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To improve the quality of underwater images, various kinds of underwater image enhancement (UIE) operators have been proposed during the past few years. However, the lack of effective objective evaluation methods limits the further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhenqi Fu , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

The ability to estimate the perceptual error between images is an important problem in computer vision with many applications. Although it has been studied extensively, however, no method currently exists that can robustly predict visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Ekta Prashnani , Hong Cai , Yasamin Mostofi , Pradeep Sen

Pairwise re-ranking models predict which of two documents is more relevant to a query and then aggregate a final ranking from such preferences. This is often more effective than pointwise re-ranking models that directly predict a relevance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Lukas Gienapp , Maik Fröbe , Matthias Hagen , Martin Potthast

Eliciting preferences from human judgements is inherently imprecise, yet most decision analysis methods force a single priority vector from pairwise comparisons, discarding the information embedded in inconsistencies. We instead leverage…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-27 Salvatore Greco , Sajid Siraj , Michele Lundy

Deep metric learning maps visually similar images onto nearby locations and visually dissimilar images apart from each other in an embedding manifold. The learning process is mainly based on the supplied image negative and positive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chang-Hui Liang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen

Reward design in reinforcement learning and optimal control is challenging. Preference-based alignment addresses this by enabling agents to learn rewards from ranked trajectory pairs provided by humans. However, existing methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhixian Xie , Haode Zhang , Yizhe Feng , Wanxin Jin

Images can vary according to changes in viewpoint, resolution, noise, and illumination. In this paper, we aim to learn representations for an image, which are robust to wide changes in such environmental conditions, using training pairs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Kye-Hyeon Kim , Rui Cai , Lei Zhang , Seungjin Choi

Randomized smoothing (RS) has been shown to be a fast, scalable technique for certifying the robustness of deep neural network classifiers. However, methods based on RS require augmenting data with large amounts of noise, which leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Ameya Joshi , Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Leonid Boytsov , Filipe Condessa , J. Zico Kolter , Chinmay Hegde

Given a number of pairwise preferences of items, a common task is to rank all the items. Examples include pairwise movie ratings, New Yorker cartoon caption contests, and many other consumer preferences tasks. What these settings have in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Umang Varma , Lalit Jain , Anna C. Gilbert

Recently, deep learning has started to play an essential role in healthcare applications, including image search in digital pathology. Despite the recent progress in computer vision, significant issues remain for image searching in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Pooria Mazaheri , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , H. R. Tizhoosh

Longitudinal studies, where a series of images from the same set of individuals are acquired at different time-points, represent a popular technique for studying and characterizing temporal dynamics in biomedical applications. The classical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Heejong Kim , Mert R. Sabuncu

Pairwise ranking models have been widely used to address recommendation problems. The basic idea is to learn the rank of users' preferred items through separating items into \emph{positive} samples if user-item interactions exist, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Lu Yu , Shichao Pei , Chuxu Zhang , Shangsong Liang , Xiao Bai , Nitesh Chawla , Xiangliang Zhang

Owing to the advancement of deep learning, artificial systems are now rival to humans in several pattern recognition tasks, such as visual recognition of object categories. However, this is only the case with the tasks for which correct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Xing Liu , Takayuki Okatani

This paper examines the problem of ranking a collection of objects using pairwise comparisons (rankings of two objects). In general, the ranking of $n$ objects can be identified by standard sorting methods using $n log_2 n$ pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Kevin G. Jamieson , Robert D. Nowak

Personalized and content-adaptive image enhancement can find many applications in the age of social media and mobile computing. This paper presents a relative-learning-based approach, which, unlike previous methods, does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Parag S. Chandakkar , Qiongjie Tian , Baoxin Li

We present a method for assessing skill from video, applicable to a variety of tasks, ranging from surgery to drawing and rolling pizza dough. We formulate the problem as pairwise (who's better?) and overall (who's best?) ranking of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Hazel Doughty , Dima Damen , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

Accurate prediction of continuous properties is essential to many scientific and engineering tasks. Although deep-learning regressors excel with abundant labels, their accuracy deteriorates in data-scarce regimes. We introduce RankRefine, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Tirta Wijaya , Michael Sun , Minghao Guo , Hans-Peter Seidel , Wojciech Matusik , Vahid Babaei

Label smoothing (LS) is a popular regularisation method for training neural networks as it is effective in improving test accuracy and is simple to implement. ``Hard'' one-hot labels are ``smoothed'' by uniformly distributing probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Guoxuan Xia , Olivier Laurent , Gianni Franchi , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Text-guided image retrieval is to incorporate conditional text to better capture users' intent. Traditionally, the existing methods focus on minimizing the embedding distances between the source inputs and the targeted image, using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Junyang Chen , Hanjiang Lai

Pairwise debiasing is one of the most effective strategies in reducing position bias in learning-to-rank (LTR) models. However, limiting the scope of this strategy, are the underlying assumptions required by many pairwise debiasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Alexey Kurennoy , John Coleman , Ian Harris , Alice Lynch , Oisin Mac Fhearai , Daphne Tsatsoulis