We propose a deep convolutional neural network architecture codenamed Inception that achieves the new state of the art for classification and detection in the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2014 (ILSVRC14). The main hallmark of this architecture is the improved utilization of the computing resources inside the network. By a carefully crafted design, we increased the depth and width of the network while keeping the computational budget constant. To optimize quality, the architectural decisions were based on the Hebbian principle and the intuition of multi-scale processing. One particular incarnation used in our submission for ILSVRC14 is called GoogLeNet, a 22 layers deep network, the quality of which is assessed in the context of classification and detection.

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Going deeper with convolutions

[신간의 별자리x] 우리/미술, 그리고 ‘슬픔의 박물관’

Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

I have developed "tennis elbow" from lugging this book around the past four weeks, but it is worth the pain, the effort, and the aspirin. It is also worth the (relatively speaking) bargain price. Including appendixes, this book contains 894 pages of text. The entire panorama of the neural sciences is surveyed and examined, and it is comprehensive in its scope, from genomes to social behaviors. The editors explicitly state that the book is designed as "an introductory text for students of biology, behavior, and medicine," but it is hard to imagine any audience, interested in any fragment of neuroscience at any level of sophistication, that would not enjoy this book. The editors have done a masterful job of weaving together the biologic, the behavioral, and the clinical sciences into a single tapestry in which everyone from the molecular biologist to the practicing psychiatrist can find and appreciate his or

Principles of Neural Science

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we super-resolve at large upscaling factors? The behavior of optimization-based super-resolution methods is principally driven by the choice of the objective function. Recent work has largely focused on minimizing the mean squared reconstruction error. The resulting estimates have high peak signal-to-noise ratios, but they are often lacking high-frequency details and are perceptually unsatisfying in the sense that they fail to match the fidelity expected at the higher resolution. In this paper, we present SRGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for image super-resolution (SR). To our knowledge, it is the first framework capable of inferring photo-realistic natural images for 4x upscaling factors. To achieve this, we propose a perceptual loss function which consists of an adversarial loss and a content loss. The adversarial loss pushes our solution to the natural image manifold using a discriminator network that is trained to differentiate between the super-resolved images and original photo-realistic images. In addition, we use a content loss motivated by perceptual similarity instead of similarity in pixel space. Our deep residual network is able to recover photo-realistic textures from heavily downsampled images on public benchmarks. An extensive mean-opinion-score (MOS) test shows hugely significant gains in perceptual quality using SRGAN. The MOS scores obtained with SRGAN are closer to those of the original high-resolution images than to those obtained with any state-of-the-art method.

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Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network

In coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI) system, the real-world hyperspectral image (HSI) can be reconstructed from the captured compressive image in a snapshot. Model-based HSI reconstruction methods employed hand-crafted priors to solve the reconstruction problem, but most of which achieved limited success due to the poor representation capability of these hand-crafted priors. Deep learning based methods learning the mappings between the compressive images and the HSIs directly achieved much better results. Yet, it is nontrivial to design a powerful deep network heuristically for achieving satisfied results. In this paper, we propose a novel HSI reconstruction method based on the Maximum a Posterior (MAP) estimation framework using learned Gaussian Scale Mixture (GSM) prior. Different from existing GSM models using hand-crafted scale priors (e.g., the Jeffrey's prior), we propose to learn the scale prior through a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN). Furthermore, we also propose to estimate the local means of the GSM models by the DCNN. All the parameters of the MAP estimation algorithm and the DCNN parameters are jointly optimized through end-to-end training. Extensive experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at this https URL.

Deep Gaussian Scale Mixture Prior for Spectral Compressive Imaging

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn a classifier that can be easily adapted to recognize novel classes with only a few labeled examples. Some recent work about FSL has yielded promising classification performance, where the image-level feature is used to calculate the similarity among samples for classification. However, the image-level feature ignores abundant fine-grained and structural in-formation of objects that may be transferable and consistent between seen and unseen classes. How can humans easily identify novel classes with several sam-ples? Some study from cognitive science argues that humans can recognize novel categories through primitives. Although base and novel categories are non-overlapping, they can share some primitives in common. Inspired by above re-search, we propose a Primitive Mining and Reasoning Network (PMRN) to learn primitive-aware representations based on metric-based FSL model. Concretely, we first add Self-supervision Jigsaw task (SSJ) for feature extractor parallelly, guiding the model to encode visual pattern corresponding to object parts into fea-ture channels. To further mine discriminative representations, an Adaptive Chan-nel Grouping (ACG) method is applied to cluster and weight spatially and se-mantically related visual patterns to generate a group of visual primitives. To fur-ther enhance the discriminability and transferability of primitives, we propose a visual primitive Correlation Reasoning Network (CRN) based on graph convolu-tional network to learn abundant structural information and internal correlation among primitives. Finally, a primitive-level metric is conducted for classification in a meta-task based on episodic training strategy. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art results on six standard benchmarks.

Learning Primitive-aware Discriminative Representations for Few-shot Learning

In this paper, we introduce a visual pattern degradation based full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) method. Researches on visual recognition indicate that the human visual system (HVS) is highly adaptive to extract visual structures for scene understanding. Existing structure degradation based IQA methods mainly take local luminance contrast to represent structure, and measure quality as degradation on luminance contrast. In this paper, we suggest that structure includes not only luminance contrast but also orientation information. Therefore, we analyze the orientation characteristic for structure description. Inspired by the orientation selectivity mechanism in the primary visual cortex, we introduce a novel visual pattern to represent the structure of a local region. Then, the quality is measured as the degradations on both luminance contrast and visual pattern. Experimental results on Five benchmark databases demonstrate that the proposed visual pattern can effectively represent visual structure and the proposed IQA method performs better than the existing IQA metrics.

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Visual pattern degradation based image quality assessment

http://web.xidian.edu.cn/wjj/files/20140627_101014.pdf

Correlation based universal image/video coding loss recovery

Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based affective computing brain–computer interfaces provide the capability for machines to understand human intentions. In practice, people are more concerned with the strength of a certain emotional state over a short period of time, which was called as fine-grained-level emotion in this paper. In this study, we built a fine-grained-level emotion EEG dataset that contains two coarse-grained emotions and four corresponding fine-grained-level emotions. To fully extract the features of the EEG signals, we proposed a corresponding fine-grained emotion EEG network (FG-emotionNet) for spatial-temporal feature extraction. Each feature extraction layer is linked to raw EEG signals to alleviate overfitting and ensure that the spatial features of each scale can be extracted from the raw signals. Moreover, all previous scale features are fused before the current spatial-feature layer to enhance the scale features in the spatial block. Additionally, long short-term memory is adopted as the temporal block to extract the temporal features based on spatial features and classify the category of fine-grained emotions. Subject-dependent and cross-session experiments demonstrated that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of the representative methods in emotion recognition and similar structure methods with proposed method.

Guangming Shi

Papers

Deep Gaussian Scale Mixture Prior for Spectral Compressive Imaging

Learning Primitive-aware Discriminative Representations for Few-shot Learning

Visual pattern degradation based image quality assessment

Correlation based universal image/video coding loss recovery

Spatial-temporal network for fine-grained-level emotion EEG recognition