123 accepted papers
Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods severely compromise accuracy in dynamic objects due to their static scene assumption. Existing approaches for dynamic scenes suffer from two critical shortcomings: 1) reliance on supervised segmentation models (requiring costly annotations) or comp
Although contrastive and other representation-learning methods have long been explored in vision and NLP, their adoption in modern time series forecasters remains limited. We believe they hold strong promise for this domain. To unlock this potential, we explicitly align past and future representatio…
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common and life-threatening complication in cancer patients after treatment. Early risk assessment and detection of VTE primarily rely on clinical indicators, such as blood test results. However, existing studies are limited to static or snapshot-based models, faili
With the rapid advancement of deep learning, drug target interaction (DTI) prediction has seen substantial performance enhancements. However, existing methodologies face a critical, yet unaddressed challenge, i.e., the Modality Reliability Gap. Such a gap arises from the unpredictable variance in t
In advanced driver-assistance systems, current computer vision algorithms predominantly rely on frame-based RGB cameras, which suffer from high latency in high-speed or sudden-scenario applications due to fixed frame rates. In response to this challenge, event-based cameras have gained attention as
Graph neural networks (GNNs) excel at modeling graph-structured data but often inherit and amplify biases, leading to substantial efforts in developing fair GNNs. However, most existing approaches assume full access to sensitive attribute information, which is often impractical in real-world scenari
Linear modeling methods like Mamba have been merged as the effective backbone for the 3D object detection task. However, previous Mamba-based methods utilize the bidirectional encoding for the whole non-empty voxel sequence, which contains abundant useless background information in the scenes. Thoug…
Deep learning has achieved strong performance in Time Series Forecasting (TSF). However, we identify a critical representation paradox, termed Latent Chaos: models with accurate predictions often learn latent representations that are temporally disordered and lack continuity. We attribute this pheno…
Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has proven effective in mitigating data sparsity and enhancing representation learning for recommendation. Yet, most GCL frameworks indiscriminately treat all non-anchor nodes as negatives during contrastive sampling, often leading to the false negative problem where
Modern multi-view clustering (MVC) is dominated by two paradigms: multi-view fusion and pseudo-label-guided learning. Pseudo-labeling methods can suffer from confirmation bias; their reliance on a fixed-granularity supervision from an initial clustering can cause learned embeddings to drift from the
The collection and detection of video anomaly data has long been a challenging problem due to its rare occurrence and spatio-temporal scarcity. Existing video anomaly detection (VAD) methods under perform in open-world scenarios. Key contributing factors include limited dataset diversity, and inadeq
High-precision controllable remote sensing image generation is both meaningful and challenging. Existing diffusion models often produce low-fidelity objects due to their inability to adequately capture morphological details, which may affect the robustness and reliability of object detection models.…
Large language models (LLMs) show the promise in supporting scientific research implementation, yet their ability to generate correct and executable code remains limited. Existing works largely adopt one-shot settings, ignoring the iterative and feedback-driven nature of realistic workflows of scien…
Robust depth estimation aims to maintain high-quality depths across diverse conditions. However, most existing methods estimate depth without taking into account the object-level information. As a result, the predicted depth may easily deviate within objects and become blurred under adverse conditio
Split Federated Learning is a system-efficient federated learning paradigm that leverages the rich computing resources at a central server to train model partitions. Data heterogeneity across silos, however, presents a major challenge undermining the convergence speed and accuracy of the global mode
In recent years, Contrastive Learning (CL) has garnered significant attention due to its efficacy across various domains, spanning from visual and textual modalities. A fundamental aspect of CL is aligning the representations of anchor instances with relevant positive samples while simultaneously se…
Serving as a fundamental task in robotic navigation and autonomous driving, occupancy prediction is gaining increasing attention for its fine-grained perception of the 3D environment. Most existing methods rely on dense 3D annotations, which are expensive, labor-intensive, and difficult to scale in
Automated classification of complex social survey questionnaires is crucial for large-scale social science research but faces significant reliability challenges due to intricate hierarchical label structures, severe class imbalance, semantic ambiguity, and incomplete data coverage. Conventional clas
