CVSep 21, 2024Code
PromptTA: Prompt-driven Text Adapter for Source-free Domain GeneralizationHaoran Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Wanqi Zhou et al.
Source-free domain generalization (SFDG) tackles the challenge of adapting models to unseen target domains without access to source domain data. To deal with this challenging task, recent advances in SFDG have primarily focused on leveraging the text modality of vision-language models such as CLIP. These methods involve developing a transferable linear classifier based on diverse style features extracted from the text and learned prompts or deriving domain-unified text representations from domain banks. However, both style features and domain banks have limitations in capturing comprehensive domain knowledge. In this work, we propose Prompt-Driven Text Adapter (PromptTA) method, which is designed to better capture the distribution of style features and employ resampling to ensure thorough coverage of domain knowledge. To further leverage this rich domain information, we introduce a text adapter that learns from these style features for efficient domain information storage. Extensive experiments conducted on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that PromptTA achieves state-of-the-art performance. The code is available at https://github.com/zhanghr2001/PromptTA.
LGSep 12, 2023
Breaking through the learning plateaus of in-context learning in TransformerJingwen Fu, Tao Yang, Yuwang Wang et al.
In-context learning, i.e., learning from context examples, is an impressive ability of Transformer. Training Transformers to possess this in-context learning skill is computationally intensive due to the occurrence of learning plateaus, which are periods within the training process where there is minimal or no enhancement in the model's in-context learning capability. To study the mechanism behind the learning plateaus, we conceptually seperate a component within the model's internal representation that is exclusively affected by the model's weights. We call this the "weights component", and the remainder is identified as the "context component". By conducting meticulous and controlled experiments on synthetic tasks, we note that the persistence of learning plateaus correlates with compromised functionality of the weights component. Recognizing the impaired performance of the weights component as a fundamental behavior drives learning plateaus, we have developed three strategies to expedite the learning of Transformers. The effectiveness of these strategies is further confirmed in natural language processing tasks. In conclusion, our research demonstrates the feasibility of cultivating a powerful in-context learning ability within AI systems in an eco-friendly manner.
LGOct 27, 2023
Closing the Gap Between the Upper Bound and the Lower Bound of Adam's Iteration ComplexityBohan Wang, Jingwen Fu, Huishuai Zhang et al.
Recently, Arjevani et al. [1] established a lower bound of iteration complexity for the first-order optimization under an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. However, a thorough review of existing literature on Adam's convergence reveals a noticeable gap: none of them meet the above lower bound. In this paper, we close the gap by deriving a new convergence guarantee of Adam, with only an $L$-smooth condition and a bounded noise variance assumption. Our results remain valid across a broad spectrum of hyperparameters. Especially with properly chosen hyperparameters, we derive an upper bound of the iteration complexity of Adam and show that it meets the lower bound for first-order optimizers. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first to establish such a tight upper bound for Adam's convergence. Our proof utilizes novel techniques to handle the entanglement between momentum and adaptive learning rate and to convert the first-order term in the Descent Lemma to the gradient norm, which may be of independent interest.
LGJun 15, 2023
When and Why Momentum Accelerates SGD:An Empirical StudyJingwen Fu, Bohan Wang, Huishuai Zhang et al.
Momentum has become a crucial component in deep learning optimizers, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of when and why it accelerates stochastic gradient descent (SGD). To address the question of ''when'', we establish a meaningful comparison framework that examines the performance of SGD with Momentum (SGDM) under the \emph{effective learning rates} $η_{ef}$, a notion unifying the influence of momentum coefficient $μ$ and batch size $b$ over learning rate $η$. In the comparison of SGDM and SGD with the same effective learning rate and the same batch size, we observe a consistent pattern: when $η_{ef}$ is small, SGDM and SGD experience almost the same empirical training losses; when $η_{ef}$ surpasses a certain threshold, SGDM begins to perform better than SGD. Furthermore, we observe that the advantage of SGDM over SGD becomes more pronounced with a larger batch size. For the question of ``why'', we find that the momentum acceleration is closely related to \emph{abrupt sharpening} which is to describe a sudden jump of the directional Hessian along the update direction. Specifically, the misalignment between SGD and SGDM happens at the same moment that SGD experiences abrupt sharpening and converges slower. Momentum improves the performance of SGDM by preventing or deferring the occurrence of abrupt sharpening. Together, this study unveils the interplay between momentum, learning rates, and batch sizes, thus improving our understanding of momentum acceleration.
