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48 results for pose canonicalization

This research improves representation learning for new domains with limited new supervision.

problem Learning representations that generalize well to new domains with minimal new data.
method Encourages linearity of factors of variation through learned linear transformations called latent canonicalizers.
result Reduces the number of observations needed to generalize to a similar target domain compared to supervised baselines.

LLoCa makes any network Lorentz-equivariant, achieving high accuracy and efficiency.

problem Limitations of specialized layers in Lorentz-equivariant neural networks.
method LLoCa framework using local reference frames and geometric message passing.
result Models achieve competitive and state-of-the-art accuracy on particle physics tasks.

SymPE breaks symmetries in equivariant networks, improving performance across various tasks.

problem Equivariant networks cannot break symmetries, leading to poor performance in tasks with symmetrical inputs.
method Novel equivariant conditional distributions and randomized canonicalization.
result SymPE significantly improves performance of group-equivariant and graph neural networks.

Permutations and matchings are core building blocks in a variety of latent variable models, as they allow us to align, canonicalize, and sort data. Learning in such models is difficult, however, because exact marginalization over these combinatorial objects is intractable. In response, this paper introduces a collectio…

2018-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

LoRAs enable efficient adaptation of large models; this paper explores processing LoRA weights with machine learning.

problem Efficient processing of low-rank weight decompositions in large finetuned models.
method Developed symmetry-aware invariant and equivariant LoL models to process LoRA weights.
result LoL models can predict CLIP scores, finetuning data attributes, and accuracy on downstream tasks.

The paper learns pose variations within shape populations using constrained mixtures of factor analyzers.

problem Learning pose variations within a shape population with articulated parts and relative rotations.
method Formulated as mixtures of factor analyzers, segmentation by component posterior probabilities, and constraints on factor loading matrices for rotation matrices.
result Automatic learning of pose variations from shape populations, resulting in smooth and realistic animations.

The paper analyzes the observability of relative pose estimation using dual quaternions.

problem Estimating relative pose in robotics applications.
method Lie algebraic nonlinear observability analysis on a dual quaternion system.
result Dual quaternion representation yields an observability matrix with a simple block triangular structure and full rank.

Person Re-identification (re-id) faces two major challenges: the lack of cross-view paired training data and learning discriminative identity-sensitive and view-invariant features in the presence of large pose variations. In this work, we address both problems by proposing a novel deep person image generation model for…

2017-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New CNN architecture improves pediatric image segmentation by homogenizing pose and size.

problem Challenges in segmenting pediatric images due to pose and size heterogeneity.
method Spatial Transformer Network (STN) for pose and scale invariance, combined with UNet for segmentation.
result Improved pediatric segmentation, especially renal tumor delineation, with accelerated processing.

In this paper, we deal with two challenges for measuring the similarity of the subject identities in practical video-based face recognition - the variation of the head pose in uncontrolled environments and the computational expense of processing videos. Since the frame-wise feature mean is unable to characterize the po…

2016-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Capsule models enforce object pose relationships for robustness, explored with probabilistic generative and variational methods.

problem Enforcing object pose relationships for robustness to viewpoint changes.
method Probabilistic generative model with variational bound, exploring capsule assumptions and inference mechanisms.
result Unified objective and test time optimisation demonstrated for capsule models.

Deep generative modelling for human body analysis is an emerging problem with many interesting applications. However, the latent space learned by such approaches is typically not interpretable, resulting in less flexibility. In this work, we present deep generative models for human body analysis in which the body pose …

2018-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a method to learn object representations from 3D point clouds using bundles of geometrically interpretable hidden units, which we call geometric capsules. Each geometric capsule represents a visual entity, such as an object or a part, and consists of two components: a pose and a feature. The pose encodes whe…

2019-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Posing Kepler's problem of motion around a fixed "sun" requires the geometric mechanician to choose a metric and a Laplacian. The metric provides the kinetic energy. The fundamental solution to the Laplacian (with delta source at the "sun") provides the potential energy. Posing Kepler's three laws (with input from Gali…

