Self-supervised learning shows promise in harnessing extensive unlabeled data, but it also confronts significant privacy concerns, especially in vision. In this paper, we aim to perform membership inference on visual self-supervised models in a more realistic setting: self-supervised training method and details are unknown for an adversary when attacking as he usually faces a black-box system in practice. In this setting, considering that self-supervised model could be trained by completely different self-supervised paradigms, e.g., masked image modeling and contrastive learning, with complex training details, we propose a unified membership inference method called PartCrop. It is motivated by the shared part-aware capability among models and stronger part response on the training data. Specifically, PartCrop crops parts of objects in an image to query responses with the image in representation space. We conduct extensive attacks on self-supervised models with different training protocols and structures using three widely used image datasets. The results verify the effectiveness and generalization of PartCrop. Moreover, to defend against PartCrop, we evaluate two common approaches, i.e., early stop and differential privacy, and propose a tailored method called shrinking crop scale range. The defense experiments indicate that all of them are effective. Our code is available at https://github.com/JiePKU/PartCrop.
Duke University（杜克大学）；Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Given a set of unlabeled images or (image, text) pairs, contrastive learning aims to pre-train an image encoder that can be used as a feature extractor for many downstream tasks. In this work, we propose EncoderMI, the first membership inference method against image encoders pre-trained by contrastive learning. In particular, given an input and a black-box access to an image encoder, EncoderMI aims to infer whether the input is in the training dataset of the image encoder. EncoderMI can be used 1) by a data owner to audit whether its (public) data was used to pre-train an image encoder without…
A Unified and Scalable Membership Inference Method for Visual Self-supervised Encoder via Part-aware Capability
Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University)（高可信软件技术重点实验室（北京大学））；Ministry of Education（教育部）；School of Computer Science（计算机学院）；Peking University（北京大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）
University of Missouri（密苏里大学）；Naval Surface Warfare Center（海军水面作战中心）
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, SLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. These models are confined to crisp segmentation. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp label (e.g., transition regions between a foggy sky and the ground or between sand and water at a beach). In these cases, a visual word is best represented with partial memberships across multiple topics. To address this, we present a partial membership latent Dirichlet allocation (PM-LDA) model and associated parameter estimation algorithms. Experimental results on two natural image datas…
University of Missouri（密苏里大学）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；Naval Surface Warfare Center（海军水面战中心）
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, sLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. However, these models are confined to crisp segmentation, forcing a visual word (i.e., an image patch) to belong to one and only one topic. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp categorical label (e.g., transition regions between a foggy sky and the ground or between sand and water at a beach). In these cases, a visual word is best represented with partial memberships across multiple topics. To address this, we present a partial membership latent Dirichlet allocation (PM-LDA…
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院微电子研究所）
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)（电子工程系，印度理工学院Madras（IITM））；Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre (SGBC), IITM（Sudha Gopalakrishnan脑中心（SGBC），IITM）
Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point cloud instead of the laser sensor from the image sensor. We propose an approach to use different depth estimators to obtain pseudo point clouds like LiDAR to obtain better performance. Moreover, the training and validating strategy of the depth estimator has adopted stereo imagery data to estimate more accurate depth estimation as well as point cloud results. O…
Nanjing University（南京大学）；University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）
Image restoration, including image denoising, super resolution, inpainting, and so on, is a well-studied problem in computer vision and image processing, as well as a test bed for low-level image modeling algorithms. In this work, we propose a very deep fully convolutional auto-encoder network for image restoration, which is a encoding-decoding framework with symmetric convolutional-deconvolutional layers. In other words, the network is composed of multiple layers of convolution and de-convolution operators, learning end-to-end mappings from corrupted images to the original ones. The convoluti…
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Center for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, NLPR, CASIA（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室智能感知与计算研究中心）
GAN inversion has been exploited in many face manipulation tasks, but 2D GANs often fail to generate multi-view 3D consistent images. The encoders designed for 2D GANs are not able to provide sufficient 3D information for the inversion and editing. Therefore, 3D-aware GAN inversion is proposed to increase the 3D editing capability of GANs. However, the 3D-aware GAN inversion remains under-explored. To tackle this problem, we propose a 3D-aware (3Da) encoder for GAN inversion and face editing based on the powerful StyleNeRF model. Our proposed 3Da encoder combines a parametric 3D face model wit…
Transformer-based visual object tracking has been utilized extensively. However, the Transformer structure is lack of enough inductive bias. In addition, only focusing on encoding the global feature does harm to modeling local details, which restricts the capability of tracking in aerial robots. Specifically, with local-modeling to global-search mechanism, the proposed tracker replaces the global encoder by a novel local-recognition encoder. In the employed encoder, a local-recognition attention and a local element correction network are carefully designed for reducing the global redundant inf…
