Understanding objects is a central building block of artificial intelligence, especially for embodied AI. Even though object recognition excels with deep learning, current machines still struggle to learn higher-level knowledge, e.g., what attributes an object has, and what can we do with an object. In this work, we propose a challenging Object Concept Learning (OCL) task to push the envelope of object understanding. It requires machines to reason out object affordances and simultaneously give the reason: what attributes make an object possesses these affordances. To support OCL, we build a densely annotated knowledge base including extensive labels for three levels of object concept (category, attribute, affordance), and the causal relations of three levels. By analyzing the causal structure of OCL, we present a baseline, Object Concept Reasoning Network (OCRN). It leverages causal intervention and concept instantiation to infer the three levels following their causal relations. In experiments, OCRN effectively infers the object knowledge while following the causalities well. Our data and code are available at https://mvig-rhos.com/ocl.

The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge is a benchmark in object category classification and detection on hundreds of object categories and millions of images. The challenge has been run annually from 2010 to present, attracting participation from more than fifty institutions. This paper describes the creation of this benchmark dataset and the advances in object recognition that have been possible as a result. We discuss the chal-

深度学习技术导致了通用对象检测领域的显着突破，近年来产生了很多场景理解的任务。由于其强大的语义表示和应用于场景理解，场景图一直是研究的焦点。场景图生成（SGG）是指自动将图像映射到语义结构场景图中的任务，这需要正确标记检测到的对象及其关系。虽然这是一项具有挑战性的任务，但社区已经提出了许多SGG方法并取得了良好的效果。在本文中，我们对深度学习技术带来了近期成就的全面调查。我们审查了138个代表作品，涵盖了不同的输入方式，并系统地将现有的基于图像的SGG方法从特征提取和融合的角度进行了综述。我们试图通过全面的方式对现有的视觉关系检测方法进行连接和系统化现有的视觉关系检测方法，概述和解释SGG的机制和策略。最后，我们通过深入讨论当前存在的问题和未来的研究方向来完成这项调查。本调查将帮助读者更好地了解当前的研究状况和想法。

Despite progress in perceptual tasks such as image classification, computers still perform poorly on cognitive tasks such as image description and question answering. Cognition is core to tasks that involve not just recognizing, but reasoning about our visual world. However, models used to tackle the rich content in images for cognitive tasks are still being trained using the same datasets designed for perceptual tasks. To achieve success at cognitive tasks, models need to understand the interactions and relationships between objects in

Recent work pre-training Transformers with self-supervised objectives on large text corpora has shown great success when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks including text summarization. However, pre-training objectives tailored for abstractive text summarization have not been explored. Furthermore there is a lack of systematic evaluation across diverse domains. In this work, we propose pre-training large Transformer-based encoder-decoder models on massive text corpora with a new selfsupervised objective. In PEGASUS, important sentences are removed/masked from an input document and are generated together as one output sequence from the remaining sentences, similar to an extractive summary. We evaluated our best PEGASUS model on 12 downstream summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories, instructions, emails, patents, and legislative bills. Experiments demonstrate it achieves state-of-the-art performance on all 12 downstream datasets measured by ROUGE scores. Our model also shows surprising performance on low-resource summarization, surpassing previous state-of-the-art results on 6 datasets with only 1000 examples. Finally we validated our results using human evaluation and show that our model summaries achieve human performance on multiple datasets.

视觉表示学习在各种现实世界中无处不在，包括视觉理解，视频理解，多模式分析，人类计算机的互动和城市计算。由于出现了大量多模式的异质空间/时间/时空数据，因此在大数据时代，缺乏可解释性，鲁棒性和分布外的概括正在成为现有视觉模型的挑战。大多数现有方法倾向于符合原始数据/可变分布，而忽略了多模式知识背后的基本因果关系，该知识缺乏统一的指导和分析，并分析了为什么现代视觉表示学习方法很容易崩溃成数据偏见并具有有限的概括和认知能力。因此，受到人类水平代理人的强大推理能力的启发，近年来见证了巨大的努力，以发展因果推理范式，以良好的认知能力实现强大的代表性和模型学习。在本文中，我们对视觉表示学习的现有因果推理方法进行了全面审查，涵盖了基本理论，模型和数据集。还讨论了当前方法和数据集的局限性。此外，我们提出了一些预期的挑战，机会和未来的研究方向，用于基准视觉表示学习中的因果推理算法。本文旨在为这个新兴领域提供全面的概述，引起人们的注意，鼓励讨论，使发展新颖的因果推理方法，公开可用的基准和共识建设标准的紧迫性，以可靠的视觉表示和相关的真实实践。世界应用更有效。

