This manuscript addresses the problem of the automatic lesion boundary detection in dermoscopy, using deep neural networks. An approach is based on the adaptation of the U-net convolutional neural network with skip connections for lesion boundary segmentation task. I hope this paper could serve, to some extent, as an e…
New algorithm for online meta-learning with task boundary detection.
problem Adapting to new tasks in a non-stationary environment.
method Two detection mechanisms for task switches and distribution shift; online model updates based on current data.
result Achieves sublinear task-averaged regret under mild conditions.
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…
This project applies Mask R-CNN method to ISIC 2018 challenge tasks: lesion boundary segmentation (task1), lesion attributes detection (task 2), lesion diagnosis (task 3), a solution to the latter is using a trained model for task 1 and a simple voting procedure.
Keyphrase boundary classification (KBC) is the task of detecting keyphrases in scientific articles and labelling them with respect to predefined types. Although important in practice, this task is so far underexplored, partly due to the lack of labelled data. To overcome this, we explore several auxiliary tasks, includ…
New method uses weighting vectors for efficient boundary and outlier detection.
problem Boundary and outlier detection in machine learning.
method Recast metric space magnitude as weighting vector, solve kernelized SVM, apply nearest neighbor methods.
result Weighting vector can be efficiently approximated in linear time, outperforming state-of-the-art techniques.
Phoneme boundary detection plays an essential first step for a variety of speech processing applications such as speaker diarization, speech science, keyword spotting, etc. In this work, we propose a neural architecture coupled with a parameterized structured loss function to learn segmental representations for the tas…
New methods control false discoveries near the boundary in conformal novelty detection.
problem Over-optimistic assessments near the rejection threshold in conformal novelty detection.
method Support line (SL) correction and alternative procedures to control boundary false discovery rate (bFDR).
result New procedures control the boundary false discovery rate (bFDR) in the conformal setting.
Speech datasets for identifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) are generally restricted to participants performing a single task, e.g. describing an image shown to them. As a result, models trained on linguistic features derived from such datasets may not be generalizable across tasks. Building on prior work demonstrating th…
Self-supervised model detects phoneme boundaries without annotations.
problem Unsupervised phoneme segmentation without manual annotations.
method Convolutional neural network trained with Noise-Contrastive Estimation.
result Model outperforms baselines on TIMIT and Buckeye corpora.
Novel metric space magnitude and weighting vectors improve machine learning tasks.
problem Improving machine learning algorithms using novel metric space concepts.
method Metric space magnitude and weighting vectors for better machine learning.
result The weighting vector effectively detects boundaries and improves classic machine learning tasks.
Develops slope detection for 3-manifolds with torus boundaries.
problem Determining slopes on the boundary of 3-manifolds with torus boundaries.
method Introduces order-detection and representation-detection of slopes, proving their equivalence.
result Shows how slopes' behavior changes with cabling, improving previous results.
One-Class Boundary Peeling detects outliers efficiently and robustly.
problem Unsupervised outlier detection in diverse data distributions.
method One-Class Boundary Peeling uses flexible boundaries generated by one-class SVMs and iteratively peels them.
result One-Class Boundary Peeling outperforms state-of-the-art methods in synthetic data simulations.
Paper proposes a framework to detect distribution shifts using embedding space geometry.
problem Detecting distribution shifts in candidate datasets to improve model generalizability.
method Non-parametric framework using embedding space geometry for two tests: robustness boundary and in-distribution/out-of-distribution classification.
result Both tests successfully detect distribution shifts in various scenarios for both synthetic and real-world datasets.
In this work, we connect two distinct concepts for unsupervised domain adaptation: feature distribution alignment between domains by utilizing the task-specific decision boundary and the Wasserstein metric. Our proposed sliced Wasserstein discrepancy (SWD) is designed to capture the natural notion of dissimilarity betw…
Study detects boundaries in unlabeled noisy images without labels.
problem Detecting boundaries in unlabeled noisy images without labels.
method Proposed a continuous hinge-type surrogate loss for boundary detection, combined with deep neural networks.
result Deep neural network achieves minimax-optimal boundary recovery rate under piecewise smooth boundary model.
