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Deep Reflectance Maps
Undoing the image formation process and therefore decomposing appearance into
its intrinsic properties is a challenging task due to the under-constraint
nature of this inverse problem. While significant progress has been made on
inferring shape, materials and illumination from images only, progress in an
unconstrained setting is still limited. We propose a convolutional neural
architecture to estimate reflectance maps of specular materials in natural
lighting conditions. We achieve this in an end-to-end learning formulation that
directly predicts a reflectance map from the image itself. We show how to
improve estimates by facilitating additional supervision in an indirect scheme
that first predicts surface orientation and afterwards predicts the reflectance
map by a learning-based sparse data interpolation.
In order to analyze performance on this difficult task, we propose a new
challenge of Specular MAterials on SHapes with complex IllumiNation (SMASHINg)
using both synthetic and real images. Furthermore, we show the application of
our method to a range of image-based editing tasks on real images.Comment: project page: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~krematas/DRM
Exploiting Deep Semantics and Compositionality of Natural Language for Human-Robot-Interaction
We develop a natural language interface for human robot interaction that
implements reasoning about deep semantics in natural language. To realize the
required deep analysis, we employ methods from cognitive linguistics, namely
the modular and compositional framework of Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG)
[Feldman, 2009]. Using ECG, robots are able to solve fine-grained reference
resolution problems and other issues related to deep semantics and
compositionality of natural language. This also includes verbal interaction
with humans to clarify commands and queries that are too ambiguous to be
executed safely. We implement our NLU framework as a ROS package and present
proof-of-concept scenarios with different robots, as well as a survey on the
state of the art
A Joint Model for Definition Extraction with Syntactic Connection and Semantic Consistency
Definition Extraction (DE) is one of the well-known topics in Information
Extraction that aims to identify terms and their corresponding definitions in
unstructured texts. This task can be formalized either as a sentence
classification task (i.e., containing term-definition pairs or not) or a
sequential labeling task (i.e., identifying the boundaries of the terms and
definitions). The previous works for DE have only focused on one of the two
approaches, failing to model the inter-dependencies between the two tasks. In
this work, we propose a novel model for DE that simultaneously performs the two
tasks in a single framework to benefit from their inter-dependencies. Our model
features deep learning architectures to exploit the global structures of the
input sentences as well as the semantic consistencies between the terms and the
definitions, thereby improving the quality of the representation vectors for
DE. Besides the joint inference between sentence classification and sequential
labeling, the proposed model is fundamentally different from the prior work for
DE in that the prior work has only employed the local structures of the input
sentences (i.e., word-to-word relations), and not yet considered the semantic
consistencies between terms and definitions. In order to implement these novel
ideas, our model presents a multi-task learning framework that employs graph
convolutional neural networks and predicts the dependency paths between the
terms and the definitions. We also seek to enforce the consistency between the
representations of the terms and definitions both globally (i.e., increasing
semantic consistency between the representations of the entire sentences and
the terms/definitions) and locally (i.e., promoting the similarity between the
representations of the terms and the definitions)
Learning to count with deep object features
Learning to count is a learning strategy that has been recently proposed in
the literature for dealing with problems where estimating the number of object
instances in a scene is the final objective. In this framework, the task of
learning to detect and localize individual object instances is seen as a harder
task that can be evaded by casting the problem as that of computing a
regression value from hand-crafted image features. In this paper we explore the
features that are learned when training a counting convolutional neural network
in order to understand their underlying representation. To this end we define a
counting problem for MNIST data and show that the internal representation of
the network is able to classify digits in spite of the fact that no direct
supervision was provided for them during training. We also present preliminary
results about a deep network that is able to count the number of pedestrians in
a scene.Comment: This paper has been accepted at Deep Vision Workshop at CVPR 201
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