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Hard Mixtures of Experts for Large Scale Weakly Supervised Vision
cs.CV
Training convolutional networks (CNN's) that fit on a single GPU with minibatch stochastic gradient descent has become effective in practice. However, there is still no effective method for training large CNN's that do not fit in the memory of a few GPU cards, or for parallelizing CNN training. In this work we show tha...
computer science
4,401
Compressive Sensing Approaches for Autonomous Object Detection in Video Sequences
cs.CV
Video analytics requires operating with large amounts of data. Compressive sensing allows to reduce the number of measurements required to represent the video using the prior knowledge of sparsity of the original signal, but it imposes certain conditions on the design matrix. The Bayesian compressive sensing approach r...
computer science
4,402
Unsupervised learning of object landmarks by factorized spatial embeddings
cs.CV
Learning automatically the structure of object categories remains an important open problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised approach that can discover and learn landmarks in object categories, thus characterizing their structure. Our approach is based on factorizing image deformations...
computer science
4,403
A Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network for X-ray Low-dose CT Image Denoising
cs.CV
Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and spatial-variant noises in CT images. However, some residue artifacts would appear in...
computer science
4,404
CardiacNET: Segmentation of Left Atrium and Proximal Pulmonary Veins from MRI Using Multi-View CNN
cs.CV
Anatomical and biophysical modeling of left atrium (LA) and proximal pulmonary veins (PPVs) is important for clinical management of several cardiac diseases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows qualitative assessment of LA and PPVs through visualization. However, there is a strong need for an advanced image segment...
computer science
4,405
Learning Texture Manifolds with the Periodic Spatial GAN
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel approach to texture synthesis based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) (Goodfellow et al., 2014). We extend the structure of the input noise distribution by constructing tensors with different types of dimensions. We call this technique Periodic Spatial GAN (PSGAN). The PSGAN has sev...
computer science
4,406
Learning multiple visual domains with residual adapters
cs.CV
There is a growing interest in learning data representations that work well for many different types of problems and data. In this paper, we look in particular at the task of learning a single visual representation that can be successfully utilized in the analysis of very different types of images, from dog breeds to s...
computer science
4,407
Real-Time Background Subtraction Using Adaptive Sampling and Cascade of Gaussians
stat.ML
Background-Foreground classification is a fundamental well-studied problem in computer vision. Due to the pixel-wise nature of modeling and processing in the algorithm, it is usually difficult to satisfy real-time constraints. There is a trade-off between the speed (because of model complexity) and accuracy. Inspired b...
computer science
4,408
Decorrelation of Neutral Vector Variables: Theory and Applications
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose novel strategies for neutral vector variable decorrelation. Two fundamental invertible transformations, namely serial nonlinear transformation and parallel nonlinear transformation, are proposed to carry out the decorrelation. For a neutral vector variable, which is not multivariate Gaussian d...
computer science
4,409
Dynamic Steerable Blocks in Deep Residual Networks
cs.CV
Filters in convolutional networks are typically parameterized in a pixel basis, that does not take prior knowledge about the visual world into account. We investigate the generalized notion of frames designed with image properties in mind, as alternatives to this parametrization. We show that frame-based ResNets and De...
computer science
4,410
Facial Emotion Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Representational Autoencoder Units
cs.CV
Emotion being a subjective thing, leveraging knowledge and science behind labeled data and extracting the components that constitute it, has been a challenging problem in the industry for many years. With the evolution of deep learning in computer vision, emotion recognition has become a widely-tackled research problem...
computer science
4,411
Driver Action Prediction Using Deep (Bidirectional) Recurrent Neural Network
stat.ML
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) can be significantly improved with effective driver action prediction (DAP). Predicting driver actions early and accurately can help mitigate the effects of potentially unsafe driving behaviors and avoid possible accidents. In this paper, we formulate driver action prediction a...
computer science
4,412
Sliced Wasserstein Generative Models
cs.CV
In the paper, we introduce a model of sliced optimal transport (SOT), which measures the distribution affinity with sliced Wasserstein distance (SWD). Since SWD enjoys the property of factorizing high-dimensional joint distributions into their multiple one-dimensional marginal distributions, its dual and primal forms c...
