Search Results for author: Bernard Ghanem

Found 229 papers, 115 papers with code

Combating Missing Modalities in Egocentric Videos at Test Time

no code implementations23 Apr 2024 Merey Ramazanova, Alejandro Pardo, Bernard Ghanem, Motasem Alfarra

Understanding videos that contain multiple modalities is crucial, especially in egocentric videos, where combining various sensory inputs significantly improves tasks like action recognition and moment localization.

DATENeRF: Depth-Aware Text-based Editing of NeRFs

no code implementations6 Apr 2024 Sara Rojas, Julien Philip, Kai Zhang, Sai Bi, Fujun Luan, Bernard Ghanem, Kalyan Sunkavall

However, extending these techniques to edit scenes in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is complex, as editing individual 2D frames can result in inconsistencies across multiple views.

Privacy-preserving Optics for Enhancing Protection in Face De-identification

no code implementations31 Mar 2024 Jhon Lopez, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello, Bernard Ghanem

Specifically, our approach first learns an optical encoder along with a regression model to obtain a face heatmap while hiding the face identity from the source image.

De-identification Privacy Preserving

Efficient Image Pre-Training with Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders

1 code implementation26 Mar 2024 Alexandre Eymaël, Renaud Vandeghen, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In particular, SiamMAE recently introduced a Siamese network, training a shared-weight encoder from two frames of a video with a high asymmetric masking ratio (95%).

Self-Supervised Learning

On Pretraining Data Diversity for Self-Supervised Learning

1 code implementation20 Mar 2024 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Tuhin Das, Fabio Pizzati, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem

We explore the impact of training with more diverse datasets, characterized by the number of unique samples, on the performance of self-supervised learning (SSL) under a fixed computational budget.

Self-Supervised Learning

GenView: Enhancing View Quality with Pretrained Generative Model for Self-Supervised Learning

1 code implementation18 Mar 2024 Xiaojie Li, Yibo Yang, Xiangtai Li, Jianlong Wu, Yue Yu, Bernard Ghanem, Min Zhang

To tackle these challenges, we present GenView, a controllable framework that augments the diversity of positive views leveraging the power of pretrained generative models while preserving semantics.

Contrastive Learning Data Augmentation +1

GES: Generalized Exponential Splatting for Efficient Radiance Field Rendering

1 code implementation15 Feb 2024 Abdullah Hamdi, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Guocheng Qian, Jinjie Mai, Ruoshi Liu, Carl Vondrick, Bernard Ghanem, Andrea Vedaldi

With the aid of a frequency-modulated loss, GES achieves competitive performance in novel-view synthesis benchmarks while requiring less than half the memory storage of Gaussian Splatting and increasing the rendering speed by up to 39%.

3D Reconstruction Novel View Synthesis

SynthCLIP: Are We Ready for a Fully Synthetic CLIP Training?

1 code implementation2 Feb 2024 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Fabio Pizzati, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem

We present SynthCLIP, a novel framework for training CLIP models with entirely synthetic text-image pairs, significantly departing from previous methods relying on real data.

Exploring Missing Modality in Multimodal Egocentric Datasets

no code implementations21 Jan 2024 Merey Ramazanova, Alejandro Pardo, Humam Alwassel, Bernard Ghanem

Multimodal video understanding is crucial for analyzing egocentric videos, where integrating multiple sensory signals significantly enhances action recognition and moment localization.

Action Recognition Video Understanding

Dr$^2$Net: Dynamic Reversible Dual-Residual Networks for Memory-Efficient Finetuning

1 code implementation8 Jan 2024 Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu, Karttikeya Mangalam, Guocheng Qian, Fatimah Zohra, Abdulmohsen Alghannam, Jitendra Malik, Bernard Ghanem

We use two coefficients on either type of residual connections respectively, and introduce a dynamic training strategy that seamlessly transitions the pretrained model to a reversible network with much higher numerical precision.

object-detection Small Object Detection +1

Adaptive Guidance: Training-free Acceleration of Conditional Diffusion Models

1 code implementation19 Dec 2023 Angela Castillo, Jonas Kohler, Juan C. Pérez, Juan Pablo Pérez, Albert Pumarola, Bernard Ghanem, Pablo Arbeláez, Ali Thabet

Our findings provide insights into the efficiency of the conditional denoising process that contribute to more practical and swift deployment of text-conditioned diffusion models.

Denoising Neural Architecture Search

Artificial intelligence optical hardware empowers high-resolution hyperspectral video understanding at 1.2 Tb/s

no code implementations17 Dec 2023 Maksim Makarenko, Qizhou Wang, Arturo Burguete-Lopez, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Luca Passone, Andrea Fratalocchi

The technology platform combines artificial intelligence hardware, processing information optically, with state-of-the-art machine vision networks, resulting in a data processing speed of 1. 2 Tb/s with hundreds of frequency bands and megapixel spatial resolution at video rates.

Semantic Segmentation Video Semantic Segmentation +1

Behind the Magic, MERLIM: Multi-modal Evaluation Benchmark for Large Image-Language Models

1 code implementation3 Dec 2023 Andrés Villa, Juan Carlos León Alcázar, Alvaro Soto, Bernard Ghanem

This paper introduces a Multi-modal Evaluation Benchmark named MERLIM, a scalable test-bed to assess the performance of IT-LVLMs on fundamental computer vision tasks.

Hallucination

Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

no code implementations30 Nov 2023 Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, Jitendra Malik, Triantafyllos Afouras, Kumar Ashutosh, Vijay Baiyya, Siddhant Bansal, Bikram Boote, Eugene Byrne, Zach Chavis, Joya Chen, Feng Cheng, Fu-Jen Chu, Sean Crane, Avijit Dasgupta, Jing Dong, Maria Escobar, Cristhian Forigua, Abrham Gebreselasie, Sanjay Haresh, Jing Huang, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Suyog Jain, Rawal Khirodkar, Devansh Kukreja, Kevin J Liang, Jia-Wei Liu, Sagnik Majumder, Yongsen Mao, Miguel Martin, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Tushar Nagarajan, Francesco Ragusa, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Luigi Seminara, Arjun Somayazulu, Yale Song, Shan Su, Zihui Xue, Edward Zhang, Jinxu Zhang, Angela Castillo, Changan Chen, Xinzhu Fu, Ryosuke Furuta, Cristina Gonzalez, Prince Gupta, Jiabo Hu, Yifei HUANG, Yiming Huang, Weslie Khoo, Anush Kumar, Robert Kuo, Sach Lakhavani, Miao Liu, Mi Luo, Zhengyi Luo, Brighid Meredith, Austin Miller, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Xiaqing Pan, Penny Peng, Shraman Pramanick, Merey Ramazanova, Fiona Ryan, Wei Shan, Kiran Somasundaram, Chenan Song, Audrey Southerland, Masatoshi Tateno, Huiyu Wang, Yuchen Wang, Takuma Yagi, Mingfei Yan, Xitong Yang, Zecheng Yu, Shengxin Cindy Zha, Chen Zhao, Ziwei Zhao, Zhifan Zhu, Jeff Zhuo, Pablo Arbelaez, Gedas Bertasius, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Jakob Engel, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Bernard Ghanem, Judy Hoffman, C. V. Jawahar, Richard Newcombe, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Manolis Savva, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Michael Wray

We present Ego-Exo4D, a diverse, large-scale multimodal multiview video dataset and benchmark challenge.

Video Understanding

End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames

2 code implementations28 Nov 2023 Shuming Liu, Chen-Lin Zhang, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we reduce the memory consumption for end-to-end training, and manage to scale up the TAD backbone to 1 billion parameters and the input video to 1, 536 frames, leading to significant detection performance.

Action Detection Temporal Action Localization

SplitNeRF: Split Sum Approximation Neural Field for Joint Geometry, Illumination, and Material Estimation

1 code implementation28 Nov 2023 Jesus Zarzar, Bernard Ghanem

We present a novel approach for digitizing real-world objects by estimating their geometry, material properties, and environmental lighting from a set of posed images with fixed lighting.

