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Affinity measure in object tracking outputs a similarity or distance score for given detections. As an affinity measure is typically imperfect, it generally has an uncertain region in which regarding two groups of detections as the same object or different objects based on the score can be wrong. How to reduce the uncertain region is a major challenge for most similarity-based tracking methods. Early mistakes often result in distribution drifts for tracked objects and this is another major issue for object tracking. In this paper, we propose a new offline tracking method called agglomerative hierarchical clustering with ensemble of tracking experts (AHC_ETE), to tackle the uncertain region and early mistake issues. We conduct tracking from certain to uncertain to reduce early mistakes. Meanwhile, we ensemble multiple tracking experts to reduce the uncertain region as the final uncertain region is the intersection of those of all tracking experts. Experiments on the MOT15 and MOT16 datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of our method. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/cyoukaikai/ahc_ete.

ICPR 2020

From Certain to Uncertain: Toward Optimal Solution for Offline Multiple Object Tracking

decision making

multiple object tracking

ensemble learning

The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. It is supported by the [Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI).](https://www.auai.org/)

The 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2021) is held fully online. We have an exciting program consisting of keynote talks by [Susan Murphy](https://www.auai.org/uai2021/program?block=A), [Eric Horvitz](https://www.auai.org/uai2021/program?block=B), [Lenka Zdeborová](https://www.auai.org/uai2021/program?block=C), [Judea Pearl](https://www.auai.org/uai2021/program?block=D) and [Ankur Moitra](https://www.auai.org/uai2021/program?block=E), a town hall meeting, peer-reviewed papers, and three workshops. The main conference is single-track and each paper is show-cased with a live component (either a live discussion and Q&A, or a live lightning talk). All papers are also featured in video presentations and in poster sessions in gather.town. The three parallel workshops on Friday allow for smaller meetings on current topics.

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UAI 2021

The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is one of the premier international conferences on research related to knowledge representation, learning, and reasoning in the presence of uncertainty. It is supported by the [Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI).](https://www.auai.org/)

poster

ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 
For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review. 

In this edition of the **ICPR 2020** Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: 
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning for Pattern Analysis; 
- Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; 
- Document and Media Analysis; and 
- Image and Signal Processing. 

The **ICPR 2020** Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR 2020 program. 


In recent years, Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCFs) have gained popularity due to their superior performance in visual object tracking. However, existing DCF trackers usually learn filters using fixed attention mechanisms that focus on the centre of an image and suppresses filter amplitudes in surroundings. In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Context-Aware Discriminative Correlation Filter (ACA-DCF) that is able to improve the existing DCF formulation with complementary attention mechanisms. Our ACA-DCF integrates foreground attention and background attention for complementary context-aware filter learning. More importantly, we ameliorate the design using an adaptive weighting strategy that takes complex appearance variations into account. The experimental results obtained on several well-known benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art approaches.

Adaptive Context-Aware Discriminative Correlation Filters for Robust Visual Object Tracking


Foreground segmentation technologies play an important role in applications such as free-viewpoint video (FVV) and sports video analysis. In this situation, we propose a new method that achieves accurate foreground silhouette extraction method using dynamic object presence probability (DOPP). Our main contributions are as follows. 1) Object presence probability for each pixel is calculated from the object recognition results based on deep learning. After that, background subtraction is implemented by changing the threshold and the update rate of the background model in response to the object presence probability. Parameter tuning of background subtraction is executed by using the object recognition results to improve the silhouette extraction quality. 2) To calculate more accurate silhouette images, parameters of background subtraction are adjusted by monitoring optical flows between consecutive frames. The object presence probability of the current frame is dynamically updated by using the object presence probability of the previous frame with optical flows. In the experiments, we confirmed that the proposed method achieved more accurate silhouette extraction than conventional methods in three sports sequences.

Accurate Background Subtraction Using Dynamic Object Presence Probability in Sports Scenes




In this work, we aim to calculate accurate indoor location with WiFi fingerprints. This task is tricky because the input are high dimensional and noisy. To deal with these issues, we propose a Variational Information Bottleneck-base model. The proposed model consists of an encoder used to find a representation of the input and a predictor used to predict the final output using the latent representation. Finally, we test the proposed model on a real-word dataset and the obtained results show the effectiveness of our method.

Variational Information Bottleneck Model for Accurate Indoor Position Recognition

Meetings are a common activity that provides
certain challenges when creating systems that assist them. Such
is the case of the Active speaker detection, which can provide
useful information for human interaction modeling, or human-robot interaction. Active speaker detection is mostly done using
speech, however, certain visual and contextual information can
provide additional insights. In this paper we propose an active
speaker detection framework that integrates audiovisual features
with social information, from the meeting context. Visual cue
is processed using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that
captures the spatio-temporal relationships. We analyze several
CNN architectures with both cues: raw pixels (RGB images)
and motion (estimated with optical flow). Contextual reasoning
is done with an original methodology, based on the gaze of all
participants. We evaluate our proposal with a public benchmark
in state-of-art: AMI corpus. We show how the addition of visual
and context information improves the performance of the active
speaker detection.

