Localizing anatomical landmarks are important tasks in medical image analysis. However, the landmarks to be localized often lack prominent visual features. Their locations are elusive and easily confused with the background, and thus precise localization highly depends on the context formed by their surrounding areas. In addition, the required precision is usually higher than segmentation and object detection tasks. Therefore, localization has its unique challenges different from segmentation or detection. In this paper, we propose a zoom-in attentive network (ZIAN) for anatomical landmark localization in ocular images. First, a coarse-to-fine, or "zoom-in" strategy is utilized to learn the contextualized features in different scales. Then, an attentive fusion module is adopted to aggregate multi-scale features, which consists of 1) a co-attention network with a multiple regions-of-interest (ROIs) scheme that learns complementary features from the multiple ROIs, 2) an attention-based fusion module which integrates the multi-ROIs features and non-ROI features. We evaluated ZIAN on two open challenge tasks, i.e., the fovea localization in fundus images and scleral spur localization in AS-OCT images. Experiments show that ZIAN achieves promising performances and outperforms state-of-the-art localization methods. The source code and trained models of ZIAN are available at https://github.com/leixiaofeng-astar/OMIA9-ZIAN.

这项研究提出了一种基于深度学习的超声（US）图像引导放射疗法的跟踪方法。拟议的级联深度学习模型由注意力网络，基于掩模区域的卷积神经网络（Mask R-CNN）和长期短期记忆（LSTM）网络组成。注意网络从美国图像到可疑的具有里程碑意义的运动区域，以减少搜索区域。然后，面膜R-CNN在减少区域中产生多个利益区域（ROI）建议，并通过三个网络头确定拟议的地标：边界框回归，提案分类和地标分段。 LSTM网络对连续的图像框架之间的时间关系建模，以进行边界框回归和建议分类。为了合并最终建议，根据顺序框架之间的相似性设计选择方法。该方法在肝脏美国跟踪数据集中测试了医疗图像计算和计算机辅助干预措施（MICCAI）2015年的挑战，其中有三位经验丰富的观察者注释了地标，以获得其平均位置。在24个鉴于我们具有地面真相的序列的24个序列上，所有地标的平均跟踪误差为0.65 +/- 0.56毫米，所有地标的误差均在2 mm之内。我们进一步测试了从测试数据集中的69个地标上提出的模型，该模型具有与训练模式相似的图像模式，从而导致平均跟踪误差为0.94 +/- 0.83 mm。我们的实验结果表明，我们提出的方法使用US图像跟踪肝解剖学地标的可行性和准确性，为放射治疗期间的主动运动管理提供了潜在的解决方案。

图像引导放射疗法中的CBCT为患者的设置和计划评估提供了关键的解剖学信息。纵向CBCT图像登记可以量化分裂间的解剖变化。这项研究的目的是提出一个无监督的基于深度学习的CBCT-CBCT变形图像登记。提出的可变形注册工作流程包括训练和推理阶段，这些培训和推理阶段通过基于空间转换的网络（STN）共享相同的进率前路。 STN由全球生成对抗网络（Globalgan）和本地GAN（Localgan）组成，分别预测了粗略和细尺度运动。通过最小化图像相似性损失和可变形矢量场（DVF）正则化损失，而无需监督地面真实DVF的训练，对网络进行了训练。在推理阶段，训练有素的Localgan预测了局部DVF的斑块，并融合形成全图像DVF。随后将局部全图像DVF与Globalgan生成的DVF合并以获得最终的DVF。在实验中，使用来自20名腹部癌症患者的100个分数CBCT评估了该方法，并在保持测试中来自21名不同腹部癌症患者的队列中的105个分数CBCT。从定性上讲，注册结果显示了变形的CBCT图像与目标CBCT图像之间的对齐。定量地，在基准标记和手动确定的地标计算的平均目标注册误差（TRE）为1.91+-1.11 mm。变形CBCT和目标CBCT之间的平均平均绝对误差（MAE），归一化的跨相关性（NCC）分别为33.42+-7.48 HU，0.94+-0.04。这种有希望的注册方法可以提供快速准确的纵向CBCT对准，以促进分流的解剖变化分析和预测。

在多种方案中，多幕科建议专门为用户检索相关项目，这在工业推荐系统中无处不在。这些方案享有用户和项目中的一部分重叠，而不同方案的分布则不同。多阶段建模的关键点是有效地最大程度地利用全幕纳罗来信息，并在多种情况下为用户和项目生成适应性表示。我们总结了三个实用挑战，这些挑战无法很好地解决多幕科建模：（1）在多种情况下缺乏细粒度和脱钩的信息传输控制。 （2）整个空间样品的开发不足。 （3）项目的多幕科代表性分解问题。在本文中，我们提出了一种情景自适应和自我监督（SASS）模型，以解决上述三个挑战。具体而言，我们使用场景自适应门单元设计了多层场景自适应转移（ML-SAT）模块，以相当细粒度且脱钩的方式选择并融合从整个场景到单个场景的有效传输信息。为了充分利用整个空间样品的功能，引入了包括预训练和微调在内的两阶段训练过程。预训练阶段是基于场景监督的对比学习任务，并从标记和未标记的数据空间中绘制的培训样本。该模型是在用户端和项目方面对称创建的，因此我们可以在不同情况下获得项目的区分表示。公共和工业数据集的广泛实验结果证明了SASS模型比最先进的方法的优越性。该模型还可以在在线A/B测试中平均每位用户的观看时间提高8.0％以上。

