Conventional cameras capture image irradiance on a sensor and convert it to RGB images using an image signal processor (ISP). The images can then be used for photography or visual computing tasks in a variety of applications, such as public safety surveillance and autonomous driving. One can argue that since RAW images contain all the captured information, the conversion of RAW to RGB using an ISP is not necessary for visual computing. In this paper, we propose a novel $\rho$-Vision framework to perform high-level semantic understanding and low-level compression using RAW images without the ISP subsystem used for decades. Considering the scarcity of available RAW image datasets, we first develop an unpaired CycleR2R network based on unsupervised CycleGAN to train modular unrolled ISP and inverse ISP (invISP) models using unpaired RAW and RGB images. We can then flexibly generate simulated RAW images (simRAW) using any existing RGB image dataset and finetune different models originally trained for the RGB domain to process real-world camera RAW images. We demonstrate object detection and image compression capabilities in RAW-domain using RAW-domain YOLOv3 and RAW image compressor (RIC) on snapshots from various cameras. Quantitative results reveal that RAW-domain task inference provides better detection accuracy and compression compared to RGB-domain processing. Furthermore, the proposed \r{ho}-Vision generalizes across various camera sensors and different task-specific models. Additional advantages of the proposed $\rho$-Vision that eliminates the ISP are the potential reductions in computations and processing times.

Homography estimation is a basic computer vision task, which aims to obtain the transformation from multi-view images for image alignment. Unsupervised learning homography estimation trains a convolution neural network for feature extraction and transformation matrix regression. While the state-of-theart homography method is based on convolution neural networks, few work focuses on transformer which shows superiority in highlevel vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a strong-baseline model based on the Swin Transformer, which combines convolution neural network for local features and transformer module for global features. Moreover, a cross non-local layer is introduced to search the matched features within the feature maps coarsely. In the homography regression stage, we adopt an attention layer for the channels of correlation volume, which can drop out some weak correlation feature points. The experiment shows that in 8 Degree-of-Freedoms(DOFs) homography estimation our method overperforms the state-of-the-art method.

Federated learning (FL) has been recognized as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning paradigm that enables knowledge sharing among various heterogeneous artificial intelligence (AIoT) devices through centralized global model aggregation. FL suffers from model inaccuracy and slow convergence due to the model heterogeneity of the AIoT devices involved. Although various existing methods try to solve the bottleneck of the model heterogeneity problem, most of them improve the accuracy of heterogeneous models in a coarse-grained manner, which makes it still a great challenge to deploy large-scale AIoT devices. To alleviate the negative impact of this problem and take full advantage of the diversity of each heterogeneous model, we propose an efficient framework named HierarchyFL, which uses a small amount of public data for efficient and scalable knowledge across a variety of differently structured models. By using self-distillation and our proposed ensemble library, each hierarchical model can intelligently learn from each other on cloud servers. Experimental results on various well-known datasets show that HierarchyFL can not only maximize the knowledge sharing among various heterogeneous models in large-scale AIoT systems, but also greatly improve the model performance of each involved heterogeneous AIoT device.

We propose a PiggyBack, a Visual Question Answering platform that allows users to apply the state-of-the-art visual-language pretrained models easily. The PiggyBack supports the full stack of visual question answering tasks, specifically data processing, model fine-tuning, and result visualisation. We integrate visual-language models, pretrained by HuggingFace, an open-source API platform of deep learning technologies; however, it cannot be runnable without programming skills or deep learning understanding. Hence, our PiggyBack supports an easy-to-use browser-based user interface with several deep learning visual language pretrained models for general users and domain experts. The PiggyBack includes the following benefits: Free availability under the MIT License, Portability due to web-based and thus runs on almost any platform, A comprehensive data creation and processing technique, and ease of use on deep learning-based visual language pretrained models. The demo video is available on YouTube and can be found at https://youtu.be/iz44RZ1lF4s.

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.

Federated Learning (FL), as a rapidly evolving privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm, is a promising approach to enable edge intelligence in the emerging Industrial Metaverse. Even though many successful use cases have proved the feasibility of FL in theory, in the industrial practice of Metaverse, the problems of non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.) data, learning forgetting caused by streaming industrial data, and scarce communication bandwidth remain key barriers to realize practical FL. Facing the above three challenges simultaneously, this paper presents a high-performance and efficient system named HFEDMS for incorporating practical FL into Industrial Metaverse. HFEDMS reduces data heterogeneity through dynamic grouping and training mode conversion (Dynamic Sequential-to-Parallel Training, STP). Then, it compensates for the forgotten knowledge by fusing compressed historical data semantics and calibrates classifier parameters (Semantic Compression and Compensation, SCC). Finally, the network parameters of the feature extractor and classifier are synchronized in different frequencies (Layer-wiseAlternative Synchronization Protocol, LASP) to reduce communication costs. These techniques make FL more adaptable to the heterogeneous streaming data continuously generated by industrial equipment, and are also more efficient in communication than traditional methods (e.g., Federated Averaging). Extensive experiments have been conducted on the streamed non-i.i.d. FEMNIST dataset using 368 simulated devices. Numerical results show that HFEDMS improves the classification accuracy by at least 6.4% compared with 8 benchmarks and saves both the overall runtime and transfer bytes by up to 98%, proving its superiority in precision and efficiency.

