CRAUM-Net improves salient object detection with context and uncertainty modeling.
problem Accurate salient object detection with precise boundary delineation.
method Contextual Recursive Attention with Uncertainty Modeling, multi-scale context aggregation, attention mechanisms, edge-aware decoder, Monte Carlo Dropout.
result Superior performance in producing accurate and reliable saliency maps.
Feature matters for salient object detection. Existing methods mainly focus on designing a sophisticated structure to incorporate multi-level features and filter out cluttered features. We present Progressive Feature Polishing Network (PFPN), a simple yet effective framework to progressively polish the multi-level feat…
A new data-level recombination strategy improves RGB-D salient object detection.
problem RGB-D salient object detection struggles with depth information.
method Proposes a novel data-level recombination strategy to fuse RGB and depth data before feature extraction.
result Achieves a new state-of-the-art performance in RGB-D salient object detection.
Deep convolutional neural networks have become a key element in the recent breakthrough of salient object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods are based on either patch-wise (region-wise) training and inference or fully convolutional networks. Methods in the former category are generally time-consuming due to…
TokenCut detects and segments objects in images and videos without supervision.
problem Detecting and segmenting salient objects in images and videos without labeled data.
method Graph-based approach using self-supervised transformer features and Normalized Cut algorithm.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on various detection and segmentation tasks.
We propose an algorithm for detecting patterns exhibited by anomalous clusters in high dimensional discrete data. Unlike most anomaly detection (AD) methods, which detect individual anomalies, our proposed method detects groups (clusters) of anomalies; i.e. sets of points which collectively exhibit abnormal patterns. I…
Image segmentation is widely used in a variety of computer vision tasks, such as object localization and recognition, boundary detection, and medical imaging. This thesis proposes deep learning architectures to improve automatic object localization and boundary delineation for salient object segmentation in natural ima…
Transformer-based method discovers objects from images without labels.
problem Discovering objects in images without labeled data.
method Graph-based approach using self-supervised transformer features and normalized graph-cut.
result Significantly boosts performance in unsupervised object discovery.
In this work we develop a fast saliency detection method that can be applied to any differentiable image classifier. We train a masking model to manipulate the scores of the classifier by masking salient parts of the input image. Our model generalises well to unseen images and requires a single forward pass to perform …
It is common for CCTV operators to overlook inter- esting events taking place within the crowd due to large number of people in the crowded scene (i.e. marathon, rally). Thus, there is a dire need to automate the detection of salient crowd regions acquiring immediate attention for a more effective and proactive surveil…
PR-GNN identifies salient brain regions for ASD biomarkers.
problem Identifying brain regions associated with neurological disorders.
method Pooling Regularized Graph Neural Network (PR-GNN) with novel salient region selection.
result PR-GNN outperforms baseline methods in ASD classification accuracy.
Proposes a method to quantify the reliability of salient regions in deep learning models using p-values.
problem Difficulty in assessing the reliability of saliency maps generated by deep learning models.
method Proposes a selective inference framework to quantify the reliability of salient regions as selected hypotheses by deep learning models.
result The method can provably control the probability of false positive detections of salient regions.
We consider the problem of learning to play first-person shooter (FPS) video games using raw screen images as observations and keyboard inputs as actions. The high-dimensionality of the observations in this type of applications leads to prohibitive needs of training data for model-free methods, such as the deep Q-netwo…
SaliencyMix augments images with salient patches to improve model generalization.
problem Improving deep learning model generalization through better data augmentation.
method Carefully selects salient patches from images and mixes them with the target image.
result Achieves state-of-the-art top-1 error rates and robustness against adversarial attacks.
