Sparse Vision MoE matches dense networks in image recognition while using less compute.
problem Scaling vision models efficiently in computer vision.
method Vision MoE (V-MoE) - a sparse version of Vision Transformer.
result V-MoE matches state-of-the-art dense networks in image recognition with half the compute.
This survey presents a review of state-of-the-art deep neural network architectures, algorithms, and systems in vision and speech applications. Recent advances in deep artificial neural network algorithms and architectures have spurred rapid innovation and development of intelligent vision and speech systems. With avai…
GSA-Nets apply group equivariance to self-attention for vision tasks.
problem Improving self-attention networks for vision tasks.
method Define group-equivariant positional encodings.
result GSA-Nets outperform non-equivariant self-attention networks on vision benchmarks.
This work makes vision networks more interpretable by identifying key neurons.
problem Complex deep networks are hard to interpret, hindering safety-critical applications.
method Uses stochastic local competition and multimodal models to dissect and interpret neurons.
result The method generates understandable descriptions for a few active neurons, revealing network decision-making.
A new network controls task execution in a single vision system.
problem Executing multiple tasks accurately and efficiently in a single network.
method A top-down control network modifies main recognition network activations based on selected task, image content, and spatial location.
result Significantly better results on four datasets compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
Interactive framework improves understanding of deep neural networks.
problem False sense of comprehension from static explanation methods.
method Interactive framework allowing exhaustive inspection and testing of decisions.
result Interactive approach leads to better understanding of complex decision boundaries.
Vision Transformers show different internal representations compared to CNNs.
problem Understanding how Vision Transformers solve image classification tasks.
method Comparative analysis of ViT and CNN architectures on image classification benchmarks.
result ViT has more uniform representations across all layers, while CNNs have more varied representations.
With the advent of large labelled datasets and high-capacity models, the performance of machine vision systems has been improving rapidly. However, the technology has still major limitations, starting from the fact that different vision problems are still solved by different models, trained from scratch or fine-tuned o…
Proposes deep collective learning to learn inputs and weights together in neural networks.
problem The need to optimize inputs alongside weights in deep neural networks.
method Introduces deep collective learning to learn inputs and weights jointly, using lookup tables.
result Demonstrates advantages and promise of Lookup-VNets and deep collective learning.
CNNs encode data augmentation transformations, especially in early layers.
problem Whether neural network features encode data augmentation transformations.
method Systematic approach using pre-trained vision models to predict augmentation transformations.
result Neural network features encode data augmentation transformations, especially in early layers.
Computer vision SSL methods show effectiveness on time series data.
problem Evaluate if computer vision SSL frameworks are effective on time series data.
method Evaluated on UCR and UEA archives, proposed a new method improving VICReg.
result Computer vision SSL frameworks can be effective on time series data.
Paper proposes a method to prune neural networks, reducing storage and computation costs.
problem Reduction of storage and computational costs for deep neural networks.
method Statistical analysis of component significance using F-statistic-based screening technique.
result Pruned models are highly competitive with state-of-the-art approaches.
V-HMN integrates memory mechanisms for improved image recognition.
problem Limited interpretability and high data requirements of existing vision backbones.
method Brain-inspired hierarchical memory modules with iterative refinement.
result V-HMN achieves strong performance on image classification benchmarks.
Survey of complex-valued neural networks for improved performance.
problem Lack of complex-valued neural networks in machine learning frameworks.
method Literature review of CVNNs.
result Advantages of CVNNs over real-valued neural networks.
Pruning is one of the most effective model reduction techniques. Deep networks require massive computation and such models need to be compressed to bring them on edge devices. Most existing pruning techniques are focused on vision-based models like convolutional networks, while text-based models are still evolving. The…
Pruning filters in neural networks improves performance and reduces costs.
problem Large neural networks have high inference costs and limited resource usage.
method Batch Bridgeout for efficient pruning of convolutional filters.
result Batch Bridgeout trained networks achieve higher accuracy across various pruning intensities.
