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A serial dual-channel library occupancy detection system based on Faster RCNN
Authors: Guoqiang Yang, XiaoWen Chang, Zitong Wang, Min Yang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: object-detection, Object Detection, Transfer Learning

The phenomenon of seat occupancy in university libraries is a prevalent issue. However, existing solutions, such as software-based seat reservations and sensors-based occupancy detection, have proven to be inadequate in effectively addressing this problem. In this study, we propose a novel approach: a serial dual-channel object detection model based on Faster RCNN. This model is designed to discern all instances of occupied seats within the library and continuously update real-time information regarding seat occupancy status. To train the neural network, a distinctive dataset is utilized, which blends virtual images generated using Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) with real-world images. Notably, our test results underscore the remarkable performance uplift attained through the application of self-generated virtual datasets in training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly within specialized scenarios. Furthermore, this study introduces a pioneering detection model that seamlessly amalgamates the Faster R-CNN-based object detection framework with a transfer learning-based object classification algorithm. This amalgamation not only significantly curtails the computational resources and time investments needed for neural network training but also considerably heightens the efficiency of single-frame detection rates. Additionally, a user-friendly web interface and a mobile application have been meticulously developed, constituting a computer vision-driven platform for detecting seat occupancy within library premises. Noteworthy is the substantial enhancement in seat occupancy recognition accuracy, coupled with a reduction in computational resources required for neural network training, collectively contributing to a considerable amplification in the overall efficiency of library seat management.
Dynamic Path-Controllable Deep Unfolding Network for Compressive Sensing
Authors: Jiechong Song, Bin Chen, Jian Zhang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Compressive Sensing

Deep unfolding network (DUN) that unfolds the optimization algorithm into a deep neural network has achieved great success in compressive sensing (CS) due to its good interpretability and high performance. Each stage in DUN corresponds to one iteration in optimization. At the test time, all the sampling images generally need to be processed by all stages, which comes at a price of computation burden and is also unnecessary for the images whose contents are easier to restore. In this paper, we focus on CS reconstruction and propose a novel Dynamic Path-Controllable Deep Unfolding Network (DPC-DUN). DPC-DUN with our designed path-controllable selector can dynamically select a rapid and appropriate route for each image and is slimmable by regulating different performance-complexity tradeoffs. Extensive experiments show that our DPC-DUN is highly flexible and can provide excellent performance and dynamic adjustment to get a suitable tradeoff, thus addressing the main requirements to become appealing in practice. Codes are available at https://github.com/songjiechong/DPC-DUN.
Improving Primate Sounds Classification using Binary Presorting for Deep Learning
Authors: Michael Kölle, Steffen Illium, Maximilian Zorn, Jonas Nüßlein, Patrick Suchostawski, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Data Augmentation, Deep Learning, Multi-class Classification

In the field of wildlife observation and conservation, approaches involving machine learning on audio recordings are becoming increasingly popular. Unfortunately, available datasets from this field of research are often not optimal learning material; Samples can be weakly labeled, of different lengths or come with a poor signal-to-noise ratio. In this work, we introduce a generalized approach that first relabels subsegments of MEL spectrogram representations, to achieve higher performances on the actual multi-class classification tasks. For both the binary pre-sorting and the classification, we make use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and various data-augmentation techniques. We showcase the results of this approach on the challenging \textit{ComparE 2021} dataset, with the task of classifying between different primate species sounds, and report significantly higher Accuracy and UAR scores in contrast to comparatively equipped model baselines.
SVNR: Spatially-variant Noise Removal with Denoising Diffusion
Authors: Naama Pearl, Yaron Brodsky, Dana Berman, Assaf Zomet, Alex Rav Acha, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischinski
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Denoising, Image Denoising

Denoising diffusion models have recently shown impressive results in generative tasks. By learning powerful priors from huge collections of training images, such models are able to gradually modify complete noise to a clean natural image via a sequence of small denoising steps, seemingly making them well-suited for single image denoising. However, effectively applying denoising diffusion models to removal of realistic noise is more challenging than it may seem, since their formulation is based on additive white Gaussian noise, unlike noise in real-world images. In this work, we present SVNR, a novel formulation of denoising diffusion that assumes a more realistic, spatially-variant noise model. SVNR enables using the noisy input image as the starting point for the denoising diffusion process, in addition to conditioning the process on it. To this end, we adapt the diffusion process to allow each pixel to have its own time embedding, and propose training and inference schemes that support spatially-varying time maps. Our formulation also accounts for the correlation that exists between the condition image and the samples along the modified diffusion process. In our experiments we demonstrate the advantages of our approach over a strong diffusion model baseline, as well as over a state-of-the-art single image denoising method.
Evaluating Similitude and Robustness of Deep Image Denoising Models via Adversarial Attack
Authors: Jie Ning, Jiebao Sun, Yao Li, Zhichang Guo, WangMeng Zuo
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Adversarial Attack, Denoising, Image Denoising

