最近，由于受监督人员重新识别（REID）的表现不佳，域名概括（DG）人REID引起了很多关注，旨在学习一个不敏感的模型，并可以抵抗域的影响偏见。在本文中，我们首先通过实验验证样式因素是域偏差的重要组成部分。基于这个结论，我们提出了一种样式变量且无关紧要的学习方法（SVIL）方法，以消除样式因素对模型的影响。具体来说，我们在SVIL中设计了样式的抖动模块（SJM）。 SJM模块可以丰富特定源域的样式多样性，并减少各种源域的样式差异。这导致该模型重点关注与身份相关的信息，并对样式变化不敏感。此外，我们将SJM模块与元学习算法有机结合，从而最大程度地提高了好处并进一步提高模型的概括能力。请注意，我们的SJM模块是插件和推理，无需成本。广泛的实验证实了我们的SVIL的有效性，而我们的方法的表现优于DG-REID基准测试的最先进方法。

基于自然语言（NL）的车辆检索旨在搜索给定文本描述的特定车辆。不同于基于图像的车辆检索，基于NL的车辆检索不仅需要考虑车辆外观，还需要考虑周围环境和时间关系。在本文中，我们提出了一个具有空间关系建模（SSM）方法的对称网络，用于基于NL的车辆检索。具体而言，我们设计了一个对称网络，以学习文本描述和车辆图像之间的统一跨模式表示，其中保留了车辆外观细节和车辆轨迹全球信息。此外，为了更好地利用位置信息，我们提出了一种空间关系建模方法，以考虑周围环境和相互关系的考虑。定性和定量实验验证了所提出的方法的有效性。我们在第六届AI城市挑战赛的测试集上获得了43.92％的MRR准确性，该挑战是基于自然语言的车辆检索轨道，在公共排行榜上所有有​​效的提交中排名第一。该代码可从https://github.com/hbchen121/aicity2022_track2_ssm获得。

从语言学习者到残疾人，文本可读性评估对不同目标人士有广泛的应用。网络上文本内容生产的快速速度使得如果没有机器学习和自然语言处理技术的好处，就无法测量文本复杂性。尽管各种研究涉及近年来英语文本的可读性评估，但仍有改进其他语言的模型的空间。在本文中，我们提出了一种基于转移学习的德语文本评估文本复杂性评估的新模型。我们的结果表明，该模型比从输入文本中提取的语言特征优于更多经典的解决方案。最佳模型是基于BERT预训练的语言模型，达到了均方根误差（RMSE）为0.483。

我们研究了从使用套索确定性缺失数据模式控制的相关观察结果中始终如一地恢复回归参数矢量的稀疏模式的问题。我们考虑通过确定性，不均匀过滤器对观察到的数据集进行审查的情况。通过确定性缺失结构恢复数据集中的稀疏模式可以说，比在统一的随机场景中恢复更具挑战性。在本文中，我们通过利用审查过滤器的拓扑特性，提出了一种有效的算法来插入价值的算法。然后，我们提供了新的理论结果，以使用拟议的插补策略来精确恢复稀疏模式。我们的分析表明，在某些统计和拓扑条件下，可以在多项式时间和对数样品复杂性中恢复隐藏的稀疏模式。

We propose the framework of dual convexified convolutional neural networks (DCCNNs). In this framework, we first introduce a primal learning problem motivated by convexified convolutional neural networks (CCNNs), and then construct the dual convex training program through careful analysis of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and Fenchel conjugates. Our approach reduces the computational overhead of constructing a large kernel matrix and more importantly, eliminates the ambiguity of factorizing the matrix. Due to the low-rank structure in CCNNs and the related subdifferential of nuclear norms, there is no closed-form expression to recover the primal solution from the dual solution. To overcome this, we propose a highly novel weight recovery algorithm, which takes the dual solution and the kernel information as the input, and recovers the linear weight and the output of convolutional layer, instead of weight parameter. Furthermore, our recovery algorithm exploits the low-rank structure and imposes a small number of filters indirectly, which reduces the parameter size. As a result, DCCNNs inherit all the statistical benefits of CCNNs, while enjoying a more formal and efficient workflow.

Compressed videos often exhibit visually annoying artifacts, known as Perceivable Encoding Artifacts (PEAs), which dramatically degrade video visual quality. Subjective and objective measures capable of identifying and quantifying various types of PEAs are critical in improving visual quality. In this paper, we investigate the influence of four spatial PEAs (i.e. blurring, blocking, bleeding, and ringing) and two temporal PEAs (i.e. flickering and floating) on video quality. For spatial artifacts, we propose a visual saliency model with a low computational cost and higher consistency with human visual perception. In terms of temporal artifacts, self-attention based TimeSFormer is improved to detect temporal artifacts. Based on the six types of PEAs, a quality metric called Saliency-Aware Spatio-Temporal Artifacts Measurement (SSTAM) is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art metrics. We believe that SSTAM will be beneficial for optimizing video coding techniques.