computer science
4,413
Unsupervised learning of object frames by dense equivariant image labelling
cs.CV
One of the key challenges of visual perception is to extract abstract models of 3D objects and object categories from visual measurements, which are affected by complex nuisance factors such as viewpoint, occlusion, motion, and deformations. Starting from the recent idea of viewpoint factorization, we propose a new app...
computer science
4,414
$ν$-net: Deep Learning for Generalized Biventricular Cardiac Mass and Function Parameters
cs.CV
Background: Cardiac MRI derived biventricular mass and function parameters, such as end-systolic volume (ESV), end-diastolic volume (EDV), ejection fraction (EF), stroke volume (SV), and ventricular mass (VM) are clinically well established. Image segmentation can be challenging and time-consuming, due to the complex a...
computer science
4,415
Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion Using a 3-D-Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method using a three dimensional convolutional neural network (3-D-CNN) to fuse together multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) images to obtain a high resolution hyperspectral image. Dimensionality reduction of the hyperspectral image is performed prior to fusion in order to significantl...
computer science
4,416
A Bayesian algorithm for detecting identity matches and fraud in image databases
cs.CV
A statistical algorithm for categorizing different types of matches and fraud in image databases is presented. The approach is based on a generative model of a graph representing images and connections between pairs of identities, trained using properties of a matching algorithm between images.
computer science
4,417
Deep Learning Based Large-Scale Automatic Satellite Crosswalk Classification
cs.CV
High-resolution satellite imagery have been increasingly used on remote sensing classification problems. One of the main factors is the availability of this kind of data. Even though, very little effort has been placed on the zebra crossing classification problem. In this letter, crowdsourcing systems are exploited in ...
computer science
4,418
Appearance invariance in convolutional networks with neighborhood similarity
cs.CV
We present a neighborhood similarity layer (NSL) which induces appearance invariance in a network when used in conjunction with convolutional layers. We are motivated by the observation that, even though convolutional networks have low generalization error, their generalization capability does not extend to samples whi...
computer science
4,419
Deep Semantic Segmentation for Automated Driving: Taxonomy, Roadmap and Challenges
stat.ML
Semantic segmentation was seen as a challenging computer vision problem few years ago. Due to recent advancements in deep learning, relatively accurate solutions are now possible for its use in automated driving. In this paper, the semantic segmentation problem is explored from the perspective of automated driving. Mos...
computer science
4,420
A step towards procedural terrain generation with GANs
stat.ML
Procedural terrain generation for video games has been traditionally been done with smartly designed but handcrafted algorithms that generate heightmaps. We propose a first step toward the learning and synthesis of these using recent advances in deep generative modelling with openly available satellite imagery from NAS...
computer science
4,421
Generalized Convolutional Neural Networks for Point Cloud Data
cs.CV
The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we present a novel method to apply the concept of convolutional neural networks to th...
computer science
4,422
Multi-kernel learning of deep convolutional features for action recognition
cs.CV
Image understanding using deep convolutional network has reached human-level performance, yet a closely related problem of video understanding especially, action recognition has not reached the requisite level of maturity. We combine multi-kernels based support-vector-machines (SVM) with a multi-stream deep convolution...
computer science
4,423
Multi-Planar Deep Segmentation Networks for Cardiac Substructures from MRI and CT
stat.ML
Non-invasive detection of cardiovascular disorders from radiology scans requires quantitative image analysis of the heart and its substructures. There are well-established measurements that radiologists use for diseases assessment such as ejection fraction, volume of four chambers, and myocardium mass. These measuremen...
computer science
4,424
Identifying 3 moss species by deep learning, using the "chopped picture" method
stat.ML
In general, object identification tends not to work well on ambiguous, amorphous objects such as vegetation. In this study, we developed a simple but effective approach to identify ambiguous objects and applied the method to several moss species. As a result, the model correctly classified test images with accuracy mor...
