317 research outputs found
Multi-Modal Domain Adaptation for Fine-Grained Action Recognition
Fine-grained action recognition datasets exhibit environmental bias, where
multiple video sequences are captured from a limited number of environments.
Training a model in one environment and deploying in another results in a drop
in performance due to an unavoidable domain shift. Unsupervised Domain
Adaptation (UDA) approaches have frequently utilised adversarial training
between the source and target domains. However, these approaches have not
explored the multi-modal nature of video within each domain. In this work we
exploit the correspondence of modalities as a self-supervised alignment
approach for UDA in addition to adversarial alignment.
We test our approach on three kitchens from our large-scale dataset,
EPIC-Kitchens, using two modalities commonly employed for action recognition:
RGB and Optical Flow. We show that multi-modal self-supervision alone improves
the performance over source-only training by 2.4% on average. We then combine
adversarial training with multi-modal self-supervision, showing that our
approach outperforms other UDA methods by 3%.Comment: Accepted to CVPR 2020 for an oral presentatio
Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset
First-person vision is gaining interest as it offers a unique viewpoint on
people's interaction with objects, their attention, and even intention.
However, progress in this challenging domain has been relatively slow due to
the lack of sufficiently large datasets. In this paper, we introduce
EPIC-KITCHENS, a large-scale egocentric video benchmark recorded by 32
participants in their native kitchen environments. Our videos depict
nonscripted daily activities: we simply asked each participant to start
recording every time they entered their kitchen. Recording took place in 4
cities (in North America and Europe) by participants belonging to 10 different
nationalities, resulting in highly diverse cooking styles. Our dataset features
55 hours of video consisting of 11.5M frames, which we densely labeled for a
total of 39.6K action segments and 454.3K object bounding boxes. Our annotation
is unique in that we had the participants narrate their own videos (after
recording), thus reflecting true intention, and we crowd-sourced ground-truths
based on these. We describe our object, action and anticipation challenges, and
evaluate several baselines over two test splits, seen and unseen kitchens.
Dataset and Project page: http://epic-kitchens.github.ioComment: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2018 Dataset and
Project page: http://epic-kitchens.github.i
Geophysical-geotechnical sensor networks for landslide monitoring
Landslides are often the result of complex, multi-phase processes where gradual deterioration of shear strength
within the sub-surface precedes the appearance of surface features and slope failure. Moisture content increases
and the build-up of associated pore water pressures are invariably associated with a loss of strength, and thus are
a precursor to failure. Consequently, hydraulic processes typically play a major role in the development of
landslides. Geoelectrical techniques, such as resistivity and self-potential are being increasingly applied to study
landslide structure and the hydraulics of landslide processes. The great strengths of these techniques are that they
provide spatial or volumetric information at the site scale, which, when calibrated with appropriate geotechnical
and hydrogeological data, can be used to characterise lithological variability and monitor hydraulic changes in
the subsurface. In this study we describe the development of an automated time-lapse electrical resistivity
tomography (ALERT) and geotechnical monitoring system on an active inland landslide near Malton, North
Yorkshire, UK. The overarching objective of the research is to develop a 4D landslide monitoring system that
can characterise the subsurface structure of the landslide, and reveal the hydraulic precursors to movement. The
site is a particularly import research facility as it is representative of many lowland UK situations in which weak
mudrocks have failed on valley sides. Significant research efforts have already been expended at the site, and a
number of baseline data sets have been collected, including ground and airborne LIDAR, geomorphologic and
geological maps, and geophysical models. The monitoring network comprises an ALERT monitoring station
connected to a 3D monitoring electrode array installed across an area of 5,500 m2, extending from above the
back scarp to beyond the toe of the landslide. The ALERT instrument uses wireless telemetry (in this case
GPRS) to communicate with an office based server, which runs control software and a database management
system. The control software is used to schedule data acquisition, whilst the database management system stores,
processes and inverts the remotely streamed ERT data. Once installed and configured, the system operates
autonomously without manual intervention. Modifications to the ALERT system at this site have included the
addition of environmental and geotechnical sensors to monitor rainfall, ground movement, ground and air
temperature, and pore pressure changes within the landslide. The system is housed in a weatherproof enclosure
and is powered by batteries charged by a wind turbine & solar panels. 3D ERT images generated from the
landslide have been calibrated against resistivity information derived from laboratory testing of borehole core
recovered from the landslide. The calibrated images revealed key aspects of the 3D landslide structure, including
the lateral extent of slipped material and zones of depletion and accumulation; the surface of separation and the
thickness of individual earth flow lobes; and the dipping in situ geological boundary between the bedrock
formations. Time-lapse analysis of resistivity signatures has revealed artefacts within the images that are
diagnostic of electrode movement. Analytical models have been developed to simulate the observed artefacts,
from which predictions of electrode movement have been derived. This information has been used to correct the
ERT data sets, and has provided a means of using ERT to monitor landslide movement across the entire ALERT
imaging area. Initial assessment of seasonal changes in the resistivity signature has indicated that the system is
sensitive to moisture content changes in the body of the landslide, thereby providing a basis for further
development of the system with the aim of monitoring hydraulic precursors to failure
Exploiting the quantum Zeno effect to beat photon loss in linear optical quantum information processors
We devise a new technique to enhance transmission of quantum information
through linear optical quantum information processors. The idea is based on
applying the Quantum Zeno effect to the process of photon absorption. By
frequently monitoring the presence of the photon through a QND (quantum
non-demolition) measurement the absorption is suppressed. Quantum information
is encoded in the polarization degrees of freedom and is therefore not affected
by the measurement. Some implementations of the QND measurement are proposed.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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