Efficiently visualizes uncertainty in local divergence of 2D vector fields.
problem Uncertainty in vector field data leads to inaccurate divergence computations.
method Closed-form approach for highly efficient and accurate uncertainty visualization of local divergence, assuming independently Gaussian-distributed vector uncertainties.
result Significantly enhanced efficiency and accuracy of our algorithms over classical MC approach.
New report on machine learning visualization techniques and trends.
problem Improving trust in machine learning models through visualization.
method Analysis of peer-reviewed articles on machine learning visualization techniques.
result Rapid growth in machine learning visualization techniques over the past three years.
Approach to develop visual perception in robots through sensorimotor interactions.
problem Developing autonomous perception in robots.
method Sensorimotor contingencies theory applied to robot exploration and learning.
result Captured sensorimotor regularities in a predictive model for visual field discovery.
The Giroux correspondence and the notion of a near force-free magnetic field are used to topologically characterize near force-free magnetic fields which describe a variety of physical processes, including plasma equilibrium. As a byproduct, the topological characterization of force-free magnetic fields associated with…
IANN visualizes all input variables effects simultaneously.
problem Inability to visualize all input variables effects simultaneously in black-box functions.
method Interpretable Architecture Neural Network (IANN) approach.
result Visualization of all input variables effects directly and simultaneously.
UN-AVOIDS visualizes and detects anomalies without needing labeled data.
problem The need for a unified framework to visualize and detect anomalies.
method UN-AVOIDS is an unsupervised, nonparametric approach that transforms data into a new space (NCDF) for both visualization and detection.
result UN-AVOIDS assigns invariant anomalous scores and achieves high AUC in detecting anomalies.
Study shows visual feedback and monetary incentives reduce plugload energy consumption in commercial buildings.
problem Mitigating energy consumption in commercial buildings through occupant plugload control.
method Field experiments with visual feedback and monetary incentives in government and university buildings.
result Mean energy reduction of ~9.52% in office environments and ~21.61% in university environments with visual feedback.
This paper discusses the role of risk communication in macroprudential oversight and of visualization in risk communication. Beyond the soar in data availability and precision, the transition from firm-centric to system-wide supervision imposes vast data needs. Moreover, except for internal communication as in any orga…
Recent studies in the field of human vision science suggest that the human responses to the stimuli on a visual display are non-deterministic. People may attend to different locations on the same visual input at the same time. Based on this knowledge, we propose a new stochastic model of visual attention by introducing…
The aim of this paper is to present a new method for visual place recognition. Our system combines global image characterization and visual words, which allows to use efficient Bayesian filtering methods to integrate several images. More precisely, we extend the classical HMM model with techniques inspired by the field…
In recent years, deep learning poses a deep technical revolution in almost every field and attracts great attentions from industry and academia. Especially, the convolutional neural network (CNN), one representative model of deep learning, achieves great successes in computer vision and natural language processing. How…
Visualizes DNNs using topographic maps for better understanding.
problem Difficulty in understanding how DNNs solve tasks.
method Adapting neuroscience methods to visualize DNN activations.
result Improved transparency and interpretability of DNN-based systems.
Adversarial attacks can manipulate ML-aided visualizations, tricking analysts.
problem Adversarial attacks on ML-aided visualizations.
method Identifying attack surface and exemplifying five adversarial attacks.
result Adversaries can induce various attacks, like creating arbitrary and deceptive visualizations.
Graph embedding techniques are useful to characterize spectral signature relations for hyperspectral images. However, such images consists of disjoint classes due to spatial details that are often ignored by existing graph computing tools. Robust parameter estimation is a challenge for kernel functions that compute suc…
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.
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on visual object classification tasks. In addition, it is a useful model for predication of neuronal responses recorded in visual system. However, there is still no clear understanding of what CNNs learn in terms of visual neuronal circu…
A framework disentangles controllable objects from visual signals for improved RL.
problem Improving sample efficiency and game performance in vision-based RL.
method Action-conditioned video prediction to disentangle controllable objects.
result Improved sample efficiency and game performance in Atari games.
