Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions. We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth. On the ImageNet dataset we evaluate residual nets with a depth of up to 152 layers—8× deeper than VGG nets [40] but still having lower complexity. An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set. This result won the 1st place on the ILSVRC 2015 classification task. We also present analysis on CIFAR-10 with 100 and 1000 layers. The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks. Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset. Deep residual nets are foundations of our submissions to ILSVRC & COCO 2015 competitions1, where we also won the 1st places on the tasks of ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation.

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Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

In this work we investigate the effect of the convolutional network depth on its accuracy in the large-scale image recognition setting. Our main contribution is a thorough evaluation of networks of increasing depth using an architecture with very small (3x3) convolution filters, which shows that a significant improvement on the prior-art configurations can be achieved by pushing the depth to 16-19 weight layers. These findings were the basis of our ImageNet Challenge 2014 submission, where our team secured the first and the second places in the localisation and classification tracks respectively. We also show that our representations generalise well to other datasets, where they achieve state-of-the-art results. We have made our two best-performing ConvNet models publicly available to facilitate further research on the use of deep visual representations in computer vision.

Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition

There is large consent that successful training of deep networks requires many thousand annotated training samples. In this paper, we present a network and training strategy that relies on the strong use of data augmentation to use the available annotated samples more efficiently. The architecture consists of a contracting path to capture context and a symmetric expanding path that enables precise localization. We show that such a network can be trained end-to-end from very few images and outperforms the prior best method (a sliding-window convolutional network) on the ISBI challenge for segmentation of neuronal structures in electron microscopic stacks. Using the same network trained on transmitted light microscopy images (phase contrast and DIC) we won the ISBI cell tracking challenge 2015 in these categories by a large margin. Moreover, the network is fast. Segmentation of a 512x512 image takes less than a second on a recent GPU. The full implementation (based on Caffe) and the trained networks are available at http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/people/ronneber/u-net .

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U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions. We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth. On the ImageNet dataset we evaluate residual nets with a depth of up to 152 layers---8x deeper than VGG nets but still having lower complexity. An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set. This result won the 1st place on the ILSVRC 2015 classification task. We also present analysis on CIFAR-10 with 100 and 1000 layers. 
The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks. Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset. Deep residual nets are foundations of our submissions to ILSVRC & COCO 2015 competitions, where we also won the 1st places on the tasks of ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation.

An efficient projection for {\it l}$_{\mbox{1}}$,$_{\mbox{infinity}}$ regularization

In this paper, we present results from the experimental evaluation for the TRECVID 2011 MED11 (Multimedia Event Detection) task as a part of Team SRI-Sarnoff's AURORA system being developed under the IARPA ALADDIN Program. Our approach employs two classes of content descriptions for describing videos depicting diverse events: (1) Low level features and their aggregates, and (2) Semantic concepts that capture scenes, objects and atomic actions that are local in space-time. In this presentation we summarize our system design and the content descriptions used. We also present four MED11 experiments that we submitted, discuss the results and lessons learned.

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Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011

We propose a method to perform adaptive transfer of visual category knowledge from labeled datasets acquired in one image domain to other environments. We learn a representation which minimizes the effect of shifting between source and target domains using a novel metric learning approach. The key idea of our approach to domain adaptation is to learn a metric that compensates for the transformation of the object representation that occurred due to the domain shift. In addition to being one of the first studies of domain adaptation for object recognition, this work develops a general adaptation technique that could be applied to non-image data. Another contribution is a new image database for studying the effects of visual domain shift on object recognition. We demonstrate the ability of our adaptation method to improve performance of classifiers on new domains that have very little labeled data.

Transferring Visual Category Models to New Domains

The twelve papers in this special section focus on learning systems with shared information for computer vision and multimedia communication analysis. In the real world, a realistic setting for computer vision or multimedia recognition problems is that we have some classes containing lots of training data and many classes containing a small amount of training data. Therefore, how to use frequent classes to help learning rare classes for which it is harder to collect the training data is an open question. Learning with shared information is an emerging topic in machine learning, computer vision and multimedia analysis. There are different levels of components that can be shared during concept modeling and machine learning stages, such as sharing generic object parts, sharing attributes, sharing transformations, sharing regularization parameters and sharing training examples, etc. Regarding the specific methods, multi-task learning, transfer learning and deep learning can be seen as using different strategies to share information. These learning with shared information methods are very effective in solving real-world large-scale problems.

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on Learning with Shared Information for Computer Vision and Multimedia Analysis

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Trevor Darrell

Papers

An efficient projection for {\it l}$_{\mbox{1}}$,$_{\mbox{infinity}}$ regularization

Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011

Transferring Visual Category Models to New Domains

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on Learning with Shared Information for Computer Vision and Multimedia Analysis

Meta-Learning to Guide Segmentation