modes. Moreover, without any additional computational effort it may yield …
A new method extracts linguistic objects from text using CNNs.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for text.
method Weighted extension of Text Deconvolution Saliency (wTDS) measure.
result Extracts interpretable linguistic objects from text.
Adaptive algorithm for multi-objective optimization with binary constraints.
problem Optimization of black-box problems with binary constraints.
method Bayesian optimization using regression and classification models.
result Significantly faster expected hypervolume calculation.
Classification and clustering algorithms have been proved to be successful individually in different contexts. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. For instance, although classification algorithms are more powerful than clustering methods in predicting class labels of objects, they do not perform wel…
Paper proposes angular loss for better face recognition and object classification.
problem Improving intra-class compactness and preventing overfitting in face recognition and object classification.
method Angular loss function to maximize angular gradient, reducing overfitting and requiring only one adjustable constant.
result Our method outperforms other methods in accuracy, discriminative information, and time-efficiency.
Optimal fuzzy classification aggregation functions are weighted means.
problem Characterizing optimal fuzzy classification aggregation functions.
method Proving optimality of weighted arithmetic means for fuzzy classification.
result Optimal fuzzy classification aggregation functions are weighted means.
Supervised object detection and semantic segmentation require object or even pixel level annotations. When there exist image level labels only, it is challenging for weakly supervised algorithms to achieve accurate predictions. The accuracy achieved by top weakly supervised algorithms is still significantly lower than …
New method improves object detection models for long-tailed datasets.
problem Classifier imbalance in long-tail object detection datasets.
method Balanced Group Softmax (BAGS) module for balanced training of classifiers.
result Significantly improves performance of object detection models.