computer science
4,425
VIGAN: Missing View Imputation with Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
In an era when big data are becoming the norm, there is less concern with the quantity but more with the quality and completeness of the data. In many disciplines, data are collected from heterogeneous sources, resulting in multi-view or multi-modal datasets. The missing data problem has been challenging to address in ...
computer science
4,426
Reversible Architectures for Arbitrarily Deep Residual Neural Networks
cs.CV
Recently, deep residual networks have been successfully applied in many computer vision and natural language processing tasks, pushing the state-of-the-art performance with deeper and wider architectures. In this work, we interpret deep residual networks as ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which have long been s...
computer science
4,427
Coupled Ensembles of Neural Networks
cs.CV
We investigate in this paper the architecture of deep convolutional networks. Building on existing state of the art models, we propose a reconfiguration of the model parameters into several parallel branches at the global network level, with each branch being a standalone CNN. We show that this arrangement is an effici...
computer science
4,428
Efficient Column Generation for Cell Detection and Segmentation
cs.CV
We study the problem of instance segmentation in biological images with crowded and compact cells. We formulate this task as an integer program where variables correspond to cells and constraints enforce that cells do not overlap. To solve this integer program, we propose a column generation formulation where the prici...
computer science
4,429
MR Acquisition-Invariant Representation Learning
cs.CV
Voxelwise classification is a popular and effective method for tissue quantification in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. However, there are often large differences over sets of MRI scans due to how they were acquired (i.e. field strength, vendor, protocol), that lead to variation in, among others, pixel in...
computer science
4,430
Learning Multi-grid Generative ConvNets by Minimal Contrastive Divergence
stat.ML
This paper proposes a minimal contrastive divergence method for learning energy-based generative ConvNet models of images at multiple grids (or scales) simultaneously. For each grid, we learn an energy-based probabilistic model where the energy function is defined by a bottom-up convolutional neural network (ConvNet or...
computer science
4,431
Augmented Robust PCA For Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Moving Camera Video
stat.ML
This work presents a novel approach for robust PCA with total variation regularization for foreground-background separation and denoising on noisy, moving camera video. Our proposed algorithm registers the raw (possibly corrupted) frames of a video and then jointly processes the registered frames to produce a decomposi...
computer science
4,432
On the Capacity of Face Representation
cs.CV
Face recognition is a widely used technology with numerous large-scale applications, such as surveillance, social media and law enforcement. There has been tremendous progress in face recognition accuracy over the past few decades, much of which can be attributed to deep learning-based approaches during the last five y...
computer science
4,433
Robust Photometric Stereo Using Learned Image and Gradient Dictionaries
cs.CV
Photometric stereo is a method for estimating the normal vectors of an object from images of the object under varying lighting conditions. Motivated by several recent works that extend photometric stereo to more general objects and lighting conditions, we study a new robust approach to photometric stereo that utilizes ...
computer science
4,434
Robust Surface Reconstruction from Gradients via Adaptive Dictionary Regularization
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel approach to robust surface reconstruction from photometric stereo normal vector maps that is particularly well-suited for reconstructing surfaces from noisy gradients. Specifically, we propose an adaptive dictionary learning based approach that attempts to simultaneously integrate the grad...
computer science
4,435
Adaptive Smoothing in fMRI Data Processing Neural Networks
cs.CV
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) relies on multi-step data processing pipelines to accurately determine brain activity; among them, the crucial step of spatial smoothing. These pipelines are commonly suboptimal, given the local optimisation strategy they use, treating each step in isolation. With the advent...
computer science
4,436
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Interpretable Analysis of EEG Sleep Stage Scoring
cs.CV
Sleep studies are important for diagnosing sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy or sleep apnea. They rely on manual scoring of sleep stages from raw polisomnography signals, which is a tedious visual task requiring the workload of highly trained professionals. Consequently, research efforts to purse for an auto...
computer science
4,437
RADNET: Radiologist Level Accuracy using Deep Learning for HEMORRHAGE detection in CT Scans
cs.CV
We describe a deep learning approach for automated brain hemorrhage detection from computed tomography (CT) scans. Our model emulates the procedure followed by radiologists to analyse a 3D CT scan in real-world. Similar to radiologists, the model sifts through 2D cross-sectional slices while paying close attention to p...
