17 accepted papers
Aiming to reduce the computational cost of Softmax in massive label space of Face Recognition (FR) benchmarks, recent studies estimate the output using a subset of identities. Although promising, the association between the computation cost and the number of identities in the dataset remains linear…
Aiming to enhance the utilization of metric space by the parametric softmax classifier recent studies suggest replacing it with a non-parametric alternative. Although a non-parametric classifier may provide better metric space utilization it introduces the challenge of capturing inter-class relation…
While replacing Gaussian decoders with a conditional diffusion model enhances the perceptual quality of reconstructions in neural image compression their lack of inductive bias for image data restricts their ability to achieve state-of-the-art perceptual levels. To address this limitation we adopt a…
"Despite the fundamental distinction between adversarial and natural training (AT and NT), AT methods generally adopt momentum SGD (MSGD) for the outer optimization. This paper aims to analyze this choice by investigating the overlooked role of outer optimization in AT. Our exploratory evaluations r…
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is one of the noninvasive and easy-to-acquire biomarkers (the thickness of the retinal layers, which is detectable within OCT scans) being investigated to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This work aims to segment the OCT images automatically; however, it is a ch…
The prevalence of substance use disorder (SUD) and rates of overdose in the United States have reached epidemic levels. Despite availability of effective evidence-based treatments for SUD, the rates of treatment attrition remain elevated. We have designed a cloud-based continuous physiological sensi…
The goal is to use Wasserstein metric to provide pseudo labels for the unlabeled images to train a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in a Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) manner for the classification task. The basic premise in our method is that the discrepancy between two discrete empirical measur…
This paper presents a supervised mixing augmentation method termed SuperMix, which exploits the salient regions within input images to construct mixed training samples. SuperMix is designed to obtain mixed images rich in visual features and complying with realistic image priors. To enhance the effic…
Recently, ensemble models have demonstrated empirical capabilities to alleviate the adversarial vulnerability. In this paper, we exploit first-order interactions within ensembles to formalize a reliable and practical defense. We introduce a scenario of interactions that certifiably improves the robu…
Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been proven as powerful tools for standard tasks such as image classification when there is not a sufficient amount of labeled data available during the training. In this work, we consider the general setting…
Objects are usually organized in a hierarchical structure in which each coarse category (e.g., big cat) corresponds to a superclass of several fine categories (e.g., cheetah, leopard). The objects grouped within the same coarse category, but in different fine categories, usually share a set of globa…
Sparse representation-based classifiers have shown outstanding accuracy and robustness in image classification tasks even with the presence of intense noise and occlusion. However, it has been discovered that the performance degrades significantly either when test image is not aligned with the dicti…
Transfer learning tends to be a powerful tool that can mitigate the divergence across different domains through knowledge transfer. Recent research efforts on transfer learning have exploited deep neural network (NN) structures for discriminative feature representation to better tackle cross-domain…
Dictionary learning algorithms have been successfully used in both reconstructive and discriminative tasks, where the input signal is represented by a linear combination of a few dictionary atoms. While these methods are usually developed under ℓ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" x…
In this paper, we propose a general collaborative sparse representation framework for multi-sensor classification which exploits correlation as well as complementary information among homogeneous and heterogeneous sensors while simultaneously extracting the low-rank interference term. Specifically,…
We are interested in a multichannel transient acoustic signal classification task which suffers from additive/convolutionary noise corruption. To address this problem, we propose a double-scheme classifier that takes the advantage of multichannel data to improve noise robustness. Both schemes adopt…
In this paper, we consider multi-sensor classification when there is a large number of unlabeled samples. The problem is formulated under the multi-view learning framework and a Consensus-based Multi-View Maximum Entropy Discrimination (CMV-MED) algorithm is proposed. By iteratively maximizing the s…