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown superior performance comparing to traditional image denoising algorithms. However, DNNs are inevitably vulnerable while facing adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose an adversarial attack method named denoising-PGD which can successfully attack all the current deep denoising models while keep the noise distribution almost unchanged. We surprisingly find that the current mainstream non-blind denoising models (DnCNN, FFDNet, ECNDNet, BRDNet), blind denoising models (DnCNN-B, Noise2Noise, RDDCNN-B, FAN), plug-and-play (DPIR, CurvPnP) and unfolding denoising models (DeamNet) almost share the same adversarial sample set on both grayscale and color images, respectively. Shared adversarial sample set indicates that all these models are similar in term of local behaviors at the neighborhood of all the test samples. Thus, we further propose an indicator to measure the local similarity of models, called robustness similitude. Non-blind denoising models are found to have high robustness similitude across each other, while hybrid-driven models are also found to have high robustness similitude with pure data-driven non-blind denoising models. According to our robustness assessment, data-driven non-blind denoising models are the most robust. We use adversarial training to complement the vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Moreover, the model-driven image denoising BM3D shows resistance on adversarial attacks.
A Cascaded Approach for ultraly High Performance Lesion Detection and False Positive Removal in Liver CT Scans
Authors: Fakai Wang, Chi-Tung Cheng, Chien-Wei Peng, Ke Yan, Min Wu, Le Lu, Chien-Hung Liao, Ling Zhang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Lesion Detection, Sensitivity, Specificity

Liver cancer has high morbidity and mortality rates in the world. Multi-phase CT is a main medical imaging modality for detecting/identifying and diagnosing liver tumors. Automatically detecting and classifying liver lesions in CT images have the potential to improve the clinical workflow. This task remains challenging due to liver lesions' large variations in size, appearance, image contrast, and the complexities of tumor types or subtypes. In this work, we customize a multi-object labeling tool for multi-phase CT images, which is used to curate a large-scale dataset containing 1,631 patients with four-phase CT images, multi-organ masks, and multi-lesion (six major types of liver lesions confirmed by pathology) masks. We develop a two-stage liver lesion detection pipeline, where the high-sensitivity detecting algorithms in the first stage discover as many lesion proposals as possible, and the lesion-reclassification algorithms in the second stage remove as many false alarms as possible. The multi-sensitivity lesion detection algorithm maximizes the information utilization of the individual probability maps of segmentation, and the lesion-shuffle augmentation effectively explores the texture contrast between lesions and the liver. Independently tested on 331 patient cases, the proposed model achieves high sensitivity and specificity for malignancy classification in the multi-phase contrast-enhanced CT (99.2%, 97.1%, diagnosis setting) and in the noncontrast CT (97.3%, 95.7%, screening setting).
Points for Energy Renovation (PointER): A LiDAR-Derived Point Cloud Dataset of One Million English Buildings Linked to Energy Characteristics
Authors: Sebastian Krapf, Kevin Mayer, Martin Fischer
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00

Rapid renovation of Europe's inefficient buildings is required to reduce climate change. However, analyzing and evaluating buildings at scale is challenging because every building is unique. In current practice, the energy performance of buildings is assessed during on-site visits, which are slow, costly, and local. This paper presents a building point cloud dataset that promotes a data-driven, large-scale understanding of the 3D representation of buildings and their energy characteristics. We generate building point clouds by intersecting building footprints with geo-referenced LiDAR data and link them with attributes from UK's energy performance database via the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN). To achieve a representative sample, we select one million buildings from a range of rural and urban regions across England, of which half a million are linked to energy characteristics. Building point clouds in new regions can be generated with the open-source code published alongside the paper. The dataset enables novel research in building energy modeling and can be easily expanded to other research fields by adding building features via the UPRN or geo-location.
Fast Recognition of birds in offshore wind farms based on an improved deep learning model
Authors: Yantong Liu, Xingke Li, Jong-Chan Lee
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Clustering

