Purpose: Tracking the 3D motion of the surgical tool and the patient anatomy is a fundamental requirement for computer-assisted skull-base surgery. The estimated motion can be used both for intra-operative guidance and for downstream skill analysis. Recovering such motion solely from surgical videos is desirable, as it is compliant with current clinical workflows and instrumentation. Methods: We present Tracker of Anatomy and Tool (TAToo). TAToo jointly tracks the rigid 3D motion of patient skull and surgical drill from stereo microscopic videos. TAToo estimates motion via an iterative optimization process in an end-to-end differentiable form. For robust tracking performance, TAToo adopts a probabilistic formulation and enforces geometric constraints on the object level. Results: We validate TAToo on both simulation data, where ground truth motion is available, as well as on anthropomorphic phantom data, where optical tracking provides a strong baseline. We report sub-millimeter and millimeter inter-frame tracking accuracy for skull and drill, respectively, with rotation errors below 1{\deg}. We further illustrate how TAToo may be used in a surgical navigation setting. Conclusion: We present TAToo, which simultaneously tracks the surgical tool and the patient anatomy in skull-base surgery. TAToo directly predicts the motion from surgical videos, without the need of any markers. Our results show that the performance of TAToo compares favorably to competing approaches. Future work will include fine-tuning of our depth network to reach a 1 mm clinical accuracy goal desired for surgical applications in the skull base.

Purpose: Vision-based robot tool segmentation plays a fundamental role in surgical robots and downstream tasks. CaRTS, based on a complementary causal model, has shown promising performance in unseen counterfactual surgical environments in the presence of smoke, blood, etc. However, CaRTS requires over 30 iterations of optimization to converge for a single image due to limited observability. Method: To address the above limitations, we take temporal relation into consideration and propose a temporal causal model for robot tool segmentation on video sequences. We design an architecture named Temporally Constrained CaRTS (TC-CaRTS). TC-CaRTS has three novel modules to complement CaRTS - temporal optimization pipeline, kinematics correction network, and spatial-temporal regularization. Results: Experiment results show that TC-CaRTS requires much fewer iterations to achieve the same or better performance as CaRTS. TC- CaRTS also has the same or better performance in different domains compared to CaRTS. All three modules are proven to be effective. Conclusion: We propose TC-CaRTS, which takes advantage of temporal constraints as additional observability. We show that TC-CaRTS outperforms prior work in the robot tool segmentation task with improved convergence speed on test datasets from different domains.

时间一致的深度估计对于诸如增强现实之类的实时应用至关重要。虽然立体声深度估计已经接受了显着的注意，导致逐帧的改进，虽然相对较少的工作集中在跨越帧的时间一致性。实际上，基于我们的分析，当前立体声深度估计技术仍然遭受不良时间一致性。由于并发对象和摄像机运动，在动态场景中稳定深度是挑战。在在线设置中，此过程进一步加剧，因为只有过去的帧可用。在本文中，我们介绍了一种技术，在线设置中的动态场景中产生时间一致的深度估计。我们的网络增强了具有新颖运动和融合网络的当前每帧立体声网络。通过预测每个像素SE3变换，运动网络占对象和相机运动。融合网络通过用回归权重聚合当前和先前预测来提高预测的一致性。我们在各种数据集中进行广泛的实验（合成，户外，室内和医疗）。在零射泛化和域微调中，我们证明我们所提出的方法在数量和定性的时间稳定和每个帧精度方面优于竞争方法。我们的代码将在线提供。

外科模拟器不仅允许规划和培训复杂的程序，而且还提供了为算法开发产生结构化数据的能力，这可以应用于图像引导的计算机辅助干预措施。虽然在外科医生或数据生成引擎的发展培训平台上，但我们知识的这两个功能尚未一起提供。我们展示了我们的开发成本效益和协同框架，命名为异步多体框架加（AMBF +），它与练习其外科技能的用户同时生成下游算法开发的数据。 AMBF +在虚拟现实（VR）设备上提供立体显示器，并触觉外科仿真的触觉反馈。它还可以生成不同的数据，例如对象姿势和分段图。 AMBF +采用柔性插件设置设计，可允许仿真仿真不同外科手术。我们将AMBF +的一个用例显示为虚拟钻探模拟器，用于横向颅底手术，用户可以使用虚拟手术钻积极地修改患者解剖结构。我们进一步演示如何生成的数据可用于验证和培训下游计算机视觉算法

目前，这是一个热门的研究主题，可以在深度学习和物联网技术的帮助下实现大量光谱数据的准确，高效和实时识别。深度神经网络在光谱分析中起着关键作用。但是，更深层模型的推断是以静态方式进行的，不能根据设备进行调整。并非所有样本都需要分配所有计算以实现自信的预测，这阻碍了最大化整体性能。为了解决上述问题，我们提出了一个具有自适应推理的光谱数据分类框架。具体而言，要为不同样本分配不同的计算，同时更好地利用不同设备之间的协作，我们利用早期外观体系结构，将中间分类器放置在架构的不同深度，并在预测置信度达到预设阈值时输出结果。我们提出了一个自我介绍学习的训练范式，最深的分类器对浅的分类器进行了软监督，以最大程度地提高其性能和训练速度。同时，为了减轻早期外观范式中中间分类器的位置和数字设置的性能脆弱性，我们提出了一个自适应的残留网络。它可以调整不同曲线位置下每个块中的层数，因此它可以专注于曲线的重要位置（例如：拉曼峰），并根据任务性能和计算资源准确地分配适当的计算预算。据我们所知，本文是首次尝试通过自适应推断物联网平台下的光谱检测来进行优化。我们进行了许多实验，实验结果表明，我们所提出的方法可以比现有方法实现更高的计算预算性能。

注意机制使图形神经网络（GNN）能够学习目标节点与其单跳邻居之间的注意力权重，从而进一步提高性能。但是，大多数现有的GNN都针对均匀图，其中每一层只能汇总单跳邻居的信息。堆叠多层网络引入了相当大的噪音，并且很容易导致过度平滑。我们在这里提出了一种多跃波异质邻域信息融合图表示方法（MHNF）。具体而言，我们提出了一个混合元自动提取模型，以有效提取多ihop混合邻居。然后，我们制定了一个跳级的异质信息聚合模型，该模型在同一混合Metapath中选择性地汇总了不同的跳跃邻域信息。最后，构建了分层语义注意融合模型（HSAF），该模型可以有效地整合不同的互动和不同的路径邻域信息。以这种方式，本文解决了汇总MultiHop邻里信息和学习目标任务的混合元数据的问题。这减轻了手动指定Metapaths的限制。此外，HSAF可以提取Metapaths的内部节点信息，并更好地整合存在不同级别的语义信息。真实数据集的实验结果表明，MHNF在最先进的基准中取得了最佳或竞争性能，仅1/10〜1/100参数和计算预算。我们的代码可在https://github.com/phd-lanyu/mhnf上公开获取。

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.

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.

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.