We tackle a new problem of multi-view camera and subject registration in the bird's eye view (BEV) without pre-given camera calibration. This is a very challenging problem since its only input is several RGB images from different first-person views (FPVs) for a multi-person scene, without the BEV image and the calibration of the FPVs, while the output is a unified plane with the localization and orientation of both the subjects and cameras in a BEV. We propose an end-to-end framework solving this problem, whose main idea can be divided into following parts: i) creating a view-transform subject detection module to transform the FPV to a virtual BEV including localization and orientation of each pedestrian, ii) deriving a geometric transformation based method to estimate camera localization and view direction, i.e., the camera registration in a unified BEV, iii) making use of spatial and appearance information to aggregate the subjects into the unified BEV. We collect a new large-scale synthetic dataset with rich annotations for evaluation. The experimental results show the remarkable effectiveness of our proposed method.

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Its large reflecting surface achieves unprecedented sensitivity but is prone to damage, such as dents and holes, caused by naturally-occurring falling objects. Hence, the timely and accurate detection of surface defects is crucial for FAST's stable operation. Conventional manual inspection involves human inspectors climbing up and examining the large surface visually, a time-consuming and potentially unreliable process. To accelerate the inspection process and increase its accuracy, this work makes the first step towards automating the inspection of FAST by integrating deep-learning techniques with drone technology. First, a drone flies over the surface along a predetermined route. Since surface defects significantly vary in scale and show high inter-class similarity, directly applying existing deep detectors to detect defects on the drone imagery is highly prone to missing and misidentifying defects. As a remedy, we introduce cross-fusion, a dedicated plug-in operation for deep detectors that enables the adaptive fusion of multi-level features in a point-wise selective fashion, depending on local defect patterns. Consequently, strong semantics and fine-grained details are dynamically fused at different positions to support the accurate detection of defects of various scales and types. Our AI-powered drone-based automated inspection is time-efficient, reliable, and has good accessibility, which guarantees the long-term and stable operation of FAST.

In this paper, we consider the inventory management (IM) problem where we need to make replenishment decisions for a large number of stock keeping units (SKUs) to balance their supply and demand. In our setting, the constraint on the shared resources (such as the inventory capacity) couples the otherwise independent control for each SKU. We formulate the problem with this structure as Shared-Resource Stochastic Game (SRSG)and propose an efficient algorithm called Context-aware Decentralized PPO (CD-PPO). Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that CD-PPO can accelerate the learning procedure compared with standard MARL algorithms.

Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have demonstrated the capabilities of generating stunning photo-realistic portrait images. While some prior works have applied such image GANs to unconditional 2D portrait video generation and static 3D portrait synthesis, there are few works successfully extending GANs for generating 3D-aware portrait videos. In this work, we propose PV3D, the first generative framework that can synthesize multi-view consistent portrait videos. Specifically, our method extends the recent static 3D-aware image GAN to the video domain by generalizing the 3D implicit neural representation to model the spatio-temporal space. To introduce motion dynamics to the generation process, we develop a motion generator by stacking multiple motion layers to generate motion features via modulated convolution. To alleviate motion ambiguities caused by camera/human motions, we propose a simple yet effective camera condition strategy for PV3D, enabling both temporal and multi-view consistent video generation. Moreover, PV3D introduces two discriminators for regularizing the spatial and temporal domains to ensure the plausibility of the generated portrait videos. These elaborated designs enable PV3D to generate 3D-aware motion-plausible portrait videos with high-quality appearance and geometry, significantly outperforming prior works. As a result, PV3D is able to support many downstream applications such as animating static portraits and view-consistent video motion editing. Code and models will be released at https://showlab.github.io/pv3d.

Prompt tuning recently becomes a hot-spot in the applications of large pretrained language models on specific downstream tasks. Regarding the Language Model as a Service (LMaaS), black-box tuning using derivative-free optimization (DFO) provides a novel approach to expand the practical scenarios of pretrained models and enrich the researches of few-shot learning. In this report, we present our solution in this competition that is based on the LMaaS scenario. Our solution consists of several modifications to BBTv2, including multiple label words, selection of P0, rolling update strategy, multi-task loss from MLP classifier, and finally using the ensemble method to further improve generalization ability. We also shared some strategies that we tried but didn't use in the final submission for further discussion. In the end we raised a question about the SNLI dataset and the impact on the results, as well as our concerns about the competition.

