随机平滑是目前是最先进的方法，用于构建来自Neural Networks的可认真稳健的分类器，以防止$ \ ell_2 $ - vitersarial扰动。在范例下，分类器的稳健性与预测置信度对齐，即，对平滑分类器的较高的置信性意味着更好的鲁棒性。这使我们能够在校准平滑分类器的信仰方面重新思考准确性和鲁棒性之间的基本权衡。在本文中，我们提出了一种简单的训练方案，Coined Spiremix，通过自我混合来控制平滑分类器的鲁棒性：它沿着每个输入对逆势扰动方向进行样品的凸起组合。该提出的程序有效地识别过度自信，在平滑分类器的情况下，作为有限的稳健性的原因，并提供了一种直观的方法来自适应地在这些样本之间设置新的决策边界，以实现更好的鲁棒性。我们的实验结果表明，与现有的最先进的强大培训方法相比，该方法可以显着提高平滑分类器的认证$ \ ell_2 $ -toSpustness。

在执行视觉伺服或对象跟踪任务时，有效的传感器规划对于保持目标的目标是必不可少的，或者在缺失时重新定位它们。特别是，当处理从传感器的视野中缺少的已知目标时，我们建议使用与上下文信息相关的先验知识来估计其可能的位置。为此，本研究提出了一种动态贝叶斯网络，它使用上下文信息来有效地搜索目标。 Monte Carlo颗粒滤波器用于近似目标状态的后验概率，从中定义不确定性。我们通过信息理论形式主义定义机器人的实用程序函数，因为寻求最佳动作减少了任务的不确定性，提示机器人代理商调查最可能存在的目标的位置。使用上下文状态模型，我们使用部分可观察的Markov决策过程设计代理的高级决策框架。根据通过顺序观察的基础上下文的估计信仰状态，决定了机器人的导航行动进行探索性和检测任务。通过使用这种多模态上下文模型，我们的代理可以有效处理基本动态事件，例如妨碍目标或从视野中的缺失。我们实时实施并展示移动机器人的这些功能。

与人类的视野相比，基于卷积神经网络（CNN）的计算机视觉更容易受到对抗性的噪音。这种差异可能归因于眼睛如何样本视觉输入以及大脑如何通过其背侧和腹侧视觉途径处理视网膜样品，这些途径尚未探索计算机视觉。受到大脑的启发，我们设计了复发性神经网络，包括模拟人类视网膜的输入采样器，它是一个指导下一步位置的背面网络，以及代表视网膜样品的腹网络。组合这些模块，这些模型学会了多一眼图像，每一眼就注意一个明显的部分，并随着时间的推移积累表示形式以识别图像。我们测试了此类模型的稳健性，并在不同水平的对抗噪声上测试，特别关注不同输入采样策略的效果。我们的发现表明，视网膜凹和采样使模型更加可靠，并且在给予更长的时间以更多地看一眼图像时，该模型可能会从攻击中纠正自身。总之，强大的视觉识别可以从三种受脑启发的机制的综合使用中受益：视网膜转化，注意力引导的眼动运动和经常性处理，而不是仅喂食的CNN。

在自然语言处理中，大多数模型都尝试仅仅从文本学习语义表示。学习的表示编码了分布语义，但未能连接到物理世界的任何知识。相比之下，人类通过在感知和行动中接地概念来学习语言，并且大脑编码接地语义进行认知。灵感来自这一概念和最近的愿景 - 语言学习的工作，我们设计了一个用于愿景中的接地语言学习的两流模型。该模型包括基于VGG的视觉流和基于BERT的语言流。这两条流合并到联合代表空间中。通过跨模型对比学习，该模型首先学会与MS Coco DataSet对齐视觉和语言表示。该模型进一步学习通过跨模型注意模块检索具有语言查询的视觉对象，并通过与视觉基因组数据集推断通过双线性操作员通过双线性运算符之间的视觉关系。在培训之后，该模型的语言流是一种独立语言模型，能够在视觉上接地的语义空间中嵌入概念。这种语义空间表现出主要尺寸可与人类直觉和神经生物学知识达到典型。这个语义空间中的单词嵌入是预测人类定义的语义特征规范，并且被隔离成感知的独特簇。此外，视觉接地的语言模型还通过基于图像，文本或其组合的查询来实现基于视觉知识和多模式图像搜索的组成语言理解。

The 3D-aware image synthesis focuses on conserving spatial consistency besides generating high-resolution images with fine details. Recently, Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been introduced for synthesizing novel views with low computational cost and superior performance. While several works investigate a generative NeRF and show remarkable achievement, they cannot handle conditional and continuous feature manipulation in the generation procedure. In this work, we introduce a novel model, called Class-Continuous Conditional Generative NeRF ($\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF), which can synthesize conditionally manipulated photorealistic 3D-consistent images by projecting conditional features to the generator and the discriminator. The proposed $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF is evaluated with three image datasets, AFHQ, CelebA, and Cars. As a result, our model shows strong 3D-consistency with fine details and smooth interpolation in conditional feature manipulation. For instance, $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF exhibits a Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID) of 7.64 in 3D-aware face image synthesis with a $\text{128}^{2}$ resolution. Additionally, we provide FIDs of generated 3D-aware images of each class of the datasets as it is possible to synthesize class-conditional images with $\text{C}^{3}$G-NeRF.

In both terrestrial and marine ecology, physical tagging is a frequently used method to study population dynamics and behavior. However, such tagging techniques are increasingly being replaced by individual re-identification using image analysis. This paper introduces a contrastive learning-based model for identifying individuals. The model uses the first parts of the Inception v3 network, supported by a projection head, and we use contrastive learning to find similar or dissimilar image pairs from a collection of uniform photographs. We apply this technique for corkwing wrasse, Symphodus melops, an ecologically and commercially important fish species. Photos are taken during repeated catches of the same individuals from a wild population, where the intervals between individual sightings might range from a few days to several years. Our model achieves a one-shot accuracy of 0.35, a 5-shot accuracy of 0.56, and a 100-shot accuracy of 0.88, on our dataset.

Feature selection helps reduce data acquisition costs in ML, but the standard approach is to train models with static feature subsets. Here, we consider the dynamic feature selection (DFS) problem where a model sequentially queries features based on the presently available information. DFS is often addressed with reinforcement learning (RL), but we explore a simpler approach of greedily selecting features based on their conditional mutual information. This method is theoretically appealing but requires oracle access to the data distribution, so we develop a learning approach based on amortized optimization. The proposed method is shown to recover the greedy policy when trained to optimality and outperforms numerous existing feature selection methods in our experiments, thus validating it as a simple but powerful approach for this problem.

The purpose of this work was to tackle practical issues which arise when using a tendon-driven robotic manipulator with a long, passive, flexible proximal section in medical applications. A separable robot which overcomes difficulties in actuation and sterilization is introduced, in which the body containing the electronics is reusable and the remainder is disposable. A control input which resolves the redundancy in the kinematics and a physical interpretation of this redundancy are provided. The effect of a static change in the proximal section angle on bending angle error was explored under four testing conditions for a sinusoidal input. Bending angle error increased for increasing proximal section angle for all testing conditions with an average error reduction of 41.48% for retension, 4.28% for hysteresis, and 52.35% for re-tension + hysteresis compensation relative to the baseline case. Two major sources of error in tracking the bending angle were identified: time delay from hysteresis and DC offset from the proximal section angle. Examination of these error sources revealed that the simple hysteresis compensation was most effective for removing time delay and re-tension compensation for removing DC offset, which was the primary source of increasing error. The re-tension compensation was also tested for dynamic changes in the proximal section and reduced error in the final configuration of the tip by 89.14% relative to the baseline case.

According to the rapid development of drone technologies, drones are widely used in many applications including military domains. In this paper, a novel situation-aware DRL- based autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm in cyber-physical loitering munition applications. On the battlefield, the design of DRL-based autonomous control algorithm is not straightforward because real-world data gathering is generally not available. Therefore, the approach in this paper is that cyber-physical virtual environment is constructed with Unity environment. Based on the virtual cyber-physical battlefield scenarios, a DRL-based automated nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm can be designed, evaluated, and visualized. Moreover, many obstacles exist which is harmful for linear trajectory control in real-world battlefield scenarios. Thus, our proposed autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm utilizes situation-aware components those are implemented with a Raycast function in Unity virtual scenarios. Based on the gathered situation-aware information, the drone can autonomously and nonlinearly adjust its trajectory during flight. Therefore, this approach is obviously beneficial for avoiding obstacles in obstacle-deployed battlefields. Our visualization-based performance evaluation shows that the proposed algorithm is superior from the other linear mobility control algorithms.

In robotics and computer vision communities, extensive studies have been widely conducted regarding surveillance tasks, including human detection, tracking, and motion recognition with a camera. Additionally, deep learning algorithms are widely utilized in the aforementioned tasks as in other computer vision tasks. Existing public datasets are insufficient to develop learning-based methods that handle various surveillance for outdoor and extreme situations such as harsh weather and low illuminance conditions. Therefore, we introduce a new large-scale outdoor surveillance dataset named eXtremely large-scale Multi-modAl Sensor dataset (X-MAS) containing more than 500,000 image pairs and the first-person view data annotated by well-trained annotators. Moreover, a single pair contains multi-modal data (e.g. an IR image, an RGB image, a thermal image, a depth image, and a LiDAR scan). This is the first large-scale first-person view outdoor multi-modal dataset focusing on surveillance tasks to the best of our knowledge. We present an overview of the proposed dataset with statistics and present methods of exploiting our dataset with deep learning-based algorithms. The latest information on the dataset and our study are available at https://github.com/lge-robot-navi, and the dataset will be available for download through a server.