From Categories to Classifier: Name-Only Continual Learning by Exploring the Web

no code implementations19 Nov 2023 Ameya Prabhu, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ser-Nam Lim, Bernard Ghanem, Philip H. S. Torr, Adel Bibi

Continual Learning (CL) often relies on the availability of extensive annotated datasets, an assumption that is unrealistically time-consuming and costly in practice.

Continual Learning Image Classification +1

Towards Demystifying the Generalization Behaviors When Neural Collapse Emerges

no code implementations12 Oct 2023 Peifeng Gao, Qianqian Xu, Yibo Yang, Peisong Wen, Huiyang Shao, Zhiyong Yang, Bernard Ghanem, Qingming Huang

While there have been extensive studies on optimization characteristics showing the global optimality of neural collapse, little research has been done on the generalization behaviors during the occurrence of NC.

Automatic Animation of Hair Blowing in Still Portrait Photos

no code implementations ICCV 2023 Wenpeng Xiao, Wentao Liu, Yitong Wang, Bernard Ghanem, Bing Li

Considering the complexity of hair structure, we innovatively treat hair wisp extraction as an instance segmentation problem, where a hair wisp is referred to as an instance.

Image Animation Instance Segmentation +2

SoccerNet 2023 Challenges Results

2 code implementations12 Sep 2023 Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Vladimir Somers, Floriane Magera, Xin Zhou, Hassan Mkhallati, Adrien Deliège, Jan Held, Carlos Hinojosa, Amir M. Mansourian, Pierre Miralles, Olivier Barnich, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Alexandre Alahi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Abdullah Kamal, Adrien Maglo, Albert Clapés, Amr Abdelaziz, Artur Xarles, Astrid Orcesi, Atom Scott, Bin Liu, Byoungkwon Lim, Chen Chen, Fabian Deuser, Feng Yan, Fufu Yu, Gal Shitrit, Guanshuo Wang, Gyusik Choi, Hankyul Kim, Hao Guo, Hasby Fahrudin, Hidenari Koguchi, Håkan Ardö, Ibrahim Salah, Ido Yerushalmy, Iftikar Muhammad, Ikuma Uchida, Ishay Be'ery, Jaonary Rabarisoa, Jeongae Lee, Jiajun Fu, Jianqin Yin, Jinghang Xu, Jongho Nang, Julien Denize, Junjie Li, Junpei Zhang, Juntae Kim, Kamil Synowiec, Kenji Kobayashi, Kexin Zhang, Konrad Habel, Kota Nakajima, Licheng Jiao, Lin Ma, Lizhi Wang, Luping Wang, Menglong Li, Mengying Zhou, Mohamed Nasr, Mohamed Abdelwahed, Mykola Liashuha, Nikolay Falaleev, Norbert Oswald, Qiong Jia, Quoc-Cuong Pham, Ran Song, Romain Hérault, Rui Peng, Ruilong Chen, Ruixuan Liu, Ruslan Baikulov, Ryuto Fukushima, Sergio Escalera, Seungcheon Lee, Shimin Chen, Shouhong Ding, Taiga Someya, Thomas B. Moeslund, Tianjiao Li, Wei Shen, Wei zhang, Wei Li, Wei Dai, Weixin Luo, Wending Zhao, Wenjie Zhang, Xinquan Yang, Yanbiao Ma, Yeeun Joo, Yingsen Zeng, Yiyang Gan, Yongqiang Zhu, Yujie Zhong, Zheng Ruan, Zhiheng Li, Zhijian Huang, Ziyu Meng

More information on the tasks, challenges, and leaderboards are available on https://www. soccer-net. org.

Action Spotting Camera Calibration +3

Learning Semantic Segmentation with Query Points Supervision on Aerial Images

no code implementations11 Sep 2023 Santiago Rivier, Carlos Hinojosa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we present a weakly supervised learning algorithm to train semantic segmentation algorithms that only rely on query point annotations instead of full mask labels.

Image Segmentation Segmentation +3

Learning to Read Analog Gauges from Synthetic Data

no code implementations28 Aug 2023 Juan Leon-Alcazar, Yazeed Alnumay, Cheng Zheng, Hassane Trigui, Sahejad Patel, Bernard Ghanem

We propose a two-stage CNN pipeline that identifies the key structural components of an analog gauge and outputs an angular reading.

ShadowNet for Data-Centric Quantum System Learning

no code implementations22 Aug 2023 Yuxuan Du, Yibo Yang, Tongliang Liu, Zhouchen Lin, Bernard Ghanem, DaCheng Tao

Understanding the dynamics of large quantum systems is hindered by the curse of dimensionality.

Quantum State Tomography

Learning to Identify Critical States for Reinforcement Learning from Videos

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Haozhe Liu, Mingchen Zhuge, Bing Li, Yuhui Wang, Francesco Faccio, Bernard Ghanem, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recent work on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has pointed out that algorithmic information about good policies can be extracted from offline data which lack explicit information about executed actions.

reinforcement-learning

Deformable Mixer Transformer with Gating for Multi-Task Learning of Dense Prediction

1 code implementation10 Aug 2023 Yangyang Xu, Yibo Yang, Bernard Ghanem, Lefei Zhang, Du Bo, DaCheng Tao

In this work, we present a novel MTL model by combining both merits of deformable CNN and query-based Transformer with shared gating for multi-task learning of dense prediction.

Multi-Task Learning

Neural Collapse Terminus: A Unified Solution for Class Incremental Learning and Its Variants

2 code implementations3 Aug 2023 Yibo Yang, Haobo Yuan, Xiangtai Li, Jianlong Wu, Lefei Zhang, Zhouchen Lin, Philip Torr, DaCheng Tao, Bernard Ghanem

Beyond the normal case, long-tail class incremental learning and few-shot class incremental learning are also proposed to consider the data imbalance and data scarcity, respectively, which are common in real-world implementations and further exacerbate the well-known problem of catastrophic forgetting.

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning Incremental Learning

Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors

1 code implementation30 Jun 2023 Guocheng Qian, Jinjie Mai, Abdullah Hamdi, Jian Ren, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Bing Li, Hsin-Ying Lee, Ivan Skorokhodov, Peter Wonka, Sergey Tulyakov, Bernard Ghanem

We present Magic123, a two-stage coarse-to-fine approach for high-quality, textured 3D meshes generation from a single unposed image in the wild using both2D and 3D priors.

Image to 3D

Enhancing Neural Rendering Methods with Image Augmentations

no code implementations15 Jun 2023 Juan C. Pérez, Sara Rojas, Jesus Zarzar, Bernard Ghanem

We found that introducing image augmentations during training presents challenges such as geometric and photometric inconsistencies for learning NRMs from images.

3D Reconstruction Neural Rendering +1

Dynamically Masked Discriminator for Generative Adversarial Networks

1 code implementation13 Jun 2023 Wentian Zhang, Haozhe Liu, Bing Li, Jinheng Xie, Yawen Huang, Yuexiang Li, Yefeng Zheng, Bernard Ghanem

By treating the generated data in training as a stream, we propose to detect whether the discriminator slows down the learning of new knowledge in generated data.

Continual Learning

Exploring Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation without Human Labels

no code implementations1 Jun 2023 Jun Chen, Deyao Zhu, Guocheng Qian, Bernard Ghanem, Zhicheng Yan, Chenchen Zhu, Fanyi Xiao, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Sean Chang Culatana

Although acquired extensive knowledge of visual concepts, it is non-trivial to exploit knowledge from these VL models to the task of semantic segmentation, as they are usually trained at an image level.

Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Segmentation +3

Just a Glimpse: Rethinking Temporal Information for Video Continual Learning

no code implementations28 May 2023 Lama Alssum, Juan Leon Alcazar, Merey Ramazanova, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

Studying continual learning in the video domain poses even more challenges, as video data contains a large number of frames, which places a higher burden on the replay memory.

