Random forest can be adapted for open-set recognition with improved performance.
problem Handling unknown classes in real-world classification tasks.
method Incorporating distance metric learning and distance-based open-set recognition into random forest.
result The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art open-set recognition methods.
Improves few-shot learning for real-world recognition with novel methods.
problem Challenges in real-world recognition with heavy-tailed class distributions and cluttered scenes.
method Parameter-free improvements including better training procedures, object localization, and feature space expansion.
result Doubles accuracy of state-of-the-art models on meta-iNat while generalizing to diverse settings.
With the recent renaissance of deep convolution neural networks, encouraging breakthroughs have been achieved on the supervised recognition tasks, where each class has sufficient training data and fully annotated training data. However, to scale the recognition to a large number of classes with few or now training samp…
Labeled data used for training activity recognition classifiers are usually limited in terms of size and diversity. Thus, the learned model may not generalize well when used in real-world use cases. Semi-supervised learning augments labeled examples with unlabeled examples, often resulting in improved performance. Howe…
Paper tackles activity recognition from body-worn video footage.
problem Classifying frames of body-worn video footage according to the wearer's activity.
method Extract motion features and semi-supervised classification.
result Method achieves comparable results to supervised and deep learning methods using less training data.
Activity recognition from sensor data deals with various challenges, such as overlapping activities, activity labeling, and activity detection. Although each challenge in the field of recognition has great importance, the most important one refers to online activity recognition. The present study tries to use online hi…
ViewFool identifies adversarial viewpoints to test image recognition robustness.
problem Lack of robustness to viewpoint changes in visual recognition models.
method Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and entropic regularizer to find adversarial viewpoints.
result Common image classifiers are highly vulnerable to generated adversarial viewpoints.
Survey examines public views on facial recognition technology.
problem Public acceptance and privacy concerns with facial recognition.
method Cross-national survey of 4 countries.
result Public views vary significantly across countries.
In real-world recognition/classification tasks, limited by various objective factors, it is usually difficult to collect training samples to exhaust all classes when training a recognizer or classifier. A more realistic scenario is open set recognition (OSR), where incomplete knowledge of the world exists at training t…
Paper introduces Balanced Meta-Softmax for better long-tailed visual recognition.
problem Long-tailed distribution mismatch between training and testing data.
method Balanced Meta-Softmax, an unbiased extension of Softmax, using a Meta Sampler.
result Balanced Meta-Softmax outperforms state-of-the-art solutions on visual recognition and instance segmentation.
In this report, an automated bartender system was developed for making orders in a bar using hand gestures. The gesture recognition of the system was developed using Machine Learning techniques, where the model was trained to classify gestures using collected data. The final model used in the system reached an average …
Deep learning improves material recognition in construction monitoring.
problem Varying illuminations and low accuracy rates in material classification.
method Deep learning methods, including convolutional neural networks, were used to classify and recognize materials in construction sites.
result Achieved 97.35% accuracy rate for material classification.
Paper proposes ONTD for nonnegative tensor data.
problem Handling nonnegative tensor data efficiently.
method Orthogonal Nonnegative Tucker Decomposition (ONTD) with convex relaxation algorithm.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on real-world image data applications.
Obtaining compact and discriminative features is one of the major challenges in many of the real-world image classification tasks such as face verification and object recognition. One possible approach is to represent input image on the basis of high-level features that carry semantic meaning which humans can understan…
Paper introduces a novel framework for recognizing dynamic ranking structures in preference-based data.
problem Complex and noisy preference-based data often hide underlying homogeneous structures.
method Developed an approach to identify dynamic ranking groups using temporal penalties and spectral estimation. Introduced an objective function for detecting structural changes.
result Consistent recognition of ranking groups and structural changes in preference-based data.
This work improves ASR noise robustness using parallel data and T/S learning.
problem Noise robustness in automatic speech recognition.
method Teacher-student learning with parallel clean and noisy data, logits selection.
result Best student model yields significant WER reductions in noisy conditions.
Improved multilingual speech recognition with low latency for nine Indic languages.
problem Imbalance in training data across languages and low latency in interactive applications.
method Conditioning on a language vector and training language-specific adapter layers.
result Lower word error rate than monolingual E2E models and conventional systems.
