为了实现良好的性能和概括性，医疗图像分割模型应在具有足够可变性的大量数据集上进行培训。由于道德和治理限制以及与标签数据相关的成本，经常对科学发展进行扼杀，并经过对有限数据的培训和测试。数据增强通常用于人为地增加数据分布的可变性并提高模型的通用性。最近的作品探索了图像合成的深层生成模型，因为这种方法将使有效的无限数据生成多种多样的数据，从而解决了通用性和数据访问问题。但是，许多提出的解决方案限制了用户对生成内容的控制。在这项工作中，我们提出了Brainspade，该模型将基于合成扩散的标签发生器与语义图像发生器结合在一起。我们的模型可以在有或没有感兴趣的病理的情况下产生完全合成的大脑标签，然后产生任意引导样式的相应MRI图像。实验表明，Brainspade合成数据可用于训练分割模型，其性能与在真实数据中训练的模型相当。

可以使用医学成像数据研究人类解剖学，形态和相关疾病。但是，访问医学成像数据受到治理和隐私问题，数据所有权和获取成本的限制，从而限制了我们理解人体的能力。解决此问题的一个可能解决方案是创建能够学习的模型，然后生成以相关性的特定特征（例如，年龄，性别和疾病状态）来生成人体的合成图像。最近，以神经网络形式的深层生成模型已被用于创建自然场景的合成2D图像。尽管如此，数据稀缺性，算法和计算局限性仍阻碍了具有正确解剖形态的高分辨率3D体积成像数据的能力。这项工作提出了一个生成模型，可以缩放以产生人类大脑的解剖学正确，高分辨率和现实的图像，并具有必要的质量，以允许进一步的下游分析。产生潜在无限数据的能力不仅能够对人体解剖学和病理学进行大规模研究，而不会危及患者的隐私，而且还可以在异常检测，模态综合，有限的数据和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平和公平的学习领域进行显着提高。道德AI。代码和训练有素的模型可在以下网址提供：https：//github.com/amigolab/synthanatomy。

Despite the impact of psychiatric disorders on clinical health, early-stage diagnosis remains a challenge. Machine learning studies have shown that classifiers tend to be overly narrow in the diagnosis prediction task. The overlap between conditions leads to high heterogeneity among participants that is not adequately captured by classification models. To address this issue, normative approaches have surged as an alternative method. By using a generative model to learn the distribution of healthy brain data patterns, we can identify the presence of pathologies as deviations or outliers from the distribution learned by the model. In particular, deep generative models showed great results as normative models to identify neurological lesions in the brain. However, unlike most neurological lesions, psychiatric disorders present subtle changes widespread in several brain regions, making these alterations challenging to identify. In this work, we evaluate the performance of transformer-based normative models to detect subtle brain changes expressed in adolescents and young adults. We trained our model on 3D MRI scans of neurotypical individuals (N=1,765). Then, we obtained the likelihood of neurotypical controls and psychiatric patients with early-stage schizophrenia from an independent dataset (N=93) from the Human Connectome Project. Using the predicted likelihood of the scans as a proxy for a normative score, we obtained an AUROC of 0.82 when assessing the difference between controls and individuals with early-stage schizophrenia. Our approach surpassed recent normative methods based on brain age and Gaussian Process, showing the promising use of deep generative models to help in individualised analyses.

Out-of-distribution detection is crucial to the safe deployment of machine learning systems. Currently, the state-of-the-art in unsupervised out-of-distribution detection is dominated by generative-based approaches that make use of estimates of the likelihood or other measurements from a generative model. Reconstruction-based methods offer an alternative approach, in which a measure of reconstruction error is used to determine if a sample is out-of-distribution. However, reconstruction-based approaches are less favoured, as they require careful tuning of the model's information bottleneck - such as the size of the latent dimension - to produce good results. In this work, we exploit the view of denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPM) as denoising autoencoders where the bottleneck is controlled externally, by means of the amount of noise applied. We propose to use DDPMs to reconstruct an input that has been noised to a range of noise levels, and use the resulting multi-dimensional reconstruction error to classify out-of-distribution inputs. Our approach outperforms not only reconstruction-based methods, but also state-of-the-art generative-based approaches.

深度神经网络在医学图像分析中带来了显着突破。但是，由于其渴望数据的性质，医学成像项目中适度的数据集大小可能会阻碍其全部潜力。生成合成数据提供了一种有希望的替代方案，可以补充培训数据集并进行更大范围的医学图像研究。最近，扩散模型通过产生逼真的合成图像引起了计算机视觉社区的注意。在这项研究中，我们使用潜在扩散模型探索从高分辨率3D脑图像中生成合成图像。我们使用来自英国生物银行数据集的T1W MRI图像（n = 31,740）来训练我们的模型，以了解脑图像的概率分布，该脑图像以协变量为基础，例如年龄，性别和大脑结构量。我们发现我们的模型创建了现实的数据，并且可以使用条件变量有效地控制数据生成。除此之外，我们创建了一个带有100,000次脑图像的合成数据集，并使科学界公开使用。

