Recently, deep networks have shown impressive performance for the segmentation of cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images. However, their achievement is proving slow to transition to widespread use in medical clinics because of robustness issues leading to low trust of clinicians to their results. Predicting run-time quality of segmentation masks can be useful to warn clinicians against poor results. Despite its importance, there are few studies on this problem. To address this gap, we propose a quality control method based on the agreement across decoders of a multi-view network, TMS-Net, measured by the cosine similarity. The network takes three view inputs resliced from the same 3D image along different axes. Different from previous multi-view networks, TMS-Net has a single encoder and three decoders, leading to better noise robustness, segmentation performance and run-time quality estimation in our experiments on the segmentation of the left atrium on STACOM 2013 and STACOM 2018 challenge datasets. We also present a way to generate poor segmentation masks by using noisy images generated with engineered noise and Rician noise to simulate undertraining, high anisotropy and poor imaging settings problems. Our run-time quality estimation method show a good classification of poor and good quality segmentation masks with an AUC reaching to 0.97 on STACOM 2018. We believe that TMS-Net and our run-time quality estimation method has a high potential to increase the thrust of clinicians to automatic image analysis tools.

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is characterized by disorganised electrical activity in the atria and is known to be sustained by the presence of regions of fibrosis (scars) or functional cellular remodeling, both of which may lead to areas of slow conduction. Estimating the effective conductivity of the myocardium and identifying regions of abnormal propagation is therefore crucial for the effective treatment of AF. We hypothesise that the spatial distribution of tissue conductivity can be directly inferred from an array of concurrently acquired contact electrograms (EGMs). We generate a dataset of simulated cardiac AP propagation using randomised scar distributions and a phenomenological cardiac model and calculate contact electrograms at various positions on the field. A deep neural network, based on a modified U-net architecture, is trained to estimate the location of the scar and quantify conductivity of the tissue with a Jaccard index of $91$%. We adapt a wavelet-based surrogate testing analysis to confirm that the inferred conductivity distribution is an accurate representation of the ground truth input to the model. We find that the root mean square error (RMSE) between the ground truth and our predictions is significantly smaller ($p_{val}=0.007$) than the RMSE between the ground truth and surrogate samples.

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of networks. The representations that can be learned by GANs may be used in a variety of applications, including image synthesis, semantic image editing, style transfer, image super-resolution and classification. The aim of this review paper is to provide an overview of GANs for the signal processing community, drawing on familiar analogies and concepts where possible. In addition to identifying different methods for training and constructing GANs, we also point to remaining challenges in their theory and application.

Accomplishing safe and efficient driving is one of the predominant challenges in the controller design of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). It is often more convenient to address these goals separately and integrate the resulting controllers. In this study, we propose a controller integration scheme to fuse performance-based controllers and safety-oriented controllers safely for the longitudinal motion of a CAV. The resulting structure is compatible with a large class of controllers, and offers flexibility to design each controller individually without affecting the performance of the others. We implement the proposed safe integration scheme on a connected automated truck using an optimal-in-energy controller and a safety-oriented connected cruise controller. We validate the premise of the safe integration through experiments with a full-scale truck in two scenarios: a controlled experiment on a test track and a real-world experiment on a public highway. In both scenarios, we achieve energy efficient driving without violating safety.

The use of vision transformers (ViT) in computer vision is increasing due to limited inductive biases (e.g., locality, weight sharing, etc.) and increased scalability compared to other deep learning methods. This has led to some initial studies on the use of ViT for biometric recognition, including fingerprint recognition. In this work, we improve on these initial studies for transformers in fingerprint recognition by i.) evaluating additional attention-based architectures, ii.) scaling to larger and more diverse training and evaluation datasets, and iii.) combining the complimentary representations of attention-based and CNN-based embeddings for improved state-of-the-art (SOTA) fingerprint recognition (both authentication and identification). Our combined architecture, AFR-Net (Attention-Driven Fingerprint Recognition Network), outperforms several baseline transformer and CNN-based models, including a SOTA commercial fingerprint system, Verifinger v12.3, across intra-sensor, cross-sensor, and latent to rolled fingerprint matching datasets. Additionally, we propose a realignment strategy using local embeddings extracted from intermediate feature maps within the networks to refine the global embeddings in low certainty situations, which boosts the overall recognition accuracy significantly across each of the models. This realignment strategy requires no additional training and can be applied as a wrapper to any existing deep learning network (including attention-based, CNN-based, or both) to boost its performance.

