Cascade Network with Guided Loss and Hybrid Attention for Two-view Geometry
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multi-spectral Information Processing（多光谱信息处理科学与技术国家重点实验室）；School of Artifical Intelligence and Automation（人工智能与自动化学院）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
In this paper, we are committed to designing a high-performance network for two-view geometry. We first propose a Guided Loss and theoretically establish the direct negative correlation between the loss and Fn-measure by dynamically adjusting the weights of positive and negative classes during training, so that the network is always trained towards the direction of increasing Fn-measure. By this way, the network can maintain the advantage of the cross-entropy loss while maximizing the Fn-measure. We then propose a hybrid attention block to extract feature, which integrates the bayesian attentive context normalization (BACN) and channel-wise attention (CA). BACN can mine the prior information to better exploit global context and CA can capture complex channel context to enhance the channel awareness of the network. Finally, based on our Guided Loss and hybrid attention block, a cascade network is designed to gradually optimize the result for more superior performance. Experiments have shown that our network achieves the state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
This paper proposes a CNN cascade for semantic part segmentation guided by pose-specific information encoded in terms of a set of landmarks (or keypoints). There is large amount of prior work on each of these tasks separately, yet, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first time in literature that the interplay between pose estimation and semantic part segmentation is investigated. To address this limitation of prior work, in this paper, we propose a CNN cascade of tasks that firstly performs landmark localisation and then uses this information as input for guiding semantic part segmentat…
The key to a successful cascade architecture for precise instance segmentation is to fully leverage the relationship between bounding box detection and mask segmentation across multiple stages. Although modern instance segmentation cascades achieve leading performance, they mainly make use of a unidirectional relationship, i.e., mask segmentation can benefit from iteratively refined bounding box detection. In this paper, we investigate an alternative direction, i.e., how to take the advantage of precise mask segmentation for bounding box detection in a cascade architecture. We propose a Deeply…
Hand pose estimation from a single depth image is an essential topic in computer vision and human computer interaction. Despite recent advancements in this area promoted by convolutional neural network, accurate hand pose estimation is still a challenging problem. In this paper we propose a Pose guided structured Region Ensemble Network (Pose-REN) to boost the performance of hand pose estimation. The proposed method extracts regions from the feature maps of convolutional neural network under the guide of an initially estimated pose, generating more optimal and representative features for hand …
The objective of this paper is to recover the original component signals from a mixture audio with the aid of visual cues of the sound sources. Such task is usually referred as visually guided sound source separation. The proposed Cascaded Opponent Filter (COF) framework consists of multiple stages, which recursively refine the source separation. A key element in COF is a novel opponent filter module that identifies and relocates residual components between sources. The system is guided by the appearance and motion of the source, and, for this purpose, we study different representations based …
Illinois Institute of Technology（伊利诺伊理工学院）；Cisco（思科）；University of Trento（特伦托大学）
Since we were babies, we intuitively develop the ability to correlate the input from different cognitive sensors such as vision, audio, and text. However, in machine learning, this cross-modal learning is a nontrivial task because different modalities have no homogeneous properties. Previous works discover that there should be bridges among different modalities. From neurology and psychology perspective, humans have the capacity to link one modality with another one, e.g., associating a picture of a bird with the only hearing of its singing and vice versa. Is it possible for machine learning a…
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Multispectral Information Processing（多光谱信息处理科学与技术国家重点实验室）
Finding good correspondences is a critical prerequisite in many feature based tasks. Given a putative correspondence set of an image pair, we propose a neural network which finds correct correspondences by a binary-class classifier and estimates relative pose through classified correspondences. First, we analyze that due to the imbalance in the number of correct and wrong correspondences, the loss function has a great impact on the classification results. Thus, we propose a new Guided Loss that can directly use evaluation criterion (Fn-measure) as guidance to dynamically adjust the objective f…
