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2018

Non-factorised Variational Inference in Dynamical Systems

Ialongo, A. D., Van Der Wilk, M., Hensman, J., Rasmussen, C. E.

1st Symposion on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, December 2018 (conference)

2018

ei Ialongo, A. D., Van Der Wilk, M., Hensman, J., Rasmussen, C. E. Non-factorised Variational Inference in Dynamical Systems 1st Symposion on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference, December 2018 (conference)

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Enhancing the Accuracy and Fairness of Human Decision Making

Valera, I., Singla, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 1774-1783, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Valera, I., Singla, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Enhancing the Accuracy and Fairness of Human Decision Making Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 1774-1783, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Consolidating the Meta-Learning Zoo: A Unifying Perspective as Posterior Predictive Inference

Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E.

Workshop on Meta-Learning (MetaLearn 2018) at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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ei Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E. Consolidating the Meta-Learning Zoo: A Unifying Perspective as Posterior Predictive Inference Workshop on Meta-Learning (MetaLearn 2018) at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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Versa: Versatile and Efficient Few-shot Learning

Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E.

Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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ei Gordon*, J., Bronskill*, J., Bauer*, M., Nowozin, S., Turner, R. E. Versa: Versatile and Efficient Few-shot Learning Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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DP-MAC: The Differentially Private Method of Auxiliary Coordinates for Deep Learning

Harder, F., Köhler, J., Welling, M., Park, M.

Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Harder, F., Köhler, J., Welling, M., Park, M. DP-MAC: The Differentially Private Method of Auxiliary Coordinates for Deep Learning Workshop on Privacy Preserving Machine Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Boosting Black Box Variational Inference

Locatello*, F., Dresdner*, G., R., K., Valera, I., Rätsch, G.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 3405-3415, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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ei Locatello*, F., Dresdner*, G., R., K., Valera, I., Rätsch, G. Boosting Black Box Variational Inference Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 3405-3415, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference)

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Deep Nonlinear Non-Gaussian Filtering for Dynamical Systems

Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B.

Workshop: Infer to Control: Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning and Structured Control at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B. Deep Nonlinear Non-Gaussian Filtering for Dynamical Systems Workshop: Infer to Control: Probabilistic Reinforcement Learning and Structured Control at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Resampled Priors for Variational Autoencoders

Bauer, M., Mnih, A.

Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Bauer, M., Mnih, A. Resampled Priors for Variational Autoencoders Third Workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Learning Invariances using the Marginal Likelihood

van der Wilk, M., Bauer, M., John, S. T., Hensman, J.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 9960-9970, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei van der Wilk, M., Bauer, M., John, S. T., Hensman, J. Learning Invariances using the Marginal Likelihood Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 9960-9970, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Data-Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Nachum, O., Gu, S., Lee, H., Levine, S.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 3307-3317, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Nachum, O., Gu, S., Lee, H., Levine, S. Data-Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 3307-3317, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks

Geirhos, R., Temme, C. R. M., Rauber, J., Schütt, H., Bethge, M., Wichmann, F. A.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 7549-7561, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Geirhos, R., Temme, C. R. M., Rauber, J., Schütt, H., Bethge, M., Wichmann, F. A. Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 7549-7561, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex

Kapoor, V., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N. K., Panagiotaropoulos, T. I.

Communications Biology, 1(215):1-12, December 2018 (article)

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ei Kapoor, V., Besserve, M., Logothetis, N. K., Panagiotaropoulos, T. I. Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex Communications Biology, 1(215):1-12, December 2018 (article)

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A Computational Camera with Programmable Optics for Snapshot High Resolution Multispectral Imaging

Chen, J., Hirsch, M., Eberhardt, B., Lensch, H. P. A.

Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018 (conference) Accepted

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ei Chen, J., Hirsch, M., Eberhardt, B., Lensch, H. P. A. A Computational Camera with Programmable Optics for Snapshot High Resolution Multispectral Imaging Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018 (conference) Accepted

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Adaptive Skip Intervals: Temporal Abstraction for Recurrent Dynamical Models

Neitz, A., Parascandolo, G., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 9838-9848, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Neitz, A., Parascandolo, G., Bauer, S., Schölkopf, B. Adaptive Skip Intervals: Temporal Abstraction for Recurrent Dynamical Models Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 9838-9848, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Assessing Generative Models via Precision and Recall

Sajjadi, M. S. M., Bachem, O., Lucic, M., Bousquet, O., Gelly, S.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 5234-5243, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Sajjadi, M. S. M., Bachem, O., Lucic, M., Bousquet, O., Gelly, S. Assessing Generative Models via Precision and Recall Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 5234-5243, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Efficient Encoding of Dynamical Systems through Local Approximations

Solowjow, F., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B., Trimpe, S.

In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pages: 6073 - 6079 , Miami, Fl, USA, December 2018 (inproceedings)

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ei ics Solowjow, F., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B., Trimpe, S. Efficient Encoding of Dynamical Systems through Local Approximations In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pages: 6073 - 6079 , Miami, Fl, USA, December 2018 (inproceedings)

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Flex-Convolution (Million-Scale Point-Cloud Learning Beyond Grid-Worlds)

Groh*, F., Wieschollek*, P., Lensch, H. P. A.

Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference) Accepted

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ei Groh*, F., Wieschollek*, P., Lensch, H. P. A. Flex-Convolution (Million-Scale Point-Cloud Learning Beyond Grid-Worlds) Computer Vision - ACCV 2018 - 14th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018, *equal contribution (conference) Accepted

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Bayesian Nonparametric Hawkes Processes

Kapoor, J., Vergari, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Valera, I.

Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Kapoor, J., Vergari, A., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Valera, I. Bayesian Nonparametric Hawkes Processes Bayesian Nonparametrics workshop at the 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Informative Features for Model Comparison

Jitkrittum, W., Kanagawa, H., Sangkloy, P., Hays, J., Schölkopf, B., Gretton, A.

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 816-827, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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ei Jitkrittum, W., Kanagawa, H., Sangkloy, P., Hays, J., Schölkopf, B., Gretton, A. Informative Features for Model Comparison Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31, pages: 816-827, (Editors: S. Bengio and H. Wallach and H. Larochelle and K. Grauman and N. Cesa-Bianchi and R. Garnett), Curran Associates, Inc., 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, December 2018 (conference)

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Customized Multi-Person Tracker

Ma, L., Tang, S., Black, M. J., Van Gool, L.

In Computer Vision – ACCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018 (inproceedings)

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ps Ma, L., Tang, S., Black, M. J., Van Gool, L. Customized Multi-Person Tracker In Computer Vision – ACCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 2018 (inproceedings)

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Deep Inertial Poser: Learning to Reconstruct Human Pose from Sparse Inertial Measurements in Real Time

Huang, Y., Kaufmann, M., Aksan, E., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O., Pons-Moll, G.

ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 37, pages: 185:1-185:15, ACM, November 2018, Two first authors contributed equally (article)

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We demonstrate a novel deep neural network capable of reconstructing human full body pose in real-time from 6 Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) worn on the user's body. In doing so, we address several difficult challenges. First, the problem is severely under-constrained as multiple pose parameters produce the same IMU orientations. Second, capturing IMU data in conjunction with ground-truth poses is expensive and difficult to do in many target application scenarios (e.g., outdoors). Third, modeling temporal dependencies through non-linear optimization has proven effective in prior work but makes real-time prediction infeasible. To address this important limitation, we learn the temporal pose priors using deep learning. To learn from sufficient data, we synthesize IMU data from motion capture datasets. A bi-directional RNN architecture leverages past and future information that is available at training time. At test time, we deploy the network in a sliding window fashion, retaining real time capabilities. To evaluate our method, we recorded DIP-IMU, a dataset consisting of 10 subjects wearing 17 IMUs for validation in 64 sequences with 330,000 time instants; this constitutes the largest IMU dataset publicly available. We quantitatively evaluate our approach on multiple datasets and show results from a real-time implementation. DIP-IMU and the code are available for research purposes.