本文回顾了AIM 2022上压缩图像和视频超级分辨率的挑战。这项挑战包括两条曲目。轨道1的目标是压缩图像的超分辨率，轨迹〜2靶向压缩视频的超分辨率。在轨道1中，我们使用流行的数据集DIV2K作为培训，验证和测试集。在轨道2中，我们提出了LDV 3.0数据集，其中包含365个视频，包括LDV 2.0数据集（335个视频）和30个其他视频。在这一挑战中，有12支球队和2支球队分别提交了赛道1和赛道2的最终结果。所提出的方法和解决方案衡量了压缩图像和视频上超分辨率的最先进。提出的LDV 3.0数据集可在https://github.com/renyang-home/ldv_dataset上找到。此挑战的首页是在https://github.com/renyang-home/aim22_compresssr。

Face Anti-spoofing (FAS) is essential to secure face recognition systems from various physical attacks. However, recent research generally focuses on short-distance applications (i.e., phone unlocking) while lacking consideration of long-distance scenes (i.e., surveillance security checks). In order to promote relevant research and fill this gap in the community, we collect a large-scale Surveillance High-Fidelity Mask (SuHiFiMask) dataset captured under 40 surveillance scenes, which has 101 subjects from different age groups with 232 3D attacks (high-fidelity masks), 200 2D attacks (posters, portraits, and screens), and 2 adversarial attacks. In this scene, low image resolution and noise interference are new challenges faced in surveillance FAS. Together with the SuHiFiMask dataset, we propose a Contrastive Quality-Invariance Learning (CQIL) network to alleviate the performance degradation caused by image quality from three aspects: (1) An Image Quality Variable module (IQV) is introduced to recover image information associated with discrimination by combining the super-resolution network. (2) Using generated sample pairs to simulate quality variance distributions to help contrastive learning strategies obtain robust feature representation under quality variation. (3) A Separate Quality Network (SQN) is designed to learn discriminative features independent of image quality. Finally, a large number of experiments verify the quality of the SuHiFiMask dataset and the superiority of the proposed CQIL.

Embedding words in vector space is a fundamental first step in state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP). Typical NLP solutions employ pre-defined vector representations to improve generalization by co-locating similar words in vector space. For instance, Word2Vec is a self-supervised predictive model that captures the context of words using a neural network. Similarly, GLoVe is a popular unsupervised model incorporating corpus-wide word co-occurrence statistics. Such word embedding has significantly boosted important NLP tasks, including sentiment analysis, document classification, and machine translation. However, the embeddings are dense floating-point vectors, making them expensive to compute and difficult to interpret. In this paper, we instead propose to represent the semantics of words with a few defining words that are related using propositional logic. To produce such logical embeddings, we introduce a Tsetlin Machine-based autoencoder that learns logical clauses self-supervised. The clauses consist of contextual words like "black," "cup," and "hot" to define other words like "coffee," thus being human-understandable. We evaluate our embedding approach on several intrinsic and extrinsic benchmarks, outperforming GLoVe on six classification tasks. Furthermore, we investigate the interpretability of our embedding using the logical representations acquired during training. We also visualize word clusters in vector space, demonstrating how our logical embedding co-locate similar words.

The surrogate loss of variational autoencoders (VAEs) poses various challenges to their training, inducing the imbalance between task fitting and representation inference. To avert this, the existing strategies for VAEs focus on adjusting the tradeoff by introducing hyperparameters, deriving a tighter bound under some mild assumptions, or decomposing the loss components per certain neural settings. VAEs still suffer from uncertain tradeoff learning.We propose a novel evolutionary variational autoencoder (eVAE) building on the variational information bottleneck (VIB) theory and integrative evolutionary neural learning. eVAE integrates a variational genetic algorithm into VAE with variational evolutionary operators including variational mutation, crossover, and evolution. Its inner-outer-joint training mechanism synergistically and dynamically generates and updates the uncertain tradeoff learning in the evidence lower bound (ELBO) without additional constraints. Apart from learning a lossy compression and representation of data under the VIB assumption, eVAE presents an evolutionary paradigm to tune critical factors of VAEs and deep neural networks and addresses the premature convergence and random search problem by integrating evolutionary optimization into deep learning. Experiments show that eVAE addresses the KL-vanishing problem for text generation with low reconstruction loss, generates all disentangled factors with sharp images, and improves the image generation quality,respectively. eVAE achieves better reconstruction loss, disentanglement, and generation-inference balance than its competitors.

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.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most important branches of AI. Due to its capacity for self-adaption and decision-making in dynamic environments, reinforcement learning has been widely applied in multiple areas, such as healthcare, data markets, autonomous driving, and robotics. However, some of these applications and systems have been shown to be vulnerable to security or privacy attacks, resulting in unreliable or unstable services. A large number of studies have focused on these security and privacy problems in reinforcement learning. However, few surveys have provided a systematic review and comparison of existing problems and state-of-the-art solutions to keep up with the pace of emerging threats. Accordingly, we herein present such a comprehensive review to explain and summarize the challenges associated with security and privacy in reinforcement learning from a new perspective, namely that of the Markov Decision Process (MDP). In this survey, we first introduce the key concepts related to this area. Next, we cover the security and privacy issues linked to the state, action, environment, and reward function of the MDP process, respectively. We further highlight the special characteristics of security and privacy methodologies related to reinforcement learning. Finally, we discuss the possible future research directions within this area.