机器人的视觉系统根据应用程序的要求不同：它可能需要高精度或可靠性，受到有限的资源的约束或需要快速适应动态变化的环境。在这项工作中，我们专注于实例分割任务，并对不同的技术进行了全面的研究，这些技术允许在存在新对象或不同域的存在下调整对象分割模型。我们为针对数据流入的机器人应用设计的快速实例细分学习提供了一条管道。它基于在预训练的CNN上利用的混合方法，用于特征提取和基于快速培训的基于内核的分类器。我们还提出了一种培训协议，该协议可以通过在数据采集期间执行特征提取来缩短培训时间。我们在两个机器人数据集上基准了提议的管道，然后将其部署在一个真实的机器人上，即iCub类人体。为了这个目的，我们将方法调整为一个增量设置，在该设置中，机器人在线学习新颖对象。复制实验的代码在GitHub上公开可用。

Due to object detection's close relationship with video analysis and image understanding, it has attracted much research attention in recent years. Traditional object detection methods are built on handcrafted features and shallow trainable architectures. Their performance easily stagnates by constructing complex ensembles which combine multiple low-level image features with high-level context from object detectors and scene classifiers. With the rapid development in deep learning, more powerful tools, which are able to learn semantic, high-level, deeper features, are introduced to address the problems existing in traditional architectures. These models behave differently in network architecture, training strategy and optimization function, etc. In this paper, we provide a review on deep learning based object detection frameworks. Our review begins with a brief introduction on the history of deep learning and its representative tool, namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Then we focus on typical generic object detection architectures along with some modifications and useful tricks to improve detection performance further. As distinct specific detection tasks exhibit different characteristics, we also briefly survey several specific tasks, including salient object detection, face detection and pedestrian detection. Experimental analyses are also provided to compare various methods and draw some meaningful conclusions. Finally, several promising directions and tasks are provided to serve as guidelines for future work in both object detection and relevant neural network based learning systems.

执行联合互动需要持续相互监测自己的动作及其对对方行为的影响。这种行动效应的监测受到社会提示的提高，并可能导致越来越多的代理意识。共同行动和联合注意力严格相关，两者都有助于形成精确的时间协调。在人类机器人的互动中，机器人能够与人类伴侣建立共同关注并利用各种社会提示进行反应的能力是创建交流机器人的关键步骤。沿着社会组成部分，可以将有效的人类机器人互动视为改进和使机器人的学习过程更自然和健壮的新方法。在这项工作中，我们使用不同的社交技能，例如相互视线，凝视跟随，言语和人的面部识别，以开发有效的教师学习者场景，适用于动态环境中的视觉对象学习。 ICUB机器人的实验表明，该系统允许机器人通过与人类老师的自然互动来学习新对象，并在存在分心者的情况下学习。

大多数最先进的实例级人类解析模型都采用了两阶段的基于锚的探测器，因此无法避免启发式锚盒设计和像素级别缺乏分析。为了解决这两个问题，我们设计了一个实例级人类解析网络，该网络在像素级别上无锚固且可解决。它由两个简单的子网络组成：一个用于边界框预测的无锚检测头和一个用于人体分割的边缘引导解析头。无锚探测器的头继承了像素样的优点，并有效地避免了对象检测应用中证明的超参数的敏感性。通过引入部分感知的边界线索，边缘引导的解析头能够将相邻的人类部分与彼此区分开，最多可在一个人类实例中，甚至重叠的实例。同时，利用了精炼的头部整合盒子级别的分数和部分分析质量，以提高解析结果的质量。在两个多个人类解析数据集（即CIHP和LV-MHP-V2.0）和一个视频实例级人类解析数据集（即VIP）上进行实验，表明我们的方法实现了超过全球级别和实例级别的性能最新的一阶段自上而下的替代方案。

