pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
A Unified Image Preprocessing Framework For Image Compression
Authors: Moqi Zhang, Weihui Deng, Xiaocheng Li
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Data Compression, Image Compression

With the development of streaming media technology, increasing communication relies on sound and visual information, which puts a massive burden on online media. Data compression becomes increasingly important to reduce the volume of data transmission and storage. To further improve the efficiency of image compression, researchers utilize various image processing methods to compensate for the limitations of conventional codecs and advanced learning-based compression methods. Instead of modifying the image compression oriented approaches, we propose a unified image compression preprocessing framework, called Kuchen, which aims to further improve the performance of existing codecs. The framework consists of a hybrid data labeling system along with a learning-based backbone to simulate personalized preprocessing. As far as we know, this is the first exploration of setting a unified preprocessing benchmark in image compression tasks. Results demonstrate that the modern codecs optimized by our unified preprocessing framework constantly improve the efficiency of the state-of-the-art compression.
Context-aware Mixture-of-Experts for Unbiased Scene Graph Generation
Authors: Liguang Zhou, Yuhongze Zhou, Tin Lun Lam, Yangsheng Xu
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Diversity, Graph Generation, Mixture-of-Experts, object-detection, Object Detection, Scene Graph Generation, Unbiased Scene Graph Generation

Scene graph generation (SGG) has gained tremendous progress in recent years. However, its underlying long-tailed distribution of predicate classes is a challenging problem. For extremely unbalanced predicate distributions, existing approaches usually construct complicated context encoders to extract the intrinsic relevance of scene context to predicates and complex networks to improve the learning ability of network models for highly imbalanced predicate distributions. To address the unbiased SGG problem, we introduce a simple yet effective method dubbed Context-Aware Mixture-of-Experts (CAME) to improve model diversity and mitigate biased SGG without complicated design. Specifically, we propose to integrate the mixture of experts with a divide and ensemble strategy to remedy the severely long-tailed distribution of predicate classes, which is applicable to the majority of unbiased scene graph generators. The biased SGG is thereby reduced, and the model tends to anticipate more evenly distributed predicate predictions. To differentiate between various predicate distribution levels, experts with the same weights are not sufficiently diverse. In order to enable the network dynamically exploit the rich scene context and further boost the diversity of model, we simply use the built-in module to create a context encoder. The importance of each expert to scene context and each predicate to each expert is dynamically associated with expert weighting (EW) and predicate weighting (PW) strategy. We have conducted extensive experiments on three tasks using the Visual Genome dataset, showing that CAME outperforms recent methods and achieves state-of-the-art performance. Our code will be available publicly.
Global Consistent Point Cloud Registration Based on Lie-algebraic Cohomology
Authors: Yuxue Ren, Baowei Jiang, Wei Chen, Na lei, Xianfeng David Gu
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Point Cloud Registration

We present a novel, effective method for global point cloud registration problems by geometric topology. Based on many point cloud pairwise registration methods (e.g ICP), we focus on the problem of accumulated error for the composition of transformations along any loops. The major technical contribution of this paper is a linear method for the elimination of errors, using only solving a Poisson equation. We demonstrate the consistency of our method from Hodge-Helmhotz decomposition theorem and experiments on multiple RGBD datasets of real-world scenes. The experimental results also demonstrate that our global registration method runs quickly and provides accurate reconstructions.
Enhancing Deep Learning-based 3-lead ECG Classification with Heartbeat Counting and Demographic Data Integration
Authors: Khiem H. Le, Hieu H. Pham, Thao B. T. Nguyen, Tu A. Nguyen, Cuong D. Do
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: ECG Classification

Nowadays, an increasing number of people are being diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death globally. The gold standard for identifying these heart problems is via electrocardiogram (ECG). The standard 12-lead ECG is widely used in clinical practice and the majority of current research. However, using a lower number of leads can make ECG more pervasive as it can be integrated with portable or wearable devices. This article introduces two novel techniques to improve the performance of the current deep learning system for 3-lead ECG classification, making it comparable with models that are trained using standard 12-lead ECG. Specifically, we propose a multi-task learning scheme in the form of the number of heartbeats regression and an effective mechanism to integrate patient demographic data into the system. With these two advancements, we got classification performance in terms of F1 scores of 0.9796 and 0.8140 on two large-scale ECG datasets, i.e., Chapman and CPSC-2018, respectively, which surpassed current state-of-the-art ECG classification methods, even those trained on 12-lead data. To encourage further development, our source code is publicly available at https://github.com/lhkhiem28/LightX3ECG.
Crowd Counting on Heavily Compressed Images with Curriculum Pre-Training
Authors: Arian Bakhtiarnia, Qi Zhang, Alexandros Iosifidis
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Cloud Computing, Crowd Counting, Image Compression

