43 accepted papers
Feature encoders play a key role in pixel-level crack segmentation by shaping the representation of fine textures and thin structures. Existing CNN-, Transformer-, and Mamba-based models each capture only part of the required spatial or structural information, leaving clear gaps in modeling complex
CD8+ “killer” T cells and CD4+ “helper” T cells play a central role in the adaptive immune system by recognizing antigens presented by Major Histocompatibility Complex (pMHC) molecules via T Cell Receptors (TCRs). Modeling binding between T cells and the pMHC complex is fundamental to understanding…
Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in broad visual understanding, yet they remain challenged by object-centric reasoning on rare objects due to the scarcity of such instances in pretraining data. While prior efforts alleviate this issue by retrieving additional data or in
Decoding visual signals holds an appealing potential to unravel the complexities of cognition and perception. While recent reconstruction tasks leverage powerful generative models to produce high-fidelity images from neural recordings, they often pay limited attention to the underlying neural repres…
Hypergraph Clustering has gained significant attention due to its capability of capturing high order structural information. Among different approaches, contrastive learning-based methods leverage self-supervised learning and data augmentation, exhibiting impressive performance. However, most of the
The success of existing deep multi-view graph clustering methods is based on the assumption that node attributes are fully available across all views. However, in practical scenarios, node attributes are frequently missing due to factors such as data privacy concerns or failures in data collection d…
Reinforcement learning (RL) systems, while achieving remarkable success across various domains, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This is especially a concern in vision-based environments where minor manipulations of high-dimensional image inputs can easily mislead the agent's behavior. To this…
Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been considered as a promising avenue for synthetic image generation and…
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a classical supervised dimensionality reduction algorithm. However, LDA focuses more on global structure and overly depends on reliable data labels. For data with outliers and nonlinear structures, LDA cannot effectively capture the true structure of the data. M
Existing hypergraph clustering methods typically assume that node attributes are fully available. However, in real-world scenarios, missing node attributes are common for the sake of privacy or due to data noise. While some approaches attempt to handle missing attributes in traditional graphs, they…
Multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) borrows intrinsic knowledge from well-annotated source domains to identify target visual signals. The main challenges are effectively mitigating cross-domain shift and extracting discriminative target features via the suitable source semantics. To overcome them,…
Accurately modeling pedestrian intention and understanding driver decision-making processes are critical for the development of safe and socially aware autonomous driving systems. However, existing datasets primarily emphasize observable behavior, offering limited insight into the underlying causal…
In domain adaption (DA), joint maximum mean discrepancy (JMMD), as a famous distribution-distance metric, aims to measure joint probability distribution difference between the source domain and target domain, while it is still not fully explored and especially hard to be applied into a subspace-lear…
Camera-LiDAR 3D object detection is currently becoming a crucial component in the field of autonomous driving perception. However, previous models only performed feature fusion in the deep-level BEV hierarchy when dealing with camera-LiDAR feature fusion. This approach lacks interaction with the sha
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to transfer knowledge from the well-trained source model and optimize it to adapt target data distribution. SFDA methods are suitable for medical image segmentation task due to its data-privacy protection and achieve promising performances. However, cross-do…
K-Means clustering is a classical and effective unsupervised learning method attributed to its simplicity and efficiency. However, it faces notable challenges, including sensitivity to random initial centroid selection, a limited ability to discover the intrinsic manifold structures within nonlinear…
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) assumes that model adaptation only accesses the well-learned source model and unlabeled target instances for knowledge transfer. However cross-domain distribution shift easily triggers invalid discriminative semantics from source model on recognizing the target s…
Recent few-shot video classification (FSVC) works achieve promising performance by capturing similarity across support and query samples with different temporal alignment strategies or learning discriminative features via Transformer block within each episode. However, they ignore two important issu…
Mixup-based data augmentation has been validated to be a critical stage in the self-training framework for unsupervised domain adaptive semantic segmentation (UDASS), which aims to transfer knowledge from a well-annotated (source) domain to an unlabeled (target) domain. Existing self-training method…
Federated learning casts a light on the collaboration of distributed local clients with privacy protected to attain a more generic global model. However, significant distribution shift in input/label space across different clients makes it challenging to well generalize to all clients, which motivat…
Detecting navigable space is a fundamental capability for mobile robots navigating in unknown or unmapped environments. In this work, we treat visual navigable space segmentation as a scene decomposition problem and propose <bold xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www
