State-of-the-art speaker verification frameworks have typically focused on speech enhancement techniques with increasingly deeper (more layers) and wider (number of channels) models to improve their verification performance. Instead, this paper proposes an approach to increase the model resolution capability using attention-based dynamic kernels in a convolutional neural network to adapt the model parameters to be feature-conditioned. The attention weights on the kernels are further distilled by channel attention and multi-layer feature aggregation to learn global features from speech. This approach provides an efficient solution to improving representation capacity with lower data resources. This is due to the self-adaptation to inputs of the structures of the model parameters. The proposed dynamic convolutional model achieved 1.62\% EER and 0.18 miniDCF on the VoxCeleb1 test set and has a 17\% relative improvement compared to the ECAPA-TDNN.

End-to-End automatic speech recognition (ASR) models aim to learn a generalised speech representation to perform recognition. In this domain there is little research to analyse internal representation dependencies and their relationship to modelling approaches. This paper investigates cross-domain language model dependencies within transformer architectures using SVCCA and uses these insights to exploit modelling approaches. It was found that specific neural representations within the transformer layers exhibit correlated behaviour which impacts recognition performance. Altogether, this work provides analysis of the modelling approaches affecting contextual dependencies and ASR performance, and can be used to create or adapt better performing End-to-End ASR models and also for downstream tasks.

对于语音情绪数据集，与日常生活中显示的表现力较低的情绪相比，很难获得大量可靠的数据，而表现出的情绪可能超过了最高。最近，已经创建了具有自然情绪的较大数据集。这项研究并没有忽略较小的，行为的数据集，而是研究了从动作情绪中学到的信息是否对检测自然情绪有用。跨科普斯研究主要考虑了跨语言甚至跨年龄数据集，并且源于注释情绪导致性能下降的不同方法。为了保持一致，考虑了四个涵盖行为的成年英语数据集，考虑了自然情绪。提出了最先进的模型，以准确研究性能的降解。该系统涉及双向LSTM具有注意机制，以对数据集进行分类。实验研究了跨科普斯和多域的训练模型的影响，结果表明信息的传递不成功。室外模型，其次是适应丢失的数据集，而域对抗训练（DAT）被证明更适合于跨数据集的情绪概括。这显示了从ACT的数据集转移到具有更多自然情绪以及对不同语料库培训的好处的积极信息。

用于皮肤病变分析的计算机辅助诊断系统（CAD）系统是一个新兴的研究领域，有可能减轻皮肤癌筛查的负担和成本。研究人员最近表示，对开发此类CAD系统的兴趣日益增加，目的是向皮肤科医生提供用户友好的工具，以减少手动检查提出的挑战。本文的目的是提供对2011年至2020年之间发表的尖端CAD技术的完整文献综述。使用系统评价和荟萃分析的首选报告项目（PRISMA）方法用于确定总共365个出版物，221用于皮肤病变细分，144用于皮肤病变分类。这些文章以多种不同的方式进行分析和汇总，以便我们可以贡献有关CAD系统发展方法的重要信息。这些方式包括：相关和基本的定义和理论，输入数据（数据集利用，预处理，增强和解决不平衡问题），方法配置（技术，体系结构，模块框架和损失），培训策略（超级表格设置）以及评估（评估）标准（指标）。我们还打算研究各种增强性能的方法，包括合奏和后处理。此外，在这项调查中，我们强调了使用最小数据集评估皮肤病变细分和分类系统的主要问题，以及对这些困境的潜在解决方案。总之，讨论了启发性发现，建议和趋势，目的是为了在关注的相关领域进行未来的研究监视。可以预见的是，它将在开发自动化和健壮的CAD系统进行皮肤病变分析的过程中指导从初学者到专家的各个级别的研究人员。

孟加拉语是世界上说话最多的语言之一，全球有超过3亿的演讲者。尽管它很受欢迎，但由于缺乏多样化的开源数据集，对孟加拉语音识别系统的发展的研究受到阻碍。作为前进的道路，我们已经众包孟加拉语音语音数据集，这是句子级自动语音识别语料库。该数据集于Mozilla Common Voice平台上收集，是正在进行的广告系列的一部分，该活动已在2个月内收集了超过400个小时的数据，并且正在迅速增长。我们的分析表明，与OpenSLR孟加拉ASR数据集相比，该数据集具有更多的发言人，音素和环境多样性，这是最大的现有开源孟加拉语语音数据集。我们提供从数据集获得的见解，并讨论未来版本中需要解决的关键语言挑战。此外，我们报告了一些自动语音识别（ASR）算法的当前性能，并为将来的研究设定了基准。

