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NutritionVerse-Real: An Open Access Manually Collected 2D Food Scene Dataset for Dietary Intake Estimation
Authors: Chi-en Amy Tai, Saeejith Nair, Olivia Markham, Matthew Keller, Yifan Wu, Yuhao Chen, Alexander Wong
Date: 2023-11-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Diversity, Management

Dietary intake estimation plays a crucial role in understanding the nutritional habits of individuals and populations, aiding in the prevention and management of diet-related health issues. Accurate estimation requires comprehensive datasets of food scenes, including images, segmentation masks, and accompanying dietary intake metadata. In this paper, we introduce NutritionVerse-Real, an open access manually collected 2D food scene dataset for dietary intake estimation with 889 images of 251 distinct dishes and 45 unique food types. The NutritionVerse-Real dataset was created by manually collecting images of food scenes in real life, measuring the weight of every ingredient and computing the associated dietary content of each dish using the ingredient weights and nutritional information from the food packaging or the Canada Nutrient File. Segmentation masks were then generated through human labelling of the images. We provide further analysis on the data diversity to highlight potential biases when using this data to develop models for dietary intake estimation. NutritionVerse-Real is publicly available at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/nutritionverse/nutritionverse-real as part of an open initiative to accelerate machine learning for dietary sensing.
An annotated grain kernel image database for visual quality inspection
Authors: Lei Fan, Yiwen Ding, Dongdong Fan, Yong Wu, Hongxia Chu, Maurice Pagnucco, Yang song
Date: 2023-11-20 00:00:00

We present a machine vision-based database named GrainSet for the purpose of visual quality inspection of grain kernels. The database contains more than 350K single-kernel images with experts' annotations. The grain kernels used in the study consist of four types of cereal grains including wheat, maize, sorghum and rice, and were collected from over 20 regions in 5 countries. The surface information of each kernel is captured by our custom-built device equipped with high-resolution optic sensor units, and corresponding sampling information and annotations include collection location and time, morphology, physical size, weight, and Damage & Unsound grain categories provided by senior inspectors. In addition, we employed a commonly used deep learning model to provide classification results as a benchmark. We believe that our GrainSet will facilitate future research in fields such as assisting inspectors in grain quality inspections, providing guidance for grain storage and trade, and contributing to applications of smart agriculture.
SAM4UDASS: When SAM Meets Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation in Intelligent Vehicles
Authors: Weihao Yan, Yeqiang Qian, Xingyuan Chen, Hanyang Zhuang, Chunxiang Wang, Ming Yang
Date: 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Tasks: Domain Adaptation, Semantic Segmentation, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Semantic segmentation plays a critical role in enabling intelligent vehicles to comprehend their surrounding environments. However, deep learning-based methods usually perform poorly in domain shift scenarios due to the lack of labeled data for training. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) techniques have emerged to bridge the gap across different driving scenes and enhance model performance on unlabeled target environments. Although self-training UDA methods have achieved state-of-the-art results, the challenge of generating precise pseudo-labels persists. These pseudo-labels tend to favor majority classes, consequently sacrificing the performance of rare classes or small objects like traffic lights and signs. To address this challenge, we introduce SAM4UDASS, a novel approach that incorporates the Segment Anything Model (SAM) into self-training UDA methods for refining pseudo-labels. It involves Semantic-Guided Mask Labeling, which assigns semantic labels to unlabeled SAM masks using UDA pseudo-labels. Furthermore, we devise fusion strategies aimed at mitigating semantic granularity inconsistency between SAM masks and the target domain. SAM4UDASS innovatively integrate SAM with UDA for semantic segmentation in driving scenes and seamlessly complements existing self-training UDA methodologies. Extensive experiments on synthetic-to-real and normal-to-adverse driving datasets demonstrate its effectiveness. It brings more than 3% mIoU gains on GTA5-to-Cityscapes, SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes, and Cityscapes-to-ACDC when using DAFormer and achieves SOTA when using MIC. The code will be available at https://github.com/ywher/SAM4UDASS.
F4D: Factorized 4D Convolutional Neural Network for Efficient Video-level Representation Learning
Authors: Mohammad Al-Saad, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Suchendra Bhandarkar
Date: 2023-11-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Action Recognition, Representation Learning, Temporal Action Localization