computer science
4,438
Robust Photometric Stereo via Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
Photometric stereo is a method that seeks to reconstruct the normal vectors of an object from a set of images of the object illuminated under different light sources. While effective in some situations, classical photometric stereo relies on a diffuse surface model that cannot handle objects with complex reflectance pa...
computer science
4,439
Anatomical labeling of brain CT scan anomalies using multi-context nearest neighbor relation networks
cs.CV
This work is an endeavor to develop a deep learning methodology for automated anatomical labeling of a given region of interest (ROI) in brain computed tomography (CT) scans. We combine both local and global context to obtain a representation of the ROI. We then use Relation Networks (RNs) to predict the corresponding ...
computer science
4,440
Multi-level Residual Networks from Dynamical Systems View
stat.ML
Deep residual networks (ResNets) and their variants are widely used in many computer vision applications and natural language processing tasks. However, the theoretical principles for designing and training ResNets are still not fully understood. Recently, several points of view have emerged to try to interpret ResNet ...
computer science
4,441
Randomized Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
stat.ML
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful tool for data mining. However, the emergence of `big data' has severely challenged our ability to compute this fundamental decomposition using deterministic algorithms. This paper presents a randomized hierarchical alternating least squares (HALS) algorithm to comput...
computer science
4,442
Deep Matching Autoencoders
cs.CV
Increasingly many real world tasks involve data in multiple modalities or views. This has motivated the development of many effective algorithms for learning a common latent space to relate multiple domains. However, most existing cross-view learning algorithms assume access to paired data for training. Their applicabi...
computer science
4,443
Thoracic Disease Identification and Localization with Limited Supervision
cs.CV
Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a large number of images manually annotated with labels and finding sites of abnormalities. In ...
computer science
4,444
Detecting hip fractures with radiologist-level performance using deep neural networks
cs.CV
We developed an automated deep learning system to detect hip fractures from frontal pelvic x-rays, an important and common radiological task. Our system was trained on a decade of clinical x-rays (~53,000 studies) and can be applied to clinical data, automatically excluding inappropriate and technically unsatisfactory ...
computer science
4,445
ForestHash: Semantic Hashing With Shallow Random Forests and Tiny Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Hash codes are efficient data representations for coping with the ever growing amounts of data. In this paper, we introduce a random forest semantic hashing scheme that embeds tiny convolutional neural networks (CNN) into shallow random forests, with near-optimal information-theoretic code aggregation among trees. We s...
computer science
4,446
Deep Video Generation, Prediction and Completion of Human Action Sequences
cs.CV
Current deep learning results on video generation are limited while there are only a few first results on video prediction and no relevant significant results on video completion. This is due to the severe ill-posedness inherent in these three problems. In this paper, we focus on human action videos, and propose a gene...
computer science
4,447
Prediction of the progression of subcortical brain structures in Alzheimer's disease from baseline
cs.CV
We propose a method to predict the subject-specific longitudinal progression of brain structures extracted from baseline MRI, and evaluate its performance on Alzheimer's disease data. The disease progression is modeled as a trajectory on a group of diffeomorphisms in the context of large deformation diffeomorphic metri...
computer science
4,448
Lose The Views: Limited Angle CT Reconstruction via Implicit Sinogram Completion
cs.CV
Computed Tomography (CT) reconstruction is a fundamental component to a wide variety of applications ranging from security, to healthcare. The classical techniques require measuring projections, called sinograms, from a full 180$^\circ$ view of the object. This is impractical in a limited angle scenario, when the viewi...
computer science
4,449
Arbitrary Facial Attribute Editing: Only Change What You Want
cs.CV
Facial attribute editing aims to modify either single or multiple attributes on a face image. Since it is practically infeasible to collect images with arbitrarily specified attributes for each person, the generative adversarial net (GAN) and the encoder-decoder architecture are usually incorporated to handle this task...
computer science
4,450
Deep Image Prior
cs.CV
Deep convolutional networks have become a popular tool for image generation and restoration. Generally, their excellent performance is imputed to their ability to learn realistic image priors from a large number of example images. In this paper, we show that, on the contrary, the structure of a generator network is suf...