肺癌是最致命的癌症之一，部分诊断和治疗取决于肿瘤的准确描绘。目前是最常见的方法的人以人为本的分割，须遵守观察者间变异性，并且考虑到专家只能提供注释的事实，也是耗时的。最近展示了有前途的结果，自动和半自动肿瘤分割方法。然而，随着不同的研究人员使用各种数据集和性能指标验证了其算法，可靠地评估这些方法仍然是一个开放的挑战。通过2018年IEEE视频和图像处理（VIP）杯竞赛创建的计算机断层摄影扫描（LOTUS）基准测试的肺起源肿瘤分割的目标是提供唯一的数据集和预定义的指标，因此不同的研究人员可以开发和以统一的方式评估他们的方法。 2018年VIP杯始于42个国家的全球参与，以获得竞争数据。在注册阶段，有129名成员组成了来自10个国家的28个团队，其中9个团队将其达到最后阶段，6队成功完成了所有必要的任务。简而言之，竞争期间提出的所有算法都是基于深度学习模型与假阳性降低技术相结合。三种决赛选手开发的方法表明，有希望的肿瘤细分导致导致越来越大的努力应降低假阳性率。本次竞争稿件概述了VIP-Cup挑战，以及所提出的算法和结果。

This paper presents our solutions for the MediaEval 2022 task on DisasterMM. The task is composed of two subtasks, namely (i) Relevance Classification of Twitter Posts (RCTP), and (ii) Location Extraction from Twitter Texts (LETT). The RCTP subtask aims at differentiating flood-related and non-relevant social posts while LETT is a Named Entity Recognition (NER) task and aims at the extraction of location information from the text. For RCTP, we proposed four different solutions based on BERT, RoBERTa, Distil BERT, and ALBERT obtaining an F1-score of 0.7934, 0.7970, 0.7613, and 0.7924, respectively. For LETT, we used three models namely BERT, RoBERTa, and Distil BERTA obtaining an F1-score of 0.6256, 0.6744, and 0.6723, respectively.

Conventional cameras capture image irradiance on a sensor and convert it to RGB images using an image signal processor (ISP). The images can then be used for photography or visual computing tasks in a variety of applications, such as public safety surveillance and autonomous driving. One can argue that since RAW images contain all the captured information, the conversion of RAW to RGB using an ISP is not necessary for visual computing. In this paper, we propose a novel $\rho$-Vision framework to perform high-level semantic understanding and low-level compression using RAW images without the ISP subsystem used for decades. Considering the scarcity of available RAW image datasets, we first develop an unpaired CycleR2R network based on unsupervised CycleGAN to train modular unrolled ISP and inverse ISP (invISP) models using unpaired RAW and RGB images. We can then flexibly generate simulated RAW images (simRAW) using any existing RGB image dataset and finetune different models originally trained for the RGB domain to process real-world camera RAW images. We demonstrate object detection and image compression capabilities in RAW-domain using RAW-domain YOLOv3 and RAW image compressor (RIC) on snapshots from various cameras. Quantitative results reveal that RAW-domain task inference provides better detection accuracy and compression compared to RGB-domain processing. Furthermore, the proposed \r{ho}-Vision generalizes across various camera sensors and different task-specific models. Additional advantages of the proposed $\rho$-Vision that eliminates the ISP are the potential reductions in computations and processing times.

Deep learning models require an enormous amount of data for training. However, recently there is a shift in machine learning from model-centric to data-centric approaches. In data-centric approaches, the focus is to refine and improve the quality of the data to improve the learning performance of the models rather than redesigning model architectures. In this paper, we propose CLIP i.e., Curriculum Learning with Iterative data Pruning. CLIP combines two data-centric approaches i.e., curriculum learning and dataset pruning to improve the model learning accuracy and convergence speed. The proposed scheme applies loss-aware dataset pruning to iteratively remove the least significant samples and progressively reduces the size of the effective dataset in the curriculum learning training. Extensive experiments performed on crowd density estimation models validate the notion behind combining the two approaches by reducing the convergence time and improving generalization. To our knowledge, the idea of data pruning as an embedded process in curriculum learning is novel.

Density estimation is one of the most widely used methods for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head-annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance of the model is highly impacted by the accuracy of the annotations and inaccurate annotations may lead to localization and counting errors during prediction. A significant amount of works exist on crowd counting using perfectly labelled datasets but none of these explore the impact of annotation errors on the model accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the impact of imperfect labels (both noisy and missing labels) on crowd counting accuracy. We propose a system that automatically generates imperfect labels using a deep learning model (called annotator) which are then used to train a new crowd counting model (target model). Our analysis on two crowd counting models and two benchmark datasets shows that the proposed scheme achieves accuracy closer to that of the model trained with perfect labels showing the robustness of crowd models to annotation errors.