2012-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We are given a video of a person performing a certain activity, from which we extract a controllable model. The model generates novel image sequences of that person, according to arbitrary user-defined control signals, typically marking the displacement of the moving body. The generated video can have an arbitrary back…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce SARR for symmetric object pose estimation, improving CNN performance.

problem Ambiguities in symmetric object orientations hinder deep learning pose estimation.
method Numeric rotation representation using symmetry-derived trigonometric identities.
result SARR enables standard CNNs to achieve state-of-the-art performance.

We present an unsupervised approach for learning to estimate three dimensional (3D) facial structure from a single image while also predicting 3D viewpoint transformations that match a desired pose and facial geometry. We achieve this by inferring the depth of facial keypoints of an input image in an unsupervised manne…

2018-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate nearest neighbor and generative models for transferring pose between persons. We take in a video of one person performing a sequence of actions and attempt to generate a video of another person performing the same actions. Our generative model (pix2pix) outperforms k-NN at both generating corresponding f…

2018-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Human motion prediction is a stochastic process: Given an observed sequence of poses, multiple future motions are plausible. Existing approaches to modeling this stochasticity typically combine a random noise vector with information about the previous poses. This combination, however, is done in a deterministic manner,…

2019-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Computational approaches to drug discovery can reduce the time and cost associated with experimental assays and enable the screening of novel chemotypes. Structure-based drug design methods rely on scoring functions to rank and predict binding affinities and poses. The ever-expanding amount of protein-ligand binding an…

2016-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Previous work has shown that popular trending events are important external factors which pose significant influence on user search behavior and also provided a way to computationally model this influence. However, their problem formulation was based on the strong assumption that each event poses its influence independ…

2019-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The Fredholm integral equation of the first kind improves solutions for ill-posed supervised learning problems with limited data.

problem Ill-posed supervised learning problems with insufficient data.
method Using the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind (FIFK) with semi-supervised assumptions and MSDF methods.
result Improved accuracy and stability in solutions for ill-posed problems.

New framework assesses regularization norms in ill-posed problems, revealing L2 instability and proposing adaptive fractional RKHS solutions.

problem Comparative analysis of regularization norms in ill-posed problems.
method Small noise analysis framework for Tikhonov and RKHS regularizations.
result Optimal convergence rates achieved with adaptive fractional RKHS, but hyper-parameters decay too fast.

Tensor neural network improves human pose classification from 3D skeleton data.

problem Efficiently processing spatiotemporal data for human pose classification.
method Proposes a tensor-based neural network with three components: spatiotemporal feature construction, tensor fusion, and tensor-based neural network processing.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance in human pose classification.

MCGDiff uses SGM to guide SMC for solving ill-posed linear inverse problems.

problem Solving ill-posed linear inverse problems in Bayesian settings.
method Exploiting SGM structure, defining a sequence of intermediate problems, and using SMC methods.
result MCGDiff outperforms competing methods in Bayesian ill-posed inverse problems.

We study the geodesic X-ray transform XX on compact Riemannian surfaces with conjugate points. Regardless of the type of the conjugate points, we show that we cannot recover the singularities and therefore, this transform is always unstable (ill-posed). We describe the microlocal kernel of XX and relate it to the con…

2014-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

In the present paper we consider application of overcomplete dictionaries to solution of general ill-posed linear inverse problems. In the context of regression problems, there has been enormous amount of effort to recover an unknown function using such dictionaries. One of the most popular methods, lasso and its versi…

2016-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We present LumièreNet, a simple, modular, and completely deep-learning based architecture that synthesizes, high quality, full-pose headshot lecture videos from instructor's new audio narration of any length. Unlike prior works, LumièreNet is entirely composed of trainable neural network modules to learn mapping functi…

2019-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