Single-frame InfraRed Small Target (SIRST) detection has been a challenging task due to a lack of inherent characteristics, imprecise bounding box regression, a scarcity of real-world datasets, and sensitive localization evaluation. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive solution to these challenges. First, we find that the existing anchor-free label assignment method is prone to mislabeling small targets as background, leading to their omission by detectors. To overcome this issue, we propose an all-scale pseudo-box-based label assignment scheme that relaxes the constraints on scale and decouples the spatial assignment from the size of the ground-truth target. Second, motivated by the structured prior of feature pyramids, we introduce the one-stage cascade refinement network (OSCAR), which uses the high-level head as soft proposals for the low-level refinement head. This allows OSCAR to process the same target in a cascade coarse-to-fine manner. Finally, we present a new research benchmark for infrared small target detection, consisting of the SIRST-V2 dataset of real-world, high-resolution single-frame targets, the normalized contrast evaluation metric, and the DeepInfrared toolkit for detection. We conduct extensive ablation studies to evaluate the components of OSCAR and compare its performance to state-of-the-art model-driven and data-driven methods on the SIRST-V2 benchmark. Our results demonstrate that a top-down cascade refinement framework can improve the accuracy of infrared small target detection without sacrificing efficiency. The DeepInfrared toolkit, dataset, and trained models are available at https://github.com/YimianDai/open-deepinfrared to advance further research in this field.

最近，神经辐射场（NERF）正在彻底改变新型视图合成（NVS）的卓越性能。但是，NERF及其变体通常需要进行冗长的每场训练程序，其中将多层感知器（MLP）拟合到捕获的图像中。为了解决挑战，已经提出了体素网格表示，以显着加快训练的速度。但是，这些现有方法只能处理静态场景。如何开发有效，准确的动态视图合成方法仍然是一个开放的问题。将静态场景的方法扩展到动态场景并不简单，因为场景几何形状和外观随时间变化。在本文中，基于素素网格优化的最新进展，我们提出了一种快速变形的辐射场方法来处理动态场景。我们的方法由两个模块组成。第一个模块采用变形网格来存储3D动态功能，以及使用插值功能将观测空间中的3D点映射到规范空间的变形的轻巧MLP。第二个模块包含密度和颜色网格，以建模场景的几何形状和密度。明确对阻塞进行了建模，以进一步提高渲染质量。实验结果表明，我们的方法仅使用20分钟的训练就可以实现与D-NERF相当的性能，该训练比D-NERF快70倍以上，这清楚地证明了我们提出的方法的效率。

语言模型既展示了定量的改进，又展示了新的定性功能，随着规模的增加。尽管它们具有潜在的变革性影响，但这些新能力的特征却很差。为了为未来的研究提供信息，为破坏性的新模型能力做准备，并改善社会有害的效果，至关重要的是，我们必须了解目前和近乎未来的能力和语言模型的局限性。为了应对这一挑战，我们介绍了超越模仿游戏基准（Big Bench）。 Big Bench目前由204个任务组成，由132家机构的442位作者贡献。任务主题是多样的，从语言学，儿童发展，数学，常识性推理，生物学，物理学，社会偏见，软件开发等等。 Big-Bench专注于被认为超出当前语言模型的功能的任务。我们评估了OpenAI的GPT型号，Google内部密集变压器体系结构和大型基础上的开关稀疏变压器的行为，跨越了数百万到数十亿个参数。此外，一个人类专家评估者团队执行了所有任务，以提供强大的基准。研究结果包括：模型性能和校准都随规模改善，但绝对的术语（以及与评估者的性能相比）；在模型类中的性能非常相似，尽管带有稀疏性。逐渐和预测的任务通常涉及大量知识或记忆成分，而在临界规模上表现出“突破性”行为的任务通常涉及多个步骤或组成部分或脆性指标；社交偏见通常会随着含糊不清的环境而随着规模而增加，但这可以通过提示来改善。

我们报告了张力层造影差异相位对比度显微镜（T2DPC），这是一种用于同时测量相和各向异性的无定量标签层析成像方法。T2DPC扩展了差异相位对比显微镜（一种定量相成像技术），以突出光的矢量性质。该方法求解了从配备有LED矩阵，圆极偏振器和偏振敏感摄像机的标准显微镜获得的强度测量的各向异性样品的介电常数张量。我们证明了各种验证样品的折射率，双折射和方向的准确体积重建，并证明生物标本的重建极化结构是病理学的预测。