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…
There is an increasingly apparent need for validating the classifications made by deep learning systems in safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicle systems. A number of recent papers have proposed methods for detecting anomalous image data that appear different from known inlier data samples, including reco…
With the celebrated success of deep learning, some attempts to develop effective methods for detecting malicious PowerShell programs employ neural nets in a traditional natural language processing setup while others employ convolutional neural nets to detect obfuscated malicious commands at a character level. While the…
Quantum networks learn task-dependent asymmetric similarity measures.
problem Challenges of conventional distance functions in capturing meaningful similarity.
method GQSim: Quantum networks for learning task-dependent (a)symmetric similarity.
result Quantum similarity measures extract salient features and achieve theoretically guaranteed performance.
New method uses statistical physics to detect financial market manipulation.
problem Detecting financial market manipulation activities like spoofing and layering.
method Modeling order book dynamics as particle motion and using momentum measure.
result Method outperforms conventional Z-score-based anomaly detection.
We explore the question of whether the representations learned by classifiers can be used to enhance the quality of generative models. Our conjecture is that labels correspond to characteristics of natural data which are most salient to humans: identity in faces, objects in images, and utterances in speech. We propose …
Novel method segments heart sound signals using LSTMs with attention.
problem Heart sound segmentation for diagnostic applications.
method Bidirectional LSTMs with attention mechanisms.
result State-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.
Unseen or out-of-domain data can seriously degrade the performance of a neural network model, indicating the model's failure to generalize to unseen data. Neural net pruning can not only help to reduce a model's size but can improve the model's generalization capacity as well. Pruning approaches look for low-salient ne…
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.
Body-worn video (BWV) cameras are increasingly utilized by police departments to provide a record of police-public interactions. However, large-scale BWV deployment produces terabytes of data per week, necessitating the development of effective computational methods to identify salient changes in video. In work carried…
Modeling preference rankings with salient features to explain irrational choices.
problem Estimating rankings from noisy pairwise comparisons with irrational choices.
method Salient feature preference model with maximum likelihood estimation.
result Strong performance of maximum likelihood estimation on synthetic and real data.
Proposes class-agnostic object detection to handle all objects without class labels.
problem Difficulty and cost in creating annotated datasets limit conventional object detection models to specific object types.
method Proposes class-agnostic object detection as a new problem and proposes training and evaluation protocols. Uses adversarial learning to exclude class-specific information.
result Adversarial learning improves class-agnostic detection efficacy.
New algebraic formalism for differential calculus in Diolic algebras.
problem Studying differential calculus in vector bundles.
method Introducing functors of differential calculus over arbitrary graded commutative algebras (DCGCA) and applying this to Diolic algebras.
result Recovery of well-known objects and notions from ordinary differential, symplectic, and Poisson geometry, with unique aspects.
While generalizing well over natural inputs, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial inputs. Existing defenses against adversarial inputs have largely been detached from the real world. These defenses also come at a cost to accuracy. Fortunately, there are invariances of an object that are its salient features; w…
Paper presents attacks on real-time object detection systems.
problem Adversarial attacks on real-time object detection systems.
method Three targeted adversarial Objectness Gradient attacks (TOG).
result Adversarial attacks can cause object-vanishing, object-fabrication, and object-mislabeling.
We present a novel approach to weakly supervised object detection. Instead of annotated images, our method only requires two short videos to learn to detect a new object: 1) a video of a moving object and 2) one or more "negative" videos of the scene without the object. The key idea of our algorithm is to train the obj…
In this paper, we demonstrate a physical adversarial patch attack against object detectors, notably the YOLOv3 detector. Unlike previous work on physical object detection attacks, which required the patch to overlap with the objects being misclassified or avoiding detection, we show that a properly designed patch can s…
Variational autoencoders are powerful algorithms for identifying dominant latent structure in a single dataset. In many applications, however, we are interested in modeling latent structure and variation that are enriched in a target dataset compared to some background---e.g. enriched in patients compared to the genera…
We propose to jointly learn multi-view geometry and warping between views of the same object instances for robust cross-view object detection. What makes multi-view object instance detection difficult are strong changes in viewpoint, lighting conditions, high similarity of neighbouring objects, and strong variability i…
Robots detect and recognize objects in real-time for better manipulation.
problem Real-time object detection and recognition for humanoid robots.
method Modified YOLOv3 algorithm, quantization, and re-arrangement of layers for low-compute NAO robots.
result Robots can perform real-time detection, recognition, and localization of objects.
