The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Its large reflecting surface achieves unprecedented sensitivity but is prone to damage, such as dents and holes, caused by naturally-occurring falling objects. Hence, the timely and accurate detection of surface defects is crucial for FAST's stable operation. Conventional manual inspection involves human inspectors climbing up and examining the large surface visually, a time-consuming and potentially unreliable process. To accelerate the inspection process and increase its accuracy, this work makes the first step towards automating the inspection of FAST by integrating deep-learning techniques with drone technology. First, a drone flies over the surface along a predetermined route. Since surface defects significantly vary in scale and show high inter-class similarity, directly applying existing deep detectors to detect defects on the drone imagery is highly prone to missing and misidentifying defects. As a remedy, we introduce cross-fusion, a dedicated plug-in operation for deep detectors that enables the adaptive fusion of multi-level features in a point-wise selective fashion, depending on local defect patterns. Consequently, strong semantics and fine-grained details are dynamically fused at different positions to support the accurate detection of defects of various scales and types. Our AI-powered drone-based automated inspection is time-efficient, reliable, and has good accessibility, which guarantees the long-term and stable operation of FAST.

In this paper, we consider the inventory management (IM) problem where we need to make replenishment decisions for a large number of stock keeping units (SKUs) to balance their supply and demand. In our setting, the constraint on the shared resources (such as the inventory capacity) couples the otherwise independent control for each SKU. We formulate the problem with this structure as Shared-Resource Stochastic Game (SRSG)and propose an efficient algorithm called Context-aware Decentralized PPO (CD-PPO). Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that CD-PPO can accelerate the learning procedure compared with standard MARL algorithms.

Deep transfer learning has been widely used for knowledge transmission in recent years. The standard approach of pre-training and subsequently fine-tuning, or linear probing, has shown itself to be effective in many down-stream tasks. Therefore, a challenging and ongoing question arises: how to quantify cross-task transferability that is compatible with transferred results while keeping self-consistency? Existing transferability metrics are estimated on the particular model by conversing source and target tasks. They must be recalculated with all existing source tasks whenever a novel unknown target task is encountered, which is extremely computationally expensive. In this work, we highlight what properties should be satisfied and evaluate existing metrics in light of these characteristics. Building upon this, we propose Principal Gradient Expectation (PGE), a simple yet effective method for assessing transferability across tasks. Specifically, we use a restart scheme to calculate every batch gradient over each weight unit more than once, and then we take the average of all the gradients to get the expectation. Thus, the transferability between the source and target task is estimated by computing the distance of normalized principal gradients. Extensive experiments show that the proposed transferability metric is more stable, reliable and efficient than SOTA methods.

Image super-resolution is a common task on mobile and IoT devices, where one often needs to upscale and enhance low-resolution images and video frames. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem in the past, they are usually not compatible with low-power mobile NPUs having many computational and memory constraints. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an efficient quantized image super-resolution solution that can demonstrate a real-time performance on mobile NPUs. The participants were provided with the DIV2K dataset and trained INT8 models to do a high-quality 3X image upscaling. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Synaptics VS680 Smart Home board with a dedicated edge NPU capable of accelerating quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 60 FPS rate when reconstructing Full HD resolution images. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

With the advanced request to employ a team of robots to perform a task collaboratively, the research community has become increasingly interested in collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping. Unfortunately, existing datasets are limited in the scale and variation of the collaborative trajectories, even though generalization between inter-trajectories among different agents is crucial to the overall viability of collaborative tasks. To help align the research community's contributions with realistic multiagent ordinated SLAM problems, we propose S3E, a large-scale multimodal dataset captured by a fleet of unmanned ground vehicles along four designed collaborative trajectory paradigms. S3E consists of 7 outdoor and 5 indoor sequences that each exceed 200 seconds, consisting of well temporal synchronized and spatial calibrated high-frequency IMU, high-quality stereo camera, and 360 degree LiDAR data. Crucially, our effort exceeds previous attempts regarding dataset size, scene variability, and complexity. It has 4x as much average recording time as the pioneering EuRoC dataset. We also provide careful dataset analysis as well as baselines for collaborative SLAM and single counterparts. Data and more up-to-date details are found at https://github.com/PengYu-Team/S3E.

