275 research outputs found
Deep Self-Taught Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
Most existing weakly supervised localization (WSL) approaches learn detectors
by finding positive bounding boxes based on features learned with image-level
supervision. However, those features do not contain spatial location related
information and usually provide poor-quality positive samples for training a
detector. To overcome this issue, we propose a deep self-taught learning
approach, which makes the detector learn the object-level features reliable for
acquiring tight positive samples and afterwards re-train itself based on them.
Consequently, the detector progressively improves its detection ability and
localizes more informative positive samples. To implement such self-taught
learning, we propose a seed sample acquisition method via image-to-object
transferring and dense subgraph discovery to find reliable positive samples for
initializing the detector. An online supportive sample harvesting scheme is
further proposed to dynamically select the most confident tight positive
samples and train the detector in a mutual boosting way. To prevent the
detector from being trapped in poor optima due to overfitting, we propose a new
relative improvement of predicted CNN scores for guiding the self-taught
learning process. Extensive experiments on PASCAL 2007 and 2012 show that our
approach outperforms the state-of-the-arts, strongly validating its
effectiveness.Comment: Accepted as spotlight paper by CVPR 201
Quantifying Coherence with Untrusted Devices
Device-independent (DI) tests allow to witness and quantify the quantum
feature of a system, such as entanglement, without trusting the implementation
devices. Although DI test is a powerful tool in many quantum information tasks,
it generally requires nonlocal settings. Fundamentally, the superposition
property of quantum states, quantified by coherence measures, is a distinct
feature to distinguish quantum mechanics from classical theories. In
literature, witness and quantification of coherence with trusted devices have
been well-studied. However, it remains open whether we can witness and quantify
single party coherence with untrusted devices, as it is not clear whether the
concept of DI tests exists without a nonlocal setting. In this work, we study
DI witness and quantification of coherence with untrusted devices. First, we
prove a no-go theorem for a fully DI scenario, as well as a semi DI scenario
employing a joint measurement with trusted ancillary states. We then propose a
general prepare-and-measure semi DI scheme for witnessing and quantifying the
amount of coherence. We show how to quantify the relative entropy and the
norm of single party coherence with analytical and numerical methods. As
coherence is a fundamental resource for tasks such as quantum random number
generation and quantum key distribution, we expect our result may shed light on
designing new semi DI quantum cryptographic schemes.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, comments are welcome
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