CVDec 2, 2022
StructVPR: Distill Structural Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place RecognitionYanqing Shen, Sanping Zhou, Jingwen Fu et al.
Visual place recognition (VPR) is usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely on a time-consuming re-ranking step to exploit spatial structural information for better performance. In this paper, we propose StructVPR, a novel training architecture for VPR, to enhance structural knowledge in RGB global features and thus improve feature stability in a constantly changing environment. Specifically, StructVPR uses segmentation images as a more definitive source of structural knowledge input into a CNN network and applies knowledge distillation to avoid online segmentation and inference of seg-branch in testing. Considering that not all samples contain high-quality and helpful knowledge, and some even hurt the performance of distillation, we partition samples and weigh each sample's distillation loss to enhance the expected knowledge precisely. Finally, StructVPR achieves impressive performance on several benchmarks using only global retrieval and even outperforms many two-stage approaches by a large margin. After adding additional re-ranking, ours achieves state-of-the-art performance while maintaining a low computational cost.
LGApr 25, 2023
Learning Trajectories are Generalization IndicatorsJingwen Fu, Zhizheng Zhang, Dacheng Yin et al.
This paper explores the connection between learning trajectories of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their generalization capabilities when optimized using (stochastic) gradient descent algorithms. Instead of concentrating solely on the generalization error of the DNN post-training, we present a novel perspective for analyzing generalization error by investigating the contribution of each update step to the change in generalization error. This perspective allows for a more direct comprehension of how the learning trajectory influences generalization error. Building upon this analysis, we propose a new generalization bound that incorporates more extensive trajectory information. Our proposed generalization bound depends on the complexity of learning trajectory and the ratio between the bias and diversity of training set. Experimental findings reveal that our method effectively captures the generalization error throughout the training process. Furthermore, our approach can also track changes in generalization error when adjustments are made to learning rates and label noise levels. These results demonstrate that learning trajectory information is a valuable indicator of a model's generalization capabilities.
30.3CVApr 20
Instruction-as-State: Environment-Guided and State-Conditioned Semantic Understanding for Embodied NavigationZhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, Jinjun Wang et al.
Vision-and-Language Navigation requires agents to follow natural-language instructions in visually changing environments. A central challenge is the dynamic entanglement between language and observations: the meaning of instruction shifts as the agent's field of view and spatial context evolve. However, many existing models encode the instruction as a static global representation, limiting their ability to adapt instruction meaning to the current visual context. We therefore model instruction understanding as an Instruction-as-State variable: a decision-relevant, token-level instruction state that evolves step by step conditioned on the agent's perceptual state, where the perceptual state denotes the observation-grounded navigation context at each step. To realize this principle, we introduce State-Entangled Environment-Guided Instruction Understanding (S-EGIU), a coarse-to-fine framework for state-conditioned segment activation and token-level semantic refinement. At the coarse level, S-EGIU activates the instruction segment whose semantics align with the current observation. At the fine level, it refines the activated segment through observation-guided token grounding and contextual modeling, sharpening its internal semantics under the current observation. Together, these stages maintain an instruction state that is continuously updated according to the agent's perceptual state during navigation. S-EGIU delivers strong performance on several key metrics, including a +2.68% SPL gain on REVERIE Test Unseen, and demonstrates consistent efficiency gains across multiple VLN benchmarks, underscoring the value of dynamic instruction--perception entanglement.
