116 accepted papers
Retrieval-augmented generation is a practical paradigm for question answering over long documents, but it remains brittle for multimodal reading where text, tables, and figures are interleaved across many pages. First, flat chunking breaks document-native structure and cross-modal alignment, yieldin…
Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims at localizing a ground-level query by retrieving its corresponding match from a database of geo-tagged satellite images. Existing multi-modal CVGL methods lack a structured design in the fusion stage, limiting their ability to fully exploit the information fro
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in confined, cluttered environments face significant performance degradation due to nonlinear, time-varying unmodeled dynamics—such as ground/ceiling effects and wake recirculation—that are unaccounted for in traditional controllers. While learning-based com…
Precise motion timing (PMT) is crucial for swift motion analysis. A millisecond difference may determine victory or defeat in sports competitions. Despite substantial progress in human pose estimation (HPE), PMT remains largely overlooked by the HPE community due to the limited availability of high-
The de novo generation of molecules with desirable properties is a critical challenge, where diffusion models are computationally intensive and autoregressive models struggle with error propagation. In this work, we introduce the Graph VQ-Transformer (GVT), a two-stage generative framework that achi
Combining Mixture of Experts (MoE) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has shown promising efficiency in multi-task instruction tuning for Large Language Models (LLMs). While existing routing schemes for such MoE systems employ auxiliary functions to ensure both expert selection certainty and workload b
Geometry-preserving dimension reduction is critical for single-cell transcriptomics, where low-dimensional distances should reflect biological divergence between cell types along the transcriptomic manifold. Due to inadequate metrics, the global structure is not sufficiently preserved in the low-dim…
Information seeking is a fundamental requirement for humans. However, existing LLM agents rely heavily on open-web search, which exposes two fundamental weaknesses: online content is noisy and unreliable, and many real-world tasks require precise, domain-specific knowledge unavailable from the web.…
LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses without the need for explicit map storage. However, these method
While LiDAR NeRFs excel in static environments, synthesizing dynamic scenes remains challenging as moving objects break multi-view consistency, causing conflicting supervision and ghosting artifacts across frames. Existing methods typically suffer from optimization difficulty from the start, struggl…
Generative models have gained significant traction in offline reinforcement learning (RL) due to their ability to model complex trajectory distributions. However, existing generation-based approaches still struggle with long-horizon tasks characterized by sparse rewards. Some hierarchical generation…
Recent advances in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to large language models (LLMs) have led to substantial progress. In particular, a series of remarkable yet often counterintuitive phenomena have been reported in LLMs, exhibiting patterns not typically observed in traditional RL settings. For…
Human motion inherently exhibits a sophisticated temporal hierarchical architecture, spanning from global low-frequency trajectories to local high-frequency dynamics. Inspired by this intrinsic property and the success of multi-scale autoregressive modeling in vision, we propose MotionMAR, a novel f…
Brain imaging analysis is crucial for diagnosing and treating brain disorders, and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly supporting it. However, current brain imaging visual question-answering (VQA) benchmarks either cover a limited number of imaging modalities or are restricted
3D object detection in adverse weather is crucial for autonomous driving, especially in smoke where LiDAR data becomes sparse and noisy. Due to the lack of real smoke data, this paper introduces a physics-based simulation framework to generate realistic LiDAR point clouds of smoke and augment large-
Embodied AI (EAI) systems are rapidly transitioning from simulations into real-world domestic and other sensitive environments. However, recent EAI solutions have largely demonstrated advancements within \emph{isolated stages} such as instruction, perception, planning and interaction, without consid…
LiDAR odometry is a critical component of SLAM in autonomous driving and robotics. Learning-based methods have shown remarkable performance by regressing relative poses in an end-to-end manner. However, when applying these trained models, originally developed on the widely used KITTI dataset, to oth
Reliable navigation and decision-making of autonomous vehicles require both accurate localization and object detection. Traditionally, these two tasks are handled separately, leading to redundant computation and limited cross-task knowledge transfer. This paper proposes TACO, the first Task-Aware CO
Humanoid robots have achieved significant progress in motion generation and control, exhibiting movements that appear increasingly natural and human-like. Inspired by the Turing Test, we propose the Motion Turing Test, a framework that evaluates whether human observers can discriminate between human
Fake orders pose increasing threats to sequential recommender systems by misleading recommendation results through artificially manipulated interactions, including click farming, context-irrelevant substitutions, and sequential perturbations. Unlike injecting carefully designed fake users to influe
