Robot navigation in dynamic environments shared with humans is an important but challenging task, which suffers from performance deterioration as the crowd grows. In this paper, multi-subgoal robot navigation approach based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed, which can reason about more comprehensive relationships among all agents (robot and humans). Specifically, the next position point is planned for the robot by introducing history information and interactions in our work. Firstly, based on subgraph network, the history information of all agents is aggregated before encoding interactions through a graph neural network, so as to improve the ability of the robot to anticipate the future scenarios implicitly. Further consideration, in order to reduce the probability of unreliable next position points, the selection module is designed after policy network in the reinforcement learning framework. In addition, the next position point generated from the selection module satisfied the task requirements better than that obtained directly from the policy network. The experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of both success rate and collision rate, especially in crowded human environments.

With the development of technology and sharing economy, Airbnb as a famous short-term rental platform, has become the first choice for many young people to select. The issue of Airbnb's pricing has always been a problem worth studying. While the previous studies achieve promising results, there are exists deficiencies to solve. Such as, (1) the feature attributes of rental are not rich enough; (2) the research on rental text information is not deep enough; (3) there are few studies on predicting the rental price combined with the point of interest(POI) around the house. To address the above challenges, we proposes a multi-source information embedding(MSIE) model to predict the rental price of Airbnb. Specifically, we first selects the statistical feature to embed the original rental data. Secondly, we generates the word feature vector and emotional score combination of three different text information to form the text feature embedding. Thirdly, we uses the points of interest(POI) around the rental house information generates a variety of spatial network graphs, and learns the embedding of the network to obtain the spatial feature embedding. Finally, this paper combines the three modules into multi source rental representations, and uses the constructed fully connected neural network to predict the price. The analysis of the experimental results shows the effectiveness of our proposed model.

Score-based diffusion models have captured widespread attention and funded fast progress of recent vision generative tasks. In this paper, we focus on diffusion model backbone which has been much neglected before. We systematically explore vision Transformers as diffusion learners for various generative tasks. With our improvements the performance of vanilla ViT-based backbone (IU-ViT) is boosted to be on par with traditional U-Net-based methods. We further provide a hypothesis on the implication of disentangling the generative backbone as an encoder-decoder structure and show proof-of-concept experiments verifying the effectiveness of a stronger encoder for generative tasks with ASymmetriC ENcoder Decoder (ASCEND). Our improvements achieve competitive results on CIFAR-10, CelebA, LSUN, CUB Bird and large-resolution text-to-image tasks. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to successfully train a single diffusion model on text-to-image task beyond 64x64 resolution. We hope this will motivate people to rethink the modeling choices and the training pipelines for diffusion-based generative models.

Traffic flow prediction is an important part of smart transportation. The goal is to predict future traffic conditions based on historical data recorded by sensors and the traffic network. As the city continues to build, parts of the transportation network will be added or modified. How to accurately predict expanding and evolving long-term streaming networks is of great significance. To this end, we propose a new simulation-based criterion that considers teaching autonomous agents to mimic sensor patterns, planning their next visit based on the sensor's profile (e.g., traffic, speed, occupancy). The data recorded by the sensor is most accurate when the agent can perfectly simulate the sensor's activity pattern. We propose to formulate the problem as a continuous reinforcement learning task, where the agent is the next flow value predictor, the action is the next time-series flow value in the sensor, and the environment state is a dynamically fused representation of the sensor and transportation network. Actions taken by the agent change the environment, which in turn forces the agent's mode to update, while the agent further explores changes in the dynamic traffic network, which helps the agent predict its next visit more accurately. Therefore, we develop a strategy in which sensors and traffic networks update each other and incorporate temporal context to quantify state representations evolving over time.

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.

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene understanding. Albeit the success, it still remains elusive how to fuse and process the cross-dimensional features from these two distinct spaces. Existing state-of-the-art usually exploit bidirectional projection methods to align the cross-dimensional features and realize both 2D & 3D semantic segmentation tasks. However, to enable bidirectional mapping, this framework often requires a symmetrical 2D-3D network structure, thus limiting the network's flexibility. Meanwhile, such dual-task settings may distract the network easily and lead to over-fitting in the 3D segmentation task. As limited by the network's inflexibility, fused features can only pass through a decoder network, which affects model performance due to insufficient depth. To alleviate these drawbacks, in this paper, we argue that despite its simplicity, projecting unidirectionally multi-view 2D deep semantic features into the 3D space aligned with 3D deep semantic features could lead to better feature fusion. On the one hand, the unidirectional projection enforces our model focused more on the core task, i.e., 3D segmentation; on the other hand, unlocking the bidirectional to unidirectional projection enables a deeper cross-domain semantic alignment and enjoys the flexibility to fuse better and complicated features from very different spaces. In joint 2D-3D approaches, our proposed method achieves superior performance on the ScanNetv2 benchmark for 3D semantic segmentation.