Class Incremental Learning Incremental Learning

How To Not Train Your Dragon: Training-free Embodied Object Goal Navigation with Semantic Frontiers

no code implementations26 May 2023 Junting Chen, Guohao Li, Suryansh Kumar, Bernard Ghanem, Fisher Yu

Our method propagates semantics on the scene graphs based on language priors and scene statistics to introduce semantic knowledge to the geometric frontiers.

Imitation Learning Navigate +2

Rapid Adaptation in Online Continual Learning: Are We Evaluating It Right?

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ameya Prabhu, Ser-Nam Lim, Philip H. S. Torr, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem

We revisit the common practice of evaluating adaptation of Online Continual Learning (OCL) algorithms through the metric of online accuracy, which measures the accuracy of the model on the immediate next few samples.

Continual Learning

Large-capacity and Flexible Video Steganography via Invertible Neural Network

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Chong Mou, Youmin Xu, Jiechong Song, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem, Jian Zhang

For large-capacity, we present a reversible pipeline to perform multiple videos hiding and recovering through a single invertible neural network (INN).

LLM as A Robotic Brain: Unifying Egocentric Memory and Control

no code implementations19 Apr 2023 Jinjie Mai, Jun Chen, Bing Li, Guocheng Qian, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we propose a novel and generalizable framework called LLM-Brain: using Large-scale Language Model as a robotic brain to unify egocentric memory and control.

Embodied Question Answering Language Modelling +2

Revisiting Test Time Adaptation under Online Evaluation

1 code implementation10 Apr 2023 Motasem Alfarra, Hani Itani, Alejandro Pardo, Shyma Alhuwaider, Merey Ramazanova, Juan C. Pérez, Zhipeng Cai, Matthias Müller, Bernard Ghanem

To address this issue, we propose a more realistic evaluation protocol for TTA methods, where data is received in an online fashion from a constant-speed data stream, thereby accounting for the method's adaptation speed.

Test-time Adaptation

SoccerNet-Caption: Dense Video Captioning for Soccer Broadcasts Commentaries

no code implementations10 Apr 2023 Hassan Mkhallati, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

By providing broadcasters with a tool to summarize the content of their video with the same level of engagement as a live game, our method could help satisfy the needs of the numerous fans who follow their team but cannot necessarily watch the live game.

Dense Video Captioning

VARS: Video Assistant Referee System for Automated Soccer Decision Making from Multiple Views

no code implementations10 Apr 2023 Jan Held, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has revolutionized association football, enabling referees to review incidents on the pitch, make informed decisions, and ensure fairness.

Decision Making Fairness

Towards Active Learning for Action Spotting in Association Football Videos

no code implementations9 Apr 2023 Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Julia Georgieva, Johsan Billingham, Andreas Serner, Kerry Peek, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In this paper, we propose an active learning framework that selects the most informative video samples to be annotated next, thus drastically reducing the annotation effort and accelerating the training of action spotting models to reach the highest accuracy at a faster pace.

Action Spotting Active Learning

Improving Visual Question Answering Models through Robustness Analysis and In-Context Learning with a Chain of Basic Questions

no code implementations6 Apr 2023 Jia-Hong Huang, Modar Alfadly, Bernard Ghanem, Marcel Worring

This work proposes a new method that utilizes semantically related questions, referred to as basic questions, acting as noise to evaluate the robustness of VQA models.

In-Context Learning Question Answering +1

Boundary-Denoising for Video Activity Localization

1 code implementation6 Apr 2023 Mengmeng Xu, Mattia Soldan, Jialin Gao, Shuming Liu, Juan-Manuel Pérez-Rúa, Bernard Ghanem

To alleviate the boundary ambiguity, we propose to study the video activity localization problem from a denoising perspective.

Action Detection Denoising +2

Online Distillation with Continual Learning for Cyclic Domain Shifts

1 code implementation3 Apr 2023 Joachim Houyon, Anthony Cioppa, Yasir Ghunaim, Motasem Alfarra, Anaïs Halin, Maxim Henry, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In this paper, we propose a solution to this issue by leveraging the power of continual learning methods to reduce the impact of domain shifts.

Autonomous Driving Continual Learning

CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Guohao Li, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Dmitrii Khizbullin, Bernard Ghanem

Our contributions include introducing a novel communicative agent framework, offering a scalable approach for studying the cooperative behaviors and capabilities of multi-agent systems, and open-sourcing our library to support research on communicative agents and beyond: https://github. com/camel-ai/camel.

Instruction Following Language Modelling +1

Don't FREAK Out: A Frequency-Inspired Approach to Detecting Backdoor Poisoned Samples in DNNs

no code implementations23 Mar 2023 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Adel Bibi, Philip H. S. Torr, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper we investigate the frequency sensitivity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) when presented with clean samples versus poisoned samples.

Computationally Budgeted Continual Learning: What Does Matter?

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Ameya Prabhu, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Puneet Dokania, Philip H. S. Torr, Ser-Nam Lim, Bernard Ghanem, Adel Bibi

Our conclusions are consistent in a different number of stream time steps, e. g., 20 to 200, and under several computational budgets.

Continual Learning

A Unified Continual Learning Framework with General Parameter-Efficient Tuning

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Qiankun Gao, Chen Zhao, Yifan Sun, Teng Xi, Gang Zhang, Bernard Ghanem, Jian Zhang

1) Learning: the pre-trained model adapts to the new task by tuning an online PET module, along with our adaptation speed calibration to align different PET modules, 2) Accumulation: the task-specific knowledge learned by the online PET module is accumulated into an offline PET module through momentum update, 3) Ensemble: During inference, we respectively construct two experts with online/offline PET modules (which are favored by the novel/historical tasks) for prediction ensemble.

Continual Learning

FreeDoM: Training-Free Energy-Guided Conditional Diffusion Model

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Jiwen Yu, Yinhuai Wang, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem, Jian Zhang

In this work, we propose a training-Free conditional Diffusion Model (FreeDoM) used for various conditions.

Face Detection

Re-ReND: Real-time Rendering of NeRFs across Devices

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Sara Rojas, Jesus Zarzar, Juan Camilo Perez, Artsiom Sanakoyeu, Ali Thabet, Albert Pumarola, Bernard Ghanem

Re-ReND is designed to achieve real-time performance by converting the NeRF into a representation that can be efficiently processed by standard graphics pipelines.

Improving GAN Training via Feature Space Shrinkage

1 code implementation2 Mar 2023 Haozhe Liu, Wentian Zhang, Bing Li, Haoqian Wu, Nanjun He, Yawen Huang, Yuexiang Li, Bernard Ghanem, Yefeng Zheng

The evaluation results demonstrate that our AdaptiveMix can facilitate the training of GANs and effectively improve the image quality of generated samples.

Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection

Real-Time Evaluation in Online Continual Learning: A New Hope

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Yasir Ghunaim, Adel Bibi, Kumail Alhamoud, Motasem Alfarra, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ameya Prabhu, Philip H. S. Torr, Bernard Ghanem

We show that a simple baseline outperforms state-of-the-art CL methods under this evaluation, questioning the applicability of existing methods in realistic settings.

Continual Learning

Look, Listen, and Attack: Backdoor Attacks Against Video Action Recognition

no code implementations3 Jan 2023 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Shuming Liu, Mohammed Alkhrashi, Fahad Albalawi, Bernard Ghanem

Although backdoor attacks have been extensively studied in the image domain, there are very few works that explore such attacks in the video domain, and they tend to conclude that image backdoor attacks are less effective in the video domain.

Action Recognition Temporal Action Localization

AdaptiveMix: Improving GAN Training via Feature Space Shrinkage

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Haozhe Liu, Wentian Zhang, Bing Li, Haoqian Wu, Nanjun He, Yawen Huang, Yuexiang Li, Bernard Ghanem, Yefeng Zheng

The evaluation results demonstrate that our AdaptiveMix can facilitate the training of GANs and effectively improve the image quality of generated samples.

Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection

MVTN: Learning Multi-View Transformations for 3D Understanding

1 code implementation27 Dec 2022 Abdullah Hamdi, Faisal AlZahrani, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

Multi-view projection techniques have shown themselves to be highly effective in achieving top-performing results in the recognition of 3D shapes.

3D Classification 3D Shape Classification +2

SPARF: Large-Scale Learning of 3D Sparse Radiance Fields from Few Input Images

1 code implementation18 Dec 2022 Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem, Matthias Nießner

SuRFNet employs partial SRFs from few/one images and a specialized SRF loss to learn to generate high-quality sparse voxel radiance fields that can be rendered from novel views.

Novel View Synthesis

EgoLoc: Revisiting 3D Object Localization from Egocentric Videos with Visual Queries

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Jinjie Mai, Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

Yet, we point out that the low number of camera poses caused by camera re-localization from previous VQ3D methods severally hinders their overall success rate.

3D Reconstruction Object +2

SimCS: Simulation for Domain Incremental Online Continual Segmentation

no code implementations29 Nov 2022 Motasem Alfarra, Zhipeng Cai, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem, Matthias Müller

This work explores the problem of Online Domain-Incremental Continual Segmentation (ODICS), where the model is continually trained over batches of densely labeled images from different domains, with limited computation and no information about the task boundaries.

Autonomous Driving Continual Learning +2

On Robust Learning from Noisy Labels: A Permutation Layer Approach

no code implementations29 Nov 2022 Salman AlSubaihi, Mohammed Alkhrashi, Raied Aljadaany, Fahad Albalawi, Bernard Ghanem

We provide two variants of PermLL in this paper: one applies the permutation layer to the model's prediction, while the other applies it directly to the given noisy label.

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Temporal Action Detection

1 code implementation27 Nov 2022 Sauradip Nag, Mengmeng Xu, Xiatian Zhu, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua, Bernard Ghanem, Yi-Zhe Song, Tao Xiang

In this work, we introduce a new multi-modality few-shot (MMFS) TAD problem, which can be considered as a marriage of FS-TAD and ZS-TAD by leveraging few-shot support videos and new class names jointly.

Action Detection Few-Shot Object Detection +3

Re^2TAL: Rewiring Pretrained Video Backbones for Reversible Temporal Action Localization

1 code implementation25 Nov 2022 Chen Zhao, Shuming Liu, Karttikeya Mangalam, Bernard Ghanem

Temporal action localization (TAL) requires long-form reasoning to predict actions of various durations and complex content.

Temporal Action Localization

SegNeRF: 3D Part Segmentation with Neural Radiance Fields

no code implementations21 Nov 2022 Jesus Zarzar, Sara Rojas, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

The predicted semantic fields allow SegNeRF to achieve an average mIoU of $\textbf{30. 30%}$ for 2D novel view segmentation, and $\textbf{37. 46%}$ for 3D part segmentation, boasting competitive performance against point-based methods by using only a few posed images.

3D Part Segmentation 3D Reconstruction +2

Diffusion-Based Scene Graph to Image Generation with Masked Contrastive Pre-Training

1 code implementation21 Nov 2022 Ling Yang, Zhilin Huang, Yang song, Shenda Hong, Guohao Li, Wentao Zhang, Bin Cui, Bernard Ghanem, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Generating images from graph-structured inputs, such as scene graphs, is uniquely challenging due to the difficulty of aligning nodes and connections in graphs with objects and their relations in images.

Image Generation

Where is my Wallet? Modeling Object Proposal Sets for Egocentric Visual Query Localization

1 code implementation CVPR 2023 Mengmeng Xu, Yanghao Li, Cheng-Yang Fu, Bernard Ghanem, Tao Xiang, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

Our experiments show the proposed adaptations improve egocentric query detection, leading to a better visual query localization system in both 2D and 3D configurations.

Object

Decoupled Mixup for Generalized Visual Recognition

1 code implementation26 Oct 2022 Haozhe Liu, Wentian Zhang, Jinheng Xie, Haoqian Wu, Bing Li, Ziqi Zhang, Yuexiang Li, Yawen Huang, Bernard Ghanem, Yefeng Zheng

Since the observation is that noise-prone regions such as textural and clutter backgrounds are adverse to the generalization ability of CNN models during training, we enhance features from discriminative regions and suppress noise-prone ones when combining an image pair.

SoccerNet 2022 Challenges Results

7 code implementations5 Oct 2022 Silvio Giancola, Anthony Cioppa, Adrien Deliège, Floriane Magera, Vladimir Somers, Le Kang, Xin Zhou, Olivier Barnich, Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Alexandre Alahi, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Abdulrahman Darwish, Adrien Maglo, Albert Clapés, Andreas Luyts, Andrei Boiarov, Artur Xarles, Astrid Orcesi, Avijit Shah, Baoyu Fan, Bharath Comandur, Chen Chen, Chen Zhang, Chen Zhao, Chengzhi Lin, Cheuk-Yiu Chan, Chun Chuen Hui, Dengjie Li, Fan Yang, Fan Liang, Fang Da, Feng Yan, Fufu Yu, Guanshuo Wang, H. Anthony Chan, He Zhu, Hongwei Kan, Jiaming Chu, Jianming Hu, Jianyang Gu, Jin Chen, João V. B. Soares, Jonas Theiner, Jorge De Corte, José Henrique Brito, Jun Zhang, Junjie Li, Junwei Liang, Leqi Shen, Lin Ma, Lingchi Chen, Miguel Santos Marques, Mike Azatov, Nikita Kasatkin, Ning Wang, Qiong Jia, Quoc Cuong Pham, Ralph Ewerth, Ran Song, RenGang Li, Rikke Gade, Ruben Debien, Runze Zhang, Sangrok Lee, Sergio Escalera, Shan Jiang, Shigeyuki Odashima, Shimin Chen, Shoichi Masui, Shouhong Ding, Sin-wai Chan, Siyu Chen, Tallal El-Shabrawy, Tao He, Thomas B. Moeslund, Wan-Chi Siu, Wei zhang, Wei Li, Xiangwei Wang, Xiao Tan, Xiaochuan Li, Xiaolin Wei, Xiaoqing Ye, Xing Liu, Xinying Wang, Yandong Guo, YaQian Zhao, Yi Yu, YingYing Li, Yue He, Yujie Zhong, Zhenhua Guo, Zhiheng Li

The SoccerNet 2022 challenges were the second annual video understanding challenges organized by the SoccerNet team.

Action Spotting Camera Calibration +3

Generalizability of Adversarial Robustness Under Distribution Shifts

no code implementations29 Sep 2022 Kumail Alhamoud, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Motasem Alfarra, Bernard Ghanem

Recent progress in empirical and certified robustness promises to deliver reliable and deployable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).

Adversarial Robustness Domain Generalization

Combating Mode Collapse in GANs via Manifold Entropy Estimation

1 code implementation25 Aug 2022 Haozhe Liu, Bing Li, Haoqian Wu, Hanbang Liang, Yawen Huang, Yuexiang Li, Bernard Ghanem, Yefeng Zheng

In this paper, we propose a novel training pipeline to address the mode collapse issue of GANs.

Pix4Point: Image Pretrained Standard Transformers for 3D Point Cloud Understanding

1 code implementation25 Aug 2022 Guocheng Qian, Abdullah Hamdi, Xingdi Zhang, Bernard Ghanem

Pretrained on a large number of widely available images, significant gains of PViT are observed in the tasks of 3D point cloud classification, part segmentation, and semantic segmentation on ScanObjectNN, ShapeNetPart, and S3DIS, respectively.

