The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Image-text retrieval (ITR) is a challenging task in the field of multimodal information processing due to the semantic gap between different modalities. In recent years, researchers have made great progress in exploring the accurate alignment between image and text. However, existing works mainly focus on the fine-grained alignment between image regions and sentence fragments, which ignores the guiding significance of context background information. Actually, integrating the local fine-grained information and global context background information can provide more semantic clues for retrieval. In this paper, we propose a novel Hierarchical Graph Alignment Network (HGAN) for image-text retrieval. First, to capture the comprehensive multimodal features, we construct the feature graphs for the image and text modality respectively. Then, a multi-granularity shared space is established with a designed Multi-granularity Feature Aggregation and Rearrangement (MFAR) module, which enhances the semantic corresponding relations between the local and global information, and obtains more accurate feature representations for the image and text modalities. Finally, the ultimate image and text features are further refined through three-level similarity functions to achieve the hierarchical alignment. To justify the proposed model, we perform extensive experiments on MS-COCO and Flickr30K datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed HGAN outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on both datasets, which demonstrates the effectiveness and superiority of our model.

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) 3D Object Detection is a crucial multi-view technique for autonomous driving systems. Recently, plenty of works are proposed, following a similar paradigm consisting of three essential components, i.e., camera feature extraction, BEV feature construction, and task heads. Among the three components, BEV feature construction is BEV-specific compared with 2D tasks. Existing methods aggregate the multi-view camera features to the flattened grid in order to construct the BEV feature. However, flattening the BEV space along the height dimension fails to emphasize the informative features of different heights. For example, the barrier is located at a low height while the truck is located at a high height. In this paper, we propose a novel method named BEV Slice Attention Network (BEV-SAN) for exploiting the intrinsic characteristics of different heights. Instead of flattening the BEV space, we first sample along the height dimension to build the global and local BEV slices. Then, the features of BEV slices are aggregated from the camera features and merged by the attention mechanism. Finally, we fuse the merged local and global BEV features by a transformer to generate the final feature map for task heads. The purpose of local BEV slices is to emphasize informative heights. In order to find them, we further propose a LiDAR-guided sampling strategy to leverage the statistical distribution of LiDAR to determine the heights of local slices. Compared with uniform sampling, LiDAR-guided sampling can determine more informative heights. We conduct detailed experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of BEV-SAN. Code will be released.

Vision-Centric Bird-Eye-View (BEV) perception has shown promising potential and attracted increasing attention in autonomous driving. Recent works mainly focus on improving efficiency or accuracy but neglect the domain shift problem, resulting in severe degradation of transfer performance. With extensive observations, we figure out the significant domain gaps existing in the scene, weather, and day-night changing scenarios and make the first attempt to solve the domain adaption problem for multi-view 3D object detection. Since BEV perception approaches are usually complicated and contain several components, the domain shift accumulation on multi-latent spaces makes BEV domain adaptation challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-level Multi-space Alignment Teacher-Student ($M^{2}ATS$) framework to ease the domain shift accumulation, which consists of a Depth-Aware Teacher (DAT) and a Multi-space Feature Aligned (MFA) student model. Specifically, DAT model adopts uncertainty guidance to sample reliable depth information in target domain. After constructing domain-invariant BEV perception, it then transfers pixel and instance-level knowledge to student model. To further alleviate the domain shift at the global level, MFA student model is introduced to align task-relevant multi-space features of two domains. To verify the effectiveness of $M^{2}ATS$, we conduct BEV 3D object detection experiments on four cross domain scenarios and achieve state-of-the-art performance (e.g., +12.6% NDS and +9.1% mAP on Day-Night). Code and dataset will be released.