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ps Huang, Y., Kaufmann, M., Aksan, E., Black, M. J., Hilliges, O., Pons-Moll, G. Deep Inertial Poser: Learning to Reconstruct Human Pose from Sparse Inertial Measurements in Real Time ACM Transactions on Graphics, (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 37, pages: 185:1-185:15, ACM, November 2018, Two first authors contributed equally (article)

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On the Integration of Optical Flow and Action Recognition

Sevilla-Lara, L., Liao, Y., Güney, F., Jampani, V., Geiger, A., Black, M. J.

In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269, pages: 281-297, Springer, Cham, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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Most of the top performing action recognition methods use optical flow as a "black box" input. Here we take a deeper look at the combination of flow and action recognition, and investigate why optical flow is helpful, what makes a flow method good for action recognition, and how we can make it better. In particular, we investigate the impact of different flow algorithms and input transformations to better understand how these affect a state-of-the-art action recognition method. Furthermore, we fine tune two neural-network flow methods end-to-end on the most widely used action recognition dataset (UCF101). Based on these experiments, we make the following five observations: 1) optical flow is useful for action recognition because it is invariant to appearance, 2) optical flow methods are optimized to minimize end-point-error (EPE), but the EPE of current methods is not well correlated with action recognition performance, 3) for the flow methods tested, accuracy at boundaries and at small displacements is most correlated with action recognition performance, 4) training optical flow to minimize classification error instead of minimizing EPE improves recognition performance, and 5) optical flow learned for the task of action recognition differs from traditional optical flow especially inside the human body and at the boundary of the body. These observations may encourage optical flow researchers to look beyond EPE as a goal and guide action recognition researchers to seek better motion cues, leading to a tighter integration of the optical flow and action recognition communities.

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avg ps Sevilla-Lara, L., Liao, Y., Güney, F., Jampani, V., Geiger, A., Black, M. J. On the Integration of Optical Flow and Action Recognition In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269, pages: 281-297, Springer, Cham, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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Regularizing Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction

Akrour, R., Veiga, F., Peters, J., Neuman, G.

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2018 (conference) Accepted

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ei Akrour, R., Veiga, F., Peters, J., Neuman, G. Regularizing Reinforcement Learning with State Abstraction Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2018 (conference) Accepted

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Towards Robust Visual Odometry with a Multi-Camera System

Liu, P., Geppert, M., Heng, L., Sattler, T., Geiger, A., Pollefeys, M.

In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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We present a visual odometry (VO) algorithm for a multi-camera system and robust operation in challenging environments. Our algorithm consists of a pose tracker and a local mapper. The tracker estimates the current pose by minimizing photometric errors between the most recent keyframe and the current frame. The mapper initializes the depths of all sampled feature points using plane-sweeping stereo. To reduce pose drift, a sliding window optimizer is used to refine poses and structure jointly. Our formulation is flexible enough to support an arbitrary number of stereo cameras. We evaluate our algorithm thoroughly on five datasets. The datasets were captured in different conditions: daytime, night-time with near-infrared (NIR) illumination and night-time without NIR illumination. Experimental results show that a multi-camera setup makes the VO more robust to challenging environments, especially night-time conditions, in which a single stereo configuration fails easily due to the lack of features.

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avg Liu, P., Geppert, M., Heng, L., Sattler, T., Geiger, A., Pollefeys, M. Towards Robust Visual Odometry with a Multi-Camera System In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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Deep Neural Network-based Cooperative Visual Tracking through Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles

Price, E., Lawless, G., Ludwig, R., Martinovic, I., Buelthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3193-3200, IEEE, October 2018, Also accepted and presented in the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (article)

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Multi-camera tracking of humans and animals in outdoor environments is a relevant and challenging problem. Our approach to it involves a team of cooperating micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) with on-board cameras only. DNNs often fail at objects with small scale or far away from the camera, which are typical characteristics of a scenario with aerial robots. Thus, the core problem addressed in this paper is how to achieve on-board, online, continuous and accurate vision-based detections using DNNs for visual person tracking through MAVs. Our solution leverages cooperation among multiple MAVs and active selection of most informative regions of image. We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach through simulations with up to 16 robots and real robot experiments involving two aerial robots tracking a person, while maintaining an active perception-driven formation. ROS-based source code is provided for the benefit of the community.

