96 accepted papers
Accurate calibration and robust localization are fundamental for downstream tasks in spinning actuated LiDAR applications. Existing methods, however, require parameterizing extrinsic parameters based on different mounting configurations, limiting their generalizability. Additionally, spinning actuat
Face forgery detection faces a critical challenge: a persistent gap between offline benchmarks and real-world efficacy, which we attribute to the ecological invalidity of training data. This work introduces Agent4FaceForgery to address two fundamental problems: (1) how to capture the diverse intents
Modern industrial quality control heavily relies on automated anomaly detection. While few-shot anomaly detection addresses the challenge of limited labeled data, real-world inspection faces a vast diversity of anomaly types, sizes, and shapes. We identify the primary cause for the anomaly detection
Multimodal fusion of color fundus photography (CFP) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scan images has demonstrated superior diagnostic potential for retinal diseases compared to single-modality approaches. However, existing fusion paradigms - whether through naive concatenation or attention m
In recent years, face anti-spoofing (FAS) has made notable progress in multimodal fusion, cross-domain generalization, and interpretability. With the development of large language models and reinforcement learning (RL), strategy-based training paradigms offer new opportunities for jointly modeling m
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) measurement enables non-contact physiological monitoring but suffers from accuracy degradation under head motion and illumination changes. Existing deep learning methods are mostly heuristic and lack theoretical grounding, limiting robustness and interpretability.
Atmospheric turbulence causes spatially varying distortion and blur in long-range imaging, making restoration highly challenging in real-world applications. Supervised methods rely on synthetic training data, whose simulated degradation often cannot faithfully reflect real turbulence. Existing unsup
Deep neural networks have been increasingly used in safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. However, many studies suggest that they are prone to being poorly calibrated and have a propensity for overconfidence, which may have disastrous consequences. In this pa…
As one of the primary causes of visual impairment, Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) requires accurate and robust grading to facilitate timely diagnosis and intervention. Different from conventional DR grading methods that utilize single-view images, recent clinical studies have revealed that multi-view fun
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have significantly advanced diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis, yet their black-box nature limits clinical acceptance due to a lack of interpretability. Concept bottleneck model (CBM) offers a promising solution by enabling concept-level reasoning and test-time intervent
Wearable devices such as AI glasses are transforming voice assistants into always-available, hands-free collaborators that integrate seamlessly with daily life, but they also introduce challenges like egocentric audio affected by motion and noise, rapid micro-interactions, and the need to distinguis…
Visible-infrared person re-identification (VIReID) provides a solution for ReID tasks in 24-hour scenarios; however, significant challenges persist in achieving satisfactory performance due to the substantial discrepancies between visible (VIS) and infrared (IR) modalities. Existing methods inadequa
Human motion prediction is a fundamental task in human-robot interaction and self-driving. Many existing human motion prediction methods use one encoder to embed the historical human poses and one decoder to predict future motion poses. We believe that it is possible to estimate the deviation of the…
With the advancement of computer vision, numerous models have been proposed for screening of fundus diseases. However, the recognition of multiple fundus diseases is often hampered by the simultaneous presence of multiple disease types and the confluence of lesion types in fundus images. This paper…
Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly serve as educational tools, yet evaluating their teaching capabilities remains challenging due to the resource-intensive, context-dependent, and methodologically complex nature of teacher-student interactions. We introduce EducationQ, a multi-agent dialogue…
With advancements in visual language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs), video anomaly detection (VAD) has progressed beyond binary classification to fine-grained categorization and multidimensional analysis. However, existing methods focus mainly on coarse-grained detection, lacking ano…
Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims at locating the abnormal events in videos. Recently, the Weakly Supervised VAD has made great progress, which only requires video-level annotations when training. In practical applications, different institutions may have different types of abnormal videos. However…
Large language model (LLM) agents typically adopt a step-by-step reasoning framework, in which they interleave the processes of thinking and acting to accomplish the given task. However, this paradigm faces a deep-rooted one-pass issue whereby each generated intermediate thought is plugged into the
Recent advancements in integrating Large Language Models (LLM) with automatic speech recognition (ASR) have performed remarkably in general domains. While supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of all model parameters is often employed to adapt pre-trained LLM-based ASR models to specific domains, it imposes…