We propose UOLO, a novel framework for the simultaneous detection and segmentation of structures of interest in medical images. UOLO consists of an object segmentation module which intermediate abstract representations are processed and used as input for object detection. The resulting system is optimized simultaneousl…
New method calibrates confidence for object detection and segmentation models.
problem Intrinsically miscalibrated confidence estimates in object detection and segmentation models.
method Introduces multivariate confidence calibration for object detection and segmentation, extending ECE.
result Improves calibration, positively impacts segmentation quality.
Deep object detection improves mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer biopsies.
problem Challenges in automated mitotic nucleus detection in breast cancer histopathological images.
method Adapted Mask R-CNN for deep object detection, initially selects candidate regions with maximum recall, refines them with multi-object loss function.
result Improved discrimination ability (F-score of 0.86) and significant precision (0.86) for mitotic nuclei compared to two-stage models.
Novel framework for unbiased confidence estimates in object detection.
problem Unbiased confidence estimates for safety-critical object detection.
method Combines regression output with additional information for calibration.
result Calibrated confidence estimates for image location and scale.
The Familiarity Hypothesis explains deep open set methods' success in detecting novel objects.
problem Detecting novel objects in open set recognition problems.
method Logits-based detection of absence of familiar features.
result Familiarity-based detection fails in scenarios with both novel and familiar objects.
Object detection models shipped with camera-equipped edge devices cannot cover the objects of interest for every user. Therefore, the incremental learning capability is a critical feature for a robust and personalized object detection system that many applications would rely on. In this paper, we present an efficient y…
A method detects vehicles far from tunnel CCTV using AI.
problem Tunnel CCTV's height limits detection of far-away vehicles.
method Object detection algorithm with inverse perspective transform.
result Deep learning model trained on warped images detects vehicles more accurately.
New methods detect objects in industrial settings with little training data.
problem Lack of training data limits object detection in industrial settings.
method Adapted Faster R-CNN and Scaled Yolov4-p5 architectures for small training data.
result Both models can distinguish unknown objects from homogeneous backgrounds.
CST-YOLO improves blood cell detection with YOLOv7 and CNN-Swin Transformer.
problem Small-scale object detection in blood cells.
method YOLOv7 architecture enhanced with CNN-Swin Transformer, W-ELAN, MCS, CatConv.
result CST-YOLO achieves 92.7%, 95.6%, and 91.1% mAP@0.5 on three blood cell datasets.
SepVAE separates patient-specific patterns from healthy ones using contrastive VAE.
problem Separating patient-specific patterns from healthy ones in medical datasets.
method SepVAE uses a contrastive VAE with disentangling and classification losses to differentiate between common and salient features.
result SepVAE outperforms previous methods in three medical applications and a CelebA dataset.
Framework detects influential actors in disinformation networks.
problem Identifying and countering hostile influence operations on social media.
method Combines NLP, ML, graph analytics, and causal inference.
result 96% precision, 79% recall, 96% PR-curve area for IO detection.
The paper examines uncertainty calibration for object detection models in autonomous driving.
problem Uncertainty in object detection predictions and its calibration.
method Definition and evaluation of semantic and spatial uncertainty, calibration methods for uncertainty distributions.
result Calibrated uncertainty improves the overall performance of object detection models in real-world scenarios.
Graph neural networks detect anomalies in object-centric business processes.
problem Detecting anomalies in graph-like business processes.
method Graph convolutional autoencoder architecture for anomaly detection.
result Promising performance in detecting anomalies at the activity type and attributes level.
We study the problem of detecting a change in the mean of one-dimensional Gaussian process data. This problem is investigated in the setting of increasing domain (customarily employed in time series analysis) and in the setting of fixed domain (typically arising in spatial data analysis). We propose a detection method …