computer science
4,451
Label Efficient Learning of Transferable Representations across Domains and Tasks
stat.ML
We propose a framework that learns a representation transferable across different domains and tasks in a label efficient manner. Our approach battles domain shift with a domain adversarial loss, and generalizes the embedding to novel task using a metric learning-based approach. Our model is simultaneously optimized on ...
computer science
4,452
GANosaic: Mosaic Creation with Generative Texture Manifolds
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel framework for generating texture mosaics with convolutional neural networks. Our method is called GANosaic and performs optimization in the latent noise space of a generative texture model, which allows the transformation of a content image into a mosaic exhibiting the visual properties of t...
computer science
4,453
Folded Recurrent Neural Networks for Future Video Prediction
cs.CV
Future video prediction is an ill-posed Computer Vision problem that recently received much attention. Its main challenges are the high variability in video content, the propagation of errors through time, and the non-specificity of the future frames: given a sequence of past frames there is a continuous distribution o...
computer science
4,454
Hierarchical Bayesian image analysis: from low-level modeling to robust supervised learning
cs.CV
Within a supervised classification framework, labeled data are used to learn classifier parameters. Prior to that, it is generally required to perform dimensionality reduction via feature extraction. These preprocessing steps have motivated numerous research works aiming at recovering latent variables in an unsupervise...
computer science
4,455
Propagating Uncertainty in Multi-Stage Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks with Application to Pulmonary Nodule Detection
cs.CV
Motivated by the problem of computer-aided detection (CAD) of pulmonary nodules, we introduce methods to propagate and fuse uncertainty information in a multi-stage Bayesian convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture. The question we seek to answer is "can we take advantage of the model uncertainty provided by one...
computer science
4,456
Learning to detect chest radiographs containing lung nodules using visual attention networks
stat.ML
Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak labels indicating whether a radiograph is likely to contain pulmonary nodules are t...
computer science
4,457
Manifold-valued Image Generation with Wasserstein Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
Unsupervised image generation has recently received an increasing amount of attention thanks to the great success of generative adversarial networks (GANs), particularly Wasserstein GANs. Inspired by the paradigm of real-valued image generation, this paper makes the first attempt to formulate the problem of generating ...
computer science
4,458
Using SVDD in SimpleMKL for 3D-Shapes Filtering
stat.ML
This paper proposes the adaptation of Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) to the multiple kernel case (MK-SVDD), based on SimpleMKL. It also introduces a variant called Slim-MK-SVDD that is able to produce a tighter frontier around the data. For the sake of comparison, the equivalent methods are also developed for O...
computer science
4,459
Panoramic Robust PCA for Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Free-Motion Camera Video
stat.ML
This work presents a novel approach for robust PCA with total variation regularization for foreground-background separation and denoising on noisy, moving camera video. Our proposed algorithm registers the raw (possibly corrupted) frames of a video and then jointly processes the registered frames to produce a decomposi...
computer science
4,460
Deformable Classifiers
stat.ML
Geometric variations of objects, which do not modify the object class, pose a major challenge for object recognition. These variations could be rigid as well as non-rigid transformations. In this paper, we design a framework for training deformable classifiers, where latent transformation variables are introduced, and ...
computer science
4,461
Automatic Renal Segmentation in DCE-MRI using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Kidney function evaluation using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) images could help in diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases of children. Automatic segmentation of renal parenchyma is an important step in this process. In this paper, we propose a time and memory efficient fully automated segmentation method...
computer science
4,462
Deep metric learning for multi-labelled radiographs
stat.ML
Many radiological studies can reveal the presence of several co-existing abnormalities, each one represented by a distinct visual pattern. In this article we address the problem of learning a distance metric for plain radiographs that captures a notion of "radiological similarity": two chest radiographs are considered ...
computer science
4,463
Detection and segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MRI using Deep Learning
cs.CV
Manual segmentation of the Left Ventricle (LV) is a tedious and meticulous task that can vary depending on the patient, the Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) cuts and the experts. Still today, we consider manual delineation done by experts as being the ground truth for cardiac diagnosticians. Thus, we are reviewing the p...
