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Learning-based methods have been used to pro-gram robotic tasks in recent years. However, extensive training is usually required not only for the initial task learning but also for generalizing the learned model to the same task but in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Tianying Wang , Hao Zhang , Wei Qi Toh , Hongyuan Zhu , Cheston Tan , Yan Wu , Yong Liu , Wei Jing

This paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised video summarization using reinforcement learning (RL), addressing limitations like unstable adversarial training and reliance on heuristic-based reward functions. The method operates on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mehryar Abbasi , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi

An important component for generalization in machine learning is to uncover underlying latent factors of variation as well as the mechanism through which each factor acts in the world. In this paper, we test whether 17 unsupervised, weakly…

The core problem of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the trade off between acceleration and image quality. Image reconstruction and super-resolution are two crucial techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Current methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Chun-Mei Feng , Yunlu Yan , Huazhu Fu , Li Chen , Yong Xu

We introduce a new RL problem where the agent is required to generalize to a previously-unseen environment characterized by a subtask graph which describes a set of subtasks and their dependencies. Unlike existing hierarchical multitask RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Sungryull Sohn , Junhyuk Oh , Honglak Lee

This paper introduces an open-source, decentralized framework named SigmaRL, designed to enhance both sample efficiency and generalization of multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (RL) for motion planning of connected and automated vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Jianye Xu , Pan Hu , Bassam Alrifaee

While recent model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have demonstrated human-level effectiveness in gaming environments, their success in everyday tasks like visual navigation has been limited, particularly under significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Rudra P. K. Poudel , Harit Pandya , Stephan Liwicki , Roberto Cipolla

Reasoning-based image quality assessment (IQA) models trained through reinforcement learning (RL) exhibit exceptional generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms and critical factors driving this capability remain underexplored in current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shijie Zhao , Xuanyu Zhang , Weiqi Li , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Tianfan Xue , Jian Zhang

Generalizable person re-identification (Re-ID) is a very hot research topic in machine learning and computer vision, which plays a significant role in realistic scenarios due to its various applications in public security and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Suncheng Xiang , Jingsheng Gao , Mengyuan Guan , Jiacheng Ruan , Chengfeng Zhou , Ting Liu , Dahong Qian , Yuzhuo Fu

Vision-based reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach to solve control tasks involving images as the main observation. State-of-the-art RL algorithms still struggle in terms of sample efficiency, especially when using image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Elie Aljalbout , Maximilian Ulmer , Rudolph Triebel

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in single-image visual grounding but struggle with real-world tasks that demand cross-image reasoning and multi-modal instructions. To address this, we adopt a reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bob Zhang , Haoran Li , Tao Zhang , Jianan Li , Cilin Yan , Xikai Liu , Jiayin Cai , Yanbin Hao

What makes generalization hard for imitation learning in visual robotic manipulation? This question is difficult to approach at face value, but the environment from the perspective of a robot can often be decomposed into enumerable factors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Annie Xie , Lisa Lee , Ted Xiao , Chelsea Finn

The data-driven approach to robot control has been gathering pace rapidly, yet generalization to unseen task domains remains a critical challenge. We argue that the key to generalization is representations that are (i) rich enough to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Bo Ai , Zhanxin Wu , David Hsu

For many practical computer vision applications, the learned models usually have high performance on the datasets used for training but suffer from significant performance degradation when deployed in new environments, where there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Xin Jin , Cuiling Lan , Wenjun Zeng , Zhibo Chen

Vision-based reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising technique to solve control tasks involving images as the main observation. State-of-the-art RL algorithms still struggle in terms of sample efficiency, especially when using image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Elie Aljalbout , Maximilian Ulmer , Rudolph Triebel

Image-based 3D reconstruction is one of the most important tasks in Computer Vision with many solutions proposed over the last few decades. The objective is to extract metric information i.e. the geometry of scene objects directly from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

Single-source domain generalization (SDG) aims to learn a model from a single source domain that can generalize well on unseen target domains. This is an important task in computer vision, particularly relevant to medical imaging where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Boqi Chen , Yuanzhi Zhu , Yunke Ao , Sebastiano Caprara , Reto Sutter , Gunnar Rätsch , Ender Konukoglu , Anna Susmelj

Disentangled representation learning has been proposed as an approach to learning general representations even in the absence of, or with limited, supervision. A good general representation can be fine-tuned for new target tasks using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Xiao Liu , Pedro Sanchez , Spyridon Thermos , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

We present a generic and flexible Reinforcement Learning (RL) based meta-learning framework for the problem of few-shot learning. During training, it learns the best optimization algorithm to produce a learner (ranker/classifier, etc) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Raviteja Anantha , Stephen Pulman , Srinivas Chappidi

Image correction and rectangling are valuable tasks in practical photography systems such as smartphones. Recent remarkable advancements in deep learning have undeniably brought about substantial performance improvements in these fields.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Linwei Qiu , Gongzhe Li , Xiaozhe Zhang , Qilin Sun , Fengying Xie