Graph structure learning (GSL), which aims to learn the adjacency matrix for graph neural networks (GNNs), has shown great potential in boosting the performance of GNNs. Most existing GSL works apply a joint learning framework where the estimated adjacency matrix and GNN parameters are optimized for downstream tasks. However, as GSL is essentially a link prediction task, whose goal may largely differ from the goal of the downstream task. The inconsistency of these two goals limits the GSL methods to learn the potential optimal graph structure. Moreover, the joint learning framework suffers from scalability issues in terms of time and space during the process of estimation and optimization of the adjacency matrix. To mitigate these issues, we propose a graph structure refinement (GSR) framework with a pretrain-finetune pipeline. Specifically, The pre-training phase aims to comprehensively estimate the underlying graph structure by a multi-view contrastive learning framework with both intra- and inter-view link prediction tasks. Then, the graph structure is refined by adding and removing edges according to the edge probabilities estimated by the pre-trained model. Finally, the fine-tuning GNN is initialized by the pre-trained model and optimized toward downstream tasks. With the refined graph structure remaining static in the fine-tuning space, GSR avoids estimating and optimizing graph structure in the fine-tuning phase which enjoys great scalability and efficiency. Moreover, the fine-tuning GNN is boosted by both migrating knowledge and refining graphs. Extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness (best performance on six benchmark datasets), efficiency, and scalability (13.8x faster using 32.8% GPU memory compared to the best GSL baseline on Cora) of the proposed model.

Radar, the only sensor that could provide reliable perception capability in all weather conditions at an affordable cost, has been widely accepted as a key supplement to camera and LiDAR in modern advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving systems. Recent state-of-the-art works reveal that fusion of radar and LiDAR can lead to robust detection in adverse weather, such as fog. However, these methods still suffer from low accuracy of bounding box estimations. This paper proposes a bird's-eye view (BEV) fusion learning for an anchor box-free object detection system, which uses the feature derived from the radar range-azimuth heatmap and the LiDAR point cloud to estimate the possible objects. Different label assignment strategies have been designed to facilitate the consistency between the classification of foreground or background anchor points and the corresponding bounding box regressions. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed object detector can be further enhanced by employing a novel interactive transformer module. We demonstrated the superior performance of the proposed methods in this paper using the recently published Oxford Radar RobotCar (ORR) dataset. We showed that the accuracy of our system significantly outperforms the other state-of-the-art methods by a large margin.

具有多传感器的3D对象检测对于自主驾驶和机器人技术的准确可靠感知系统至关重要。现有的3D探测器通过采用两阶段范式来显着提高准确性，这仅依靠激光点云进行3D提案的细化。尽管令人印象深刻，但点云的稀疏性，尤其是对于遥远的点，使得仅激光雷达的完善模块难以准确识别和定位对象。要解决这个问题，我们提出了一种新颖的多模式两阶段方法FusionRcnn，有效，有效地融合了感兴趣区域（ROI）的点云和摄像头图像。 FusionRcnn自适应地整合了LiDAR的稀疏几何信息和统一注意机制中相机的密集纹理信息。具体而言，它首先利用RoiPooling获得具有统一大小的图像集，并通过在ROI提取步骤中的建议中采样原始点来获取点设置；然后利用模式内的自我注意力来增强域特异性特征，此后通过精心设计的跨注意事项融合了来自两种模态的信息。FusionRCNN从根本上是插件，并支持不同的单阶段方法与不同的单阶段方法。几乎没有建筑变化。对Kitti和Waymo基准测试的广泛实验表明，我们的方法显着提高了流行探测器的性能。可取，FusionRCNN在Waymo上的FusionRCNN显着提高了强大的第二基线，而Waymo上的MAP则超过6.14％，并且优于竞争两阶段方法的表现。代码将很快在https://github.com/xxlbigbrother/fusion-rcnn上发布。

对于诊断各种疾病的诊断，对睡眠阶段进行分类至关重要。但是，现有的自动诊断方法主要采用“金标准”局部脑图（EEG）或医院中多摄像机仪（PSG）机器的其他单型模式传感信号，这些信号昂贵，导入且因此不适合保健点监测在家。为了在家中启用睡眠阶段监控，我们在本文中分析了红外视频与脑电图信号之间的关系，并提出了一项新任务：通过将有用的知识从EEG信号提炼到视觉视频，使用红外视频对睡眠阶段进行分类。为了为该应用程序建立可靠的跨模式基准，我们开发了一个新的数据集，称为通过红外视频和脑电图（$ s^3ve $）看到您的睡眠阶段。 $ s^3ve $是一个大型数据集，包括用于睡眠阶段分类的同步红外视频和脑电图信号，包括105个主题和154,573个视频剪辑，长度超过1100小时。我们的贡献不仅限于数据集，而且还涉及一种新型的跨模式蒸馏基线模型，即结构感知的对比度蒸馏（SACD），以将脑电图知识提升为红外视频特征。 SACD在我们的$ S^3ve $和现有的跨模式蒸馏基准上都达到了最先进的表演。基准方法和基线方法都将被释放给社区。我们希望在睡眠阶段分类中提高更多注意力并促进更多的发展，更重要的是，从临床信号/媒体到传统媒体的跨模式蒸馏。