3D Point Cloud Classification Inductive Bias +2

Negative Frames Matter in Egocentric Visual Query 2D Localization

1 code implementation3 Aug 2022 Mengmeng Xu, Cheng-Yang Fu, Yanghao Li, Bernard Ghanem, Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua, Tao Xiang

The repeated gradient computation of the same object lead to an inefficient training; (2) The false positive rate is high on background frames.

Object

Egocentric Video-Language Pretraining @ Ego4D Challenge 2022

1 code implementation4 Jul 2022 Kevin Qinghong Lin, Alex Jinpeng Wang, Mattia Soldan, Michael Wray, Rui Yan, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Difei Gao, RongCheng Tu, Wenzhe Zhao, Weijie Kong, Chengfei Cai, Hongfa Wang, Dima Damen, Bernard Ghanem, Wei Liu, Mike Zheng Shou

In this report, we propose a video-language pretraining (VLP) based solution \cite{kevin2022egovlp} for four Ego4D challenge tasks, including Natural Language Query (NLQ), Moment Query (MQ), Object State Change Classification (OSCC), and PNR Localization (PNR).

Language Modelling Object State Change Classification

Certified Robustness in Federated Learning

1 code implementation6 Jun 2022 Motasem Alfarra, Juan C. Pérez, Egor Shulgin, Peter Richtárik, Bernard Ghanem

However, as in the single-node supervised learning setup, models trained in federated learning suffer from vulnerability to imperceptible input transformations known as adversarial attacks, questioning their deployment in security-related applications.

Federated Learning

ETAD: Training Action Detection End to End on a Laptop

1 code implementation14 May 2022 Shuming Liu, Mengmeng Xu, Chen Zhao, Xu Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

We propose to sequentially forward the snippet frame through the video encoder, and backward only a small necessary portion of gradients to update the encoder.

Action Detection Video Understanding

SoccerNet-Tracking: Multiple Object Tracking Dataset and Benchmark in Soccer Videos

no code implementations14 Apr 2022 Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Adrien Deliege, Le Kang, Xin Zhou, Zhiyu Cheng, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Tracking objects in soccer videos is extremely important to gather both player and team statistics, whether it is to estimate the total distance run, the ball possession or the team formation.

Benchmarking Multiple Object Tracking

3DeformRS: Certifying Spatial Deformations on Point Clouds

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Gabriel Pérez S., Juan C. Pérez, Motasem Alfarra, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we propose 3DeformRS, a method to certify the robustness of point cloud Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) against real-world deformations.

Autonomous Driving

Real-time Hyperspectral Imaging in Hardware via Trained Metasurface Encoders

1 code implementation CVPR 2022 Maksim Makarenko, Arturo Burguete-Lopez, Qizhou Wang, Fedor Getman, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem, Andrea Fratalocchi

Hyperspectral imaging has attracted significant attention to identify spectral signatures for image classification and automated pattern recognition in computer vision.

Image Classification Semantic Segmentation +1

End-to-End Active Speaker Detection

1 code implementation27 Mar 2022 Juan Leon Alcazar, Moritz Cordes, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

Recent advances in the Active Speaker Detection (ASD) problem build upon a two-stage process: feature extraction and spatio-temporal context aggregation.

Audio-Visual Active Speaker Detection

R-DFCIL: Relation-Guided Representation Learning for Data-Free Class Incremental Learning

1 code implementation24 Mar 2022 Qiankun Gao, Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem, Jian Zhang

After RRL, the classification head is refined with global class-balanced classification loss to address the data imbalance issue as well as learn the decision boundaries between new and previous classes.

Class Incremental Learning Incremental Learning +3

Learning Scene Flow in 3D Point Clouds with Noisy Pseudo Labels

no code implementations23 Mar 2022 Bing Li, Cheng Zheng, Guohao Li, Bernard Ghanem

To provide an alternative, we propose a novel approach that utilizes monocular RGB images and point clouds to generate pseudo scene flow labels for training scene flow networks.

Pseudo Label Self-Supervised Learning

SegTAD: Precise Temporal Action Detection via Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations3 Mar 2022 Chen Zhao, Merey Ramazanova, Mengmeng Xu, Bernard Ghanem

To address these issues and precisely model temporal action detection, we formulate the task of temporal action detection in a novel perspective of semantic segmentation.

Action Detection object-detection +3

Towards Assessing and Characterizing the Semantic Robustness of Face Recognition

no code implementations10 Feb 2022 Juan C. Pérez, Motasem Alfarra, Ali Thabet, Pablo Arbeláez, Bernard Ghanem

We propose a methodology for assessing and characterizing the robustness of FRMs against semantic perturbations to their input.

Face Recognition

On the Robustness of Quality Measures for GANs

1 code implementation31 Jan 2022 Motasem Alfarra, Juan C. Pérez, Anna Frühstück, Philip H. S. Torr, Peter Wonka, Bernard Ghanem

Finally, we show that the FID can be robustified by simply replacing the standard Inception with a robust Inception.

Voint Cloud: Multi-View Point Cloud Representation for 3D Understanding

2 code implementations30 Nov 2021 Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

To this end, we introduce the concept of the multi-view point cloud (Voint cloud), representing each 3D point as a set of features extracted from several view-points.

3D Classification 3D Part Segmentation +3

ASSANet: An Anisotropic Separable Set Abstraction for Efficient Point Cloud Representation Learning

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Guocheng Qian, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Guohao Li, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

We then introduce a new Anisotropic Reduction function into our Separable SA module and propose an Anisotropic Separable SA (ASSA) module that substantially increases the network's accuracy.

3D Part Segmentation 3D Point Cloud Classification +2

Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video

6 code implementations CVPR 2022 Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, Zachary Chavis, Antonino Furnari, Rohit Girdhar, Jackson Hamburger, Hao Jiang, Miao Liu, Xingyu Liu, Miguel Martin, Tushar Nagarajan, Ilija Radosavovic, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Fiona Ryan, Jayant Sharma, Michael Wray, Mengmeng Xu, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Chen Zhao, Siddhant Bansal, Dhruv Batra, Vincent Cartillier, Sean Crane, Tien Do, Morrie Doulaty, Akshay Erapalli, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Adriano Fragomeni, Qichen Fu, Abrham Gebreselasie, Cristina Gonzalez, James Hillis, Xuhua Huang, Yifei HUANG, Wenqi Jia, Weslie Khoo, Jachym Kolar, Satwik Kottur, Anurag Kumar, Federico Landini, Chao Li, Yanghao Li, Zhenqiang Li, Karttikeya Mangalam, Raghava Modhugu, Jonathan Munro, Tullie Murrell, Takumi Nishiyasu, Will Price, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Merey Ramazanova, Leda Sari, Kiran Somasundaram, Audrey Southerland, Yusuke Sugano, Ruijie Tao, Minh Vo, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Wu, Takuma Yagi, Ziwei Zhao, Yunyi Zhu, Pablo Arbelaez, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Christian Fuegen, Bernard Ghanem, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, C. V. Jawahar, Hanbyul Joo, Kris Kitani, Haizhou Li, Richard Newcombe, Aude Oliva, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Antonio Torralba, Lorenzo Torresani, Mingfei Yan, Jitendra Malik

We introduce Ego4D, a massive-scale egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.

De-identification Ethics

MovieCuts: A New Dataset and Benchmark for Cut Type Recognition

1 code implementation12 Sep 2021 Alejandro Pardo, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Juan León Alcázar, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Advances in automatic Cut-type recognition can unleash new experiences in the video editing industry, such as movie analysis for education, video re-editing, virtual cinematography, machine-assisted trailer generation, machine-assisted video editing, among others.

Video Editing Vocal Bursts Type Prediction

Check Your Other Door! Creating Backdoor Attacks in the Frequency Domain

no code implementations12 Sep 2021 Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Bernard Ghanem

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are ubiquitous and span a variety of applications ranging from image classification to real-time object detection.

Backdoor Attack Image Classification +2

Learning to Cut by Watching Movies

1 code implementation ICCV 2021 Alejandro Pardo, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Juan León Alcázar, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Video content creation keeps growing at an incredible pace; yet, creating engaging stories remains challenging and requires non-trivial video editing expertise.

