Accurate segmentation of power lines in aerial images is essential to ensure the flight safety of aerial vehicles. Acquiring high-quality ground truth annotations for training a deep learning model is a laborious process. Therefore, developing algorithms that can leverage knowledge from labelled synthetic data to unlabelled real images is highly demanded. This process is studied in Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). Recent approaches to self-training have achieved remarkable performance in UDA for semantic segmentation, which trains a model with pseudo labels on the target domain. However, the pseudo labels are noisy due to a discrepancy in the two data distributions. We identify that context dependency is important for bridging this domain gap. Motivated by this, we propose QuadFormer, a novel framework designed for domain adaptive semantic segmentation. The hierarchical quadruple transformer combines cross-attention and self-attention mechanisms to adapt transferable context. Based on cross-attentive and self-attentive feature representations, we introduce a pseudo label correction scheme to online denoise the pseudo labels and reduce the domain gap. Additionally, we present two datasets - ARPLSyn and ARPLReal to further advance research in unsupervised domain adaptive powerline segmentation. Finally, experimental results indicate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance for the domain adaptive power line segmentation on ARPLSyn$\rightarrow$TTTPLA and ARPLSyn$\rightarrow$ARPLReal.

很少有分段旨在学习一个细分模型，该模型可以推广到只有几个培训图像的新课程。在本文中，我们提出了一个交叉引用和局部全球条件网络（CRCNET），以进行几次分割。与以前仅预测查询图像掩码的作品不同，我们提出的模型同时对支持图像和查询图像进行了预测。我们的网络可以更好地在两个图像中使用交叉引用机制找到同时出现的对象，从而有助于少量分割任务。为了进一步改善功能比较，我们开发了一个局部全球条件模块，以捕获全球和本地关系。我们还开发了一个掩模修补模块，以重新完善前景区域的预测。Pascal VOC 2012，MS Coco和FSS-1000数据集的实验表明，我们的网络实现了新的最新性能。

在这项工作中，我们解决了艰巨的任务。几次射击语义细分至关重要，以充分利用支持信息。以前的方法通常采用蒙版的平均池在支持功能上，以将支持线索作为全球向量提取，通常由显着部分主导并失去了某些基本线索。在这项工作中，我们认为希望每个支持像素的信息都需要传输到所有查询像素，并提出一个具有最佳传输匹配模块的对应匹配网络（CMNET），以挖掘查询和支持图像之间的对应关系。此外，从注释的支持图像中充分利用本地和全局信息至关重要。为此，我们提出了一个消息流模块，以沿着同一图像内的内流传播消息，并在支持图像和查询图像之间进行交叉流，这极大地有助于增强本地特征表示。 Pascal VOC 2012，Coco女士和FSS-1000数据集的实验表明，我们的网络实现了新的最先进的少细分性能。

在这项工作中，我们解决了长尾图像识别的具有挑战性的任务。以前的长尾识别方法通常集中于尾巴类别的数据增强或重新平衡策略，以在模型培训期间更加关注尾巴类。但是，由于尾巴类别的训练图像有限，尾部类图像的多样性仍受到限制，从而导致特征表现不佳。在这项工作中，我们假设头部和尾部类中的常见潜在特征可用于提供更好的功能表示。由此激励，我们引入了基于潜在类别的长尾识别（LCREG）方法。具体来说，我们建议学习一组在头和尾巴中共享的类不足的潜在特征。然后，我们通过将语义数据扩展应用于潜在特征，隐式地丰富了训练样本的多样性。对五个长尾图识别数据集进行的广泛实验表明，我们提出的LCREG能够显着超越先前的方法并实现最新结果。

