English
Related papers

Related papers: DISK: Learning local features with policy gradient

200 papers

We present a simple but yet effective method for learning distinctive 3D local deep descriptors (DIPs) that can be used to register point clouds without requiring an initial alignment. Point cloud patches are extracted, canonicalised with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Fabio Poiesi , Davide Boscaini

Our paper addresses the problem of models struggling to learn diverse features, due to either forgetting previously learned features or failing to learn new ones. To overcome this problem, we introduce Diverse Feature Learning (DFL), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Sejik Park

The efficacy of multimodal learning in remote sensing (RS) is severely undermined by missing modalities. The challenge is exacerbated by the RS highly heterogeneous data and huge scale variation. Consequently, paradigms proven effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nhi Kieu , Kien Nguyen , Arnold Wiliem , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

In this paper, we propose a novel method called Residual Steps Network (RSN). RSN aggregates features with the same spatial size (Intra-level features) efficiently to obtain delicate local representations, which retain rich low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yuanhao Cai , Zhicheng Wang , Zhengxiong Luo , Binyi Yin , Angang Du , Haoqian Wang , Xiangyu Zhang , Xinyu Zhou , Erjin Zhou , Jian Sun

This study proposes a novel method for developing discretization-consistent closure schemes for implicitly filtered Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Here, the induced filter kernel, and thus the closure terms, are determined by the properties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Andrea Beck , Marius Kurz

We consider a context-dependent Reinforcement Learning (RL) setting, which is characterized by: a) an unknown finite number of not directly observable contexts; b) abrupt (discontinuous) context changes occurring during an episode; and c)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hang Ren , Aivar Sootla , Taher Jafferjee , Junxiao Shen , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar

In this work, we explore the task of semantic object keypoint discovery weakly-supervised by only category labels. This is achieved by transforming discriminatively-trained intermediate layer filters into keypoint detectors. We begin by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

Optimizing discrete diffusion model (DDM) with rewards remains a challenge: the non-autoregressive paradigm makes importance sampling intractable and rollout complex, puzzling reinforcement learning methods such as Group Relative Policy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tianren Ma , Mu Zhang , Yibing Wang , Qixiang Ye

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

Estimating dense correspondences between images is a long-standing image under-standing task. Recent works introduce convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract high-level feature maps and find correspondences through feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Hao Huang , Jianchun Chen , Xiang Li , Lingjing Wang , Yi Fang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates great potential in mapless navigation domain. However, such a navigation model is normally restricted to a fixed configuration of the range sensor because its input format is fixed. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Wei Zhang , Ning Liu , Yunfeng Zhang

The goal of Feature Selection - comprising filter, wrapper, and embedded approaches - is to find the optimal feature subset for designated downstream tasks. Nevertheless, current feature selection methods are limited by: 1) the selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Meng Xiao , Dongjie Wang , Min Wu , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Yanjie Fu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a booming area of artificial intelligence. Many practical applications of DRL naturally involve more than one collaborative learners, making it important to study DRL in a multi-agent context. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Gang Chen

We present a novel approach to feature labeling using gradient descent in token-space. While existing methods typically use language models to generate hypotheses about feature meanings, our method directly optimizes label representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Julian Schulz , Seamus Fallows

This paper proposes a novel logo image recognition approach incorporating a localization technique based on reinforcement learning. Logo recognition is an image classification task identifying a brand in an image. As the size and position…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Masato Fujitake

With the decreasing cost of data collection, the space of variables or features that can be used to characterize a particular predictor of interest continues to grow exponentially. Therefore, identifying the most characterizing features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Sali Rasoul , Sodiq Adewole , Alphonse Akakpo

Understanding point clouds is of great importance. Many previous methods focus on detecting salient keypoints to identity structures of point clouds. However, existing methods neglect the semantics of points selected, leading to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Ruoxi Shi , Zhengrong Xue , Xinyang Li

The transfer of knowledge from one policy to another is an important tool in Deep Reinforcement Learning. This process, referred to as distillation, has been used to great success, for example, by enhancing the optimisation of agents,…

Open domain dialog systems face the challenge of being repetitive and producing generic responses. In this paper, we demonstrate that by conditioning the response generation on interpretable discrete dialog attributes and composed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Chinnadhurai Sankar , Sujith Ravi

Recent advancements in keypoint detection and descriptor extraction have shown impressive performance in local feature learning tasks. However, existing methods generally exhibit suboptimal performance under extreme conditions such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jingtai He , Gehao Zhang , Tingting Liu , Songlin Du