In this paper, we present the Circular Accessible Depth (CAD), a robust traversability representation for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to learn traversability in various scenarios containing irregular obstacles. To predict CAD, we propose a neural network, namely CADNet, with an attention-based multi-frame point cloud fusion module, Stability-Attention Module (SAM), to encode the spatial features from point clouds captured by LiDAR. CAD is designed based on the polar coordinate system and focuses on predicting the border of traversable area. Since it encodes the spatial information of the surrounding environment, which enables a semi-supervised learning for the CADNet, and thus desirably avoids annotating a large amount of data. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CAD outperforms baselines in terms of robustness and precision. We also implement our method on a real UGV and show that it performs well in real-world scenarios.

In this work, we propose MEDICO, a Multi-viEw Deep generative model for molecule generation, structural optimization, and the SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitor disCOvery. To the best of our knowledge, MEDICO is the first-of-this-kind graph generative model that can generate molecular graphs similar to the structure of targeted molecules, with a multi-view representation learning framework to sufficiently and adaptively learn comprehensive structural semantics from targeted molecular topology and geometry. We show that our MEDICO significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in generating valid, unique, and novel molecules under benchmarking comparisons. In particular, we showcase the multi-view deep learning model enables us to generate not only the molecules structurally similar to the targeted molecules but also the molecules with desired chemical properties, demonstrating the strong capability of our model in exploring the chemical space deeply. Moreover, case study results on targeted molecule generation for the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) show that by integrating molecule docking into our model as chemical priori, we successfully generate new small molecules with desired drug-like properties for the Mpro, potentially accelerating the de novo design of Covid-19 drugs. Further, we apply MEDICO to the structural optimization of three well-known Mpro inhibitors (N3, 11a, and GC376) and achieve ~88% improvement in their binding affinity to Mpro, demonstrating the application value of our model for the development of therapeutics for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Video super-resolution is one of the most popular tasks on mobile devices, being widely used for an automatic improvement of low-bitrate and low-resolution video streams. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem, they are usually quite computationally demanding, demonstrating low FPS rates and power efficiency on mobile devices. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an end-to-end real-time video super-resolution solution for mobile NPUs optimized for low energy consumption. The participants were provided with the REDS training dataset containing video sequences for a 4X video upscaling task. The runtime and power efficiency of all models was evaluated on the powerful MediaTek Dimensity 9000 platform with a dedicated AI processing unit capable of accelerating floating-point and quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 500 FPS rate and 0.2 [Watt / 30 FPS] power consumption. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

Image super-resolution is a common task on mobile and IoT devices, where one often needs to upscale and enhance low-resolution images and video frames. While numerous solutions have been proposed for this problem in the past, they are usually not compatible with low-power mobile NPUs having many computational and memory constraints. In this Mobile AI challenge, we address this problem and propose the participants to design an efficient quantized image super-resolution solution that can demonstrate a real-time performance on mobile NPUs. The participants were provided with the DIV2K dataset and trained INT8 models to do a high-quality 3X image upscaling. The runtime of all models was evaluated on the Synaptics VS680 Smart Home board with a dedicated edge NPU capable of accelerating quantized neural networks. All proposed solutions are fully compatible with the above NPU, demonstrating an up to 60 FPS rate when reconstructing Full HD resolution images. A detailed description of all models developed in the challenge is provided in this paper.

The role of mobile cameras increased dramatically over the past few years, leading to more and more research in automatic image quality enhancement and RAW photo processing. In this Mobile AI challenge, the target was to develop an efficient end-to-end AI-based image signal processing (ISP) pipeline replacing the standard mobile ISPs that can run on modern smartphone GPUs using TensorFlow Lite. The participants were provided with a large-scale Fujifilm UltraISP dataset consisting of thousands of paired photos captured with a normal mobile camera sensor and a professional 102MP medium-format FujiFilm GFX100 camera. The runtime of the resulting models was evaluated on the Snapdragon's 8 Gen 1 GPU that provides excellent acceleration results for the majority of common deep learning ops. The proposed solutions are compatible with all recent mobile GPUs, being able to process Full HD photos in less than 20-50 milliseconds while achieving high fidelity results. A detailed description of all models developed in this challenge is provided in this paper.

Person re-identification plays a significant role in realistic scenarios due to its various applications in public security and video surveillance. Recently, leveraging the supervised or semi-unsupervised learning paradigms, which benefits from the large-scale datasets and strong computing performance, has achieved a competitive performance on a specific target domain. However, when Re-ID models are directly deployed in a new domain without target samples, they always suffer from considerable performance degradation and poor domain generalization. To address this challenge, we propose a Deep Multimodal Fusion network to elaborate rich semantic knowledge for assisting in representation learning during the pre-training. Importantly, a multimodal fusion strategy is introduced to translate the features of different modalities into the common space, which can significantly boost generalization capability of Re-ID model. As for the fine-tuning stage, a realistic dataset is adopted to fine-tune the pre-trained model for better distribution alignment with real-world data. Comprehensive experiments on benchmarks demonstrate that our method can significantly outperform previous domain generalization or meta-learning methods with a clear margin. Our source code will also be publicly available at https://github.com/JeremyXSC/DMF.