Sharp boundaries for detecting dense subhypergraphs established.
problem Detecting dense subhypergraphs in random hypergraphs.
method Established sharp detection boundaries for known and unknown edge probabilities.
result Sharp detectable regions differ significantly from graph counterparts.
The paper improves boundary detection and density estimation on noisy data.
problem Detecting boundary points and estimating density on noisy data from compact manifolds.
method Doubly stochastic scaling of the Gaussian heat kernel via Sinkhorn iterations.
result The new estimates of boundary points and density outperform standard methods, especially under noise.
MADOD meta-learns invariant features for OOD detection across unseen domains.
problem Simultaneous covariate and semantic shifts in real-world machine learning applications.
method Meta-learning and G-invariance to learn robust, domain-invariant features.
result Superior performance in semantic OOD detection across unseen domains.
In this paper, we propose to apply object detection methods from the vision domain on the speech recognition domain, by treating audio fragments as objects. More specifically, we present SpeechYOLO, which is inspired by the YOLO algorithm for object detection in images. The goal of SpeechYOLO is to localize boundaries …
It has been an open question whether all boundary slopes of hyperbolic knots are strongly detected by the character variety. The main result of this paper produces an infinite family of hyperbolic knots each of which has at least one strict boundary slope that is not strongly detected by the character variety.
We propose a multi-label multi-task framework based on a convolutional recurrent neural network to unify detection of isolated and overlapping audio events. The framework leverages the power of convolutional recurrent neural network architectures; convolutional layers learn effective features over which higher recurren…
Enhances weather detection by learning from auxiliary information.
problem Mispredictions in unsupervised severe weather detection.
method Learning joint representations of textual and weather data.
result Improved decision boundaries for severe weather detection.
BDSG generates samples on distribution boundaries, improving anomaly detection.
problem Difficulty in capturing multimodal supports and approximating distribution tails.
method Invertible Residual Network (IResNet) and Residual Flow (ResFlow) for density estimation; compound loss function for boundary samples.
result Competitive performance on synthetic and multimodal data compared to existing methods.
Proposes a boundary detection method inspired by LLE for high-dimensional data.
problem Identifying boundary points from data on an embedded manifold.
method Inspired by locally linear embedding, uses nearest neighbor search schemes and spectral properties of local covariance matrix.
result Enhanced boundary detection in noisy data.
Detects exotic embeddings in 4-manifolds with boundary.
problem Detecting exotic diffeomorphisms in 4-manifolds with boundary.
method Defined family versions of Kronheimer-Mrowka invariants and used them to find exotic embeddings.
result First example of exotic 3-spheres in a smooth closed 4-manifold with diffeomorphic complements.
Constructs Gabor frames for curved manifolds to detect boundaries.
problem Signal analysis on curved manifolds with boundaries.
method Higher-dimensional Gabor frames for local linearizations.
result Detection of higher-dimensional boundaries in curved manifolds.
Recent object detectors use four-coordinate bounding box (bbox) regression to predict object locations. Providing additional information indicating the object positions and coordinates will improve detection performance. Thus, we propose two types of masks: a bbox mask and a bounding shape (bshape) mask, to represent t…
Unified framework detects shifts in climate boundaries using GP regression and MAD test.
problem Challenges in quantifying and testing for temporal shifts in spatial boundaries from noisy data.
method Combines heteroskedastic GP regression with scaled MAD GET.
result No significant decade-scale changes in arid and semi-arid interfaces, but localized shifts during extreme droughts identified.
Invariants from surface Khovanov-Jacobsson classes help detect knots and slices.
problem Detecting and obstructing sliceness of knots using surface invariants.
method Defining an invariant from Khovanov homology of boundary links.
result The invariant can obstruct sliceness of knots and detect slices for specific knots.
MCBP detects boundaries in high-dimensional data using curvature.
problem Boundary detection in high-dimensional data.
method MCBP uses mean curvature to model data manifold curvature.
result MCBP improves clustering performance in complex scenarios.
The A-polynomial of a manifold whose boundary consists of a single torus is generalised to an eigenvalue variety of a manifold whose boundary consists of a finite number of tori, and the set of strongly detected boundary curves is determined by Bergman's logarithmic limit set, which describes the exponential behaviour …
Outlier detection has received special attention in various fields, mainly for those dealing with machine learning and artificial intelligence. As strong outliers, anomalies are divided into the point, contextual and collective outliers. The most important challenges in outlier detection include the thin boundary betwe…
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.
