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Detecting navigable space is the first and also a critical step for successful robot navigation. In this work, we treat the visual navigable space segmentation as a scene decomposition problem and propose a new network, NSS-VAEs (Navigable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Zheng Chen , Lantao Liu

A new form of the variational autoencoder (VAE) is proposed, based on the symmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence. It is demonstrated that learning of the resulting symmetric VAE (sVAE) has close connections to previously developed…

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In this paper, we introduce the Variational Autoencoder (VAE) to an end-to-end speech synthesis model, to learn the latent representation of speaking styles in an unsupervised manner. The style representation learned through VAE shows good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Ya-Jie Zhang , Shifeng Pan , Lei He , Zhen-Hua Ling

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are fundamental for generative modeling and image reconstruction, yet their performance often struggles to maintain high fidelity in reconstructions. This study introduces a hybrid model, quantum variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Farina Riaz , Fakhar Zaman , Hajime Suzuki , Sharif Abuadbba , David Nguyen

We present a novel method for constructing Variational Autoencoder (VAE). Instead of using pixel-by-pixel loss, we enforce deep feature consistency between the input and the output of a VAE, which ensures the VAE's output to preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Xianxu Hou , Linlin Shen , Ke Sun , Guoping Qiu

A new maximum likelihood estimation approach for blind channel equalization, using variational autoencoders (VAEs), is introduced. Significant and consistent improvements in the error rate of the reconstructed symbols, compared to constant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-06 Avi Caciularu , David Burshtein

Stochastic processes provide a mathematically elegant way model complex data. In theory, they provide flexible priors over function classes that can encode a wide range of interesting assumptions. In practice, however, efficient inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Swapnil Mishra , Seth Flaxman , Tresnia Berah , Harrison Zhu , Mikko Pakkanen , Samir Bhatt

Inverse problems often involve matching observational data using a physical model that takes a large number of parameters as input. These problems tend to be under-constrained and require regularization to impose additional structure on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel O'Malley , John K. Golden , Velimir V. Vesselinov

We propose a novel Conditional Latent space Variational Autoencoder (CL-VAE) to perform improved pre-processing for anomaly detection on data with known inlier classes and unknown outlier classes. This proposed variational autoencoder (VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Oskar Åström , Alexandros Sopasakis

Data preprocessing is a critical part of time series data analysis. Data from connected medical devices often have missing or abnormal values during acquisition. Handling such situations requires additional assumptions and domain knowledge.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Ali AbuSaleh , Mehdi Rahim

Variational auto-encoders (VAE) are scalable and powerful generative models. However, the choice of the variational posterior determines tractability and flexibility of the VAE. Commonly, latent variables are modeled using the normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Jakub M. Tomczak , Max Welling

In this paper, we propose a variational autoencoder with disentanglement priors, VAE-DPRIOR, for task-specific natural language generation with none or a handful of task-specific labeled examples. In order to tackle compositional…

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Learning disentangled representations leads to interpretable models and facilitates data generation with style transfer, which has been extensively studied on static data such as images in an unsupervised learning framework. However, only a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Jun Han , Martin Renqiang Min , Ligong Han , Li Erran Li , Xuan Zhang

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) provide an attractive solution to image generation problem. However, they tend to produce blurred and over-smoothed images due to their dependence on pixel-wise reconstruction loss. This paper introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Salman H. Khan , Munawar Hayat , Nick Barnes

Early detection of Barrett's Esophagus (BE), the only known precursor to Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), is crucial for effectively preventing and treating esophageal cancer. In this work, we investigate the potential of geometric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Vivien van Veldhuizen , Sharvaree Vadgama , Onno J. de Boer , Sybren Meijer , Erik J. Bekkers

Leveraging the framework of Optimal Transport, we introduce a new family of generative autoencoders with a learnable prior, called Symmetric Wasserstein Autoencoders (SWAEs). We propose to symmetrically match the joint distributions of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Sun Sun , Hongyu Guo

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models have recently attracted a great deal of interest from a variety of application sectors. Despite significant developments in this area, there are still no standardized methods or approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sarit Maitra , Vivek Mishra , Pratima Verma , Manav Chopra , Priyanka Nath

We investigate a novel approach to time-series modeling, inspired by the successes of large pretrained foundation models. We introduce FAE (Foundation Auto-Encoders), a foundation generative-AI model for anomaly detection in time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Gastón García González , Pedro Casas , Emilio Martínez , Alicia Fernández

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have witnessed great success in performing the compression of image datasets. This success, made possible by the bits-back coding framework, has produced competitive compression performance across many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Tom Ryder , Chen Zhang , Ning Kang , Shifeng Zhang

Each training step for a variational autoencoder (VAE) requires us to sample from the approximate posterior, so we usually choose simple (e.g. factorised) approximate posteriors in which sampling is an efficient computation that fully…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Laurence Aitchison , Vincent Adam , Srinivas C. Turaga