Objective: Despite numerous studies proposed for audio restoration in the literature, most of them focus on an isolated restoration problem such as denoising or dereverberation, ignoring other artifacts. Moreover, assuming a noisy or reverberant environment with limited number of fixed signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) levels is a common practice. However, real-world audio is often corrupted by a blend of artifacts such as reverberation, sensor noise, and background audio mixture with varying types, severities, and duration. In this study, we propose a novel approach for blind restoration of real-world audio signals by Operational Generative Adversarial Networks (Op-GANs) with temporal and spectral objective metrics to enhance the quality of restored audio signal regardless of the type and severity of each artifact corrupting it. Methods: 1D Operational-GANs are used with generative neuron model optimized for blind restoration of any corrupted audio signal. Results: The proposed approach has been evaluated extensively over the benchmark TIMIT-RAR (speech) and GTZAN-RAR (non-speech) datasets corrupted with a random blend of artifacts each with a random severity to mimic real-world audio signals. Average SDR improvements of over 7.2 dB and 4.9 dB are achieved, respectively, which are substantial when compared with the baseline methods. Significance: This is a pioneer study in blind audio restoration with the unique capability of direct (time-domain) restoration of real-world audio whilst achieving an unprecedented level of performance for a wide SDR range and artifact types. Conclusion: 1D Op-GANs can achieve robust and computationally effective real-world audio restoration with significantly improved performance. The source codes and the generated real-world audio datasets are shared publicly with the research community in a dedicated GitHub repository1.

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.

Owing to the success of transformer models, recent works study their applicability in 3D medical segmentation tasks. Within the transformer models, the self-attention mechanism is one of the main building blocks that strives to capture long-range dependencies, compared to the local convolutional-based design. However, the self-attention operation has quadratic complexity which proves to be a computational bottleneck, especially in volumetric medical imaging, where the inputs are 3D with numerous slices. In this paper, we propose a 3D medical image segmentation approach, named UNETR++, that offers both high-quality segmentation masks as well as efficiency in terms of parameters and compute cost. The core of our design is the introduction of a novel efficient paired attention (EPA) block that efficiently learns spatial and channel-wise discriminative features using a pair of inter-dependent branches based on spatial and channel attention. Our spatial attention formulation is efficient having linear complexity with respect to the input sequence length. To enable communication between spatial and channel-focused branches, we share the weights of query and key mapping functions that provide a complimentary benefit (paired attention), while also reducing the overall network parameters. Our extensive evaluations on three benchmarks, Synapse, BTCV and ACDC, reveal the effectiveness of the proposed contributions in terms of both efficiency and accuracy. On Synapse dataset, our UNETR++ sets a new state-of-the-art with a Dice Similarity Score of 87.2%, while being significantly efficient with a reduction of over 71% in terms of both parameters and FLOPs, compared to the best existing method in the literature. Code: https://github.com/Amshaker/unetr_plus_plus.

Large-scale multi-modal training with image-text pairs imparts strong generalization to CLIP model. Since training on a similar scale for videos is infeasible, recent approaches focus on the effective transfer of image-based CLIP to the video domain. In this pursuit, new parametric modules are added to learn temporal information and inter-frame relationships which require meticulous design efforts. Furthermore, when the resulting models are learned on videos, they tend to overfit on the given task distribution and lack in generalization aspect. This begs the following question: How to effectively transfer image-level CLIP representations to videos? In this work, we show that a simple Video Fine-tuned CLIP (ViFi-CLIP) baseline is generally sufficient to bridge the domain gap from images to videos. Our qualitative analysis illustrates that the frame-level processing from CLIP image-encoder followed by feature pooling and similarity matching with corresponding text embeddings helps in implicitly modeling the temporal cues within ViFi-CLIP. Such fine-tuning helps the model to focus on scene dynamics, moving objects and inter-object relationships. For low-data regimes where full fine-tuning is not viable, we propose a `bridge and prompt' approach that first uses fine-tuning to bridge the domain gap and then learns prompts on language and vision side to adapt CLIP representations. We extensively evaluate this simple yet strong baseline on zero-shot, base-to-novel generalization, few-shot and fully supervised settings across five video benchmarks. Our code is available at https://github.com/muzairkhattak/ViFi-CLIP.

我们考虑无上行赠款非正交多访问（NOMA）中的多用户检测（MUD）问题，其中访问点必须确定活动互联网（IoT）设备的总数和正确的身份他们传输的数据。我们假设IoT设备使用复杂的扩散序列并以随机访问的方式传输信息，按照爆发 - 距离模型，其中一些物联网设备以高概率在多个相邻的时间插槽中传输其数据，而另一些物联网设备在帧中仅传输一次。利用时间相关性，我们提出了一个基于注意力的双向长期记忆（BILSTM）网络来解决泥浆问题。 Bilstm网络使用前向和反向通过LSTM创建设备激活历史记录的模式，而注意机制为设备激活点提供了基本背景。通过这样做，遵循了层次途径，以在无拨款方案中检测主动设备。然后，通过利用复杂的扩散序列，对估计的活动设备进行了盲数据检测。所提出的框架不需要对设备稀疏水平和执行泥浆的通道的先验知识。结果表明，与现有的基准方案相比，提议的网络的性能更好。

