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SAR images are highly sensitive to observation configurations, and they exhibit significant variations across different viewing angles, making it challenging to represent and learn their anisotropic features. As a result, deep learning…

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Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD) is a recent approach that is up to two orders of magnitude faster than conventional ALD, and that can be performed at atmospheric pressure and even in the open air. Previous works have exploited these…

We present a method for detecting objects in images using a single deep neural network. Our approach, named SSD, discretizes the output space of bounding boxes into a set of default boxes over different aspect ratios and scales per feature…

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This paper addresses domain adaptation for the pixel-wise classification of remotely sensed data using deep neural networks (DNN) as a strategy to reduce the requirements of DNN with respect to the availability of training data. We focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Dennis Wittich , Franz Rottensteiner

This work proposes an evolutionary computing-based image segmentation approach for analyzing soundness in Additive Friction Stir Deposition (AFSD) processes. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) was employed to determine optimal segmentation…

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Softassign is a pivotal method in graph matching and other learning tasks. Many softassign-based algorithms exhibit performance sensitivity to a parameter in the softassign. However, tuning the parameter is challenging and almost done…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Binrui Shen , Qiang Niu , Shengxin Zhu

We present Soft Tail-dropping Adaptive Tokenizer (STAT), a 1D discrete visual tokenizer that adaptively chooses the number of output tokens per image according to its structural complexity and level of detail. STAT encodes an image into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zeyuan Chen , Kai Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Yuanjun Xiong

The microstructure of metals and foams can be effectively modelled with anisotropic power diagrams (APDs), which provide control over the shape of individual grains. One major obstacle to the wider adoption of APDs is the computational cost…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-22 Maciej Buze , Jean Feydy , Steven M. Roper , Karo Sedighiani , David P. Bourne

Robustness and compactness are two essential attributes of deep learning models that are deployed in the real world. The goals of robustness and compactness may seem to be at odds, since robustness requires generalization across domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Anna Bair , Hongxu Yin , Maying Shen , Pavlo Molchanov , Jose Alvarez

Despite significant progress in autoregressive image generation, inference remains slow due to the sequential nature of AR models and the ambiguity of image tokens, even when using speculative decoding. Recent works attempt to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xingyao Li , Fengzhuo Zhang , Cunxiao Du , Hui Ji

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have achieved strong generative performance, yet their inductive biases remain largely implicit. In this work, we aim to build inductive biases into the training and sampling of diffusion models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Luca Scimeca , Thomas Jiralerspong , Berton Earnshaw , Jason Hartford , Yoshua Bengio

This article introduces a novel family of optimization algorithms - Anisotropic Gaussian Smoothing Gradient Descent (AGS-GD), AGS-Stochastic Gradient Descent (AGS-SGD), and AGS-Adam - that employ anisotropic Gaussian smoothing to enhance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Andrew Starnes , Guannan Zhang , Viktor Reshniak , Clayton Webster

The recent advancements in 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) have not only facilitated real-time rendering through modern GPU rasterization pipelines but have also attained state-of-the-art rendering quality. Nevertheless, despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ziyi Yang , Xinyu Gao , Yangtian Sun , Yihua Huang , Xiaoyang Lyu , Wen Zhou , Shaohui Jiao , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiaogang Jin

Edge detection is a fundamental image analysis task that underpins numerous high-level vision applications. Recent advances in Transformer architectures have significantly improved edge quality by capturing long-range dependencies, but this…

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Generative image codecs aim to optimize perceptual quality, producing realistic and detailed reconstructions. However, they often overlook a key property of human vision: our tendency to focus on particular aspects of a visual scene (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Yang Zhang , Stephan Mandt , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

The accurate representation of fine-detailed cloth wrinkles poses significant challenges in computer graphics. The inherently non-uniform structure of cloth wrinkles mandates the employment of intricate discretization strategies, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Lei Shu , Vinicius Azevedo , Barbara Solenthaler , Markus Gross

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been proven to have many redundancies. Hence, many efforts have been made to compress DNNs. However, the existing model compression methods treat all the input samples equally while ignoring the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Zhisheng Wang , Fangxuan Sun , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang , Bo Yuan

Fully supervised salient object detection (SOD) methods have made considerable progress in performance, yet these models rely heavily on expensive pixel-wise labels. Recently, to achieve a trade-off between labeling burden and performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Binwei Xu , Haoran Liang , Weihua Gong , Ronghua Liang , Peng Chen

Self-supervised representation learning is heavily dependent on data augmentations to specify the invariances encoded in representations. Previous work has shown that applying diverse data augmentations is crucial to downstream performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Philip Andrew Mansfield , Arash Afkanpour , Warren Richard Morningstar , Karan Singhal

Classically, anisotropic surface wave tomography is treated as an optimisation problem where it proceeds through a linearised two-step approach. It involves the construction of 2D group or phase velocity maps for each considered period,…

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