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in general perception, yet complex multi-step visual reasoning remains a persistent challenge. Although recent agentic approaches incorporate tool use, they often neglect critical execution feedback. Consequently, they suffer …
With the accelerated development of Industry 4.0, intelligent manufacturing systems increasingly require efficient task allocation and scheduling in multi-robot systems. However, existing methods rely on domain expertise and face challenges in adapting to dynamic production constraints. Additionally
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in automatic theorem proving using Lean4, where effective tree search methods are crucial for navigating the underlying large proof search spaces. While the existing approaches primarily rely on value functions and/or…
Computer-aided design (CAD) significantly enhances the efficiency, accuracy, and innovation of design processes by enabling precise 2D and 3D modeling, extensive analysis, and optimization. Existing methods for creating CAD models rely on latent vectors or point clouds, which are difficult to obtain…
As partial samples are often absent in certain views, incomplete multi-view clustering has become a challenging task. To tackle data with missing views, current methods either utilize the data similarity relations to recover missing samples or primarily consider the available information of existing…
Due to the significant time and effort required for handcrafting translations, most manga never leave the domestic Japanese market. Automatic manga translation is a promising potential solution. However, it is a budding and underdeveloped field and presents complexities even greater than those found…
As a foundational clustering paradigm, Density Peak Clustering (DPC) partitions samples into clusters based on their density peaks, garnering widespread attention. However, traditional DPC methods usually focus on high-density regions, neglecting representative peaks in relatively low-density areas,…
The temporal interpolation task for 4D medical imaging, plays a crucial role in clinical practice of respiratory motion modeling. Following the simplified linear-motion hypothesis, existing approaches adopt optical flow-based models to interpolate intermediate frames. However, realistic respiratory…
CLIP has shown promising performance across many short-text tasks in a zero-shot manner. However, limited by the input length of the text encoder, CLIP struggles on under-stream tasks with long-text inputs (>77 tokens). To remedy this issue, we propose FIX-CLIP, which includes three novel modules: (…
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving framework for training models on data generated at the edge. However, the heterogeneity of data silos (e.g., label skew and domain shift) often leads to inconsistent learning objectives and suboptimal model performance. Inspired by the data…
Interpretable Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) aim to reveal the underlying reasoning behind model predictions, attributing their decisions to specific subgraphs that are informative. However, existing subgraph-based interpretable methods suffer from an overemphasis on local structure, potentially overl…
The extraordinary ability of generative models emerges as a new trend in image editing and generating realistic images, posing a serious threat to the trustworthiness of multimedia data and driving the research of image manipulation detection and location (IMDL). However, the lack of a large-scale d…
Time Series Imputation (TSI), which aims to recover missing values in temporal data, remains a fundamental challenge due to the complex and often high-rate missingness in real-world scenarios. Existing models typically optimize the point-wise reconstruction loss, focusing on recovering numerical val…
Trajectory generation has garnered significant attention from researchers in the field of spatio-temporal analysis, as it can generate substantial synthesized human mobility trajectories that enhance user privacy and alleviate data scarcity. However, existing trajectory generation methods often focu…
In this paper, we introduce the IMPortance-awaReness maskIng NeTwork (IMPRINT), a novel approach to enhance the robustness of document retrieval systems against query variations, particularly those containing misspellings. Unlike previous models that treat all query components (words/features) equal…
Recent advances in 3D human-aware generation have made significant progress. However, existing methods still struggle with generating novel Human Object Interaction (HOI) from text, particularly for open-set objects. We identify three main challenges of this task: precise human-object relation reaso…
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis with rapid rendering speed. Current works explore its application to geometric reconstruction to fully release the potential of 3DGS. However, a trade-off exists between the rendering and the reconstruction when representi…
