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This paper proposes the use of an access point (AP) selection scheme to improve the total uplink (UL) spectral efficiency (SE) of a radio stripe (RS) network. This scheme optimizes the allocation matrix between the total number of APs'…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Filipe Conceição , Marco Gomes , Vitor Silva , Rui Dinis

The sampling of probability distributions specified up to a normalization constant is an important problem in both machine learning and statistical mechanics. While classical stochastic sampling methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-27 Hao Wu , Jonas Köhler , Frank Noé

We present a novel and hierarchical approach for supervised classification of signals spanning over a fixed graph, reflecting shared properties of the dataset. To this end, we introduce a Convolutional Cluster Pooling layer exploiting a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Angelo Porrello , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

We propose a scheme for supervised image classification that uses privileged information, in the form of keypoint annotations for the training data, to learn strong models from small and/or biased training sets. Our main motivation is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Andres C. Rodriguez , Stefano D'Aronco , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner

We develop and analyze a stochastic genetic interacting particle method (SGIP) for reaction-diffusion-advection (RDA) equations. The SGIP method employs operator splitting to approximate the advection-diffusion and reaction processes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Boyi Hu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

Transformer encoders are widely deployed in large-scale web services for natural language understanding tasks such as text classification, semantic retrieval, and content ranking. However, their high inference latency and memory consumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zeli Su , Ziyin Zhang , Wenzheng Zhang , Zhou Liu , Guixian Xu , Wentao Zhang

The Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL) model relies on global word co-occurrence matrices to construct distributional semantic representations. While these representations capture lexical relationships effectively, aggregating them into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ali Sakour , Zoalfekar Sakour

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation aims to learn from a small amount of labeled data and plenty of unlabeled ones for the segmentation task. The most common approach is to generate pseudo-labels for unlabeled images to augment the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Rui Chen , Tao Chen , Qiong Wang , Yazhou Yao

Modern high-performance semantic segmentation methods employ a heavy backbone and dilated convolution to extract the relevant feature. Although extracting features with both contextual and semantic information is critical for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mohammed A. M. Elhassan , Chenhui Yang , Chenxi Huang , Tewodros Legesse Munea , Xin Hong , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Amina Benabid

We introduce and define the concept of a stochastic pooling network (SPN), as a model for sensor systems where redundancy and two forms of 'noise' -- lossy compression and randomness -- interact in surprising ways. Our approach to analyzing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-26 Mark D. McDonnell , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Nigel G. Stocks

The attention mechanism plays a pivotal role in designing advanced super-resolution (SR) networks. In this work, we design an efficient SR network by improving the attention mechanism. We start from a simple pixel attention module and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Lin Zhou , Haoming Cai , Jinjin Gu , Zheyuan Li , Yingqi Liu , Xiangyu Chen , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

Convolutional neural networks have been widely applied to hyperspectral image classification. However, traditional convolutions can not effectively extract features for objects with irregular distributions. Recent methods attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Di Wang , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang

Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification (MLRSIC) has received increasing research interest. Taking the cooccurrence relationship of multiple labels as additional information helps to improve the performance of this task. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yongkun Liu , Kesong Ni , Yuhan Zhang , Lijian Zhou , Kun Zhao

Objects for detection usually have distinct characteristics in different sub-regions and different aspect ratios. However, in prevalent two-stage object detection methods, Region-of-Interest (RoI) features are extracted by RoI pooling with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Yao Zhai , Jingjing Fu , Yan Lu , Houqiang Li

Visual attention has been extensively studied for learning fine-grained features in both facial expression recognition (FER) and Action Unit (AU) detection. A broad range of previous research has explored how to use attention modules to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Xiaotian Li , Zhihua Li , Huiyuan Yang , Geran Zhao , Lijun Yin

Scene Graph Generation, which generally follows a regular encoder-decoder pipeline, aims to first encode the visual contents within the given image and then parse them into a compact summary graph. Existing SGG approaches generally not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xingning Dong , Tian Gan , Xuemeng Song , Jianlong Wu , Yuan Cheng , Liqiang Nie

Brain surface analysis is essential to neuroscience, however, the complex geometry of the brain cortex hinders computational methods for this task. The difficulty arises from a discrepancy between 3D imaging data, which is represented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Karthik Gopinath , Christian Desrosiers , Herve Lombaert

State-of-the-art methods for object detection use region proposal networks (RPN) to hypothesize object location. These networks simultaneously predicts object bounding boxes and \emph{objectness} scores at each location in the image. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Awais Mansoor , Antonio R. Porras , Marius George Linguraru

Real-time path tracing increasingly operates under extremely low sampling budgets, often below one sample per pixel, as rendering complexity, resolution, and frame-rate requirements continue to rise. While super-resolution is widely used in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Martin Bálint , Corentin Salaün , Hans-Peter Seidel , Karol Myszkowski

Clustering algorithms are fundamental tools across many fields, with density-based methods offering particular advantages in identifying arbitrarily shaped clusters and handling noise. However, their effectiveness is often limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Meysam Shirdel Bilehsavar , Razieh Ghaedi , Samira Seyed Taheri , Xinqi Fan , Christian O'Reilly