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Neural Motifs: Scene Graph Parsing with Global Context
We investigate the problem of producing structured graph representations of
visual scenes. Our work analyzes the role of motifs: regularly appearing
substructures in scene graphs. We present new quantitative insights on such
repeated structures in the Visual Genome dataset. Our analysis shows that
object labels are highly predictive of relation labels but not vice-versa. We
also find that there are recurring patterns even in larger subgraphs: more than
50% of graphs contain motifs involving at least two relations. Our analysis
motivates a new baseline: given object detections, predict the most frequent
relation between object pairs with the given labels, as seen in the training
set. This baseline improves on the previous state-of-the-art by an average of
3.6% relative improvement across evaluation settings. We then introduce Stacked
Motif Networks, a new architecture designed to capture higher order motifs in
scene graphs that further improves over our strong baseline by an average 7.1%
relative gain. Our code is available at github.com/rowanz/neural-motifs.Comment: CVPR 2018 camera read
SMAN : Stacked Multi-Modal Attention Network for cross-modal image-text retrieval
This article focuses on tackling the task of the cross-modal image-text retrieval which has been an interdisciplinary topic in both computer vision and natural language processing communities. Existing global representation alignment-based methods fail to pinpoint the semantically meaningful portion of images and texts, while the local representation alignment schemes suffer from the huge computational burden for aggregating the similarity of visual fragments and textual words exhaustively. In this article, we propose a stacked multimodal attention network (SMAN) that makes use of the stacked multimodal attention mechanism to exploit the fine-grained interdependencies between image and text, thereby mapping the aggregation of attentive fragments into a common space for measuring cross-modal similarity. Specifically, we sequentially employ intramodal information and multimodal information as guidance to perform multiple-step attention reasoning so that the fine-grained correlation between image and text can be modeled. As a consequence, we are capable of discovering the semantically meaningful visual regions or words in a sentence which contributes to measuring the cross-modal similarity in a more precise manner. Moreover, we present a novel bidirectional ranking loss that enforces the distance among pairwise multimodal instances to be closer. Doing so allows us to make full use of pairwise supervised information to preserve the manifold structure of heterogeneous pairwise data. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that our SMAN consistently yields competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods
Unmasking Clever Hans Predictors and Assessing What Machines Really Learn
Current learning machines have successfully solved hard application problems,
reaching high accuracy and displaying seemingly "intelligent" behavior. Here we
apply recent techniques for explaining decisions of state-of-the-art learning
machines and analyze various tasks from computer vision and arcade games. This
showcases a spectrum of problem-solving behaviors ranging from naive and
short-sighted, to well-informed and strategic. We observe that standard
performance evaluation metrics can be oblivious to distinguishing these diverse
problem solving behaviors. Furthermore, we propose our semi-automated Spectral
Relevance Analysis that provides a practically effective way of characterizing
and validating the behavior of nonlinear learning machines. This helps to
assess whether a learned model indeed delivers reliably for the problem that it
was conceived for. Furthermore, our work intends to add a voice of caution to
the ongoing excitement about machine intelligence and pledges to evaluate and
judge some of these recent successes in a more nuanced manner.Comment: Accepted for publication in Nature Communication
A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Theories, Tools and Challenges for the Community
In recent years, deep learning (DL), a re-branding of neural networks (NNs),
has risen to the top in numerous areas, namely computer vision (CV), speech
recognition, natural language processing, etc. Whereas remote sensing (RS)
possesses a number of unique challenges, primarily related to sensors and
applications, inevitably RS draws from many of the same theories as CV; e.g.,
statistics, fusion, and machine learning, to name a few. This means that the RS
community should be aware of, if not at the leading edge of, of advancements
like DL. Herein, we provide the most comprehensive survey of state-of-the-art
RS DL research. We also review recent new developments in the DL field that can
be used in DL for RS. Namely, we focus on theories, tools and challenges for
the RS community. Specifically, we focus on unsolved challenges and
opportunities as it relates to (i) inadequate data sets, (ii)
human-understandable solutions for modelling physical phenomena, (iii) Big
Data, (iv) non-traditional heterogeneous data sources, (v) DL architectures and
learning algorithms for spectral, spatial and temporal data, (vi) transfer
learning, (vii) an improved theoretical understanding of DL systems, (viii)
high barriers to entry, and (ix) training and optimizing the DL.Comment: 64 pages, 411 references. To appear in Journal of Applied Remote
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