我们建议在2D域中利用自我监督的技术来实现细粒度的3D形状分割任务。这是受到观察的启发：基于视图的表面表示比基于点云或体素占用率的3D对应物更有效地建模高分辨率表面细节和纹理。具体而言，给定3D形状，我们将其从多个视图中渲染，并在对比度学习框架内建立密集的对应学习任务。结果，与仅在2D或3D中使用自学的替代方案相比，学到的2D表示是视图不变和几何一致的，在对有限的标记形状进行培训时，可以更好地概括概括。对纹理（渲染peple）和未纹理（partnet）3D数据集的实验表明，我们的方法在细粒部分分割中优于最先进的替代方案。当仅一组稀疏的视图可供训练或形状纹理时，对基准的改进就会更大，这表明MVDecor受益于2D处理和3D几何推理。

人的言语通常伴随着包括手臂和手势在内的身体手势。我们提出了一种方法，该方法将与目标语音音频相匹配的手势重新效果。我们方法的关键思想是通过编码剪辑之间的有效过渡的新型视频运动图从参考视频中拆分和重新组装剪辑。为了在重演中无缝连接不同的剪辑，我们提出了一个姿势感知的视频混合网络，该网络综合了两个剪辑之间的缝线框架周围的视频帧。此外，我们开发了一种基于音频的手势搜索算法，以找到重新成型帧的最佳顺序。我们的系统生成的重演与音频节奏和语音内容一致。我们定量，用户研究对综合视频质量进行评估，并证明我们的方法与以前的工作和基线相比，我们的方法与目标音频的质量和一致性更高。

我们呈现FURTIT，这是一种简单的3D形状分割网络的高效学习方法。FURTIT基于自我监督的任务，可以将3D形状的表面分解成几何基元。可以很容易地应用于用于3D形状分割的现有网络架构，并提高了几张拍摄设置中的性能，因为我们在广泛使用的ShapEnet和Partnet基准中展示。FISHIT在这种环境中优于现有的现有技术，表明对基元的分解是在学习对语义部分预测的陈述之前的有用。我们提出了许多实验，改变了几何基元和下游任务的选择，以证明该方法的有效性。

我们提出了一种方法，该方法是为了进行3D形状分割的目的，在集合中传播跨形状的点特征表示。这是通过跨形注意操作来评估不同形状和介导特征传播之间相互作用程度的。对于每个测试形状，我们的方法在输入集合中找到形状，这些形状适用于执行此类跨形注意操作。如我们的实验所证明的那样，所得的点特征表示会导致更一致的3D形状分割结果。

We present a network architecture for processing point clouds that directly operates on a collection of points represented as a sparse set of samples in a high-dimensional lattice. Naïvely applying convolutions on this lattice scales poorly, both in terms of memory and computational cost, as the size of the lattice increases. Instead, our network uses sparse bilateral convolutional layers as building blocks. These layers maintain efficiency by using indexing structures to apply convolutions only on occupied parts of the lattice, and allow flexible specifications of the lattice structure enabling hierarchical and spatially-aware feature learning, as well as joint 2D-3D reasoning. Both point-based and image-based representations can be easily incorporated in a network with such layers and the resulting model can be trained in an end-to-end manner. We present results on 3D segmentation tasks where our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art techniques.

Smart City applications, such as traffic monitoring and disaster response, often use swarms of intelligent and cooperative drones to efficiently collect sensor data over different areas of interest and time spans. However, when the required sensing becomes spatio-temporally large and varying, a collective arrangement of sensing tasks to a large number of battery-restricted and distributed drones is challenging. To address this problem, we introduce a scalable and energy-aware model for planning and coordination of spatio-temporal sensing. The coordination model is built upon a decentralized multi-agent collective learning algorithm (EPOS) to ensure scalability, resilience, and flexibility that existing approaches lack of. Experimental results illustrate the outstanding performance of the proposed method compared to state-of-the-art methods. Analytical results contribute a deeper understanding of how coordinated mobility of drones influences sensing performance. This novel coordination solution is applied to traffic monitoring using real-world data to demonstrate a $46.45\%$ more accurate and $2.88\%$ more efficient detection of vehicles as the number of drones become a scarce resource.