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ps Price, E., Lawless, G., Ludwig, R., Martinovic, I., Buelthoff, H. H., Black, M. J., Ahmad, A. Deep Neural Network-based Cooperative Visual Tracking through Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3193-3200, IEEE, October 2018, Also accepted and presented in the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (article)

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Learning to Categorize Bug Reports with LSTM Networks

Gondaliya, K., Peters, J., Rueckert, E.

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID), pages: 7-12, October 2018 (conference)

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ei Gondaliya, K., Peters, J., Rueckert, E. Learning to Categorize Bug Reports with LSTM Networks Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID), pages: 7-12, October 2018 (conference)

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Domain Randomization for Simulation-Based Policy Optimization with Transferability Assessment

Muratore, F., Treede, F., Gienger, M., Peters, J.

2nd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87, pages: 700-713, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, October 2018 (conference)

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ei Muratore, F., Treede, F., Gienger, M., Peters, J. Domain Randomization for Simulation-Based Policy Optimization with Transferability Assessment 2nd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87, pages: 700-713, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, PMLR, October 2018 (conference)

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Reinforcement Learning of Phase Oscillators for Fast Adaptation to Moving Targets

Maeda, G., Koc, O., Morimoto, J.

Proceedings of The 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87, pages: 630-640, (Editors: Aude Billard, Anca Dragan, Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto ), PMLR, October 2018 (conference)

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ei Maeda, G., Koc, O., Morimoto, J. Reinforcement Learning of Phase Oscillators for Fast Adaptation to Moving Targets Proceedings of The 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 87, pages: 630-640, (Editors: Aude Billard, Anca Dragan, Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto ), PMLR, October 2018 (conference)

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Control of Musculoskeletal Systems using Learned Dynamics Models

Büchler, D., Calandra, R., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3161-3168, IEEE, 2018 (article)

Abstract

Controlling musculoskeletal systems, especially robots actuated by pneumatic artificial muscles, is a challenging task due to nonlinearities, hysteresis effects, massive actuator de- lay and unobservable dependencies such as temperature. Despite such difficulties, muscular systems offer many beneficial prop- erties to achieve human-comparable performance in uncertain and fast-changing tasks. For example, muscles are backdrivable and provide variable stiffness while offering high forces to reach high accelerations. In addition, the embodied intelligence deriving from the compliance might reduce the control demands for specific tasks. In this paper, we address the problem of how to accurately control musculoskeletal robots. To address this issue, we propose to learn probabilistic forward dynamics models using Gaussian processes and, subsequently, to employ these models for control. However, Gaussian processes dynamics models cannot be set-up for our musculoskeletal robot as for traditional motor- driven robots because of unclear state composition etc. We hence empirically study and discuss in detail how to tune these approaches to complex musculoskeletal robots and their specific challenges. Moreover, we show that our model can be used to accurately control an antagonistic pair of pneumatic artificial muscles for a trajectory tracking task while considering only one- step-ahead predictions of the forward model and incorporating model uncertainty.

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ei Büchler, D., Calandra, R., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. Control of Musculoskeletal Systems using Learned Dynamics Models IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4):3161-3168, IEEE, 2018 (article)

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Temporal Interpolation as an Unsupervised Pretraining Task for Optical Flow Estimation

Wulff, J., Black, M. J.

In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269, pages: 567-582, Springer, Cham, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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The difficulty of annotating training data is a major obstacle to using CNNs for low-level tasks in video. Synthetic data often does not generalize to real videos, while unsupervised methods require heuristic n losses. Proxy tasks can overcome these issues, and start by training a network for a task for which annotation is easier or which can be trained unsupervised. The trained network is then fine-tuned for the original task using small amounts of ground truth data. Here, we investigate frame interpolation as a proxy task for optical flow. Using real movies, we train a CNN unsupervised for temporal interpolation. Such a network implicitly estimates motion, but cannot handle untextured regions. By fine-tuning on small amounts of ground truth flow, the network can learn to fill in homogeneous regions and compute full optical flow fields. Using this unsupervised pre-training, our network outperforms similar architectures that were trained supervised using synthetic optical flow.