经过图像级标签训练的弱监督图像分割通常在伪地面上的生成期间因物体区域的覆盖率不准确。这是因为对象激活图受到分类目标的训练，并且缺乏概括的能力。为了提高客观激活图的一般性，我们提出了一个区域原型网络RPNET来探索训练集的跨图像对象多样性。通过区域特征比较确定了跨图像的相似对象零件。区域之间传播对象信心，以发现新的对象区域，同时抑制了背景区域。实验表明，该提出的方法会生成更完整和准确的伪对象掩模，同时在Pascal VOC 2012和MS Coco上实现最先进的性能。此外，我们研究了提出的方法在减少训练集方面的鲁棒性。

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this paper, we explore distillation techniques to transfer the success of large MIM-based pre-trained models to smaller ones. We systematically study different options in the distillation framework, including distilling targets, losses, input, network regularization, sequential distillation, etc, revealing that: 1) Distilling token relations is more effective than CLS token- and feature-based distillation; 2) An intermediate layer of the teacher network as target perform better than that using the last layer when the depth of the student mismatches that of the teacher; 3) Weak regularization is preferred; etc. With these findings, we achieve significant fine-tuning accuracy improvements over the scratch MIM pre-training on ImageNet-1K classification, using all the ViT-Tiny, ViT-Small, and ViT-base models, with +4.2%/+2.4%/+1.4% gains, respectively. Our TinyMIM model of base size achieves 52.2 mIoU in AE20K semantic segmentation, which is +4.1 higher than the MAE baseline. Our TinyMIM model of tiny size achieves 79.6% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K image classification, which sets a new record for small vision models of the same size and computation budget. This strong performance suggests an alternative way for developing small vision Transformer models, that is, by exploring better training methods rather than introducing inductive biases into architectures as in most previous works. Code is available at https://github.com/OliverRensu/TinyMIM.

In this paper, we propose a robust 3D detector, named Cross Modal Transformer (CMT), for end-to-end 3D multi-modal detection. Without explicit view transformation, CMT takes the image and point clouds tokens as inputs and directly outputs accurate 3D bounding boxes. The spatial alignment of multi-modal tokens is performed implicitly, by encoding the 3D points into multi-modal features. The core design of CMT is quite simple while its performance is impressive. CMT obtains 73.0% NDS on nuScenes benchmark. Moreover, CMT has a strong robustness even if the LiDAR is missing. Code will be released at https://github.com/junjie18/CMT.

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into a smaller synthetic dataset. A model trained on this smaller distilled dataset can attain comparable performance to a model trained on the original training dataset. However, the existing dataset distillation techniques mainly aim at achieving the best trade-off between resource usage efficiency and model utility. The security risks stemming from them have not been explored. This study performs the first backdoor attack against the models trained on the data distilled by dataset distillation models in the image domain. Concretely, we inject triggers into the synthetic data during the distillation procedure rather than during the model training stage, where all previous attacks are performed. We propose two types of backdoor attacks, namely NAIVEATTACK and DOORPING. NAIVEATTACK simply adds triggers to the raw data at the initial distillation phase, while DOORPING iteratively updates the triggers during the entire distillation procedure. We conduct extensive evaluations on multiple datasets, architectures, and dataset distillation techniques. Empirical evaluation shows that NAIVEATTACK achieves decent attack success rate (ASR) scores in some cases, while DOORPING reaches higher ASR scores (close to 1.0) in all cases. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive ablation study to analyze the factors that may affect the attack performance. Finally, we evaluate multiple defense mechanisms against our backdoor attacks and show that our attacks can practically circumvent these defense mechanisms.

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary findings on the possibility for deep models to transfer knowledge from language to music, by finetuning large language models pre-trained on a massive text corpus on only hundreds of MIDI files of drum performances. We show that by doing so, one of the largest, state-of-the-art models (GPT3) is capable of generating reasonable drum grooves, while models that are not pre-trained (Transformer) shows no such ability beyond naive repetition. Evaluating generated music is a challenging task, more so is evaluating drum grooves with little precedence in literature. Hence, we propose a tailored structural evaluation method and analyze drum grooves produced by GPT3 compared to those played by human professionals, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of such generation by language-to-music transfer. Our findings suggest that language-to-music transfer learning with large language models is viable and promising.