多跳的推理需要汇总多个文档来回答一个复杂的问题。现有方法通常将多跳问题分解为更简单的单跳问题，以解决说明可解释的推理过程的问题。但是，他们忽略了每个推理步骤的支持事实的基础，这往往会产生不准确的分解。在本文中，我们提出了一个可解释的逐步推理框架，以在每个中间步骤中同时合并单跳支持句子识别和单跳问题生成，并利用当前跳跃的推断，直到推理最终结果。我们采用统一的读者模型来进行中级跳跃推理和最终的跳跃推理，并采用关节优化，以更准确，强大的多跳上推理。我们在两个基准数据集HOTPOTQA和2WIKIMULTIHOPQA上进行实验。结果表明，我们的方法可以有效地提高性能，并在不分解监督的情况下产生更好的解释推理过程。

自上而下的方法主导了3D人类姿势和形状估计的领域，因为它们与人类的检测脱钩，并使研究人员能够专注于核心问题。但是，裁剪是他们的第一步，从一开始就丢弃了位置信息，这使自己无法准确预测原始摄像机坐标系中的全局旋转。为了解决此问题，我们建议将完整框架（悬崖）的位置信息携带到此任务中。具体而言，我们通过将裁剪图像功能与其边界盒信息连接在一起来养活更多的整体功能来悬崖。我们通过更广泛的全帧视图来计算2D再投影损失，进行了类似于图像中投射的人的投影过程。克里夫（Cliff）通过全球态度感知信息进行了喂养和监督，直接预测全球旋转以及更准确的明确姿势。此外，我们提出了一个基于Cliff的伪基真实注释，该注释为野外2D数据集提供了高质量的3D注释，并为基于回归的方法提供了至关重要的全面监督。对流行基准测试的广泛实验表明，悬崖的表现要超过先前的艺术，并在Agora排行榜上获得了第一名（SMPL-Algorithms曲目）。代码和数据可在https://github.com/huawei-noah/noah-research/tree/master/cliff中获得。

图形离群值检测是一项具有许多应用程序的新兴但至关重要的机器学习任务。尽管近年来算法扩散，但缺乏标准和统一的绩效评估设置限制了它们在现实世界应用中的进步和使用。为了利用差距，我们（据我们所知）（据我们所知）第一个全面的无监督节点离群值检测基准为unod，并带有以下亮点：（1）评估骨架从经典矩阵分解到最新图形神经的骨架的14个方法网络； （2）在现实世界数据集上使用不同类型的注射异常值和自然异常值对方法性能进行基准测试； （3）通过在不同尺度的合成图上使用运行时和GPU存储器使用算法的效率和可扩展性。基于广泛的实验结果的分析，我们讨论了当前渠道方法的利弊，并指出了多个关键和有希望的未来研究方向。

作为当今最受欢迎的机器学习模型之一，Graph神经网络（GNN）最近引起了激烈的兴趣，其解释性也引起了人们的兴趣。用户对更好地了解GNN模型及其结果越来越感兴趣。不幸的是，当今的GNN评估框架通常依赖于合成数据集，从而得出有限范围的结论，因为问题实例缺乏复杂性。由于GNN模型被部署到更关键的任务应用程序中，因此我们迫切需要使用GNN解释性方法的共同评估协议。在本文中，据我们最大的知识，我们提出了针对GNN解释性的第一个系统评估框架，考虑了三种不同的“用户需求”的解释性：解释焦点，掩盖性质和掩蔽转换。我们提出了一个独特的指标，该指标将忠诚度措施结合在一起，并根据其足够或必要的质量对解释进行分类。我们将自己范围用于节点分类任务，并比较GNN的输入级解释性领域中最具代表性的技术。对于广泛使用的合成基准测试，令人惊讶的是，诸如个性化Pagerank之类的浅水技术在最小计算时间内具有最佳性能。但是，当图形结构更加复杂并且节点具有有意义的特征时，根据我们的评估标准，基于梯度的方法，尤其是显着性。但是，没有人在所有评估维度上占主导地位，而且总会有一个权衡。我们在eBay图上的案例研究中进一步应用了我们的评估协议，以反映生产环境。