As one of the most important psychic stress reactions, micro-expressions (MEs), are spontaneous and transient facial expressions that can reveal the genuine emotions of human beings. Thus, recognizing MEs (MER) automatically is becoming increasingly crucial in the field of affective computing, and provides essential technical support in lie detection, psychological analysis and other areas. However, the lack of abundant ME data seriously restricts the development of cutting-edge data-driven MER models. Despite the recent efforts of several spontaneous ME datasets to alleviate this problem, it is still a tiny amount of work. To solve the problem of ME data hunger, we construct a dynamic spontaneous ME dataset with the largest current ME data scale, called DFME (Dynamic Facial Micro-expressions), which includes 7,526 well-labeled ME videos induced by 671 participants and annotated by more than 20 annotators throughout three years. Afterwards, we adopt four classical spatiotemporal feature learning models on DFME to perform MER experiments to objectively verify the validity of DFME dataset. In addition, we explore different solutions to the class imbalance and key-frame sequence sampling problems in dynamic MER respectively on DFME, so as to provide a valuable reference for future research. The comprehensive experimental results show that our DFME dataset can facilitate the research of automatic MER, and provide a new benchmark for MER. DFME will be published via https://mea-lab-421.github.io.

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, recent research generally focuses on short-distance applications (i.e., phone unlocking) while lacking consideration of long-distance scenes (i.e., surveillance security checks). In order to promote relevant research and fill this gap in the community, we collect a large-scale Surveillance High-Fidelity Mask (SuHiFiMask) dataset captured under 40 surveillance scenes, which has 101 subjects from different age groups with 232 3D attacks (high-fidelity masks), 200 2D attacks (posters, portraits, and screens), and 2 adversarial attacks. In this scene, low image resolution and noise interference are new challenges faced in surveillance FAS. Together with the SuHiFiMask dataset, we propose a Contrastive Quality-Invariance Learning (CQIL) network to alleviate the performance degradation caused by image quality from three aspects: (1) An Image Quality Variable module (IQV) is introduced to recover image information associated with discrimination by combining the super-resolution network. (2) Using generated sample pairs to simulate quality variance distributions to help contrastive learning strategies obtain robust feature representation under quality variation. (3) A Separate Quality Network (SQN) is designed to learn discriminative features independent of image quality. Finally, a large number of experiments verify the quality of the SuHiFiMask dataset and the superiority of the proposed CQIL.

Interview has been regarded as one of the most crucial step for recruitment. To fully prepare for the interview with the recruiters, job seekers usually practice with mock interviews between each other. However, such a mock interview with peers is generally far away from the real interview experience: the mock interviewers are not guaranteed to be professional and are not likely to behave like a real interviewer. Due to the rapid growth of online recruitment in recent years, recruiters tend to have online interviews, which makes it possible to collect real interview data from real interviewers. In this paper, we propose a novel application named EZInterviewer, which aims to learn from the online interview data and provides mock interview services to the job seekers. The task is challenging in two ways: (1) the interview data are now available but still of low-resource; (2) to generate meaningful and relevant interview dialogs requires thorough understanding of both resumes and job descriptions. To address the low-resource challenge, EZInterviewer is trained on a very small set of interview dialogs. The key idea is to reduce the number of parameters that rely on interview dialogs by disentangling the knowledge selector and dialog generator so that most parameters can be trained with ungrounded dialogs as well as the resume data that are not low-resource. Evaluation results on a real-world job interview dialog dataset indicate that we achieve promising results to generate mock interviews. With the help of EZInterviewer, we hope to make mock interview practice become easier for job seekers.

Nowadays, time-stamped web documents related to a general news query floods spread throughout the Internet, and timeline summarization targets concisely summarizing the evolution trajectory of events along the timeline. Unlike traditional document summarization, timeline summarization needs to model the time series information of the input events and summarize important events in chronological order. To tackle this challenge, in this paper, we propose a Unified Timeline Summarizer (UTS) that can generate abstractive and extractive timeline summaries in time order. Concretely, in the encoder part, we propose a graph-based event encoder that relates multiple events according to their content dependency and learns a global representation of each event. In the decoder part, to ensure the chronological order of the abstractive summary, we propose to extract the feature of event-level attention in its generation process with sequential information remained and use it to simulate the evolutionary attention of the ground truth summary. The event-level attention can also be used to assist in extracting summary, where the extracted summary also comes in time sequence. We augment the previous Chinese large-scale timeline summarization dataset and collect a new English timeline dataset. Extensive experiments conducted on these datasets and on the out-of-domain Timeline 17 dataset show that UTS achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of both automatic and human evaluations.