New photometric stereo method using dictionary learning for better normal vector reconstruction.
problem Photometric stereo's reliance on diffuse surface model limits its effectiveness for complex reflectance patterns.
method Developed two formulations of dictionary learning for photometric stereo: one for Lambertian and one for non-Lambertian objects.
result State-of-the-art performance compared to existing robust photometric stereo methods on synthetic and real datasets.
New photometric stereo method using learned dictionaries for robustness.
problem Estimating object normals from varying lighting conditions.
method Adaptive dictionary learning for image preprocessing and direct regularization of normal vectors.
result State-of-the-art performance in noisy conditions.
Paper presents a method for robust surface reconstruction from noisy gradients using adaptive dictionary learning.
problem Reconstructing surfaces from noisy photometric stereo normal vector maps.
method Adaptive dictionary learning to sparsely represent spatial patches of the surface, enforcing smoothness constraints.
result The method effectively learns the underlying surface structure and is robust to noise.
Expands sparse disparity cues from LiDAR to improve stereo matching performance.
problem Improving stereo estimation performance with limited dense data.
method Proposes a sparsity expansion technique to enhance local features from sparse disparity cues.
result Significantly boosts stereo algorithms with sparse cues, outperforming previous methods.
New method calibrates photometric redshift PDFs more accurately.
problem Inaccurate photometric redshift uncertainties lead to systematic errors.
method Local re-calibration using feature-space regression of Probability Integral Transform (PIT) distributions.
result Calibrated PDFs are more accurate at all locations in feature space.
DA improves solar wind forecasts by updating model boundary conditions.
problem Improving solar wind forecasting accuracy.
method Variational Data Assimilation with solar wind model and in-situ observations.
result DA forecasts are more accurate than non-DA forecasts, especially when STEREO-B's latitude is offset from Earth.
In this paper, a modification to the training process of the popular SPLICE algorithm has been proposed for noise robust speech recognition. The modification is based on feature correlations, and enables this stereo-based algorithm to improve the performance in all noise conditions, especially in unseen cases. Further,…
3D good continuation model explains stereo vision using neurogeometry.
problem Understanding how the brain processes 3D visual correspondence.
method Developed a neurogeometric model involving spatial and orientation disparities.
result Provides insight into neural organization and correspondence problem.
Machine learning detects type Ia supernovae from photometric data.
problem Detecting type Ia supernovae accurately from photometric data.
method Machine learning approach using only real observation data.
result Good results on real data from the Open Supernovae Catalog.
With the availability of the huge amounts of data produced by current and future large multi-band photometric surveys, photometric redshifts have become a crucial tool for extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. In this paper we present a novel method, called Weak Gated Experts (WGE), which allows to derive photometric …
Deep learning models improve traffic image segmentation accuracy but vary by city and channel.
problem Improving semantic segmentation accuracy for traffic analysis.
method Evaluation of PSPNet and ICNet on Cityscapes and custom urban images.
result Different models have varying accuracy and inference time for different cities and channels.
In this paper we explore the applicability of the unsupervised machine learning technique of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) to estimate galaxy photometric redshift probability density functions (PDFs). This technique takes a spectroscopic training set, and maps the photometric attributes, but not the redshifts, to a two di…
The Baire metric induces an ultrametric on a dataset and is of linear computational complexity, contrasted with the standard quadratic time agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm. We apply the Baire distance to spectrometric and photometric redshifts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using, in this work, about…
New framework segments 3D scenes using neural algorithms and sub-Riemannian geometry.
problem Effective scene segmentation in 3D vision.
method Neurogeometric sub-Riemannian model, harmonic analysis, neural-based stereo correspondence.
result Sub-Riemannian metric is central to effective scene segmentation.
New algorithms improve robust PCA for vision tasks with heavy-tailed distributions.
problem Challenging non-convex, non-smooth, non-Lipschitz problems in robust PCA.
method Bilinear factor matrix norm minimization models with double nuclear and hybrid norms.
result Our methods yield more accurate solutions than original Schatten quasi-norm minimization.
Automated classification of astronomical light curves for LSST.
problem Handling massive astronomical data from LSST.
method Gradient boosting of decision trees, feature extraction and selection, augmentation.
result Achieved one of the top results in the PLAsTiCC challenge.