标记医学图像取决于专业知识，因此很难在短时间内以高质量获取大量注释的医学图像。因此，在小型数据集中充分利用有限标记的样品来构建高性能模型是医疗图像分类问题的关键。在本文中，我们提出了一个深入监督的层选择性注意网络（LSANET），该网络全面使用功能级和预测级监督中的标签信息。对于特征级别的监督，为了更好地融合低级功能和高级功能，我们提出了一个新颖的视觉注意模块，层选择性注意（LSA），以专注于不同层的特征选择。 LSA引入了一种权重分配方案，该方案可以在整个训练过程中动态调整每个辅助分支的加权因子，以进一步增强深入监督的学习并确保其概括。对于预测级的监督，我们采用知识协同策略，通过成对知识匹配来促进所有监督分支之间的层次信息互动。使用公共数据集MedMnist，这是用于涵盖多种医学专业的生物医学图像分类的大规模基准，我们评估了LSANET在多个主流CNN体系结构和各种视觉注意模块上评估。实验结果表明，我们所提出的方法对其相应的对应物进行了实质性改进，这表明LSANET可以为医学图像分类领域的标签有效学习提供有希望的解决方案。

随着移动平台上对计算摄影和成像的需求不断增长，在相机系统中开发和集成了高级图像传感器与新型算法的发展。但是，缺乏用于研究的高质量数据以及从行业和学术界进行深入交流的难得的机会限制了移动智能摄影和成像（MIPI）的发展。为了弥合差距，我们介绍了第一个MIPI挑战，包括五个曲目，这些曲目着重于新型图像传感器和成像算法。在本文中，引入了RGBW关节Remosaic和Denoise，这是五个曲目之一，在全面分辨率上进行了RGBW CFA插值的插值。为参与者提供了一个新的数据集，其中包括70（培训）和15个（验证）高质量RGBW和拜耳对的场景。此外，对于每个场景，在0dB，24dB和42dB上提供了不同噪声水平的RGBW。所有数据均在室外和室内条件下使用RGBW传感器捕获。最终结果是使用PSNR，SSIM，LPIPS和KLD在内的客观指标评估的。本文提供了此挑战中所有模型的详细描述。有关此挑战的更多详细信息以及数据集的链接，请访问https://github.com/mipi-challenge/mipi2022。

随着移动平台上对计算摄影和成像的需求不断增长，在相机系统中开发和集成了高级图像传感器与新型算法的发展。但是，缺乏用于研究的高质量数据以及从行业和学术界进行深入交流的难得的机会限制了移动智能摄影和成像（MIPI）的发展。为了弥合差距，我们引入了第一个MIPI挑战，其中包括五个专注于新型图像传感器和成像算法的曲目。在本文中，引入了RGBW关节融合和Denoise，这是五个曲目之一，其中一条致力于将Binning模式RGBW融合到拜耳。为参与者提供了一个新的数据集，其中包括70（培训）和15个（验证）高质量RGBW和拜耳对的场景。此外，对于每个场景，在24dB和42dB处提供不同噪声水平的RGBW。所有数据均在室外和室内条件下使用RGBW传感器捕获。最终结果使用客观指标，包括PSNR，SSIM}，LPIPS和KLD评估。本文提供了此挑战中所有模型的详细描述。有关此挑战的更多详细信息以及数据集的链接，请访问https://github.com/mipi-challenge/mipi2022。

随着移动平台上对计算摄影和成像的需求不断增长，在相机系统中开发和集成了高级图像传感器与新型算法的发展。但是，缺乏用于研究的高质量数据以及从行业和学术界进行深入交流的难得的机会限制了移动智能摄影和成像（MIPI）的发展。为了弥合差距，我们引入了第一个MIPI挑战，其中包括五个专注于新型图像传感器和成像算法的曲目。在本文中，引入了QUAD Remosaic和Denoise，这是五个曲目之一，在完全分辨率上进行了四QFA插值向拜耳进行插值。为参与者提供了一个新的数据集，包括70（培训）和15个（验证）高品质四边形和拜耳对的场景。此外，对于每个场景，在0dB，24dB和42dB上提供了不同噪声水平的四边形。所有数据均在室外和室内条件下使用四边形传感器捕获。最终结果使用客观指标，包括PSNR，SSIM，LPIPS和KLD。本文提供了此挑战中所有模型的详细描述。有关此挑战的更多详细信息以及数据集的链接，请访问https://github.com/mipi-challenge/mipi2022。

随着对移动平台上对计算摄影和成像的需求不断增长，在相机系统中开发和集成了高级图像传感器与相机系统中新型算法。但是，缺乏用于研究的高质量数据以及从行业和学术界进行深入交流的难得的机会限制了移动智能摄影和成像（MIPI）的发展。为了弥合差距，我们介绍了第一个MIPI挑战，包括五个曲目，这些曲目着重于新型图像传感器和成像算法。在本文中，引入了RGB+TOF深度完成，这是五个曲目之一，其中一条介绍了RGB传感器和TOF传感器（带有点照明）的融合。为参与者提供了一个名为TetrasRGBD的新数据集，其中包含18k对高质量合成RGB+DEPTH训练数据和2.3k对来自混合源的测试数据。所有数据均在室内场景中收集。我们要求所有方法的运行时间都应在桌面GPU上实时。最终结果是使用客观指标和平均意见评分（MOS）主观评估的。本文提供了此挑战中所有模型的详细描述。有关此挑战的更多详细信息以及数据集的链接，请访问https://github.com/mipi-challenge/mipi2022。