Recent studies have shown that video-level representation learning is crucial to the capture and understanding of the long-range temporal structure for video action recognition. Most existing 3D convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for video-level representation learning are clip-based and focus only on short-term motion and appearances. These CNN-based methods lack the capacity to incorporate and model the long-range spatiotemporal representation of the underlying video and ignore the long-range video-level context during training. In this study, we propose a factorized 4D CNN architecture with attention (F4D) that is capable of learning more effective, finer-grained, long-term spatiotemporal video representations. We demonstrate that the proposed F4D architecture yields significant performance improvements over the conventional 2D, and 3D CNN architectures proposed in the literature. Experiment evaluation on five action recognition benchmark datasets, i.e., Something-Something-v1, SomethingSomething-v2, Kinetics-400, UCF101, and HMDB51 demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed F4D network architecture for video-level action recognition.
Online Anomaly Detection over Live Social Video Streaming
Authors: Chengkun He, Xiangmin Zhou, Chen Wang, Iqbal Gondal, Jie Shao, Xun Yi
Date: 2023-12-01 00:00:00
Tasks: Anomaly Detection, Decoder, Video Anomaly Detection

Social video anomaly is an observation in video streams that does not conform to a common pattern of dataset's behaviour. Social video anomaly detection plays a critical role in applications from e-commerce to e-learning. Traditionally, anomaly detection techniques are applied to find anomalies in video broadcasting. However, they neglect the live social video streams which contain interactive talk, speech, or lecture with audience. In this paper, we propose a generic framework for effectively online detecting Anomalies Over social Video LIve Streaming (AOVLIS). Specifically, we propose a novel deep neural network model called Coupling Long Short-Term Memory (CLSTM) that adaptively captures the history behaviours of the presenters and audience, and their mutual interactions to predict their behaviour at next time point over streams. Then we well integrate the CLSTM with a decoder layer, and propose a new reconstruction error-based scoring function $RE_{IA}$ to calculate the anomaly score of each video segment for anomaly detection. After that, we propose a novel model update scheme that incrementally maintains CLSTM and decoder. Moreover, we design a novel upper bound and ADaptive Optimisation Strategy (ADOS) for improving the efficiency of our solution. Extensive experiments are conducted to prove the superiority of AOVLIS.
Immature Green Apple Detection and Sizing in Commercial Orchards using YOLOv8 and Shape Fitting Techniques
Authors: Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Martin Churuvija, Manoj Karkee
Date: 2023-12-08 00:00:00
Tasks: Instance Segmentation, Management, Marketing, object-detection, Object Detection, Semantic Segmentation

Detecting and estimating size of apples during the early stages of growth is crucial for predicting yield, pest management, and making informed decisions related to crop-load management, harvest and post-harvest logistics, and marketing. Traditional fruit size measurement methods are laborious and timeconsuming. This study employs the state-of-the-art YOLOv8 object detection and instance segmentation algorithm in conjunction with geometric shape fitting techniques on 3D point cloud data to accurately determine the size of immature green apples (or fruitlet) in a commercial orchard environment. The methodology utilized two RGB-D sensors: Intel RealSense D435i and Microsoft Azure Kinect DK. Notably, the YOLOv8 instance segmentation models exhibited proficiency in immature green apple detection, with the YOLOv8m-seg model achieving the highest AP@0.5 and AP@0.75 scores of 0.94 and 0.91, respectively. Using the ellipsoid fitting technique on images from the Azure Kinect, we achieved an RMSE of 2.35 mm, MAE of 1.66 mm, MAPE of 6.15 mm, and an R-squared value of 0.9 in estimating the size of apple fruitlets. Challenges such as partial occlusion caused some error in accurately delineating and sizing green apples using the YOLOv8-based segmentation technique, particularly in fruit clusters. In a comparison with 102 outdoor samples, the size estimation technique performed better on the images acquired with Microsoft Azure Kinect than the same with Intel Realsense D435i. This superiority is evident from the metrics: the RMSE values (2.35 mm for Azure Kinect vs. 9.65 mm for Realsense D435i), MAE values (1.66 mm for Azure Kinect vs. 7.8 mm for Realsense D435i), and the R-squared values (0.9 for Azure Kinect vs. 0.77 for Realsense D435i).
Attention Modules Improve Modern Image-Level Anomaly Detection: A DifferNet Case Study
Authors: André Luiz B. Vieira e Silva, Francisco Simões, Danny Kowerko, Tobias Schlosser, Felipe Battisti, Veronica Teichrieb
Date: 2024-01-13 00:00:00
Tasks: Anomaly Detection