LGSep 10, 2023
Generalization error bounds for iterative learning algorithms with bounded updatesJingwen Fu, Nanning Zheng
This paper explores the generalization characteristics of iterative learning algorithms with bounded updates for non-convex loss functions, employing information-theoretic techniques. Our key contribution is a novel bound for the generalization error of these algorithms with bounded updates. Our approach introduces two main novelties: 1) we reformulate the mutual information as the uncertainty of updates, providing a new perspective, and 2) instead of using the chaining rule of mutual information, we employ a variance decomposition technique to decompose information across iterations, allowing for a simpler surrogate process. We analyze our generalization bound under various settings and demonstrate improved bounds. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, we also examine the previously observed scaling behavior in large language models. Ultimately, our work takes a further step for developing practical generalization theories.
39.6AIApr 7
Breakthrough the Suboptimal Stable Point in Value-Factorization-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningLesong Tao, Yifei Wang, Haodong Jing et al.
Value factorization, a popular paradigm in MARL, faces significant theoretical and algorithmic bottlenecks: its tendency to converge to suboptimal solutions remains poorly understood and unsolved. Theoretically, existing analyses fail to explain this due to their primary focus on the optimal case. To bridge this gap, we introduce a novel theoretical concept: the stable point, which characterizes the potential convergence of value factorization in general cases. Through an analysis of stable point distributions in existing methods, we reveal that non-optimal stable points are the primary cause of poor performance. However, algorithmically, making the optimal action the unique stable point is nearly infeasible. In contrast, iteratively filtering suboptimal actions by rendering them unstable emerges as a more practical approach for global optimality. Inspired by this, we propose a novel Multi-Round Value Factorization (MRVF) framework. Specifically, by measuring a non-negative payoff increment relative to the previously selected action, MRVF transforms inferior actions into unstable points, thereby driving each iteration toward a stable point with a superior action. Experiments on challenging benchmarks, including predator-prey tasks and StarCraft II Multi-Agent Challenge (SMAC), validate our analysis of stable points and demonstrate the superiority of MRVF over state-of-the-art methods.
LGJan 12
Land-then-transport: A Flow Matching-Based Generative Decoder for Wireless Image TransmissionJingwen Fu, Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund et al.
Due to strict rate and reliability demands, wireless image transmission remains difficult for both classical layered designs and joint source-channel coding (JSCC), especially under low latency. Diffusion-based generative decoders can deliver strong perceptual quality by leveraging learned image priors, but iterative stochastic denoising leads to high decoding delay. To enable low-latency decoding, we propose a flow-matching (FM) generative decoder under a new land-then-transport (LTT) paradigm that tightly integrates the physical wireless channel into a continuous-time probability flow. For AWGN channels, we build a Gaussian smoothing path whose noise schedule indexes effective noise levels, and derive a closed-form teacher velocity field along this path. A neural-network student vector field is trained by conditional flow matching, yielding a deterministic, channel-aware ODE decoder with complexity linear in the number of ODE steps. At inference, it only needs an estimate of the effective noise variance to set the ODE starting time. We further show that Rayleigh fading and MIMO channels can be mapped, via linear MMSE equalization and singular-value-domain processing, to AWGN-equivalent channels with calibrated starting times. Therefore, the same probability path and trained velocity field can be reused for Rayleigh and MIMO without retraining. Experiments on MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and DIV2K over AWGN, Rayleigh, and MIMO demonstrate consistent gains over JPEG2000+LDPC, DeepJSCC, and diffusion-based baselines, while achieving good perceptual quality with only a few ODE steps. Overall, LTT provides a deterministic, physically interpretable, and computation-efficient framework for generative wireless image decoding across diverse channels.
