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S-OHEM: Stratified Online Hard Example Mining for Object Detection
One of the major challenges in object detection is to propose detectors with
highly accurate localization of objects. The online sampling of high-loss
region proposals (hard examples) uses the multitask loss with equal weight
settings across all loss types (e.g, classification and localization, rigid and
non-rigid categories) and ignores the influence of different loss distributions
throughout the training process, which we find essential to the training
efficacy. In this paper, we present the Stratified Online Hard Example Mining
(S-OHEM) algorithm for training higher efficiency and accuracy detectors.
S-OHEM exploits OHEM with stratified sampling, a widely-adopted sampling
technique, to choose the training examples according to this influence during
hard example mining, and thus enhance the performance of object detectors. We
show through systematic experiments that S-OHEM yields an average precision
(AP) improvement of 0.5% on rigid categories of PASCAL VOC 2007 for both the
IoU threshold of 0.6 and 0.7. For KITTI 2012, both results of the same metric
are 1.6%. Regarding the mean average precision (mAP), a relative increase of
0.3% and 0.5% (1% and 0.5%) is observed for VOC07 (KITTI12) using the same set
of IoU threshold. Also, S-OHEM is easy to integrate with existing region-based
detectors and is capable of acting with post-recognition level regressors.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted by CCCV 201
The First Two Years of Electromagnetic Follow-Up with Advanced LIGO and Virgo
We anticipate the first direct detections of gravitational waves (GWs) with
Advanced LIGO and Virgo later this decade. Though this groundbreaking technical
achievement will be its own reward, a still greater prize could be observations
of compact binary mergers in both gravitational and electromagnetic channels
simultaneously. During Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first two years of operation,
2015 through 2016, we expect the global GW detector array to improve in
sensitivity and livetime and expand from two to three detectors. We model the
detection rate and the sky localization accuracy for binary neutron star (BNS)
mergers across this transition. We have analyzed a large, astrophysically
motivated source population using real-time detection and sky localization
codes and higher-latency parameter estimation codes that have been expressly
built for operation in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo era. We show that for most BNS
events the rapid sky localization, available about a minute after a detection,
is as accurate as the full parameter estimation. We demonstrate that Advanced
Virgo will play an important role in sky localization, even though it is
anticipated to come online with only one-third as much sensitivity as the
Advanced LIGO detectors. We find that the median 90% confidence region shrinks
from ~500 square degrees in 2015 to ~200 square degrees in 2016. A few distinct
scenarios for the first LIGO/Virgo detections emerge from our simulations.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. For accompanying data, see
http://www.ligo.org/scientists/first2year
Deformable Part-based Fully Convolutional Network for Object Detection
Existing region-based object detectors are limited to regions with fixed box
geometry to represent objects, even if those are highly non-rectangular. In
this paper we introduce DP-FCN, a deep model for object detection which
explicitly adapts to shapes of objects with deformable parts. Without
additional annotations, it learns to focus on discriminative elements and to
align them, and simultaneously brings more invariance for classification and
geometric information to refine localization. DP-FCN is composed of three main
modules: a Fully Convolutional Network to efficiently maintain spatial
resolution, a deformable part-based RoI pooling layer to optimize positions of
parts and build invariance, and a deformation-aware localization module
explicitly exploiting displacements of parts to improve accuracy of bounding
box regression. We experimentally validate our model and show significant
gains. DP-FCN achieves state-of-the-art performances of 83.1% and 80.9% on
PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2012 with VOC data only.Comment: Accepted to BMVC 2017 (oral
Triangulation of gravitational wave sources with a network of detectors
There is significant benefit to be gained by pursuing multi-messenger
astronomy with gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations. In order to
undertake electromagnetic follow-ups of gravitational wave signals, it will be
necessary to accurately localize them in the sky. Since gravitational wave
detectors are not inherently pointing instruments, localization will occur
primarily through triangulation with a network of detectors. We investigate the
expected timing accuracy for observed signals and the consequences for
localization. In addition, we discuss the effect of systematic uncertainties in
the waveform and calibration of the instruments on the localization of sources.
We provide illustrative results of timing and localization accuracy as well as
systematic effects for coalescing binary waveforms.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
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