现代的高性能语义分割方法采用沉重的主链和扩张的卷积来提取相关特征。尽管使用上下文和语义信息提取功能对于分割任务至关重要，但它为实时应用程序带来了内存足迹和高计算成本。本文提出了一种新模型，以实现实时道路场景语义细分的准确性/速度之间的权衡。具体来说，我们提出了一个名为“比例吸引的条带引导特征金字塔网络”（s \ textsuperscript {2} -fpn）的轻巧模型。我们的网络由三个主要模块组成：注意金字塔融合（APF）模块，比例吸引条带注意模块（SSAM）和全局特征Upsample（GFU）模块。 APF采用了注意力机制来学习判别性多尺度特征，并有助于缩小不同级别之间的语义差距。 APF使用量表感知的关注来用垂直剥离操作编码全局上下文，并建模长期依赖性，这有助于将像素与类似的语义标签相关联。此外，APF还采用频道重新加权块（CRB）来强调频道功能。最后，S \ TextSuperScript {2} -fpn的解码器然后采用GFU，该GFU用于融合APF和编码器的功能。已经对两个具有挑战性的语义分割基准进行了广泛的实验，这表明我们的方法通过不同的模型设置实现了更好的准确性/速度权衡。提出的模型已在CityScapes Dataset上实现了76.2 \％miou/87.3fps，77.4 \％miou/67fps和77.8 \％miou/30.5fps，以及69.6 \％miou，71.0 miou，71.0 \％miou，和74.2 \％\％\％\％\％\％。 miou在Camvid数据集上。这项工作的代码将在\ url {https://github.com/mohamedac29/s2-fpn提供。

大多数人工智能（AI）研究都集中在高收入国家，其中成像数据，IT基础设施和临床专业知识丰富。但是，在需要医学成像的有限资源环境中取得了较慢的进步。例如，在撒哈拉以南非洲，由于获得产前筛查的机会有限，围产期死亡率的率很高。在这些国家，可以实施AI模型，以帮助临床医生获得胎儿超声平面以诊断胎儿异常。到目前为止，已经提出了深度学习模型来识别标准的胎儿平面，但是没有证据表明它们能够概括获得高端超声设备和数据的中心。这项工作研究了不同的策略，以减少在高资源临床中心训练并转移到新的低资源中心的胎儿平面分类模型的域转移效果。为此，首先在丹麦的一个新中心对1,008例患者的新中心进行评估，接受了1,008名患者的新中心，后来对五个非洲中心（埃及，阿尔及利亚，乌干达，加纳和马拉维进行了相同的表现），首先在丹麦的一个新中心进行评估。 ）每个患者有25名。结果表明，转移学习方法可以是将小型非洲样本与发达国家现有的大规模数据库相结合的解决方案。特别是，该模型可以通过将召回率提高到0.92 \ pm 0.04 $，同时又可以维持高精度。该框架显示了在临床中心构建可概括的新AI模型的希望，该模型在具有挑战性和异质条件下获得的数据有限，并呼吁进行进一步的研究，以开发用于资源较少的国家 /地区的AI可用性的新解决方案。

我们提出了一种新颖的方法，用于生成语音音频和单个“身份”图像的高分辨率视频。我们的方法基于卷积神经网络模型，该模型结合了预训练的样式Gener。我们将每个帧建模为Stylegan潜在空间中的一个点，以便视频对应于潜在空间的轨迹。培训网络分为两个阶段。第一阶段是根据语音话语调节潜在空间中的轨迹。为此，我们使用现有的编码器倒转发电机，将每个视频框架映射到潜在空间中。我们训练一个经常性的神经网络，以从语音话语绘制到图像发生器潜在空间中的位移。这些位移是相对于从训练数据集中所描绘的个体选择的身份图像的潜在空间的反向预测的。在第二阶段，我们通过在单个图像或任何选择的身份的简短视频上调整图像生成器来提高生成视频的视觉质量。我们对标准度量（PSNR，SSIM，FID和LMD）的模型进行评估，并表明它在两个常用数据集之一上的最新方法明显优于最新的最新方法，另一方面给出了可比的性能。最后，我们报告了验证模型组成部分的消融实验。可以在https://mohammedalghamdi.github.io/talking-heads-acm-mm上找到实验的代码和视频

While the brain connectivity network can inform the understanding and diagnosis of developmental dyslexia, its cause-effect relationships have not yet enough been examined. Employing electroencephalography signals and band-limited white noise stimulus at 4.8 Hz (prosodic-syllabic frequency), we measure the phase Granger causalities among channels to identify differences between dyslexic learners and controls, thereby proposing a method to calculate directional connectivity. As causal relationships run in both directions, we explore three scenarios, namely channels' activity as sources, as sinks, and in total. Our proposed method can be used for both classification and exploratory analysis. In all scenarios, we find confirmation of the established right-lateralized Theta sampling network anomaly, in line with the temporal sampling framework's assumption of oscillatory differences in the Theta and Gamma bands. Further, we show that this anomaly primarily occurs in the causal relationships of channels acting as sinks, where it is significantly more pronounced than when only total activity is observed. In the sink scenario, our classifier obtains 0.84 and 0.88 accuracy and 0.87 and 0.93 AUC for the Theta and Gamma bands, respectively.