The safety of wind turbines is a prerequisite for the stable operation of offshore wind farms. However, bird damage poses a direct threat to the safe operation of wind turbines and wind turbine blades. In addition, millions of birds are killed by wind turbines every year. In order to protect the ecological environment and maintain the safe operation of offshore wind turbines, and to address the problem of the low detection capability of current target detection algorithms in low-light environments such as at night, this paper proposes a method to improve the network performance by integrating the CBAM attention mechanism and the RetinexNet network into YOLOv5. First, the training set images are fed into the YOLOv5 network with integrated CBAM attention module for training, and the optimal weight model is stored. Then, low-light images are enhanced and denoised using Decom-Net and Enhance-Net, and the accuracy is tested on the optimal weight model. In addition, the k-means++ clustering algorithm is used to optimise the anchor box selection method, which solves the problem of unstable initial centroids and achieves better clustering results. Experimental results show that the accuracy of this model in bird detection tasks can reach 87.40%, an increase of 21.25%. The model can detect birds near wind turbines in real time and shows strong stability in night, rainy and shaky conditions, proving that the model can ensure the safe and stable operation of wind turbines.
Positive Label Is All You Need for Multi-Label Classification
Authors: Zhixiang Yuan, Kaixin Zhang, Tao Huang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: All, Multi-Label Classification, MUlTI-LABEL-ClASSIFICATION

Multi-label classification (MLC) faces challenges from label noise in training data due to annotating diverse semantic labels for each image. Current methods mainly target identifying and correcting label mistakes using trained MLC models, but still struggle with persistent noisy labels during training, resulting in imprecise recognition and reduced performance. Our paper addresses label noise in MLC by introducing a positive and unlabeled multi-label classification (PU-MLC) method. To counteract noisy labels, we directly discard negative labels, focusing on the abundance of negative labels and the origin of most noisy labels. PU-MLC employs positive-unlabeled learning, training the model with only positive labels and unlabeled data. The method incorporates adaptive re-balance factors and temperature coefficients in the loss function to address label distribution imbalance and prevent over-smoothing of probabilities during training. Additionally, we introduce a local-global convolution module to capture both local and global dependencies in the image without requiring backbone retraining. PU-MLC proves effective on MLC and MLC with partial labels (MLC-PL) tasks, demonstrating significant improvements on MS-COCO and PASCAL VOC datasets with fewer annotations. Code is available at: https://github.com/TAKELAMAG/PU-MLC.
Text-driven Talking Face Synthesis by Reprogramming Audio-driven Models
Authors: Jeongsoo Choi, Minsu Kim, Se Jin Park, Yong Man Ro
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Face Generation

In this paper, we present a method for reprogramming pre-trained audio-driven talking face synthesis models to operate in a text-driven manner. Consequently, we can easily generate face videos that articulate the provided textual sentences, eliminating the necessity of recording speech for each inference, as required in the audio-driven model. To this end, we propose to embed the input text into the learned audio latent space of the pre-trained audio-driven model, while preserving the face synthesis capability of the original pre-trained model. Specifically, we devise a Text-to-Audio Embedding Module (TAEM) which maps a given text input into the audio latent space by modeling pronunciation and duration characteristics. Furthermore, to consider the speaker characteristics in audio while using text inputs, TAEM is designed to accept a visual speaker embedding. The visual speaker embedding is derived from a single target face image and enables improved mapping of input text to the learned audio latent space by incorporating the speaker characteristics inherent in the audio. The main advantages of the proposed framework are that 1) it can be applied to diverse audio-driven talking face synthesis models and 2) we can generate talking face videos with either text inputs or audio inputs with high flexibility.
AFPN: Asymptotic Feature Pyramid Network for Object Detection
Authors: Guoyu Yang, Jie Lei, Zhikuan Zhu, Siyu Cheng, Zunlei Feng, Ronghua Liang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Object, object-detection, Object Detection

Multi-scale features are of great importance in encoding objects with scale variance in object detection tasks. A common strategy for multi-scale feature extraction is adopting the classic top-down and bottom-up feature pyramid networks. However, these approaches suffer from the loss or degradation of feature information, impairing the fusion effect of non-adjacent levels. This paper proposes an asymptotic feature pyramid network (AFPN) to support direct interaction at non-adjacent levels. AFPN is initiated by fusing two adjacent low-level features and asymptotically incorporates higher-level features into the fusion process. In this way, the larger semantic gap between non-adjacent levels can be avoided. Given the potential for multi-object information conflicts to arise during feature fusion at each spatial location, adaptive spatial fusion operation is further utilized to mitigate these inconsistencies. We incorporate the proposed AFPN into both two-stage and one-stage object detection frameworks and evaluate with the MS-COCO 2017 validation and test datasets. Experimental evaluation shows that our method achieves more competitive results than other state-of-the-art feature pyramid networks. The code is available at \href{https://github.com/gyyang23/AFPN}{https://github.com/gyyang23/AFPN}.
Understanding Prompt Tuning for V-L Models Through the Lens of Neural Collapse
Authors: Didi Zhu, Zexi Li, Min Zhang, Junkun Yuan, Yunfeng Shao, Jiashuo Liu, Kun Kuang, Yinchuan Li, Chao Wu
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00