In this paper, we present an adjustable-equilibrium parallel elastic actuator (AE-PEA). The actuator consists of a motor, an equilibrium adjusting mechanism, and a spring arranged into a cylindrical geometry, similar to a motor-gearbox assembly. The novel component of the actuator is the equilibrium adjusting mechanism which (i) does not require external energy to maintain the equilibrium position of the actuator even if the spring is deformed and (ii) enables equilibrium position control with low energy cost by rotating the spring while keeping it undeformed. Adjustable equilibrium parallel elastic actuators resolve the main limitation of parallel elastic actuators (PEAs) by enabling energy-efficient operation at different equilibrium positions, instead of being limited to energy-efficient operation at a single equilibrium position. We foresee the use of AE-PEAs in industrial robots, mobile robots, exoskeletons, and prostheses, where efficient oscillatory motion and gravity compensation at different positions are required.

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machine learning-based methods for detecting such fake news, focusing on different properties of the published news articles, such as linguistic characteristics of the actual content, which however have limitations due to the apparent language barriers. Departing from such efforts, we propose FNDaaS, the first automatic, content-agnostic fake news detection method, that considers new and unstudied features such as network and structural characteristics per news website. This method can be enforced as-a-Service, either at the ISP-side for easier scalability and maintenance, or user-side for better end-user privacy. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method using data crawled from existing lists of 637 fake and 1183 real news websites, and by building and testing a proof of concept system that materializes our proposal. Our analysis of data collected from these websites shows that the vast majority of fake news domains are very young and appear to have lower time periods of an IP associated with their domain than real news ones. By conducting various experiments with machine learning classifiers, we demonstrate that FNDaaS can achieve an AUC score of up to 0.967 on past sites, and up to 77-92% accuracy on newly-flagged ones.

Timely and effective feedback within surgical training plays a critical role in developing the skills required to perform safe and efficient surgery. Feedback from expert surgeons, while especially valuable in this regard, is challenging to acquire due to their typically busy schedules, and may be subject to biases. Formal assessment procedures like OSATS and GEARS attempt to provide objective measures of skill, but remain time-consuming. With advances in machine learning there is an opportunity for fast and objective automated feedback on technical skills. The SimSurgSkill 2021 challenge (hosted as a sub-challenge of EndoVis at MICCAI 2021) aimed to promote and foster work in this endeavor. Using virtual reality (VR) surgical tasks, competitors were tasked with localizing instruments and predicting surgical skill. Here we summarize the winning approaches and how they performed. Using this publicly available dataset and results as a springboard, future work may enable more efficient training of surgeons with advances in surgical data science. The dataset can be accessed from https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/isi-simsurgskill-2021.

3D gaze estimation is most often tackled as learning a direct mapping between input images and the gaze vector or its spherical coordinates. Recently, it has been shown that pose estimation of the face, body and hands benefits from revising the learning target from few pose parameters to dense 3D coordinates. In this work, we leverage this observation and propose to tackle 3D gaze estimation as regression of 3D eye meshes. We overcome the absence of compatible ground truth by fitting a rigid 3D eyeball template on existing gaze datasets and propose to improve generalization by making use of widely available in-the-wild face images. To this end, we propose an automatic pipeline to retrieve robust gaze pseudo-labels from arbitrary face images and design a multi-view supervision framework to balance their effect during training. In our experiments, our method achieves improvement of 30% compared to state-of-the-art in cross-dataset gaze estimation, when no ground truth data are available for training, and 7% when they are. We make our project publicly available at https://github.com/Vagver/dense3Deyes.