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48 results for semantic labels

Paper improves short text clustering by integrating semantic relationships into Optimal Transport.

problem Erroneous pseudo-labels caused by neglecting semantic consistency in existing OT methods.
method Designs an instance-level attention mechanism to capture semantic relationships and integrates them into the OT formulation.
result Generates reliable pseudo-labels that improve clustering accuracy.

Enhances image classification by integrating semantic hierarchy into CNN models.

problem Limited use of external guidance in image classification.
method Integrates label-hierarchy knowledge into CNN-based classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings.
result Boosts image classification performance through semantic hierarchy integration.

Semantic segmentation maps can be used as input to models for maneuvering the controls of a car. However, not all labels may be necessary for making the control decision. One would expect that certain labels such as road lanes or sidewalks would be more critical in comparison with labels for vegetation or buildings whi…

2019-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The thesis introduces methods to use semantic hierarchy in image classification.

problem Limited work in training image classifiers with non-conventional external guidance.
method Injects label hierarchy knowledge into arbitrary classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings for image classification.
result Both embedding-based models and CNN-classifiers with hierarchical information outperform a hierarchy-agnostic model.

Supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms are aimed at maximizing classification performance under available energy and storage constraints. They try to map the training data to the corresponding labels while ensuring generalizability to unseen data. However, they do not integrate meaning-based relationships among la…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised segmentation learns features without labels, improving accuracy.

problem Discover and localize semantically meaningful categories in images without annotations.
method Separates feature learning from cluster compactification; distills unsupervised features into discrete semantic labels using a contrastive loss function.
result Significant improvement over prior state of the art on semantic segmentation challenges.

This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.

problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.

POTA improves short text clustering by generating reliable pseudo-labels.

problem Limited discriminative representations in short texts.
method POTA uses instance-level attention and optimal transport for semantic consistency and cluster structure.
result POTA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in short text clustering.

Semantic boundary and edge detection aims at simultaneously detecting object edge pixels in images and assigning class labels to them. Systematic training of predictors for this task requires the labeling of edges in images which is a particularly tedious task. We propose a novel strategy for solving this task, when pi…

2016-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Visual reranking is effective to improve the performance of the text-based video search. However, existing reranking algorithms can only achieve limited improvement because of the well-known semantic gap between low level visual features and high level semantic concepts. In this paper, we adopt interactive video search…

2011-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

CBDA improves active learning for semantic segmentation, especially with imbalanced classes.

problem Class imbalance degrades performance in domain adaptive active learning.
method Class Balanced Dynamic Acquisition (CBDA) selects more balanced labels for active learning.
result CBDA increases minority class performance and outperforms baselines by 0.6-2.4 mIoU.

We consider the task of semantic robotic grasping, in which a robot picks up an object of a user-specified class using only monocular images. Inspired by the two-stream hypothesis of visual reasoning, we present a semantic grasping framework that learns object detection, classification, and grasp planning in an end-to-…

2017-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper measures semantic information production in generative models using information theory.

problem Measuring when semantic decisions are made during generative model training.
method Using an online formula for the optimal Bayesian classifier, the paper estimates conditional entropy and determines time intervals for highest information transfer.
result Semantic information transfer is highest in intermediate stages of diffusion, with different classes making decisions at different times.

This paper proposes a zero-shot learning approach for audio classification based on the textual information about class labels without any audio samples from target classes. We propose an audio classification system built on the bilinear model, which takes audio feature embeddings and semantic class label embeddings as…

2019-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows how integrating categorical semantics can enhance unsupervised domain translation.

problem Improving unsupervised domain translation between perceptually different domains.
method Learning invariant categorical semantic features in an unsupervised manner and conditioning them on the style encoder.
result Conditioning the style encoder on learned categorical semantics improves translation and stylization.

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for dimensionality reduction and classification. Previous studies have also extended the binary-class case into multi-classes. However, many applications, such as object detection and keyframe extraction cannot provide consistent instance-label pairs, while LDA …

2013-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

DNN-based cross-modal retrieval has become a research hotspot, by which users can search results across various modalities like image and text. However, existing methods mainly focus on the pairwise correlation and reconstruction error of labeled data. They ignore the semantically similar and dissimilar constraints bet…

2017-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

LangDA improves domain adaptation for semantic segmentation by learning context-aware scene descriptions.

problem Improving domain adaptation for semantic segmentation with dense prediction tasks.
method LangDA learns contextual relationships between objects via VLM-generated scene descriptions and aligns image features with text representation.
result LangDA sets new state-of-the-art across three DASS benchmarks, outperforming existing methods.

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Cross-modal hashing has been receiving increasing interests for its low storage cost and fast query speed in multi-modal data retrievals. However, most existing hashing methods are based on hand-crafted or raw level features of objects, which may not be optimally compatible with the coding process. Besides, these hashi…

2019-05-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper aims to bridge semantic gap between ML and InfoSec by labeling malware datasets with behavioral features.

problem Semantic gap between ML and InfoSec communities hinders ML's impact in InfoSec.
method Surveyed existing malware datasets and features, labeled with behavioral features using threat reports.
result Behavioral labeling alters analysis from intent to executable behavior, bridging semantic gap.

Improves confidence calibration in neural networks by smoothing labels based on class similarity.

problem Improving confidence calibration in deep neural networks for safety-critical applications.
method Proposes a novel label smoothing technique where label values are based on similarities with the reference class, using different similarity measurements.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art calibration techniques on various datasets and network architectures.

Paper tackles cross-granularity few-shot learning with meta-embedder.

problem Few-shot learning with coarse labels and fine-grained testing.
method Meta-embedder that optimizes visual and semantic discrimination across coarse and fine classes.
result Meta-embedder achieves effective cross-granularity few-shot classification.

SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.

problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.

Clustering using neural networks has recently demonstrated promising performance in machine learning and computer vision applications. However, the performance of current approaches is limited either by unsupervised learning or their dependence on large set of labeled data samples. In this paper, we propose ClusterNet …

2018-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Code search and comprehension have become more difficult in recent years due to the rapid expansion of available source code. Current tools lack a way to label arbitrary code at scale while maintaining up-to-date representations of new programming languages, libraries, and functionalities. Comprehensive labeling of sou…

2019-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

In accessibility tests for digital preservation, over time we experience drifts of localized and labelled content in statistical models of evolving semantics represented as a vector field. This articulates the need to detect, measure, interpret and model outcomes of knowledge dynamics. To this end we employ a high-perf…

2016-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the major problems in natural language processing (NLP) is the word sense disambiguation (WSD) problem. It is the task of computationally identifying the right sense of a polysemous word based on its context. Resolving the WSD problem boosts the accuracy of many NLP focused algorithms such as text classification…

2019-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