JPEG image compression algorithm is a widely used technique for image size reduction in edge and cloud computing settings. However, applying such lossy compression on images processed by deep neural networks can lead to significant accuracy degradation. Inspired by the curriculum learning paradigm, we propose a training approach called curriculum pre-training (CPT) for crowd counting on compressed images, which alleviates the drop in accuracy resulting from lossy compression. We verify the effectiveness of our approach by extensive experiments on three crowd counting datasets, two crowd counting DNN models and various levels of compression. The proposed training method is not overly sensitive to hyper-parameters, and reduces the error, particularly for heavily compressed images, by up to 19.70%.
A Vision Transformer-Based Approach to Bearing Fault Classification via Vibration Signals
Authors: Abid Hasan Zim, Aeyan Ashraf, Aquib Iqbal, Asad Malik, Minoru Kuribayashi
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Fault Detection

Rolling bearings are the most crucial components of rotating machinery. Identifying defective bearings in a timely manner may prevent the malfunction of an entire machinery system. The mechanical condition monitoring field has entered the big data phase as a result of the fast advancement of machine parts. When working with large amounts of data, the manual feature extraction approach has the drawback of being inefficient and inaccurate. Data-driven methods like the Deep Learning method have been successfully used in recent years for mechanical intelligent fault detection. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were mostly used in earlier research to detect and identify bearing faults. The CNN model, however, suffers from the drawback of having trouble managing fault-time information, which results in a lack of classification results. In this study, bearing defects have been classified using a state-of-the-art Vision Transformer (ViT). Bearing defects were classified using Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) bearing failure laboratory experimental data. The research took into account 13 distinct kinds of defects under 0-load situations in addition to normal bearing conditions. Using the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), the vibration signals were converted into 2D time-frequency images. The 2D time-frequency images are used as input parameters for the ViT. The model achieved an overall accuracy of 98.8%.
UPST-NeRF: Universal Photorealistic Style Transfer of Neural Radiance Fields for 3D Scene
Authors: Yaosen Chen, Qi Yuan, Zhiqiang Li, Yuegen Liu, Wei Wang, Chaoping Xie, Xuming Wen, Qien Yu
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: NeRF, Style Transfer

3D scenes photorealistic stylization aims to generate photorealistic images from arbitrary novel views according to a given style image while ensuring consistency when rendering from different viewpoints. Some existing stylization methods with neural radiance fields can effectively predict stylized scenes by combining the features of the style image with multi-view images to train 3D scenes. However, these methods generate novel view images that contain objectionable artifacts. Besides, they cannot achieve universal photorealistic stylization for a 3D scene. Therefore, a styling image must retrain a 3D scene representation network based on a neural radiation field. We propose a novel 3D scene photorealistic style transfer framework to address these issues. It can realize photorealistic 3D scene style transfer with a 2D style image. We first pre-trained a 2D photorealistic style transfer network, which can meet the photorealistic style transfer between any given content image and style image. Then, we use voxel features to optimize a 3D scene and get the geometric representation of the scene. Finally, we jointly optimize a hyper network to realize the scene photorealistic style transfer of arbitrary style images. In the transfer stage, we use a pre-trained 2D photorealistic network to constrain the photorealistic style of different views and different style images in the 3D scene. The experimental results show that our method not only realizes the 3D photorealistic style transfer of arbitrary style images but also outperforms the existing methods in terms of visual quality and consistency. Project page:https://semchan.github.io/UPST_NeRF.
Self-Supervised Vision Transformers for Malware Detection
Authors: Sachith Seneviratne, Ridwan Shariffdeen, Sanka Rasnayaka, Nuran Kasthuriarachchi
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Binary Classification, Malware Classification, Malware Detection, Malware Family Detection, Malware Type Detection, Self-Supervised Learning

Malware detection plays a crucial role in cyber-security with the increase in malware growth and advancements in cyber-attacks. Previously unseen malware which is not determined by security vendors are often used in these attacks and it is becoming inevitable to find a solution that can self-learn from unlabeled sample data. This paper presents SHERLOCK, a self-supervision based deep learning model to detect malware based on the Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture. SHERLOCK is a novel malware detection method which learns unique features to differentiate malware from benign programs with the use of image-based binary representation. Experimental results using 1.2 million Android applications across a hierarchy of 47 types and 696 families, shows that self-supervised learning can achieve an accuracy of 97% for the binary classification of malware which is higher than existing state-of-the-art techniques. Our proposed model is also able to outperform state-of-the-art techniques for multi-class malware classification of types and family with macro-F1 score of .497 and .491 respectively.
Memory-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
Authors: Bowen Li, Philip H. S. Torr, Thomas Lukasiewicz
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Generative Adversarial Network, Image Generation, Text to Image Generation, Text-to-Image Generation

