Slides from the UPC reading group on computer vision about the following paper:
Redmon, Joseph, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, and Ali Farhadi. "You only look once: Unified, real-time object detection." arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02640 (2015).
[PR12] You Only Look Once (YOLO): Unified Real-Time Object DetectionTaegyun Jeon
The document summarizes the You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection method. YOLO frames object detection as a single regression problem to directly predict bounding boxes and class probabilities from full images in one pass. This allows for extremely fast detection speeds of 45 frames per second. YOLO uses a feedforward convolutional neural network to apply a single neural network to the full image. This allows it to leverage contextual information and makes predictions about bounding boxes and class probabilities for all classes with one network.
Yolo is an end-to-end, real-time object detection system that uses a single convolutional neural network to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images. It uses a deeper Darknet-53 backbone network and multi-scale predictions to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy while running faster than other algorithms. Yolo is trained on a merged ImageNet and COCO dataset and predicts bounding boxes using predefined anchor boxes and associated class probabilities at three different scales to localize and classify objects in images with just one pass through the network.
Machine Learning - Convolutional Neural NetworkRichard Kuo
The document provides an overview of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for visual recognition. It discusses the basic concepts of CNNs such as convolutional layers, activation functions, pooling layers, and network architectures. Examples of classic CNN architectures like LeNet-5 and AlexNet are presented. Modern architectures such as Inception and ResNet are also discussed. Code examples for image classification using TensorFlow, Keras, and Fastai are provided.
YOLO (You Only Look Once) is a real-time object detection system that frames object detection as a regression problem. It uses a single neural network that predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one evaluation. This approach allows YOLO to process images and perform object detection over 45 frames per second while maintaining high accuracy compared to previous systems. YOLO was trained on natural images from PASCAL VOC and can generalize to new domains like artwork without significant degradation in performance, unlike other methods that struggle with domain shift.
In Comparison with other object detection algorithms, YOLO proposes the use of an end-to-end neural network that makes predictions of bounding boxes and class probabilities all at once.
1. YOLO proposes a unified object detection model that predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities in one pass of a neural network.
2. It divides the image into a grid and has each grid cell predict B bounding boxes, confidence scores for each box, and C class probabilities.
3. This output is encoded as a tensor and the model is trained end-to-end using a mean squared error between the predicted and true output tensors to optimize localization accuracy and class prediction.
(1) YOLO frames object detection as a single regression problem to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one step. (2) It resizes images as input to a convolutional network that outputs a grid of predictions with bounding box coordinates, confidence, and class probabilities. (3) YOLO achieves real-time speeds while maintaining high average precision compared to other detection systems, with most errors coming from inaccurate localization rather than predicting background or other classes.
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object DetectionDADAJONJURAKUZIEV
YOLO, a new approach to object detection. A single neural network predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities directly from full images in one evaluation.
This document discusses and compares different methods for deep learning object detection, including region proposal-based methods like R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, and Mask R-CNN as well as single shot methods like YOLO, YOLOv2, and SSD. Region proposal-based methods tend to have higher accuracy but are slower, while single shot methods are faster but less accurate. Newer methods like Faster R-CNN, R-FCN, YOLOv2, and SSD have improved speed and accuracy over earlier approaches.
PR-207: YOLOv3: An Incremental ImprovementJinwon Lee
YOLOv3 makes the following incremental improvements over previous versions of YOLO:
1. It predicts bounding boxes at three different scales to detect objects more accurately at a variety of sizes.
2. It uses Darknet-53 as its feature extractor, which provides better performance than ResNet while being faster to evaluate.
3. It predicts more bounding boxes overall (over 10,000) to detect objects more precisely, as compared to YOLOv2 which predicts around 800 boxes.
This document provides an overview of the YOLO object detection system. YOLO frames object detection as a single regression problem to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in one step. It divides the image into a grid where each cell predicts bounding boxes and conditional class probabilities. YOLO is very fast, processing images in real-time. However, it struggles with small objects and localization accuracy compared to methods like Fast R-CNN that have a region proposal step. Combining YOLO with Fast R-CNN can improve performance by leveraging their individual strengths.
