23 accepted papers
This paper proposes a method for embedding diffusion potentials into a hyperbolic space in order to visualize the differentiation structure consisting of diffusion and branching inherent in high-dimensional data. In recent years, the rapid development of single-cell sequencing in the field of biolog…
This paper proposes a new inference strategy for Bayesian relational data analysis, inspired by the sunflower lemma in extremal combinatorics. Relational data analysis using rectangular partitioning is a particularly popular analysis tool due to its interpretability and explainability, and has been…
This paper proposes a Bayesian nonparametric diffusion model with a black-box warping function represented by a Gaussian process to infer potential diffusion structures latent in observed data, such as differentiation mechanisms of living cells and phylogenetic evolution processes of media informati…
Masked Autoencoders is a simple yet powerful self-supervised learning method. However, it learns representations indirectly by reconstructing masked input patches. Several methods learn representations directly by predicting representations of masked patches; however, we think using all patches to e…
Despite recent advances in image enhancement, it remains difficult for existing approaches to adaptively improve the brightness and contrast for both low-light and normal-light images. To solve this problem, we propose a novel 2D histogram equalization approach. It assumes intensity occurrence and c…
Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts to the data-dependent requirements of brightness enhancemen…
We propose a trilingual semantic embedding model that associates visual objects in images with segments of speech signals corresponding to spoken words in an unsupervised manner. Unlike the existing models, our model incorporates three different languages, namely, English, Hindi, and Japanese. To bu…
Finding a region of an image which matches to a query from a large number of candidates is a fundamental problem in image processing. The exhaustive nature of the sliding window approach has encouraged works that can reduce the run time by skipping unnecessary windows or pixels that do not play a su…
We propose a neural network-based framework for learning local representations of multivariate time series, and demonstrate its effectiveness for online signature verification. In contrast to related works that optimize a global distance objective, we incorporate a Siamese network into dynamic time…
Sounds provide us with vast amounts of information about surrounding objects and can even remind us visual images of them. Is it possible to implement this noteworthy human ability on machines? In this paper, we study a new task that consists of predicting image recognition results in the form of se…
Subspace clustering is the problem of partitioning data drawn from a union of multiple subspaces. The most popular subspace clustering framework in recent years is the graph clustering-based approach, which performs subspace clustering in two steps: graph construction and graph clustering. Although…
Representing various sounds in language, such as sound words, or onomatopoeias, is not only useful as an auxiliary means for automatic speech recognition, but also essential in emerging fields such as natural human-machine communication, searching audio archives for acoustic events, and abnormality…
This paper proposes the decision tree latent controller generative adversarial network (DTLC-GAN), an extension of a GAN that can learn hierarchically interpretable representations without relying on detailed supervision. To impose a hierarchical inclusion structure on latent variables, we incorpora…
In query expansion for object retrieval, there is substantial danger of query drift, where irrelevant information is inferred from pseudo-relevant images to enrich the query. To address this issue, we propose a query expansion method from the viewpoint of diffusion. It explores the structure of high…
The importance of extracting non-linguistic information has been highlighted in a growing variety of applications of speech signal processing. Among the audio features carrying such information, fundamental frequency (F <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.o…
Irregular scene text such as curved, rotated or perspective texts commonly appear in natural scene images due to different camera view points, special design purposes etc. In this work, we propose a text salience map guided model to recognize these arbitrary direction scene texts. We train a deep Fu…
Edited film alignment is the post-production process of finding small parts of unedited footage that temporally and spatially match an edited film. The huge amount of data to be processed makes significant downsampling of the videos essential in real-life applications. Simultaneously, professional u…
An important challenge in speech processing involves extracting non-linguistic information from a fundamental frequency (F <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">0</sub> ) contour of speech. We propose a fast algorithm for estimating the model…
We present a generative attribute controller (GAC), a novel functionality for generating or editing an image while intuitively controlling large variations of an attribute. This controller is based on a novel generative model called the conditional filtered generative adversarial network (CFGAN), wh…
We propose a postfilter based on a generative adversarial network (GAN) to compensate for the differences between natural speech and speech synthesized by statistical parametric speech synthesis. In particular, we focus on the differences caused by over-smoothing, which makes the sounds muffled. Ove…
The recognition of text in natural scene images is a practical yet challenging task due to the large variations in backgrounds, textures, fonts, and illumination conditions. In this paper, we propose a highly accurate character recognition model by utilizing the representational power of a specially…
In this paper, we describe an approach to accelerate fingerprint techniques by skipping the search for irrelevant sections of the signal and demonstrate its application to the divide and locate (DAL) audio fingerprint method. The search result for the applied method, DAL3, is the same as that of DAL…
Hough voting in a geometric transformation space allows us to realize spatial verification, but remains sensitive to feature detection errors because of the inflexible quantization of single feature correspondences. To handle this problem, we propose a new method, called adaptive dither voting, for…