在本文中，我们介绍了Siammask，这是一个实时使用相同简单方法实时执行视觉对象跟踪和视频对象分割的框架。我们通过通过二进制细分任务来增强其损失，从而改善了流行的全面暹罗方法的离线培训程序。离线训练完成后，SiamMask只需要一个单个边界框来初始化，并且可以同时在高框架速率下进行视觉对象跟踪和分割。此外，我们表明可以通过简单地以级联的方式重新使用多任务模型来扩展框架以处理多个对象跟踪和细分。实验结果表明，我们的方法具有较高的处理效率，每秒约55帧。它可以在视觉对象跟踪基准测试中产生实时最新结果，同时以高速进行视频对象分割基准测试以高速显示竞争性能。

实时机器人掌握，支持随后的精确反对操作任务，是高级高级自治系统的优先目标。然而，尚未找到这样一种可以用时间效率进行充分准确的掌握的算法。本文提出了一种新的方法，其具有2阶段方法，它使用深神经网络结合快速的2D对象识别，以及基于点对特征框架的随后的精确和快速的6D姿态估计来形成实时3D对象识别和抓握解决方案能够多对象类场景。所提出的解决方案有可能在实时应用上稳健地进行，需要效率和准确性。为了验证我们的方法，我们进行了广泛且彻底的实验，涉及我们自己的数据集的费力准备。实验结果表明，该方法在5CM5DEG度量标准中的精度97.37％，平均距离度量分数99.37％。实验结果显示了通过使用该方法的总体62％的相对改善（5cm5deg度量）和52.48％（平均距离度量）。此外，姿势估计执行也显示出运行时间的平均改善47.6％。最后，为了说明系统在实时操作中的整体效率，进行了一个拾取和放置的机器人实验，并显示了90％的准确度的令人信服的成功率。此实验视频可在https://sites.google.com/view/dl-ppf6dpose/上获得。

We present a new, embarrassingly simple approach to instance segmentation. Compared to many other dense prediction tasks, e.g., semantic segmentation, it is the arbitrary number of instances that have made instance segmentation much more challenging. In order to predict a mask for each instance, mainstream approaches either follow the "detect-then-segment" strategy (e.g., Mask R-CNN), or predict embedding vectors first then use clustering techniques to group pixels into individual instances. We view the task of instance segmentation from a completely new perspective by introducing the notion of "instance categories", which assigns categories to each pixel within an instance according to the instance's location and size, thus nicely converting instance segmentation into a single-shot classification-solvable problem. We demonstrate a much simpler and flexible instance segmentation framework with strong performance, achieving on par accuracy with Mask R-CNN and outperforming recent single-shot instance segmenters in accuracy. We hope that this simple and strong framework can serve as a baseline for many instance-level recognition tasks besides instance segmentation. Code is available at https://git.io/AdelaiDet

本文介绍了Houghnet，这是一种单阶段，无锚，基于投票的，自下而上的对象检测方法。受到广义的霍夫变换的启发，霍尼特通过在该位置投票的总和确定了某个位置的物体的存在。投票是根据对数极极投票领域的近距离和长距离地点收集的。由于这种投票机制，Houghnet能够整合近距离和远程的班级条件证据以进行视觉识别，从而概括和增强当前的对象检测方法，这通常仅依赖于本地证据。在可可数据集中，Houghnet的最佳型号达到$ 46.4 $ $ $ ap $（和$ 65.1 $ $ $ ap_ {50} $），与自下而上的对象检测中的最先进的作品相同，超越了最重要的一项 - 阶段和两阶段方法。我们进一步验证了提案在其他视觉检测任务中的有效性，即视频对象检测，实例分割，3D对象检测和人为姿势估计的关键点检测以及其他“图像”图像生成任务的附加“标签”，其中集成的集成在所有情况下，我们的投票模块始终提高性能。代码可在https://github.com/nerminsamet/houghnet上找到。

In this paper, we introduce an anchor-box free and single shot instance segmentation method, which is conceptually simple, fully convolutional and can be used by easily embedding it into most off-the-shelf detection methods. Our method, termed PolarMask, formulates the instance segmentation problem as predicting contour of instance through instance center classification and dense distance regression in a polar coordinate. Moreover, we propose two effective approaches to deal with sampling high-quality center examples and optimization for dense distance regression, respectively, which can significantly improve the performance and simplify the training process. Without any bells and whistles, PolarMask achieves 32.9% in mask mAP with single-model and single-scale training/testing on the challenging COCO dataset.For the first time, we show that the complexity of instance segmentation, in terms of both design and computation complexity, can be the same as bounding box object detection and this much simpler and flexible instance segmentation framework can achieve competitive accuracy. We hope that the proposed PolarMask framework can serve as a fundamental and strong baseline for single shot instance segmentation task. Code is available at: github.com/xieenze/PolarMask.