Within (semi-)automated visual inspection, learning-based approaches for assessing visual defects, including deep neural networks, enable the processing of otherwise small defect patterns in pixel size on high-resolution imagery. The emergence of these often rarely occurring defect patterns explains the general need for labeled data corpora. To not only alleviate this issue but to furthermore advance the current state of the art in unsupervised visual inspection, this contribution proposes a DifferNet-based solution enhanced with attention modules utilizing SENet and CBAM as backbone - AttentDifferNet - to improve the detection and classification capabilities on three different visual inspection and anomaly detection datasets: MVTec AD, InsPLAD-fault, and Semiconductor Wafer. In comparison to the current state of the art, it is shown that AttentDifferNet achieves improved results, which are, in turn, highlighted throughout our quantitative as well as qualitative evaluation, indicated by a general improvement in AUC of 94.34 vs. 92.46, 96.67 vs. 94.69, and 90.20 vs. 88.74%. As our variants to AttentDifferNet show great prospects in the context of currently investigated approaches, a baseline is formulated, emphasizing the importance of attention for anomaly detection.
DA-BEV: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Bird's Eye View Perception
Authors: Kai Jiang, Jiaxing Huang, Weiying Xie, Yunsong Li, Ling Shao, Shijian Lu
Date: 2024-01-13 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D Object Detection, Domain Adaptation, object-detection, Object Detection, Scene Segmentation, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Camera-only Bird's Eye View (BEV) has demonstrated great potential in environment perception in a 3D space. However, most existing studies were conducted under a supervised setup which cannot scale well while handling various new data. Unsupervised domain adaptive BEV, which effective learning from various unlabelled target data, is far under-explored. In this work, we design DA-BEV, the first domain adaptive camera-only BEV framework that addresses domain adaptive BEV challenges by exploiting the complementary nature of image-view features and BEV features. DA-BEV introduces the idea of query into the domain adaptation framework to derive useful information from image-view and BEV features. It consists of two query-based designs, namely, query-based adversarial learning (QAL) and query-based self-training (QST), which exploits image-view features or BEV features to regularize the adaptation of the other. Extensive experiments show that DA-BEV achieves superior domain adaptive BEV perception performance consistently across multiple datasets and tasks such as 3D object detection and 3D scene segmentation.
MLCommons Cloud Masking Benchmark with Early Stopping
Authors: Varshitha Chennamsetti, Gregor von Laszewski, Ruochen Gu, Laiba Mehnaz, Juri Papay, Samuel Jackson, Jeyan Thiyagalingam, Sergey V. Samsonau, Geoffrey C. Fox
Date: 2023-12-11 00:00:00

In this paper, we report on work performed for the MLCommons Science Working Group on the cloud masking benchmark. MLCommons is a consortium that develops and maintains several scientific benchmarks that aim to benefit developments in AI. The benchmarks are conducted on the High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters of New York University and University of Virginia, as well as a commodity desktop. We provide a description of the cloud masking benchmark, as well as a summary of our submission to MLCommons on the benchmark experiment we conducted. It includes a modification to the reference implementation of the cloud masking benchmark enabling early stopping. This benchmark is executed on the NYU HPC through a custom batch script that runs the various experiments through the batch queuing system while allowing for variation on the number of epochs trained. Our submission includes the modified code, a custom batch script to modify epochs, documentation, and the benchmark results. We report the highest accuracy (scientific metric) and the average time taken (performance metric) for training and inference that was achieved on NYU HPC Greene. We also provide a comparison of the compute capabilities between different systems by running the benchmark for one epoch. Our submission can be found in a Globus repository that is accessible to MLCommons Science Working Group.
End-To-End Planning of Autonomous Driving in Industry and Academia: 2022-2023
Authors: Gongjin Lan, Qi Hao
Date: 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Tasks: Autonomous Driving

