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We present a novel adaptive optimization algorithm for black-box multi-objective optimization problems with binary constraints on the foundation of Bayes optimization. Our method is based on probabilistic regression and classification…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Raoul Heese , Michael Bortz

Foreground segmentation is an essential task in the field of image understanding. Under unsupervised conditions, different images and instances always have variable expressions, which make it difficult to achieve stable segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xi Li , Huimin Ma , Hongbing Ma , Yidong Wang

Fine-grained object categorization aims for distinguishing objects of subordinate categories that belong to the same entry-level object category. The task is challenging due to the facts that (1) training images with ground-truth labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Yabin Zhang , Kui Jia , Zhixin Wang

Learning from weakly-supervised data is one of the main challenges in machine learning and computer vision, especially for tasks such as image semantic segmentation where labeling is extremely expensive and subjective. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Xianming Liu , Amy Zhang , Tobias Tiecke , Andreas Gros , Thomas S. Huang

Convolutional neural networks model the transformation of the input sensory data at the bottom of a network hierarchy to the semantic information at the top of the visual hierarchy. Feedforward processing is sufficient for some object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mahdi Biparva , John Tsotsos

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

When one wants to train a neural network to perform semantic segmentation, creating pixel-level annotations for each of the images in the database is a tedious task. If he works with aerial or satellite images, which are usually very large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Adrien Nivaggioli , Hicham Randrianarivo

We propose an approach for unsupervised adaptation of object detectors from label-rich to label-poor domains which can significantly reduce annotation costs associated with detection. Recently, approaches that align distributions of source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Kuniaki Saito , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada , Kate Saenko

To reduce memory footprint and run-time latency, techniques such as neural network pruning and binarization have been explored separately. However, it is unclear how to combine the best of the two worlds to get extremely small and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Yinghao Xu , Xin Dong , Yudian Li , Hao Su

Affordance detection from visual input is a fundamental step in autonomous robotic manipulation. Existing solutions to the problem of affordance detection rely on convolutional neural networks. However, these networks do not consider the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez , Simon Haller-Seeber , David Peer , Chris Engelhardt , Jakob Mittelberger , Matteo Saveriano

In interactive object segmentation a user collaborates with a computer vision model to segment an object. Recent works employ convolutional neural networks for this task: Given an image and a set of corrections made by the user as input,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Theodora Kontogianni , Michael Gygli , Jasper Uijlings , Vittorio Ferrari

Learning object affordances is an effective tool in the field of robot learning. While the data-driven models investigate affordances of single or paired objects, there is a gap in the exploration of affordances of compound objects composed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Tuba Girgin , Emre Ugur

Affordances are the potential actions an agent can perform on an object, as observed by a camera. Visual affordance prediction is formulated differently for tasks such as grasping detection, affordance classification, affordance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Tommaso Apicella , Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

Deep neural networks are state-of-the-art models for understanding the content of images, video and raw input data. However, implementing a deep neural network in embedded systems is a challenging task, because a typical deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Xichuan Zhou , Shengli Li , Kai Qin , Kunping Li , Fang Tang , Shengdong Hu , Shujun Liu , Zhi Lin

Audio-visual segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict pixel-level masks for sound sources in a video. Previous work applied a comprehensive manually designed architecture with countless pixel-wise accurate masks as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shentong Mo , Bhiksha Raj

Affordance segmentation aims to decompose 3D objects into parts that serve distinct functional roles, enabling models to reason about object interactions rather than mere recognition. Existing methods, mostly following the paradigm of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yu Huang , Zelin Peng , Changsong Wen , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Zhiyuan Shi , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang

We propose a novel locally adaptive learning estimator for enhancing the inter- and intra- discriminative capabilities of Deep Neural Networks, which can be used as improved loss layer for semantic image segmentation tasks. Most loss layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Jinjiang Guo , Pengyuan Ren , Aiguo Gu , Jian Xu , Weixin Wu

Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-of-the-art literature explores robotic grasping methods by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Paola Ardón , Èric Pairet , Ron Petrick , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Katrin Lohan

This paper focuses on detection tasks in information extraction, where positive instances are sparsely distributed and models are usually evaluated using F-measure on positive classes. These characteristics often result in deficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Hongyu Lin , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Le Sun