Real-time uncertainty estimation for computer vision tasks.
problem Real-time inference of uncertainty in deep learning models.
method Uncertainty-Aware Distribution Distillation method for fast inference.
result Significantly reduced inference time with improved uncertainty and predictive performance.
Measures equivariance in vision models using Lie derivative.
problem Understanding the role of equivariance in recent vision models.
method Introducing Lie derivative to measure equivariance with strong mathematical foundations and minimal hyperparameters.
result Many violations of equivariance can be linked to spatial aliasing in network layers, and larger models tend to display more equivariance.
We introduce a data-free quantization method for deep neural networks that does not require fine-tuning or hyperparameter selection. It achieves near-original model performance on common computer vision architectures and tasks. 8-bit fixed-point quantization is essential for efficient inference on modern deep learning …
Paper explores anchoring for vision models, improving generalization and safety.
problem Anchoring can lead to undesirable shortcuts, limiting generalization.
method Introduced a new anchored training protocol with a regularizer to mitigate undesirable shortcuts.
result Significant performance gains in generalization and safety metrics.
Effective theory for Transformer initialization improves model performance.
problem Improving performance of Transformers at initialization.
method Effective-theory analysis of signal propagation in wide and deep Transformers.
result Particular width scalings of initialization and training hyperparameters.
Multiresolution analysis and matrix factorization are foundational tools in computer vision. In this work, we study the interface between these two distinct topics and obtain techniques to uncover hierarchical block structure in symmetric matrices -- an important aspect in the success of many vision problems. Our new a…
New method reduces training cost by using approximate gradients.
problem Training neural networks is computationally expensive.
method Uses control variates to approximate gradients without full backward pass.
result Efficacy demonstrated on a vision transformer classification task.
Optimized neural networks for Edge TPU achieve high accuracy in real-time image classification.
problem Designing neural networks for hardware accelerators to achieve optimal performance.
method Hardware-aware neural architecture search and model customization for Edge TPU.
result Improved accuracy-latency tradeoff on Pixel 4's Edge TPU compared to existing models.
Colour vision has long fascinated scientists, who have sought to understand both the physiology of the mechanics of colour vision and the psychophysics of colour perception. We consider representations of colour in anatomically constrained convolutional deep neural networks. Following ideas from neuroscience, we classi…
Transfer learning is a cornerstone of computer vision, yet little work has been done to evaluate the relationship between architecture and transfer. An implicit hypothesis in modern computer vision research is that models that perform better on ImageNet necessarily perform better on other vision tasks. However, this hy…
KD2M unifies feature matching in neural networks.
problem Matching neural network activations for knowledge transfer.
method Formalizes distribution matching strategy.
result New theoretical results for KD.
In this paper, we study the problem of learning vision-based dynamic manipulation skills using a scalable reinforcement learning approach. We study this problem in the context of grasping, a longstanding challenge in robotic manipulation. In contrast to static learning behaviors that choose a grasp point and then execu…
Scalable verifier for recurrent neural networks using polyhedral abstractions.
problem Certifying the correctness of recurrent neural networks.
method Combining sampling, optimization, and Fermat's theorem for polyhedral abstractions; gradient descent for refinement.
result Successfully verified challenging recurrent models in various domains.
New mechanisms from primate vision improve neural network robustness.
problem Demonstrating robust neural networks to small adversarial perturbations.
method Investigated two biologically plausible mechanisms: non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity.
result Non-uniform retina sampling and receptive field diversity improve adversarial robustness.
Multivariate time series forecasting is an important yet challenging problem in machine learning. Most existing approaches only forecast the series value of one future moment, ignoring the interactions between predictions of future moments with different temporal distance. Such a deficiency probably prevents the model …
Capsule networks improve on traditional neural networks by using vector activations.
problem Comparing capsule networks to traditional neural networks to validate their benefits.
method Deep visualization analysis, feature encoding across vector components, and instantiation parameter encoding.
result Capsule features encode information differently and provide benefits in computer vision applications.