Purpose: To determine if deep learning networks could be trained to forecast a future 24-2 Humphrey Visual Field (HVF). Participants: All patients who obtained a HVF 24-2 at the University of Washington. Methods: All datapoints from consecutive 24-2 HVFs from 1998 to 2018 were extracted from a University of Washington …
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a trending field of research, showing great promise in many challenging problems such as playing Atari, solving Go and controlling robots. While DRL agents perform well in practice we are still missing the tools to analayze their performance and visualize the temporal abstractions t…
Deep reinforcement learning is poised to revolutionise the field of AI and represents a step towards building autonomous systems with a higher level understanding of the visual world. Currently, deep learning is enabling reinforcement learning to scale to problems that were previously intractable, such as learning to p…
New visualization techniques reveal GAN optimization landscapes.
problem Challenges in training GANs compared to standard deep neural networks.
method Visualization techniques for optimization landscapes of GANs.
result GANs converge to saddle points, not minima, achieving excellent performance.
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.
The paper develops a neural network to predict wind speed from visual observations.
problem Accurate wind speed prediction for renewable energy and weather forecasting.
method Coupled Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network architecture trained on visual flow-structure interactions.
result The model accurately predicts wind speeds with low error compared to cup anemometer measurements.
This paper reviews recent advances in interactive machine learning.
problem Real-world application problems solved by human-machine collaboration.
method Task-oriented taxonomy classification of recent IML literature.
result Identifies open challenges and research opportunities in IML.
DSM improves visual quality of fetoscopic videos by mosaicking.
problem Challenges in identifying all vascular connections during fetoscopy due to low visual quality and drift.
method Proposes a Deep Sequential Mosaicking (DSM) framework using deep learning techniques to handle visual variations and reduce drift.
result DSM framework reduces accumulated drift and improves visual quality of fetoscopic videos.
In this work we simulate null geodesics for the Bonnor massive dipole metric by implementing a symbolic-numerical algorithm in Sage and Python. This program is also capable of visualizing in 3D, in principle, the geodesics for any given metric. Geodesics are launched from a common point, collectively forming a cone of …
Spectral images captured by satellites and radio-telescopes are analyzed to obtain information about geological compositions distributions, distant asters as well as undersea terrain. Spectral images usually contain tens to hundreds of continuous narrow spectral bands and are widely used in various fields. But the vast…
A new model of V1 using orientation, frequency, and phase.
problem Understanding the complex behavior of V1 simple cells.
method Developed a sub-Riemannian model based on Gabor functions.
result The model enhances images using orientation, frequency, and phase.
JD.com uses a new CNN model to improve ad click prediction.
problem Improving CTR prediction for ads with visual content.
method Proposes Category-specific CNN (CSCNN) to incorporate category knowledge early in the feature extraction process.
result CSCNN outperforms existing methods in CTR prediction.
New dataset and analysis improve evaluation of visual representation models.
problem Insufficient evaluation methods for visual representation models.
method Analyzed five representations and developed a new dataset.
result Models with poor linear classification performance can still perform well on complex tasks.
CAMEL embeds data into a manifold using curvature-augmented forces.
problem Data visualization and dimensionality reduction.
method Formulates DR as a physics model with curvature-augmented forces.
result CAMEL outperforms existing methods on benchmark datasets.
Art historians and archaeologists have long grappled with the regional classification of ancient Near Eastern ivory carvings. Based on the visual similarity of sculptures, individuals within these fields have proposed object assemblages linked to hypothesized regional production centers. Using quantitative rather than …
Survey of adversarial examples in visual machine learning models.
problem Vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial examples.
method Exploration of various adversarial attack and defense methods.
result Understanding of adversarial attack and defense mechanisms.
VR enables professionals to develop deep learning models by moving virtual objects.
problem Challenges in understanding and developing deep learning models.
method Built a VR-based DL development environment where users interact with tangible objects to construct neural networks.
result Users can develop and understand DL models intuitively through VR, with real-time accuracy feedback.