80.0LGMay 12
Emergence of Frontier Superposition: Möbius attractor and Cascade SupervisionHongyu Gu, Jingwen Fu
Superposition allows Transformers to reason in depth, carrying an entire reasoning frontier in parallel through a bounded-depth forward pass instead of unrolling serial chain-of-thought tokens. While Zhu et al. (2025) hand-crafted an equal-weight breadth-first frontier in a single residual stream for graph reachability, it remained open whether gradient descent could ever find this target amidst permutation-symmetric saddles. We close this gap on Reachability-by-Superposition over Erdős-Rényi graphs by isolating architectural and supervisional contributions. Architecturally, we identify a Möbius attractor: under $S_n$-symmetry in the tree regime, layerwise dynamics reduce to a 1D Möbius map whose zero set is a codimension-one manifold of global optima containing the equal-weight superposition state. On the supervision side, we identify Cascade Supervision: a loss class whose backward pass simultaneously delivers (A) selectivity bootstrap, (B) gradient persistence across depth, and (C) per-step discrimination (e.g., \mathcal{L}_{sup} and \mathcal{L}_{node}). End-to-end supervision fails condition (B) and is provably insufficient: internal gradients at layer c decay as (np)^{-(D-c-2)/2} in the graph fan-out and stall before the manifold is reached. Our thesis: Möbius attractor + Cascade Supervision = emergence of superposition reasoning. The parameter-free decay law predicts a final-step cosine of 0.35 vs. 0.71 (end-to-end vs. cascade) at depth D=3; experiments confirm 0.37 vs. 0.69, matching within 0.02 at every step.
CVOct 26, 2025Code
DAMap: Distance-aware MapNet for High Quality HD Map ConstructionJinpeng Dong, Chen Li, Yutong Lin et al.
Predicting High-definition (HD) map elements with high quality (high classification and localization scores) is crucial to the safety of autonomous driving vehicles. However, current methods perform poorly in high quality predictions due to inherent task misalignment. Two main factors are responsible for misalignment: 1) inappropriate task labels due to one-to-many matching queries sharing the same labels, and 2) sub-optimal task features due to task-shared sampling mechanism. In this paper, we reveal two inherent defects in current methods and develop a novel HD map construction method named DAMap to address these problems. Specifically, DAMap consists of three components: Distance-aware Focal Loss (DAFL), Hybrid Loss Scheme (HLS), and Task Modulated Deformable Attention (TMDA). The DAFL is introduced to assign appropriate classification labels for one-to-many matching samples. The TMDA is proposed to obtain discriminative task-specific features. Furthermore, the HLS is proposed to better utilize the advantages of the DAFL. We perform extensive experiments and consistently achieve performance improvement on the NuScenes and Argoverse2 benchmarks under different metrics, baselines, splits, backbones, and schedules. Code will be available at https://github.com/jpdong-xjtu/DAMap.
78.4AIMay 10
Shaping Schema via Language Representation as the Next Frontier for LLM Intelligence ExpandingZhiqin Yang, Yuhan Liu, Jingwen Fu et al.
Although natural language is the default medium for Large Language Models (LLMs), its limited expressive capacity creates a profound bottleneck for complex problem-solving. While recent advancements in AI have relied heavily on scaling, merely internalizing knowledge does not guarantee its effective application. Defining language representation as the linguistic and symbolic constructs used to map and model the real world, this paper argues that shaping schemas through advanced language representation is the next frontier for expanding LLM intelligence. We posit that an LLM's knowledge activation and organization -- its schema -- depends heavily on the structural and symbolic sophistication of the language used to represent a given task. This paper contributes both a formalization of this claim and the empirical evidence to support it. With a new formalization, we present multiple lines of evidence to support our position: Firstly, we review recent empirical practices and emerging methodologies that demonstrate the substantial performance gains achievable through deliberate language representation design, even without modifying model parameters or scale. Secondly, we conduct controlled experiments showing that LLM performance and its internal feature activations vary under different language representations of the same underlying task. Together, these findings highlight language representation design as a promising direction for future research.
