在许多计算机视觉应用程序中，对高动态范围（HDR）场景的能力至关重要。然而，传统传感器的动态范围基本上受其井容量的限制，导致明亮场景部件的饱和度。为了克服这种限制，新兴传感器提供了用于编码入射辐照度的像素处理能力。在最有前途的编码方案中，模数包装，其导致计算机拍摄场景由来自包裹的低动态（LDR）传感器图像的辐照法展开算法计算的计算摄影问题。在这里，我们设计了一种基于神经网络的算法，优于先前的辐照度展示方法，更重要的是，我们设计了一种感知的激发灵感的“螳螂”编码方案，从而更有效地将HDR场景包装到LDR传感器中。结合我们的重建框架，Mantissacam在模型快照HDR成像方法中实现了最先进的结果。我们展示了我们在模拟中的效果，并显示了用可编程传感器实现的原型尾涂的初步结果。

Implicitly defined, continuous, differentiable signal representations parameterized by neural networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm, offering many possible benefits over conventional representations. However, current network architectures for such implicit neural representations are incapable of modeling signals with fine detail, and fail to represent a signal's spatial and temporal derivatives, despite the fact that these are essential to many physical signals defined implicitly as the solution to partial differential equations. We propose to leverage periodic activation functions for implicit neural representations and demonstrate that these networks, dubbed sinusoidal representation networks or SIRENs, are ideally suited for representing complex natural signals and their derivatives. We analyze SIREN activation statistics to propose a principled initialization scheme and demonstrate the representation of images, wavefields, video, sound, and their derivatives. Further, we show how SIRENs can be leveraged to solve challenging boundary value problems, such as particular Eikonal equations (yielding signed distance functions), the Poisson equation, and the Helmholtz and wave equations. Lastly, we combine SIRENs with hypernetworks to learn priors over the space of SIREN functions. Please see the project website for a video overview of the proposed method and all applications.

现代目光跟踪系统中的相机具有基本的带宽和功率限制，实际上将数据采集速度限制为300 Hz。这会阻碍使用移动眼镜手术器的使用，例如低潜伏期预测性渲染，或者在野外使用头部安装的设备来快速而微妙的眼动运动，例如微扫视。在这里，我们提出了一个基于混合框架的近眼凝视跟踪系统，可提供超过10,000 Hz的更新速率，其准确性与在相同条件下评估时相匹配的高端台式机商业跟踪器。我们的系统建立在新兴事件摄像机的基础上，该摄像头同时获得定期采样框架和自适应采样事件。我们开发了一种在线2D学生拟合方法，该方法每一个或几个事件都会更新参数模型。此外，我们提出了一个多项式回归器，用于实时估算参数学生模型的凝视点。使用第一个基于事件的凝视数据集，可在https://github.com/aangelopoulos/event_based_gaze_tracking上获得，我们证明我们的系统可实现0.45度 - 1.75度的准确度，用于从45度到98度的视野。借助这项技术，我们希望能够为虚拟和增强现实提供新一代的超低延迟凝视呈现和展示技术。

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.

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an adversarial search paradigm that first found prominence with its success in the domain of computer Go. Early theoretical work established the game-theoretic soundness and convergence bounds for Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT), the most popular instantiation of MCTS; however, there remain notable gaps in our understanding of how UCT behaves in practice. In this work, we address one such gap by considering the question of whether UCT can exhibit lookahead pathology -- a paradoxical phenomenon first observed in Minimax search where greater search effort leads to worse decision-making. We introduce a novel family of synthetic games that offer rich modeling possibilities while remaining amenable to mathematical analysis. Our theoretical and experimental results suggest that UCT is indeed susceptible to pathological behavior in a range of games drawn from this family.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its data-centric branch of machine learning (ML) have greatly evolved over the last few decades. However, as AI is used increasingly in real world use cases, the importance of the interpretability of and accessibility to AI systems have become major research areas. The lack of interpretability of ML based systems is a major hindrance to widespread adoption of these powerful algorithms. This is due to many reasons including ethical and regulatory concerns, which have resulted in poorer adoption of ML in some areas. The recent past has seen a surge in research on interpretable ML. Generally, designing a ML system requires good domain understanding combined with expert knowledge. New techniques are emerging to improve ML accessibility through automated model design. This paper provides a review of the work done to improve interpretability and accessibility of machine learning in the context of global problems while also being relevant to developing countries. We review work under multiple levels of interpretability including scientific and mathematical interpretation, statistical interpretation and partial semantic interpretation. This review includes applications in three areas, namely food processing, agriculture and health.

Several studies have been reported in the literature about SN P system and its variants. Often, the results provide universality of various variants and the classes of languages that these variants generate and recognize. The state of SN P system is its configuration. We refer to our previous result on reachability of configuration as the {\it Fundamental state equation for SN P system.} This paper provides a preliminary investigation on the behavioral and structural properties of SN P system without delay that depend primarily to this fundamental state equation. Also, we introduce the idea of configuration graph $CG_{\Pi}$ of an SN P system $\Pi$ without delay to characterize behavioral properties of $\Pi$ with respect to $CG_{\Pi}.$ The matrix $M_{\Pi}$ of an SN P system $\Pi$ without delay is used to characterize structural properties of $\Pi.$

In the 2010, matrix representation of SN P system without delay was presented while in the case of SN P systems with delay, matrix representation was suggested in the 2017. These representations brought about series of simulation of SN P systems using computer software and hardware technology. In this work, we revisit these representation and provide some observations on the behavior of the computations of SN P systems. The concept of reachability of configuration is considered in both SN P systems with and without delays. A better computation of next configuration is proposed in the case of SN P system with delay.

To analyze this characteristic of vulnerability, we developed an automated deep learning method for detecting microvessels in intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT) images. A total of 8,403 IVOCT image frames from 85 lesions and 37 normal segments were analyzed. Manual annotation was done using a dedicated software (OCTOPUS) previously developed by our group. Data augmentation in the polar (r,{\theta}) domain was applied to raw IVOCT images to ensure that microvessels appear at all possible angles. Pre-processing methods included guidewire/shadow detection, lumen segmentation, pixel shifting, and noise reduction. DeepLab v3+ was used to segment microvessel candidates. A bounding box on each candidate was classified as either microvessel or non-microvessel using a shallow convolutional neural network. For better classification, we used data augmentation (i.e., angle rotation) on bounding boxes with a microvessel during network training. Data augmentation and pre-processing steps improved microvessel segmentation performance significantly, yielding a method with Dice of 0.71+/-0.10 and pixel-wise sensitivity/specificity of 87.7+/-6.6%/99.8+/-0.1%. The network for classifying microvessels from candidates performed exceptionally well, with sensitivity of 99.5+/-0.3%, specificity of 98.8+/-1.0%, and accuracy of 99.1+/-0.5%. The classification step eliminated the majority of residual false positives, and the Dice coefficient increased from 0.71 to 0.73. In addition, our method produced 698 image frames with microvessels present, compared to 730 from manual analysis, representing a 4.4% difference. When compared to the manual method, the automated method improved microvessel continuity, implying improved segmentation performance. The method will be useful for research purposes as well as potential future treatment planning.