Source-Free domain adaptation transits the source-trained model towards target domain without exposing the source data, trying to dispel these concerns about data privacy and security. However, this paradigm is still at risk of data leakage due to adversarial attacks on the source model. Hence, the…
With rapid development in hardware (sensors and processors) and AI algorithms, automated driving techniques have entered the public’s daily life and achieved great success in supporting human driving performance. However, due to the high contextual variations and temporal dynamics in pedestrian beha…
Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer the knowledge of a well-labeled source domain to facilitate unlabeled target learning. When turning to specific tasks such as indoor (Wi-Fi) localization, it is essential to learn a cross-domain regressor to mitigate the domain shift. This paper proposes a nov…
Batch Normalization (BN) as an important component assists Deep Neural Networks in achieving promising performance for extensive learning tasks by scaling distribution of feature representations within mini-batches. However, the application of BN suffers from performance degradation under the scenar…
"Autonomous driving has attracted interest for interpretable action decision models that mimic human cognition. Existing interpretable autonomous driving models explore static human explanations, which ignore the implicit visual semantics that are not explicitly annotated or even consistent across a…
"Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) borrows well-labeled source knowledge to solve the specific task on unlabeled target domain with the assumption that both domains are from a single sensor, e.g., RGB or depth images. To boost model performance, multiple sensors are deployed on new-produced devic…
Federated learning (FL) is a promising strategy for performing privacy-preserving, distributed learning with a network of clients (i.e., edge devices). However, the data distribution among clients is often non-IID in nature, making efficient optimization difficult. To alleviate this issue, many FL a…
Transformer architectures have become the model of choice in natural language processing and are now being introduced into computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. However, in the field of human pose estimation, convolutional architectures stil…
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation solves knowledge transfer along with the coexistence of well-annotated source domain and unlabeled target instances. However, the source domain in many practical applications is not always accessible due to data privacy or the insufficient memory storage for small devi…
Open Set Domain Adaptation (OSDA) is a challenging domain adaptation setting which allows the existence of unknown classes on the target domain. Although existing OSDA methods are good at classifying samples of known classes, they ignore the classification ability for the unknown samples, making the…
Visual-tactile fused sensing for object clustering has achieved significant progresses recently, since the involvement of tactile modality can effectively improve clustering performance. However, the missing data (i.e., partial data) issues always happen due to occlusion and noises during the data c…
Partial Domain Adaptation (PDA) addresses the unsupervised domain adaptation problem where the target label space is a subset of the source label space. Most state-of-art PDA methods tackle the inconsistent label space by assigning weights to classes or individual samples, in an attempt to discard t…
Open-set domain adaptation (OSDA) considers that the target domain contains samples from novel categories unobserved in external source domain. Unfortunately, existing OSDA methods always ignore the demand for the information of unseen categories and simply recognize them as "unknown" set without fu…
Multi-view learning (MVL) explores the data extracted from multiple resources. It assumes that the complementary information between different views could be revealed to further improve the learning performance. There are two challenges. First, it is difficult to effectively combine the different vi…
Domain Adaptation as an important tool aims to explore a generalized model trained on well-annotated source knowledge to address learning issue on target domain with insufficient or even no annotation. Current approaches typically incorporate data from source and target domains for training stage to…
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) casts a light when dealing with insufficient or no labeled data in the target domain by exploring the well-annotated source knowledge in different distributions. Most research efforts on UDA explore to seek a domain-invariant classifier over source supervision. H…
Multi-view action recognition targets to integrate complementary information from different views to improve classification performance. It is a challenging task due to the distinct gap between heterogeneous feature domains. Moreover, most existing methods neglect to consider the incomplete multi-vi…
Conventional zero-shot learning (ZSL) methods generally learn an embedding, e.g., visual-semantic mapping, to handle the unseen visual samples via an indirect manner. In this paper, we take the advantage of generative adversarial networks (GANs) and propose a novel method, named leveraging invariant…
Zero-shot learning has been well explored to precisely identify new unobserved classes through a visual-semantic function obtained from the existing objects. However, there exist two challenging obstacles: one is that the human-annotated semantics are insufficient to fully describe the visual sample…
Unsupervised domain adaptation has caught appealing attentions as it facilitates the unlabeled target learning by borrowing existing well-established source domain knowledge. Recent practice on domain adaptation manages to extract effective features by incorporating the pseudo labels for the target…
Zero-shot learning for visual recognition has received much interest in the most recent years. However, the semantic gap across visual features and their underlying semantics is still the biggest obstacle in zero-shot learning. To fight off this hurdle, we propose an effective Low-rank Embedded Sema…
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…