Object detection and Instance SegmentationHichem Felouat
The document discusses object detection and instance segmentation models like YOLOv5, Faster R-CNN, EfficientDet, Mask R-CNN, and TensorFlow's object detection API. It provides information on labeling images with bounding boxes for training these models, including open-source and commercial annotation tools. The document also covers evaluating object detection models using metrics like mean average precision (mAP) and intersection over union (IoU). It includes an example of training YOLOv5 on a custom dataset.
Object detection is an important computer vision technique with applications in several domains such as autonomous driving, personal and industrial robotics. The below slides cover the history of object detection from before deep learning until recent research. The slides aim to cover the history and future directions of object detection, as well as some guidelines for how to choose which type of object detector to use for your own project.
This document discusses the real-time object detection method YOLO (You Only Look Once). YOLO divides an image into grids and predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities for each grid cell. It sees the full image at once rather than using a sliding window approach. This allows it to detect objects in one pass of the neural network, making it very fast compared to other methods. YOLO is also accurate, achieving a high mean average precision. However, it can struggle to precisely localize small objects and objects that appear in dense groups.
YOLOv4: optimal speed and accuracy of object detection reviewLEE HOSEONG
YOLOv4 builds upon previous YOLO models and introduces techniques like CSPDarknet53, SPP, PAN, Mosaic data augmentation, and modifications to existing methods to achieve state-of-the-art object detection speed and accuracy while being trainable on a single GPU. Experiments show that combining these techniques through a "bag of freebies" and "bag of specials" approach improves classifier and detector performance over baselines on standard datasets. The paper contributes an efficient object detection model suitable for production use with limited resources.
Object Detection using Deep Neural NetworksUsman Qayyum
Recent Talk at PI school covering following contents
Object Detection
Recent Architecture of Deep NN for Object Detection
Object Detection on Embedded Computers (or for edge computing)
SqueezeNet for embedded computing
TinySSD (object detection for edge computing)
The document describes the architecture of 4 YOLOv5 object detection models of different sizes - small, medium, large, and extra large. Each model uses the same basic building blocks of focus, convolutional, and bottleneck CSP layers followed by upsampling and concatenation, but with different input channel sizes and numbers of layers to process images of different resolutions.
YOLO releases are one-stage object detection models that predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in an image using a single neural network. YOLO v1 divides the image into a grid and predicts bounding boxes and confidence scores for each grid cell. YOLO v2 improves on v1 with anchor boxes, batch normalization, and a Darknet-19 backbone network. YOLO v3 uses a Darknet-53 backbone, multi-scale feature maps, and a logistic classifier to achieve better accuracy. The YOLO models aim to perform real-time object detection with high accuracy while remaining fast and unified end-to-end models.
PR-132: SSD: Single Shot MultiBox DetectorJinwon Lee
SSD is a single-shot object detector that processes the entire image at once, rather than proposing regions of interest. It uses a base VGG16 network with additional convolutional layers to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities at three scales simultaneously. SSD achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while running significantly faster than two-stage detectors like Faster R-CNN. It introduces techniques like default boxes, hard negative mining, and data augmentation to address class imbalance and improve results on small objects. On PASCAL VOC 2007, SSD detects objects at 59 FPS with 74.3% mAP, comparable to Faster R-CNN but much faster.
This document discusses object detection using the Single Shot Detector (SSD) algorithm with the MobileNet V1 architecture. It begins with an introduction to object detection and a literature review of common techniques. It then describes the basic architecture of convolutional neural networks and how they are used for feature extraction in SSD. The SSD framework uses multi-scale feature maps for detection and convolutional predictors. MobileNet V1 reduces model size and complexity through depthwise separable convolutions. This allows SSD with MobileNet V1 to perform real-time object detection with reduced parameters and computations compared to other models.
Slides by Míriam Bellver at the UPC Reading group for the paper:
Liu, Wei, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Christian Szegedy, and Scott Reed. "SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector." ECCV 2016.
Full listing of papers at:
https://github.com/imatge-upc/readcv/blob/master/README.md
Deep learning based object detection basicsBrodmann17
The document discusses different approaches to object detection in images using deep learning. It begins with describing detection as classification, where an image is classified into categories for what objects are present. It then discusses approaches that involve separating detection into a classification head and localization head. The document also covers improvements like R-CNN which uses region proposals to first generate candidate object regions before running classification and bounding box regression on those regions using CNN features. This helps address issues with previous approaches like being too slow when running the CNN over the entire image at multiple locations and scales.