Transformer-based algorithms, such as LoRAT, have significantly enhanced object-tracking performance. However, these approaches rely on a standard attention mechanism, which incurs quadratic token complexity, making real-time inference computationally expensive. In this paper, we introduce LoRATv2,…
Logical reasoning is a crucial factor in machine reading comprehension tasks (MRC). Existing methods suffer from the balance between semantic and explicit logical relation representations, in which some emphasize contextual semantics, while others pay more attention to explicit logical features. Add…
Session-based Social Recommendation (SSR) aims to improve next-item prediction by combining a user’s session activities with insights from their social networks. However, the brevity of sessions makes SSR models prone to noise, and many methods rely on complex Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which ofte…
Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities across various visual tasks. However, its performance degrades significantly when deployed in new target domains with substantial distribution shifts. While existing self-training methods based on fixed teac…
Open-vocabulary detection aims to detect objects from novel categories beyond the base categories on which the detector is trained. However, existing open-vocabulary detectors trained on base category data tend to assign higher confidence to trained categories and confuse novel categories with the b…
Face retouching aims to remove facial imperfections from image and videos while at the same time preserving face attributes. The existing methods are designed to perform non-interactive end-to-end retouching, while the ability to interact with users is highly demanded in downstream applications. In…
Language-conditioned robotic manipulation in unstructured environments presents significant challenges for intelligent robotic systems. However, due to partial observation or imprecise action prediction, failure may be unavoidable for learned policies. Moreover, operational failures can lead to the…
Spectral Compressive Imaging (SCI) reconstruction is inherently ill-posed because a single observation admits multiple plausible reconstructions. Traditional deterministic methods struggle to effectively recover high-frequency details. Although diffusion models offer promising solutions to this chal…
Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve visibility and signal-to-noise ratio in images captured under poor lighting conditions. While deep learning has shown promise in this domain, current approaches require extensive paired training data, limiting their practical utility. We present a n…
"Motivated by the Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) in large language models, we propose LoRAT, a method that unveils the power of larger Vision Transformers (ViT) for tracking within laboratory-level resources. The essence of our work lies in adapting LoRA, a technique that fine-tunes a small…
The task of financial analysis primarily encompasses two key areas: stock trend prediction and the corresponding financial question answering. Currently, machine learning and deep learning algorithms (ML&DL) have been widely applied for stock trend predictions, leading to significant progress. Howev…
As a combination of emerging multi-view learning methods and traditional multi-label classification tasks, multi-view multi-label classification has shown broad application prospects. The diverse semantic information contained in heterogeneous data effectively enables the further development of mult…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in reasoning over structured environments, e.g., knowledge graphs and tables. Such tasks typically require multi-hop reasoning, i.e., match natural language utterance with instances in the environment. Previous works adopt LLMs to incrementally build…
As a branch of clustering, multi-view clustering has received much attention in recent years. In practical applications, a common phenomenon is that partial views of some samples may be missing in the collected multi-view data, which poses a severe challenge to design the multi-view learning model a…
This paper introduce a novel thought prompting approach called ”Everything of Thoughts” (XoT) for Large Language Models (LLMs) to defy the law of ”Penrose triangle” of existing thought paradigms, to achieve three key perspectives in thought generation simultaneously: performance, efficiency, and fle…
The objective of traffic prediction is to accurately forecast and analyze the dynamics of transportation patterns, considering both space and time. However, the presence of distribution shift poses a significant challenge in this field, as existing models struggle to generalize well when faced with…
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), the leading cause of blindness in diabetic patients, is diagnosed by the condition of retinal multiple lesions. As a difficult task in medical image segmentation, DR multi-lesion segmentation faces the main concerns as follows. On the one hand, retinal lesions vary in loca…
Social recommendation (SR) achieves better recommendation performance with the incorporation of social relations among users. However, two important challenges have not been effectively addressed yet: (i) While most existing SR models can capture explicit local social signals, they have limited capa…
Large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) have shown powerful zero-shot transfer capabilities in image recognition tasks. Recent approaches typically employ supervised fine-tuning methods to adapt CLIP for zero-shot multi-label image recognition tasks. However, obtaining sufficient…