Lesion detection in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art approaches are mostly based on supervised learning making use of large annotated datasets. Human beings, on the other hand, even non-experts, can detect most abnormal lesions after seeing a handful of healthy brain images. Replicating this capability of using prior information on the appearance of healthy brain structure to detect lesions can help computers achieve human level abnormality detection, specifically reducing the need for numerous labeled examples and bettering generalization of p…
Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ICMC)（数学与计算机科学学院（ICMC））；University of São Paulo (USP)（圣保罗大学（USP））
A feature learning task involves training models that are capable of inferring good representations (transformations of the original space) from input data alone. When working with limited or unlabelled data, and also when multiple visual domains are considered, methods that rely on large annotated datasets, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), cannot be employed. In this paper we investigate different auto-encoder (AE) architectures, which require no labels, and explore training strategies to learn representations from images. The models are evaluated considering both the reconstruct…
'Actions' play a vital role in how humans interact with the world. Thus, autonomous agents that would assist us in everyday tasks also require the capability to perform 'Reasoning about Actions & Change' (RAC). This has been an important research direction in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, but the study of RAC with visual and linguistic inputs is relatively recent. The CLEVR_HYP (Sampat et. al., 2021) is one such testbed for hypothetical vision-language reasoning with actions as the key focus. In this work, we propose a novel learning strategy that can improve reasoning about the eff…
CDPDNet: Integrating Text Guidance with Hybrid Vision Encoders for Medical Image Segmentation
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida（J. Crayton Pruitt家庭生物医学工程系，佛罗里达大学）；Department of Medicine, University of Florida（医学系，佛罗里达大学）
This paper explores improvements to the masked image modeling (MIM) paradigm. The MIM paradigm enables the model to learn the main object features of the image by masking the input image and predicting the masked part by the unmasked part. We found the following three main directions for MIM to be improved. First, since both encoders and decoders contribute to representation learning, MIM uses only encoders for downstream tasks, which ignores the impact of decoders on representation learning. Although the MIM paradigm already employs small decoders with asymmetric structures, we believe that c…
We present an approach called VisCode for embedding information into visualization images. This technology can implicitly embed data information specified by the user into a visualization while ensuring that the encoded visualization image is not distorted. The VisCode framework is based on a deep neural network. We propose to use visualization images and QR codes data as training data and design a robust deep encoder-decoder network. The designed model considers the salient features of visualization images to reduce the explicit visual loss caused by encoding. To further support large-scale e…
Institute of Deep Learning, Baidu Research（百度研究院深度学习研究所）；National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Application（深度学习技术及应用国家工程实验室）；School of Software, XinJiang University（新疆大学软件学院）
Transformers have shown impressive performance in various natural language processing and computer vision tasks, due to the capability of modeling long-range dependencies. Recent progress has demonstrated that combining such Transformers with CNN-based semantic image segmentation models is very promising. However, it is not well studied yet on how well a pure Transformer based approach can achieve for image segmentation. In this work, we explore a novel framework for semantic image segmentation, which is encoder-decoder based Fully Transformer Networks (FTN). Specifically, we first propose a P…
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院计算技术研究所）
The comparison of heterogeneous samples extensively exists in many applications, especially in the task of image classification. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective coupled neural network, called Deeply Coupled Autoencoder Networks (DCAN), which seeks to build two deep neural networks, coupled with each other in every corresponding layers. In DCAN, each deep structure is developed via stacking multiple discriminative coupled auto-encoders, a denoising auto-encoder trained with maximum margin criterion consisting of intra-class compactness and inter-class penalty. This single layer…
Vision-and-language reasoning requires an understanding of visual concepts, language semantics, and, most importantly, the alignment and relationships between these two modalities. We thus propose the LXMERT (Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers) framework to learn these vision-and-language connections. In LXMERT, we build a large-scale Transformer model that consists of three encoders: an object relationship encoder, a language encoder, and a cross-modality encoder. Next, to endow our model with the capability of connecting vision and language semantics, we pre-tr…
Expanding the Boundaries of Vision Prior Knowledge in Multi-modal Large Language Models
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院软件研究所信息处理实验室）
VISTA: Visualized Text Embedding For Universal Multi-Modal Retrieval
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence（北京人工智能研究院）；The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学）
A Novel ViDAR Device With Visual Inertial Encoder Odometry and Reinforcement Learning-Based Active SLAM Method
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, College of Engineering, Peking University（turbulence和复杂系统国家重点实验室，先进制造与机器人系，工程学院，北京大学）；Tencent RoboticsX（腾讯机器人科技）；College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University（信息与电气工程学院，中国农业大学）