Real-time object detection coz YOLO! by Shagufta Gurmukhdas
You Only Look Once is a state-of-the-art, high speed real-time object detection algorithm. It looks at the whole image at test time so its predictions are informed by global context in the image. This talk teaches you to develop your own application to detect and classify objects in images & videos.
1.Intro to YOLO algorithm
2. Image detection on video with YOLO
3. Processing images in Python, adding bounding boxes and labels
4. Processing complete videos in Python in the similar way as the previous section
5. Processing real time video from webcam
Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched domains of object detection include face detection and pedestrian detection. Object detection has applications in many areas of computer vision, including image retrieval and video surveillance.
YOLO v2 improves upon YOLO v1 in three main ways:
1. It is better by adding techniques like batch normalization, multi-scale training, and anchor boxes to improve accuracy.
2. It is faster by using a smaller input size of 416x416.
3. It is stronger by directly predicting bounding boxes rather than offsets, adding fine-grained features, and using dimensional clustering to select anchor boxes.
This document discusses the YOLO object detection algorithm and its applications in real-time object detection. YOLO frames object detection as a regression problem to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in one pass. It can process images at 30 FPS. The document compares YOLO versions 1-3 and their improvements in small object detection, resolution, and generalization. It describes implementing YOLO with OpenCV and its use in self-driving cars due to its speed and contextual awareness.
This document provides an overview of object detection using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). It discusses why CNNs are well-suited for object detection, defines object detection, and describes several popular CNN-based object detection algorithms including R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, and YOLO. It also covers important object detection concepts like region proposals, sliding windows, IoU for evaluating localization accuracy, and NMS for removing overlapping detections. Open-source resources for implementing these algorithms are also provided.
Slides by Amaia Salvador at the UPC Computer Vision Reading Group.
Source document on GDocs with clickable links:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jDTyKTNfZBfMl8OHANZJaYxsXTqGCHMVeMeBe5o1EL0/edit?usp=sharing
Based on the original work:
Ren, Shaoqing, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, and Jian Sun. "Faster R-CNN: Towards real-time object detection with region proposal networks." In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 91-99. 2015.
This document discusses and compares different methods for deep learning object detection, including region proposal-based methods like R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, and Mask R-CNN as well as single shot methods like YOLO, YOLOv2, and SSD. Region proposal-based methods tend to have higher accuracy but are slower, while single shot methods are faster but less accurate. Newer methods like Faster R-CNN, R-FCN, YOLOv2, and SSD have improved speed and accuracy over earlier approaches.
PR-207: YOLOv3: An Incremental ImprovementJinwon Lee
YOLOv3 makes the following incremental improvements over previous versions of YOLO:
1. It predicts bounding boxes at three different scales to detect objects more accurately at a variety of sizes.
2. It uses Darknet-53 as its feature extractor, which provides better performance than ResNet while being faster to evaluate.
3. It predicts more bounding boxes overall (over 10,000) to detect objects more precisely, as compared to YOLOv2 which predicts around 800 boxes.
This document provides an overview of the YOLO object detection system. YOLO frames object detection as a single regression problem to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in one step. It divides the image into a grid where each cell predicts bounding boxes and conditional class probabilities. YOLO is very fast, processing images in real-time. However, it struggles with small objects and localization accuracy compared to methods like Fast R-CNN that have a region proposal step. Combining YOLO with Fast R-CNN can improve performance by leveraging their individual strengths.
Object detection and Instance SegmentationHichem Felouat
The document discusses object detection and instance segmentation models like YOLOv5, Faster R-CNN, EfficientDet, Mask R-CNN, and TensorFlow's object detection API. It provides information on labeling images with bounding boxes for training these models, including open-source and commercial annotation tools. The document also covers evaluating object detection models using metrics like mean average precision (mAP) and intersection over union (IoU). It includes an example of training YOLOv5 on a custom dataset.
Object detection is an important computer vision technique with applications in several domains such as autonomous driving, personal and industrial robotics. The below slides cover the history of object detection from before deep learning until recent research. The slides aim to cover the history and future directions of object detection, as well as some guidelines for how to choose which type of object detector to use for your own project.