We introduce a memory-driven semi-parametric approach to text-to-image generation, which is based on both parametric and non-parametric techniques. The non-parametric component is a memory bank of image features constructed from a training set of images. The parametric component is a generative adversarial network. Given a new text description at inference time, the memory bank is used to selectively retrieve image features that are provided as basic information of target images, which enables the generator to produce realistic synthetic results. We also incorporate the content information into the discriminator, together with semantic features, allowing the discriminator to make a more reliable prediction. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed memory-driven semi-parametric approach produces more realistic images than purely parametric approaches, in terms of both visual fidelity and text-image semantic consistency.
Automatic Controlling Fish Feeding Machine using Feature Extraction of Nutriment and Ripple Behavior
Authors: Hilmil Pradana, Keiichi Horio
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: object-detection, Object Detection, Object Tracking

Controlling fish feeding machine is challenging problem because experienced fishermen can adequately control based on assumption. To build robust method for reasonable application, we propose automatic controlling fish feeding machine based on computer vision using combination of counting nutriments and estimating ripple behavior using regression and textural feature, respectively. To count number of nutriments, we apply object detection and tracking methods to acknowledge the nutriments moving to sea surface. Recently, object tracking is active research and challenging problem in computer vision. Unfortunately, the robust tracking method for multiple small objects with dense and complex relationships is unsolved problem in aquaculture field with more appearance creatures. Based on the number of nutriments and ripple behavior, we can control fish feeding machine which consistently performs well in real environment. Proposed method presents the agreement for automatic controlling fish feeding by the activation graphs and textural feature of ripple behavior. Our tracking method can precisely track the nutriments in next frame comparing with other methods. Based on computational time, proposed method reaches 3.86 fps while other methods spend lower than 1.93 fps. Quantitative evaluation can promise that proposed method is valuable for aquaculture fish farm with widely applied to real environment.
Automatic Landmark Detection and Registration of Brain Cortical Surfaces via Quasi-Conformal Geometry and Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Yuchen Guo, Qiguang Chen, Gary P. T. Choi, Lok Ming Lui
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00

In medical imaging, surface registration is extensively used for performing systematic comparisons between anatomical structures, with a prime example being the highly convoluted brain cortical surfaces. To obtain a meaningful registration, a common approach is to identify prominent features on the surfaces and establish a low-distortion mapping between them with the feature correspondence encoded as landmark constraints. Prior registration works have primarily focused on using manually labeled landmarks and solving highly nonlinear optimization problems, which are time-consuming and hence hinder practical applications. In this work, we propose a novel framework for the automatic landmark detection and registration of brain cortical surfaces using quasi-conformal geometry and convolutional neural networks. We first develop a landmark detection network (LD-Net) that allows for the automatic extraction of landmark curves given two prescribed starting and ending points based on the surface geometry. We then utilize the detected landmarks and quasi-conformal theory for achieving the surface registration. Specifically, we develop a coefficient prediction network (CP-Net) for predicting the Beltrami coefficients associated with the desired landmark-based registration and a mapping network called the disk Beltrami solver network (DBS-Net) for generating quasi-conformal mappings from the predicted Beltrami coefficients, with the bijectivity guaranteed by quasi-conformal theory. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. Altogether, our work paves a new way for surface-based morphometry and medical shape analysis.
Adaptive Joint Optimization for 3D Reconstruction with Differentiable Rendering
Authors: Jingbo Zhang, Ziyu Wan, Jing Liao
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D Reconstruction, Quantization