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
Cascade is a classic yet powerful architecture that has boosted performance on various tasks. However, how to introduce cascade to instance segmentation remains an open question. A simple combination of Cascade R-CNN and Mask R-CNN only brings limited gain. In exploring a more effective approach, we find that the key to a successful instance segmentation cascade is to fully leverage the reciprocal relationship between detection and segmentation. In this work, we propose a new framework, Hybrid Task Cascade (HTC), which differs in two important aspects: (1) instead of performing cascaded refine…
In this work, we present RadioTransformer, a novel visual attention-driven transformer framework, that leverages radiologists' gaze patterns and models their visuo-cognitive behavior for disease diagnosis on chest radiographs. Domain experts, such as radiologists, rely on visual information for medical image interpretation. On the other hand, deep neural networks have demonstrated significant promise in similar tasks even where visual interpretation is challenging. Eye-gaze tracking has been used to capture the viewing behavior of domain experts, lending insights into the complexity of visual …
Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab（华为诺亚方舟实验室）；South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）
Object detectors trained on fully-annotated data currently yield state of the art performance but require expensive manual annotations. On the other hand, weakly-supervised detectors have much lower performance and cannot be used reliably in a realistic setting. In this paper, we study the hybrid-supervised object detection problem, aiming to train a high quality detector with only a limited amount of fullyannotated data and fully exploiting cheap data with imagelevel labels. State of the art methods typically propose an iterative approach, alternating between generating pseudo-labels and upda…
School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University（西安交通大学信息与通信工程学院）
Object tracking has been studied for decades, but most of the existing works are focused on the short-term tracking. For a long sequence, the object is often fully occluded or out of view for a long time, and existing short-term object tracking algorithms often lose the target, and it is difficult to re-catch the target even if it reappears again. In this paper a novel long-term object tracking algorithm flow_MDNet_RPN is proposed, in which a tracking result judgement module and a detection module are added to the short-term object tracking algorithm. Experiments show that the proposed long-te…
Advanced Object Detection and Pose Estimation with Hybrid Task Cascade and High-Resolution Networks
California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）；University of Michigan（密歇根大学）；University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；Washington University in St. Louis（圣路易斯华盛顿大学）；Northern Arizona University（北亚利桑那大学）
Korea University（高丽大学）；Korea Basic Science Institute（韩国基础科学研究院）；Korea Artificial Organ Center（韩国人工器官中心）；ICT Convergence Technology for Health and Safety（健康安全信息通信融合技术）；Department of Electronics and Information Engineering（电子与信息工程系）；Bioimaging Research Team（生物成像研究团队）
Purpose: To acquire the real-time interactive temperature map for aqueous and adipose tissue, the problems of long acquisition and processing time must be addressed. To overcome these major challenges, this paper proposes a cascaded convolutional neural network (CNN) framework and multi-echo gradient echo (meGRE) with a single reference variable flip angle (srVFA). Methods: To optimize the echo times for each method, MR images are acquired using a meGRE sequence; meGRE images with two flip angles (FAs) and meGRE images with a single FA are acquired during the pretreatment and treatment stages,…
Automatic liver lesion segmentation is a challenging task while having a significant impact on assisting medical professionals in the designing of effective treatment and planning proper care. In this paper we propose a cascaded system that combines both 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks to effectively segment hepatic lesions. Our 2D network operates on a slice by slice basis to segment the liver and larger tumors, while we use a 3D network to detect small lesions that are often missed in a 2D segmentation design. We employ this algorithm on the LiTS challenge obtaining a Dice score per …
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）；Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）
Current few-shot action recognition methods reach impressive performance by learning discriminative features for each video via episodic training and designing various temporal alignment strategies. Nevertheless, they are limited in that (a) learning individual features without considering the entire task may lose the most relevant information in the current episode, and (b) these alignment strategies may fail in misaligned instances. To overcome the two limitations, we propose a novel Hybrid Relation guided Set Matching (HyRSM) approach that incorporates two key components: hybrid relation mo…