Modern autonomous vehicle perception systems are often constrained by occlusions, blind spots, and limited sensing range. While existing cooperative perception paradigms, such as Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), have demonstrated their effectiveness in mitigating these c
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on LiDAR sensors for environmental perception and decision-making in driving scenarios. However, ensuring the safety and reliability of AVs in complex environments remains a pressing challenge. To address this issue, we introduce a real-world dataset (ROLiD) comprising…
Recently, Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) have shown a remarkable generalization performance in 3D perception tasks. However, their effectiveness in large-scale outdoor datasets remains constrained by the scarcity of accurate supervision signals, the extensive noise caused by variable outdoor cond…
Adversarial examples can mislead deep neural networks with subtle perturbations, causing them to make incorrect predictions. Notably, adversarial examples crafted for one model can also deceive other models, a phenomenon known as the transferability of adversarial examples. To improve transferabilit…
Human Motion Recovery (HMR) research mainly focuses on ground-based motions such as running. The study on capturing climbing motion, an off-ground motion, is sparse. This is partly due to the limited availability of climbing motion datasets, especially large-scale and challenging 3D labeled datasets…
The training data in large language models is key to their success, but it also presents privacy and security risks, as it may contain sensitive information. Detecting pre-training data is crucial for mitigating these concerns. Existing methods typically analyze target text in isolation or solely wi…
Visual localization is a fundamental machine learning problem. Absolute Pose Regression (APR) trains a scene-dependent model to efficiently map an input image to the camera pose in a pre-defined scene. However, many applications have continually changing environments, where inference data at novel p…
LiDAR odometry is a critical module in autonomous driving systems, responsible for accurate localization by estimating the relative pose transformation between consecutive point cloud frames. However, existing studies frequently encounter challenges with unreliable pose estimation, due to the lack o…
Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful generative technique for robotic policy learning, capable of modeling multi-mode action distributions. Leveraging its capability for end-to-end autonomous driving is a promising direction. However, the numerous denoising steps in the robotic di…
Diffusion models have been widely adopted in image and language generation and are now being applied to reinforcement learning. However, the application of diffusion models in offline cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) remains limited. Although existing studies explore this direct…
The current Federated Recommendation System (FedRS) focuses on personalized recommendation services and assumes clients are personalized IoT devices (e.g., Mobile phones). In this paper, we deeply dive into new but practical FedRS applications within the joint venture ecosystem. Subsidiaries engage…
Federated learning (FL) is emerging as a promising technique for collaborative learning without local data leaving their devices. However, clients' data originating from diverse domains may degrade model performance due to domain shifts, preventing the model from learning consistent representation s…
Prevailing scene coordinate regression methods for LiDAR localization suffer from localization ambiguities, as distinct locations can exhibit similar geometric signatures — a challenge that current geometry-based regression approaches have yet to solve. Recent vision–language models show that textua…
Parameter-sharing (PS) techniques have been widely adopted in cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). In PS, all the agents share a policy network with identical parameters, which enjoys good sample efficiency. However, PS could lead to homogeneous policies that limit MARL performance…
To enhance the safety of VLMs, this paper introduces a novel reasoning-based VLM guard model dubbed GuardReasoner-VL. The core idea is to incentivize the guard model to deliberatively reason before making moderation decisions via online RL. First, we construct GuardReasoner-VLTrain, a reasoning corp…
We propose a method, HotSpot, for optimizing neural signed distance functions. Existing losses, such as the eikonal loss, act as necessary but insufficient constraints and cannot guarantee that the recovered implicit function represents a true distance function, even if the output minimizes these lo…
Developing systems that interpret diverse real-world signals remains a fundamental challenge in multimodal learning. Current approaches face significant obstacles from inherent modal heterogeneity. While existing methods attempt to enhance fusion through cross-modal alignment or interaction mechanis…
We tackle the challenge of LiDAR-based place recognition, which traditionally depends on costly and time-consuming prior 3D maps. To overcome this, we first construct LiRSI-XA dataset, which encompasses approximately $110,000$ remote sensing submaps and $13,000$ LiDAR point cloud submaps captured i…
LiDAR-based 3D object detection is crucial for autonomous driving. However, due to the quality deterioration of LiDAR point clouds, it suffers from performance degradation in adverse weather conditions. Fusing LiDAR with the weatherrobust 4D radar sensor is expected to solve this problem; however, i…