深层生成模型已成为检测数据中任意异常的有前途的工具，并分配了手动标记的必要性。最近，自回旋变压器在医学成像中取得了最先进的性能。但是，这些模型仍然具有一些内在的弱点，例如需要将图像建模为1D序列，在采样过程中误差的积累以及与变压器相关的显着推理时间。去核扩散概率模型是一类非自动回旋生成模型，最近显示出可以在计算机视觉中产生出色的样品（超过生成的对抗网络），并实现与变压器具有竞争力同时具有快速推理时间的对数可能性。扩散模型可以应用于自动编码器学到的潜在表示，使其易于扩展，并适用于高维数据（例如医学图像）的出色候选者。在这里，我们提出了一种基于扩散模型的方法，以检测和分段脑成像中的异常。通过在健康数据上训练模型，然后探索其在马尔可夫链上的扩散和反向步骤，我们可以识别潜在空间中的异常区域，因此可以确定像素空间中的异常情况。我们的扩散模型与一系列具有2D CT和MRI数据的实验相比，具有竞争性能，涉及合成和实际病理病变，推理时间大大减少，从而使它们的用法在临床上可行。

通过提供丰富的训练信号来塑造代理人的潜国空间，建模世界可以使机器人学习受益。然而，在诸如图像之类的高维观察空间上的无约束环境中学习世界模型是具有挑战性的。一个难度来源是存在无关但难以模范的背景干扰，以及不重要的任务相关实体的视觉细节。我们通过学习经常性潜在的动态模型来解决这个问题，该模型对比预测下一次观察。即使使用同时的相机，背景和色调分散，这种简单的模型也会导致令人惊讶的鲁棒机器人控制。我们优于替代品，如双刺激方法，这些方法施加来自未来奖励或未来最佳行为的不同性措施。我们在分散注意力控制套件上获得最先进的结果，是基于像素的机器人控制的具有挑战性的基准。

Compliance in actuation has been exploited to generate highly dynamic maneuvers such as throwing that take advantage of the potential energy stored in joint springs. However, the energy storage and release could not be well-timed yet. On the contrary, for multi-link systems, the natural system dynamics might even work against the actual goal. With the introduction of variable stiffness actuators, this problem has been partially addressed. With a suitable optimal control strategy, the approximate decoupling of the motor from the link can be achieved to maximize the energy transfer into the distal link prior to launch. However, such continuous stiffness variation is complex and typically leads to oscillatory swing-up motions instead of clear launch sequences. To circumvent this issue, we investigate decoupling for speed maximization with a dedicated novel actuator concept denoted Bi-Stiffness Actuation. With this, it is possible to fully decouple the link from the joint mechanism by a switch-and-hold clutch and simultaneously keep the elastic energy stored. We show that with this novel paradigm, it is not only possible to reach the same optimal performance as with power-equivalent variable stiffness actuation, but even directly control the energy transfer timing. This is a major step forward compared to previous optimal control approaches, which rely on optimizing the full time-series control input.

Periocular refers to the region of the face that surrounds the eye socket. This is a feature-rich area that can be used by itself to determine the identity of an individual. It is especially useful when the iris or the face cannot be reliably acquired. This can be the case of unconstrained or uncooperative scenarios, where the face may appear partially occluded, or the subject-to-camera distance may be high. However, it has received revived attention during the pandemic due to masked faces, leaving the ocular region as the only visible facial area, even in controlled scenarios. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art of periocular biometrics, giving an overall framework of its most significant research aspects.

Managing novelty in perception-based human activity recognition (HAR) is critical in realistic settings to improve task performance over time and ensure solution generalization outside of prior seen samples. Novelty manifests in HAR as unseen samples, activities, objects, environments, and sensor changes, among other ways. Novelty may be task-relevant, such as a new class or new features, or task-irrelevant resulting in nuisance novelty, such as never before seen noise, blur, or distorted video recordings. To perform HAR optimally, algorithmic solutions must be tolerant to nuisance novelty, and learn over time in the face of novelty. This paper 1) formalizes the definition of novelty in HAR building upon the prior definition of novelty in classification tasks, 2) proposes an incremental open world learning (OWL) protocol and applies it to the Kinetics datasets to generate a new benchmark KOWL-718, 3) analyzes the performance of current state-of-the-art HAR models when novelty is introduced over time, 4) provides a containerized and packaged pipeline for reproducing the OWL protocol and for modifying for any future updates to Kinetics. The experimental analysis includes an ablation study of how the different models perform under various conditions as annotated by Kinetics-AVA. The protocol as an algorithm for reproducing experiments using the KOWL-718 benchmark will be publicly released with code and containers at https://github.com/prijatelj/human-activity-recognition-in-an-open-world. The code may be used to analyze different annotations and subsets of the Kinetics datasets in an incremental open world fashion, as well as be extended as further updates to Kinetics are released.