SparseSense improves HAR from sparse sensor data, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
problem Learning activity recognition from highly sparse sensor data streams.
method Set-based neural networks for end-to-end learning from sparse data.
result Significant performance improvements in HAR from passive sensor datasets.
CGDL improves open set recognition by learning conditional Gaussian distributions.
problem Handling unknown samples in real-world recognition tasks.
method Conditional Gaussian Distribution Learning (CGDL) with probabilistic ladder architecture.
result CGDL significantly outperforms baseline methods on standard image datasets.
DARN uses multiple source datasets to adapt to a new target dataset.
problem Learning a model for a new, related dataset using multiple source datasets.
method DARN applies domain discrepancy minimization with a theoretical generalization bound to adjust source domain weights.
result DARN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art alternatives on real-world datasets.
Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data sets calls for machine learning methods. In this paper, we introduce a deep learnin…
Unimodal approach for group-level emotion recognition without individual features.
problem Privacy issues in individual-based emotion recognition models.
method Frugal approach using global features, state-of-the-art and synthetic corpora.
result 59.13% accuracy on VGAF test set, 11th place in EmotiW Challenge 2020.
AutoTune learns wireless identifiers for facial recognition in real-world settings.
problem Facial recognition requires extensive user training, making it impractical for widespread deployment.
method Uses ambient wireless identifiers to train deep neural networks for facial recognition without user effort.
result Demonstrates a system that continuously refines facial recognition using wireless identifiers over time.
DGP learns speech recognition by modeling complex relationships between utterances.
problem Modeling complex relationships in speech recognition without relational data.
method Bayesian nonparametric deep learning method (DGP) that generates infinite probabilistic graphs.
result DGP successfully infers relationships among utterances without relational data during training.
We marry ideas from deep neural networks and approximate Bayesian inference to derive a generalised class of deep, directed generative models, endowed with a new algorithm for scalable inference and learning. Our algorithm introduces a recognition model to represent approximate posterior distributions, and that acts as…
Proposes a new framework for open set recognition using conditional probabilistic generative models.
problem Unknown samples can mislead traditional deep neural networks during testing.
method Conditional Probabilistic Generative Models (CPGM) that combine generative models with discriminative information.
result Significantly outperforms baselines on multiple benchmark datasets.
Unified framework improves cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition by aligning prototypes and refining decision boundaries.
problem Cross-corpus EEG emotion recognition suffers from performance degradation due to physiological variability and device inconsistencies.
method Prototype-driven Adversarial Alignment (PAA) framework with three configurations: local, contrastive, and boundary-aware.
result State-of-the-art performance improvements across four cross-corpus evaluation protocols.
Hotel booking chatbot handles daily tens of thousands of searches.
problem Improving hotel booking through conversational AI.
method Frame-based dialogue management system with ML models for intent, entity recognition, and info retrieval.
result Chatbot deployed on a commercial scale, handling hotel searches daily.
Automatic continuous speech recognition (CSR) is sufficiently mature that a variety of real world applications are now possible including large vocabulary transcription and interactive spoken dialogues. This paper reviews the evolution of the statistical modelling techniques which underlie current-day systems, specific…
In a real-world setting, visual recognition systems can be brought to make predictions for images belonging to previously unknown class labels. In order to make semantically meaningful predictions for such inputs, we propose a two-step approach that utilizes information from knowledge graphs. First, a knowledge-graph r…
DUPLE tackles cross-deployment recognition in fiber-optic perimeter security with meta-learning.
problem Cross-deployment recognition challenges in fiber-optic perimeter security due to label scarcity and distribution shifts.
method DUPLE employs statistically guided meta-learning to enhance recognition robustness across unseen deployments.
result DUPLE consistently outperforms traditional and meta-learning baselines in cross-deployment DFOS benchmarks.
Framework for handling long-tailed multi-modal data.
problem Class imbalance and long-tailed distributions in multi-modal data.
method Multi-expert architecture with modality-specific networks and dynamic fusion weights.
result Framework outperforms existing methods in long-tailed, class-imbalanced scenarios.
End-to-end framework learns new classes dynamically.
problem Challenges in recognizing unseen classes in real-world settings.
method Dynamic cascade of classifiers that incrementally learn features.
result Outperforms existing methods on real-world datasets.