computer science
4,464
Image denoising and restoration with CNN-LSTM Encoder Decoder with Direct Attention
stat.ML
Image denoising is always a challenging task in the field of computer vision and image processing. In this paper, we have proposed an encoder-decoder model with direct attention, which is capable of denoising and reconstruct highly corrupted images. Our model consists of an encoder and a decoder, where the encoder is a...
computer science
4,465
Faster gaze prediction with dense networks and Fisher pruning
cs.CV
Predicting human fixations from images has recently seen large improvements by leveraging deep representations which were pretrained for object recognition. However, as we show in this paper, these networks are highly overparameterized for the task of fixation prediction. We first present a simple yet principled greedy...
computer science
4,466
What Makes Good Synthetic Training Data for Learning Disparity and Optical Flow Estimation?
cs.CV
The finding that very large networks can be trained efficiently and reliably has led to a paradigm shift in computer vision from engineered solutions to learning formulations. As a result, the research challenge shifts from devising algorithms to creating suitable and abundant training data for supervised learning. How...
computer science
4,467
Detecting and counting tiny faces
cs.CV
Finding Tiny Faces (by Hu and Ramanan) proposes a novel approach to find small objects in an image. Our contribution consists in deeply understanding the choices of the paper together with applying and extending a similar method to a real world subject which is the counting of people in a public demonstration.
computer science
4,468
Depth CNNs for RGB-D scene recognition: learning from scratch better than transferring from RGB-CNNs
cs.CV
Scene recognition with RGB images has been extensively studied and has reached very remarkable recognition levels, thanks to convolutional neural networks (CNN) and large scene datasets. In contrast, current RGB-D scene data is much more limited, so often leverages RGB large datasets, by transferring pretrained RGB CNN...
computer science
4,469
ClassSim: Similarity between Classes Defined by Misclassification Ratios of Trained Classifiers
cs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved exceptional performances in many tasks, particularly, in supervised classification tasks. However, achievements with supervised classification tasks are based on large datasets with well-separated classes. Typically, real-world applications involve wild datasets that include si...
computer science
4,470
An Occluded Stacked Hourglass Approach to Facial Landmark Localization and Occlusion Estimation
cs.CV
A key step to driver safety is to observe the driver's activities with the face being a key step in this process to extracting information such as head pose, blink rate, yawns, talking to passenger which can then help derive higher level information such as distraction, drowsiness, intent, and where they are looking. I...
computer science
4,471
Generative Adversarial Networks using Adaptive Convolution
cs.CV
Most existing GANs architectures that generate images use transposed convolution or resize-convolution as their upsampling algorithm from lower to higher resolution feature maps in the generator. We argue that this kind of fixed operation is problematic for GANs to model objects that have very different visual appearan...
computer science
4,472
Scalable and Robust Sparse Subspace Clustering Using Randomized Clustering and Multilayer Graphs
cs.CV
Sparse subspace clustering (SSC) is one of the current state-of-the-art methods for partitioning data points into the union of subspaces, with strong theoretical guarantees. However, it is not practical for large data sets as it requires solving a LASSO problem for each data point, where the number of variables in each...
computer science
4,473
Training Deep Learning based Denoisers without Ground Truth Data
cs.CV
Recent deep learning based denoisers are trained to minimize the mean squared error (MSE) between the output of a network and the ground truth noiseless image in the training data. Thus, it is crucial to have high quality noiseless training data for high performance denoisers. Unfortunately, in some application areas s...
computer science
4,474
Nonlocal Low-Rank Tensor Factor Analysis for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Low-rank signal modeling has been widely leveraged to capture non-local correlation in image processing applications. We propose a new method that employs low-rank tensor factor analysis for tensors generated by grouped image patches. The low-rank tensors are fed into the alternative direction multiplier method (ADMM) ...