Color video snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) employs computational imaging techniques to capture multiple sequential video frames in a single Bayer-patterned measurement. With the increasing popularity of quad-Bayer pattern in mainstream smartphone cameras for capturing high-resolution videos, mob…
The difficulty of partial multi-view multi-label learning lies in coupling the consensus of multi-view data with the task relevance of multi-label classification, under the condition where partial views and labels are unavailable. In this paper, we seek to compress cross-view representation to maxim…
Employing Large Language Models (LLMs) for semantic parsing has achieved remarkable success. However, we find existing methods fall short in terms of reliability and efficiency when hallucinations are encountered. In this paper, we address these challenges with a framework called QueryAgent, which s…
In this work, we address the challenge of encoding speech captured by a microphone array using deep learning techniques with the aim of preserving and accurately reconstructing crucial spatial cues embedded in multi-channel recordings. We propose a neural spatial audio coding framework that achieves…
With the advent of generative models and vision language pretraining significant improvement has been made in text-driven face manipulation. The text embedding can be used as target supervision for expression control.However it is non-trivial to associate with its 3D attributesi.e. pose and illumina…
Motivated by the success of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT), we introduce an unsupervised sign language translation and generation network (USLNet), which learns from abundant single-modality (text and video) data without parallel sign language data. USLNet comprises two main componen…
Face Video Retouching is a complex task that often requires labor-intensive manual editing. Conventional image retouching methods perform less satisfactorily in terms of generalization performance and stability when applied to videos without exploiting the correlation among frames. To address this i…
Event-intensity asymmetric stereo systems have emerged as a promising approach for robust 3D perception in dynamic and challenging environments by integrating event cameras with frame-based sensors in different views. However, existing methods often suffer from overfitting and poor generalization du…
This work proposes an incremental Generalized Iterative Closest Point (GICP) based tightly-coupled LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), iG-LIO, which integrates the GICP constraints and inertial constraints into a unified estimation framework. iG-LIO uses a voxel-based surface covariance estimator to esti
Speech enhancement aims to improve the quality of speech signals in terms of quality and intelligibility, and speech editing refers to the process of editing the speech according to specific user needs. In this paper, we propose a Unified Speech Enhancement and Editing (uSee) model with conditional…
Unsupervised domain adaptive object detection (UDA-OD) aims to learn a detector by generalizing knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Though the existing graph-based methods for UDA-OD perform well in some cases, they cannot learn a proper node set for the graph. In a…
With frame-based cameras, capturing fast-moving scenes without suffering from blur often comes at the cost of low SNR and low contrast. Worse still, the photometric constancy that enhancement techniques heavily relied on is fragile for frames with short exposure. Event cameras can record brightness…
In recent years, multi-view multi-label learning has aroused extensive research enthusiasm. However, multi-view multi-label data in the real world is commonly incomplete due to the uncertain factors of data collection and manual annotation, which means that not only multi-view features are often mis…
While current deep learning (DL)-based beamforming techniques have been proved effective in speech separation, they are often designed to process narrow-band (NB) frequencies independently which results in higher computational costs and inference times, making them unsuitable for real-world use. In…
In recent years, there has been a rapid development of spatio-temporal prediction techniques in response to the increasing demands of traffic management and travel planning. While advanced end-to-end models have achieved notable success in improving predictive performance, their integration and expa…
Graph-based multi-view clustering has attracted extensive attention because of the powerful clustering-structure representation ability and noise robustness. Considering the reality of a large amount of incomplete data, in this paper, we propose a simple but effective method for incomplete multi-vie…
As we all know, multi-view data is more expressive than single-view data and multi-label annotation enjoys richer supervision information than single-label, which makes multi-view multi-label learning widely applicable for various pattern recognition tasks. In this complex representation learning pr…
Multi-view learning has become a popular research topic in recent years, but research on the cross-application of classic multi-label classification and multi-view learning is still in its early stages. In this paper, we focus on the complex yet highly realistic task of incomplete multi-view weak mu…
Speech emotion recognition (SER) plays a vital role in improving the interactions between humans and machines by inferring human emotion and affective states from speech signals. Whereas recent works primarily focus on mining spatiotemporal information from hand-crafted features, we explore how to m…
Audio-visual tracking of multiple speakers requires to estimate the state (e.g. velocity and location) of each speaker by leveraging the information of both audio and visual modalities. Estimating the number of speakers and their states jointly remains a challenging problem. We propose an Audio-Visu…
