Manuel Nickel

Leon Mächler, Gustav Grimberg, Ivan Ezhov et al.

This paper presents FedPID, our submission to the Federated Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2024 (FETS24). Inspired by FedCostWAvg and FedPIDAvg, our winning contributions to FETS21 and FETS2022, we propose an improved aggregation strategy for federated and collaborative learning. FedCostWAvg is a method that averages results by considering both the number of training samples in each group and how much the cost function decreased in the last round of training. This is similar to how the derivative part of a PID controller works. In FedPIDAvg, we also included the integral part that was missing. Another challenge we faced were vastly differing dataset sizes at each center. We solved this by assuming the sizes follow a Poisson distribution and adjusting the training iterations for each center accordingly. Essentially, this part of the method controls that outliers that require too much training time are less frequently used. Based on these contributions we now adapted FedPIDAvg by changing how the integral part is computed. Instead of integrating the loss function we measure the global drop in cost since the first round.

Fabian Manhardt, Gu Wang, Benjamin Busam et al.

Contemporary monocular 6D pose estimation methods can only cope with a handful of object instances. This naturally hampers possible applications as, for instance, robots seamlessly integrated in everyday processes necessarily require the ability to work with hundreds of different objects. To tackle this problem of immanent practical relevance, we propose a novel method for class-level monocular 6D pose estimation, coupled with metric shape retrieval. Unfortunately, acquiring adequate annotations is very time-consuming and labor intensive. This is especially true for class-level 6D pose estimation, as one is required to create a highly detailed reconstruction for all objects and then annotate each object and scene using these models. To overcome this shortcoming, we additionally propose the idea of synthetic-to-real domain transfer for class-level 6D poses by means of self-supervised learning, which removes the burden of collecting numerous manual annotations. In essence, after training our proposed method fully supervised with synthetic data, we leverage recent advances in differentiable rendering to self-supervise the model with unannotated real RGB-D data to improve latter inference. We experimentally demonstrate that we can retrieve precise 6D poses and metric shapes from a single RGB image.