随着移动摄影技术的迅速发展，主要的手机制造商正在争先恐后地提高设备的拍摄能力和软件的照片美化算法。但是，智能设备和算法的改进不能取代人类的主观摄影技术。在本文中，我们提出了图像的美学语言指导（ALG）。我们根据指导规则是基于摄影模板还是指导图像，将ALG分为ALG-T和ALG-I。无论是ALG-T还是ALG-I，我们都会从三个颜色，照明和图像组成的属性中指导摄影。输入图像和摄影模板或指导图像之间的三个属性的差异用自然语言描述，即美学自然语言指导（ALG）。另外，由于景观图像和肖像图像之间的照明和组成差异，我们将输入图像分为景观图像和肖像图像。 ALG-T和ALG-I分别针对两种类型的输入图像（景观图像和肖像图像）进行美学指导。

近年来，图像生成在提高图像质量方面取得了长足的进步，从而产生了高保真性。另外，最近还有一些建筑设计，它使甘恩能够毫不客气地学习不同层中表示的语义属性。但是，对于与人类美学更一致的面部图像仍然缺乏研究。基于Eigengan [He等，ICCV 2021]，我们将增强学习的技术构建到Eigengan的发电机中。该代理商试图弄清楚如何将生成的人脸的语义属性更改为更可取的面部。为此，我们训练了一种可以进行面部美容预测的美学评分模型。我们还可以利用此评分模型来分析面部属性和美学得分之间的相关性。从经验上讲，使用增强学习的现成技术无法正常工作。因此，相反，我们提出了一种新的变体，该变体纳入了近年来在强化学习社区中出现的成分。与原始生成的图像相比，调整后的图像显示了有关各种属性的明确区别。实验结果使用思维镜，显示了所提出的方法的有效性。更改的面部图像通常更具吸引力，并有明显改善的美学水平。

随着社交软件和多媒体技术的持续发展，图像已成为传播信息和社交的重要载体。如何全面评估图像已成为最近研究的重点。传统的图像美学评估方法通常采用单个数值总体评估评分，该评估具有一定的主观性，无法再满足更高的美学要求。在本文中，我们构建了一个称为Aesthetic混合数据集的新图像属性数据集，该数据集具有属性（AMD-A）和设计融合的外部属性功能。此外，我们还提出了一种有效的方法，用于在混合多属性数据集上进行图像美学属性评估，并通过使用ExtisticNet-B0作为骨干网络来构建多任务网络体系结构。我们的模型可以实现美学分类，整体评分和属性评分。在每个子网络中，我们通过ECA通道注意模块改进特征提取。至于最终的整体评分，我们采用了教师学习网络的想法，并使用分类子网络来指导美学的整体细粒回归。实验结果，使用思维螺旋式的结果表明，我们提出的方法可以有效地改善美学整体和属性评估的性能。

Weakly-supervised object localization aims to indicate the category as well as the scope of an object in an image given only the image-level labels. Most of the existing works are based on Class Activation Mapping (CAM) and endeavor to enlarge the discriminative area inside the activation map to perceive the whole object, yet ignore the co-occurrence confounder of the object and context (e.g., fish and water), which makes the model inspection hard to distinguish object boundaries. Besides, the use of CAM also brings a dilemma problem that the classification and localization always suffer from a performance gap and can not reach their highest accuracy simultaneously. In this paper, we propose a casual knowledge distillation method, dubbed KD-CI-CAM, to address these two under-explored issues in one go. More specifically, we tackle the co-occurrence context confounder problem via causal intervention (CI), which explores the causalities among image features, contexts, and categories to eliminate the biased object-context entanglement in the class activation maps. Based on the de-biased object feature, we additionally propose a multi-teacher causal distillation framework to balance the absorption of classification knowledge and localization knowledge during model training. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of KD-CI-CAM in learning clear object boundaries from confounding contexts and addressing the dilemma problem between classification and localization performance.

An increasing number of public datasets have shown a marked clinical impact on assessing anatomical structures. However, each of the datasets is small, partially labeled, and rarely investigates severe tumor subjects. Moreover, current models are limited to segmenting specific organs/tumors, which can not be extended to novel domains and classes. To tackle these limitations, we introduce embedding learned from Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) to segmentation models, dubbed the CLIP-Driven Universal Model. The Universal Model can better segment 25 organs and 6 types of tumors by exploiting the semantic relationship between abdominal structures. The model is developed from an assembly of 14 datasets with 3,410 CT scans and evaluated on 6,162 external CT scans from 3 datasets. We rank first on the public leaderboard of the Medical Segmentation Decathlon (MSD) and achieve the state-of-the-art results on Beyond The Cranial Vault (BTCV). Compared with dataset-specific models, the Universal Model is computationally more efficient (6x faster), generalizes better to CT scans from varying sites, and shows stronger transfer learning performance on novel tasks. The design of CLIP embedding enables the Universal Model to be easily extended to new classes without catastrophically forgetting the previously learned classes.

