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Face recognition via compact second order image gradient orientations

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Yin, He-Feng Wu, Xiao-Jun Song, Xiao-Ning Jiangnan University School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science No. 1800 Lihu Avenue Wuxi214122 China Jiangsu Provincial Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence No. 1800 Lihu Avenue Wuxi214122 China

Conventional subspace learning approaches based on image gradient orientations only employ the first-order gradient information. However, recent researches on human vision system (HVS) uncover that the neural image is a landscape or a surface whose geometric properties can be captured through the second order gradient information. The second order image gradient orientations (SOIGO) can mitigate the adverse effect of noises in face images. To reduce the redundancy of SOIGO, we propose compact SOIGO (CSOIGO) by applying linear complex principal component analysis (PCA) in SOIGO. Combined with collaborative representation based classification (CRC) algorithm, the classification performance of CSOIGO is further enhanced. CSOIGO is evaluated under real-world disguise, synthesized occlusion and mixed variations. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method is superior to its competing approaches with few training samples, and even outperforms some prevailing deep neural network based approaches. The source code of CSOIGO is available at https://***/yinhefeng/SOIGO. © 2022, CC BY-SA.

关键词： Face recognition

Simple Primitives with Feasibility- and Contextuality-Dependence for Open-World Compositional Zero-shot Learning

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Liu, Zhe Li, Yun Yao, Lina Chang, Xiaojun Fang, Wei Wu, Xiaojun Yang, Yi Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence Jiangnan University China The School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Australia The Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute University of Technology Sydney Australia School of Computer Science and Technology Zhejiang University China

The task of Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is to recognize images of novel state-object compositions that are absent during the training stage. Previous methods of learning compositional embedding have shown effectiveness in closed-world CZSL. However, in Open-World CZSL (OW-CZSL), their performance tends to degrade significantly due to the large cardinality of possible compositions. Some recent works separately predict simple primitives (i.e., states and objects) to reduce cardinality. However, they consider simple primitives as independent probability distributions, ignoring the heavy dependence between states, objects, and compositions. In this paper, we model the dependence of compositions via feasibility and contextuality. Feasibility-dependence refers to the unequal feasibility relations between simple primitives, e.g., hairy is more feasible with cat than with building in the real world. Contextuality-dependence represents the contextual variance in images, e.g., cat shows diverse appearances under the state of dry and wet. We design Semantic Attention (SA) and generative Knowledge Disentanglement (KD) to learn the dependence of feasibility and contextuality, respectively. SA captures semantics in compositions to alleviate impossible predictions, driven by the visual similarity between simple primitives. KD disentangles images into unbiased feature representations, easing contextual bias in predictions. Moreover, we complement the current compositional probability model with feasibility and contextuality in a compatible format. Finally, we conduct comprehensive experiments to analyze and validate the superior or competitive performance of our model, Semantic Attention and knowledge Disentanglement guided Simple Primitives (SAD-SP), on three widely-used benchmark OW-CZSL datasets. Copyright © 2022, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Zero-shot learning

Dual encoder-decoder based generative adversarial networks for disentangled facial representation learning

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arXiv 2019年

作者： Hu, Cong Feng, Zhen-Hua Wu, Xiao-Jun Kittler, Josef School of Internet of Things Engineering Jiangnan University Wuxi Jiangsu Province214122 China Jiangsu Provincial Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence Jiangnan University Wuxi Jiangsu Province214122 China Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

To learn disentangled representations of facial images, we present a Dual Encoder-Decoder based Generative Adversarial Network (DED-GAN). In the proposed method, both the generator and discriminator are designed with deep encoder-decoder architectures as their backbones. To be more specific, the encoder-decoder structured generator is used to learn a pose disentangled face representation, and the encoder-decoder structured discriminator is tasked to perform real/fake classification, face reconstruction, determining identity and estimating face pose. We further improve the proposed network architecture by minimising the additional pixel-wise loss defined by the Wasserstein distance at the output of the discriminator so that the adversarial framework can be better trained. Additionally, we consider face pose variation to be continuous, rather than discrete in existing literature, to inject richer pose information into our model. The pose estimation task is formulated as a regression problem, which helps to disentangle identity information from pose variations. The proposed network is evaluated on the tasks of pose-invariant face recognition (PIFR) and face synthesis across poses. An extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation carried out on several controlled and in-the-wild benchmarking datasets demonstrates the superiority of the proposed DED-GAN method over the state-of-the-art approaches. Copyright © 2019, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Generative adversarial networks

Differentiable neural architecture learning for efficient neural network design

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Guo, Qingbei Wu, Xiao-Jun Kittler, Josef Feng, Zhiquan Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence Jiangnan University Wuxi214122 China Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Network based Intelligent Computing University of Jinan Jinan250022 China Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

Automated neural network design has received ever-increasing attention with the evolution of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially involving their deployment on embedded and mobile platforms. One of the biggest problems that neural architecture search (NAS) confronts is that a large number of candidate neural architectures are required to train, using, for instance, reinforcement learning and evolutionary optimisation algorithms, at a vast computation cost. Even recent differentiable neural architecture search (DNAS) samples a small number of candidate neural architectures based on the probability distribution of learned architecture parameters to select the final neural architecture. To address this computational complexity issue, we introduce a novel architecture parameterisation based on scaled sigmoid function, and propose a general Differentiable Neural Architecture Learning (DNAL) method to optimize the neural architecture without the need to evaluate candidate neural networks. Specifically, for stochastic supernets as well as conventional CNNs, we build a new channel-wise module layer with the architecture components controlled by a scaled sigmoid function. We train these neural network models from scratch. The network optimization is decoupled into the weight optimization and the architecture optimization, which avoids the interaction between the two types of parameters and alleviates the vanishing gradient problem. We address the non-convex optimization problem of neural architecture by the continuous scaled sigmoid method with convergence guarantees. Extensive experiments demonstrate our DNAL method delivers superior performance in terms of neural architecture search cost, and adapts to conventional CNNs (e.g., VGG16 and ResNet50), lightweight CNNs (e.g., MobileNetV2) and stochastic supernets (e.g., ProxylessNAS). The optimal networks learned by DNAL surpass those produced by the state-of-the-art methods on the benchmark CIFAR-10 and ImageN

关键词： Deep neural networks

PPT Fusion: Pyramid Patch Transformer for a Case Study in Image Fusion

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Fu, Yu Xu, Tianyang Wu, Xiao-Jun Kittler, Josef Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Jiangnan University Wuxi 214122 China Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

The Transformer architecture has witnessed a rapid development in recent years, outperforming the CNN architectures in many computer vision tasks, as exemplified by the Vision Transformers (ViT) for image classification. However, existing visual transformer models aim to extract semantic information for high-level tasks, such as classification and detection. These methods ignore the importance of the spatial resolution of the input image, thus sacrificing the local correlation information of neighboring pixels. In this paper, we propose a Patch Pyramid Transformer(PPT) to effectively address the above issues. Specifically, we first design a Patch Transformer to transform the image into a sequence of patches, where transformer encoding is performed for each patch to extract local representations. In addition, we construct a Pyramid Transformer to effectively extract the non-local information from the entire image. After obtaining a set of multi-scale, multi-dimensional, and multi-angle features of the original image, we design the image reconstruction network to ensure that the features can be reconstructed into the original input. To validate the effectiveness, we apply the proposed Patch Pyramid Transformer to image fusion tasks. The experimental results demonstrate its superior performance, compared to the state-of-the-art fusion approaches, achieving the best results on several evaluation indicators. Thanks to the underlying representational capacity of the PPT network, it can directly be applied to different image fusion tasks without redesigning or retraining the network. Copyright © 2021, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Deep learning

Exploring Fusion Strategies for Accurate RGBT Visual Object Tracking

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arXiv 2022年

作者： Tang, Zhangyong Xu, Tianyang Li, Hui Wu, Xiao-Jun Zhu, XueFeng Kittler, Josef Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Jiangnan University Wuxi214122 China The Center for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and decision-level fusion. Specifically, different from the existing methods, paradigm of image fusion task is heeded for fusion at pixel level. Feature-level fusion is fulfilled by attention mechanism with channels excited optionally. Besides, at decision level, a novel fusion strategy is put forward since an effortless averaging configuration has shown the superiority. The effectiveness of the proposed decision-level fusion strategy owes to a number of innovative contributions, including a dynamic weighting of the RGB and TIR contributions and a linear template update operation. A variant of which produced the winning tracker at the Visual Object Tracking Challenge 2020 (VOT-RGBT2020). The concurrent exploration of innovative pixel- and feature-level fusion strategies highlights the advantages of the proposed decision-level fusion method. Extensive experimental results on three challenging datasets, i.e., GTOT, VOT-RGBT2019, and VOT-RGBT2020, demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method, compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. Code will be shared at https://***/Zhangyong-Tang/DFAT. © 2022, CC BY.

关键词： Pixels

RFN-Nest: An end-to-end residual fusion network for infrared and visible images

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Li, Hui Wu, Xiao-Jun Kittler, Josef Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Jiangnan University Wuxi214122 China The Center for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

In the image fusion field, the design of deep learning-based fusion methods is far from routine. It is invariably fusion-task specific and requires a careful consideration. The most difficult part of the design is to choose an appropriate strategy to generate the fused image for a specific task in hand. Thus, devising learnable fusion strategy is a very challenging problem in the community of image fusion. To address this problem, a novel end-to-end fusion network architecture (RFN-Nest) is developed for infrared and visible image fusion. We propose a residual fusion network (RFN) which is based on a residual architecture to replace the traditional fusion approach. A novel detail-preserving loss function, and a feature enhancing loss function are proposed to train RFN. The fusion model learning is accomplished by a novel two-stage training strategy. In the first stage, we train an auto-encoder based on an innovative nest connection (Nest) concept. Next, the RFN is trained using the proposed loss functions. The experimental results on public domain data sets show that, compared with the existing methods, our end-to-end fusion network delivers a better performance than the state-of-the-art methods in both subjective and objective evaluation. The code of our fusion method is available at https://***/hli1221/imagefusion-rfn-nest. © 2021, CC BY-NC-ND.

关键词： Image fusion

Self-grouping convolutional neural networks

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arXiv 2020年

Although group convolution operators are increasingly used in deep convolutional neural networks to improve the computational efficiency and to reduce the number of parameters, most existing methods construct their group convolution architectures by a predefined partitioning of the filters of each convolutional layer into multiple regular filter groups with an equal spatial group size and data-independence, which prevents a full exploitation of their potential. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel method of designing self-grouping convolutional neural networks, called SG-CNN, in which the filters of each convolutional layer group themselves based on the similarity of their importance vectors. Concretely, for each filter, we first evaluate the importance value of their input channels to identify the importance vectors, and then group these vectors by clustering. Using the resulting data-dependent centroids, we prune the less important connections, which implicitly minimizes the accuracy loss of the pruning, thus yielding a set of diverse group convolution filters. Subsequently, we develop two fine-tuning schemes, i.e. (1) both local and global fine-tuning and (2) global only fine-tuning, which experimentally deliver comparable results, to recover the recognition capacity of the pruned network. Comprehensive experiments carried out on the CIFAR-10/100 and ImageNet datasets demonstrate that our self-grouping convolution method adapts to various state-of-the-art CNN architectures, (Figure presented) Figure 1: Evolution of group convolutions. (a) Regular convolution. (b) Regular group convolution. (c) Permuting group convolution. (d) Learned group convolution. (d) Self-grouping convolution. Note that white channels represent the ignored input channels, and gray channels indicate the reused input channels. such as ResNet and DenseNet, and delivers superior performance in terms of compression ratio, speedup and recognition accuracy. We demonstrate the ability of SG-CNN

关键词： Convolution

Learning a representation with the block-diagonal structure for pattern classification

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arXiv 2019年

作者： Yin, He-Feng Wu, Xiao-Jun Kittler, Josef Feng, Zhen-Hua School of Internet of Things Engineering Jiangnan University Wuxi214122 China Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Computational Intelligence Jiangnan University Wuxi214122 China Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing University of Surrey GuildfordGU2 7XH United Kingdom

Sparse-representation-based classification (SRC) has been widely studied and developed for various practical signal classification applications. However, the performance of a SRC-based method is degraded when both the training and test data are corrupted. To counteract this problem, we propose an approach that learns Representation with Block-Diagonal Structure (RBDS) for robust image recognition. To be more specific, we first introduce a regularization term that captures the block-diagonal structure of the target representation matrix of the training data. The resulting problem is then solved by an optimizer. Last, based on the learned representation, a simple yet effective linear classifier is used for the classification task. The experimental results obtained on several benchmarking datasets demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed RBDS method. The code will be released upon the acceptance of this paper. Copyright © 2019, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Image recognition