Unsupervised 3D object detection serves as an important solution for offline 3D object annotation. However, due to the data sparsity and limited views, the clustering-based label fitting in unsupervised object detection often generates low-quality pseudo-labels. Multi-agent collaborative dataset, wh…
Scene coordinate regression achieves impressive results in outdoor LiDAR localization but requires days of training. Since training needs to be repeated for each new scene, long training times make these impractical for applications requiring time-sensitive system upgrades, such as autonomous drivin…
High-resolution (HR) medical videos are vital for accurate diagnosis, yet are hard to acquire due to hardware limitations and physiological constraints. Clinically, the collected low-resolution (LR) medical videos present unique challenges for video super-resolution (VSR) models, including camera sh…
The performance of unsupervised 3D object classification and bounding box regression relies heavily on the quality of initial pseudo-labels. Traditionally, the labels of classification and regression are represented by a single set of candidate boxes generated by motion or geometry heuristics. Howev…
Underwater exploration offers critical insights into our planet and attracts increasing attention for its broader applications in resource exploration, national security, etc. We study the underwater scene understanding methods, which aim to achieve automated underwater exploration. The underwater s…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored across a range of reasoning tasks. However, LLMs sometimes struggle with reasoning tasks under uncertainty that are relatively easy for humans, such as planning actions in stochastic environments. The adoption of LLMs for reasoning is impe…
Recently, learning-based multi-agent cooperative perception has garnered widespread attention. However, the inherent vulnerabilities of neural networks, combined with the risks posed by cooperative communication as a wide-open backdoor, render these systems highly susceptible to adversarial attacks.…
We introduce the Extract-Refine-Retrieve-Read (ERRR) framework, a novel approach designed to bridge the pre-retrieval information gap in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems through query optimization tailored to meet the specific knowledge requirements of Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlik
LiDAR localization is a fundamental task in autonomous driving and robotics. Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) exhibits leading pose accuracy, achieving impressive results in learning-based localization. We observe that the real-world LiDAR scans captured from different viewpoints usually result in…
Partial point attack approaches focus on leveraging the fewest points to achieve the best attack efficiency for easy implementation in the physical domain. For the first time, this paper proposes that the partial point attack strategy should pay attention to not only the selection and disturbance of
Recently, sparsely-supervised 3D object detection has gained great attention, achieving performance close to fully-supervised 3D detectors while requiring only a few annotated instances. Nevertheless, these methods suffer challenges when accurate labels are extremely absent. In this paper, we propos…
While Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have advanced the frontiers of novel view synthesis (NVS) using LiDAR data, they still struggle in dynamic scenes. Due to the low frequency and sparsity characteristics of LiDAR point clouds, it is challenging to spontaneously learn a dynamic and consistent scene…
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have exhibited extraordinary prowess in tasks like mathematics and coding, leveraging their advanced reasoning capabilities. Nevertheless, as these capabilities progress, significant concerns regarding their vulnerabilities and safety have arisen, which can pose challen
LIDAR-based 3D object detection and semantic segmentation are critical tasks in 3D scene understanding. Traditional detection and segmentation methods supervise their models through bounding box labels and semantic mask labels. However, these two independent labels inherently contain significant red…
Language-based localization is a crucial task in robotics and computer vision, enabling robots to understand spatial positions through language. Recent methods rely on contrastive learning to establish correspondences between global features of texts and point clouds. However, the inherent ambiguity…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems enhance large language models by incorporating external knowledge, addressing issues like outdated internal knowledge and hallucination. However, their reliance on external knowledge bases makes them vulnerable to corpus poisoning attacks, where adversari…
U-Net has become a cornerstone in various visual applications such as image segmentation and diffusion probability models. While numerous innovative designs and improvements have been introduced by incorporating transformers or MLPs, the networks are still limited to linearly modeling patterns as we…
Unsupervised multi-view outlier detection has garnered increasing attention in recent years, yet existing methods face persistent challenges. Many approaches rely predominantly on first-order neighborhood information, overlooking the richer insights offered by higher-order structures, which can degr…
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are augmented with the ability to perceive audio, demonstrating impressive capabilities in processing combined audio and text signals. However, their reliability when faced with conflicting inputs across modalities remains largely unexplored. This study examines h