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ps Wulff, J., Black, M. J. Temporal Interpolation as an Unsupervised Pretraining Task for Optical Flow Estimation In German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), LNCS 11269, pages: 567-582, Springer, Cham, October 2018 (inproceedings)

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Constraint-Space Projection Direct Policy Search

Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neuman, G.

14th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (conference)

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ei Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neuman, G. Constraint-Space Projection Direct Policy Search 14th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), October 2018 (conference)

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First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes

Hu, Y., Parde, C. J., Hill, M. Q., Mahmood, N., O’Toole, A. J.

Psychological Science, 29(12):1969-–1983, October 2018 (article)

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People infer the personalities of others from their facial appearance. Whether they do so from body shapes is less studied. We explored personality inferences made from body shapes. Participants rated personality traits for male and female bodies generated with a three-dimensional body model. Multivariate spaces created from these ratings indicated that people evaluate bodies on valence and agency in ways that directly contrast positive and negative traits from the Big Five domains. Body-trait stereotypes based on the trait ratings revealed a myriad of diverse body shapes that typify individual traits. Personality-trait profiles were predicted reliably from a subset of the body-shape features used to specify the three-dimensional bodies. Body features related to extraversion and conscientiousness were predicted with the highest consensus, followed by openness traits. This study provides the first comprehensive look at the range, diversity, and reliability of personality inferences that people make from body shapes.

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ps Hu, Y., Parde, C. J., Hill, M. Q., Mahmood, N., O’Toole, A. J. First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes Psychological Science, 29(12):1969-–1983, October 2018 (article)

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Human Motion Parsing by Hierarchical Dynamic Clustering

Zhang, Y., Tang, S., Sun, H., Neumann, H.

In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages: 269, BMVA Press, 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Parsing continuous human motion into meaningful segments plays an essential role in various applications. In this work, we propose a hierarchical dynamic clustering framework to derive action clusters from a sequence of local features in an unsuper- vised bottom-up manner. We systematically investigate the modules in this framework and particularly propose diverse temporal pooling schemes, in order to realize accurate temporal action localization. We demonstrate our method on two motion parsing tasks: temporal action segmentation and abnormal behavior detection. The experimental results indicate that the proposed framework is significantly more effective than the other related state-of-the-art methods on several datasets.

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ps Zhang, Y., Tang, S., Sun, H., Neumann, H. Human Motion Parsing by Hierarchical Dynamic Clustering In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), pages: 269, BMVA Press, 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Spatio-temporal Transformer Network for Video Restoration

Kim, T. H., Sajjadi, M. S. M., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B.

15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part III, 11207, pages: 111-127, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Vittorio Ferrari, Martial Hebert,Cristian Sminchisescu and Yair Weiss), Springer, September 2018 (conference)

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ei Kim, T. H., Sajjadi, M. S. M., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. Spatio-temporal Transformer Network for Video Restoration 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Part III, 11207, pages: 111-127, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Vittorio Ferrari, Martial Hebert,Cristian Sminchisescu and Yair Weiss), Springer, September 2018 (conference)

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Learning Priors for Semantic 3D Reconstruction

Cherabier, I., Schönberger, J., Oswald, M., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A.

In Computer Vision – ECCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

Abstract

We present a novel semantic 3D reconstruction framework which embeds variational regularization into a neural network. Our network performs a fixed number of unrolled multi-scale optimization iterations with shared interaction weights. In contrast to existing variational methods for semantic 3D reconstruction, our model is end-to-end trainable and captures more complex dependencies between the semantic labels and the 3D geometry. Compared to previous learning-based approaches to 3D reconstruction, we integrate powerful long-range dependencies using variational coarse-to-fine optimization. As a result, our network architecture requires only a moderate number of parameters while keeping a high level of expressiveness which enables learning from very little data. Experiments on real and synthetic datasets demonstrate that our network achieves higher accuracy compared to a purely variational approach while at the same time requiring two orders of magnitude less iterations to converge. Moreover, our approach handles ten times more semantic class labels using the same computational resources.