Audio-Video detection of the active speaker in meetings

We propose an automatic method for pain intensity measurement from video. For each video, pain intensity was measured using the dynamics of facial movement using 66 facial points. Gram matrices formulation was used for facial points trajectory representations on the Riemannian manifold of symmetric positive semi-definite matrices of fixed rank. Curve fitting and temporal alignment were then used to smooth the extracted trajectories. A Support Vector Regression model was then trained to encode the extracted trajectories into ten pain intensity levels consistent with the Visual Analogue Scale for pain intensity measurement. The proposed approach was evaluated using the UNBC McMaster Shoulder Pain Archive and was compared to the state-of-the-art on the same data. Using both 5-fold cross-validation and leave-one-subject-out cross-validation, our results are competitive with respect to state-of-the-art methods.

Automatic Estimation of Self-Reported Pain by Interpretable Representations of Motion Dynamics

Understanding human motion behaviour is a critical task for several possible applications like self-driving cars or social robots, and in general for all those settings where an autonomous agent has to navigate inside a human-centric environment. This is non-trivial because human motion is inherently multi-modal: given a history of human motion paths, there are many plausible ways by which people could move in the future. Additionally, people activities are often driven by goals, e.g. reaching particular locations or interacting with the environment. We address the aforementioned aspects by proposing a new recurrent generative model that considers both single agents' future goals and interactions between different agents. The model exploits a double attention-based graph neural network to collect information about the mutual influences among different agents and to integrate it with data about agents' possible future objectives. Our proposal is general enough to be applied to different scenarios: the model achieves state-of-the-art results in both urban environments and sports applications.

DAG-Net: Double Attentive Graph Neural Network for Trajectory Forecasting


Pairwise comparison data arise in many domains with subjective assessment experiments, for example in image and video quality assessment. In these experiments observers are asked to express a preference between two conditions. However, many pairwise comparison protocols require a large number of comparisons to infer accurate scores, which may be unfeasible when each comparison is time-consuming (e.g. videos) or expensive (e.g. medical imaging). This motivates the use of an active sampling algorithm that chooses only the most informative pairs for comparison. In this paper we propose ASAP, an active sampling algorithm based on approximate message passing and expected information gain maximization. Unlike most existing methods, which rely on partial updates of the posterior distribution, we are able to perform full updates and therefore much improve the accuracy of the inferred scores. We demonstrate, with real and synthetic data, that ASAP offers the highest accuracy of inferred scores compared to the existing methods.

Active Sampling for Pairwise Comparisons via Approximate Message Passing and Information Gain Maximization


Deep learning methods have proved to be powerful classification tools in the fields of structural and functional genomics.
In this poster, we introduce Recursive Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNN) for the analysis of epigenomic data.
We focus on the task of predicting gene expression from the intensity of histone modifications.
The proposed RCNN architecture can be applied to data of an arbitrary size, and has a single meta-parameter that quantifies the models capacity, thus making it flexible for experimenting. The proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art systems, while having several orders of magnitude fewer parameters.

Recursive Convolutional Neural Networks for Epigenomics


Automated tongue recognition is a growing research field due to global demand for personal health care. Using mobile devices to take tongue pictures is convenient and of low cost for tongue recognition. It is particularly suitable for selfhealth evaluation of the public. However, images taken by mobile devices are easily affected by various imaging environment, which makes fine segmentation a more challenging task compared with those taken by specialized acquisition devices. Deep learning approaches are promising for tongue image segmentation because they have powerful feature learning and representation capability. However, the successive pooling operations in these methods lead to loss of information on image details, making them fail when segmenting low-quality images captured by mobile devices. To address this issue, we propose a dilated encoder network (DE-Net) to capture more high-level features and get high-resolution output for automated tongue image segmentation. In addition, we construct two tongue image datasets which contain images taken by specialized devices and mobile devices, respectively, to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results on both datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-ofthe-art methods in tongue image segmentation.

DE-Net: Dilated Encoder Network for Automated Tongue Segmentation


The success of single image super-resolution reconstruction (SR) relies on a refined mapping from low-resolution (LR) examples to high-resolution (HR) signals. However, the relation is sometimes chaos, especially in a deep SR network. We try to improve the mapping interpretability in two folds: i) The variable local dense blocks (VLDB) are suggested to match receptive fields in different depths of a residual dense network (RDN), with each VLDB a dyadic increment of layer numbers than its predecessor. ii) Based on VLDBs, a dense in dense (DID) network is created. It substitutes nodes in a regular RDN with super nodes, i.e. VLDBs; and formulates a joint learning by flexible hierarchical feature scaling, reusing and long-short term aggregating. VLDBs deal with feature underfitting occurred when a big receptive field meets a fixed-depth dense block, and the DID network provides a relative complete feature dictionary to preserve details for feature shift, dilating and grouping in high dimension image reconstruction. To demonstrate the validness of DID structure, detail experiments are performed on the benchmark datasets Set5, Set14, B100 and Urban100, where the accuracy PSNR and the visual perceptive SSIM are superior to most state-of-the-art methods. Besides, due to the depth adaption of VLDBs and its nesting in generalized RDN，DID network is converged easily and gradient explosion or disappearance are alleviated even when network deepens.

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