Qiao Deng

Jiang Xie, Qiao Deng, Shuyin Xia et al.

In recent years, the problem of fuzzy clustering has been widely concerned. The membership iteration of existing methods is mostly considered globally, which has considerable problems in noisy environments, and iterative calculations for clusters with a large number of different sample sizes are not accurate and efficient. In this paper, starting from the strategy of large-scale priority, the data is fuzzy iterated using granular-balls, and the membership degree of data only considers the two granular-balls where it is located, thus improving the efficiency of iteration. The formed fuzzy granular-balls set can use more processing methods in the face of different data scenarios, which enhances the practicability of fuzzy clustering calculations.

Jinkuan Zhu, Hao Huang, Qiao Deng et al.

Fashion image retrieval task aims to search relevant clothing items of a query image from the gallery. The previous recipes focus on designing different distance-based loss functions, pulling relevant pairs to be close and pushing irrelevant images apart. However, these methods ignore fine-grained features (e.g. neckband, cuff) of clothing images. In this paper, we propose a novel fashion image retrieval method leveraging both global and fine-grained features, dubbed Multi-Granular Alignment (MGA). Specifically, we design a Fine-Granular Aggregator(FGA) to capture and aggregate detailed patterns. Then we propose Attention-based Token Alignment (ATA) to align image features at the multi-granular level in a coarse-to-fine manner. To prove the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct experiments on two sub-tasks (In-Shop & Consumer2Shop) of the public fashion datasets DeepFashion. The experimental results show that our MGA outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by 1.8% and 0.6% in the two sub-tasks on the R@1 metric, respectively.

Qiao Deng, Zhongzhen Huang, Yunqi Wang et al.

Medical foundation models have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by providing robust and generalized representations of medical data. Medical vision-language pre-training has emerged as a promising approach for learning domain-general representations of medical image and text. Current algorithms that exploit global and local alignment between medical image and text could however be marred by redundant information in medical data. To address this issue, we propose a grounded knowledge-enhanced medical vision-language pre-training (GK-MVLP) framework for chest X-ray. In this framework, medical knowledge was grounded to the appropriate anatomical regions by using a transformer-based grounded knowledge-enhanced module for fine-grained alignment between textural features of medical knowledge and the corresponding anatomical region-level visual features. The performance of GK-MVLP was competitive with or exceeded the state of the art on downstream image understanding tasks (chest X-ray disease classification, disease localization), generative task (report generation), and vision-language understanding task (medical visual question-answering). Our results demonstrate the advantage of incorporating grounding mechanism to remove biases and improve the alignment between chest X-ray image and radiology report.