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New method defends against unseen threat models using perceptual adversarial training.
Metric functions for phoneme perception capture the similarity structure among phonemes in a given language and therefore play a central role in phonology and psycho-linguistics. Various phenomena depend on phoneme similarity, such as spoken word recognition or serial recall from verbal working memory. This study prese…
Traditionally, the vision community has devised algorithms to estimate the distance between an original image and images that have been subject to perturbations. Inspiration was usually taken from the human visual perceptual system and how the system processes different perturbations in order to replicate to what exten…
Introduces PCG for better counterfactual explanations in vision models.
A new loss function for VAEs improves image quality and efficiency.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in image generation through deep learning. While an important part of the evaluation of the generated images usually involves visual inspection, the inclusion of human perception as a factor in the training process is often overlooked. In this paper we propose an altern…
A new perceptual adjustment query for metric learning reduces complexity in high-dimensional data.
This paper explores using SSIM for better image generation in generative models.
In order to design haptic icons or build a haptic vocabulary, we require a set of easily distinguishable haptic signals to avoid perceptual ambiguity, which in turn requires a way to accurately estimate the perceptual (dis)similarity of such signals. In this work, we present a novel method to learn such a perceptual me…
Paper proposes a method to make image model explanations robust to distortions.
Recent work has shown that additive threat models, which only permit the addition of bounded noise to the pixels of an image, are insufficient for fully capturing the space of imperceivable adversarial examples. For example, small rotations and spatial transformations can fool classifiers, remain imperceivable to human…
Recent studies show that widely used deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples. Many advanced algorithms have been proposed to generate adversarial examples by leveraging the distance for penalizing perturbations. Researchers have explored different defense met…
This paper generalizes graph representation for diverse data types.
New framework segments 3D scenes using neural algorithms and sub-Riemannian geometry.
New SSIM measure improves adversarial attacks' perceptual quality.
Perceptual Kalman filters maintain human-perceptual quality while processing data.
New slicing methods speed up Gaussian mixture Wasserstein distance computations.
Study shows perceptual boost of visual attention varies with task difficulty and size.
A new metric FRD improves comparing medical images.
For a standard convolutional neural network, optimizing over the input pixels to maximize the score of some target class will generally produce a grainy-looking version of the original image. However, Santurkar et al. (2019) demonstrated that for adversarially-trained neural networks, this optimization produces images …
Perceptual ad-blocking is a novel approach that detects online advertisements based on their visual content. Compared to traditional filter lists, the use of perceptual signals is believed to be less prone to an arms race with web publishers and ad networks. We demonstrate that this may not be the case. We describe att…
Study the tradeoff between signal distortion and human perception over finite channels.
Improved reliability of machine learning predictions using variational auto-encoders.
We present a scalable, black box, perception-in-the-loop technique to find adversarial examples for deep neural network classifiers. Black box means that our procedure only has input-output access to the classifier, and not to the internal structure, parameters, or intermediate confidence values. Perception-in-the-loop…
Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbour (NBNN) is a simple and effective framework which addresses many of the pitfalls of K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) classification. It has yielded competitive results on several computer vision benchmarks. Its central tenet is that during NN search, a query is not compared to every example in a d…
Stochastic encoders outperform deterministic ones in 'perfect perceptual quality'.
Conventional SVM-based image coding methods are founded on independently restricting the distortion in every image coefficient at some particular image representation. Geometrically, this implies allowing arbitrary signal distortions in an -dimensional rectangle defined by the -insensitivity zone in eac…
A new distance metric derived from information theory and estimation theory.
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance and provide significant progress in many machine learning tasks, such as image classification, speech processing, natural language processing, etc. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. For inst…
Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly accepted that "low distortion" is no…
Adversarial training improves robustness against common corruptions.
This paper presents a novel CNN-based approach for synthesizing high-resolution LiDAR point cloud data. Our approach generates semantically and perceptually realistic results with guidance from specialized loss-functions. First, we utilize a modified per-point loss that addresses missing LiDAR point measurements. Secon…
PeL separates sensory interface optimization from decision learning.
Improved image generation with private data using perceptual features.
New method disentangles perceptual uncertainty and behavioral costs in partially observable systems.
Stabilizes training of DNN for speech enhancement using PESQ scores.
Humans perceive the seemingly chaotic world in a structured and compositional way with the prerequisite of being able to segregate conceptual entities from the complex visual scenes. The mechanism of grouping basic visual elements of scenes into conceptual entities is termed as perceptual grouping. In this work, we pro…
Learning to control an environment without hand-crafted rewards or expert data remains challenging and is at the frontier of reinforcement learning research. We present an unsupervised learning algorithm to train agents to achieve perceptually-specified goals using only a stream of observations and actions. Our agent s…
In order to efficiently transmit and store speech signals, speech codecs create a minimally redundant representation of the input signal which is then decoded at the receiver with the best possible perceptual quality. In this work we demonstrate that a neural network architecture based on VQ-VAE with a WaveNet decoder …
Paper introduces adversarial lossy compression for video artifacts reduction.
This research converts visual information into audio for users to perceive.
A new method compares image classifiers using adaptive sampling of natural images.
Paper presents a new video generation model using diffusion probabilistic methods.
This paper addresses two crucial problems of learning disentangled image representations, namely controlling the degree of disentanglement during image editing, and balancing the disentanglement strength and the reconstruction quality. To encourage disentanglement, we devise a distance covariance based decorrelation re…
Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial example attack, which generates malicious output by adding slight perturbation…
Quaternion Conformer GAN (QC-GAN) is a parameter-efficient speech enhancement framework that combines a Quaternion Conformer generator with MetricGAN-based training.
New method compresses facial videos using GANs and latent space optimization.
High-dimensional neural network manifolds misalign with human perception, causing adversarial examples.