DACNN improves skeleton-based action recognition and segmentation.
problem Lack of spatial relationships and non-uniform temporal scalings in skeleton-based data.
method Introduces deep-aligned convolutional neural network (DACNN) with new filters trained on local subsequences.
result DACNN achieves competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art models.
Dataset of 50k hotels aids in human trafficking investigations.
problem Identify hotels from low-quality, occluded images.
method Curated dataset of 1M annotated hotel room images, baseline model with data augmentation.
result Demonstrated the feasibility of hotel recognition from challenging images.
Spiking neural networks perform similarly to deep networks on occluded images.
problem Robust object recognition in partially occluded images.
method Developed a two-layer spiking neural network trained on natural scenes with a biologically plausible learning rule, compared to deep convolutional networks.
result Spiking neural networks achieve good accuracy and robustness on stepwise pixel erasement tasks.
The trimming scheme with a prefixed cutoff portion is known as a method of improving the robustness of statistical models such as multivariate Gaussian mixture models (MG- MMs) in small scale tests by alleviating the impacts of outliers. However, when this method is applied to real- world data, such as noisy speech pro…
Researchers create a flickering attack to fool video recognition networks.
problem Adversarial manipulation of video classification networks.
method Introducing a flickering temporal perturbation to fool video classifiers.
result Achieved high fooling ratio and temporal-invariant perturbation.
Balanced Activation improves object detection performance on long-tailed datasets.
problem Mismatch between training and testing label distributions in object detection.
method Introduces Balanced Activation (Balanced Softmax and Balanced Sigmoid) to address label distribution shift.
result Balanced Activation provides ~3% gain in mAP on LVIS-1.0 compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Online structure learning approaches, such as those stemming from Statistical Relational Learning, enable the discovery of complex relations in noisy data streams. However, these methods assume the existence of fully-labelled training data, which is unrealistic for most real-world applications. We present a novel appro…
Paper proposes a new HMM approach for better action recognition.
problem Capturing complex temporal dependency patterns in skeleton-based actions.
method Introduces a hierarchical HMM with a latent variable layer for dynamic inference.
result Proposed approach effectively models complex sequential data and handles missing values.
AI enhances pollen recognition in veterinary imaging using holographic microscopy.
problem Challenges in recognizing pollen in holographic images due to speckle noise and artifacts.
method Training YOLOv8s and MobileNetV3L on dual-modality dataset, employing WGAN-SN for synthetic data augmentation.
result GAN-based augmentation improves object detection and classification in holographic images, closing the performance gap.
dHMM improves sequential labeling by encouraging diversity.
problem Improving performance of HMM in real-world sequential labeling tasks.
method dHMM incorporates a diversity-encouraging prior over state-transition probabilities.
result dHMM outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets for PoS tagging and OCR.
Project uses GANs to recognize facial expressions and emotions from-the-wild with dual model approach.
problem Facial expression and emotion recognition in real-world scenarios.
method Created a dual GAN model architecture for Action Units and Valence Arousal annotations.
result Dual GAN model achieved better results than single model for emotion recognition.
Accurate and robust recognition and prediction of traffic situation plays an important role in autonomous driving, which is a prerequisite for risk assessment and effective decision making. Although there exist a lot of works dealing with modeling driver behavior of a single object, it remains a challenge to make predi…
Unified tensor model disentangles object appearance factors.
problem Representing hierarchical intrinsic and extrinsic causal factors of object appearance.
method Compositional hierarchical tensor factorization.
result Interpretable object representation robust to occlusion and reduced training data requirements.
This work bridges continual learning, active learning, and open set recognition in deep neural networks.
problem Protecting previously acquired representations from catastrophic forgetting in deep neural networks.
method Surveying the literature and proposing a consolidated view to integrate open set recognition and active learning principles.
result Joint improvement in alleviating catastrophic forgetting, querying data, selecting task orders, and robust open world application.
Representation of human actions as a sequence of human body movements or action attributes enables the development of models for human activity recognition and summarization. We present an extension of the low-rank representation (LRR) model, termed the clustering-aware structure-constrained low-rank representation (CS…