This paper aims to provide a quick review of the methods including the technologies in detail that are currently reported in industry and academia. Specifically, this paper reviews the end-to-end planning, including Tesla FSD V12, Momenta 2023, Horizon Robotics 2023, Motional RoboTaxi 2022, Woven Planet (Toyota): Urban Driver, and Nvidia. In addition, we review the state-of-the-art academic studies that investigate end-to-end planning of autonomous driving. This paper provides readers with a concise structure and fast learning of state-of-the-art end-to-end planning for 2022-2023. This article provides a meaningful overview as introductory material for beginners to follow the state-of-the-art end-to-end planning of autonomous driving in industry and academia, as well as supplementary material for advanced researchers.
EEGProgress: A fast and lightweight progressive convolution architecture for EEG classification
Authors: Zhige Chen, Rui Yang, Mengjie Huang, Fumin Li, Guoping Lu, Zidong Wang
Date: 2023-12-23 00:00:00
Proceeding: Computers in Biology and Medicine 2023 12

Because of the intricate topological structure and connection of the human brain, extracting deep spatial features from electroencephalograph (EEG) signals is a challenging and time-consuming task. The extraction of topological spatial information plays a crucial role in EEG classification, and the architecture of the spatial convolution greatly affects the performance and complexity of convolutional neural network (CNN) based EEG classification models. In this study, a progressive convolution CNN architecture named EEGProgress is proposed, aiming to efficiently extract the topological spatial information of EEG signals from multi-scale levels (electrode, brain region, hemisphere, global) with superior speed. To achieve this, the raw EEG data is permuted using the empirical topological permutation rule, integrating the EEG data with numerous topological properties. Subsequently, the spatial features are extracted by a progressive feature extractor including prior, electrode, region, and hemisphere convolution blocks, progressively extracting the deep spatial features with reduced parameters and speed. Finally, the comparison and ablation experiments under both cross-subject and within-subject scenarios are conducted on a public dataset to verify the performance of the proposed EEGProgress and the effectiveness of the topological permutation. The results demonstrate the superior feature extraction ability of the proposed EEGProgress, with an average increase of 4.02% compared to other CNN-based EEG classification models under both cross-subject and within-subject scenarios. Furthermore, with the obtained average testing time, FLOPs, and parameters, the proposed EEGProgress outperforms other comparison models in terms of model complexity.
Towards Stable Backdoor Purification through Feature Shift Tuning
Authors: Rui Min, Zeyu Qin, Li Shen, Minhao Cheng
Date: 2023-10-03 00:00:00
Proceeding: NeurIPS 2023 11

It has been widely observed that deep neural networks (DNN) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks where attackers could manipulate the model behavior maliciously by tampering with a small set of training samples. Although a line of defense methods is proposed to mitigate this threat, they either require complicated modifications to the training process or heavily rely on the specific model architecture, which makes them hard to deploy into real-world applications. Therefore, in this paper, we instead start with fine-tuning, one of the most common and easy-to-deploy backdoor defenses, through comprehensive evaluations against diverse attack scenarios. Observations made through initial experiments show that in contrast to the promising defensive results on high poisoning rates, vanilla tuning methods completely fail at low poisoning rate scenarios. Our analysis shows that with the low poisoning rate, the entanglement between backdoor and clean features undermines the effect of tuning-based defenses. Therefore, it is necessary to disentangle the backdoor and clean features in order to improve backdoor purification. To address this, we introduce Feature Shift Tuning (FST), a method for tuning-based backdoor purification. Specifically, FST encourages feature shifts by actively deviating the classifier weights from the originally compromised weights. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our FST provides consistently stable performance under different attack settings. Without complex parameter adjustments, FST also achieves much lower tuning costs, only 10 epochs. Our codes are available at https://github.com/AISafety-HKUST/stable_backdoor_purification.
A Multi-Area Architecture for Real-Time Feedback-Based Optimization of Distribution Grids
Authors: Ilyas Farhat, Etinosa Ekomwenrenren, John W. Simpson-Porco, Evangelos Farantatos, Mahendra Patel, Aboutaleb Haddadi
Date: 2024-01-18 00:00:00