94.0SYMay 4
SkillCom: Decomposing LLM-based Semantic Communication into Task and Channel Aware SkillsJingwen Fu, Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as semantic encoders and decoders in semantic communication. However, current LLM based systems mostly remain monolithic: a single prompted model, or a tightly coupled transmitter/receiver pair, must jointly perform semantic encoding, channel adaptation, and semantic decoding. Such coupling makes intermediate decisions difficult to control, diagnose, or replace, and may cause channel corruption to propagate through a compressed source representation. To address the limitations, we propose \textbf{SkillCom}, a modular framework that decomposes LLM-based semantic communication into four explicit skills: semantic abstraction skill, channel-adaptive transmission skill, receiver-side repair skill, and task execution skill. These skills are interconnected through typed semantic-unit interfaces. Thus, transmission operates on structured unit-level representations rather than on one monolithic text block. This design localizes channel impairment, enables targeted repair from successfully received units, and supports stage-wise ablation and single-skill replacement under matched communication constraints. Experiments on multi-hop question answering and dialogue state tracking show that SkillCom consistently outperforms the monolithic LLM baseline, remains more robust under varying channel conditions, and exhibits task-dependent preferences over skill realizations. The results suggest that explicit skill decomposition provides a more robust and diagnosable foundation for LLM-based semantic communication than monolithic methods.
21.3CVApr 21
The Essence of Balance for Self-Improving Agents in Vision-and-Language NavigationZhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, Jinjun Wang et al.
In vision-and-language navigation (VLN), self-improvement from policy-induced experience, using only standard VLN action supervision, critically depends on balancing behavioral diversity and learning stability, which governs whether the agent can extract a reliable learning signal for improvement. Increasing behavioral diversity is necessary to expose alternative action hypotheses but can destabilize policy-induced learning signals, whereas overly conservative stability constraints suppress exploration and induce early commitment, making reliable self-improvement difficult. To address this challenge, we propose Stability-Diversity Balance (SDB), a plug-and-play mechanism for balanced self-improvement in VLN. SDB expands each decision step into multiple latent behavioral hypotheses by applying controlled shifts in the instruction-conditioned hidden states, and then performs reliability-aware soft evaluation and aggregation to retain diverse yet instruction-consistent alternatives during learning. An explicit regularizer further constrains hypothesis interactions, preventing excessive drift or premature collapse of hypothesis diversity and stabilizing self-improvement without discarding training signals. Experiments on R2R, SOON, and REVERIE show consistent improvements; for example, on REVERIE val-unseen, SDB improves SPL from 33.73 to 35.93 and OSR from 51.07 to 54.25.
CVFeb 15, 2025
REGNav: Room Expert Guided Image-Goal NavigationPengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Jingwen Fu et al.
Image-goal navigation aims to steer an agent towards the goal location specified by an image. Most prior methods tackle this task by learning a navigation policy, which extracts visual features of goal and observation images, compares their similarity and predicts actions. However, if the agent is in a different room from the goal image, it's extremely challenging to identify their similarity and infer the likely goal location, which may result in the agent wandering around. Intuitively, when humans carry out this task, they may roughly compare the current observation with the goal image, having an approximate concept of whether they are in the same room before executing the actions. Inspired by this intuition, we try to imitate human behaviour and propose a Room Expert Guided Image-Goal Navigation model (REGNav) to equip the agent with the ability to analyze whether goal and observation images are taken in the same room. Specifically, we first pre-train a room expert with an unsupervised learning technique on the self-collected unlabelled room images. The expert can extract the hidden room style information of goal and observation images and predict their relationship about whether they belong to the same room. In addition, two different fusion approaches are explored to efficiently guide the agent navigation with the room relation knowledge. Extensive experiments show that our REGNav surpasses prior state-of-the-art works on three popular benchmarks.
CVMar 9, 2025
StructVPR++: Distill Structural and Semantic Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place RecognitionYanqing Shen, Sanping Zhou, Jingwen Fu et al.