Paper proposes privacy-preserving learning for images, making them imperceptible to humans but recognizable by machines.
problem Conflict between developing AI systems and protecting sensitive training data.
method Encryption strategies (random shuffling and sub-patch mixing) followed by minimal adaptation to vision transformer.
result Achieves comparable accuracy to competitive methods while ensuring human-imperceptibility of encrypted images.
While frame-independent predictions with deep neural networks have become the prominent solutions to many computer vision tasks, the potential benefits of utilizing correlations between frames have received less attention. Even though probabilistic machine learning provides the ability to encode correlation as prior kn…
Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in recent years, exhibiting impressive performances in several application domains. It has however been shown that they can be fooled by adversarial examples, i.e., images altered by a barely-perceivable adversarial noise, carefully crafted to mislead classification. In thi…
ConViT combines CNN and ViT strengths, improving image classification.
problem Combining the strengths of CNNs and ViTs while avoiding their limitations.
method Introducing GPSA, a form of positional self-attention with a soft convolutional inductive bias.
result ConViT outperforms DeiT on ImageNet while offering improved sample efficiency.
While deep neural networks have become the go-to approach in computer vision, the vast majority of these models fail to properly capture the uncertainty inherent in their predictions. Estimating this predictive uncertainty can be crucial, for example in automotive applications. In Bayesian deep learning, predictive unc…
Paper proposes efficient network pruning method for deep neural networks.
problem High computational and memory cost of deep neural networks.
method Annealing and direct sparsity control for channel-level pruning.
result Proposed method achieves better or competitive performance compared to other methods.
BayesDLL offers a PyTorch library for Bayesian deep learning with large models.
problem Bayesian inference for large-scale deep networks.
method Variational inference, MC-dropout, stochastic-gradient MCMC, Laplace approximation.
result BayesDLL can handle Vision Transformers and pre-trained model weights as priors.
This research predicts stock market movements using Vision-Language models.
problem Predicting future stock market direction using historical data.
method Utilizing image and byte-based representations of stock data processed with Vision-Language models.
result The proposed approach significantly outperforms deep learning baselines.
A new system combines vision and language for person re-identification.
problem Real-world surveillance lacks visual data for person re-identification.
method Two-stream CNN framework with shared logits, CCA for modalities, multi-modal testing protocol.
result 22% improvement in re-identification performance with multi-modal queries.
Robust CLIP improves vision models' resistance to attacks.
problem Vulnerability of vision models to adversarial attacks.
method Unsupervised adversarial fine-tuning of CLIP.
result Robust CLIP prevents stealth attacks on vision models.
This paper improves ensemble learning for vision tasks by encouraging diversity in predictions.
problem Generating effective ensembles of neural networks for multi-modal data.
method Explicitly optimize a diversity inducing adversarial loss for learning stochastic latent variables.
result Significant improvements in classification accuracy and out-of-distribution detection compared to baselines.
Highly Autonomous Driving (HAD) systems rely on deep neural networks for the visual perception of the driving environment. Such networks are trained on large manually annotated databases. In this work, a semi-parametric approach to one-shot learning is proposed, with the aim of bypassing the manual annotation step requ…
Cloud based medical image analysis has become popular recently due to the high computation complexities of various deep neural network (DNN) based frameworks and the increasingly large volume of medical images that need to be processed. It has been demonstrated that for medical images the transmission from local to clo…
Typically a classifier trained on a given dataset (source domain) does not performs well if it is tested on data acquired in a different setting (target domain). This is the problem that domain adaptation (DA) tries to overcome and, while it is a well explored topic in computer vision, it is largely ignored in robotic …
Learning from a few examples remains a key challenge in machine learning. Despite recent advances in important domains such as vision and language, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm does not offer a satisfactory solution for learning new concepts rapidly from little data. In this work, we employ ideas from…
CVPR 2020 challenge evaluates continual learning in computer vision.
problem Making AI systems more adaptive and efficient.
method Evaluated different continual learning approaches on a common hardware with shared metrics.
result Reported main results, finalists, and prize winners.