English
Related papers

Related papers: Edge Wasserstein Distance Loss for Oriented Object…

200 papers

The Wasserstein distance received a lot of attention recently in the community of machine learning, especially for its principled way of comparing distributions. It has found numerous applications in several hard problems, such as domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-23 Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Mélanie Ducoffe

Modeling observations as random distributions embedded within Wasserstein spaces is becoming increasingly popular across scientific fields, as it captures the variability and geometric structure of the data more effectively. However, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 François Bachoc , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Yisha Yao

This paper addresses the significant challenge in open-set object detection (OSOD): the tendency of state-of-the-art detectors to erroneously classify unknown objects as known categories with high confidence. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Prakash Mallick , Feras Dayoub , Jamie Sherrah

Existing rotated object detectors are mostly inherited from the horizontal detection paradigm, as the latter has evolved into a well-developed area. However, these detectors are difficult to perform prominently in high-precision detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Xue Yang , Xiaojiang Yang , Jirui Yang , Qi Ming , Wentao Wang , Qi Tian , Junchi Yan

Current techniques for Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection predominantly rely on quantifying predictive uncertainty and incorporating model regularization during the training phase, using either real or synthetic OoD samples. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xiaoyang Song , Wenbo Sun , Maher Nouiehed , Raed Al Kontar , Judy Jin

The maximum mean discrepancy and Wasserstein distance are popular distance measures between distributions and play important roles in many machine learning problems such as metric learning, generative modeling, domain adaption, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

Embedding complex objects as vectors in low dimensional spaces is a longstanding problem in machine learning. We propose in this work an extension of that approach, which consists in embedding objects as elliptical probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-19 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

This paper proposes a distributionally robust approach to logistic regression. We use the Wasserstein distance to construct a ball in the space of probability distributions centered at the uniform distribution on the training samples. If…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Daniel Kuhn

This paper targets the task with discrete and periodic class labels ($e.g.,$ pose/orientation estimation) in the context of deep learning. The commonly used cross-entropy or regression loss is not well matched to this problem as they ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xiaofeng Liu , Yang Zou , Tong Che , Peng Ding , Ping Jia , Jane You , Kumar B. V. K

In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Dinesh Acharya , Wen Li , Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jiqing Wu , Zhiwu Huang , Dinesh Acharya , Wen Li , Janine Thoma , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we propose an advanced methodology for the detection of 3D objects and precise estimation of their spatial positions from a single image. Unlike conventional frameworks that rely solely on center-point and dimension…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dhyey Manish Rajani , Surya Pratap Singh , Rahul Kashyap Swayampakula

Recently used in various machine learning contexts, the Gromov-Wasserstein distance (GW) allows for comparing distributions whose supports do not necessarily lie in the same metric space. However, this Optimal Transport (OT) distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-21 Titouan Vayer , Rémi Flamary , Romain Tavenard , Laetitia Chapel , Nicolas Courty

In object detection, a well-defined similarity metric can significantly enhance model performance. Currently, the IoU-based similarity metric is the most commonly preferred choice for detectors. However, detectors using IoU as a similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Ziqian Guan , Xieyi Fu , Pengjun Huang , Hengyuan Zhang , Hubin Du , Yongtao Liu , Yinglin Wang , Qang Ma

We study the problem of efficiently detecting Out-of-Distribution (OOD) samples at test time in supervised and unsupervised learning contexts. While ML models are typically trained under the assumption that training and test data stem from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Alberto Caron , Chris Hicks , Vasilios Mavroudis

The problem of modeling the relationship between univariate distributions and one or more explanatory variables has found increasing interest. Traditional functional data methods cannot be applied directly to distributional data because of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-04 Yidong Zhou , Hans-Georg Müller

In this work, we connect two distinct concepts for unsupervised domain adaptation: feature distribution alignment between domains by utilizing the task-specific decision boundary and the Wasserstein metric. Our proposed sliced Wasserstein…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Chen-Yu Lee , Tanmay Batra , Mohammad Haris Baig , Daniel Ulbricht

The Wasserstein distance has emerged as a key metric to quantify distances between probability distributions, with applications in various fields, including machine learning, control theory, decision theory, and biological systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Eduardo Figueiredo , Steven Adams , Luca Laurenti

Oriented bounding box regression is crucial for oriented object detection. However, regression-based methods often suffer from boundary problems and the inconsistency between loss and evaluation metrics. In this paper, a modulated Kalman…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Xinyi Yu , Jiangping Lu , Xinyi Yu , Mi Lin , Linlin Ou

This paper addresses a new active learning strategy for regression problems. The presented Wasserstein active regression model is based on the principles of distribution-matching to measure the representativeness of the labeled dataset. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Benjamin Bobbia , Matthias Picard