We investigate a variation of the 3D registration problem, named multi-model 3D registration. In the multi-model registration problem, we are given two point clouds picturing a set of objects at different poses (and p...
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(数字)9798350384574
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(纸本)9798350384581
We investigate a variation of the 3D registration problem, named multi-model 3D registration. In the multi-model registration problem, we are given two point clouds picturing a set of objects at different poses (and possibly including points belonging to the background) and we want to simultaneously reconstruct how all objects moved between the two point clouds. This setup generalizes standard 3D registration where one wants to reconstruct a single pose, e.g., the motion of the sensor picturing a static scene. Moreover, it provides a mathematically grounded formulation for relevant robotics applications, e.g., where a depth sensor onboard a robot perceives a dynamic scene and has the goal of estimating its own motion (from the static portion of the scene) while simultaneously recovering the motion of all dynamic objects. We assume a correspondence-based setup where we have putative matches between the two point clouds and consider the practical case where these correspondences are plagued with outliers. We then propose a simple approach based on Expectation-Maximization (EM) and establish theoretical conditions under which the EM approach converges to the ground truth. We evaluate the approach in simulated and real datasets ranging from table-top scenes to self-driving scenarios and demonstrate its effectiveness when combined with state-of-the-art scene flow methods to establish dense correspondences.
The automatic synthesis of operational amplifiers (opamps) is in high demand to meet the diverse performance requirements of a wide range of analog circuit applications. However, existing opamp topology synthesis meth...
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(数字)9798350352030
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(纸本)9798350352047
The automatic synthesis of operational amplifiers (opamps) is in high demand to meet the diverse performance requirements of a wide range of analog circuit applications. However, existing opamp topology synthesis methods neglect circuit performance while generating circuit representations, resulting in suboptimal efficiency. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel opamp topology optimization approach based on a performance-aware topology representation. Specifically, topology information is captured using a customized graph neural network (GNN), while performance information is in-corporated by training the GNN for performance prediction through supervised learning. By combining this performance-aware representation with the genetic algorithm, an efficient opamp topology optimization method is developed. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of both optimization efficiency and results.
The estimation and analysis of road traffic represent the preliminary steps towards satisfying the current needs for smooth,safe,and green ***,effective traffic monitoring is an essential topic alongside the planning ...
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The estimation and analysis of road traffic represent the preliminary steps towards satisfying the current needs for smooth,safe,and green ***,effective traffic monitoring is an essential topic alongside the planning of sustainable transportation systems and the development of new traffic management *** contrast to classical traffic detection solutions,this study investigates the correlation between travelers'social activities and road *** s's primary goal is to investigate the presence of the relationship between social activity and road traffic,which might allow an infrastructure-independent traffic monitoring technique as ***'s general activities at Point of Interest(POI)locations(measured as occupancy parameter)are correlated with traffic data so that,finally,proper proxys can be defined for link-level average traffic speed *** method is tested and evaluated using real-world traffic and POI occupancy data from Budapest(District XI.).The results of the correlation investigation justify an indirect relationship between activity at POIs and road traffic,which holds promise for future practical applicability.
With the development of edge computing, DNN services have been widely deployed on edge devices. The deployment efficiency of deep learning models relies on the optimization of inference and scheduling policy. However,...
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This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cas...
This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic optimal control problem as a policy optimization problem over the augmented state space. Then, the infinite-dimensional policy optimization problem is approximated as a finite-dimensional nonlinear program by applying function approximation, deterministic sampling, and temporal truncation. The approximated problem is solved by using automatic differentiation and condensed-space interior-point methods. We formulate several conceptual and practical open questions regarding the asymptotic exactness of the approximation and the solution strategies for the approximated problem. As proof of concept, we present numerical examples demonstrating the performance of the proposed method.
Recent development in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated impressive domain proficiency on unstructured textual or multi-modal tasks. However, despite with intrinsic world knowledge, their application on str...
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While much work has been done recently in the realm of model-based control of soft robots and soft-rigid hybrids, most works examine robots that have an inherently serial structure. While these systems have been preva...
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(数字)9798350384574
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(纸本)9798350384581
While much work has been done recently in the realm of model-based control of soft robots and soft-rigid hybrids, most works examine robots that have an inherently serial structure. While these systems have been prevalent in the literature, there is an increasing trend toward designing soft-rigid hybrids with intrinsically coupled elasticity between various degrees of freedom. In this work, we seek to address the issues of modeling and controlling such structures, particularly when underactuated. We introduce several simple models for elastic coupling, typical of those seen in these systems. We then propose a controller that compensates for the elasticity, and we prove its stability with Lyapunov methods without relying on the elastic dominance assumption. This controller is applicable to the general class of underactuated soft robots. After evaluating the controller in simulated cases, we then develop a simple hardware platform to evaluate both the models and the controller. Finally, using the hardware, we demonstrate a novel use case for underactuated, elastically coupled systems in "sensorless" force control.
Multi-rater annotations commonly occur when medical images are independently annotated by multiple experts (raters). In this paper, we tackle two challenges arisen in multi-rater annotations for medical image segmenta...
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Adversarial Robust Distillation (ARD) has emerged as a potent defense mechanism tailored to small models against adversarial threats. However, mainstream ARD methods typically exploit teachers’ response as the transf...
Adversarial Robust Distillation (ARD) has emerged as a potent defense mechanism tailored to small models against adversarial threats. However, mainstream ARD methods typically exploit teachers’ response as the transferred knowledge, while neglecting the analysis of involved target-related knowledge to mitigate adversarial attacks. Furthermore, these methods primarily focus on logits-level distillation, which overlook the features-level knowledge in teacher models. In this paper, we introduce a novel Hybrid Decomposed Distillation (HDD) approach, which attempts to identify the vital knowledge against adversarial threats through dual-level distillation. Specifically, we first seek to separate the predictions of teacher model into target-related and target-unrelated knowledge for flexible yet efficient logits-level distillation. Besides, to further boost the distillation efficacy, HDD leverages the channel correlations to decompose intermediate features into highly and less relevant components. Extensive experiments on two benchmarks demonstrate that our HDD achieves superior performance in both clean accuracy and robustness, in contrast to current state-of-the-art methods.
During the last decade, some important progress in machine learning ML area has been made, especially with the apparition of a new subfield called deep learning DL and CNN networks (Convolutional Neural Networks). Thi...
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