增量学习代表了空中图像处理中的一个关键任务，特别是给出了大规模注释数据集的有限可用性。关于当前深度神经结构的一个主要问题被称为灾难性遗忘，即无能忠实地维护过去的知识，一旦提供了一种新的数据来刷新。多年来，已经提出了几种技术来减轻图像分类和对象检测的这个问题。但是，只有最近，焦点已经转移到更复杂的下游任务，例如实例或语义细分。从增量级学习的语义分割任务开始，我们的目标是将此策略调整到空中域，利用与自然图像不同的特殊功能，即定向。除了标准知识蒸馏方法之外，我们还提出了一种对比规范化，其中任何给定的输入与其增强版本（即翻转和旋转）进行了比较，以便最小化两个输入产生的分段特征之间的差异。我们展示了我们解决Potsdam数据集的效果，表现出每次测试中的增量基线。可用的代码：https：//github.com/edornd/contrastive-distillation。

深度神经网络在学习新任务时遭受灾难性遗忘的主要限制。在本文中，我们专注于语义细分中的课堂持续学习，其中新类别随着时间的推移，而在未保留以前的训练数据。建议的持续学习方案塑造了潜在的空间来减少遗忘，同时提高了对新型课程的识别。我们的框架是由三种新的组件驱动，我们还毫不费力地结合现有的技术。首先，匹配的原型匹配在旧类上强制执行潜在空间一致性，约束编码器在后续步骤中为先前看到的类生成类似的潜在潜在表示。其次，特征稀疏性允许在潜在空间中腾出空间以容纳新型课程。最后，根据他们的语义，在统一的同时撕裂不同类别的语义，对形成对比的学习。对Pascal VOC2012和ADE20K数据集的广泛评估展示了我们方法的有效性，显着优于最先进的方法。

Class-Incremental Learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that aims to extend previously trained neural networks with new classes. This is especially useful if the system is able to classify new objects despite the original training data being unavailable. While the semantic segmentation problem has received less attention than classification, it poses distinct problems and challenges since previous and future target classes can be unlabeled in the images of a single increment. In this case, the background, past and future classes are correlated and there exist a background-shift. In this paper, we address the problem of how to model unlabeled classes while avoiding spurious feature clustering of future uncorrelated classes. We propose to use Evidential Deep Learning to model the evidence of the classes as a Dirichlet distribution. Our method factorizes the problem into a separate foreground class probability, calculated by the expected value of the Dirichlet distribution, and an unknown class (background) probability corresponding to the uncertainty of the estimate. In our novel formulation, the background probability is implicitly modeled, avoiding the feature space clustering that comes from forcing the model to output a high background score for pixels that are not labeled as objects. Experiments on the incremental Pascal VOC, and ADE20k benchmarks show that our method is superior to state-of-the-art, especially when repeatedly learning new classes with increasing number of increments.

虽然现有的语义分割方法实现令人印象深刻的结果，但它们仍然努力将其模型逐步更新，因为新类别被发现。此外，逐个像素注释昂贵且耗时。本文提出了一种新颖的对语义分割学习弱增量学习的框架，旨在学习从廉价和大部分可用的图像级标签进行新课程。与现有的方法相反，需要从下线生成伪标签，我们使用辅助分类器，用图像级标签培训并由分段模型规范化，在线获取伪监督并逐步更新模型。我们通过使用由辅助分类器生成的软标签来应对过程中的内在噪声。我们展示了我们对Pascal VOC和Coco数据集的方法的有效性，表现出离线弱监督方法，并获得了具有全面监督的增量学习方法的结果。

人类智慧的主食是以不断的方式获取知识的能力。在Stark对比度下，深网络忘记灾难性，而且为此原因，类增量连续学习促进方法的子字段逐步学习一系列任务，将顺序获得的知识混合成综合预测。这项工作旨在评估和克服我们以前提案黑暗体验重播（Der）的陷阱，这是一种简单有效的方法，将排练和知识蒸馏结合在一起。灵感来自于我们的思想不断重写过去的回忆和对未来的期望，我们赋予了我的能力，即我的能力来修改其重播记忆，以欢迎有关过去数据II的新信息II）为学习尚未公开的课程铺平了道路。我们表明，这些策略的应用导致了显着的改进;实际上，得到的方法 - 被称为扩展-DAR（X-DER） - 优于标准基准（如CiFar-100和MiniimAgeNet）的技术状态，并且这里引入了一个新颖的。为了更好地了解，我们进一步提供了广泛的消融研究，以证实并扩展了我们以前研究的结果（例如，在持续学习设置中知识蒸馏和漂流最小值的价值）。

持续深度学习的领域是一个新兴领域，已经取得了很多进步。但是，同时仅根据图像分类的任务进行了大多数方法，这在智能车辆领域无关。直到最近才提出了班级开展语义分割的方法。但是，所有这些方法都是基于某种形式的知识蒸馏。目前，尚未对基于重播的方法进行调查，这些方法通常在连续的环境中用于对象识别。同时，尽管无监督的语义分割的域适应性获得了很多吸引力，但在持续环境中有关域内收入学习的调查并未得到充分研究。因此，我们工作的目的是评估和调整已建立的解决方案，以连续对象识别语义分割任务，并为连续语义分割的任务提供基线方法和评估协议。首先，我们介绍了类和域内的分割的评估协议，并分析了选定的方法。我们表明，语义分割变化的任务的性质在减轻与图像分类相比最有效的方法中最有效。特别是，在课堂学习中，学习知识蒸馏被证明是至关重要的工具，而在域内，学习重播方法是最有效的方法。

语义细分（CISS）的课堂学习学习目前是一个经过深入研究的领域，旨在通过依次学习新的语义类别来更新语义分割模型。 CISS中的一个主要挑战是克服灾难性遗忘的影响，这描述了在模型接受新的一组课程培训之后，先前学习的类的准确性突然下降。尽管在减轻灾难性遗忘方面取得了最新进展，但在CISS中特别遗忘的根本原因尚未得到很好的理解。因此，在一组实验和代表性分析中，我们证明了背景类别的语义转移和对新类别的偏见是忘记CISS的主要原因。此外，我们表明两者都在网络的更深层分类层中表现出来，而模型的早期层没有影响。最后，我们证明了如何利用背景中包含的信息在知识蒸馏和无偏见的跨透镜损失的帮助下有效地减轻两种原因。

Continual Learning (CL) is a field dedicated to devise algorithms able to achieve lifelong learning. Overcoming the knowledge disruption of previously acquired concepts, a drawback affecting deep learning models and that goes by the name of catastrophic forgetting, is a hard challenge. Currently, deep learning methods can attain impressive results when the data modeled does not undergo a considerable distributional shift in subsequent learning sessions, but whenever we expose such systems to this incremental setting, performance drop very quickly. Overcoming this limitation is fundamental as it would allow us to build truly intelligent systems showing stability and plasticity. Secondly, it would allow us to overcome the onerous limitation of retraining these architectures from scratch with the new updated data. In this thesis, we tackle the problem from multiple directions. In a first study, we show that in rehearsal-based techniques (systems that use memory buffer), the quantity of data stored in the rehearsal buffer is a more important factor over the quality of the data. Secondly, we propose one of the early works of incremental learning on ViTs architectures, comparing functional, weight and attention regularization approaches and propose effective novel a novel asymmetric loss. At the end we conclude with a study on pretraining and how it affects the performance in Continual Learning, raising some questions about the effective progression of the field. We then conclude with some future directions and closing remarks.

虽然灾难性遗忘的概念是直截了当的，但缺乏对其原因的研究。在本文中，我们系统地探索并揭示了课堂增量学习中灾难性遗忘的三个原因（CIL）。从代表学习的角度来看，（i）当学习者未能正确对准相同相位数据时，逐步忘记在训练所得和（ii）当学习者混淆当前相数据时发生相互相互混淆上一阶段。从特定于任务特定的角度来看，CIL模型遭受了（iii）分类器偏差的问题。在调查现有策略后，我们观察到缺乏关于如何防止相互局部混淆的研究。要启动对该具体问题的研究，我们提出了一种简单但有效的框架，CIL（C4IL）的对比阶级浓度。我们的框架利用了对比度学习的阶级集中效应，产生了具有更好的级别的紧凑性和阶级间可分离的表示分布。经验上，我们观察到C4IL显着降低了相互相连的概率，并且结果提高了多个数据集的多个CIL设置的性能。

Although deep learning approaches have stood out in recent years due to their state-of-the-art results, they continue to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a dramatic decrease in overall performance when training with new classes added incrementally. This is due to current neural network architectures requiring the entire dataset, consisting of all the samples from the old as well as the new classes, to update the model-a requirement that becomes easily unsustainable as the number of classes grows. We address this issue with our approach to learn deep neural networks incrementally, using new data and only a small exemplar set corresponding to samples from the old classes. This is based on a loss composed of a distillation measure to retain the knowledge acquired from the old classes, and a cross-entropy loss to learn the new classes. Our incremental training is achieved while keeping the entire framework end-to-end, i.e., learning the data representation and the classifier jointly, unlike recent methods with no such guarantees. We evaluate our method extensively on the CIFAR-100 and Im-ageNet (ILSVRC 2012) image classification datasets, and show state-of-the-art performance.

转移学习是一种强大的方法，可以使现有的深度学习模型在遥感中新兴利用案例调整。从已经接受了语义分割的神经网络开始，我们建议修改其标签空间以在弱势监督下将其迅速调整到新课程。为了缓解这种形式的连续学习固有的背景转变和灾难性的遗忘问题，我们比较不同的正则化条款并利用伪标签策略。我们通过实验显示了我们在三个公共遥感数据集中的方法的相关性。

当自我监督的模型已经显示出比在规模上未标记的数据训练的情况下的监督对方的可比视觉表现。然而，它们的功效在持续的学习（CL）场景中灾难性地减少，其中数据被顺序地向模型呈现给模型。在本文中，我们表明，通过添加将表示的当前状态映射到其过去状态，可以通过添加预测的网络来无缝地转换为CL的蒸馏机制。这使我们能够制定一个持续自我监督的视觉表示的框架，学习（i）显着提高了学习象征的质量，（ii）与若干最先进的自我监督目标兼容（III）几乎没有近似参数调整。我们通过在各种CL设置中培训六种受欢迎的自我监督模型来证明我们的方法的有效性。

Image classification with small datasets has been an active research area in the recent past. However, as research in this scope is still in its infancy, two key ingredients are missing for ensuring reliable and truthful progress: a systematic and extensive overview of the state of the art, and a common benchmark to allow for objective comparisons between published methods. This article addresses both issues. First, we systematically organize and connect past studies to consolidate a community that is currently fragmented and scattered. Second, we propose a common benchmark that allows for an objective comparison of approaches. It consists of five datasets spanning various domains (e.g., natural images, medical imagery, satellite data) and data types (RGB, grayscale, multispectral). We use this benchmark to re-evaluate the standard cross-entropy baseline and ten existing methods published between 2017 and 2021 at renowned venues. Surprisingly, we find that thorough hyper-parameter tuning on held-out validation data results in a highly competitive baseline and highlights a stunted growth of performance over the years. Indeed, only a single specialized method dating back to 2019 clearly wins our benchmark and outperforms the baseline classifier.

The counting task, which plays a fundamental rule in numerous applications (e.g., crowd counting, traffic statistics), aims to predict the number of objects with various densities. Existing object counting tasks are designed for a single object class. However, it is inevitable to encounter newly coming data with new classes in our real world. We name this scenario as \textit{evolving object counting}. In this paper, we build the first evolving object counting dataset and propose a unified object counting network as the first attempt to address this task. The proposed model consists of two key components: a class-agnostic mask module and a class-increment module. The class-agnostic mask module learns generic object occupation prior via predicting a class-agnostic binary mask (e.g., 1 denotes there exists an object at the considering position in an image and 0 otherwise). The class-increment module is used to handle new coming classes and provides discriminative class guidance for density map prediction. The combined outputs of class-agnostic mask module and image feature extractor are used to predict the final density map. When new classes come, we first add new neural nodes into the last regression and classification layers of this module. Then, instead of retraining the model from scratch, we utilize knowledge distilling to help the model remember what have already learned about previous object classes. We also employ a support sample bank to store a small number of typical training samples of each class, which are used to prevent the model from forgetting key information of old data. With this design, our model can efficiently and effectively adapt to new coming classes while keeping good performance on already seen data without large-scale retraining. Extensive experiments on the collected dataset demonstrate the favorable performance.

在深度学习研究中，自学学习（SSL）引起了极大的关注，引起了计算机视觉和遥感社区的兴趣。尽管计算机视觉取得了很大的成功，但SSL在地球观测领域的大部分潜力仍然锁定。在本文中，我们对在遥感的背景下为计算机视觉的SSL概念和最新发展提供了介绍，并回顾了SSL中的概念和最新发展。此外，我们在流行的遥感数据集上提供了现代SSL算法的初步基准，从而验证了SSL在遥感中的潜力，并提供了有关数据增强的扩展研究。最后，我们确定了SSL未来研究的有希望的方向的地球观察（SSL4EO），以铺平了两个领域的富有成效的相互作用。

在本文中，我们为连续表示学习问题提出了一种新颖的培训程序，其中依次学习了神经网络模型，以减轻视觉搜索任务中的灾难性遗忘。我们的方法称为对比度有监督的蒸馏（CSD），在学习判别特征的同时，还会减少忘记。这是通过在蒸馏设置中利用标签信息来实现的，在蒸馏设置中，从教师模型中对学生模型进行了相反的学习。广泛的实验表明，CSD在减轻灾难性遗忘方面的表现优于当前最新方法。我们的结果还提供了进一步的证据，表明在视觉检索任务中评估的功能忘记不像分类任务那样灾难性。代码：https：//github.com/niccobiondi/contrastivesupervisedistillation。

大型预训练的变压器是现代语义分割基准的顶部，但具有高计算成本和冗长的培训。为了提高这种约束，我们从综合知识蒸馏的角度来研究有效的语义分割，并考虑弥合多源知识提取和特定于变压器特定的斑块嵌入之间的差距。我们提出了基于变压器的知识蒸馏（TransKD）框架，该框架通过蒸馏出大型教师变压器的特征地图和补丁嵌入来学习紧凑的学生变形金刚，绕过长期的预训练过程并将FLOPS降低> 85.0％。具体而言，我们提出了两个基本和两个优化模块：（1）交叉选择性融合（CSF）可以通过通道注意和层次变压器内的特征图蒸馏之间的知识转移； （2）嵌入对齐（PEA）在斑块过程中执行尺寸转换，以促进贴片嵌入蒸馏； （3）全局本地上下文混合器（GL-MIXER）提取了代表性嵌入的全局和局部信息； （4）嵌入助手（EA）是一种嵌入方法，可以无缝地桥接老师和学生模型，并具有老师的渠道数量。关于CityScapes，ACDC和NYUV2数据集的实验表明，TransKD的表现优于最先进的蒸馏框架，并竞争了耗时的预训练方法。代码可在https://github.com/ruipingl/transkd上找到。

我们提出了一个统一的查看，即通过通用表示，一个深层神经网络共同学习多个视觉任务和视觉域。同时学习多个问题涉及最大程度地减少具有不同幅度和特征的多个损失函数的加权总和，从而导致一个损失的不平衡状态，与学习每个问题的单独模型相比，一个损失的不平衡状态主导了优化和差的结果。为此，我们提出了通过小容量适配器将多个任务/特定于域网络的知识提炼到单个深神经网络中的知识。我们严格地表明，通用表示在学习NYU-V2和CityScapes中多个密集的预测问题方面实现了最新的表现，来自视觉Decathlon数据集中的不同域中的多个图像分类问题以及MetadataSet中的跨域中的几个域中学习。最后，我们还通过消融和定性研究进行多次分析。

Visual place recognition (VPR) is usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely on a time-consuming re-ranking step to exploit spatial structural information for better performance. In this paper, we propose StructVPR, a novel training architecture for VPR, to enhance structural knowledge in RGB global features and thus improve feature stability in a constantly changing environment. Specifically, StructVPR uses segmentation images as a more definitive source of structural knowledge input into a CNN network and applies knowledge distillation to avoid online segmentation and inference of seg-branch in testing. Considering that not all samples contain high-quality and helpful knowledge, and some even hurt the performance of distillation, we partition samples and weigh each sample's distillation loss to enhance the expected knowledge precisely. Finally, StructVPR achieves impressive performance on several benchmarks using only global retrieval and even outperforms many two-stage approaches by a large margin. After adding additional re-ranking, ours achieves state-of-the-art performance while maintaining a low computational cost.

我们对最近的自我和半监督ML技术进行严格的评估，从而利用未标记的数据来改善下游任务绩效，以河床分割的三个遥感任务，陆地覆盖映射和洪水映射。这些方法对于遥感任务特别有价值，因为易于访问未标记的图像，并获得地面真理标签通常可以昂贵。当未标记的图像（标记数据集之外）提供培训时，我们量化性能改进可以对这些遥感分割任务进行期望。我们还设计实验以测试这些技术的有效性，当测试集相对于训练和验证集具有域移位时。