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Unsupervised person re-identification (Re-ID) is a promising and very challenging research problem in computer vision. Learning robust and discriminative features with unlabeled data is of central importance to Re-ID. Recently, more attention has been paid to unsupervised Re-ID algorithms based on clustered pseudo-label. However, the previous approaches did not fully exploit information of hard samples, simply using cluster centroid or all instances for contrastive learning. In this paper, we propose a Hard-sample Guided Hybrid Contrast Learning (HHCL) approach combining cluster-level loss wit…
South China University of Technology（华南理工大学）；JD Finance America Corporation（京东金融美国公司）；Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学）
In this paper, we propose $\text{HF}^2$-VAD, a Hybrid framework that integrates Flow reconstruction and Frame prediction seamlessly to handle Video Anomaly Detection. Firstly, we design the network of ML-MemAE-SC (Multi-Level Memory modules in an Autoencoder with Skip Connections) to memorize normal patterns for optical flow reconstruction so that abnormal events can be sensitively identified with larger flow reconstruction errors. More importantly, conditioned on the reconstructed flows, we then employ a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE), which captures the high correlation between v…
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology（韩国科学技术院）
This paper considers an architecture referred to as Cascade Region Proposal Network (Cascade RPN) for improving the region-proposal quality and detection performance by \textit{systematically} addressing the limitation of the conventional RPN that \textit{heuristically defines} the anchors and \textit{aligns} the features to the anchors. First, instead of using multiple anchors with predefined scales and aspect ratios, Cascade RPN relies on a \textit{single anchor} per location and performs multi-stage refinement. Each stage is progressively more stringent in defining positive samples by start…
Alibaba Group（阿里巴巴集团）；Twitter（推特）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Recent attempts mainly focus on learning deep representations for each video individually under the episodic meta-learning regime and then performing temporal alignment to match query and support videos. However, they still suffer from two drawbacks: (i) learning individual features without considering the entire task may result in limited representation capability, and (ii) existing alignment strategies are sensitive to noises and misaligned instances. To handle the two limitations, we propose a novel Hybrid Relation guided temporal Set Matching (HyRSM++) approach for few-shot action recognit…
As a critical cue for understanding human intention, human gaze provides a key signal for Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) applications. Appearance-based gaze estimation, which directly regresses the gaze vector from eye images, has made great progress recently based on Convolutional Neural Networks(ConvNets) architecture and open-source large-scale gaze datasets. However, encoding model-based knowledge into CNN model to further improve the gaze estimation performance remains a topic that needs to be explored. In this paper, we propose HybridGazeNet(HGN), a unified framework that encodes the ge…
Underwater Image Restoration Through a Prior Guided Hybrid Sense Approach and Extensive Benchmark Analysis
University of Macau（澳门大学）；Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院深圳先进技术研究院）；School of Big Data, Baoshan University（保山学院大数据学院）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Huizhou University（惠州学院计算机科学与工程学院）
提出 Color Balance Prior 引导的多尺度混合感知框架 GuidedHybSensUIR，并构建综合水下复原基准，实验显示其总体优于37种现有方法。
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院）；Rutgers University（罗格斯大学）
Pancreas segmentation in medical imaging data is of great significance for clinical pancreas diagnostics and treatment. However, the large population variations in the pancreas shape and volume cause enormous segmentation difficulties, even for state-of-the-art algorithms utilizing fully-convolutional neural networks (FCNs). Specifically, pancreas segmentation suffers from the loss of spatial information in 2D methods, and the high computational cost of 3D methods. To alleviate these problems, we propose a probabilistic-map-guided bi-directional recurrent UNet (PBR-UNet) architecture, which fu…
Hybrid Explanation-Guided Learning for Transformer-Based Chest X-Ray Diagnosis
ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern（ARTORG生物医学工程研究中心，伯恩大学）；Inselspital (Bern University Hospital)（Inselspital（伯恩大学医院））；Insel Gruppe Bern Universitätsinstitut für Diagnostische, Interventionelle und Pädiatrische Radiologie（Bern大学诊断、介入和儿科放射学研究所）；Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital（放射肿瘤科，Inselspital，伯恩大学医院）