疏散计划是灾难管理的关键部分，其目标是将人员搬迁到安全和减少伤亡。每个疏散计划都有两个基本组件：路由和调度。但是，这两个组件与目标的联合优化，例如最大程度地减少平均疏散时间或疏散完成时间，这是一个计算问题上的问题。为了解决它，我们提出了MIP-LNS，这是一种可扩展的优化方法，将启发式搜索与数学优化结合在一起，并可以优化各种目标函数。我们使用来自德克萨斯州休斯敦的哈里斯县的现实世界道路网络和人口数据，并应用MIP-LNS来查找该地区的疏散路线和时间表。我们表明，在给定的时间限制内，我们提出的方法在平均疏散时间，疏散完成时间和解决方案的最佳保证方面找到了比现有方法更好的解决方案。我们在研究区域进行基于代理的疏散模拟，以证明解决方案的功效和鲁棒性。我们表明，即使撤离人员在一定程度上偏离了建议的时间表，我们的规定疏散计划仍然有效。我们还研究了疏散计划如何受到道路故障的影响。我们的结果表明，MIP-LN可以使用有关道路估计截止日期的信息，以成功，方便地撤离更多人，以提出更好的疏散计划。

国家识别问题旨在识别任何系统（例如建筑物或工厂）的权力使用模式。在这篇挑战论文中，我们可以从美国和印度的8个制造，教育和医疗机构的机构中提供电力使用数据集，并提供基于机器学习的最初基于机器学习的解决方案，以此作为社区加速该领域研究的基准。

由于大规模数据集的可用性，通常在特定位置和良好的天气条件下收集的大规模数据集，近年来，自动驾驶汽车的感知进展已加速。然而，为了达到高安全要求，这些感知系统必须在包括雪和雨在内的各种天气条件下进行稳健运行。在本文中，我们提出了一个新数据集，以通过新颖的数据收集过程启用强大的自动驾驶 - 在不同场景（Urban，Highway，乡村，校园），天气，雪，雨，阳光下，沿着15公里的路线反复记录数据），时间（白天/晚上）以及交通状况（行人，骑自行车的人和汽车）。该数据集包括来自摄像机和激光雷达传感器的图像和点云，以及高精度GPS/ins以在跨路线上建立对应关系。该数据集包括使用Amodal掩码捕获部分遮挡和3D边界框的道路和对象注释。我们通过分析基准在道路和对象，深度估计和3D对象检测中的性能来证明该数据集的独特性。重复的路线为对象发现，持续学习和异常检测打开了新的研究方向。链接到ITHACA365：https：//ithaca365.mae.cornell.edu/

房地产图像标签是节省手动注释并增强用户体验的努力的重要用例之一。本文提出了针对房地产图像分类问题的端到端管道（称为重新调用）。我们使用Custom InceptionV3体系结构提出了两阶段的转移学习方法，将图像分为不同类别（即卧室，浴室，厨房，阳台，厅等）。最后，我们以REST API为托管的REST API发布，该应用程序是在2枚GB RAM上运行的Web应用程序。演示视频可在此处使用。

这些年来，展示技术已经发展。开发实用的HDR捕获，处理和显示解决方案以将3D技术提升到一个新的水平至关重要。多曝光立体声图像序列的深度估计是开发成本效益3D HDR视频内容的重要任务。在本文中，我们开发了一种新颖的深度体系结构，以进行多曝光立体声深度估计。拟议的建筑有两个新颖的组成部分。首先，对传统立体声深度估计中使用的立体声匹配技术进行了修改。对于我们体系结构的立体深度估计部分，部署了单一到stereo转移学习方法。拟议的配方规避了成本量构造的要求，该要求由基于重新编码的单码编码器CNN取代，具有不同的重量以进行功能融合。基于有效网络的块用于学习差异。其次，我们使用强大的视差特征融合方法组合了从不同暴露水平上从立体声图像获得的差异图。使用针对不同质量度量计算的重量图合并在不同暴露下获得的差异图。获得的最终预测差异图更强大，并保留保留深度不连续性的最佳功能。提出的CNN具有使用标准动态范围立体声数据或具有多曝光低动态范围立体序列的训练的灵活性。在性能方面，所提出的模型超过了最新的单眼和立体声深度估计方法，无论是定量还是质量地，在具有挑战性的场景流以及暴露的Middlebury立体声数据集上。该体系结构在复杂的自然场景中表现出色，证明了其对不同3D HDR应用的有用性。