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This paper presents an interactive approach for multi-class segmentation of aerial images. Precisely, it is based on a deep neural network which exploits both RGB images and annotations. Starting from an initial output based on the image…

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Successful Human-Robot collaboration requires a predictive model of human behavior. The robot needs to be able to recognize current goals and actions and to predict future activities in a given context. However, the spatio-temporal sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Judith Bütepage , Danica Kragic

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented performance in generative modeling. The commonly-adopted formulation of the latent code of diffusion models is a sequence of gradually denoised samples, as opposed to the simpler (e.g., Gaussian)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chen Henry Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Knowledge about the hidden factors that determine particular system dynamics is crucial for both explaining them and pursuing goal-directed interventions. Inferring these factors from time series data without supervision remains an open…

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from clutter backgrounds. With the advances of deep learning, CNN-based methods have yielded promising results in generic object detection due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Boyang Li , Chao Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin , Miao Li , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Autonomous driving systems require a comprehensive understanding of the environment, achieved by extracting visual features essential for perception, planning, and control. However, models trained solely on single-task objectives or generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Huy-Dung Nguyen , Anass Bairouk , Mirjana Maras , Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Patrick Chareyre , Ramin Hasani , Marc Blanchon , Daniela Rus

In autoencoder, the encoder generally approximates the latent distribution over the dataset, and the decoder generates samples using this learned latent distribution. There is very little control over the latent vector as using the random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sanket Kalwar , Animikh Aich , Tanay Dixit , Adit Chhabra

Learning disentangled representations leads to interpretable models and facilitates data generation with style transfer, which has been extensively studied on static data such as images in an unsupervised learning framework. However, only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jun Han , Martin Renqiang Min , Ligong Han , Li Erran Li , Xuan Zhang

Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

In this paper, we study two aspects of the variational autoencoder (VAE): the prior distribution over the latent variables and its corresponding posterior. First, we decompose the learning of VAEs into layerwise density estimation, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Chin-Wei Huang , Ahmed Touati , Laurent Dinh , Michal Drozdzal , Mohammad Havaei , Laurent Charlin , Aaron Courville

Discrete diffusion models generate sequences by iteratively denoising samples corrupted by categorical noise, offering an appealing alternative to autoregressive decoding for structured and symbolic generation. However, standard training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Huu Binh Ta , Michael Cardei , Alvaro Velasquez , Ferdinando Fioretto

Recurrent models for sequences have been recently successful at many tasks, especially for language modeling and machine translation. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to extract good representations from these models. For instance, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Łukasz Kaiser , Samy Bengio

We introduce and study a class of probabilistic generative models, where the latent object is a finite-dimensional diffusion process on a finite time interval and the observed variable is drawn conditionally on the terminal point of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Belinda Tzen , Maxim Raginsky

Decomposing complex data into factorized representations can reveal reusable components and enable synthesizing new samples via component recombination. We investigate this in the context of diffusion-based models that learn factorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Archer Wang , Emile Anand , Yilun Du , Marin Soljačić

Foundation models have emerged as powerful tools across various domains including language, vision, and multimodal tasks. While prior works have addressed unsupervised image segmentation, they significantly lag behind supervised models. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paul Couairon , Mustafa Shukor , Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard , Matthieu Cord , Nicolas Thome

In the context of high usability in single-class anomaly detection models, recent academic research has become concerned about the more complex multi-class anomaly detection. Although several papers have designed unified models for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xi Jiang , Ying Chen , Qiang Nie , Jianlin Liu , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Multi-label classification has broad applications and depends on powerful representations capable of capturing multi-label interactions. We introduce \textit{Diff-Feat}, a simple but powerful framework that extracts intermediate features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tian Lan , Yiming Zheng , Jianxin Yin

Acoustic scenes are rich and redundant in their content. In this work, we present a spatio-temporal attention pooling layer coupled with a convolutional recurrent neural network to learn from patterns that are discriminative while…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Huy Phan , Oliver Y. Chén , Lam Pham , Philipp Koch , Maarten De Vos , Ian McLoughlin , Alfred Mertins

Variational autoencoders are prominent generative models for modeling discrete data. However, with flexible decoders, they tend to ignore the latent codes. In this paper, we study a VAE model with a deterministic decoder (DD-VAE) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Daniil Polykovskiy , Dmitry Vetrov

We introduce a nonparametric model for inferring time-evolving, unobserved probability distributions from discrete-time data consisting of unlabelled partitions. The latent process is a two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet diffusion, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Marco Dalla Pria , Matteo Ruggiero , Dario Spanò