近年来，由于SR数据集的开发和相应的实际SR方法，真实的图像超分辨率（SR）已取得了令人鼓舞的结果。相比之下，真实视频SR领域落后，尤其是对于真实的原始视频。考虑到原始图像SR优于SRGB图像SR，我们构建了一个真实世界的原始视频SR（Real-Rawvsr）数据集，并提出了相应的SR方法。我们利用两个DSLR摄像机和一个梁切口来同时捕获具有2倍，3倍和4倍大型的高分辨率（LR）和高分辨率（HR）原始视频。我们的数据集中有450对视频对，场景从室内到室外各不相同，包括相机和对象运动在内的动作。据我们所知，这是第一个现实世界的RAW VSR数据集。由于原始视频的特征是拜耳模式，因此我们提出了一个两分支网络，该网络既涉及包装的RGGB序列和原始的拜耳模式序列，又涉及两个分支，并且两个分支相互互补。经过提出的共对象，相互作用，融合和重建模块后，我们生成了相应的HR SRGB序列。实验结果表明，所提出的方法优于原始或SRGB输入的基准实体和合成视频SR方法。我们的代码和数据集可在https://github.com/zmzhang1998/real-rawvsr上找到。

强大的语义细分面临的一个普遍挑战是昂贵的数据注释成本。现有的半监督解决方案显示出解决此问题的巨大潜力。他们的关键想法是通过未经监督的数据增加未标记的数据来构建一致性正则化，以进行模型培训。未标记数据的扰动使一致性训练损失使半监督的语义分割受益。但是，这些扰动破坏了图像上下文并引入了不自然的边界，这对语义分割是有害的。此外，广泛采用的半监督学习框架，即均值老师，遭受了绩效限制，因为学生模型最终会收敛于教师模型。在本文中，首先，我们提出了一个友好的可区分几何扭曲，以进行无监督的数据增强。其次，提出了一个新颖的对抗双重学生框架，以从以下两个方面从以下两个方面改善均等老师：（1）双重学生模型是独立学习的，除了稳定约束以鼓励利用模型多样性； （2）对对抗性训练计划适用于学生，并诉诸歧视者以区分无标记数据的可靠伪标签进行自我训练。通过对Pascal VOC2012和CityScapes进行的广泛实验来验证有效性。我们的解决方案可显着提高两个数据集的性能和最先进的结果。值得注意的是，与完全监督相比，我们的解决方案仅使用Pascal VOC2012上的12.5％注释数据获得了73.4％的可比MIOU。我们的代码和模型可在https://github.com/caocong/ads-semiseg上找到。

如今，由于屏幕共享，远程合作和在线教育的广泛应用，屏幕内容存在爆炸性增长。为了匹配有限终端带宽，可以缩小高分辨率（HR）屏幕内容并压缩。在接收器侧，低分辨率（LR）屏幕内容图像（SCI）的超分辨率（SR）由HR显示器或用户缩小以供详细观察。然而，由于图像特性非常不同的图像特性以及在任意尺度下浏览的SCI浏览要求，图像SR方法主要针对自然图像设计不概括SCI。为此，我们为SCISR提出了一种新颖的隐式变压器超分辨率网络（ITSRN）。对于任意比率的高质量连续SR，通过所提出的隐式变压器从密钥坐标处的图像特征推断出查询坐标处的像素值，并且提出了隐式位置编码方案来聚合与查询相似的相邻像素值。使用LR和HR SCI对构建基准SCI1K和SCI1K压缩数据集。广泛的实验表明，提出的ITSRN显着优于压缩和未压缩的SCI的几种竞争连续和离散SR方法。

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.

Benefiting from the intrinsic supervision information exploitation capability, contrastive learning has achieved promising performance in the field of deep graph clustering recently. However, we observe that two drawbacks of the positive and negative sample construction mechanisms limit the performance of existing algorithms from further improvement. 1) The quality of positive samples heavily depends on the carefully designed data augmentations, while inappropriate data augmentations would easily lead to the semantic drift and indiscriminative positive samples. 2) The constructed negative samples are not reliable for ignoring important clustering information. To solve these problems, we propose a Cluster-guided Contrastive deep Graph Clustering network (CCGC) by mining the intrinsic supervision information in the high-confidence clustering results. Specifically, instead of conducting complex node or edge perturbation, we construct two views of the graph by designing special Siamese encoders whose weights are not shared between the sibling sub-networks. Then, guided by the high-confidence clustering information, we carefully select and construct the positive samples from the same high-confidence cluster in two views. Moreover, to construct semantic meaningful negative sample pairs, we regard the centers of different high-confidence clusters as negative samples, thus improving the discriminative capability and reliability of the constructed sample pairs. Lastly, we design an objective function to pull close the samples from the same cluster while pushing away those from other clusters by maximizing and minimizing the cross-view cosine similarity between positive and negative samples. Extensive experimental results on six datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of CCGC compared with the existing state-of-the-art algorithms.