This document discusses the real-time object detection method YOLO (You Only Look Once). YOLO divides an image into grids and predicts bounding boxes and class probabilities for each grid cell. It sees the full image at once rather than using a sliding window approach. This allows it to detect objects in one pass of the neural network, making it very fast compared to other methods. YOLO is also accurate, achieving a high mean average precision. However, it can struggle to precisely localize small objects and objects that appear in dense groups.
YOLOv4: optimal speed and accuracy of object detection reviewLEE HOSEONG
YOLOv4 builds upon previous YOLO models and introduces techniques like CSPDarknet53, SPP, PAN, Mosaic data augmentation, and modifications to existing methods to achieve state-of-the-art object detection speed and accuracy while being trainable on a single GPU. Experiments show that combining these techniques through a "bag of freebies" and "bag of specials" approach improves classifier and detector performance over baselines on standard datasets. The paper contributes an efficient object detection model suitable for production use with limited resources.
Object Detection using Deep Neural NetworksUsman Qayyum
Recent Talk at PI school covering following contents
Object Detection
Recent Architecture of Deep NN for Object Detection
Object Detection on Embedded Computers (or for edge computing)
SqueezeNet for embedded computing
TinySSD (object detection for edge computing)
The document describes the architecture of 4 YOLOv5 object detection models of different sizes - small, medium, large, and extra large. Each model uses the same basic building blocks of focus, convolutional, and bottleneck CSP layers followed by upsampling and concatenation, but with different input channel sizes and numbers of layers to process images of different resolutions.
YOLO releases are one-stage object detection models that predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in an image using a single neural network. YOLO v1 divides the image into a grid and predicts bounding boxes and confidence scores for each grid cell. YOLO v2 improves on v1 with anchor boxes, batch normalization, and a Darknet-19 backbone network. YOLO v3 uses a Darknet-53 backbone, multi-scale feature maps, and a logistic classifier to achieve better accuracy. The YOLO models aim to perform real-time object detection with high accuracy while remaining fast and unified end-to-end models.
PR-132: SSD: Single Shot MultiBox DetectorJinwon Lee
SSD is a single-shot object detector that processes the entire image at once, rather than proposing regions of interest. It uses a base VGG16 network with additional convolutional layers to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities at three scales simultaneously. SSD achieves state-of-the-art accuracy while running significantly faster than two-stage detectors like Faster R-CNN. It introduces techniques like default boxes, hard negative mining, and data augmentation to address class imbalance and improve results on small objects. On PASCAL VOC 2007, SSD detects objects at 59 FPS with 74.3% mAP, comparable to Faster R-CNN but much faster.
This document discusses object detection using the Single Shot Detector (SSD) algorithm with the MobileNet V1 architecture. It begins with an introduction to object detection and a literature review of common techniques. It then describes the basic architecture of convolutional neural networks and how they are used for feature extraction in SSD. The SSD framework uses multi-scale feature maps for detection and convolutional predictors. MobileNet V1 reduces model size and complexity through depthwise separable convolutions. This allows SSD with MobileNet V1 to perform real-time object detection with reduced parameters and computations compared to other models.
Slides by Míriam Bellver at the UPC Reading group for the paper:
Liu, Wei, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Christian Szegedy, and Scott Reed. "SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector." ECCV 2016.
Full listing of papers at:
https://github.com/imatge-upc/readcv/blob/master/README.md
Deep learning based object detection basicsBrodmann17
The document discusses different approaches to object detection in images using deep learning. It begins with describing detection as classification, where an image is classified into categories for what objects are present. It then discusses approaches that involve separating detection into a classification head and localization head. The document also covers improvements like R-CNN which uses region proposals to first generate candidate object regions before running classification and bounding box regression on those regions using CNN features. This helps address issues with previous approaches like being too slow when running the CNN over the entire image at multiple locations and scales.
Real-time object detection coz YOLO! by Shagufta Gurmukhdas
You Only Look Once is a state-of-the-art, high speed real-time object detection algorithm. It looks at the whole image at test time so its predictions are informed by global context in the image. This talk teaches you to develop your own application to detect and classify objects in images & videos.