In this work, we tackle two vital tasks in automated driving systems, i.e., driver intent prediction and risk object identification from egocentric images. Mainly, we investigate the question: what would be good road scene-level representations for these two tasks? We contend that a scene-level representation must capture higher-level semantic and geometric representations of traffic scenes around ego-vehicle while performing actions to their destinations. To this end, we introduce the representation of semantic regions, which are areas where ego-vehicles visit while taking an afforded action (e.g., left-turn at 4-way intersections). We propose to learn scene-level representations via a novel semantic region prediction task and an automatic semantic region labeling algorithm. Extensive evaluations are conducted on the HDD and nuScenes datasets, and the learned representations lead to state-of-the-art performance for driver intention prediction and risk object identification.

New architecture GPUs like A100 are now equipped with multi-instance GPU (MIG) technology, which allows the GPU to be partitioned into multiple small, isolated instances. This technology provides more flexibility for users to support both deep learning training and inference workloads, but efficiently utilizing it can still be challenging. The vision of this paper is to provide a more comprehensive and practical benchmark study for MIG in order to eliminate the need for tedious manual benchmarking and tuning efforts. To achieve this vision, the paper presents MIGPerf, an open-source tool that streamlines the benchmark study for MIG. Using MIGPerf, the authors conduct a series of experiments, including deep learning training and inference characterization on MIG, GPU sharing characterization, and framework compatibility with MIG. The results of these experiments provide new insights and guidance for users to effectively employ MIG, and lay the foundation for further research on the orchestration of hybrid training and inference workloads on MIGs. The code and results are released on https://github.com/MLSysOps/MIGProfiler. This work is still in progress and more results will be published soon.

There are multiple scales of abstraction from which we can describe the same image, depending on whether we are focusing on fine-grained details or a more global attribute of the image. In brain mapping, learning to automatically parse images to build representations of both small-scale features (e.g., the presence of cells or blood vessels) and global properties of an image (e.g., which brain region the image comes from) is a crucial and open challenge. However, most existing datasets and benchmarks for neuroanatomy consider only a single downstream task at a time. To bridge this gap, we introduce a new dataset, annotations, and multiple downstream tasks that provide diverse ways to readout information about brain structure and architecture from the same image. Our multi-task neuroimaging benchmark (MTNeuro) is built on volumetric, micrometer-resolution X-ray microtomography images spanning a large thalamocortical section of mouse brain, encompassing multiple cortical and subcortical regions. We generated a number of different prediction challenges and evaluated several supervised and self-supervised models for brain-region prediction and pixel-level semantic segmentation of microstructures. Our experiments not only highlight the rich heterogeneity of this dataset, but also provide insights into how self-supervised approaches can be used to learn representations that capture multiple attributes of a single image and perform well on a variety of downstream tasks. Datasets, code, and pre-trained baseline models are provided at: https://mtneuro.github.io/ .

Designing better deep networks and better reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are both important for deep RL. This work focuses on the former. Previous methods build the network with several modules like CNN, LSTM and Attention. Recent methods combine the Transformer with these modules for better performance. However, it requires tedious optimization skills to train a network composed of mixed modules, making these methods inconvenient to be used in practice. In this paper, we propose to design \emph{pure Transformer-based networks} for deep RL, aiming at providing off-the-shelf backbones for both the online and offline settings. Specifically, the Transformer in Transformer (TIT) backbone is proposed, which cascades two Transformers in a very natural way: the inner one is used to process a single observation, while the outer one is responsible for processing the observation history; combining both is expected to extract spatial-temporal representations for good decision-making. Experiments show that TIT can achieve satisfactory performance in different settings, consistently.

This paper investigates the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) to solve differential equations (DEs) and the construction of the loss function which meets both differential equation and its initial/boundary condition of a certain DE. In section 2, the loss function is generalized to $n^\text{th}$ order ordinary differential equation(ODE). Other methods of construction are examined in Section 3 and applied to three different models to assess their effectiveness.