Visual place recognition is a challenging task for autonomous driving and robotics, which is usually considered as an image retrieval problem. A commonly used two-stage strategy involves global retrieval followed by re-ranking using patch-level descriptors. Most deep learning-based methods in an end-to-end manner cannot extract global features with sufficient semantic information from RGB images. In contrast, re-ranking can utilize more explicit structural and semantic information in one-to-one matching process, but it is time-consuming. To bridge the gap between global retrieval and re-ranking and achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, we propose StructVPR++, a framework that embeds structural and semantic knowledge into RGB global representations via segmentation-guided distillation. Our key innovation lies in decoupling label-specific features from global descriptors, enabling explicit semantic alignment between image pairs without requiring segmentation during deployment. Furthermore, we introduce a sample-wise weighted distillation strategy that prioritizes reliable training pairs while suppressing noisy ones. Experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that StructVPR++ surpasses state-of-the-art global methods by 5-23% in Recall@1 and even outperforms many two-stage approaches, achieving real-time efficiency with a single RGB input.
LGMay 20, 2024
A General Theory for Compositional GeneralizationJingwen Fu, Zhizheng Zhang, Yan Lu et al.
Compositional Generalization (CG) embodies the ability to comprehend novel combinations of familiar concepts, representing a significant cognitive leap in human intellectual advancement. Despite its critical importance, the deep neural network (DNN) faces challenges in addressing the compositional generalization problem, prompting considerable research interest. However, existing theories often rely on task-specific assumptions, constraining the comprehensive understanding of CG. This study aims to explore compositional generalization from a task-agnostic perspective, offering a complementary viewpoint to task-specific analyses. The primary challenge is to define CG without overly restricting its scope, a feat achieved by identifying its fundamental characteristics and basing the definition on them. Using this definition, we seek to answer the question "what does the ultimate solution to CG look like?" through the following theoretical findings: 1) the first No Free Lunch theorem in CG, indicating the absence of general solutions; 2) a novel generalization bound applicable to any CG problem, specifying the conditions for an effective CG solution; and 3) the introduction of the generative effect to enhance understanding of CG problems and their solutions. This paper's significance lies in providing a general theory for CG problems, which, when combined with prior theorems under task-specific scenarios, can lead to a comprehensive understanding of CG.
58.6LGApr 10
Structured Progressive Knowledge Activation for LLM-Driven Neural Architecture SearchZhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, Jingwen Fu
This paper focuses on a key challenge in Neural Architecture Search (NAS): integrating established architectural knowledge while exploring new designs under expensive evaluations. Large language models (LLMs) are a promising assistant for NAS because they can translate rich architectural and coding priors into executable code edits. However, in practice, seemingly local revisions often propagate into non-local behavioral and performance shifts because a single edit can inadvertently couple multiple interacting functional factors, a phenomenon we refer to as functional entanglement. To make LLM knowledge usable under such entanglement, we propose Structured Progressive Knowledge Activation (SPARK), which activates relevant priors by explicitly selecting the functional factor to modify and conditioning the edit on that factor. This factor-conditioned editing reduces entangled side effects and yields more targeted, reliable architecture modifications. On CLRS-DFS, SPARK achieves a 28.1x sample-efficient architecture evolution speedup and yields a 22.9 percent relative improvement in OOD accuracy.
CVJul 14, 2025
Mind the Gap: Aligning Vision Foundation Models to Image Feature MatchingYuhan Liu, Jingwen Fu, Yang Wu et al.