Multi-view clustering aims to integrate complementary information from multiple views to improve clustering performance. However, existing ensemble-based methods suffer from information loss due to their reliance on single-granularity labels, limiting the discriminative capability of learned represe
Deep convolutional neural networks have significantly advanced color image denoising. However, existing models often apply grayscale denoising techniques to color images without accounting for inter-channel correlations, resulting in color distortion, detail loss, and visual artifacts. Moreover, the…
Label correction methods are popular for their simple architecture in learning with noisy labels. However, they suffer severely from false label correction and achieve subpar performance compared with state-of-the-art methods. In this paper, we revisit the label correction methods through theoretica…
Medical image segmentation is crucial for diagnosis and surgical planning of liver diseases. The existing methods mainly focus on global or local features and neglect spatial dependencies among modalities and blurred boundaries. To tackle these challenges, we propose a symmetric bi-branch modality-s…
Recent advancements in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and deep learning have made decoding lexical tones from intracranial recordings possible, providing the potential to restore the communication ability of speech-impaired tonal language speakers. However, data heterogeneity induced by both physi…
Recent Vision-based Large Language Models (VisionLLMs) for autonomous driving have seen rapid advancements. However, such promotion is extremely dependent on large-scale high-quality annotated data, which is costly and labor-intensive. To address this issue, we propose unlocking the value of abundan
Coordinating multiple embodied agents in dynamic environments remains a core challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring both perception-driven reasoning and scalable cooperation strategies. While recent works have leveraged large language models (LLMs) for multi-agent planning, a few have begun…
Intelligent vehicle cockpits present unique challenges for API Agents, requiring coordination across tightly-coupled subsystems that exceed typical task environments’ complexity. Traditional Function Calling (FC) approaches operate statelessly, requiring multiple exploratory calls to build environme
Context-aware embedding methods boost retrieval accuracy by conditioning on corpus statistics (e.g., term co-occurrence and topical patterns) extracted from neighboring documents. However, this context-aware approach requires access to the target corpus or requires domain-specific finetuning, posing
Effectively modeling the spatio-temporal interactions both internally and externally is a challenge in controlling multi-linked snake robots. This paper presents an effective method based on deep predictive coding: SnakeFormer, to address the aforementioned issue. The main contributions include: 1)
Controversy is widespread online. Previous studies mainly define controversy based on vague assumptions of its relation to sentiment such as hate speech and offensive words. This paper introduces the first question-answering dataset that defines content controversy by user perception, i.e., votes fr…
"Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved remarkable progress on dynamic scenes with deformable objects. Nonetheless, most previous works required multi-view inputs or long training time (several hours), making it hard to apply them for real-world scenarios. Recent works dedicated to addressing b…
As data with diverse representations become high-dimensional, multi-view unsupervised feature selection has been an important learning paradigm. Generally, existing methods encounter the following challenges: (i) traditional solutions either concatenate different views or introduce extra parameters…
Visual prostheses are potential devices to restore vision for blind people, which highly depends on the quality of stimulation patterns of the implanted electrode array. However, existing processing frameworks prioritize the generation of stimulation while disregarding the potential impact of restor…
"Existing 3D human object interaction (HOI) datasets and models simply align global descriptions with the long HOI sequence, while lacking a detailed understanding of intermediate states and the transitions between states. In this paper, we argue that fine-grained semantic alignment, which utilizes…
Accurate prediction of water quality and quantity is crucial for sustainable development and human well-being. However, existing data-driven methods often suffer from spatial biases in model performance due to heterogeneous data, limited observations, and noisy sensor data. To overcome these challen…
Federated Learning (FL) is an important privacy-preserving learning paradigm that plays an important role in the Intelligent Internet of Things. Training a global model in FL, however, is vulnerable to the noise in the heterogeneous data across the clients. In this paper, we introduce **FedTrans**,…
"In this paper, we develop an open-set object detector, called Grounding DINO, by marrying Transformer-based detector DINO with grounded pre-training, which can detect arbitrary objects with human inputs such as category names or referring expressions. The key solution of open-set object detection i…