在过去的十年中，基于深度学习的算法在遥感图像分析的不同领域中广泛流行。最近，最初在自然语言处理中引入的基于变形金刚的体系结构遍布计算机视觉领域，在该字段中，自我发挥的机制已被用作替代流行的卷积操作员来捕获长期依赖性。受到计算机视觉的最新进展的启发，遥感社区还见证了对各种任务的视觉变压器的探索。尽管许多调查都集中在计算机视觉中的变压器上，但据我们所知，我们是第一个对基于遥感中变压器的最新进展进行系统评价的人。我们的调查涵盖了60多种基于变形金刚的60多种方法，用于遥感子方面的不同遥感问题：非常高分辨率（VHR），高光谱（HSI）和合成孔径雷达（SAR）图像。我们通过讨论遥感中变压器的不同挑战和开放问题来结束调查。此外，我们打算在遥感论文中频繁更新和维护最新的变压器，及其各自的代码：https：//github.com/virobo-15/transformer-in-in-remote-sensing

变压器在自然语言处理中的成功最近引起了计算机视觉领域的关注。由于能够学习长期依赖性，变压器已被用作广泛使用的卷积运算符的替代品。事实证明，这种替代者在许多任务中都取得了成功，其中几种最先进的方法依靠变压器来更好地学习。在计算机视觉中，3D字段还见证了使用变压器来增加3D卷积神经网络和多层感知器网络的增加。尽管许多调查都集中在视力中的变压器上，但由于与2D视觉相比，由于数据表示和处理的差异，3D视觉需要特别注意。在这项工作中，我们介绍了针对不同3D视觉任务的100多种变压器方法的系统和彻底审查，包括分类，细分，检测，完成，姿势估计等。我们在3D Vision中讨论了变形金刚的设计，该设计使其可以使用各种3D表示形式处理数据。对于每个应用程序，我们强调了基于变压器的方法的关键属性和贡献。为了评估这些方法的竞争力，我们将它们的性能与12个3D基准测试的常见非转化方法进行了比较。我们通过讨论3D视觉中变压器的不同开放方向和挑战来结束调查。除了提出的论文外，我们的目标是频繁更新最新的相关论文及其相应的实现：https：//github.com/lahoud/3d-vision-transformers。

最近，已经提出了几种领域的概括（DG）方法，表现出令人鼓舞的性能，但是，几乎所有的都基于卷积神经网络（CNN）。研究视觉变压器（VIT）的DG性能（VIT）几乎没有进展，这挑战了CNN在标准基准测试基准上的至高无上，通常是基于I.I.D假设。这使VITS的现实部署令人怀疑。在本文中，我们试图探索解决DG问题的VIT。与CNN类似，VIT在分发场景中也挣扎，主要的罪魁祸首过于适合来源域。受VIT的模块化体系结构的启发，我们提出了一种简单的DG方法，用于VIT，以VIT的自我验证。它通过策划中间变压器块的非零熵监管信号来减少输入输出映射问题的学习来减少源域的过度拟合。此外，它不会引入任何新参数，并且可以无缝地插入不同VIT的模块化组成中。我们在五个具有挑战性的数据集中以不同的DG基准和各种VIT骨架表现出显着的性能提高。此外，我们报告了针对最近最新的DG方法的有利性能。我们的代码以及预培训的模型可在以下网址公开获取：https：//github.com/maryam089/sdvit

现有的开放式视频探测器通常通过利用不同形式的弱监督来扩大其词汇大小。这有助于推断出新的对象。开放式视频检测（OVD）中使用的两种流行形式的弱点，包括预审计的剪辑模型和图像级监督。我们注意到，这两种监督模式均未在检测任务中最佳地对齐：剪辑经过图像文本对培训，并且缺乏对象的精确定位，而图像级监督已与启发式方法一起使用，这些启发式方法无法准确指定本地对象区域。在这项工作中，我们建议通过从剪辑模型中执行以对象为中心的语言嵌入来解决此问题。此外，我们仅使用伪标记的过程来视觉上仅通过图像级监督对象，该过程提供高质量的对象建议，并有助于在训练过程中扩展词汇。我们通过新的重量转移函数在上述两个对象对准策略之间建立桥梁，该策略汇总了它们的免费强度。本质上，提出的模型试图最大程度地减少OVD设置中对象和以图像为中心表示之间的差距。在可可基准上，我们提出的方法在新颖类中实现了40.3 AP50，绝对11.9比以前的最佳性能获得了11.9的增长。对于LVIS，我们超过了5.0 Mask AP的最先进VILD模型，总体上有3.4个。 。代码：https：//bit.ly/3byzoqp。

为了实现不断增长的准确性，通常会开发大型和复杂的神经网络。这样的模型需要高度的计算资源，因此不能在边缘设备上部署。由于它们在几个应用领域的有用性，建立资源有效的通用网络非常感兴趣。在这项工作中，我们努力有效地结合了CNN和变压器模型的优势，并提出了一种新的有效混合体系结构。特别是在EDGENEXT中，我们引入了分裂深度转置注意力（SDTA）编码器，该编码器将输入张量分解为多个通道组，并利用深度旋转以及跨通道维度的自我注意力，以隐含地增加接受场并编码多尺度特征。我们在分类，检测和分割任务上进行的广泛实验揭示了所提出的方法的优点，优于相对较低的计算要求的最先进方法。我们具有130万参数的EDGENEXT模型在Imagenet-1k上达到71.2 \％TOP-1的精度，超过移动设备的绝对增益为2.2 \％，而拖鞋减少了28 \％。此外，我们具有560万参数的EDGENEXT模型在Imagenet-1k上达到了79.4 \％TOP-1的精度。代码和模型可在https://t.ly/_vu9上公开获得。