computer science
4,475
TDLeaf(lambda): Combining Temporal Difference Learning with Game-Tree Search
cs.LG
In this paper we present TDLeaf(lambda), a variation on the TD(lambda) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with minimax search. We present some experiments in both chess and backgammon which demonstrate its utility and provide comparisons with TD(lambda) and another less radical variant, TD-directed(lam...
computer science
4,476
KnightCap: A chess program that learns by combining TD(lambda) with game-tree search
cs.LG
In this paper we present TDLeaf(lambda), a variation on the TD(lambda) algorithm that enables it to be used in conjunction with game-tree search. We present some experiments in which our chess program ``KnightCap'' used TDLeaf(lambda) to learn its evaluation function while playing on the Free Internet Chess Server (FIC...
computer science
4,477
Automatically Selecting Useful Phrases for Dialogue Act Tagging
cs.AI
We present an empirical investigation of various ways to automatically identify phrases in a tagged corpus that are useful for dialogue act tagging. We found that a new method (which measures a phrase's deviation from an optimally-predictive phrase), enhanced with a lexical filtering mechanism, produces significantly b...
computer science
4,478
New Error Bounds for Solomonoff Prediction
cs.AI
Solomonoff sequence prediction is a scheme to predict digits of binary strings without knowing the underlying probability distribution. We call a prediction scheme informed when it knows the true probability distribution of the sequence. Several new relations between universal Solomonoff sequence prediction and informe...
computer science
4,479
Modeling the Uncertainty in Complex Engineering Systems
cs.AI
Existing procedures for model validation have been deemed inadequate for many engineering systems. The reason of this inadequacy is due to the high degree of complexity of the mechanisms that govern these systems. It is proposed in this paper to shift the attention from modeling the engineering system itself to modelin...
computer science
4,480
Relevant Knowledge First - Reinforcement Learning and Forgetting in Knowledge Based Configuration
cs.AI
In order to solve complex configuration tasks in technical domains, various knowledge based methods have been developed. However their applicability is often unsuccessful due to their low efficiency. One of the reasons for this is that (parts of the) problems have to be solved again and again, instead of being "learnt"...
computer science
4,481
Robust Feature Selection by Mutual Information Distributions
cs.AI
Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must consider sample-to-population inferential approaches. This paper deals with the di...
computer science
4,482
The Prioritized Inductive Logic Programs
cs.AI
The limit behavior of inductive logic programs has not been explored, but when considering incremental or online inductive learning algorithms which usually run ongoingly, such behavior of the programs should be taken into account. An example is given to show that some inductive learning algorithm may not be correct in...
computer science
4,483
Maximing the Margin in the Input Space
cs.AI
We propose a novel criterion for support vector machine learning: maximizing the margin in the input space, not in the feature (Hilbert) space. This criterion is a discriminative version of the principal curve proposed by Hastie et al. The criterion is appropriate in particular when the input space is already a well-de...
computer science
4,484
Principal Manifolds and Nonlinear Dimension Reduction via Local Tangent Space Alignment
cs.LG
Nonlinear manifold learning from unorganized data points is a very challenging unsupervised learning and data visualization problem with a great variety of applications. In this paper we present a new algorithm for manifold learning and nonlinear dimension reduction. Based on a set of unorganized data points sampled wi...
computer science
4,485
Kalman filter control in the reinforcement learning framework
cs.LG
There is a growing interest in using Kalman-filter models in brain modelling. In turn, it is of considerable importance to make Kalman-filters amenable for reinforcement learning. In the usual formulation of optimal control it is computed off-line by solving a backward recursion. In this technical note we show that sli...
computer science
4,486
Unsupervised Learning in a Framework of Information Compression by Multiple Alignment, Unification and Search
cs.AI
This paper describes a novel approach to unsupervised learning that has been developed within a framework of "information compression by multiple alignment, unification and search" (ICMAUS), designed to integrate learning with other AI functions such as parsing and production of language, fuzzy pattern recognition, pro...
computer science
4,487
Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation and LQ control Converges
cs.LG
Reinforcement learning is commonly used with function approximation. However, very few positive results are known about the convergence of function approximation based RL control algorithms. In this paper we show that TD(0) and Sarsa(0) with linear function approximation is convergent for a simple class of problems, wh...
