本文介绍了基于2022年国际生物识别技术联合会议（IJCB 2022）举行的基于隐私感知合成训练数据（SYN-MAD）的面部变形攻击检测的摘要。该竞赛吸引了来自学术界和行业的12个参与团队，并在11个不同的国家 /地区举行。最后，参与团队提交了七个有效的意见书，并由组织者进行评估。竞争是为了介绍和吸引解决方案的解决方案，这些解决方案涉及检测面部变形攻击的同时，同时出于道德和法律原因保护人们的隐私。为了确保这一点，培训数据仅限于组织者提供的合成数据。提交的解决方案提出了创新，导致在许多实验环境中表现优于所考虑的基线。评估基准现在可在以下网址获得：https：//github.com/marcohuber/syn-mad-2022。

在生成模型的背景下，近年来，文本到图像生成取得了令人印象深刻的结果。提出了使用不同方法的模型，并在大量的文本和图像对数据集中进行了培训。但是，某些方法依赖于预训练的模型，例如生成对抗网络，通过使用基于梯度的方法来更新潜在矢量的生成模型的潜在空间，并依赖于余弦功能（例如余弦功能）。在这项工作中，我们通过提出使用协方差矩阵适应演化策略来探索生成对手网络的潜在空间，从而遵循不同的方向。我们将这种方法与使用亚当和混合策略的方法进行了比较。我们设计了一项实验研究，以使用不同的文本输入来比较三种方法，通过根据所得样品的投影调整评估方法来比较图像生成，以检查分布的多样性。结果证明，进化方法在样品的产生中获得了更多的多样性，从而探索了所得网格的不同区域。此外，我们表明混合方法结合了基于梯度和进化方法的探索区域，利用结果的质量。

在这项工作中，我们介绍了一种光电尖峰，能够以超速率（$ \ \左右100磅/光学尖峰）和低能耗（$ <$ PJ /秒码）运行。所提出的系统结合了具有负差分电导的可激发谐振隧道二极管（RTD）元件，耦合到纳米级光源（形成主节点）或光电探测器（形成接收器节点）。我们在数值上学习互连的主接收器RTD节点系统的尖峰动态响应和信息传播功能。使用脉冲阈值和集成的关键功能，我们利用单个节点来对顺序脉冲模式进行分类，并对图像特征（边缘）识别执行卷积功能。我们还展示了光学互连的尖峰神经网络模型，用于处理超过10 Gbps的时空数据，具有高推理精度。最后，我们展示了利用峰值定时依赖性可塑性的片外监督的学习方法，使能RTD的光子尖峰神经网络。这些结果证明了RTD尖峰节点用于低占地面积，低能量，高速光电实现神经形态硬件的潜在和可行性。

Stress has a great effect on people's lives that can not be understated. While it can be good, since it helps humans to adapt to new and different situations, it can also be harmful when not dealt with properly, leading to chronic stress. The objective of this paper is developing a stress monitoring solution, that can be used in real life, while being able to tackle this challenge in a positive way. The SMILE data set was provided to team Anxolotl, and all it was needed was to develop a robust model. We developed a supervised learning model for classification in Python, presenting the final result of 64.1% in accuracy and a f1-score of 54.96%. The resulting solution stood the robustness test, presenting low variation between runs, which was a major point for it's possible integration in the Anxolotl app in the future.

The field of Automatic Music Generation has seen significant progress thanks to the advent of Deep Learning. However, most of these results have been produced by unconditional models, which lack the ability to interact with their users, not allowing them to guide the generative process in meaningful and practical ways. Moreover, synthesizing music that remains coherent across longer timescales while still capturing the local aspects that make it sound ``realistic'' or ``human-like'' is still challenging. This is due to the large computational requirements needed to work with long sequences of data, and also to limitations imposed by the training schemes that are often employed. In this paper, we propose a generative model of symbolic music conditioned by data retrieved from human sentiment. The model is a Transformer-GAN trained with labels that correspond to different configurations of the valence and arousal dimensions that quantitatively represent human affective states. We try to tackle both of the problems above by employing an efficient linear version of Attention and using a Discriminator both as a tool to improve the overall quality of the generated music and its ability to follow the conditioning signals.

Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) is becoming relevant with the growth of textual data; however, with the popularization of public large-scale datasets, some recent machine learning approaches have focused on dense models and architectures that, despite producing notable results, usually turn out in models difficult to interpret. Given the challenge behind interpretable learning-based text summarization and the importance it may have for evolving the current state of the ATS field, this work studies the application of two modern Generalized Additive Models with interactions, namely Explainable Boosting Machine and GAMI-Net, to the extractive summarization problem based on linguistic features and binary classification.

This work presents a thorough review concerning recent studies and text generation advancements using Generative Adversarial Networks. The usage of adversarial learning for text generation is promising as it provides alternatives to generate the so-called "natural" language. Nevertheless, adversarial text generation is not a simple task as its foremost architecture, the Generative Adversarial Networks, were designed to cope with continuous information (image) instead of discrete data (text). Thus, most works are based on three possible options, i.e., Gumbel-Softmax differentiation, Reinforcement Learning, and modified training objectives. All alternatives are reviewed in this survey as they present the most recent approaches for generating text using adversarial-based techniques. The selected works were taken from renowned databases, such as Science Direct, IEEEXplore, Springer, Association for Computing Machinery, and arXiv, whereas each selected work has been critically analyzed and assessed to present its objective, methodology, and experimental results.

Video segmentation consists of a frame-by-frame selection process of meaningful areas related to foreground moving objects. Some applications include traffic monitoring, human tracking, action recognition, efficient video surveillance, and anomaly detection. In these applications, it is not rare to face challenges such as abrupt changes in weather conditions, illumination issues, shadows, subtle dynamic background motions, and also camouflage effects. In this work, we address such shortcomings by proposing a novel deep learning video segmentation approach that incorporates residual information into the foreground detection learning process. The main goal is to provide a method capable of generating an accurate foreground detection given a grayscale video. Experiments conducted on the Change Detection 2014 and on the private dataset PetrobrasROUTES from Petrobras support the effectiveness of the proposed approach concerning some state-of-the-art video segmentation techniques, with overall F-measures of $\mathbf{0.9535}$ and $\mathbf{0.9636}$ in the Change Detection 2014 and PetrobrasROUTES datasets, respectively. Such a result places the proposed technique amongst the top 3 state-of-the-art video segmentation methods, besides comprising approximately seven times less parameters than its top one counterpart.

Scene change detection is an image processing problem related to partitioning pixels of a digital image into foreground and background regions. Mostly, visual knowledge-based computer intelligent systems, like traffic monitoring, video surveillance, and anomaly detection, need to use change detection techniques. Amongst the most prominent detection methods, there are the learning-based ones, which besides sharing similar training and testing protocols, differ from each other in terms of their architecture design strategies. Such architecture design directly impacts on the quality of the detection results, and also in the device resources capacity, like memory. In this work, we propose a novel Multiscale Cascade Residual Convolutional Neural Network that integrates multiscale processing strategy through a Residual Processing Module, with a Segmentation Convolutional Neural Network. Experiments conducted on two different datasets support the effectiveness of the proposed approach, achieving average overall $\boldsymbol{F\text{-}measure}$ results of $\boldsymbol{0.9622}$ and $\boldsymbol{0.9664}$ over Change Detection 2014 and PetrobrasROUTES datasets respectively, besides comprising approximately eight times fewer parameters. Such obtained results place the proposed technique amongst the top four state-of-the-art scene change detection methods.

Research on remote sensing image classification significantly impacts essential human routine tasks such as urban planning and agriculture. Nowadays, the rapid advance in technology and the availability of many high-quality remote sensing images create a demand for reliable automation methods. The current paper proposes two novel deep learning-based architectures for image classification purposes, i.e., the Discriminant Deep Image Prior Network and the Discriminant Deep Image Prior Network+, which combine Deep Image Prior and Triplet Networks learning strategies. Experiments conducted over three well-known public remote sensing image datasets achieved state-of-the-art results, evidencing the effectiveness of using deep image priors for remote sensing image classification.