1.Intro to YOLO algorithm
2. Image detection on video with YOLO
3. Processing images in Python, adding bounding boxes and labels
4. Processing complete videos in Python in the similar way as the previous section
5. Processing real time video from webcam
Object detection is a computer technology related to computer vision and image processing that deals with detecting instances of semantic objects of a certain class (such as humans, buildings, or cars) in digital images and videos. Well-researched domains of object detection include face detection and pedestrian detection. Object detection has applications in many areas of computer vision, including image retrieval and video surveillance.
YOLO v2 improves upon YOLO v1 in three main ways:
1. It is better by adding techniques like batch normalization, multi-scale training, and anchor boxes to improve accuracy.
2. It is faster by using a smaller input size of 416x416.
3. It is stronger by directly predicting bounding boxes rather than offsets, adding fine-grained features, and using dimensional clustering to select anchor boxes.
This document discusses the YOLO object detection algorithm and its applications in real-time object detection. YOLO frames object detection as a regression problem to predict bounding boxes and class probabilities in one pass. It can process images at 30 FPS. The document compares YOLO versions 1-3 and their improvements in small object detection, resolution, and generalization. It describes implementing YOLO with OpenCV and its use in self-driving cars due to its speed and contextual awareness.
This document provides an overview of object detection using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). It discusses why CNNs are well-suited for object detection, defines object detection, and describes several popular CNN-based object detection algorithms including R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN, and YOLO. It also covers important object detection concepts like region proposals, sliding windows, IoU for evaluating localization accuracy, and NMS for removing overlapping detections. Open-source resources for implementing these algorithms are also provided.
Slides by Amaia Salvador at the UPC Computer Vision Reading Group.
Source document on GDocs with clickable links:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jDTyKTNfZBfMl8OHANZJaYxsXTqGCHMVeMeBe5o1EL0/edit?usp=sharing
Based on the original work:
Ren, Shaoqing, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, and Jian Sun. "Faster R-CNN: Towards real-time object detection with region proposal networks." In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 91-99. 2015.
Top object detection algorithms in deep neural networksApuChandraw
This document discusses object detection using deep neural networks. It describes different types of neural networks including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are well-suited for object detection tasks. CNNs use techniques like parameter sharing and sparse connections to recognize visual patterns. Popular object detection algorithms that use CNNs are R-CNN, which proposes regions and classifies them, and YOLO (You Only Look Once), which frames detection as a single regression problem from image to bounding boxes. While very fast, YOLO struggles with small or grouped objects and unusual aspect ratios.
最近の研究情勢についていくために - Deep Learningを中心に - Hiroshi Fukui
This document summarizes key developments in deep learning for object detection from 2012 onwards. It begins with a timeline showing that 2012 was a turning point, as deep learning achieved record-breaking results in image classification. The document then provides overviews of 250+ contributions relating to object detection frameworks, fundamental problems addressed, evaluation benchmarks and metrics, and state-of-the-art performance. Promising future research directions are also identified.
This document summarizes the Faster R-CNN object detection framework. It inserts a Region Proposal Network after the last convolutional layer to directly produce region proposals rather than using external proposals. The RPN classifies anchors as object or not and regresses bounding box offsets. Proposals are then fed into Fast R-CNN for classification and further regression. Experiments show Faster R-CNN achieves real-time speeds of 0.2 seconds per image while maintaining accuracy, representing a 250x speedup over R-CNN and 25x over Fast R-CNN.
This document provides an overview of deep generative learning and summarizes several key generative models including GANs, VAEs, diffusion models, and autoregressive models. It discusses the motivation for generative models and their applications such as image generation, text-to-image synthesis, and enhancing other media like video and speech. Example state-of-the-art models are provided for each application. The document also covers important concepts like the difference between discriminative and generative modeling, sampling techniques, and the training procedures for GANs and VAEs.
This document provides an overview of deep generative learning and summarizes several key generative models including GANs, VAEs, diffusion models, and autoregressive models. It discusses the motivation for generative models and their applications such as image generation, text-to-image synthesis, and enhancing other media like video and speech. Example state-of-the-art models are provided for each application. The document also covers important concepts like the difference between discriminative and generative modeling, sampling techniques, and the training procedures for GANs and VAEs.