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has become a growing focus of research in human-computer interaction. An essential challenge in SER is to extract common attributes from different speakers or languages, especially when a specific source corpus has to be trained to recognize the unknown data coming f…
Deep object detectors suffer from the gradient contribution imbalance during training. In this paper, we point out that such imbalance can be ascribed to the imbalance in example attributes, e.g., difficulty and shape variation degree. We further propose example attribute based prediction modulation…
Semantic patterns of fine-grained objects are determined by subtle appearance difference of local parts, which thus inspires a number of part-based methods. However, due to uncontrollable object poses in images, distinctive details carried by local regions can be spatially distributed or even self-o…
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based models have greatly facilitated image synthesis. However, the model performance may be degraded when applied to fine-grained data, due to limited training samples and subtle distinction among categories. Different from generic GANs, we address the issue fro…
Recently Transformer has been largely explored in tracking and shown state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, existing efforts mainly focus on fusing and enhancing features generated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The potential of Transformer in representation learning remains under-e…
Speech separation algorithms are often used to separate the target speech from other interfering sources. However, purely neural network based speech separation systems often cause nonlinear distortion that is harmful for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. The conventional mask-based minimu…
In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become a prominent tool for texture recognition. The key of existing CNN-based approaches is aggregating the convolutional features into a robust yet discriminative description. This paper presents a novel feature aggregation module called C…
This paper proposes a new paradigm for handling far-field multi-speaker data in an end-to-end (E2E) neural network manner, called directional automatic speech recognition (D-ASR), which explicitly models source speaker locations. In D-ASR, the azimuth angle of the sources with respect to the microph…
Magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition is an inherently prolonged process, whose acceleration by obtaining multiple undersampled images simultaneously through parallel imaging has always been the subject of research. In this paper, we propose the Dual-Octave Convolution (Dual-OctConv), which is c…
Existing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often use global average pooling (GAP) to aggregate feature maps into a single representation. However, GAP cannot well characterize complex distributive patterns of spatial features while such patterns play an important role in texture-oriented applicat…
In recent years, single image dehazing deep models based on Atmospheric Scattering Model (ASM) have achieved remarkable results. But the dehazing outputs of those models suffer from color shift. Analyzing the ASM model shows that the atmospheric light factor (ALF) is set as a scalar which indicates…
Session-based recommendation plays a central role in a wide spectrum of online applications, ranging from e-commerce to online advertising services. However, the majority of existing session-based recommendation techniques (e.g., attention-based recurrent network or graph neural network) are not wel…
Hypergraph matching is a useful tool to find feature correspondence by considering higher-order structural information. Recently, the employment of deep learning has made great progress in the matching of graphs, suggesting its potential for hypergraphs. Hence, in this paper, we present the first, t…
Accurate user and item embedding learning is crucial for modern recommender systems. However, most existing recommendation techniques have thus far focused on modeling users' preferences over singular type of user-item interactions. Many practical recommendation scenarios involve multi-typed user in…
Social recommendation task aims to predict users' preferences over items with the incorporation of social connections among users, so as to alleviate the sparse issue of collaborative filtering. While many recent efforts show the effectiveness of neural network-based social recommender systems, seve…
Previous state-of-the-art deep generative models improve fine-grained image generation quality by designing hierarchical model structures and synthesizing images across multiple stages. The learning process is typically performed without any supervision in object categories. To address this issue, w…
Crime prediction is crucial for public safety and resource optimization, yet is very challenging due to two aspects: i) the dynamics of criminal patterns across time and space, crime events are distributed unevenly on both spatial and temporal domains; ii) time-evolving dependencies between differen…
In this paper, we propose a novel method, referred to as incomplete multi-view tensor spectral clustering with missing-view inferring (IMVTSC-MVI) to address the challenging multi-view clustering problem with missing views. Different from the existing methods which commonly focus on exploring the ce…
In recent years, incomplete multi-view clustering, which studies the challenging multi-view clustering problem on missing views, has received growing research interests. Although a series of methods have been proposed to address this issue, the following problems still exist: 1) Almost all of the ex…
