Kirill Demochkin

A. V. Savchenko, K. V. Demochkin, I. S. Grechikhin

In this paper user modeling task is examined by processing a gallery of photos and videos on a mobile device. We propose novel engine for user preference prediction based on scene recognition, object detection and facial analysis. At first, all faces in a gallery are clustered and all private photos and videos with faces from large clusters are processed on the embedded system in offline mode. Other photos may be sent to the remote server to be analyzed by very deep models. The visual features of each photo are obtained from scene recognition and object detection models. These features are aggregated into a single user descriptor in the neural attention block. The proposed pipeline is implemented for the Android mobile platform. Experimental results with a subset of Photo Event Collection, Web Image Dataset for Event Recognition and Amazon Fashion datasets demonstrate the possibility to process images very efficiently without significant accuracy degradation. The source code of Android mobile application is publicly available at https://github.com/HSE-asavchenko/mobile-visual-preferences.

Ivan Anokhin, Kirill Demochkin, Taras Khakhulin et al.

Existing image generator networks rely heavily on spatial convolutions and, optionally, self-attention blocks in order to gradually synthesize images in a coarse-to-fine manner. Here, we present a new architecture for image generators, where the color value at each pixel is computed independently given the value of a random latent vector and the coordinate of that pixel. No spatial convolutions or similar operations that propagate information across pixels are involved during the synthesis. We analyze the modeling capabilities of such generators when trained in an adversarial fashion, and observe the new generators to achieve similar generation quality to state-of-the-art convolutional generators. We also investigate several interesting properties unique to the new architecture.