Contrastive Learning Video Editing

ANCER: Anisotropic Certification via Sample-wise Volume Maximization

1 code implementation9 Jul 2021 Francisco Eiras, Motasem Alfarra, M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr, Puneet K. Dokania, Bernard Ghanem, Adel Bibi

Randomized smoothing has recently emerged as an effective tool that enables certification of deep neural network classifiers at scale.

DeformRS: Certifying Input Deformations with Randomized Smoothing

2 code implementations2 Jul 2021 Motasem Alfarra, Adel Bibi, Naeemullah Khan, Philip H. S. Torr, Bernard Ghanem

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to input deformations in the form of vector fields of pixel displacements and to other parameterized geometric deformations e. g. translations, rotations, etc.

Training Graph Neural Networks with 1000 Layers

4 code implementations14 Jun 2021 Guohao Li, Matthias Müller, Bernard Ghanem, Vladlen Koltun

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved excellent results on various tasks on increasingly large graph datasets with millions of nodes and edges.

Graph Sampling Node Property Prediction

SCTN: Sparse Convolution-Transformer Network for Scene Flow Estimation

1 code implementation10 May 2021 Bing Li, Cheng Zheng, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

We propose a novel scene flow estimation approach to capture and infer 3D motions from point clouds.

Scene Flow Estimation

Camera Calibration and Player Localization in SoccerNet-v2 and Investigation of their Representations for Action Spotting

no code implementations19 Apr 2021 Anthony Cioppa, Adrien Deliège, Floriane Magera, Silvio Giancola, Olivier Barnich, Bernard Ghanem, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Specifically, we distill a powerful commercial calibration tool in a recent neural network architecture on the large-scale SoccerNet dataset, composed of untrimmed broadcast videos of 500 soccer games.

Action Spotting Camera Calibration +1

Temporally-Aware Feature Pooling for Action Spotting in Soccer Broadcasts

1 code implementation14 Apr 2021 Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we focus our analysis on action spotting in soccer broadcast, which consists in temporally localizing the main actions in a soccer game.

Ranked #7 on Action Spotting on SoccerNet-v2 (Average-mAP metric)

Action Spotting

AniGAN: Style-Guided Generative Adversarial Networks for Unsupervised Anime Face Generation

3 code implementations24 Feb 2021 Bing Li, Yuanlue Zhu, Yitong Wang, Chia-Wen Lin, Bernard Ghanem, Linlin Shen

Specifically, a new generator architecture is proposed to simultaneously transfer color/texture styles and transform local facial shapes into anime-like counterparts based on the style of a reference anime-face, while preserving the global structure of the source photo-face.

Face Generation Translation

On the Decision Boundaries of Neural Networks. A Tropical Geometry Perspective

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Motasem Alfarra, Adel Bibi, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Mohamed Gaafar, Bernard Ghanem

This work tackles the problem of characterizing and understanding the decision boundaries of neural networks with piecewise linear non-linearity activations.

Network Pruning

High Quality Disparity Remapping With Two-Stage Warping

no code implementations ICCV 2021 Bing Li, Chia-Wen Lin, Cheng Zheng, Shan Liu, Junsong Yuan, Bernard Ghanem, C.-C. Jay Kuo

In the second stage, we derive another warping model to refine warping results in less important regions by eliminating serious distortions in shape, disparity and 3D structure.

Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

DeeperGCN: Training Deeper GCNs with Generalized Aggregation Functions

no code implementations1 Jan 2021 Guohao Li, Chenxin Xiong, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

We add our generalized aggregation into a deep GCN framework and show it achieves state-of-the-art results in six benchmarks from OGB.

Point Cloud Classification Representation Learning

SALA: Soft Assignment Local Aggregation for Parameter Efficient 3D Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations29 Dec 2020 Hani Itani, Silvio Giancola, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Since it is learnable, this mapping is allowed to be different per layer instead of being applied uniformly throughout the depth of the network.

3D Semantic Segmentation

Data-Dependent Randomized Smoothing

no code implementations8 Dec 2020 Motasem Alfarra, Adel Bibi, Philip H. S. Torr, Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we revisit Gaussian randomized smoothing and show that the variance of the Gaussian distribution can be optimized at each input so as to maximize the certification radius for the construction of the smooth classifier.

SoccerNet-v2: A Dataset and Benchmarks for Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Soccer Videos

3 code implementations26 Nov 2020 Adrien Deliège, Anthony Cioppa, Silvio Giancola, Meisam J. Seikavandi, Jacob V. Dueholm, Kamal Nasrollahi, Bernard Ghanem, Thomas B. Moeslund, Marc Van Droogenbroeck

In this work, we propose SoccerNet-v2, a novel large-scale corpus of manual annotations for the SoccerNet video dataset, along with open challenges to encourage more research in soccer understanding and broadcast production.

Action Spotting Boundary Detection +5

MVTN: Multi-View Transformation Network for 3D Shape Recognition

2 code implementations ICCV 2021 Abdullah Hamdi, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

MVTN exhibits clear performance gains in the tasks of 3D shape classification and 3D shape retrieval without the need for extra training supervision.

3D Classification 3D Object Retrieval +6

TSP: Temporally-Sensitive Pretraining of Video Encoders for Localization Tasks

1 code implementation23 Nov 2020 Humam Alwassel, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

Extensive experiments show that using features trained with our novel pretraining strategy significantly improves the performance of recent state-of-the-art methods on three tasks: Temporal Action Localization, Action Proposal Generation, and Dense Video Captioning.

Action Classification Dense Video Captioning +2

VLG-Net: Video-Language Graph Matching Network for Video Grounding

1 code implementation19 Nov 2020 Mattia Soldan, Mengmeng Xu, Sisi Qu, Jesper Tegner, Bernard Ghanem

Grounding language queries in videos aims at identifying the time interval (or moment) semantically relevant to a language query.

Graph Matching Moment Retrieval +3

Robust Optimization as Data Augmentation for Large-scale Graphs

3 code implementations CVPR 2022 Kezhi Kong, Guohao Li, Mucong Ding, Zuxuan Wu, Chen Zhu, Bernard Ghanem, Gavin Taylor, Tom Goldstein

Data augmentation helps neural networks generalize better by enlarging the training set, but it remains an open question how to effectively augment graph data to enhance the performance of GNNs (Graph Neural Networks).

Data Augmentation Graph Classification +4

LC-NAS: Latency Constrained Neural Architecture Search for Point Cloud Networks

no code implementations24 Aug 2020 Guohao Li, Mengmeng Xu, Silvio Giancola, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we introduce a new NAS framework, dubbed LC-NAS, where we search for point cloud architectures that are constrained to a target latency.

Neural Architecture Search Point Cloud Classification +2

Learning Heat Diffusion for Network Alignment

no code implementations10 Jul 2020 Sisi Qu, Mengmeng Xu, Bernard Ghanem, Jesper Tegner

EDNA uses the diffusion signal as a proxy for computing node similarities between networks.

Network Moments: Extensions and Sparse-Smooth Attacks

no code implementations21 Jun 2020 Modar Alfadly, Adel Bibi, Emilio Botero, Salman AlSubaihi, Bernard Ghanem

This has incited research on the reaction of DNNs to noisy input, namely developing adversarial input attacks and strategies that lead to robust DNNs to these attacks.

DeeperGCN: All You Need to Train Deeper GCNs

3 code implementations13 Jun 2020 Guohao Li, Chenxin Xiong, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been drawing significant attention with the power of representation learning on graphs.

Graph Learning Graph Property Prediction +3

Rethinking Clustering for Robustness

1 code implementation13 Jun 2020 Motasem Alfarra, Juan C. Pérez, Adel Bibi, Ali Thabet, Pablo Arbeláez, Bernard Ghanem

This paper studies how encouraging semantically-aligned features during deep neural network training can increase network robustness.