我们从一组未配对的清晰和朦胧的图像中提供了实用的基于学习的图像飞行网络。本文提供了一种新的观点，可以将图像除去作为两类分离的因子分离任务，即清晰图像重建的任务相关因素以及与雾霾相关的分布的任务含量。为了在深度特征空间中实现这两类因素的分离，将对比度学习引入了一个自行车框架中，以通过指导与潜在因素相关的生成的图像来学习分离的表示形式。通过这种表述，提出的对比度拆除的脱掩护方法（CDD-GAN）采用负面发电机与编码器网络合作以交替进行更新，以产生挑战性负面对手的队列。然后，这些负面的对手是端到端训练的，以及骨干代表网络，以通过最大化对抗性对比损失来增强歧视性信息并促进因素分离性能。在培训期间，我们进一步表明，硬性负面例子可以抑制任务 - 无关紧要的因素和未配对的清晰景象可以增强与任务相关的因素，以便更好地促进雾霾去除并帮助图像恢复。对合成和现实世界数据集的广泛实验表明，我们的方法对现有的未配对飞行基线的表现良好。

伪装的物体检测（COD）旨在将伪装的物体掩盖隐藏在环境中，这是由于伪装对象及其周围环境的类似外观而具有挑战性。生物学研究表明深度可以为伪装对象发现提供有用的对象本地化提示。在本文中，我们研究了伪装对象检测的深度贡献，其中利用现有的单目深度估计（MDE）方法产生深度图。由于MDE数据集和我们的COD数据集之间的域间隙，所生成的深度映射不足以直接使用。然后，我们介绍了两个解决方案，以避免嘈杂的深度地图从主导培训过程中。首先，我们介绍了辅助深度估计分支（“ADE”），旨在重新映射深度图。我们发现我们的“生成深度”情景特别需要“Ade”。其次，我们通过生成的对抗性网络引入多模态的信心感知损失函数，以对伪装对象检测的深度的贡献。我们对各种伪装对象检测数据集的广泛实验说明了现有的“传感器深度”的RGB-D分段技术与“生成深度”工作，我们提出的两个解决方案协同工作，实现了伪装对象检测的有效深度贡献探索。

When using LiDAR semantic segmentation models for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, it is essential to understand and improve their robustness with respect to a large range of LiDAR corruptions. In this paper, we aim to comprehensively analyze the robustness of LiDAR semantic segmentation models under various corruptions. To rigorously evaluate the robustness and generalizability of current approaches, we propose a new benchmark called SemanticKITTI-C, which features 16 out-of-domain LiDAR corruptions in three groups, namely adverse weather, measurement noise and cross-device discrepancy. Then, we systematically investigate 11 LiDAR semantic segmentation models, especially spanning different input representations (e.g., point clouds, voxels, projected images, and etc.), network architectures and training schemes. Through this study, we obtain two insights: 1) We find out that the input representation plays a crucial role in robustness. Specifically, under specific corruptions, different representations perform variously. 2) Although state-of-the-art methods on LiDAR semantic segmentation achieve promising results on clean data, they are less robust when dealing with noisy data. Finally, based on the above observations, we design a robust LiDAR segmentation model (RLSeg) which greatly boosts the robustness with simple but effective modifications. It is promising that our benchmark, comprehensive analysis, and observations can boost future research in robust LiDAR semantic segmentation for safety-critical applications.

In recent years, arbitrary image style transfer has attracted more and more attention. Given a pair of content and style images, a stylized one is hoped that retains the content from the former while catching style patterns from the latter. However, it is difficult to simultaneously keep well the trade-off between the content details and the style features. To stylize the image with sufficient style patterns, the content details may be damaged and sometimes the objects of images can not be distinguished clearly. For this reason, we present a new transformer-based method named STT for image style transfer and an edge loss which can enhance the content details apparently to avoid generating blurred results for excessive rendering on style features. Qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that STT achieves comparable performance to state-of-the-art image style transfer methods while alleviating the content leak problem.

In contrast to the control-theoretic methods, the lack of stability guarantee remains a significant problem for model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods. Jointly learning a policy and a Lyapunov function has recently become a promising approach to ensuring the whole system with a stability guarantee. However, the classical Lyapunov constraints researchers introduced cannot stabilize the system during the sampling-based optimization. Therefore, we propose the Adaptive Stability Certification (ASC), making the system reach sampling-based stability. Because the ASC condition can search for the optimal policy heuristically, we design the Adaptive Lyapunov-based Actor-Critic (ALAC) algorithm based on the ASC condition. Meanwhile, our algorithm avoids the optimization problem that a variety of constraints are coupled into the objective in current approaches. When evaluated on ten robotic tasks, our method achieves lower accumulated cost and fewer stability constraint violations than previous studies.

With the increasing ability of large language models (LLMs), in-context learning (ICL) has become a new paradigm for natural language processing (NLP), where LLMs make predictions only based on contexts augmented with a few training examples. It has been a new trend exploring ICL to evaluate and extrapolate the ability of LLMs. In this paper, we aim to survey and summarize the progress, challenges, and future work in ICL. We first present a formal definition of ICL and clarify its correlation to related studies. Then, we organize and discuss advanced techniques of ICL, including training strategies, prompting strategies, and so on. Finally, we present the challenges of ICL and provide potential directions for further research. We hope our work can encourage more research on uncovering how ICL works and improving ICL in future work.