Large-scale vision-language (V-L) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities for downstream tasks through prompt tuning. However, the mechanisms behind the learned text representations are unknown, limiting further generalization gains, especially under class imbalance scenarios. Recent advances in the neural collapse (NC) phenomenon of vision-only models suggest that the optimal representation structure is the simplex ETF, which paves the way to study representations in V-L models. In this paper, we make the first attempt to use NC for examining the representations in V-L models via prompt tuning. It is found that NC optimality of text-to-image representations shows a positive correlation with downstream generalizability, which is more severe under class imbalance settings. To improve the representations, we propose Neural-collapse-anchored Prompt Tuning (NPT), a novel method that learns prompts with text and image representations that satisfy the same simplex ETF. NPT incorporates two regularization terms: language-modality collapse and multi-modality isomorphism; and it is compatible with other prompt tuning methods. Extensive experiments show that NPT can consistently help to improve existing prompt tuning techniques across 11 datasets for both balanced and imbalanced settings.
Angle Sensitive Pixels for Lensless Imaging on Spherical Sensors
Authors: Yi Hua, Yongyi Zhao, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Diversity

We propose OrbCam, a lensless architecture for imaging with spherical sensors. Prior work in lensless imager techniques have focused largely on using planar sensors; for such designs, it is important to use a modulation element, e.g. amplitude or phase masks, to construct a invertible imaging system. In contrast, we show that the diversity of pixel orientations on a curved surface is sufficient to improve the conditioning of the mapping between the scene and the sensor. Hence, when imaging on a spherical sensor, all pixels can have the same angular response function such that the lensless imager is comprised of pixels that are identical to each other and differ only in their orientations. We provide the computational tools for the design of the angular response of the pixels in a spherical sensor that leads to well-conditioned and noise-robust measurements. We validate our design in both simulation and a lab prototype. The implications of our design is that the lensless imaging can be enabled easily for curved and flexible surfaces thereby opening up a new set of application domains.
Knowledge-Enhanced Hierarchical Information Correlation Learning for Multi-Modal Rumor Detection
Authors: Jiawei Liu, Jingyi Xie, Fanrui Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00

The explosive growth of rumors with text and images on social media platforms has drawn great attention. Existing studies have made significant contributions to cross-modal information interaction and fusion, but they fail to fully explore hierarchical and complex semantic correlation across different modality content, severely limiting their performance on detecting multi-modal rumor. In this work, we propose a novel knowledge-enhanced hierarchical information correlation learning approach (KhiCL) for multi-modal rumor detection by jointly modeling the basic semantic correlation and high-order knowledge-enhanced entity correlation. Specifically, KhiCL exploits cross-modal joint dictionary to transfer the heterogeneous unimodality features into the common feature space and captures the basic cross-modal semantic consistency and inconsistency by a cross-modal fusion layer. Moreover, considering the description of multi-modal content is narrated around entities, KhiCL extracts visual and textual entities from images and text, and designs a knowledge relevance reasoning strategy to find the shortest semantic relevant path between each pair of entities in external knowledge graph, and absorbs all complementary contextual knowledge of other connected entities in this path for learning knowledge-enhanced entity representations. Furthermore, KhiCL utilizes a signed attention mechanism to model the knowledge-enhanced entity consistency and inconsistency of intra-modality and inter-modality entity pairs by measuring their corresponding semantic relevant distance. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
NIPD: A Federated Learning Person Detection Benchmark Based on Real-World Non-IID Data
Authors: Kangning Yin, Zhen Ding, Zhihua Dong, Dongsheng Chen, Jie Fu, Xinhui Ji, Guangqiang Yin, Zhiguo Wang
Date: 2023-06-28 00:00:00
Tasks: Federated Learning, Human Detection, object-detection, Object Detection, Person Identification, Privacy Preserving

Federated learning (FL), a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, has been rapidly applied in wireless communication networks. FL enables Internet of Things (IoT) clients to obtain well-trained models while preventing privacy leakage. Person detection can be deployed on edge devices with limited computing power if combined with FL to process the video data directly at the edge. However, due to the different hardware and deployment scenarios of different cameras, the data collected by the camera present non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID), and the global model derived from FL aggregation is less effective. Meanwhile, existing research lacks public data set for real-world FL object detection, which is not conducive to studying the non-IID problem on IoT cameras. Therefore, we open source a non-IID IoT person detection (NIPD) data set, which is collected from five different cameras. To our knowledge, this is the first true device-based non-IID person detection data set. Based on this data set, we explain how to establish a FL experimental platform and provide a benchmark for non-IID person detection. NIPD is expected to promote the application of FL and the security of smart city.