X-ray imaging technology has been used for decades in clinical tasks to reveal the internal condition of different organs, and in recent years, it has become more common in other areas such as industry, security, and geography. The recent development of computer vision and machine learning techniques has also made it easier to automatically process X-ray images and several machine learning-based object (anomaly) detection, classification, and segmentation methods have been recently employed in X-ray image analysis. Due to the high potential of deep learning in related image processing applications, it has been used in most of the studies. This survey reviews the recent research on using computer vision and machine learning for X-ray analysis in industrial production and security applications and covers the applications, techniques, evaluation metrics, datasets, and performance comparison of those techniques on publicly available datasets. We also highlight some drawbacks in the published research and give recommendations for future research in computer vision-based X-ray analysis.

In this paper we illustrate how to perform both visual object tracking and semi-supervised video object segmentation, in real-time, with a single simple approach. Our method, dubbed SiamMask, improves the offline training procedure of popular fully-convolutional Siamese approaches for object tracking by augmenting their loss with a binary segmentation task. Once trained, SiamMask solely relies on a single bounding box initialisation and operates online, producing class-agnostic object segmentation masks and rotated bounding boxes at 55 frames per second. Despite its simplicity, versatility and fast speed, our strategy allows us to establish a new state of the art among real-time trackers on VOT-2018, while at the same time demonstrating competitive performance and the best speed for the semisupervised video object segmentation task on DAVIS-2016 and DAVIS-2017. The project website is http://www. robots.ox.ac.uk/ ˜qwang/SiamMask.

标记数据通常昂贵且耗时，特别是对于诸如对象检测和实例分割之类的任务，这需要对图像的密集标签进行密集的标签。虽然几张拍摄对象检测是关于培训小说中的模型（看不见的）对象类具有很少的数据，但它仍然需要在许多标记的基础（见）类的课程上进行训练。另一方面，自我监督的方法旨在从未标记数据学习的学习表示，该数据转移到诸如物体检测的下游任务。结合几次射击和自我监督的物体检测是一个有前途的研究方向。在本调查中，我们审查并表征了几次射击和自我监督对象检测的最新方法。然后，我们给我们的主要外卖，并讨论未来的研究方向。https://gabrielhuang.github.io/fsod-survey/的项目页面

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.

Feature pyramids are a basic component in recognition systems for detecting objects at different scales. But recent deep learning object detectors have avoided pyramid representations, in part because they are compute and memory intensive. In this paper, we exploit the inherent multi-scale, pyramidal hierarchy of deep convolutional networks to construct feature pyramids with marginal extra cost. A topdown architecture with lateral connections is developed for building high-level semantic feature maps at all scales. This architecture, called a Feature Pyramid Network (FPN), shows significant improvement as a generic feature extractor in several applications. Using FPN in a basic Faster R-CNN system, our method achieves state-of-the-art singlemodel results on the COCO detection benchmark without bells and whistles, surpassing all existing single-model entries including those from the COCO 2016 challenge winners. In addition, our method can run at 6 FPS on a GPU and thus is a practical and accurate solution to multi-scale object detection. Code will be made publicly available.