We focus on the domain adaptation problem for 3D semantic segmentation, addressing the challenge of data variability in point clouds collected by different LiDARs. Existing benchmarks often mix different types of datasets, which blurs and complicates segmentation evaluations. Here, we introduce a Mu…
"Point cloud data, representing the precise 3D layout of the scene, quickly drives the research of 3D object detection. However, the challenge arises due to the rapid iteration of 3D sensors, which leads to significantly different distributions in point clouds. This, in turn, results in subpar perfo…
The prevalent approaches of unsupervised 3D object detection follow cluster-based pseudo-label generation and iterative self-training processes. However the challenge arises due to the sparsity of LiDAR scans which leads to pseudo-labels with erroneous size and position resulting in subpar detection…
3D synthetic-to-real unsupervised domain adaptive segmentation is crucial to annotating new domains. Self-training is a competitive approach for this task but its performance is limited by different sensor sampling patterns (i.e. variations in point density) and incomplete training strategies. In th…
Absolute pose regression (APR) estimates global pose in an end-to-end manner achieving impressive results in learn-based LiDAR localization. However compared to the top-performing methods reliant on 3D-3D correspondence matching APR's accuracy still has room for improvement. We recognize APR's lack…
Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have attracted significant attention in research. However, they suffer from a slow convergence rate. In this paper, we aim to accelerate DiT training without any architectural modification. We identify the following issues in the training process: firstly, certain traini…
Adapting Foundation Models (FMs) for down- stream tasks through Federated Learning (FL) emerges a promising strategy for protecting data privacy and valuable FMs. Existing methods fine- tune FM by allocating sub-FM to clients in FL, however, leading to suboptimal performance due to insufficient tuni…
Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) offers a promising solution to the data sparsity problem by enabling knowledge transfer across source and target domains. However, many recent CDR models overlook crucial issues such as privacy as well as the risk of negative transfer (which negatively impact model…
Image matching is a fundamental computer vision problem. While learning-based methods achieve state-of-the-art performance on existing benchmarks, they generalize poorly to in-the-wild images. Such methods typically need to train separate models for different scene types (e.g., indoor vs. outdoor) a…
"Recent advances in learning multi-modal representation have witnessed the success in biomedical domains. While established techniques enable handling multi-modal information, the challenges are posed when extended to various clinical modalities and practical modality-missing setting due to the inhe…
It is challenging for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) in the few-shot setting to reconstruct high-quality novel views and depth maps in 360^\circ outward-facing indoor scenes. The captured sparse views for these scenes usually contain large viewpoint variations. This greatly reduces the potential con…
Current sparsely-supervised object detection methods largely depend on high threshold settings to derive high-quality pseudo labels from detector predictions. However hard instances within point clouds frequently display incomplete structures causing decreased confidence scores in their assigned pse…
Goal-reaching in unknown environments is one of the essential tasks in robot applications. Large-scale perception and long-horizon decision-making are the keys to solving this task as the operation scope expands or complexity rises. Existing navigation methods may suffer from degraded performance in
LiDAR localization is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision which estimates the pose of a LiDAR point cloud within a global map. Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in this task. In SCR a scene is represented as a neural network which outputs…
This letter focuses on the flexible tube of a bronchoscope robot used in pulmonary intervention surgery, which is considered as a continuum robot. The dynamics model is proposed based on the Koopman operator, leveraging real data to solve for the system matrix parameters accurately. To enhance contr
Point cloud registration, a fundamental task in 3D vision, has achieved remarkable success with learning-based methods in outdoor environments. Unsupervised outdoor point cloud registration methods have recently emerged to circumvent the need for costly pose annotations. However, they fail to estab…
3D human pose estimation (3HPE) in large-scale outdoor scenes using commercial LiDAR has attracted significant attention due to its potential for real-life applications. However, existing LiDAR-based methods for 3HPE primarily rely on recovering 3D human poses from individual point clouds, and the c…
Comprehensive capturing of human motions requires both accurate captures of complex poses and precise localization of the human within scenes. Most of the HPE datasets and methods primarily rely on RGB LiDAR or IMU data. However solely using these modalities or a combination of them may not be adequ…
Point cloud registration, a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, has remained largely unexplored in cross-source point clouds and unstructured scenes. The primary challenges arise from noise, outliers, and variations in scale and density. However, neglected geometric natures of point clouds restr…