Due to inevitable noises introduced during scanning and quantization, 3D reconstruction via RGB-D sensors suffers from errors both in geometry and texture, leading to artifacts such as camera drifting, mesh distortion, texture ghosting, and blurriness. Given an imperfect reconstructed 3D model, most previous methods have focused on the refinement of either geometry, texture, or camera pose. Or different optimization schemes and objectives for optimizing each component have been used in previous joint optimization methods, forming a complicated system. In this paper, we propose a novel optimization approach based on differentiable rendering, which integrates the optimization of camera pose, geometry, and texture into a unified framework by enforcing consistency between the rendered results and the corresponding RGB-D inputs. Based on the unified framework, we introduce a joint optimization approach to fully exploit the inter-relationships between geometry, texture, and camera pose, and describe an adaptive interleaving strategy to improve optimization stability and efficiency. Using differentiable rendering, an image-level adversarial loss is applied to further improve the 3D model, making it more photorealistic. Experiments on synthetic and real data using quantitative and qualitative evaluation demonstrated the superiority of our approach in recovering both fine-scale geometry and high-fidelity texture.Code is available at https://adjointopti.github.io/adjoin.github.io/.
Uni6Dv2: Noise Elimination for 6D Pose Estimation
Authors: Mingshan Sun, Ye Zheng, Tianpeng Bao, Jianqiu Chen, Guoqiang Jin, Liwei Wu, Rui Zhao, Xiaoke Jiang
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: 6D Pose Estimation, Denoising, Instance Segmentation, Pose Estimation, Semantic Segmentation

Uni6D is the first 6D pose estimation approach to employ a unified backbone network to extract features from both RGB and depth images. We discover that the principal reasons of Uni6D performance limitations are Instance-Outside and Instance-Inside noise. Uni6D's simple pipeline design inherently introduces Instance-Outside noise from background pixels in the receptive field, while ignoring Instance-Inside noise in the input depth data. In this paper, we propose a two-step denoising approach for dealing with the aforementioned noise in Uni6D. To reduce noise from non-instance regions, an instance segmentation network is utilized in the first step to crop and mask the instance. A lightweight depth denoising module is proposed in the second step to calibrate the depth feature before feeding it into the pose regression network. Extensive experiments show that our Uni6Dv2 reliably and robustly eliminates noise, outperforming Uni6D without sacrificing too much inference efficiency. It also reduces the need for annotated real data that requires costly labeling.
HoW-3D: Holistic 3D Wireframe Perception from a Single Image
Authors: Wenchao Ma, Bin Tan, Nan Xue, Tianfu Wu, Xianwei Zheng, Gui-Song Xia
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00

This paper studies the problem of holistic 3D wireframe perception (HoW-3D), a new task of perceiving both the visible 3D wireframes and the invisible ones from single-view 2D images. As the non-front surfaces of an object cannot be directly observed in a single view, estimating the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) geometries in HoW-3D is a fundamentally challenging problem and remains open in computer vision. We study the problem of HoW-3D by proposing an ABC-HoW benchmark, which is created on top of CAD models sourced from the ABC-dataset with 12k single-view images and the corresponding holistic 3D wireframe models. With our large-scale ABC-HoW benchmark available, we present a novel Deep Spatial Gestalt (DSG) model to learn the visible junctions and line segments as the basis and then infer the NLOS 3D structures from the visible cues by following the Gestalt principles of human vision systems. In our experiments, we demonstrate that our DSG model performs very well in inferring the holistic 3D wireframes from single-view images. Compared with the strong baseline methods, our DSG model outperforms the previous wireframe detectors in detecting the invisible line geometry in single-view images and is even very competitive with prior arts that take high-fidelity PointCloud as inputs on reconstructing 3D wireframes.
On a Mechanism Framework of Autoencoders
Authors: Changcun Huang
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: Denoising, Dimensionality Reduction, Image Restoration

This paper proposes a theoretical framework on the mechanism of autoencoders. To the encoder part, under the main use of dimensionality reduction, we investigate its two fundamental properties: bijective maps and data disentangling. The general construction methods of an encoder that satisfies either or both of the above two properties are given. The generalization mechanism of autoencoders is modeled. Based on the theoretical framework above, we explain some experimental results of variational autoencoders, denoising autoencoders, and linear-unit autoencoders, with emphasis on the interpretation of the lower-dimensional representation of data via encoders; and the mechanism of image restoration through autoencoders is natural to be understood by those explanations. Compared to PCA and decision trees, the advantages of (generalized) autoencoders on dimensionality reduction and classification are demonstrated, respectively. Convolutional neural networks and randomly weighted neural networks are also interpreted by this framework.
Deepfake Detection using ImageNet models and Temporal Images of 468 Facial Landmarks
Authors: Christeen T Jose
Date: 2022-08-15 00:00:00
Tasks: DeepFake Detection, Face Swapping

This paper presents our results and findings on the use of temporal images for deepfake detection. We modelled temporal relations that exist in the movement of 468 facial landmarks across frames of a given video as spatial relations by constructing an image (referred to as temporal image) using the pixel values at these facial landmarks. CNNs are capable of recognizing spatial relationships that exist between the pixels of a given image. 10 different ImageNet models were considered for the study.