Leveraging the vision foundation models has emerged as a mainstream paradigm that improves the performance of image feature matching. However, previous works have ignored the misalignment when introducing the foundation models into feature matching. The misalignment arises from the discrepancy between the foundation models focusing on single-image understanding and the cross-image understanding requirement of feature matching. Specifically, 1) the embeddings derived from commonly used foundation models exhibit discrepancies with the optimal embeddings required for feature matching; 2) lacking an effective mechanism to leverage the single-image understanding ability into cross-image understanding. A significant consequence of the misalignment is they struggle when addressing multi-instance feature matching problems. To address this, we introduce a simple but effective framework, called IMD (Image feature Matching with a pre-trained Diffusion model) with two parts: 1) Unlike the dominant solutions employing contrastive-learning based foundation models that emphasize global semantics, we integrate the generative-based diffusion models to effectively capture instance-level details. 2) We leverage the prompt mechanism in generative model as a natural tunnel, propose a novel cross-image interaction prompting module to facilitate bidirectional information interaction between image pairs. To more accurately measure the misalignment, we propose a new benchmark called IMIM, which focuses on multi-instance scenarios. Our proposed IMD establishes a new state-of-the-art in commonly evaluated benchmarks, and the superior improvement 12% in IMIM indicates our method efficiently mitigates the misalignment.
CVMay 25, 2021
Understanding Mobile GUI: from Pixel-Words to Screen-SentencesJingwen Fu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Yuwang Wang et al.
The ubiquity of mobile phones makes mobile GUI understanding an important task. Most previous works in this domain require human-created metadata of screens (e.g. View Hierarchy) during inference, which unfortunately is often not available or reliable enough for GUI understanding. Inspired by the impressive success of Transformers in NLP tasks, targeting for purely vision-based GUI understanding, we extend the concepts of Words/Sentence to Pixel-Words/Screen-Sentence, and propose a mobile GUI understanding architecture: Pixel-Words to Screen-Sentence (PW2SS). In analogy to the individual Words, we define the Pixel-Words as atomic visual components (text and graphic components), which are visually consistent and semantically clear across screenshots of a large variety of design styles. The Pixel-Words extracted from a screenshot are aggregated into Screen-Sentence with a Screen Transformer proposed to model their relations. Since the Pixel-Words are defined as atomic visual components, the ambiguity between their visual appearance and semantics is dramatically reduced. We are able to make use of metadata available in training data to auto-generate high-quality annotations for Pixel-Words. A dataset, RICO-PW, of screenshots with Pixel-Words annotations is built based on the public RICO dataset, which will be released to help to address the lack of high-quality training data in this area. We train a detector to extract Pixel-Words from screenshots on this dataset and achieve metadata-free GUI understanding during inference. We conduct experiments and show that Pixel-Words can be well extracted on RICO-PW and well generalized to a new dataset, P2S-UI, collected by ourselves. The effectiveness of PW2SS is further verified in the GUI understanding tasks including relation prediction, clickability prediction, screen retrieval, and app type classification.
CVNov 7, 2019
Model Adaption Object Detection System for RobotJingwen Fu, Licheng Zong, Yinbing Li et al.
Object detection for robot guidance is a crucial mission for autonomous robots, which has provoked extensive attention for researchers. However, the changing view of robot movement and limited available data hinder the research in this area. To address these matters, we proposed a new vision system for robots, the model adaptation object detection system. Instead of using a single one to solve problems, We made use of different object detection neural networks to guide the robot in accordance with various situations, with the help of a meta neural network to allocate the object detection neural networks. Furthermore, taking advantage of transfer learning technology and depthwise separable convolutions, our model is easy to train and can address small dataset problems.
CVSep 7, 2019
Recognition Of Surface Defects On Steel Sheet Using Transfer LearningJingwen Fu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yingbin Li
Automatic defect recognition is one of the research hotspots in steel production, but most of the current methods mainly extract features manually and use machine learning classifiers to recognize defects, which cannot tackle the situation, where there are few data available to train and confine to a certain scene. Therefore, in this paper, a new approach is proposed which consists of part of pretrained VGG16 as a feature extractor and a new CNN neural network as a classifier to recognize the defect of steel strip surface based on the feature maps created by the feature extractor. Our method achieves an accuracy of 99.1% and 96.0% while the dataset contains 150 images each class and 10 images each class respectively, which is much better than previous methods.