"Two-view pose estimation is essential for map-free visual relocalization and object pose tracking tasks. However, traditional matching methods suffer from time-consuming robust estimators, while deep learning-based pose regressors only cater to camera-to-world pose estimation, lacking generalizabil…
LiDAR-based 3D object detection models inevitably struggle under rainy conditions due to the degraded and noisy scanning signals. Previous research has attempted to address this by simulating the noise from rain to improve the robustness of detection models. However, significant disparities exist be…
In this work, we study the dormant neuron phenomenon in multi-agent reinforcement learning value factorization, where the mixing network suffers from reduced network expressivity caused by an increasing number of inactive neurons. We demonstrate the presence of the dormant neuron phenomenon across m…
We present ZeroRF a novel per-scene optimization method addressing the challenge of sparse view 360deg reconstruction in neural field representations. Current breakthroughs like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated high-fidelity image synthesis but struggle with sparse input views. Existi…
Motion capture is a long-standing research problem. Although it has been studied for decades, the majority of research focus on ground-based movements such as walking, sitting, dancing, etc. Off-grounded actions such as climbing are largely overlooked. As an important type of action in sports and fi…
Recently, 3D object detection with sparse annotations has received great attention. However, current detectors usually perform poorly under very limited annotations. To address this problem, we propose a novel Contrastive Instance feature mining method, named CoIn. To better identify indistinguishab…
A hyper-redundant manipulator(HRM) can flexibly accomplish tasks in narrow spaces. However, its excessive degrees of freedom pose challenges for path planning. In this letter, an ellipsoid-shape rapidly-exporing random tree (E-RRT*) method is proposed for path planning of HRMs in workspace, particul
Event cameras have emerged as a promising vision sensor in recent years due to their unparalleled temporal resolution and dynamic range. While registration of 2D RGB images to 3D point clouds is a long-standing problem in computer vision, no prior work studies 2D-3D registration for event cameras. T…
While federated learning has shown strong results in opti- mizing a machine learning model without direct access to the original data, its performance may be hindered by in- termittent client availability which slows down the conver- gence and biases the final learned model. There are significant ch…
Multi-agent systems are characterized by environmental uncertainty, varying policies of agents, and partial observability, which result in significant risks. In the context of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), learning coordinated and decentralized policies that are sensitive to risk is cha…
LiDAR-based absolute pose regression estimates the global pose through a deep network in an end-to-end manner, achieving impressive results in learning-based localization. However, the accuracy of existing methods still has room to improve due to the difficulty of effectively encoding the scene geom…
We present SLOPER4D, a novel scene-aware dataset collected in large urban environments to facilitate the research of global human pose estimation (GHPE) with human-scene interaction in the wild. Employing a head-mounted device integrated with a LiDAR and camera, we record 12 human subjects' activiti…
3D object detection received increasing attention in autonomous driving recently. Objects in 3D scenes are distributed with diverse orientations. Ordinary detectors do not explicitly model the variations of rotation and reflection transformations. Consequently, large networks and extensive data augm…
Goal recognition (GR) involves inferring the goals of other vehicles, such as a certain junction exit, which can enable more accurate prediction of their future behaviour. In autonomous driving, vehicles can encounter many different scenarios and the environment may be partially observable due to oc…
Recently, virtual/pseudo-point-based 3D object detection that seamlessly fuses RGB images and LiDAR data by depth completion has gained great attention. However, virtual points generated from an image are very dense, introducing a huge amount of redundant computation during detection. Meanwhile, noi…
Imbalanced data distribution is a practical and common challenge in building production-level machine learning (ML) models in industry, where data usually exhibits long-tail distributions. For instance, in virtual AI Assistants, such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, the “play music”…
Task-oriented dialogue systems in industry settings need to have high conversational capability, be easily adaptable to changing situations and conform to business constraints. This paper describes a 3-step procedure to develop a conversational model that satisfies these criteria and can efficiently…
We propose Human-centered 4D Scene Capture (HSC4D) to accurately and efficiently create a dynamic digital world, containing large-scale indoor-outdoor scenes, diverse human motions, and rich interactions between humans and environments. Using only body-mounted IMUs and LiDAR, HSC4D is space-free wit…
We propose a novel normal estimation method called HSurf-Net, which can accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous methods focus on learning point weights to fit neighborhoods into a geometric surface approximated by a polynomial function with a predefin…
Existing motion capture datasets are largely short-range and cannot yet fit the need of long-range applications. We propose LiDARHuman26M, a new human motion capture dataset captured by LiDAR at a much longer range to overcome this limitation. Our dataset also includes the ground truth human motions…