Pseudo supervision is regarded as the core idea in semi-supervised learning for semantic segmentation, and there is always a tradeoff between utilizing only the high-quality pseudo labels and leveraging all the pseudo labels. Addressing that, we propose a novel learning approach, called Conservative-Progressive Collaborative Learning (CPCL), among which two predictive networks are trained in parallel, and the pseudo supervision is implemented based on both the agreement and disagreement of the two predictions. One network seeks common ground via intersection supervision and is supervised by the high-quality labels to ensure a more reliable supervision, while the other network reserves differences via union supervision and is supervised by all the pseudo labels to keep exploring with curiosity. Thus, the collaboration of conservative evolution and progressive exploration can be achieved. To reduce the influences of the suspicious pseudo labels, the loss is dynamic re-weighted according to the prediction confidence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPCL achieves state-of-the-art performance for semi-supervised semantic segmentation.

With the development of depth sensors in recent years, RGBD object tracking has received significant attention. Compared with the traditional RGB object tracking, the addition of the depth modality can effectively solve the target and background interference. However, some existing RGBD trackers use the two modalities separately and thus some particularly useful shared information between them is ignored. On the other hand, some methods attempt to fuse the two modalities by treating them equally, resulting in the missing of modality-specific features. To tackle these limitations, we propose a novel Dual-fused Modality-aware Tracker (termed DMTracker) which aims to learn informative and discriminative representations of the target objects for robust RGBD tracking. The first fusion module focuses on extracting the shared information between modalities based on cross-modal attention. The second aims at integrating the RGB-specific and depth-specific information to enhance the fused features. By fusing both the modality-shared and modality-specific information in a modality-aware scheme, our DMTracker can learn discriminative representations in complex tracking scenes. Experiments show that our proposed tracker achieves very promising results on challenging RGBD benchmarks. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/ShangGaoG/DMTracker}.

基于骨架的人类动作识别最近引起了人们对外观变化的敏感性和更多骨架数据的可访问性的敏感性。但是，即使在实践中捕获的3D骨骼也对观点和方向仍然敏感，并给出了不同人体关节的阻塞和人类关节定位中的误差。骨骼数据的这种视图差异可能会严重影响动作识别的性能。为了解决这个问题，我们在本文中提出了一种新的视图不变的表示方法，而没有任何手动动作标签，用于基于骨架的人类行动识别。具体而言，我们通过最大化从不同观点提取的表示形式之间的相互信息来利用同一个人同时对同一个人进行的多视图骨架数据，然后提出一个全局 - 局部对比度损失，以模拟多规模CO - 空间和时间域中的发生关系。广泛的实验结果表明，所提出的方法对输入骨骼数据的视图差异是可靠的，并显着提高了基于无监督骨架的人类动作方法的性能，从而在两个具有挑战性的多视图上产生了新的最新精确度Pkummd和NTU RGB+d的基准。

三维（3D）图像（例如CT，MRI和PET）在医学成像应用中很常见，在临床诊断中很重要。语义歧义是许多医学图像标签的典型特征。这可能是由许多因素引起的，例如成像特性，病理解剖学以及二进制面具的弱表示，这给精确的3D分割带来了挑战。在2D医学图像中，使用软面膜代替图像垫形式产生的二进制掩码来表征病变可以提供丰富的语义信息，更全面地描述病变的结构特征，从而使后续诊断和分析受益。在这项工作中，我们将图像垫子介绍到3D场景中，以描述3D医学图像中的病变。 3D模态中图像垫的研究有限，并且没有与3D矩阵相关的高质量注释数据集，因此减慢了基于数据驱动的深度学习方法的发展。为了解决这个问题，我们构建了第一个3D医疗垫数据集，并通过质量控制和下游实验中的肺结节分类中令人信服地验证了数据集的有效性。然后，我们将四个选定的最新2D图像矩阵算法调整为3D场景，并进一步自定义CT图像的方法。此外，我们提出了第一个端到端的深3D垫网络，并实施了可靠的3D医疗图像垫测试基准，该基准将被发布以鼓励进一步的研究。

近年来，商业上可用和负担得起的四足动物机器人激增，其中许多平台在研究和行业中都被积极使用。随着腿部机器人的可用性的增长，对这些机器人能够执行有用技能的控制器的需求也是如此。但是，大多数用于控制器开发的基于学习的框架都集中在培训机器人特定的控制器上，该过程需要为每个新机器人重复。在这项工作中，我们引入了一个用于训练四足机器人的广义运动（Genloco）控制器的框架。我们的框架合成了可以部署在具有相似形态的各种四足动物的机器人上的通用运动控制器。我们提出了一种简单但有效的形态随机化方法，该方法在程序上生成了一组训练的模拟机器人。我们表明，通过对这套模拟机器人进行训练，我们的模型获得了更多的通用控制策略，这些策略可以直接转移到具有多种形态的新型模拟和真实世界机器人中，在训练过程中未观察到。