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.
The Baire metric induces an ultrametric on a dataset and is of linear computational complexity, contrasted with the standard quadratic time agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm. In this work we evaluate empirically this new approach to hierarchical clustering. We compare hierarchical clustering based on the …
PICZL improves photometric redshifts for AGN in all-sky surveys.
problem Challenges in accurately computing photo-z for AGN due to interplay of SMBH and host galaxy emissions.
method PICZL uses an ensemble of CNNs with cross-channel integration of image and catalog data, leveraging Gaussian mixture models.
result PICZL achieves a photo-z variance of 4.5% and outlier fraction of 5.6% on a validation sample of 8098 AGN, outperforming previous methods.
Designing a photometric system to best fulfil a set of scientific goals is a complex task, demanding a compromise between conflicting requirements and subject to various constraints. A specific example is the determination of stellar astrophysical parameters (APs) - effective temperature, metallicity etc. - across a wi…
Large-scale surveys make huge amounts of photometric data available. Because of the sheer amount of objects, spectral data cannot be obtained for all of them. Therefore it is important to devise techniques for reliably estimating physical properties of objects from photometric information alone. These estimates are nee…
New method separates audio sources without needing known decompositions.
problem Difficulty in training source separation models on real-world mixtures.
method Generates estimated decompositions from stereo mixtures and trains a deep learning model.
result Trained model can separate single-channel audio sources effectively.
The paper introduces tools for nonparametric conditional density estimation in astronomy.
problem Estimating photometric redshifts and likelihood-free cosmological inference with uncertainty quantification.
method Nonparametric conditional density estimation (CDE) tools in Python and R.
result Comprehensive statistical tools and software for CDE in astronomy.
This study benchmarks data augmentation schemes to improve CNN performance.
problem Lack of training data for deep learning models.
method Various geometric and photometric data augmentation schemes evaluated on a CNN.
result Cropping in geometric augmentation significantly improves CNN task performance.
Y-GAN uses multi-camera data to estimate depth maps without expensive hardware.
problem Depth perception for autonomous systems requires accurate 3D spatial information.
method Proposes Y-GAN, a deep convolutional generative adversarial network.
result Y-GAN estimates depth maps from multi-camera stereo images without ground truth data.
This paper explores synthetic data for training networks in stereo and optical flow tasks.
problem Creating accurate training data for stereo and optical flow tasks is challenging.
method Promotes the use of synthetically generated data and evaluates its impact on network performance.
result Synthetically generated data improves network performance and generalization.
Paper proposes a method to learn and exceed expert demonstrations in unknown reward environments.
problem Learning to outperform expert demonstrations in unknown reward environments.
method A novel concurrent reward and action policy learning approach with a stereo utility definition.
result The proposed method can outperform expert demonstrations in various environments.
Method infers depth from sparse points and camera motion.
problem Depth inference from limited sparse data.
method Constructs a planar scaffolding and uses predictive cross-modal criterion.
result State-of-the-art performance on depth completion benchmark.
New approach to domain adaptation for astronomy models.
problem Building models on source tasks and adapting them to target tasks in astronomy.
method Assumes strong similarity in model complexity across domains and uses active learning.
result Increased accuracy and reduced computational cost in two astronomical applications.
STM maps improve terrain perception for autonomous robots.
problem Perception of terrain for autonomous robots in general environments.
method Stochastic triangular mesh (STM) technique for 2.5-D surface mapping.
result STM maps are more accurate than standard elevation maps.
Tabular foundation models outperform other methods in conditional density estimation across various datasets.
problem Estimating the full conditional distribution of a response given tabular covariates, especially in settings with heteroscedasticity, multimodality, or asymmetric uncertainty.
method Benchmarked three tabular foundation model variants (TabPFN and TabICL) against six CDE baselines on 39 real-world datasets.
result Tabular foundation models achieve the best CDE loss, log-likelihood, and CRPS across all sample sizes, outperforming other methods.
Genetic algorithms optimize neural networks for cosmological data analysis.
problem Inaccurate results from neural networks due to poor hyperparameter selection.
method Used genetic algorithms to optimize hyperparameters of neural networks.
result Genetic algorithms improve neural network performance in cosmological data analysis.