Two solutions for multi-modal record linkage using Deep Learning inspired by Visual Question Answering.
problem Matching records from multiple sources representing the same entity.
method Two fusion modules: Recurrent Neural Network + Convolutional Neural Network and Stacked Attention Network. A Siamese Neural Network computes similarity.
result Recurrent Neural Network + Convolutional Neural Network fusion module outperforms a simple model.
SATNet solves the Symbol Grounding Problem, enabling self-supervised learning.
problem Mapping visual inputs to symbolic variables without explicit supervision.
method Self-supervised pre-training pipeline and proofreading method.
result SATNet achieves full accuracy with no label leakage, surpassing state-of-the-art.
The paper develops models to understand sensory coding and cortical topography.
problem Understanding how visual cortical areas' receptive fields and topographic maps relate to environmental statistical structure.
method Energy-based models applied to probability density estimation, constrained by biological constraints.
result The models qualitatively reproduce receptive field and map properties found in vivo.
Evolutionary methods improve understanding of LLMs and their relationships.
problem Improving understanding of LLMs and their relationships.
method Relating weights to genotypes and output text to phenotypes using evolutionary methods.
result Estimated evolutionary trees reliably recover the topology of the ground-truth training tree.
This study addresses the issue of predicting the glaucomatous visual field loss from patient disease datasets. Our goal is to accurately predict the progress of the disease in individual patients. As very few measurements are available for each patient, it is difficult to produce good predictors for individuals. A rece…
This paper develops a cohomological hierarchy for bistable visual paradoxes.
problem Understanding the hierarchy of visual paradoxes built from bistable elements.
method Develops a cohomological hierarchy using Z2 coefficients and a discrete Stokes theorem. result Reveals a hierarchy of paradox classes from H0 through H2, refined at each degree by the relative/absolute distinction. The paper models asset pricing in a partially observed market using mean field game theory and exponential quadratic Gaussian framework.
problem Asset pricing in a market with partial observation and heterogeneous agents.
method Mean field game theory, exponential quadratic Gaussian framework, Kalman-Bucy filtering theory.
result Characterization of equilibrium risk premium through mean field BSDE and construction of unobservable risk premium process.
Measuring the distance between concepts is an important field of study of Natural Language Processing, as it can be used to improve tasks related to the interpretation of those same concepts. WordNet, which includes a wide variety of concepts associated with words (i.e., synsets), is often used as a source for computin…
Method detects and visualizes changes in financial markets' asset relationships.
problem Detecting and explaining changes in financial markets' asset relationships.
method Construct co-occurrence networks, calculate Graph-Based Entropy, apply Differential Network.
result Visualization of changes in financial markets with high interpretability.
Availability of an explainable deep learning model that can be applied to practical real world scenarios and in turn, can consistently, rapidly and accurately identify specific and minute traits in applicable fields of biological sciences, is scarce. Here we consider one such real world example viz., accurate identific…
Neuroscientists classify neurons into different types that perform similar computations at different locations in the visual field. Traditional methods for neural system identification do not capitalize on this separation of 'what' and 'where'. Learning deep convolutional feature spaces that are shared among many neuro…
CA-NN uses neural networks to scale correspondence analysis.
problem Scaling correspondence analysis to large datasets.
method Reinterpreting CA as a functional optimization problem over finite variance functions, approximated by neural networks.
result CA-NN enables scalable correspondence analysis.
DRLViz interprets deep RL agent memory for better understanding.
problem Understanding complex deep RL agent memory.
method Visual analytics interface to reduce and interpret memory vectors.
result Experts can better understand and investigate agent decisions.
Jointly correct bias fields and reconstruct undersampled MRI images.
problem Recovering fully sampled MRI images from undersampled data while accounting for bias field differences.
method An unsupervised learning-based reconstruction algorithm combined with a N4-based bias field estimation method in a joint optimization scheme.
result The proposed method improves reconstruction quality, both visually and in terms of RMSE.