Proposes a novel method for generating hard negatives near time series data boundaries.
problem Challenges in generating effective negative samples for time series anomaly detection.
method Reconstruction-driven boundary negative generation framework using reinforcement learning.
result Improves anomaly representation learning and achieves competitive detection performance.
FROB model improves robustness and reliable confidence for few-shot OoD detection.
problem Challenges in few-shot classification and OoD detection due to limited samples and adversarial attacks.
method FROB model combines support boundary generation and few-shot Outlier Exposure (OE) for improved robustness and reliable confidence.
result FROB achieves generalization to unseen OoD and maintains robustness independent of few-shot number.
A new method combines OCSVM with representation learning for UAD.
problem Detect anomalies without labeled data, especially in rare or unavailable cases.
method Custom loss formulation that aligns latent features with OCSVM decision boundary.
result Succeeds in detecting small, non-hyperintense lesions in MRI.
Detects dense subhypergraphs in heterogeneous random hypergraphs.
problem Testing for the existence of a dense subhypergraph in heterogeneous random hypergraphs.
method Established detection boundaries and constructed asymptotically powerful and adaptive tests.
result Developed tests for distinguishing between null and alternative hypotheses.
ATOM improves robust OOD detection by mining informative auxiliary examples.
problem Robust OOD detection in open-world settings is challenging due to adversarial inputs.
method ATOM combines adversarial training with outlier mining to improve robustness.
result ATOM achieves state-of-the-art performance in OOD detection, reducing FPR by up to 57.99%.
The need for labour intensive pixel-wise annotation is a major limitation of many fully supervised learning methods for segmenting bioimages that can contain numerous object instances with thin separations. In this paper, we introduce a deep convolutional neural network for microscopy image segmentation. Annotation iss…
Proposes deep quantile regression for uncertainty estimation in lesion detection.
problem Uncertainty quantification in lesion detection for critical applications.
method Quantile regression for aleatoric uncertainty, Variational AutoEncoder (VAE) with QR-VAE, binary quantile regression (BQR).
result Effective quantification of uncertainty in lesion detection and segmentation.
TailGAN uses GANs to detect anomalies near data distribution tails.
problem Anomaly detection near data distribution tails with current GAN limitations.
method TailGAN leverages GANs with maximum entropy regularization to generate and detect anomalies near data distribution tails.
result TailGAN achieves competitive performance on various datasets compared to existing methods.
TPA-AD detects axle-box bearing anomalies using pseudo anomalies near normal boundaries.
problem Detecting axle-box bearing anomalies with only normal training data.
method Two-stage approach: pseudo anomalies, contrastive learning, KNN.
result Improves anomaly detection separability and sensitivity to degradation.
We propose a simple but efficient method termed Guided Learning for weakly-labeled semi-supervised sound event detection (SED). There are two sub-targets implied in weakly-labeled SED: audio tagging and boundary detection. Instead of designing a single model by considering a trade-off between the two sub-targets, we de…
New approach uses under-trained deep ensembles to learn from noisy labels.
problem Improper labelling hinders reliable generalization in supervised learning.
method Under-trained deep ensembles, each trained on a subset of data, combine to form better labels.
result Significant performance improvement in accuracy and kappa for noisy label tasks.
Study slopes on knot manifolds to understand their fundamental groups.
problem Characterize slopes on knot manifolds to determine fundamental group properties.
method Develops new order-detection notions, parallels existing slope detection methods, and uses dynamics of 3-manifold group actions.
result Conjectured structure theorems connecting Heegaard-Floer homology and foliation dynamics to left-orderability.
Out-of-domain (OOD) detection for low-resource text classification is a realistic but understudied task. The goal is to detect the OOD cases with limited in-domain (ID) training data, since we observe that training data is often insufficient in machine learning applications. In this work, we propose an OOD-resistant Pr…
By design, discriminatively trained neural network classifiers produce reliable predictions only for in-distribution samples. For their real-world deployments, detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is essential. Assuming OOD to be outside the closed boundary of in-distribution, typical neural classifiers do not c…