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Event-based sensors offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based cameras, especially in scenarios involving rapid motion or challenging lighting conditions. However, event data frequently suffers from considerable noise,…

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Recent contrastive methods show significant improvement in self-supervised learning in several domains. In particular, contrastive methods are most effective where data augmentation can be easily constructed e.g. in computer vision.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Denis Gudovskiy , Kazuki Kozuka , Iku Ohama , Luca Rigazio

Noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) is a statistically consistent method for learning unnormalized probabilistic models. It has been empirically observed that the choice of the noise distribution is crucial for NCE's performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Bingbin Liu , Elan Rosenfeld , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

In recent years, Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) has played a crucial role in preserving the security of face recognition technology. With the rise of counterfeit face generation techniques, the challenge posed by digitally edited faces to face…

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Despite their exceptional performance in vision tasks, deep learning models often struggle when faced with domain shifts during testing. Test-Time Training (TTT) methods have recently gained popularity by their ability to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 David Osowiechi , Gustavo A. Vargas Hakim , Mehrdad Noori , Milad Cheraghalikhani , Ali Bahri , Moslem Yazdanpanah , Ismail Ben Ayed , Christian Desrosiers

Learning unnormalized statistical models (e.g., energy-based models) is computationally challenging due to the complexity of handling the partition function. To eschew this complexity, noise-contrastive estimation~(NCE) has been proposed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Wei Jiang , Jiayu Qin , Lingyu Wu , Changyou Chen , Tianbao Yang , Lijun Zhang

Cross-modal retrieval maps data under different modality via semantic relevance. Existing approaches implicitly assume that data pairs are well-aligned and ignore the widely existing annotation noise, i.e., noisy correspondence (NC).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Shuai Lyu , Zijing Tian , Zhonghong Ou , Yifan Zhu , Xiao Zhang , Qiankun Ha , Haoran Luo , Meina Song

Noise suppression (NS) algorithms are effective in improving speech quality in many cases. However, aggressive noise suppression can damage the target speech, reducing both speech intelligibility and quality despite removing the noise. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Kyungguen Byun , Jason Filos , Erik Visser , Sunkuk Moon

Dimensionality reduction methods such as t-SNE and UMAP are popular methods for visualizing data with a potential (latent) clustered structure. They are known to group data points at the same time as they embed them, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Elizabeth Coda , Ery Arias-Castro , Gal Mishne

In modern display technology and visualization tools, downscaling images is one of the most important activities. This procedure aims to maintain both visual authenticity and structural integrity while reducing the dimensions of an image at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Suvrojit Mitra , G B Kevin Arjun , Sanjay Ghosh

We tackle the problem of unsupervised visual descriptors compression, which is a key ingredient of large-scale image retrieval systems. While the deep learning machinery has benefited literally all computer vision pipelines, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Stanislav Morozov , Artem Babenko

Recovering a high-quality image from noisy indirect measurements is an important problem with many applications. For such inverse problems, supervised deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based denoising methods have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Allard A. Hendriksen , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

We develop a data-driven approach for signal denoising that utilizes variational mode decomposition (VMD) algorithm and Cramer Von Misses (CVM) statistic. In comparison with the classical empirical mode decomposition (EMD), VMD enjoys…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Khuram Naveed , Muhammad Tahir Akhtar , Muhammad Faisal Siddiqui , Naveed ur Rehman

This article presents a novel application of the t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) clustering algorithm to the telecommunication field. t-SNE is a dimensionality reduction (DR) algorithm that allows the visualization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Alejandro Ramírez-Arroyo , Luz García , Antonio Alex-Amor , Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés

Deep neural network-based classifiers trained with the categorical cross-entropy (CCE) loss are sensitive to label noise in the training data. One common type of method that can mitigate the impact of label noise can be viewed as supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aritra Ghosh , Andrew Lan

Exploring scientific datasets with billions of samples in real-time visualization presents a challenge - balancing high-fidelity rendering with speed. This work introduces a neural accelerated renderer, NARVis, that uses the neural deferred…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Srinidhi Hegde , Kaur Kullman , Thomas Grubb , Leslie Lait , Stephen Guimond , Matthias Zwicker

Noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) is a popular method for estimating unnormalised probabilistic models, such as energy-based models, which are effective for modelling complex data distributions. Unlike classical maximum likelihood (ML)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-27 Amanda Olmin , Jakob Lindqvist , Lennart Svensson , Fredrik Lindsten

In this study, we propose two novel input processing paradigms for novel view synthesis (NVS) methods based on layered scene representations that significantly improve their runtime without compromising quality. Our approach identifies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jonas Kohler , Nicolas Griffiths Sanchez , Luca Cavalli , Catherine Herold , Albert Pumarola , Alberto Garcia Garcia , Ali Thabet

Super-resolution suffers from an innate ill-posed problem that a single low-resolution (LR) image can be from multiple high-resolution (HR) images. Recent studies on the flow-based algorithm solve this ill-posedness by learning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ki-Ung Song , Dongseok Shim , Kang-wook Kim , Jae-young Lee , Younggeun Kim

Interactive visualizations are crucial in ad hoc data exploration and analysis. However, with the growing number of massive datasets, generating visualizations in interactive timescales is increasingly challenging. One approach for…

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