场景图是一个场景的结构化表示，可以清楚地表达场景中对象之间的对象，属性和关系。随着计算机视觉技术继续发展，只需检测和识别图像中的对象，人们不再满足。相反，人们期待着对视觉场景更高的理解和推理。例如，给定图像，我们希望不仅检测和识别图像中的对象，还要知道对象之间的关系（视觉关系检测），并基于图像内容生成文本描述（图像标题）。或者，我们可能希望机器告诉我们图像中的小女孩正在做什么（视觉问题应答（VQA）），甚至从图像中移除狗并找到类似的图像（图像编辑和检索）等。这些任务需要更高水平的图像视觉任务的理解和推理。场景图只是场景理解的强大工具。因此，场景图引起了大量研究人员的注意力，相关的研究往往是跨模型，复杂，快速发展的。然而，目前没有对场景图的相对系统的调查。为此，本调查对现行场景图研究进行了全面调查。更具体地说，我们首先总结了场景图的一般定义，随后对场景图（SGG）和SGG的发电方法进行了全面和系统的讨论，借助于先验知识。然后，我们调查了场景图的主要应用，并汇总了最常用的数据集。最后，我们对场景图的未来发展提供了一些见解。我们相信这将是未来研究场景图的一个非常有帮助的基础。

在AI研究中，到目前为止，尽管这一方面在智能系统的功能中突出特征，但对功能和负担的表征和代表的表征和代表的关注一直是零星和稀疏的。迄今为止，零星和稀疏的稀疏努力是对功能和负担的表征和理解，也没有一般框架可以统一与功能概念的表示和应用有关的所有不同使用域和情况。本文开发了这样的一般框架，一种方法强调了一个事实，即所涉及的表示必须是明确的认知和概念性的，它们还必须包含有关涉及的事件和过程的因果特征，并采用了概念上的结构，这些概念结构是扎根的为了达到最大的通用性，他们所指的指南。描述了基本的一般框架，以及一组有关功能表示的基本指南原则。为了正确，充分地表征和表示功能，需要一种描述性表示语言。该语言是定义和开发的，并描述了其使用的许多示例。一般框架是基于一般语言含义表示代表框架的概念依赖性的扩展而开发的。为了支持功能的一般表征和表示，基本的概念依赖框架通过称为结构锚和概念依赖性阐述的代表性设备以及一组地面概念的定义来增强。这些新颖的代表性构建体得到了定义，开发和描述。处理功能的一般框架将代表实现人工智能的重大步骤。

情绪分析中最突出的任务是为文本分配情绪，并了解情绪如何在语言中表现出来。自然语言处理的一个重要观察结果是，即使没有明确提及情感名称，也可以通过单独参考事件来隐式传达情绪。在心理学中，被称为评估理论的情感理论类别旨在解释事件与情感之间的联系。评估可以被形式化为变量，通过他们认为相关的事件的人们的认知评估来衡量认知评估。其中包括评估事件是否是新颖的，如果该人认为自己负责，是否与自己的目标以及许多其他人保持一致。这样的评估解释了哪些情绪是基于事件开发的，例如，新颖的情况会引起惊喜或不确定后果的人可能引起恐惧。我们在文本中分析了评估理论对情绪分析的适用性，目的是理解注释者是否可以可靠地重建评估概念，如果可以通过文本分类器预测，以及评估概念是否有助于识别情感类别。为了实现这一目标，我们通过要求人们发短信描述触发特定情绪并披露其评估的事件来编译语料库。然后，我们要求读者重建文本中的情感和评估。这种设置使我们能够衡量是否可以纯粹从文本中恢复情绪和评估，并为判断模型的绩效指标提供人体基准。我们将文本分类方法与人类注释者的比较表明，两者都可以可靠地检测出具有相似性能的情绪和评估。我们进一步表明，评估概念改善了文本中情绪的分类。

