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The success of the text-guided diffusion model has inspired the development and release of numerous powerful diffusion models within the open-source community. These models are typically fine-tuned on various expert datasets, showcasing…
Visual recognition requires rich representations that span levels from low to high, scales from small to large, and resolutions from fine to coarse. Even with the depth of features in a convolutional network, a layer in isolation is not…
Integrating high-level context information with low-level details is of central importance in semantic segmentation. Towards this end, most existing segmentation models apply bilinear up-sampling and convolutions to feature maps of…
This paper introduces a Transformer-based integrative feature and cost aggregation network designed for dense matching tasks. In the context of dense matching, many works benefit from one of two forms of aggregation: feature aggregation,…
Scene parsing from images is a fundamental yet challenging problem in visual content understanding. In this dense prediction task, the parsing model assigns every pixel to a categorical label, which requires the contextual information of…
In recent years, deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in various domains, such as computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, the generalization capabilities of these models can be…
With the proliferation of Lidar sensors and 3D vision cameras, 3D point cloud analysis has attracted significant attention in recent years. After the success of the pioneer work PointNet, deep learning-based methods have been increasingly…
This paper introduces a concept of layer aggregation to describe how information from previous layers can be reused to better extract features at the current layer. While DenseNet is a typical example of the layer aggregation mechanism, its…
Dense image prediction tasks demand features with strong category information and precise spatial boundary details at high resolution. To achieve this, modern hierarchical models often utilize feature fusion, directly adding upsampled…
Truly intelligent systems are expected to make critical decisions with incomplete and uncertain data. Active feature acquisition (AFA), where features are sequentially acquired to improve the prediction, is a step towards this goal.…
Aggregating features in terms of different convolutional blocks or contextual embeddings has been proven to be an effective way to strengthen feature representations for semantic segmentation. However, most of the current popular network…
Affinity graph-based segmentation methods have become a major trend in computer vision. The performance of these methods relies on the constructed affinity graph, with particular emphasis on the neighborhood topology and pairwise affinities…
Feature fusion, the combination of features from different layers or branches, is an omnipresent part of modern network architectures. It is often implemented via simple operations, such as summation or concatenation, but this might not be…
Existing point cloud learning methods aggregate features from neighbouring points relying on constructing graph in the spatial domain, which results in feature update for each point based on spatially-fixed neighbours throughout layers. In…
We present a novel architecture for dense correspondence. The current state-of-the-art are Transformer-based approaches that focus on either feature descriptors or cost volume aggregation. However, they generally aggregate one or the other…
The process of aggregation is ubiquitous in almost all deep nets models. It functions as an important mechanism for consolidating deep features into a more compact representation, whilst increasing robustness to overfitting and providing…
We propose ALFA - a novel late fusion algorithm for object detection. ALFA is based on agglomerative clustering of object detector predictions taking into consideration both the bounding box locations and the class scores. Each cluster…
Fine-tuning pre-trained transformer models, e.g., Swin Transformer, are successful in numerous downstream for dense prediction vision tasks. However, one major issue is the cost/storage of their huge amount of parameters, which becomes…
Recent works have shown that exploiting multi-scale representations deeply learned via convolutional neural networks (CNN) is of tremendous importance for accurate contour detection. This paper presents a novel approach for predicting…
Despite the advances in the field of Face Recognition (FR), the precision of these methods is not yet sufficient. To improve the FR performance, this paper proposes a technique to aggregate the outputs of two state-of-the-art (SOTA) deep FR…