Clustering

Adaptive Learning of the Optimal Batch Size of SGD

no code implementations3 May 2020 Motasem Alfarra, Slavomir Hanzely, Alyazeed Albasyoni, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Richtarik

Recent advances in the theoretical understanding of SGD led to a formula for the optimal batch size minimizing the number of effective data passes, i. e., the number of iterations times the batch size.

On the Decision Boundaries of Neural Networks: A Tropical Geometry Perspective

no code implementations20 Feb 2020 Motasem Alfarra, Adel Bibi, Hasan Hammoud, Mohamed Gaafar, Bernard Ghanem

Our main finding is that the decision boundaries are a subset of a tropical hypersurface, which is intimately related to a polytope formed by the convex hull of two zonotopes.

Network Pruning

RGB-based Semantic Segmentation Using Self-Supervised Depth Pre-Training

no code implementations6 Feb 2020 Jean Lahoud, Bernard Ghanem

These labels, denoted by HN-labels, represent different height and normal patches, which allow mining of local semantic information that is useful in the task of semantic RGB segmentation.

Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Analytical Moment Regularizer for Training Robust Networks

no code implementations ICLR 2020 Modar Alfadly, Adel Bibi, Muhammed Kocabas, Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we propose a new training regularizer that aims to minimize the probabilistic expected training loss of a DNN subject to a generic Gaussian input.

Data Augmentation

AdvPC: Transferable Adversarial Perturbations on 3D Point Clouds

1 code implementation ECCV 2020 Abdullah Hamdi, Sara Rojas, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Our proposed attack increases the attack success rate by up to 40% for those transferred to unseen networks (transferability), while maintaining a high success rate on the attacked network.

Adversarial Attack Classify 3D Point Clouds

Assessing the Robustness of Visual Question Answering Models

no code implementations30 Nov 2019 Jia-Hong Huang, Modar Alfadly, Bernard Ghanem, Marcel Worring

In this work, we propose a new method that uses semantically related questions, dubbed basic questions, acting as noise to evaluate the robustness of VQA models.

Question Answering Visual Question Answering

Self-Supervised Learning by Cross-Modal Audio-Video Clustering

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2020 Humam Alwassel, Dhruv Mahajan, Bruno Korbar, Lorenzo Torresani, Bernard Ghanem, Du Tran

To the best of our knowledge, XDC is the first self-supervised learning method that outperforms large-scale fully-supervised pretraining for action recognition on the same architecture.

Audio Classification Clustering +5

PointRGCN: Graph Convolution Networks for 3D Vehicles Detection Refinement

no code implementations27 Nov 2019 Jesus Zarzar, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

We integrate residual GCNs in a two-stage 3D object detection pipeline, where 3D object proposals are refined using a novel graph representation.

3D Object Detection Autonomous Driving +2

G-TAD: Sub-Graph Localization for Temporal Action Detection

7 code implementations CVPR 2020 Mengmeng Xu, Chen Zhao, David S. Rojas, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

In this work, we propose a graph convolutional network (GCN) model to adaptively incorporate multi-level semantic context into video features and cast temporal action detection as a sub-graph localization problem.

Temporal Action Localization

DeepGCNs: Making GCNs Go as Deep as CNNs

4 code implementations15 Oct 2019 Guohao Li, Matthias Müller, Guocheng Qian, Itzel C. Delgadillo, Abdulellah Abualshour, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

This work transfers concepts such as residual/dense connections and dilated convolutions from CNNs to GCNs in order to successfully train very deep GCNs.

3D Point Cloud Classification 3D Semantic Segmentation +2

Expected Tight Bounds for Robust Deep Neural Network Training

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Salman AlSubaihi, Adel Bibi, Modar Alfadly, Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem

al. that bounded input intervals can be inexpensively propagated from layer to layer through deep networks.

On the Decision Boundaries of Deep Neural Networks: A Tropical Geometry Perspective

no code implementations25 Sep 2019 Motasem Alfarra, Adel Bibi, Hasan Hammoud, Mohamed Gaafar, Bernard Ghanem

We use tropical geometry, a new development in the area of algebraic geometry, to provide a characterization of the decision boundaries of a simple neural network of the form (Affine, ReLU, Affine).

Network Pruning

Finding Moments in Video Collections Using Natural Language

2 code implementations30 Jul 2019 Victor Escorcia, Mattia Soldan, Josef Sivic, Bernard Ghanem, Bryan Russell

We evaluate our approach on two recently proposed datasets for temporal localization of moments in video with natural language (DiDeMo and Charades-STA) extended to our video corpus moment retrieval setting.

Moment Retrieval Re-Ranking +3

Constrained Clustering: General Pairwise and Cardinality Constraints

1 code implementation24 Jul 2019 Adel Bibi, Ali Alqahtani, Bernard Ghanem

Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real data demonstrate when: (1) utilizing a single category of constraint, the proposed model is superior to or competitive with SOTA constrained clustering models, and (2) utilizing both categories of constraints jointly, the proposed model shows better performance than the case of the single category.

Constrained Clustering

Expected Tight Bounds for Robust Training

2 code implementations28 May 2019 Salman Al-Subaihi, Adel Bibi, Modar Alfadly, Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we closely examine the bounds of a block of layers composed in the form of Affine-ReLU-Affine.

MAP Inference via L2-Sphere Linear Program Reformulation

1 code implementation9 May 2019 Baoyuan Wu, Li Shen, Tong Zhang, Bernard Ghanem

Thus, LS-LP is equivalent to the original MAP inference problem.

valid

Rethinking Learning-based Demosaicing, Denoising, and Super-Resolution Pipeline

1 code implementation7 May 2019 Guocheng Qian, Yuanhao Wang, Jinjin Gu, Chao Dong, Wolfgang Heidrich, Bernard Ghanem, Jimmy S. Ren

In this work, we comprehensively study the effects of pipelines on the mixture problem of learning-based DN, DM, and SR, in both sequential and joint solutions.

Demosaicking Denoising +1

Deep Layers as Stochastic Solvers

no code implementations ICLR 2019 Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem, Vladlen Koltun, Rene Ranftl

In particular, we show that a forward pass through a standard dropout layer followed by a linear layer and a non-linear activation is equivalent to optimizing a convex optimization objective with a single iteration of a $\tau$-nice Proximal Stochastic Gradient method.

Analytical Moment Regularizer for Gaussian Robust Networks

1 code implementation24 Apr 2019 Modar Alfadly, Adel Bibi, Bernard Ghanem

Despite the impressive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) on numerous vision tasks, they still exhibit yet-to-understand uncouth behaviours.

Data Augmentation

Learning a Controller Fusion Network by Online Trajectory Filtering for Vision-based UAV Racing

no code implementations18 Apr 2019 Matthias Müller, Guohao Li, Vincent Casser, Neil Smith, Dominik L. Michels, Bernard Ghanem

A common approach is to learn an end-to-end policy that directly predicts controls from raw images by imitating an expert.

IAN: Combining Generative Adversarial Networks for Imaginative Face Generation

no code implementations16 Apr 2019 Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have gained momentum for their ability to model image distributions.

Face Generation

BAOD: Budget-Aware Object Detection

no code implementations10 Apr 2019 Alejandro Pardo, Mengmeng Xu, Ali Thabet, Pablo Arbelaez, Bernard Ghanem

We adopt a hybrid supervised learning framework to train the object detector from both these types of annotation.

Active Learning Object +2

ThumbNet: One Thumbnail Image Contains All You Need for Recognition

no code implementations10 Apr 2019 Chen Zhao, Bernard Ghanem

Although deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in computer vision tasks, its real-world application is still impeded by its voracious demand of computational resources.

Towards Analyzing Semantic Robustness of Deep Neural Networks

1 code implementation9 Apr 2019 Abdullah Hamdi, Bernard Ghanem

Despite the impressive performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on various vision tasks, they still exhibit erroneous high sensitivity toward semantic primitives (e. g. object pose).