RAPID identifies transients in days, improving classification accuracy over time.
problem Early identification and classification of astronomical transients.
method Deep recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs).
result Average AUC of 0.95 and 0.98 at early and late epochs, respectively.
We verify CNNs using reachability analysis and transformations.
problem Verifying neural-based perception systems implemented by CNNs.
method Reachability analysis for feed-forward neural networks with MILP encodings.
result The notion of local robustness cannot be captured by previous robustness notions.
A new CNN method for point cloud data.
problem Processing 3D point cloud data efficiently.
method Creating a mapping of nearest neighbors and applying weights to spatial relationships.
result Achieves a CNN-like architecture for point clouds without extensive feature engineering.
Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated dataset. The present paper extends the concept of optical flow estimation via co…
Dual decomposition provides a tractable framework for designing algorithms for finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models. However, for many real-world inference problems, the typical decomposition has a large integrality gap, due to frustrated cycles. One way to tighten the relaxation is to intr…
Self-supervised method estimates depth from monocular endoscopy videos.
problem Depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without manual labeling.
method Convolutional neural networks trained with sparse supervision from stereo methods.
result Submillimeter mean residual error in cross-patient CT scans comparison.
We present a large catalog of optically selected galaxy clusters from the application of a new Gaussian Mixture Brightest Cluster Galaxy (GMBCG) algorithm to SDSS Data Release 7 data. The algorithm detects clusters by identifying the red sequence plus Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) feature, which is unique for galaxy c…
Fink AGN classifier achieves high accuracy in classifying active galactic nuclei.
problem Classifying active galactic nuclei from astronomical data.
method Built features from photometric points and color estimation. Used active learning for optimized training sample. Applied traditional machine learning algorithms.
result Achieved 98.0% accuracy in classifying real alerts from ZTF.
A hierarchical DNN model for end-to-end driving tasks.
problem End-to-end driving tasks with various challenges.
method Hierarchical multi-task DNN architecture with subservient networks for specific tasks.
result Reduction in training data and tailored model complexity for different tasks.
Efficiently extracts local features from whole images using CNNs with pooling layers.
problem Efficiently extracting local features from whole images for various tasks.
method A method to compute patch-based local feature descriptors efficiently in presence of pooling and striding layers for whole images at once, applicable to nearly all existing network architectures.
result Our approach significantly speeds up feature extraction from whole images compared to existing methods.
Proposes a method to improve learning when training data is not representative.
problem Improving supervised learning when training data is not representative (covariate shift).
method Conditioning on propensity scores to balance covariates within strata.
result Significantly improved target prediction and AUC (0.958) on supernovae classification challenge.
Novel AI-IMU method accurately estimates vehicle position and orientation.
problem Accurate dead-reckoning for wheeled vehicles using only IMU.
method Kalman filter and deep neural networks for noise adaptation.
result Average 1.10% translational error, competitive with LiDAR or stereo vision methods.
Proposes hinge-Wasserstein to improve uncertainty estimation in regression tasks.
problem Estimating multimodal aleatoric uncertainty in regression tasks from images.
method Regression-by-classification paradigm with hinge-Wasserstein loss.
result Hinge-Wasserstein loss improves uncertainty estimation on challenging tasks.
Machine learning analysis of galaxy catalogues finds only one class separable.
problem Difficulty in classifying galaxies using visual inspection schemes.
method Generalized Relevance Matrix Learning Vector Quantization and Random Forests.
result Only one class, Little Blue Spheroids, is consistently separable.
daep learns from irregular, multimodal astronomical data.
problem Learning from irregular, multimodal astronomical sequences.
method Diffusion Autoencoder with Perceivers (daep) tokenizes, compresses, and reconstructs data.
result daep outperforms VAE and maep baselines in reconstruction and fine-scale structure preservation.
We introduce a new GP kernel based on the sinc function for band-limited signals.
problem Designing covariance kernels for band-limited signals.
method Proposes a Gaussian process kernel with a power spectral density modeled by a rectangular function.
result The sinc kernel facilitates efficient signal processing applications like stereo modulation and band-pass filtering.