Clinical reasoning refers to the cognitive process that physicians employ in evaluating and managing patients. This process typically involves suggesting necessary examinations, diagnosing patients’ diseases, and selecting appropriate therapies, etc. Accurate clinical reasoning requires extensive me…
Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection is vital for the reliability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Existing works have shown the insufficiency of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) straightforwardly applied on the features of DNNs in detecting OoD data from In-Distribution (InD) data. The failure of P…
Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have greatly improved their abilities in image understanding. However, these models often struggle with grasping pixel-level semantic details, e.g., the keypoints of an object. To bridge this gap, we introduce the novel challenge of Sem…
This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in tabular data, which is usually implemented in an one-class classification setting where the training set only contains normal samples. Inspired by the success of masked image/language modeling in vision and natural language domains, we extend…
Scoliosis diagnosis and assessment depend largely on the measurement of the Cobb angle in spine X-ray images. With the emergence of deep learning techniques that employ landmark detection, tilt prediction, and spine segmentation, automated Cobb angle measurement has become increasingly popular. Howe…
Data Augmentation (DA) has become a widely adopted strategy for addressing data scarcity in numerous NLP tasks, especially in scenarios with limited resources or imbalanced classes. However, many existing augmentation techniques rely on randomness or additional resources, presenting challenges in bo…
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in language understanding and generation, leading to their widespread adoption across various fields. Among these, the medical field is particularly well-suited for LLM applications, as many medical tasks can be enhanced by LLMs.…
To meet application needs, event extraction has shifted from simple entities to unconventional entities serving as event arguments. However, current corpora with unconventional entities as event arguments are limited in event types and lack rich multi-events and shared arguments. Financial commentar…
Occupancy prediction, aiming at predicting the occupancy status within voxelized 3D environment, is quickly gaining momentum within the autonomous driving community. Mainstream occupancy prediction works first discretize the 3D environment into voxels, then perform classification on such dense grids…
In this paper we develop MP-HOI a powerful Multi-modal Prompt-based HOI detector designed to leverage both textual descriptions for open-set generalization and visual exemplars for handling high ambiguity in descriptions realizing HOI detection in the open world. Specifically it integrates visual pr…
Medical insurance fraud has always been a crucial challenge in the field of healthcare industry. Existing fraud detection models mostly focus on offline learning scenes. However, fraud patterns are constantly evolving, making it difficult for models trained on past data to detect newly emerging frau…
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are central to our interaction with digital devices and growing efforts have been made to build models for various GUI understanding tasks. However, these efforts largely overlook an important GUI-referring task: screen reading based on user-indicated points, which w…
In Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), the aggregation of node features in graph convolutional learning is typically guided solely by the topology of the graphs. However, both network topology and node features provide unique and valuable information. Relying solely on topology cannot yield entirel…
The interaction between Fourier transform and deep learning opens new avenues for long-term time series forecasting (LTSF). We propose a new perspective to reconsider the Fourier transform from a basis functions perspective. Specifically, the real and imaginary parts of the frequency components can…
Social media is recognized as an important source for deriving insights into public opinion dynamics and social impacts due to the vast textual data generated daily and the ‘unconstrained’ behavior of people interacting on these platforms. However, such analyses prove challenging due to the semantic…
During the preceding biennium, vision-language pre-training has achieved noteworthy success on several downstream tasks. Nevertheless, acquiring high-quality image-text pairs, where the pairs are entirely exclusive of each other, remains a challenging task, and noise exists in the commonly used data…
In this paper, we present a new synthetic aperture method for direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation using a passive towed sonar array that is deformed during platform maneuver. With certain prior knowledge of source-array geometry, we propose to find the optimal maximum likelihood estimates of DOAs…
