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Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia (UGRA) becomes a standard procedure in surgical operations and contributes to pain management. It offers the advantages of targeted nerve detection and provides the visualization of regions of interest such as anatomical structures. However, nerve detection is one of the most challenging tasks that anesthetists can encounter in the UGRA procedure. A computer-aided system that can detect automatically the nerve region would facilitate the anesthetist’s daily routine and allow them to concentrate more on the anesthetic delivery. In this paper, we propose a new method based on merging deep learning models from different data to detect the median nerve. The merged architecture consists of two branches, one being one-dimensional (1D) convolutional neural networks (CNN) branch and another 2D CNN branch. The merged architecture aims to learn the high-level features from 1D handcrafted noise-robust features and 2D ultrasound images. The obtained results show the validity and high accuracy of the proposed approach and its robustness.

ICPR 2020

Merged 1D-2D Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Nerve Detection in Ultrasound Images

regional anesthesia

texture descriptors

tracking

medical imaging

neural networks

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. 


poster

I will introduce an image-level solution for action detection which especially is suitable for professional action localization. With a small amount of videos, our framework can achieve high temporal localization precision. In addition, our model can naturally avoid detections of incomplete action.

Precise Temporal Localization for Complete Actions with Quantified Temporal Structure

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has gained attraction due
to superior classification performance. Differential
Architecture Search (DARTS) is a computationally light
method. To limit computational resources DARTS makes
numerous approximations. These approximations result in
inferior performance. We propose to fine-tune DARTS using
fixed operations as they are independent of these
approximations. Our method offers a good trade-off between
the number of parameters and classification accuracy. Our
approach improves the top-1 accuracy on Fashion-MNIST,
CompCars and MIO-TCD datasets by 0.56%, 0.50%, and 0.39%,
respectively compared to the state-of-the-art approaches.
Our approach performs better than DARTS, improving the
accuracy by 0.28%, 1.64%, 0.34%, 4.5%, and 3.27% compared
to DARTS, on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Fashion-MNIST, CompCars,
and MIO-TCD datasets, respectively.

Fine-Tuning DARTS for Image Classification

Deep neural networks forget previously learnt tasks when they are faced with learning new tasks. This is called catastrophic forgetting. Rehearsing the neural network with the training data of the previous task can protect the network from catastrophic forgetting. Since rehearsing requires the storage of entire previous data, Pseudo rehearsal was proposed, where samples belonging to the previous data are generated synthetically for rehearsal. In an image classification setting, while current techniques try to generate synthetic data that is photo-realistic, we demonstrated that Neural networks can be rehearsed on data that is not photo-realistic and still achieve good retention of the previous task. We also demonstrated that forgoing the constraint of having photo realism in the generated data can result in a significant reduction in the consumption of computational and memory resources for pseudo rehearsal.

Pseudo rehearsal using non photo-realistic images


Environmental protection is one of the main challenges facing society nowadays. Even with constantly growing awareness, not all of the sorting can be done by people themselves - the differences between materials are not visible to the human eye. For that reason, we present the use of a hyperspectral camera as a capture device, which allows us to obtain the full spectrum of the material. In this work, we propose a method for efficient recognition of the substance of an item. We conducted several experiments and analysis of the spectra of different materials in different conditions on a special measuring stand. That enabled the identification of the best features, which can later be used during classification, which was confirmed during the extensive testing procedure.

Hyperspectral Imaging for Analysis and Classification of Plastic Waste


We present a new encoding method LODEC and a new model LODENet for Chinese/Japanese OCR.
The results achieve SOTA results on CASIA, SCUT-EPT, and a Japanese dataset.

LODENet: A Holistic Approach to Offline Handwritten Chinese and Japanese Text Line Recognition

Several typical types of retinopathy are major causes
of blindness. However, early detection of retinopathy is quite not easy since few symptoms are observable in the early stage, attributing to the development of non-mydriatic retinal cameras, these cameras produce high-resolution retinal fundus images that provide the possibility of Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) via deep learning to assist diagnosing retinopathy. Deep learning algorithms usually rely on a large number of labeled images that are expensive and time-consuming to obtain in the medical imaging area. Moreover, the random distribution of various lesions that often vary greatly in size also brings significant challenges to learn discriminative information from high-resolution fundus images. In this paper, we present generative adversarial networks simultaneously equipped with a ”good” generator and a ”bad” generator (GBGANs) to make up for the incomplete data distribution given limited fundus images. To improve the generative feasibility of the generator, we introduce a pre-trained feature extractor to acquire condensed features for each fundus image in advance. Experimental results on integrated three public iChallenge datasets show that the proposed GBGANs could fully utilize the available fundus images to identify retinopathy with little label cost.

Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Networks with a Pair of Complementary Generators for Retinopathy Screening


The recent progress of deep convolutional neural networks has enabled great success in single image super-resolution (SISR) and many other vision tasks. Their performances are also being increased by deepening the networks and developing more sophisticated network structures. However, finding an optimal structure for the given problem is a difficult task, even for human experts. For this reason, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been introduced, which automate the procedure of constructing the structures. In this paper, we expand the NAS to the super-resolution domain and find a lightweight densely connected network named DeCoNASNet. We use a hierarchical search strategy to find the best connection with local and global features. In this process, we define a complexity-based penalty for solving image super-resolution, which can be considered a multi-objective problem. Experiments show that our DeCoNASNet outperforms the state-of-the-art lightweight super-resolution networks designed by handcraft methods and existing NAS-based design.

1325 - Neural Architecture Search for Image Super-Resolution Using Densely Connected Search Space: DeCoNAS

The “2019 Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing And Countermeasures Challenge” (ASVspoof) competition aimed to facilitate the design of highly accurate voice spoofing attack detection systems. the competition did not emphasize model
complexity and latency requirements; such constraints are strict and integral in real-world deployment. Hence, most of the top performing solutions from the competition all used an ensemble approach, and combined multiple complex deep learning models to maximize detection accuracy – this kind of approach would sit uneasily with real-world deployment constraints. To design a lightweight system, we combined the notions of skip connection (from ResNet) and max feature map (from Light CNN), and evaluated the accuracy of the system using the ASVspoof 2019
dataset. With an optimized constant Q transform (CQT) feature, our single model achieved a replay attack detection equal error rate (EER) of 0.37% on the evaluation set, surpassing the top ensemble system from the competition that achieved an EER of 0.39%

ResMax: Detecting Voice Spoofing Attacks with Residual Network and Max Feature Map


In recent years, cross-media retrieval has drawn
considerable attention due to the exponential growth of multimedia
data. Many hashing approaches have been proposed for the
cross-media search task. However, there are still open problems
that warrant investigation. For example, most existing supervised
hashing approaches employ a binary label matrix, which achieves
small margins between wrong labels (0) and true labels (1). This
may affect the retrieval performance by generating many false
negatives and false positives. In addition, some methods adopt
a relaxation scheme to solve the binary constraints, which may
cause large quantization errors. There are also some discrete
hashing methods that have been presented, but most of them are
time-consuming. To conquer these problems, we present a label
relaxation and discrete matrix factorization method (LRMF) for
cross-modal retrieval. It offers a number of innovations. First
of all, the proposed approach employs a novel label relaxation
scheme to control the margins adaptively, which has the benefit of
reducing the quantization error. Second, by virtue of the proposed
discrete matrix factorization method designed to learn the binary
codes, large quantization errors caused by relaxation can be
avoided. The experimental results obtained on two widely-used
databases demonstrate that LRMF outperforms state-of-the-art
cross-media methods.

Fast Discrete Cross-Modal Hashing Based on Label Relaxation and Matrix Factorization

Visual voice activity detection (V-VAD) uses visual features to predict whether a person is speaking or not. VVAD is useful whenever audio VAD (A-VAD) is inefficient either because the acoustic signal is difficult to analyze or because it is simply missing. We propose two deep architectures for V-VAD, one based on facial landmarks and one based on optical flow. Moreover, available datasets, used for learning and for testing VVAD, lack content variability. We introduce a novel methodology to automatically create and annotate very large datasets inthe-wild – WildVVAD – based on combining A-VAD with face detection and tracking. A thorough empirical evaluation showsthe advantage of training the proposed deep V-VAD models with this dataset.

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