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Kris Sankaran

2 accepted papers

2021

FloW: A Dataset and Benchmark for Floating Waste Detection in Inland Waters

ICCV 2021poster

Marine debris is severely threatening the marine lives and causing sustained pollution to the whole ecosystem. To prevent the wastes from getting into the ocean, it is helpful to clean up the floating wastes in inland waters using the autonomous cleaning devices like unmanned surface vehicles. The c…

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2019

Hierarchical Importance Weighted Autoencoders

ICML 2019oral

Importance weighted variational inference (Burda et al., 2015) uses multiple i.i.d. samples to have a tighter variational lower bound. We believe a joint proposal has the potential of reducing the number of redundant samples, and introduce a hierarchical structure to induce correlation. The hope is…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar