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Artificial intelligence for autonomous driving must meet strict requirements on safety and robustness, which motivates the thorough validation of learned models. However, current validation approaches mostly require ground truth data and are thus both cost-intensive and limited in their applicability. We propose to overcome these limitations by a model agnostic validation using a-priori knowledge from street maps. In particular, we show how to validate semantic segmentation masks and demonstrate the potential of our approach using OpenStreetMap. We introduce validation metrics that indicate false positive or negative road segments. Besides the validation approach, we present a method to correct the vehicle&#39;s GPS position so that a more accurate localization can be used for the street-map based validation. Lastly, we present quantitative results on the Cityscapes dataset indicating that our validation approach can indeed uncover errors in semantic segmentation masks.

ICPR 2020

Street-Map Based Validation of Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving

informed machine learning

trustworthy ai

street maps

semantic segmentation

autonomous driving

validation

ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 
For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review. 

In this edition of the **ICPR 2020** Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: 
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; 
- Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; 
- Document and Media Analysis; and 
- Image and Signal Processing. 

The **ICPR 2020** Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR 2020 program. 


Artificial intelligence for autonomous driving must meet strict requirements on safety and robustness, which motivates the thorough validation of learned models. However, current validation approaches mostly require ground truth data and are thus both cost-intensive and limited in their applicability. We propose to overcome these limitations by a model agnostic validation using a-priori knowledge from street maps. In particular, we show how to validate semantic segmentation masks and demonstrate the potential of our approach using OpenStreetMap. We introduce validation metrics that indicate false positive or negative road segments. Besides the validation approach, we present a method to correct the vehicle's GPS position so that a more accurate localization can be used for the street-map based validation. Lastly, we present quantitative results on the Cityscapes dataset indicating that our validation approach can indeed uncover errors in semantic segmentation masks.

poster

This paper aims to develop a deep neural network for Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) with iterative Gloss Recognition (GR) fine-tuning. CSLR has been a popular research field in the last years and iterative optimization methods are well established. This paper introduces our proposed architecture involving Spatiotemporal feature-extraction model to segment useful ``gloss-unit" features and BiLSTM with CTC as a sequence model. Spatiotemporal Feature Extractor is used for both image features extraction and sequence length reduction. To this end, we compare different architectures for feature extraction and sequence model. In addition, we iteratively fine-tune feature extractor on gloss-unit video segments with alignments from the end2end model. During the iterative training, we use novel alignment correction technique, which is based on minimum transformations of Levenshtein distance. All the experiments were conducted on the RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather-2014 dataset.

Continuous Sign Language Recognition withIterative Spatiotemporal Fine-tuning

There has been growing interest recently in using machine learning techniques as an aid in clinical medicine. Machine learning offers a range of classification algorithms which can be applied to medical data to aid in making clinical predictions. Recent studies have demonstrated the high predictive accuracy of various classification algorithms applied to clinical data. Several studies have already been conducted in diagnosing or predicting chronic kidney disease at various stages using different sets of variables. In this study we are investigating the use of machine learning techniques with blood test data. Such a system could aid renal teams in making recommendations to primary care general practitioners to refer patients to secondary care where patients may benefit from earlier specialist assessment and medical intervention. We are able to achieve an overall accuracy of 88.48% using logistic regression, 87.12% using ANN and 85.29% using SVM. ANNs performed with the highest sensitivity at 89.74% compared to 86.67% for logistic regression and 85.51% for SVM.

Using Machine Learning to Refer Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease to Secondary Care

3D points distribute in a continuous 3D space irregularly, thus directly adapting 2D image convolution to 3D points is not an easy job. Our model can naturally generalizes image CNN to deal with point clouds. The key idea of our model is learning to probe the 3D space in an adaptive manner. Experiments across three tasks demonstrate that our model achieves the state-of-the-art or competitive performance.

Deep Space Probing for Point Cloud Analysis


In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. In this paper, we propose a multi-modality segmentation network with a correlation constraint. Our network includes N model-independent encoding paths with N image sources, a correlation constraint block, a feature fusion block, and a decoding path. The model independent encoding path can capture modality-specific features from the N modalities. Since there exists a strong correlation between different modalities, we first propose a linear correlation block to learn the correlation between modalities, then a loss function is used to guide the network to learn the correlated features based on the linear correlation block. This block forces the network to learn the latent correlated features which are more relevant for segmentation. Considering that not all the features extracted from the encoders are useful for segmentation, we propose to use dual attention based fusion block to recalibrate the features along the modality and spatial paths, which can suppress less informative features and emphasize the useful ones. The fused feature representation is finally projected by the decoder to obtain the segmentation result. Our experiment results tested on BraTS-2018 dataset for brain tumor segmentation demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

3D Medical Multi-modal Segmentation Network Guided by Multi-source Correlation Constraint

For full process automation in Industry 4.0 with smart machines, localizing objects is a crucial capability. Enabling such an object localization with Machine Learning is tempting, as it avoids a manual engineering of features for every object class, yet gathering large amounts of accurate pose data to train neural networks can be just as difficult.

In this work, a novel self-supervised approach based on point clouds is presented, which resolves these issues and allows a robust detection and localization of objects in cluttered scenes, while compensating for noise, occlusions and symmetries. It leverages 3D sensor data simulation being simpler than light rendering to construct random scenes using a stochastic process by maintaining object relations with placement operations like cloning, stacking and storing, and to then train a fully convolutional voting network with random scans from those scenes.

Self-Supervised Detection and Pose Estimation of Logistical Objects in 3D Sensor Data

In this paper, a novel method for blending planar shapes is introduced. This approach is based on the Fined-Fourier-based Invariant Descriptor (Fined-FID) that is invertible, invariant under Euclidean transformations and stable. Our approach extracts the Fined-FID from the two shapes of interest (the source and the target ones). Then, the extracted descriptors are averaged enabling the calculation of intermediate descriptors. Finally, thanks to the inversion criterion, the intermediate shapes are easily recovered by applying the inverse analytical expression to these intermediate descriptors. Compared to previous works, the Fined-FID-based morphing avoid the usual registration step, generates naturally closed intermediate contours and ensure invariance under Euclidean transformations and invariance to the starting point, while being computationally efficient (almost-linear complexity).
The performed experiments show the performance of the proposed blending approach with respect to curvature-based methods.

Fast blending of planar shapes based on invariant invertible and stable descriptors


We propose Spherical Hierarchical modeling of 3D point cloud.  Inspired by Shape Context, we design a receptive field on each 3D point by placing a spherical coordinate on it. We sample points using the furthest point method and creating overlapping balls of points. We divide the space into radial, polar angular, and azimuthal angular bins on which we form a Spherical Hierarchy for each ball. We apply 1x1 CNN convolution on points to start the initial feature extraction. Repeated 3D CNN and max-pooling over the Spherical bins propagate contextual information until all the information is condensed in the center bin. Extensive experiments on five datasets strongly evidence that our method outperforms current models on various Point Cloud Learning tasks, including 2D/3D shape classification, 3D part segmentation, and 3D semantic segmentation.

PointSpherical: Deep Shape Context for Point Cloud Learning in Spherical Coordinates


Point clouds generated from real-world scanning are always incomplete and ununiformly distributed, which would cause structural losses in 3D shape representations. Therefore, a learning-based method is introduced in this paper to repair partial point clouds and restore complete shapes of target objects. First, we sample several local regions of inputs, encode their features and fuse them with independently extracted global features. Second, we establish a graph to connect all local features together, and then implement convolution with multi-head attention on the graph. Graph attention mechanism enables each local feature vector to search across the regions and selectively absorb other local features based on their relationships in high-dimensional feature space. Third, we design a coarse decoder to collect cross-region features from the graph and generate skeletons of complete point clouds, and a folding-based decoder is leveraged to generate final point clouds with high resolution. Our network is trained on six categories of objects from the ModelNet dataset, its performance is compared with several existing methods, the results show that our network is able to generate dense complete point cloud with the highest accuracy.

Cross-Regional Attention Network for Point Cloud Completion


This paper studies the problem of Person Re-Identification (ReID)
for large-scale applications. Recent research efforts have been devoted
to building complicated part models, which introduce considerably
high computational cost and memory consumption, inhibiting its practicability
in large-scale applications. This paper aims to develop a novel learning
strategy to find efficient feature embeddings while maintaining the
balance of accuracy and model complexity. More specifically, we find
by enhancing the classical triplet loss together with cross-entropy
loss, our method can explore the hard examples and build a discriminant
feature embedding yet compact enough for large-scale applications.
Our method is carried out progressively using Bayesian optimization,
and we call it the Progressive Learning Algorithm (PLA). Extensive
experiments on three large-scale datasets show that our PLA is comparable
or better than the state-of-the-arts. Especially, on the challenging
Market-1501 dataset, we achieve Rank-1=94.7%/mAP=89.4% while saving
at least 30\% parameters than strong part models.

Multi-annotator Probabilistic Active Learning

We propose Zoom-CAM visual explanations for generating pixel-level pseudo-labels from class labels for weakly supervised object localization and segmentation tasks. Zoom-CAM captures fine-grained small-scale objects for various discriminative class instances by integrating the visualizations from all intermediate convolutional layers in a CNN.

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