40 accepted papers
Automated scoring plays a crucial role in education by reducing the reliance on human raters and offering scalable and immediate evaluation of student work. While large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in this task, their use as end-to-end raters faces challenges such as low accura
All-in-One Image Restoration (AIO-IR) aims to develop a unified model that can handle multiple degradations under complex conditions. However, existing methods often rely on task-specific designs or latent routing strategies, making it hard to adapt to real-world scenarios with various degradations.
Existing tasks fall short in evaluating reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) in an interactive, unknown environment. This deficiency leads to the isolated assessment of deductive, inductive, and abductive reasoning, neglecting the integrated reasoning process that is indispensable for h…
We introduce UCS-Bench, a dataset spanning 170+ hours of egocentric visual observations with 7K+ timestamped questions for diagnosing User-centric Continual Spatial intelligence in egocentric video streams. UCS-Bench targets a new problem that emphasizes dynamic spatial reasoning, long-term memory, …
Forecasting time series with extreme events is critical yet challenging due to their high variance, irregular dynamics, and sparse but high-impact nature. While existing methods excel in modeling dominant regular patterns, their performance degrades significantly during extreme events, constituting
Personalized image generation is crucial for improving the user experience, as it renders reference images into preferred ones according to user visual preferences. Although effective, existing methods face two main issues. First, existing methods treat all items in the user
Speech tokenizers are foundational to speech language models, yet existing approaches face two major challenges: (1) balancing trade-offs between encoding semantics for understanding and acoustics for reconstruction, and (2) achieving low bit rates and low token rates. We propose Speech Diffusion To…
Dynamic spatio-temporal understanding is essential for video-based multimodal tasks, yet existing methods often struggle to capture fine-grained temporal and spatial relationships in long videos. Current approaches primarily rely on pre-trained CLIP encoders, which excel in semantic understanding bu
Self-supervised stereo matching has drawn attention due to its ability to estimate disparity without needing ground-truth data. However, existing self-supervised stereo matching methods heavily rely on the photo-metric consistency assumption, which is vulnerable to natural disturbances, resulting in…
Chinese liquor holds great cultural and economic significance globally. The accurate classification of aroma types and alcohol content is crucial for quality control in Chinese liquor production. To address limitations such as subjectivity and sensor drift in current methods, this study introduces a…
Scene flow methods based on deep learning have achieved impressive performance. However, current top-performing methods still struggle with ill-posed regions, such as extensive flat regions or occlusions, due to insufficient local evidence. In this paper, we propose a novel global-aware scene flow e…
Storytelling tasks involving generating consistent subjects have gained significant attention recently. However, existing methods, whether training-free or training-based, continue to face challenges in maintaining subject consistency due to the lack of fine-grained guidance and inter-frame interact…
Recently, learning-based stereo matching networks have advanced significantly.However, they often lack robustness and struggle to achieve impressive cross-domain performance due to domain shifts and imbalanced disparity distributions among diverse datasets.Leveraging Vision Foundation Models (VFMs)…
Motion control of magnetic microswarms has attracted extensive attention due to its significance in microrobots-based biomedical applications such as targeted drug delivery. However, such reconfigurable microswarms are subject to complex interactions between individuals and environments which make a
Temporally consistent depth estimation from stereo video is critical for real-world applications such as augmented reality, where inconsistent depth estimation disrupts the immersion of users. Despite its importance, this task remains challenging due to the difficulty in modeling long-term temporal…
"Advancements in brain imaging enable the decoding of thoughts and intentions from neural activities. However, the fMRI-to-video decoding of brain signals across multiple subjects encounters challenges arising from structural and coding disparities among individual brains, further compounded by the…
Robust segmentation is critical for deriving quantitative measures from large-scale multi-center and longitudinal medical scans. Manually annotating medical scans however is expensive and labor-intensive and may not always be available in every domain. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is a well-…
"In this paper, we introduce Recon3DMind, an innovative task aimed at reconstructing 3D visuals from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) signals, marking a significant advancement in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. To support this pioneering task, we present the fM…
We propose a multi-task learning (MTL) model for jointly performing three tasks that are commonly solved in a text-to-speech (TTS) front-end: text normalization (TN), part-of-speech (POS) tagging, and homograph disambiguation (HD). Our framework utilizes a tree-like structure with a trunk that learn…
Gboard Decoder produces suggestions by looking for paths that best match input touch points on the context aware search space, which is backed by the language Finite State Transducers (FST). The language FST is currently an N-gram language model (LM). However, N-gram LMs, limited in context length,…