Learning the embeddings for urban regions from human mobility data can reveal the functionality of regions, and then enables the correlated but distinct tasks such as crime prediction. Human mobility data contains rich but abundant information, which yields to the comprehensive region embeddings for…
Tremendous progress has been made in sequential processing with the recent advances in recurrent neural networks. However, recurrent architectures face the challenge of exploding/vanishing gradients during training, and require significant computational resources to execute back-propagation through…
The Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution paradigm (CTDE), which trains policies centrally with additional information, is important for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). For CTDE, value function factorization methods make use of state during training and factorize the value fun…
The factorization of state-action value functions for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) is important. Existing studies are limited by their representation capability, sample efficiency, and approximation error. To address these challenges, we propose, ResQ, a MARL value function factorizatio…
Point cloud segmentation plays an important role in AI applications such as autonomous driving, AR, and VR. However, previous point cloud segmentation neural networks rarely pay attention to the topological correctness of the segmentation results. In this paper, focusing on the perspective of topolo…
Transformers are state-of-the-art in a wide range of NLP tasks and have also been applied to many real-world products. Understanding the reliability and certainty of transformer models is crucial for building trustable machine learning applications, e.g., medical diagnosis. Although many recent tran…
Fairness has emerged as a critical problem in federated learning (FL). In this work, we identify a cause of unfairness in FL -- conflicting gradients with large differences in the magnitudes. To address this issue, we propose the federated fair averaging (FedFV) algorithm to mitigate potential confl…
The communication among agents is important for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). In this work, we propose GraphComm, a method makes use of the relation-ships among agents for MARL communication. GraphComm takes the explicit relations (e.g., agent types), which can be provided through some…
Monocular 3D object detection is an important task in autonomous driving. It can be easily intractable where there exists ego-car pose change w.r.t. ground plane. This is common due to the slight fluctuation of road smoothness and slope. Due to the lack of insight in industrial application, existing…
This paper proposes the first tracklet proposal network, named PC-TCNN, for Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) on point clouds. Our pipeline first generates tracklet proposals, then refines these tracklets and associates them to generate long trajectories. Specifically, object proposal generation and moti…
Uncertainty quantification is crucial for building reliable and trustable machine learning systems. We propose to estimate uncertainty in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) via stochastic discrete state transitions over recurrent timesteps. The uncertainty of the model can be quantified by running a p…
The state of the art person search methods separate person search into detection and re-ID stages, but ignore the consistency between these two stages. The general person detector has no special attention on the query target; The re-ID model is trained on hand-drawn bounding boxes which are not avai…
As a matter of fact, it is usually taken for granted that the occurrence of unauthorized behaviors is necessary for the fraud detection in online payment services. However, we seek to break this stereotype in this work. We strive to design an ex-ante anti-fraud method that can work before unauthoriz…
We present a novel deep convolutional network pipeline, LO-Net, for real-time lidar odometry estimation. Unlike most existing lidar odometry (LO) estimations that go through individually designed feature selection, feature matching, and pose estimation pipeline, LO-Net can be trained in an end-to-en…
This paper proposes a new end-to-end trainable matching network based on receptive field, RF-Net, to compute sparse correspondence between images. Building end-to-end trainable matching framework is desirable and challenging. The very recent approach, LF-Net, successfully embeds the entire feature e…
Recurrent neural networks are a widely used class of neural architectures with two shortcomings. First, it is difficult to understand what exactly they learn. Second, they tend to work poorly on sequences requiring long-term memorization, despite having this capacity in principle. We aim to address…
Learning autonomous-driving policies is one of the most challenging but promising tasks for computer vision. Most researchers believe that future research and applications should combine cameras, video recorders and laser scanners to obtain comprehensive semantic understanding of real traffic. Howev…
We propose a novel deep network called Mancs that solves the person re-identification problem from the following aspects: fully utilizing the attention mechanism for the person misalignment problem and properly sampling for the ranking loss to obtain more stable person representation. Technically, w…
The best design among many can be selected through their accurate performance evaluation. When such evaluation is based on discrete event simulations, the design selection is extremely time-consuming. Ordinal optimization greatly speeds up this process. Optimal Computing-Budget Allocation (OCBA) has…