Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation is a promising task freeing people from heavy annotation work. However, domain discrepancies in low-level image statistics and high-level contexts compromise the segmentation performance over the target domain. A key idea to tackle this problem is to perform both image-level and feature-level adaptation jointly. Unfortunately, there is a lack of such unified approaches for UDA tasks in the existing literature. This paper proposes a novel UDA pipeline for semantic segmentation that unifies image-level and feature-level adaptation. Concretely, for image-level domain shifts, we propose a global photometric alignment module and a global texture alignment module that align images in the source and target domains in terms of image-level properties. For feature-level domain shifts, we perform global manifold alignment by projecting pixel features from both domains onto the feature manifold of the source domain; and we further regularize category centers in the source domain through a category-oriented triplet loss and perform target domain consistency regularization over augmented target domain images. Experimental results demonstrate that our pipeline significantly outperforms previous methods. In the commonly tested GTA5$\rightarrow$Cityscapes task, our proposed method using Deeplab V3+ as the backbone surpasses previous SOTA by 8%, achieving 58.2% in mIoU.

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

The deep learning community has witnessed an exponentially growing interest in self-supervised learning (SSL). However, it still remains unexplored how to build a framework for learning useful representations of raw music waveforms in a self-supervised manner. In this work, we design Music2Vec, a framework exploring different SSL algorithmic components and tricks for music audio recordings. Our model achieves comparable results to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) music SSL model Jukebox, despite being significantly smaller with less than 2% of parameters of the latter. The model will be released on Huggingface(Please refer to: https://huggingface.co/m-a-p/music2vec-v1)

从单眼RGB图像中重建3D手网络，由于其在AR/VR领域的巨大潜在应用，引起了人们的注意力越来越多。大多数最先进的方法试图以匿名方式解决此任务。具体而言，即使在连续录制会话中用户没有变化的实际应用程序中实际上可用，因此忽略了该主题的身份。在本文中，我们提出了一个身份感知的手网格估计模型，该模型可以结合由受试者的内在形状参数表示的身份信息。我们通过将提出的身份感知模型与匿名对待主题的基线进行比较来证明身份信息的重要性。此外，为了处理未见测试对象的用例，我们提出了一条新型的个性化管道来校准固有的形状参数，仅使用该受试者的少数未标记的RGB图像。在两个大型公共数据集上进行的实验验证了我们提出的方法的最先进性能。

最近，视觉变压器及其变体在人类和多视图人类姿势估计中均起着越来越重要的作用。将图像补丁视为令牌，变形金刚可以对整个图像中的全局依赖项进行建模或其他视图中的图像。但是，全球关注在计算上是昂贵的。结果，很难将这些基于变压器的方法扩展到高分辨率特征和许多视图。在本文中，我们提出了代币螺旋的姿势变压器（PPT）进行2D人姿势估计，该姿势估计可以找到粗糙的人掩模，并且只能在选定的令牌内进行自我注意。此外，我们将PPT扩展到多视图人类姿势估计。我们建立在PPT的基础上，提出了一种新的跨视图融合策略，称为人类区域融合，该策略将所有人类前景像素视为相应的候选者。可可和MPII的实验结果表明，我们的PPT可以在减少计算的同时匹配以前的姿势变压器方法的准确性。此外，对人类360万和滑雪姿势的实验表明，我们的多视图PPT可以有效地从多个视图中融合线索并获得新的最新结果。

来自计算机断层扫描血管造影（CTA）的肾脏结构分割对于许多计算机辅助的肾脏癌治疗应用至关重要。肾脏解析〜（KIPA 2022）挑战旨在建立细粒度的多结构数据集并改善多个肾脏结构的分割。最近，U-NET主导了医疗图像分割。在KIPA挑战中，我们评估了几个U-NET变体，并选择了最终提交的最佳模型。

视觉变压器（VIT）正在出现，并且在计算机视觉任务中的准确性显着提高。但是，它们的复杂架构和巨大的计算/存储需求对新硬件加速器设计方法施加了紧迫的需求。这项工作提出了基于提议的混合速度量化的FPGA感知自动VIT加速框架。据我们所知，这是探索模型量化的第一个基于FPGA的VIT加速框架。与最先进的VIT量化工作（仅无硬件加速的算法方法）相比，我们的量化在相同的位宽度下可实现0.47％至1.36％的TOP-1精度。与32位浮点基线FPGA加速器相比，我们的加速器在框架速率上的提高约为5.6倍（即56.8 fps vs. 10.0 fps），对于DeitBase的ImagEnet数据集，精度下降了0.71％。

文档信息提取（DIE）由于其在现实世界中的各种高级应用而引起了越来越多的关注。尽管最近的文献已经取得了竞争成果，但在处理具有嘈杂的OCR结果或突变布局的复杂文档时，这些方法通常会失败。本文提出了用于现实世界情景的生成多模式网络（GMN），以解决这些问题，这是一种强大的多模式生成方法，没有预定义的标签类别。借助精心设计的空间编码器和模态感知的蒙版模块，GMN可以处理复杂的文档，这些文档很难序列化为顺序。此外，GMN可以容忍OCR结果中的错误，并且不需要字符级注释，这是至关重要的，因为对众多文档的细粒注释很费力，甚至需要具有专门域知识的注释者。广泛的实验表明，GMN在几个公共模具数据集上实现了新的最新性能，并超过了其他方法，尤其是在现实的场景中。

Pruning large neural networks to create highquality, independently trainable sparse masks, which can maintain similar performance to their dense counterparts, is very desirable due to the reduced space and time complexity. As research effort is focused on increasingly sophisticated pruning methods that leads to sparse subnetworks trainable from the scratch, we argue for an orthogonal, under-explored theme: improving training techniques for pruned sub-networks, i.e. sparse training. Apart from the popular belief that only the quality of sparse masks matters for sparse training, in this paper we demonstrate an alternative opportunity: one can carefully customize the sparse training techniques to deviate from the default dense network training protocols, consisting of introducing "ghost" neurons and skip connections at the early stage of training, and strategically modifying the initialization as well as labels. Our new sparse training recipe is generally applicable to improving training from scratch with various sparse masks. By adopting our newly curated techniques, we demonstrate significant performance gains across various popular datasets (CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, TinyIma-geNet), architectures (ResNet-18/32/104, Vgg16, MobileNet), and sparse mask options (lottery ticket, SNIP/GRASP, SynFlow, or even randomly pruning), compared to the default training protocols, especially at high sparsity levels. Code is at https://github.com/VITA-Group/ToST.

基础模型由于在广泛的下游应用中的有效性而受到了很多关注。尽管在体系结构方面存在很大的融合，但大多数审慎的模型通常仍用于特定任务或模式。在这项工作中，我们建议将语言模型用作各种基础模型的通用接口。一系列预处理的编码者感知到了多种方式（例如视觉和语言），并与扮演通用任务层角色的语言模型对接。我们提出了一个半伴侣的语言建模目标，以共同确定界面和模块化编码器。我们从因果关系和非因果建模中涵盖了优势和能力，从而结合了两个世界的最佳状态。具体而言，所提出的方法不仅从因果语言建模中继承了内在学习和开放式生成的能力，而且由于双向编码器而有利于填补。更重要的是，我们的方法无缝地解锁了上述功能的组合，例如，通过填充编码器启用了文本学习或指导。各种仅语言和视觉语言基准的实验结果表明，我们的模型表现优于或与鉴定，零弹性概括和几乎没有的学习的专业模型竞争。