In this paper, we propose a novel Question-Guided Hybrid Convolution (QGHC) network for Visual Question Answering (VQA). Most state-of-the-art VQA methods fuse the high-level textual and visual features from the neural network and abandon the visual spatial information when learning multi-modal features.To address these problems, question-guided kernels generated from the input question are designed to convolute with visual features for capturing the textual and visual relationship in the early stage. The question-guided convolution can tightly couple the textual and visual information but als…
University of Oslo（奥斯陆大学）；Graz University of Technology（格拉茨技术大学）
Electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are rapidly gaining popularity on our roads. Besides a comparatively high purchasing price, the main two problems limiting their use are the short driving range and inconvenient charging process. In this paper we address the following by presenting an automatic robot-based charging station with 3D vision guidance for plugging and unplugging the charger. First of all, the whole system concept consisting of a 3D vision system, an UR10 robot and a charging station is presented. Then we show the shape-based matching methods used to succes…
Attention-Aware Laparoscopic Image Desmoking Network with Lightness Embedding and Hybrid Guided Embedding
School of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学生命科学与技术学院）；State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学机器人技术与系统国家重点实验室）；State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation（沈阳自动化研究所机器人学国家重点实验室）
RUFNet: Query-Guided Support Mask Refinement and Uncertainty Fusion based on Hybrid Mamba for Few-Shot Brain Tumor Segmentation
Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学语言科学与技术系）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Technology（重庆理工大学人工智能学院）；Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University（徐州医科大学附属连云港医院）；College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University（深圳大学机电与控制工程学院）
Seoul National University（首尔国立大学）；Gauss Labs Inc.（高斯实验室公司）
Recent deep-learning-based video compression methods brought coding gains over conventional codecs such as AVC and HEVC. However, learning-based codecs generally require considerable computation time and model complexity. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight hybrid video codec consisting of a conventional video codec(HEVC / VVC), a lossless image codec, and our new restoration network. Precisely, our encoder consists of the conventional video encoder and a lossless image encoder, transmitting a lossy-compressed video bitstream along with a losslessly-compressed reference frame. The deco…
City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Hong Kong Baptist University（香港浸会大学）；Shanghai Tech University（上海科技大学）
This paper explores the problem of reconstructing high-resolution light field (LF) images from hybrid lenses, including a high-resolution camera surrounded by multiple low-resolution cameras. To tackle this challenge, we propose a novel end-to-end learning-based approach, which can comprehensively utilize the specific characteristics of the input from two complementary and parallel perspectives. Specifically, one module regresses a spatially consistent intermediate estimation by learning a deep multidimensional and cross-domain feature representation; the other one constructs another intermedi…
Prototype Learning Guided Hybrid Network for Breast Tumor Segmentation in DCE-MRI
School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（上海理工大学健康科学与工程学院）；School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学生物医学工程学院）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院）；Shanghai General Hospital（上海交通大学附属第一人民医院）
The major drawbacks with Satellite Images are low resolution, Low resolution makes it difficult to identify the objects present in Satellite images. We have experimented with several deep models available for Single Image Superresolution on the SpaceNet dataset and have evaluated the performance of each of them on the satellite image data. We will dive into the recent evolution of the deep models in the context of SISR over the past few years and will present a comparative study between these models. The entire Satellite image of an area is divided into equal-sized patches. Each patch will be …
National Institute of Technology Silchar（西尔查尔国家理工学院）；Eindhoven University of Technology（埃因霍温理工大学）
Community detection in Social Networks is associated with finding and grouping the most similar nodes inherent in the network. These similar nodes are identified by computing tie strength. Stronger ties indicates higher proximity shared by connected node pairs. This work is motivated by Granovetter's argument that suggests that strong ties lies within densely connected nodes and the theory that community cores in real-world networks are densely connected. In this paper, we have introduced a novel method called \emph{Disjoint Community detection using Cascades (DCC)} which demonstrates the effe…
