17 accepted papers
Cross-architecture migration of high-performance libraries dictates ecosystem readiness on emerging hardware. The challenge is twofold: disentangling library-scale dependencies and performance-critical kernels with ISA-specific SIMD intrinsics, often trading migration speed for peak performance. Whi…
Macro placement is a crucial subproblem of chip design, focusing on determining the locations of numerous macros while minimizing multiple metrics. In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has gained traction as a favorable technique to improve placement performance. However, existing RL-based p
In this paper, we introduce analytic federated learning (AFL), a new training paradigm that brings analytical (i.e., closed-form) solutions to the federated learning (FL) with pre-trained models. Our AFL draws inspiration from analytic learning---a gradient-free technique that trains neural networks…
Active learning (AL) is an effective method to balance annotation costs and model performance under resource-constrained circumstances. Most existing AL studies are typically designed for class-balanced datasets. However, the ubiquity of long-tailed distributions in real-world scenarios largely rest…
Transparent objects are common in industrial automation and daily life. However, accurate visual perception of these objects remains challenging due to their reflective and refractive properties. Most previous studies fail to capture contextual information or typically rely on regression-based metho
Current unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for semantic segmentation typically assume identical class labels between the source and target domains. This assumption ignores the label-level domain gap, which is common in real-world scenarios, and limits their ability to identify finer-graine…
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have a wide range of applications in classroom analysis. However, due to the unique structure of classroom dialogue, existing ASR systems often struggle to accurately recognize and organize spoken utterances, creating significant challenges for downstream t…
Active learning (AL) and semi-supervised learning (SSL) both aim to reduce annotation costs: AL selectively annotates high-value samples from the unlabeled data, while SSL leverages abundant unlabeled data to improve model performance. Although these two appear intuitively compatible, directly combi…
Visual anomaly detection (AD) presents significant challenges due to the scarcity of anomalous data samples. While numerous works have been proposed to synthesize anomalous samples, these synthetic anomalies often lack authenticity or require extensive training data, limiting their applicability in…
The 6D pose estimation for metal parts is essential in industrial robotic applications. The color homogeneity, texture-less and light-reflecting properties of metal parts raise great challenges. Current 6D pose estimation methods have gained extensive concern using CNNs. However, these CNN-based met
In robotic cockpit inspection scenarios, the 6D pose of highly-variable panel objects is necessary. However, the buttons with different states on the panel cause the variable texture and point cloud, which confuses the traditional invariable object pose estimation method. The bottleneck is the varia…
In real-world scenarios, achieving domain generalization (DG) presents significant challenges as models are required to generalize to unknown target distributions. Generalizing to unseen multi-modal distributions poses even greater difficulties due to the distinct properties exhibited by different m…
Using only one deep model for cross scene video foreground segmentation is still very challenging because existing methods are scene-dependent, which restricts the consistent segmentation. In this paper, we propose a cross scene video foreground segmentation framework to extend the generalization ca…
Modern supervised learning relies on a large amount of training data, yet there are many noisy annotations in real datasets. For semantic segmentation tasks, pixel-level annotation noise is typically located at the edge of an object, while pixels within objects are fine-annotated. We argue the coars…
Deep metric learning is essential for visual recognition. The widely used pair-wise (or triplet) based loss objectives cannot make full use of semantical information in training samples or give enough attention to those hard samples during optimization. Thus, they often suffer from a slow convergenc…
How to correctly stress hard samples in metric learning is critical for visual recognition tasks, especially in challenging person re-ID applications. Pedestrians across cameras with significant appearance variations are easily confused, which could bias the learned metric and slow down the converge…
Face detection is an ultimate component to support various visual facial related tasks. However, detecting faces with extremely low resolution or high occlusion is still an open problem. In this paper, we propose a two-step general approach to refine the performance of modern face detectors accordin…