最近，基于云的图形卷积网络（GCN）在许多对隐私敏感的应用程序（例如个人医疗保健和金融系统）中表现出了巨大的成功和潜力。尽管在云上具有很高的推理准确性和性能，但在GCN推理中保持数据隐私，这对于这些实际应用至关重要，但仍未得到探索。在本文中，我们对此进行了初步尝试，并开发了$ \ textit {cryptogcn} $ - 基于GCN推理框架的同型加密（HE）。我们方法成功的关键是减少HE操作的巨大计算开销，这可能比明文空间中的同行高的数量级。为此，我们开发了一种方法，可以有效利用GCN推断中基质操作的稀疏性，从而大大减少计算开销。具体而言，我们提出了一种新型的AMA数据格式方法和相关的空间卷积方法，该方法可以利用复杂的图结构并在HE计算中执行有效的矩阵矩阵乘法，从而大大减少HE操作。我们还开发了一个合作式框架，该框架可以通过明智的修剪和GCN中激活模块的多项式近似来探索准确性，安全级别和计算开销之间的交易折扣。基于NTU-Xview骨架关节数据集，即，据我们所知，最大的数据集对同型的评估，我们的实验结果表明，$ \ textit {cryptogcn} $均优胜于最先进的解决方案。同构操作的延迟和数量，即在延迟上达到3.10 $ \ times $加速，并将总代态操作数量减少77.4 \％，而准确度的较小精度损失为1-1.5 $ \％$。

通用域的适应性（UNIDA）旨在将公共类的知识从源域转移到目标域，而无需对标签集的任何先验知识，这需要将未知样本与目标域中的已知样本区分开。就像传统的无监督域适应问题一样，由于偏见和歧视性较低的嵌入，两个域之间的错位也存在。最新方法提出了通过将目标样品与最近的邻居或原型聚类来完成域未对准的方法。但是，这样做是很危险的，因为我们对未知样本的分布没有任何先验知识，这些样本可以放大错位，尤其是当未知集很大的时候。同时，其他现有基于分类器的方法可以轻松地产生对未知样本的过度自信预测，因为在源域中有监督的目标导致整个模型偏向于目标域中的共同类别。因此，我们提出了一种新型的非参数未知样品检测方法，基于将原始特征空间中的样品映射到可靠的线性子空间中，这使数据点更稀疏，以减少未知样品和源样本之间的不对准。此外，与最近应用额外参数以改善未知样品分类的方法不同，本文通过未知的自适应保证金损失可以很好地平衡已知样品和未知样品的置信值，从而可以控制分类器学习的梯度在有监督的来源上的梯度更新样品取决于当前步骤中检测到的未知样品的置信度。最后，在四个公共数据集上的实验表明，我们的方法显着胜过现有的最新方法。

最近已经设计了一些轻巧的卷积神经网络（CNN）模型，用于遥感对象检测（RSOD）。但是，他们中的大多数只是用可分离的卷积代替了香草卷积，这可能是由于很多精确损失而无法有效的，并且可能无法检测到方向的边界框（OBB）。同样，现有的OBB检测方法很难准确限制CNN预测的对象的形状。在本文中，我们提出了一个有效的面向轻质对象检测器（LO-DET）。具体而言，通道分离聚集（CSA）结构旨在简化可分开的卷积的复杂性，并开发了动态的接收场（DRF）机制，以通过自定义卷积内核及其感知范围来保持高精度，以保持高精度。网络复杂性。 CSA-DRF组件在保持高精度的同时优化了效率。然后，对角支撑约束头（DSC-Head）组件旨在检测OBB，并更准确，更稳定地限制其形状。公共数据集上的广泛实验表明，即使在嵌入式设备上，拟议的LO-DET也可以非常快地运行，具有检测方向对象的竞争精度。

在高光谱图像分类（HSI）任务中，忽略了包括有关土地覆盖类别的大量先验知识在内的文本信息。有必要探索语言模式在协助HSI分类方面的有效性。此外，大规模训练的图像文本基础模型在各种下游应用中都表现出了出色的性能，包括零拍传输。但是，大多数领域的概括方法从未解决过采矿语言模态知识以提高模型的概括性能。为了弥补上述不足的不足，提出了一个语言感知的域概括网络（LDGNET），以从跨域共享的先验知识中学习跨域不变的表示。所提出的方法仅在源域（SD）上训练，然后将模型传输到目标域（TD）。包括图像编码器和文本编码器在内的双流架构用于提取视觉和语言特征，其中粗粒和细粒度的文本表示旨在提取两个层次的语言特征。此外，语言特征被用作跨域共享的语义空间，并且通过在语义空间中的对比度学习完成视觉语言对齐。与最先进的技术相比，三个数据集上的广泛实验证明了该方法的优越性。