The document discusses the Vision Transformer (ViT) model for computer vision tasks. It covers:
1. How ViT tokenizes images into patches and uses position embeddings to encode spatial relationships.
2. ViT uses a class embedding to trigger class predictions, unlike CNNs which have decoders.
3. The receptive field of ViT grows as the attention mechanism allows elements to attend to other distant elements in later layers.
4. Initial results showed ViT performance was comparable to CNNs when trained on large datasets but lagged CNNs trained on smaller datasets like ImageNet.
Machine translation and computer vision have greatly benefited from the advances in deep learning. A large and diverse amount of textual and visual data have been used to train neural networks whether in a supervised or self-supervised manner. Nevertheless, the convergence of the two fields in sign language translation and production still poses multiple open challenges, like the low video resources, limitations in hand pose estimation, or 3D spatial grounding from poses.
The transformer is the neural architecture that has received most attention in the early 2020's. It removed the recurrency in RNNs, replacing it with and attention mechanism across the input and output tokens of a sequence (cross-attenntion) and between the tokens composing the input (and output) sequences, named self-attention.
These slides review the research of our lab since 2016 on applied deep learning, starting from our participation in the TRECVID Instance Search 2014, moving into video analysis with CNN+RNN architectures, and our current efforts in sign language translation and production.
Machine translation and computer vision have greatly benefited of the advances in deep learning. The large and diverse amount of textual and visual data have been used to train neural networks whether in a supervised or self-supervised manner. Nevertheless, the convergence of the two field in sign language translation and production is still poses multiple open challenges, like the low video resources, limitations in hand pose estimation, or 3D spatial grounding from poses. This talk will present these challenges and the How2✌️Sign dataset (https://how2sign.github.io) recorded at CMU in collaboration with UPC, BSC, Gallaudet University and Facebook.
https://imatge.upc.edu/web/publications/sign-language-translation-and-production-multimedia-and-multimodal-challenges-all
https://imatge-upc.github.io/synthref/
Integrating computer vision with natural language processing has achieved significant progress
over the last years owing to the continuous evolution of deep learning. A novel vision and language
task, which is tackled in the present Master thesis is referring video object segmentation, in which a
language query defines which instance to segment from a video sequence. One of the biggest chal-
lenges for this task is the lack of relatively large annotated datasets since a tremendous amount of
time and human effort is required for annotation. Moreover, existing datasets suffer from poor qual-
ity annotations in the sense that approximately one out of ten language expressions fails to uniquely
describe the target object.
The purpose of the present Master thesis is to address these challenges by proposing a novel
method for generating synthetic referring expressions for an image (video frame). This method pro-
duces synthetic referring expressions by using only the ground-truth annotations of the objects as well
as their attributes, which are detected by a state-of-the-art object detection deep neural network. One
of the advantages of the proposed method is that its formulation allows its application to any object
detection or segmentation dataset.
By using the proposed method, the first large-scale dataset with synthetic referring expressions for
video object segmentation is created, based on an existing large benchmark dataset for video instance
segmentation. A statistical analysis and comparison of the created synthetic dataset with existing ones
is also provided in the present Master thesis.
The conducted experiments on three different datasets used for referring video object segmen-
tation prove the efficiency of the generated synthetic data. More specifically, the obtained results
demonstrate that by pre-training a deep neural network with the proposed synthetic dataset one can
improve the ability of the network to generalize across different datasets, without any additional annotation cost. This outcome is even more important taking into account that no additional annotation cost is involved.
Master MATT thesis defense by Juan José Nieto
Advised by Víctor Campos and Xavier Giro-i-Nieto.
27th May 2021.
Pre-training Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents in a task-agnostic manner has shown promising results. However, previous works still struggle to learn and discover meaningful skills in high-dimensional state-spaces. We approach the problem by leveraging unsupervised skill discovery and self-supervised learning of state representations. In our work, we learn a compact latent representation by making use of variational or contrastive techniques. We demonstrate that both allow learning a set of basic navigation skills by maximizing an information theoretic objective. We assess our method in Minecraft 3D maps with different complexities. Our results show that representations and conditioned policies learned from pixels are enough for toy examples, but do not scale to realistic and complex maps. We also explore alternative rewards and input observations to overcome these limitations.