Hand-crafted spatial features (e.g., inter-channel phase difference, IPD) play a fundamental role in recent deep learning based multi-channel speech separation (MCSS) methods. However, these manually designed spatial features are hard to incorporate into the end-to-end optimized MCSS framework. In t…
Target speech extraction is a specific case of source separation where an auxiliary information like the location or some pre-saved anchor speech examples of the target speaker is used to resolve the permutation ambiguity. Traditionally such systems are optimized based on signal reconstruction objec…
Speaker diarization, which is to find the speech segments of specific speakers, has been widely used in human-centered applications such as video conferences or human-computer interaction systems. In this paper, we propose a self-supervised audio-video synchronization learning method to address the…
Acoustic scene generation (ASG) is a task to generate waveforms for acoustic scenes. ASG can be used to generate audio scenes for movies and computer games. Recently, neural networks such as SampleRNN have been used for speech and music generation. However, ASG is more challenging due to its wide va…
Graph neural network (GNN) has powerful representation ability, but optimal configurations of GNN are non-trivial to obtain due to diversity of graph structure and cascaded nonlinearities. This paper aims to understand some properties of GNN from a computer vision (CV) perspective. In mathematical a…
This paper proposes an attention-based neural network approach for single channel speech enhancement. Our work is inspired by the recent success of attention models in sequence-to-sequence learning. It is intuitive to use attention mechanism in speech enhancement as humans are able to focus on the i…
In this paper, we present a joint training framework between the multi-channel beamformer and the acoustic model for noise robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). The complex ratio mask (CRM), demonstrated to be more effective than the ideal ratio mask (IRM), is proposed to estimate the covarianc…
In this paper, we present LaSOT, a high-quality benchmark for Large-scale Single Object Tracking. LaSOT consists of 1,400 sequences with more than 3.5M frames in total. Each frame in these sequences is carefully and manually annotated with a bounding box, making LaSOT the largest, to the best of our…
Source separation (SS) aims to separate individual sources from an audio recording. Sound event detection (SED) aims to detect sound events from an audio recording. We propose a joint separation-classification (JSC) model trained only on weakly labelled audio data, that is, only the tags of an audio…
This paper investigates the Audio Set classification. Audio Set is a large scale weakly labelled dataset (WLD) of audio clips. In WLD only the presence of a label is known, without knowing the happening time of the labels. We propose an attention model to solve this WLD problem and explain the atten…
Dense video captioning is a newly emerging task that aims at both localizing and describing all events in a video. We identify and tackle two challenges on this task, namely, (1) how to utilize both past and future contexts for accurate event proposal predictions, and (2) how to construct informativ…
How to economically cluster large-scale multi-view images is a long-standing problem in computer vision. To tackle this challenge, this paper introduces a novel approach named Highly-economized Scalable Image Clustering (HSIC) that radically surpasses conventional image clustering methods via binary…
In this paper, we propose an iterative deep neural network (DNN)-based binaural source separation scheme, for recovering two concurrent speech signals in a room environment. Besides the commonly-used spectral features, the DNN also takes non-linearly wrapped binaural spatial features as input, which…
In this paper, we present a gated convolutional neural network and a temporal attention-based localization method for audio classification, which won the 1st place in the large-scale weakly supervised sound event detection task of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 20…
Audio tagging aims to assign one or several tags to an audio clip. Most of the datasets are weakly labelled, which means only the tags of the clip are known, without knowing the occurrence time of the tags. The labeling of an audio clip is often based on the audio events in the clip and no event lev…
Automatic and fast tagging of natural sounds in audio collections is a very challenging task due to wide acoustic variations, the large number of possible tags, the incomplete and ambiguous tags provided by different labellers. To handle these problems, we use a co-regularization approach to learn a…
In domain adaptation, maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been widely adopted as a discrepancy metric between the distributions of source and target domains. However, existing MMD-based domain adaptation methods generally ignore the changes of class prior distributions, i.e., class weight bias across…
Discriminative sparse coding has emerged as a promising technique in image analysis and recognition, which couples the process of classifier training and the process of dictionary learning for improving the discriminability of sparse codes. Many existing approaches consider only a simple single lin…
Visual distortions on images caused by bad weather conditions can have a negative impact on the performance of many outdoor vision systems. One often seen bad weather is rain which causes significant yet complex local intensity fluctuations in images. The paper aims at developing an effective algo…