Visual language tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) or Visual Entailment (VE) require AI models to comprehend and reason with both visual and textual content. Driven by the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), two prominent methods have emerged: (1) the hybrid integration between LLMs an…
Depth estimation plays an important role in robotic perception systems. The self-supervised monocular paradigm has gained significant attention since it can free training from the reliance on depth annotations. Despite recent advancements, existing self-supervised methods still underutilize the avai
"An accurate and efficient epileptic seizure onset detection can significantly benefit patients. Traditional diagnostic methods, primarily relying on electroencephalograms (EEGs), often result in cumbersome and non-portable solutions, making continuous patient monitoring challenging. The video-based…
"This work aims to address an advanced keypoint detection problem: how to accurately detect any keypoints in complex real-world scenarios, which involves massive, messy, and open-ended objects as well as their associated keypoints definitions. Current high-performance keypoint detectors often fail t…
Endobronchial intervention is increasingly used as a minimally invasive means for the treatment of pulmonary diseases. In order to reduce the difficulty of manipulation in complex airway networks, robust lumen detection is essential for intraoperative guidance. However, these methods are sensitive t…
The recent surge of interest in soft robotics has prompted many interesting soft robotic manipulator designs to be proposed. However, current soft robotic manipulators mainly focus on bending and rotation, while elongation has not received attention due to the limited extension/contraction range or
This paper presents a novel end-to-end framework with Explicit box Detection for multi-person Pose estimation, called ED-Pose, where it unifies the contextual learning between human-level (global) and keypoint-level (local) information. Different from previous one-stage methods, ED-Pose re-considers…
Recently, webly supervised learning (WSL) has been studied to leverage numerous and accessible data from the Internet. Most existing methods focus on learning noise-robust models from web images while neglecting the performance drop caused by the differences between web domain and real-world domain.…
Large pre-trained models have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) research and applications, but high training costs and limited data resources have prevented their benefits from being shared equally amongst speakers of all the world's languages. To address issues of cross-linguistic ac…
Multi-view shape reconstruction has achieved impressive progresses thanks to the latest advances in neural implicit surface rendering. However, existing methods based on signed distance function (SDF) are limited to closed surfaces, failing to reconstruct a wide range of real-world objects that cont…
This work proposes an end-to-end neural interactive keypoint detection framework named Click-Pose, which can significantly reduce more than 10 times labeling costs of 2D keypoint annotation compared with manual-only annotation. Click-Pose explores how user feedback can cooperate with a neural keypoi…
Learning-based high-fidelity reconstruction of 3D shapes with varying topology is a fundamental problem in computer vision and computer graphics. Recent advances in learning 3D shapes using explicit and implicit representations have achieved impressive results in 3D modeling. However, the template-b…
This paper presents Scalable Semantic Transfer (SST), a novel training paradigm, to explore how to leverage the mutual benefits of the data from different label domains (i.e. various levels of label granularity) to train a powerful human parsing network. In practice, two common application scenarios…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) possess powerful prediction capability thanks to their over-parameterization design, although the large model complexity makes it suffer from noisy supervision. Recent approaches seek to eliminate impacts from noisy labels by excluding data points with large loss values a…
Despite the considerable progress in automatic abdominal multi-organ segmentation from CT/MRI scans in recent years, a comprehensive evaluation of the models' capabilities is hampered by the lack of a large-scale benchmark from diverse clinical scenarios. Constraint by the high cost of collecting an…
Quality control is essential for creating extractive question answering (EQA) datasets via crowdsourcing. Aggregation across answers, i.e. word spans within passages annotated, by different crowd workers is one major focus for ensuring its quality. However, crowd workers cannot reach a consensus on…
Sensor-based environmental perception is a crucial part of the autonomous driving system. In order to get an excellent perception of the surrounding environment, an intelligent system would configure multiple LiDARs (3D Light Detection and Ranging) to cover the distant and near space of the car. The…
Neural implicit function based on signed distance field (SDF) has achieved impressive progress in reconstructing 3D models with high fidelity. However, such approaches can only represent closed shapes. Recent works based on unsigned distance function (UDF) are proposed to handle both watertight and…