https://imatge.upc.edu/web/publications/discovery-and-learning-navigation-goals-pixels-minecraft
Peter Muschick MSc thesis
Universitat Pollitecnica de Catalunya, 2020
Sign language recognition and translation has been an active research field in the recent years with most approaches using deep neural networks to extract information from sign language data. This work investigates the mostly disregarded approach of using human keypoint estimation from image and video data with OpenPose in combination with transformer network architecture. Firstly, it was shown that it is possible to recognize individual signs (4.5% word error rate (WER)). Continuous sign language recognition though was more error prone (77.3% WER) and sign language translation was not possible using the proposed methods, which might be due to low accuracy scores of human keypoint estimation by OpenPose and accompanying loss of information or insufficient capacities of the used transformer model. Results may improve with the use of datasets containing higher repetition rates of individual signs or focusing more precisely on keypoint extraction of hands.
This document discusses interpretability and explainable AI (XAI) in neural networks. It begins by providing motivation for why explanations of neural network predictions are often required. It then provides an overview of different interpretability techniques, including visualizing learned weights and feature maps, attribution methods like class activation maps and guided backpropagation, and feature visualization. Specific examples and applications of each technique are described. The document serves as a guide to interpretability and explainability in deep learning models.
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of large-scale annotated datasets and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which were previously addressed with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks or Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles of deep learning from both an algorithmic and computational perspectives.
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of large-scale annotated datasets and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which were previously addressed with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks or Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles of deep learning from both an algorithmic and computational perspectives.
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of large-scale annotated datasets and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which were previously addressed with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks or Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles of deep learning from both an algorithmic and computational perspectives.
https://telecombcn-dl.github.io/dlai-2020/
Deep learning technologies are at the core of the current revolution in artificial intelligence for multimedia data analysis. The convergence of large-scale annotated datasets and affordable GPU hardware has allowed the training of neural networks for data analysis tasks which were previously addressed with hand-crafted features. Architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks or Q-nets for reinforcement learning have shaped a brand new scenario in signal processing. This course will cover the basic principles of deep learning from both an algorithmic and computational perspectives.
https://telecombcn-dl.github.io/drl-2020/
This course presents the principles of reinforcement learning as an artificial intelligence tool based on the interaction of the machine with its environment, with applications to control tasks (eg. robotics, autonomous driving) o decision making (eg. resource optimization in wireless communication networks). It also advances in the development of deep neural networks trained with little or no supervision, both for discriminative and generative tasks, with special attention on multimedia applications (vision, language and speech).
Giro-i-Nieto, X. One Perceptron to Rule Them All: Language, Vision, Audio and Speech. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (pp. 7-8).
Tutorial page:
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You only look once: Unified, real-time object detection (UPC Reading Group)
1. YOLO:
You Only Look Once
Unified Real-Time Object Detection
Slides by: Andrea Ferri
For: Computer Vision Reading Group (08/03/16)
Joseph Redmon, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, Ali Farhadi
[Website] [Paper] [arXiv] [Reviews]
3. Nowadays State of the Art approach, are so
architected:
Conv
Layer 5
Conv
layers
RPN RPN Proposals
RPN Proposals
Class probabilities
RoI pooling layer
FC layers
Class scores
4. This complex pipeline means that:
Slow Pipeline
Single Pipelines Hard to Optimize
Need Parallel Training for Components
6. Developed as Single Convolutional Network
Reason Globally on the Entire Image
Learns Generalizable Representations
Easy & Fast
Detection as Single Regression Problem
Concepts
8. Divide the image into a SxS grid.
If the center of an object fall into a grid cell, it will
be the responsible for the object.
Each grid cell predict:
B bounding boxes;
B confidence scores as C=Pr(Obj)*IOU;
Confidence Prediction is obtained as IOU of
predicted box and any ground truth box.
C cond. Class prob. as P=Pr(𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊|Object);
9. We obtain the class-specific confidence
score as:
Pr(𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊|Object)*Pr(Object)*IOU
=
Pr(𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊)*IOU
12. Limitations
Struggle with Small Object.
Loss function threats errors in different boxes
ratio at the same.
Struggle with Different aspects and ratios
of objects.
Loss function is an approximation.
19. The fastest general-purpose object
detector in the literature.
Trained on a loss function that
directly corresponds to detection
performance.
The entire model is trained jointly.
At least detection at 45fps.
Pros
20. • You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection,
Joseph Redmon, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick, Ali Farhadi.
References