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Purpose: Manual feedback from senior surgeons observing less experienced trainees is a laborious task that is very expensive, time-consuming and prone to subjectivity. With the number of surgical procedures increasing annually, there is an…

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Recently, much advance has been made in image captioning, and an encoder-decoder framework has achieved outstanding performance for this task. In this paper, we propose an extension of the encoder-decoder framework by adding a component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Wenhao Jiang , Lin Ma , Xinpeng Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Wei Liu

In this paper, we report the results of our latest work on the automated generation of planning operators from human demonstrations, and we present some of our future research ideas. To automatically generate planning operators, our system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Maximilian Diehl , Karinne Ramirez-Amaro

Diffusion Transformers have significantly improved video fidelity and temporal coherence, however, practical controllability remains limited. Concise, ambiguous, and compositionally complex user inputs contrast with the detailed prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shengqiong Wu , Weicai Ye , Yuanxing Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Hao Fei , Tat-Seng Chua

This paper presents instruct-imagen, a model that tackles heterogeneous image generation tasks and generalizes across unseen tasks. We introduce *multi-modal instruction* for image generation, a task representation articulating a range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Hexiang Hu , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yu-Chuan Su , Wenhu Chen , Yandong Li , Kihyuk Sohn , Yang Zhao , Xue Ben , Boqing Gong , William Cohen , Ming-Wei Chang , Xuhui Jia

The recent advances of deep learning in both computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) provide us a new way of understanding semantics, by which we can deal with more challenging tasks such as automatic description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Daouda Sow , Zengchang Qin , Mouhamed Niasse , Tao Wan

Task-oriented dialogue systems help users accomplish tasks such as booking a movie ticket and ordering food via conversation. Generative models parameterized by a deep neural network are widely used for next turn response generation in such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Arvind Neelakantan , Sharan Narang

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis is gradually deployed to review and analyze medical images. However, this paradigm is restricted in real-world clinical applications due to the poor robustness and generalization. The issue is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yurong Chen

This paper proposes a transformer-based learned image compression system. It is capable of achieving variable-rate compression with a single model while supporting the region-of-interest (ROI) functionality. Inspired by prompt tuning, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Chia-Hao Kao , Ying-Chieh Weng , Yi-Hsin Chen , Wei-Chen Chiu , Wen-Hsiao Peng

Editing images via instruction provides a natural way to generate interactive content, but it is a big challenge due to the higher requirement of scene understanding and generation. Prior work utilizes a chain of large language models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Liya Ji , Chenyang Qi , Qifeng Chen

Learning to infer graph representations and performing spatial reasoning in a complex surgical environment can play a vital role in surgical scene understanding in robotic surgery. For this purpose, we develop an approach to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Mobarakol Islam , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Lim Chwee Ming , Hongliang Ren

Surgical activity recognition and prediction can help provide important context in many Robot-Assisted Surgery (RAS) applications, for example, surgical progress monitoring and estimation, surgical skill evaluation, and shared control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Chang Shi , Yi Zheng , Ann Majewicz Fey

We consider the problem of learning high-level controls over the global structure of generated sequences, particularly in the context of symbolic music generation with complex language models. In this work, we present the Transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kristy Choi , Curtis Hawthorne , Ian Simon , Monica Dinculescu , Jesse Engel

The ability to generate natural language explanations conditioned on the visual perception is a crucial step towards autonomous agents which can explain themselves and communicate with humans. While the research efforts in image and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

While text-to-image synthesis currently enjoys great popularity among researchers and the general public, the security of these models has been neglected so far. Many text-guided image generation models rely on pre-trained text encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

In this paper, we explore the potential of visual in-context learning to enable a single model to handle multiple tasks and adapt to new tasks during test time without re-training. Unlike previous approaches, our focus is on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Simon Reiß , Zdravko Marinov , Alexander Jaus , Constantin Seibold , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Erik Rodner , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In-context learning is a remarkable capability of transformers, referring to their ability to adapt to specific tasks based on a short history or context. Previous research has found that task-specific information is locally encoded within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Liu Yang , Ziqian Lin , Kangwook Lee , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Robert Nowak

In this paper, we propose a novel pretraining-based encoder-decoder framework, which can generate the output sequence based on the input sequence in a two-stage manner. For the encoder of our model, we encode the input sequence into context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Haoyu Zhang , Jianjun Xu , Ji Wang

High-quality intraoperative feedback from a surgical trainer is pivotal for improving trainee performance and long-term skill acquisition. Automating natural, trainer-style feedback promises timely, accessible, and consistent guidance at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Firdavs Nasriddinov , Rafal Kocielnik , Anima Anandkumar , Andrew J. Hung

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland