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Optimal Quantization for Compressive Sensing under Message Passing Reconstruction
We consider the optimal quantization of compressive sensing measurements
following the work on generalization of relaxed belief propagation (BP) for
arbitrary measurement channels. Relaxed BP is an iterative reconstruction
scheme inspired by message passing algorithms on bipartite graphs. Its
asymptotic error performance can be accurately predicted and tracked through
the state evolution formalism. We utilize these results to design mean-square
optimal scalar quantizers for relaxed BP signal reconstruction and empirically
demonstrate the superior error performance of the resulting quantizers.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT) 2011; minor corrections in v
Reduced Memory Region Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Detection
Accurate pedestrian detection has a primary role in automotive safety: for
example, by issuing warnings to the driver or acting actively on car's brakes,
it helps decreasing the probability of injuries and human fatalities. In order
to achieve very high accuracy, recent pedestrian detectors have been based on
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Unfortunately, such approaches require
vast amounts of computational power and memory, preventing efficient
implementations on embedded systems. This work proposes a CNN-based detector,
adapting a general-purpose convolutional network to the task at hand. By
thoroughly analyzing and optimizing each step of the detection pipeline, we
develop an architecture that outperforms methods based on traditional image
features and achieves an accuracy close to the state-of-the-art while having
low computational complexity. Furthermore, the model is compressed in order to
fit the tight constrains of low power devices with a limited amount of embedded
memory available. This paper makes two main contributions: (1) it proves that a
region based deep neural network can be finely tuned to achieve adequate
accuracy for pedestrian detection (2) it achieves a very low memory usage
without reducing detection accuracy on the Caltech Pedestrian dataset.Comment: IEEE 2016 ICCE-Berli
Deep Multiple Description Coding by Learning Scalar Quantization
In this paper, we propose a deep multiple description coding framework, whose
quantizers are adaptively learned via the minimization of multiple description
compressive loss. Firstly, our framework is built upon auto-encoder networks,
which have multiple description multi-scale dilated encoder network and
multiple description decoder networks. Secondly, two entropy estimation
networks are learned to estimate the informative amounts of the quantized
tensors, which can further supervise the learning of multiple description
encoder network to represent the input image delicately. Thirdly, a pair of
scalar quantizers accompanied by two importance-indicator maps is automatically
learned in an end-to-end self-supervised way. Finally, multiple description
structural dissimilarity distance loss is imposed on multiple description
decoded images in pixel domain for diversified multiple description generations
rather than on feature tensors in feature domain, in addition to multiple
description reconstruction loss. Through testing on two commonly used datasets,
it is verified that our method is beyond several state-of-the-art multiple
description coding approaches in terms of coding efficiency.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. (DCC 2019: Data Compression Conference). Testing
datasets for "Deep Optimized Multiple Description Image Coding via Scalar
Quantization Learning" can be found in the website of
https://github.com/mdcnn/Deep-Multiple-Description-Codin
QuSecNets: Quantization-based Defense Mechanism for Securing Deep Neural Network against Adversarial Attacks
Adversarial examples have emerged as a significant threat to machine learning
algorithms, especially to the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this
paper, we propose two quantization-based defense mechanisms, Constant
Quantization (CQ) and Trainable Quantization (TQ), to increase the robustness
of CNNs against adversarial examples. CQ quantizes input pixel intensities
based on a "fixed" number of quantization levels, while in TQ, the quantization
levels are "iteratively learned during the training phase", thereby providing a
stronger defense mechanism. We apply the proposed techniques on undefended CNNs
against different state-of-the-art adversarial attacks from the open-source
\textit{Cleverhans} library. The experimental results demonstrate 50%-96% and
10%-50% increase in the classification accuracy of the perturbed images
generated from the MNIST and the CIFAR-10 datasets, respectively, on commonly
used CNN (Conv2D(64, 8x8) - Conv2D(128, 6x6) - Conv2D(128, 5x5) - Dense(10) -
Softmax()) available in \textit{Cleverhans} library
Turning big bang into big bounce: II. Quantum dynamics
We analyze the big bounce transition of the quantum FRW model in the setting
of the nonstandard loop quantum cosmology (LQC). Elementary observables are
used to quantize composite observables. The spectrum of the energy density
operator is bounded and continuous. The spectrum of the volume operator is
bounded from below and discrete. It has equally distant levels defining a
quantum of the volume. The discreteness may imply a foamy structure of
spacetime at semiclassical level which may be detected in astro-cosmo
observations. The nonstandard LQC method has a free parameter that should be
fixed in some way to specify the big bounce transition.Comment: 14 pages, no figures, version accepted for publication in Class.
Quant. Gra
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