By Ian Stewart The language that people use to communicate online is in constant flux. People may have once written "haha" to indicate laughter but over time have adopted "lol" instead. Entire dictionaries and websites such as UrbanDictionary.com are dedicated to tracking the ebb and flow of the latest slang (i.e. nonstandard) words that propagate... Continue Reading →
By Zhaoyang Lv We live in a three-dimensional (3D), dynamic world every day. Being able to perceive 3D high-resolution motion is a fundamental ability of our perception system, which enables us to perform versatile jobs. At the age when we are building intelligent robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality toolkits, how can we also enable... Continue Reading →
By: Prithvijit Chattopadhyay and Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju (Paper authors include Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Tilak Sharma, Dhruv Batra, Devi Parikh, and Stefan Lee) Deep Neural Networks have pushed the boundaries of standard image-classification tasks in the past few years, with performance on many challenging benchmarks reaching near human-level accuracies. One of the... Continue Reading →
By Jianwei Yang and Jiasen Lu The following post breaks down Graph R-CNN for Scene Graph Generation, which will be presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision 2018 (ECCV). The conference takes place September 8th through 14th in Munich, Germany. Visual scene understanding has traditionally focused on identifying objects in images -- learning to predict their... Continue Reading →
by Nilaksh Das, PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. Das is advised by Polo Chau. “SHIELD is a fast and practical approach to defend deep neural networks from adversarial attacks. This work proposes a multifaceted framework which incorporates compression, randomization, model-retraining, and ensembling to make computer vision models robust to adversarial... Continue Reading →
The following describes work by Ching-An Cheng and Byron Boots, which was awarded Best Paper at the Further details and proofs are available at The 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS). The paper can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07292. Learning to make sequential decisions is a fundamental topic in designing automatic agents with artificial intelligence.... Continue Reading →
Video understanding tasks such as action recognition and caption generation are crucial for various real-world applications in surveillance, video retrieval, human behavior understanding, etc. In this work, we present a generic recurrent module to detect relationships and interactions between arbitrary object groups for fine-grained video understanding. Our work is applicable to various open domain video... Continue Reading →
A fundamental question in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is how to represent words. If we have a paragraph we want to translate, or a product review we want to determine whether is positive or negative, or a question we want to answer, ultimately the easiest building block to start from is the individual word. The... Continue Reading →
Everyday skills, such as making your bed or even pressing a doorbell, might seem trivial to us, but are actually quite complicated for today’s robots. Think about your performance the first time you tried a sport. Did you seek help from a peer or coach? Did you perform better after that? Most probably you answered yes. It... Continue Reading →