The 1$^{\text{st}}$ Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi) 2023 focused on maritime computer vision for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), and organized several subchallenges in this domain: (i) UAV-based Maritime Object Detection, (ii) UAV-based Maritime Object Tracking, (iii) USV-based Maritime Obstacle Segmentation and (iv) USV-based Maritime Obstacle Detection. The subchallenges were based on the SeaDronesSee and MODS benchmarks. This report summarizes the main findings of the individual subchallenges and introduces a new benchmark, called SeaDronesSee Object Detection v2, which extends the previous benchmark by including more classes and footage. We provide statistical and qualitative analyses, and assess trends in the best-performing methodologies of over 130 submissions. The methods are summarized in the appendix. The datasets, evaluation code and the leaderboard are publicly available at https://seadronessee.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/macvi.

We propose a fully convolutional one-stage object detector (FCOS) to solve object detection in a per-pixel prediction fashion, analogue to semantic segmentation. Almost all state-of-the-art object detectors such as RetinaNet, SSD, YOLOv3, and Faster R-CNN rely on pre-defined anchor boxes. In contrast, our proposed detector FCOS is anchor box free, as well as proposal free. By eliminating the predefined set of anchor boxes, FCOS completely avoids the complicated computation related to anchor boxes such as calculating overlapping during training. More importantly, we also avoid all hyper-parameters related to anchor boxes, which are often very sensitive to the final detection performance. With the only post-processing non-maximum suppression (NMS), FCOS with ResNeXt-64x4d-101 achieves 44.7% in AP with single-model and single-scale testing, surpassing previous one-stage detectors with the advantage of being much simpler. For the first time, we demonstrate a much simpler and flexible detection framework achieving improved detection accuracy. We hope that the proposed FCOS framework can serve as a simple and strong alternative for many other instance-level tasks. Code is available at:tinyurl.com/FCOSv1

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.

In this paper we present a new computer vision task, named video instance segmentation. The goal of this new task is simultaneous detection, segmentation and tracking of instances in videos. In words, it is the first time that the image instance segmentation problem is extended to the video domain. To facilitate research on this new task, we propose a large-scale benchmark called YouTube-VIS, which consists of 2,883 high-resolution YouTube videos, a 40-category label set and 131k high-quality instance masks.In addition, we propose a novel algorithm called Mask-Track R-CNN for this task. Our new method introduces a new tracking branch to Mask R-CNN to jointly perform the detection, segmentation and tracking tasks simultaneously. Finally, we evaluate the proposed method and several strong baselines on our new dataset. Experimental results clearly demonstrate the advantages of the proposed algorithm and reveal insight for future improvement. We believe the video instance segmentation task will motivate the community along the line of research for video understanding.

准确且强大的视觉对象跟踪是最具挑战性和最基本的计算机视觉问题之一。它需要在图像序列中估计目标的轨迹，仅给出其初始位置和分段，或者在边界框的形式中粗略近似。判别相关滤波器（DCF）和深度暹罗网络（SNS）被出现为主导跟踪范式，这导致了重大进展。在过去十年的视觉对象跟踪快速演变之后，该调查介绍了90多个DCFS和暹罗跟踪器的系统和彻底审查，基于九个跟踪基准。首先，我们介绍了DCF和暹罗跟踪核心配方的背景理论。然后，我们在这些跟踪范式中区分和全面地审查共享以及具体的开放研究挑战。此外，我们彻底分析了DCF和暹罗跟踪器对九个基准的性能，涵盖了视觉跟踪的不同实验方面：数据集，评估度量，性能和速度比较。通过提出根据我们的分析提出尊重开放挑战的建议和建议来完成调查。

We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. The method, called Mask R-CNN, extends Faster R-CNN by adding a branch for predicting an object mask in parallel with the existing branch for bounding box recognition. Mask R-CNN is simple to train and adds only a small overhead to Faster R-CNN, running at 5 fps. Moreover, Mask R-CNN is easy to generalize to other tasks, e.g., allowing us to estimate human poses in the same framework. We show top results in all three tracks of the COCO suite of challenges, including instance segmentation, bounding-box object detection, and person keypoint detection. Without tricks, Mask R-CNN outperforms all existing, single-model entries on every task, including the COCO 2016 challenge winners. We hope our simple and effective approach will serve as a solid baseline and help ease future research in instance-level recognition. Code will be made available.