Prevailing video frame interpolation algorithms, that generate the intermediate frames from consecutive inputs, typically rely on complex model architectures with heavy parameters or large delay, hindering them from diverse real-time applications. In this work, we devise an efficient encoder-decoder…
"Deep learning-based approaches for shape understanding and processing tasks have attracted considerable attention. Despite the great progress that has been made, the existing approaches fail to efficiently capture sophisticated structure information and critical part features simultaneously, limiti…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring up various topics discussed or debated on social media. In order to explore the impact of pandemics on people's lives, it is crucial to understand the public's concerns and attitudes towards pandemic-related entities (e.g., drugs, vaccines) on social media. H…
We present a method that achieves state-of-the-art results on challenging (few-shot) layout-to-image generation tasks by accurately modeling textures, structures and relationships contained in a complex scene. After compressing RGB images into patch tokens, we propose the Transformer with Focal Atte…
Semantic segmentation of surgical instruments provides essential priors for autonomous surgery. This task is however challenging since the fine-structure of surgical instruments requires the accurate segmentation of detailed regions in images. As the visual guidance for autonomous surgery, the algor…
Optical microscopy imaging is the gold standard for the diagnosis of cancers since it allows the cell-level visualization of tissues. The high quality of imaging is largely determined by the focus distances between the lens and objects. Therefore, a robust and efficient auto focusing algorithm is re
Dense optical flow estimation plays a key role in many robotic vision tasks. In the past few years, with the advent of deep learning, we have witnessed great progress in optical flow estimation. However, current networks often consist of a large number of parameters and require heavy computation cos…
Explainability is a key requirement for text classification in many application domains ranging from sentiment analysis to medical diagnosis or legal reviews. Existing methods often rely on "attention" mechanisms for explaining classification results by estimating the relative importance of input un…
Optical flow estimation is an essential step for many real-world computer vision tasks. Existing deep networks have achieved satisfactory results by mostly employing a pyramidal coarse-to-fine paradigm, where a key process is to adopt warped target feature based on previous flow prediction to correl…
Recent advances in localized implicit functions have enabled neural implicit representation to be scalable to large scenes. However, the regular subdivision of 3D space employed by these approaches fails to take into account the sparsity of the surface occupancy and the varying granularities of geom…
Segmentation of skin lesions is important for disease diagnoses and treatment planning. Over the years, semi-supervised methods using pseudo labels have boosted the segmentation performance with limited labeled data and abundant unlabeled data. However, the unreliable targets in pseudo labels might…
In this work, we tackle the problem of single image-based 3D shape retrieval (IBSR), where we seek to find the most matched shape of a given single 2D image from a shape repository. Most of the existing works learn to embed 2D images and 3D shapes into a common feature space and perform metric learn…
Person search, which requires both pedestrian detection and person re-identification, is a challenging computer vision task applied to real-world scenarios. The challenges faced by detection and re-identification, such as occlusion, poor illumination, confusing background, are still urgent for perso…
Hypergraph, an expressive structure with flexibility to model the higher-order correlations among entities, has recently attracted increasing attention from various research domains. Despite the success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for graph representation learning, how to adapt the powerful GNN-…
Learning reliable motion representation between consecutive frames, such as optical flow, has proven to have great promotion to video understanding. However, the TV-L1 method, an effective optical flow solver, is time-consuming and expensive in storage for caching the extracted optical flow. To fill…
The crowd counting task aims at estimating the number of people located in an image or a frame from videos. Existing methods widely adopt density maps as the training targets to optimize the point-to-point loss. While in testing phase, we only focus on the differences between the crowd numbers and t…
Attribute recognition is a crucial but challenging task due to viewpoint changes, illumination variations and appearance diversities, etc. Most of previous work only consider the attribute-level feature embedding, which might perform poorly in complicated heterogeneous conditions. To address this pr…
End-to-end learning from crowds has recently been introduced as an EM-free approach to training deep neural networks directly from noisy crowdsourced annotations. It models the relationship between true labels and annotations with a specific type of neural layer, termed as the crowd layer, which can…