In robust Markov decision processes (MDPs), the uncertainty in the transition kernel is addressed by finding a policy that optimizes the worst-case performance over an uncertainty set of MDPs. While much of the literature has focused on discounted MDPs, robust average-reward MDPs remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we focus on robust average-reward MDPs, where the goal is to find a policy that optimizes the worst-case average reward over an uncertainty set. We first take an approach that approximates average-reward MDPs using discounted MDPs. We prove that the robust discounted value function converges to the robust average-reward as the discount factor $\gamma$ goes to $1$, and moreover, when $\gamma$ is large, any optimal policy of the robust discounted MDP is also an optimal policy of the robust average-reward. We further design a robust dynamic programming approach, and theoretically characterize its convergence to the optimum. Then, we investigate robust average-reward MDPs directly without using discounted MDPs as an intermediate step. We derive the robust Bellman equation for robust average-reward MDPs, prove that the optimal policy can be derived from its solution, and further design a robust relative value iteration algorithm that provably finds its solution, or equivalently, the optimal robust policy.

Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) has attracted considerable attention as a gradient-based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method. Since the introduction of DARTS, there has been little work done on adapting the action space based on state-of-art architecture design principles for CNNs. In this work, we aim to address this gap by incrementally augmenting the DARTS search space with micro-design changes inspired by ConvNeXt and studying the trade-off between accuracy, evaluation layer count, and computational cost. To this end, we introduce the Pseudo-Inverted Bottleneck conv block intending to reduce the computational footprint of the inverted bottleneck block proposed in ConvNeXt. Our proposed architecture is much less sensitive to evaluation layer count and outperforms a DARTS network with similar size significantly, at layer counts as small as 2. Furthermore, with less layers, not only does it achieve higher accuracy with lower GMACs and parameter count, GradCAM comparisons show that our network is able to better detect distinctive features of target objects compared to DARTS.

Automatic font generation without human experts is a practical and significant problem, especially for some languages that consist of a large number of characters. Existing methods for font generation are often in supervised learning. They require a large number of paired data, which are labor-intensive and expensive to collect. In contrast, common unsupervised image-to-image translation methods are not applicable to font generation, as they often define style as the set of textures and colors. In this work, we propose a robust deformable generative network for unsupervised font generation (abbreviated as DGFont++). We introduce a feature deformation skip connection (FDSC) to learn local patterns and geometric transformations between fonts. The FDSC predicts pairs of displacement maps and employs the predicted maps to apply deformable convolution to the low-level content feature maps. The outputs of FDSC are fed into a mixer to generate final results. Moreover, we introduce contrastive self-supervised learning to learn a robust style representation for fonts by understanding the similarity and dissimilarities of fonts. To distinguish different styles, we train our model with a multi-task discriminator, which ensures that each style can be discriminated independently. In addition to adversarial loss, another two reconstruction losses are adopted to constrain the domain-invariant characteristics between generated images and content images. Taking advantage of FDSC and the adopted loss functions, our model is able to maintain spatial information and generates high-quality character images in an unsupervised manner. Experiments demonstrate that our model is able to generate character images of higher quality than state-of-the-art methods.

Neural operators, which emerge as implicit solution operators of hidden governing equations, have recently become popular tools for learning responses of complex real-world physical systems. Nevertheless, the majority of neural operator applications has thus far been data-driven, which neglects the intrinsic preservation of fundamental physical laws in data. In this paper, we introduce a novel integral neural operator architecture, to learn physical models with fundamental conservation laws automatically guaranteed. In particular, by replacing the frame-dependent position information with its invariant counterpart in the kernel space, the proposed neural operator is by design translation- and rotation-invariant, and consequently abides by the conservation laws of linear and angular momentums. As applications, we demonstrate the expressivity and efficacy of our model in learning complex material behaviors from both synthetic and experimental datasets, and show that, by automatically satisfying these essential physical laws, our learned neural operator is not only generalizable in handling translated and rotated datasets, but also achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and efficiency as compared to baseline neural operator models.

The development of deep learning models in medical image analysis is majorly limited by the lack of large-sized and well-annotated datasets. Unsupervised learning does not require labels and is more suitable for solving medical image analysis problems. However, most of the current unsupervised learning methods need to be applied to large datasets. To make unsupervised learning applicable to small datasets, we proposed Swin MAE, which is a masked autoencoder with Swin Transformer as its backbone. Even on a dataset of only a few thousand medical images and without using any pre-trained models, Swin MAE is still able to learn useful semantic features purely from images. It can equal or even slightly outperform the supervised model obtained by Swin Transformer trained on ImageNet in terms of the transfer learning results of downstream tasks. The code will be publicly available soon.