该技术报告提出了一种有效的自动驾驶运动预测方法。我们开发了一种基于变压器的方法，用于输入编码和轨迹预测。此外，我们提出了时间流动头来增强轨迹编码。最后，使用了有效的K均值集合方法。使用我们的变压器网络和集合方法，我们以1.90的最新Brier-Minfde得分赢得了Argoverse 2 Motion预测挑战的第一名。

本文解决了机器人的问题，可以协作将电缆带到指定的目标位置，同时避免实时碰撞。引入电缆（与刚性链接相反）使机器人团队能够通过电缆的松弛/拉特开关更改其内在尺寸，从而使机器人团队能够穿越狭窄的空间。但是，这是一个具有挑战性的问题，因为混合模式开关以及多个机器人和负载之间的动态耦合。以前解决此类问题的尝试是离线执行的，并且不考虑避免在线障碍。在本文中，我们介绍了一个级联的计划方案，并采用平行的集中式轨迹优化，涉及混合模式开关。我们还每个机器人开发了一组分散的计划者，这使我们可以解决在线协作负载操作问题的方法。我们开发并演示了第一个能够移动有线电视载荷的首个协作自治框架之一，该框架太重了，无法通过一个机器人移动，通过狭窄空间，具有实时反馈和实验中的反应性计划。

全身动态PET中的受试者运动引入了框架间的不匹配，并严重影响参数成像。传统的非刚性注册方法通常在计算上是强度且耗时的。深度学习方法在快速速度方面实现高精度方面是有希望的，但尚未考虑示踪剂分布变化或整体范围。在这项工作中，我们开发了一个无监督的自动深度学习框架，以纠正框架间的身体运动。运动估计网络是一个卷积神经网络，具有联合卷积长的短期记忆层，充分利用动态的时间特征和空间信息。我们的数据集在90分钟的FDG全身动态PET扫描中包含27个受试者。与传统和深度学习基线相比，具有9倍的交叉验证，我们证明了拟议的网络在增强的定性和定量空间对齐方面获得了卓越的性能在显着降低参数拟合误差中。我们还展示了拟议的运动校正方法的潜力来影响对估计参数图像的下游分析，从而提高了将恶性与良性多代谢区域区分开的能力。一旦受过培训，我们提出的网络的运动估计推理时间比常规注册基线快460倍，表明其潜力很容易应用于临床环境中。

单光子发射计算机断层扫描（SPECT）是一种广泛应用的成像方法，用于诊断冠状动脉疾病。从计算机断层扫描（CT）得出的衰减图（U-MAP）用于衰减校正（AC），以提高心脏SPECT的诊断准确性。但是，SPECT和CT是在临床实践中依次获得的，这可能会导致两项扫描之间的误会。卷积神经网络（CNN）是医疗图像注册的强大工具。先前基于CNN的跨模式注册方法直接串联了两个输入模态作为早期特征融合或使用两个单独的CNN模块提取的图像特征，以进行晚期融合。这些方法不能完全提取或融合交叉模式信息。此外，以前尚未对心脏SPECT和CT衍生的U-MAP的深度学习刚性注册进行研究。在本文中，我们提出了一个双分支挤压融合 - 兴奋（DUSFE）模块，用于对心脏SPECT和CT衍生的U-MAP的注册。 Dusfe融合了从多种模态的知识，以重新校准每种模式的通道和空间特征。 Dusfe可以嵌入多个卷积层，以在不同的空间尺寸下实现特征融合。我们使用临床数据的研究表明，嵌入DUSFE的网络比以前的方法产生了较低的注册误差，因此更准确的AC SPECT图像。

本文提出了在不同运动条件下不同帧中的惯性测量单元（IMU）预融合的统一数学框架。导航状态精确地离散化为三部分：本地增量，全局状态和全局增量。全局增量可以在不同的帧中计算，例如局部大地测量导航帧和地球中心固定帧。称为IMU预融合的本地增量可以根据代理的运动和IMU的等级的不同假设计算。因此，在不同环境下的惯性集成导航系统的在线状态估计更准确和更方便。

目前，国家估计对于机器人技术非常重要，基于不确定性表示的谎言组对于国家估计问题很自然。有必要充分利用基质谎言组的几何形状和运动学。因此，该注释首次对最近提出的矩阵lie组$ se_k（3）$提供了详细的推导，我们的结果扩展了Barfoot \ cite {Barfoot2017State}的结果。然后，我们描述了该组适合状态表示的情况。我们还基于MATLAB框架开发了代码，以快速实施和测试。