Human attribute analysis is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. One of the significant difficulties is brought from largely imbalance-distributed data. Conventional techniques such as re-sampling and cost-sensitive learning require prior-knowledge to train the system. To address this…
Animals in nature, such as geckos, inchworms, and felines can climb on various surfaces using different mechanisms and serve as references for the study of bio-inspired robots. This paper presents an inchworm-inspired climbing robot that consists of soft body and feet. The soft robot is actuated by…
Task autonomy is an important consideration for the development of future surgical robots. For robot-assisted anastomosis, suture thread detection is a prerequisite for subsequent robot manipulation. Previous works on automatic thread detection are focused on the learning of the models with specific…
In this paper, we put forward and demonstrate a novel method in image and video detail enhancement-- in-place residual homogeneity (IP). In-place residual homogeneity is a regular law we find in testing different blocks in database, that is, residual blocks with slight different resolutions hold hom…
The technique of robust suture detection is vital in many applications including trainee suturing skill evaluation, suture augmentation in robotic-assisted surgery and suture recognition for automatic suturing. Due to the complicated environment of surgery, the detection of a suture is challenged by…
Reflections often obstruct the desired scene when taking photos through glass panels. Removing unwanted reflection automatically from the photos is highly desirable. Traditional methods often impose certain priors or assumptions to target particular type(s) of reflection such as shifted double refle…
Accurate detection of nodules in CT images is vital for lung cancer diagnosis, which greatly influences the patient's chance for survival. Motivated by successful application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on natural images, we propose a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for simultaneou…
This paper presents a bionic soft robot with chromatic surface micro-structure (CSM), as a new approach for the measurement of body deformation of the soft robots. Firstly, the CSM films are fabricated by diffraction gratings mold using material polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Then, the CSM films are a…
Removing pixel-wise heterogeneous motion blur is challenging due to the ill-posed nature of the problem. The predominant solution is to estimate the blur kernel by adding a prior, but extensive literature on the subject indicates the difficulty in identifying a prior which is suitably informative, a…
Solving the global method of Weighted Least Squares (WLS) model in image filtering is both time- and memory-consuming. In this paper, we present an alternative approximation in a time- and memory- efficient manner which is denoted as Semi-Global Weighed Least Squares (SG-WLS). Instead of solving a l…
Bone scintigraphy is widely used to diagnose bone diseases. Accurate hotspot segmentation is a critical task for tumor metastasis diagnosis. In this paper, we propose an interactive approach to detect and extract hotspots in thoracic region based on a new multiple instance learning (MIL) method call…
In this paper we address the issue of enhancing salient object detection through diffusion-based techniques. For reliably diffusing the energy from labeled seeds, we propose a novel graph-based diffusion scheme called affinity learning-based diffusion (ALD), which is based on learning full-range aff…
The establishment of robust target appearance model over time is an overriding concern in visual tracking. In this paper, we propose an inverse nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) method for robust appearance modeling. Rather than using a linear combination of nonnegative basis vectors for each t…
Precise manipulation of microparticles has received considerable attention for its great potential applications to clinical medicine. Among the existing manipulation techniques, the method of magnetic force based manipulation exhibits great advantages for its minimally-invasive feature and insensiti…
Implicit camera transfer (ICT), which models the multi-valued mappings between two specific and stationary cameras, is a descent solution for the person re-identification problem of the surveillance system. It has the properties of simplicity, computational efficiency and well utilizing negative tra…
Saliency propagation has been widely adopted for identifying the most attractive object in an image. The propagation sequence generated by existing saliency detection methods is governed by the spatial relationships of image regions, i.e., the saliency value is transmitted between two adjacent regio…
Small target detection is a critical problem in the Infrared Search And Track (IRST) system. Although it has been studied for years, there are some challenges remained, e.g. cloud edges and horizontal lines are likely to cause false alarms. This paper proposes a novel method using an optimization-ba…