Adversarial Attack Autonomous Driving +1

DeepGCNs: Can GCNs Go as Deep as CNNs?

1 code implementation ICCV 2019 Guohao Li, Matthias Müller, Ali Thabet, Bernard Ghanem

Finally, we use these new concepts to build a very deep 56-layer GCN, and show how it significantly boosts performance (+3. 7% mIoU over state-of-the-art) in the task of point cloud semantic segmentation.

3D Semantic Segmentation Graph Classification +1

MortonNet: Self-Supervised Learning of Local Features in 3D Point Clouds

1 code implementation30 Mar 2019 Ali Thabet, Humam Alwassel, Bernard Ghanem

In fact, we show how Morton features can be used to significantly improve performance (+3% for 2 popular semantic segmentation algorithms) in the task of semantic segmentation of point clouds on the challenging and large-scale S3DIS dataset.

Segmentation Self-Supervised Learning +1

Efficient Bird Eye View Proposals for 3D Siamese Tracking

no code implementations25 Mar 2019 Jesus Zarzar, Silvio Giancola, Bernard Ghanem

Successively, we refine our selection of 3D object candidates by exploiting the similarity capability of a 3D Siamese network.

Object Tracking Region Proposal

SADA: Semantic Adversarial Diagnostic Attacks for Autonomous Applications

1 code implementation5 Dec 2018 Abdullah Hamdi, Matthias Müller, Bernard Ghanem

In contrast, we present a general framework for adversarial attacks on trained agents, which covers semantic perturbations to the environment of the agent performing the task as well as pixel-level attacks.

Adversarial Attack Autonomous Driving +3

SOD-MTGAN: Small Object Detection via Multi-Task Generative Adversarial Network

no code implementations ECCV 2018 Yancheng Bai, Yongqiang Zhang, Mingli Ding, Bernard Ghanem

In the MTGAN, the generator is a super-resolution network, which can up-sample small blurred images into fine-scale ones and recover detailed information for more accurate detection.

Generative Adversarial Network Object +4

Face Super-resolution Guided by Facial Component Heatmaps

no code implementations ECCV 2018 Xin Yu, Basura Fernando, Bernard Ghanem, Fatih Porikli, Richard Hartley

State-of-the-art face super-resolution methods use deep convolutional neural networks to learn a mapping between low-resolution (LR) facial patterns and their corresponding high-resolution (HR) counterparts by exploring local information.

Face Hallucination Hallucination +1

The ActivityNet Large-Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2018 Summary

no code implementations11 Aug 2018 Bernard Ghanem, Juan Carlos Niebles, Cees Snoek, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Humam Alwassel, Victor Escorcia, Ranjay Krishna, Shyamal Buch, Cuong Duc Dao

The guest tasks focused on complementary aspects of the activity recognition problem at large scale and involved three challenging and recently compiled datasets: the Kinetics-600 dataset from Google DeepMind, the AVA dataset from Berkeley and Google, and the Moments in Time dataset from MIT and IBM Research.

Activity Recognition

Diagnosing Error in Temporal Action Detectors

1 code implementation ECCV 2018 Humam Alwassel, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Victor Escorcia, Bernard Ghanem

Despite the recent progress in video understanding and the continuous rate of improvement in temporal action localization throughout the years, it is still unclear how far (or close?)

Temporal Action Localization Video Understanding

Finding Tiny Faces in the Wild With Generative Adversarial Network

no code implementations CVPR 2018 Yancheng Bai, Yongqiang Zhang, Mingli Ding, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm to directly generate a clear high-resolution face from a blurry small one by adopting a generative adversarial network (GAN).

Face Detection Generative Adversarial Network

Analytic Expressions for Probabilistic Moments of PL-DNN With Gaussian Input

no code implementations CVPR 2018 Adel Bibi, Modar Alfadly, Bernard Ghanem

Moreover, we show how these expressions can be used to systematically construct targeted and non-targeted adversarial attacks.

Image Classification

Driving Policy Transfer via Modularity and Abstraction

no code implementations25 Apr 2018 Matthias Müller, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Bernard Ghanem, Vladlen Koltun

Simulation can help end-to-end driving systems by providing a cheap, safe, and diverse training environment.

Autonomous Driving

SoccerNet: A Scalable Dataset for Action Spotting in Soccer Videos

2 code implementations12 Apr 2018 Silvio Giancola, Mohieddine Amine, Tarek Dghaily, Bernard Ghanem

A total of 6, 637 temporal annotations are automatically parsed from online match reports at a one minute resolution for three main classes of events (Goal, Yellow/Red Card, and Substitution).

Action Classification Action Detection +2

Supervised Convolutional Sparse Coding

no code implementations8 Apr 2018 Lama Affara, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka

Convolutional Sparse Coding (CSC) is a well-established image representation model especially suited for image restoration tasks.

Image Reconstruction Image Restoration

Guess Where? Actor-Supervision for Spatiotemporal Action Localization

2 code implementations5 Apr 2018 Victor Escorcia, Cuong D. Dao, Mihir Jain, Bernard Ghanem, Cees Snoek

Second, we propose an actor-based attention mechanism that enables the localization of the actions from action class labels and actor proposals and is end-to-end trainable.

Action Localization Weakly Supervised Action Localization

Multi-label Learning with Missing Labels using Mixed Dependency Graphs

no code implementations31 Mar 2018 Baoyuan Wu, Fan Jia, Wei Liu, Bernard Ghanem, Siwei Lyu

This work focuses on the problem of multi-label learning with missing labels (MLML), which aims to label each test instance with multiple class labels given training instances that have an incomplete/partial set of these labels.

Image Retrieval Missing Labels +2

Tagging like Humans: Diverse and Distinct Image Annotation

no code implementations CVPR 2018 Baoyuan Wu, Weidong Chen, Peng Sun, Wei Liu, Bernard Ghanem, Siwei Lyu

In D2IA, we generate a relevant and distinct tag subset, in which the tags are relevant to the image contents and semantically distinct to each other, using sequential sampling from a determinantal point process (DPP) model.

Generative Adversarial Network TAG

OIL: Observational Imitation Learning

no code implementations3 Mar 2018 Guohao Li, Matthias Müller, Vincent Casser, Neil Smith, Dominik L. Michels, Bernard Ghanem

Recent work has explored the problem of autonomous navigation by imitating a teacher and learning an end-to-end policy, which directly predicts controls from raw images.

Autonomous Driving Autonomous Navigation +2

Contextual Multi-Scale Region Convolutional 3D Network for Activity Detection

no code implementations28 Jan 2018 Yancheng Bai, Huijuan Xu, Kate Saenko, Bernard Ghanem

In this paper, we propose the contextual multi-scale region convolutional 3D network (CMS-RC3D) for activity detection.

Action Detection Activity Detection

A Novel Framework for Robustness Analysis of Visual QA Models

no code implementations16 Nov 2017 Jia-Hong Huang, Cuong Duc Dao, Modar Alfadly, Bernard Ghanem

In VQA, adversarial attacks can target the image and/or the proposed main question and yet there is a lack of proper analysis of the later.

Question Answering Visual Question Answering

ActivityNet Challenge 2017 Summary

no code implementations22 Oct 2017 Bernard Ghanem, Juan Carlos Niebles, Cees Snoek, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Humam Alwassel, Ranjay Khrisna, Victor Escorcia, Kenji Hata, Shyamal Buch

The ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2017 Summary: results and challenge participants papers.

Activity Recognition

Constrained Convolutional Sparse Coding for Parametric Based Reconstruction of Line Drawings

no code implementations ICCV 2017 Sara Shaheen, Lama Affara, Bernard Ghanem

The process of drawing a line drawing can be approximated as the sparse spatial localization of a number of typical basic strokes, which in turn can be cast as a non-standard CSC model that considers the line drawing formation process from parametric curves.

Image Compression

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