为了使AI安全地在医院，学校和工作场所等现实世界中安全部署，它必须能够坚定地理解物理世界。这种推理的基础是物理常识：了解可用对象的物理特性和提供的能力，如何被操纵以及它们如何与其他对象进行交互。物理常识性推理从根本上是一项多感官任务，因为物理特性是通过多种模式表现出来的，其中两个是视觉和声学。我们的论文通过贡献PACS来朝着现实世界中的物理常识推理：第一个用于物理常识属性注释的视听基准。 PACS包含13,400对答案对，涉及1,377个独特的物理常识性问题和1,526个视频。我们的数据集提供了新的机会来通过将音频作为此多模式问题的核心组成部分来推进物理推理的研究领域。使用PACS，我们在我们的新挑战性任务上评估了多种最先进的模型。尽管某些模型显示出令人鼓舞的结果（精度为70％），但它们都没有人类的绩效（精度为95％）。我们通过证明多模式推理的重要性并为未来的研究提供了可能的途径来结束本文。

The PASCAL Visual Object Classes (VOC) challenge is a benchmark in visual object category recognition and detection, providing the vision and machine learning communities with a standard dataset of images and annotation, and standard evaluation procedures. Organised annually from 2005 to present, the challenge and its associated dataset has become accepted as the benchmark for object detection.This paper describes the dataset and evaluation procedure. We review the state-of-the-art in evaluated methods for both classification and detection, analyse whether the methods are statistically different, what they are learning from the images (e.g. the object or its context), and what the methods find easy or confuse. The paper concludes with lessons learnt in the three year history of the challenge, and proposes directions for future improvement and extension.

Current learning machines have successfully solved hard application problems, reaching high accuracy and displaying seemingly "intelligent" behavior. Here we apply recent techniques for explaining decisions of state-of-the-art learning machines and analyze various tasks from computer vision and arcade games. This showcases a spectrum of problem-solving behaviors ranging from naive and short-sighted, to wellinformed and strategic. We observe that standard performance evaluation metrics can be oblivious to distinguishing these diverse problem solving behaviors. Furthermore, we propose our semi-automated Spectral Relevance Analysis that provides a practically effective way of characterizing and validating the behavior of nonlinear learning machines. This helps to assess whether a learned model indeed delivers reliably for the problem that it was conceived for. Furthermore, our work intends to add a voice of caution to the ongoing excitement about machine intelligence and pledges to evaluate and judge some of these recent successes in a more nuanced manner.

自动化驾驶系统（广告）开辟了汽车行业的新领域，为未来的运输提供了更高的效率和舒适体验的新可能性。然而，在恶劣天气条件下的自主驾驶已经存在，使自动车辆（AVS）长时间保持自主车辆（AVS）或更高的自主权。本文评估了天气在分析和统计方式中为广告传感器带来的影响和挑战，并对恶劣天气条件进行了解决方案。彻底报道了关于对每种天气的感知增强的最先进技术。外部辅助解决方案如V2X技术，当前可用的数据集，模拟器和天气腔室的实验设施中的天气条件覆盖范围明显。通过指出各种主要天气问题，自主驾驶场目前正在面临，近年来审查硬件和计算机科学解决方案，这项调查概述了在不利的天气驾驶条件方面的障碍和方向的障碍和方向。

我们介绍了遮阳板，一个新的像素注释的新数据集和一个基准套件，用于在以自我为中心的视频中分割手和活动对象。遮阳板注释Epic-kitchens的视频，其中带有当前视频分割数据集中未遇到的新挑战。具体而言，我们需要确保像素级注释作为对象经历变革性相互作用的短期和长期一致性，例如洋葱被剥皮，切成丁和煮熟 - 我们旨在获得果皮，洋葱块，斩波板，刀，锅以及表演手的准确像素级注释。遮阳板引入了一条注释管道，以零件为ai驱动，以进行可伸缩性和质量。总共，我们公开发布257个对象类的272K手册语义面具，990万个插值密集口罩，67K手动关系，涵盖36小时的179个未修剪视频。除了注释外，我们还引入了视频对象细分，互动理解和长期推理方面的三个挑战。有关数据，代码和排行榜：http：//epic-kitchens.github.io/visor

我们介绍了自回归文本到图像（Parti）模型的途径，该模型生成高保真的影像图像并支持涉及复杂组成和世界知识的内容丰富的合成。 Parti将文本对图像生成视为类似于机器翻译的序列到序列建模问题，图像令牌的序列是目标输出，而不是其他语言的文本令牌。这种策略自然可以利用大型语言模型的先前工作，通过扩展数据和模型尺寸，能力和性能的持续进展。我们的方法很简单：首先，Parti使用基于变压器的图像令牌VIT-VQGAN将图像编码为离散令牌的序列。其次，我们通过将编码器二次变压器模型缩放到20B参数来实现一致的质量改进，其新的最新零弹药FID得分为7.23，而MS-Coco的FIDED得分为3.22。我们对本地化叙述以及党的详细分析（P2），这是1600多个英语提示的新的整体基准，证明了Parti在各种类别和难度方面的有效性。我们还探索并突出了我们的模型的局限性，以定义和体现关注重点领域以进一步改进。有关高分辨率图像，请参见https://parti.research.google/。