A challenge in transmission-distribution coordination is how to quickly and reliably coordinate Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) across large multi-stakeholder Distribution Networks (DNs) to support the Transmission Network (TN), while ensuring operational constraints continue to be met within the DN. Here we propose a hierarchical feedback-based control architecture for coordination of DERs in DNs, enabling the DN to quickly respond to power set-point requests from the Transmission System Operator (TSO) while maintaining local DN constraints. Our scheme allows for multiple independently-managed areas within the DN to optimize their local resources while coordinating to support the TN, and while maintaining data privacy; the only required inter-area communication is between physically adjacent areas within the DN control hierarchy. We conduct a rigorous stability analysis, establishing intuitive conditions for closed-loop stability, and provide detailed tuning recommendations. The proposal is validated via case studies on multiple feeders, including IEEE-123 and IEEE-8500, using a custom MATLAB-based application which integrates with OpenDSS. The simulation results show that the proposed structure is highly scalable and can quickly coordinate DERs in response to TSO commands, while responding to local disturbances within the DN and maintaining DN operational limits.
All in How You Ask for It: Simple Black-Box Method for Jailbreak Attacks
Authors: Kazuhiro Takemoto
Date: 2024-01-18 00:00:00
Tasks: All

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, encounter `jailbreak' challenges, wherein safeguards are circumvented to generate ethically harmful prompts. This study introduces a straightforward black-box method for efficiently crafting jailbreak prompts, addressing the significant complexity and computational costs associated with conventional methods. Our technique iteratively transforms harmful prompts into benign expressions directly utilizing the target LLM, predicated on the hypothesis that LLMs can autonomously generate expressions that evade safeguards. Through experiments conducted with ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) and Gemini-Pro, our method consistently achieved an attack success rate exceeding 80% within an average of five iterations for forbidden questions and proved robust against model updates. The jailbreak prompts generated were not only naturally-worded and succinct but also challenging to defend against. These findings suggest that the creation of effective jailbreak prompts is less complex than previously believed, underscoring the heightened risk posed by black-box jailbreak attacks.
PatchAD: A Lightweight Patch-based MLP-Mixer for Time Series Anomaly Detection
Authors: Zhijie Zhong, Zhiwen Yu, Yiyuan Yang, Weizheng Wang, Kaixiang Yang
Date: 2024-01-18 00:00:00
Tasks: Anomaly Detection, Contrastive Learning, Time Series, Time Series Analysis, Time Series Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection in time series analysis is a pivotal task, yet it poses the challenge of discerning normal and abnormal patterns in label-deficient scenarios. While prior studies have largely employed reconstruction-based approaches, which limits the models' representational capacities. Moreover, existing deep learning-based methods are not sufficiently lightweight. Addressing these issues, we present PatchAD, our novel, highly efficient multiscale patch-based MLP-Mixer architecture that utilizes contrastive learning for representation extraction and anomaly detection. With its four distinct MLP Mixers and innovative dual project constraint module, PatchAD mitigates potential model degradation and offers a lightweight solution, requiring only $3.2$MB. Its efficacy is demonstrated by state-of-the-art results across $9$ datasets sourced from different application scenarios, outperforming over $30$ comparative algorithms. PatchAD significantly improves the classical F1 score by $50.5\%$, the Aff-F1 score by $7.8\%$, and the AUC by $10.0\%$. The code is publicly available. \url{https://github.com/EmorZz1G/PatchAD}