There are multiple scales of abstraction from which we can describe the same image, depending on whether we are focusing on fine-grained details or a more global attribute of the image. In brain mapping, learning to automatically parse images to build representations of both small-scale features (e.g., the presence of cells or blood vessels) and global properties of an image (e.g., which brain region the image comes from) is a crucial and open challenge. However, most existing datasets and benchmarks for neuroanatomy consider only a single downstream task at a time. To bridge this gap, we introduce a new dataset, annotations, and multiple downstream tasks that provide diverse ways to readout information about brain structure and architecture from the same image. Our multi-task neuroimaging benchmark (MTNeuro) is built on volumetric, micrometer-resolution X-ray microtomography images spanning a large thalamocortical section of mouse brain, encompassing multiple cortical and subcortical regions. We generated a number of different prediction challenges and evaluated several supervised and self-supervised models for brain-region prediction and pixel-level semantic segmentation of microstructures. Our experiments not only highlight the rich heterogeneity of this dataset, but also provide insights into how self-supervised approaches can be used to learn representations that capture multiple attributes of a single image and perform well on a variety of downstream tasks. Datasets, code, and pre-trained baseline models are provided at: https://mtneuro.github.io/ .

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on top of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in harsh open waters is a challenging problem, owing to forces that can damage the UAV due to a severe roll and/or pitch angle of the USV during touchdown. To tackle this, we propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) approach enabling a UAV to land autonomously on a USV in these harsh conditions. The MPC employs a novel objective function and an online decomposition of the oscillatory motion of the vessel to predict, attempt, and accomplish the landing during near-zero tilt of the landing platform. The nonlinear prediction of the motion of the vessel is performed using visual data from an onboard camera. Therefore, the system does not require any communication with the USV or a control station. The proposed method was analyzed in numerous robotics simulations in harsh and extreme conditions and further validated in various real-world scenarios.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss in the world, and early DR detection is necessary to prevent vision loss and support an appropriate treatment. In this work, we leverage interactive machine learning and introduce a joint learning framework, termed DRG-Net, to effectively learn both disease grading and multi-lesion segmentation. Our DRG-Net consists of two modules: (i) DRG-AI-System to classify DR Grading, localize lesion areas, and provide visual explanations; (ii) DRG-Expert-Interaction to receive feedback from user-expert and improve the DRG-AI-System. To deal with sparse data, we utilize transfer learning mechanisms to extract invariant feature representations by using Wasserstein distance and adversarial learning-based entropy minimization. Besides, we propose a novel attention strategy at both low- and high-level features to automatically select the most significant lesion information and provide explainable properties. In terms of human interaction, we further develop DRG-Net as a tool that enables expert users to correct the system's predictions, which may then be used to update the system as a whole. Moreover, thanks to the attention mechanism and loss functions constraint between lesion features and classification features, our approach can be robust given a certain level of noise in the feedback of users. We have benchmarked DRG-Net on the two largest DR datasets, i.e., IDRID and FGADR, and compared it to various state-of-the-art deep learning networks. In addition to outperforming other SOTA approaches, DRG-Net is effectively updated using user feedback, even in a weakly-supervised manner.

This short report reviews the current state of the research and methodology on theoretical and practical aspects of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). It was prepared to gather state-of-the-art knowledge needed to construct complex, hypercomplex and fuzzy neural networks. The report reflects the individual interests of the authors and, by now means, cannot be treated as a comprehensive review of the ANN discipline. Considering the fast development of this field, it is currently impossible to do a detailed review of a considerable number of pages. The report is an outcome of the Project 'The Strategic Research Partnership for the mathematical aspects of complex, hypercomplex and fuzzy neural networks' meeting at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, organized in September 2022.

Recent advances in upper limb prostheses have led to significant improvements in the number of movements provided by the robotic limb. However, the method for controlling multiple degrees of freedom via user-generated signals remains challenging. To address this issue, various machine learning controllers have been developed to better predict movement intent. As these controllers become more intelligent and take on more autonomy in the system, the traditional approach of representing the human-machine interface as a human controlling a tool becomes limiting. One possible approach to improve the understanding of these interfaces is to model them as collaborative, multi-agent systems through the lens of joint action. The field of joint action has been commonly applied to two human partners who are trying to work jointly together to achieve a task, such as singing or moving a table together, by effecting coordinated change in their shared environment. In this work, we compare different prosthesis controllers (proportional electromyography with sequential switching, pattern recognition, and adaptive switching) in terms of how they present the hallmarks of joint action. The results of the comparison lead to a new perspective for understanding how existing myoelectric systems relate to each other, along with recommendations for how to improve these systems by increasing the collaborative communication between each partner.

When testing conditions differ from those represented in training data, so-called out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs can mar the reliability of black-box learned components in the modern robot autonomy stack. Therefore, coping with OOD data is an important challenge on the path towards trustworthy learning-enabled open-world autonomy. In this paper, we aim to demystify the topic of OOD data and its associated challenges in the context of data-driven robotic systems, drawing connections to emerging paradigms in the ML community that study the effect of OOD data on learned models in isolation. We argue that as roboticists, we should reason about the overall system-level competence of a robot as it performs tasks in OOD conditions. We highlight key research questions around this system-level view of OOD problems to guide future research toward safe and reliable learning-enabled autonomy.