互动对象理解，或者我们可以对对象做些什么以及计算机愿景的长期目标。在本文中，我们通过观察野外的自我高端视频的人类手来解决这个问题。我们展示了观察人类的手与之交互以及如何提供相关数据和必要的监督。参加双手，容易定位并稳定积极的物体以进行学习，并揭示发生与对象的交互的地方。分析手显示我们可以对物体做些什么以及如何做些。我们在史诗厨房数据集上应用这些基本原则，并成功地学习了国家敏感的特征，以及互动区域和提供了麦克拉斯的地区），纯粹是通过观察在EGoCentric视频中的手。

The International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS) is a workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop systems for reading music, such as in the field of Optical Music Recognition, with other researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists. The relevant topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Music reading systems; Optical music recognition; Datasets and performance evaluation; Image processing on music scores; Writer identification; Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores; Multi-modal systems; Novel input-methods for music to produce written music; Web-based Music Information Retrieval services; Applications and projects; Use-cases related to written music. These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Reading Music Systems, held in Alicante on the 23rd of July 2021.

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans in some respects. Despite their biological inspiration and performance achievements, these systems differ from human intelligence in crucial ways. We review progress in cognitive science suggesting that truly human-like learning and thinking machines will have to reach beyond current engineering trends in both what they learn, and how they learn it. Specifically, we argue that these machines should (a) build causal models of the world that support explanation and understanding, rather than merely solving pattern recognition problems; (b) ground learning in intuitive theories of physics and psychology, to support and enrich the knowledge that is learned; and (c) harness compositionality and learning-to-learn to rapidly acquire and generalize knowledge to new tasks and situations. We suggest concrete challenges and promising routes towards these goals that can combine the strengths of recent neural network advances with more structured cognitive models.

State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify any other visual concept. Learning directly from raw text about images is a promising alternative which leverages a much broader source of supervision. We demonstrate that the simple pre-training task of predicting which caption goes with which image is an efficient and scalable way to learn SOTA image representations from scratch on a dataset of 400 million (image, text) pairs collected from the internet. After pre-training, natural language is used to reference learned visual concepts (or describe new ones) enabling zero-shot transfer of the model to downstream tasks. We study the performance of this approach by benchmarking on over 30 different existing computer vision datasets, spanning tasks such as OCR, action recognition in videos, geo-localization, and many types of fine-grained object classification. The model transfers non-trivially to most tasks and is often competitive with a fully supervised baseline without the need for any dataset specific training. For instance, we match the accuracy of the original ResNet-50 on ImageNet zero-shot without needing to use any of the 1.28 million training examples it was trained on. We release our code and pre-trained model weights at https://github.com/OpenAI/CLIP.

随着人工智能系统变得越来越强大和普遍，人们对机器的道德或缺乏道德的关注变得越来越关注。然而，向机器讲授道德是一项艰巨的任务，因为道德仍然是人类中最激烈的争论问题之一，更不用说AI了。但是，部署到数百万用户的现有AI系统已经在做出充满道德影响的决策，这构成了一个看似不可能的挑战：教学机器的道德意义，而人类继续努力努力。为了探索这一挑战，我们介绍了Delphi，这是一个基于深层神经网络的实验框架，直接训练了描述性道德判断，例如，“帮助朋友”通常是不错的，而“帮助朋友传播假新闻”不是。经验结果提供了对机器伦理的承诺和局限性的新见解。面对新的道德情况，德尔菲（Delphi）表现出强大的概括能力，而现成的神经网络模型表现出明显差的判断，包括不公正的偏见，证实了对明确教学机器的道德意义的必要性。然而，德尔菲并不完美，表现出对普遍性偏见和不一致的敏感性。尽管如此，我们还是展示了不完美的Delphi的积极用例，包括在其他不完美的AI系统中将其用作组件模型。重要的是，我们根据著名的道德理论来解释Delphi的运营化，这使我们提出了重要的未来研究问题。