computer science
4,488
Concept of E-machine: How does a "dynamical" brain learn to process "symbolic" information? Part I
cs.AI
The human brain has many remarkable information processing characteristics that deeply puzzle scientists and engineers. Among the most important and the most intriguing of these characteristics are the brain's broad universality as a learning system and its mysterious ability to dynamically change (reconfigure) its beh...
computer science
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Tournament versus Fitness Uniform Selection
cs.LG
In evolutionary algorithms a critical parameter that must be tuned is that of selection pressure. If it is set too low then the rate of convergence towards the optimum is likely to be slow. Alternatively if the selection pressure is set too high the system is likely to become stuck in a local optimum due to a loss of d...
computer science
4,490
Prediction with Expert Advice by Following the Perturbed Leader for General Weights
cs.LG
When applying aggregating strategies to Prediction with Expert Advice, the learning rate must be adaptively tuned. The natural choice of sqrt(complexity/current loss) renders the analysis of Weighted Majority derivatives quite complicated. In particular, for arbitrary weights there have been no results proven so far. T...
computer science
4,491
Learning for Adaptive Real-time Search
cs.AI
Real-time heuristic search is a popular model of acting and learning in intelligent autonomous agents. Learning real-time search agents improve their performance over time by acquiring and refining a value function guiding the application of their actions. As computing the perfect value function is typically intractabl...
computer science
4,492
L1 regularization is better than L2 for learning and predicting chaotic systems
cs.LG
Emergent behaviors are in the focus of recent research interest. It is then of considerable importance to investigate what optimizations suit the learning and prediction of chaotic systems, the putative candidates for emergence. We have compared L1 and L2 regularizations on predicting chaotic time series using linear r...
computer science
4,493
A Note on the PAC Bayesian Theorem
cs.LG
We prove general exponential moment inequalities for averages of [0,1]-valued iid random variables and use them to tighten the PAC Bayesian Theorem. The logarithmic dependence on the sample count in the enumerator of the PAC Bayesian bound is halved.
computer science
4,494
Master Algorithms for Active Experts Problems based on Increasing Loss Values
cs.LG
We specify an experts algorithm with the following characteristics: (a) it uses only feedback from the actions actually chosen (bandit setup), (b) it can be applied with countably infinite expert classes, and (c) it copes with losses that may grow in time appropriately slowly. We prove loss bounds against an adaptive a...
computer science
4,495
The Bayesian Decision Tree Technique with a Sweeping Strategy
cs.AI
The uncertainty of classification outcomes is of crucial importance for many safety critical applications including, for example, medical diagnostics. In such applications the uncertainty of classification can be reliably estimated within a Bayesian model averaging technique that allows the use of prior information. De...
computer science
4,496
Experimental Comparison of Classification Uncertainty for Randomised and Bayesian Decision Tree Ensembles
cs.AI
In this paper we experimentally compare the classification uncertainty of the randomised Decision Tree (DT) ensemble technique and the Bayesian DT technique with a restarting strategy on a synthetic dataset as well as on some datasets commonly used in the machine learning community. For quantitative evaluation of class...
computer science
4,497
Adaptive Online Prediction by Following the Perturbed Leader
cs.AI
When applying aggregating strategies to Prediction with Expert Advice, the learning rate must be adaptively tuned. The natural choice of sqrt(complexity/current loss) renders the analysis of Weighted Majority derivatives quite complicated. In particular, for arbitrary weights there have been no results proven so far. T...
computer science
4,498
Componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines
cs.LG
This chapter describes componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs) for the estimation of additive models consisting of a sum of nonlinear components. The primal-dual derivations characterizing LS-SVMs for the estimation of the additive model result in a single set of linear equations with size growing...
computer science
4,499
Defensive forecasting
cs.LG
We consider how to make probability forecasts of binary labels. Our main mathematical result is that for any continuous gambling strategy used for detecting disagreement between the forecasts and the actual labels, there exists a forecasting strategy whose forecasts are ideal as far as this gambling strategy is concern...
computer science