"Recent fMRI-to-image approaches mainly focused on associating fMRI signals with specific conditions of pre-trained diffusion models. These approaches, while producing high-quality images, capture only a limited aspect of the complex information in fMRI signals and offer little detailed control over…
This paper presents a bionic foldable wing that imitates the hind wing of ladybirds. Based on the folding mechanism of the hind wing of ladybirds and the theory of origami, the motion model of the bionic foldable wing is established, yield the motion law of the crease angles and the variation relati…
Although both self-supervised single-frame and multi-frame depth estimation methods only require unlabeled monocular videos for training, the information they leverage varies because single-frame methods mainly rely on appearance-based features while multi-frame methods focus on geometric cues. Cons
Audio tagging aims to assign predefined tags to audio clips to indicate the class information of audio events. Sequential audio tagging (SAT) means detecting both the class information of audio events, and the order in which they occur within the audio clip. Most existing methods for SAT are based o…
Scene flow estimation, which predicts the 3D displacements of point clouds, is a fundamental task in autonomous driving. Most methods have adopted a coarse-to-fine structure to balance computational efficiency with accuracy, particularly when handling large displacements. However, inaccuracies in th…
Representation learning from unlabeled data has been of major interest in artificial intelligence research. While self-supervised speech representation learning has been popular in the speech research community, very few works have comprehensively analyzed audio representation learning for non-speec…
Matching cost aggregation plays a critical role for the stereo matching task. Existing CNN-based methods commonly use 3D convolutions to aggregate matching costs from a local 3D space. However, the high computational cost of 3D convolutions limits their applications. Traditional methods show that a
Although existing monocular depth estimation methods have made great progress, predicting an accurate absolute depth map from a single image is still challenging due to the limited modeling capacity of networks and the scale ambiguity issue. In this paper, we introduce a fully Visual Attention-based
Packet loss may affect a wide range of applications that use voice over IP (VoIP), e.g. video conferencing. In this paper, we investigate a time-domain convolutional recurrent network (CRN) for online packet loss concealment. The CRN comprises a convolutional encoder-decoder structure and long short…
Graph topological structures are crucial to distinguish different-class graphs. In this work, we propose a deep Wasserstein graph discriminant learning (WGDL) framework to learn discriminative embeddings of graphs in Wasserstein-metric (W-metric) matching space. In order to bypass the calculation of…
Hierarchy preserving network embedding is a method that project nodes into feature space by preserving the hierarchy property of networks. Recently, researches on network representation have considerably profited from taking hierarchy into consideration. Among these works, SpaceNE <sup xmlns:mml="ht…
Graphs play an important role in cross-modal image-text understanding as they characterize the intrinsic structure which is robust and crucial for the measurement of cross-modal similarity. In this work, we propose a Wasserstein Coupled Graph Learning (WCGL) method to deal with the cross-modal retri…
Abstractive text summarization is a challenging task, and one need to design a mechanism to effectively extract salient information from the source text and then generate a summary. A parsing process of the source text contains critical syntactic or semantic structures, which is useful to generate m…
Sound event detection (SED) entails two subtasks: recognizing what types of sound events are present in an audio stream (audio tagging), and pinpointing their onset and offset times (localization). In the popular multiple instance learning (MIL) framework for SED with weak labeling, an important com…
Research on sound event detection (SED) with weak labeling has mostly focused on presence/absence labeling, which provides no temporal information at all about the event occurrences. In this paper, we consider SED with sequential labeling, which specifies the temporal order of the event boundaries.…
The lack of strong labels has severely limited the state-of-the-art fully supervised audio tagging systems to be scaled to larger dataset. Meanwhile, audio-visual learning models based on unlabeled videos have been successfully applied to audio tagging, but they are inevitably resource hungry and re…
Sound event detection is the task of detecting the type, starting time, and ending time of sound events in audio streams. Recently, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have become the mainstream solution for sound event detection. Because RNNs make a prediction at every frame, it is necessary to provid…
Multimedia event detection (MED) is the task of detecting given events (e.g. birthday party, making a sandwich) in a large collection of video clips. While visual features and automatic speech recognition typically provide the best features for this task, nonspeech audio can also contribute useful i…
In particular for “low resource” Keyword Search (KWS) and Speech-to-Text (STT) tasks, more untranscribed test data may be available than training data. Several approaches have been proposed to make this data useful during system development, even when initial systems have Word Error Rates (WER) abov…