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avg Cherabier, I., Schönberger, J., Oswald, M., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. Learning Priors for Semantic 3D Reconstruction In Computer Vision – ECCV 2018, Springer International Publishing, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Separating Reflection and Transmission Images in the Wild

Wieschollek, P., Gallo, O., Gu, J., Kautz, J.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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ei Wieschollek, P., Gallo, O., Gu, J., Kautz, J. Separating Reflection and Transmission Images in the Wild European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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Generating 3D Faces using Convolutional Mesh Autoencoders

Ranjan, A., Bolkart, T., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11207, pages: 725-741, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Learned 3D representations of human faces are useful for computer vision problems such as 3D face tracking and reconstruction from images, as well as graphics applications such as character generation and animation. Traditional models learn a latent representation of a face using linear subspaces or higher-order tensor generalizations. Due to this linearity, they can not capture extreme deformations and non-linear expressions. To address this, we introduce a versatile model that learns a non-linear representation of a face using spectral convolutions on a mesh surface. We introduce mesh sampling operations that enable a hierarchical mesh representation that captures non-linear variations in shape and expression at multiple scales within the model. In a variational setting, our model samples diverse realistic 3D faces from a multivariate Gaussian distribution. Our training data consists of 20,466 meshes of extreme expressions captured over 12 different subjects. Despite limited training data, our trained model outperforms state-of-the-art face models with 50% lower reconstruction error, while using 75% fewer parameters. We also show that, replacing the expression space of an existing state-of-the-art face model with our autoencoder, achieves a lower reconstruction error. Our data, model and code are available at http://coma.is.tue.mpg.de/.

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ps Ranjan, A., Bolkart, T., Sanyal, S., Black, M. J. Generating 3D Faces using Convolutional Mesh Autoencoders In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11207, pages: 725-741, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Part-Aligned Bilinear Representations for Person Re-identification

Suh, Y., Wang, J., Tang, S., Mei, T., Lee, K. M.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 11218, pages: 418-437, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Comparing the appearance of corresponding body parts is essential for person re-identification. However, body parts are frequently misaligned be- tween detected boxes, due to the detection errors and the pose/viewpoint changes. In this paper, we propose a network that learns a part-aligned representation for person re-identification. Our model consists of a two-stream network, which gen- erates appearance and body part feature maps respectively, and a bilinear-pooling layer that fuses two feature maps to an image descriptor. We show that it results in a compact descriptor, where the inner product between two image descriptors is equivalent to an aggregation of the local appearance similarities of the cor- responding body parts, and thereby significantly reduces the part misalignment problem. Our approach is advantageous over other pose-guided representations by learning part descriptors optimal for person re-identification. Training the net- work does not require any part annotation on the person re-identification dataset. Instead, we simply initialize the part sub-stream using a pre-trained sub-network of an existing pose estimation network and train the whole network to minimize the re-identification loss. We validate the effectiveness of our approach by demon- strating its superiority over the state-of-the-art methods on the standard bench- mark datasets including Market-1501, CUHK03, CUHK01 and DukeMTMC, and standard video dataset MARS.

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ps Suh, Y., Wang, J., Tang, S., Mei, T., Lee, K. M. Part-Aligned Bilinear Representations for Person Re-identification In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 11218, pages: 418-437, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Risk-Sensitivity in Simulation Based Online Planning

Schmid, K., Belzner, L., Kiermeier, M., Neitz, A., Phan, T., Gabor, T., Linnhoff, C.

KI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 41st German Conference on AI, pages: 229-240, (Editors: F. Trollmann and A. Y. Turhan), Springer, Cham, September 2018 (conference)

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ei Schmid, K., Belzner, L., Kiermeier, M., Neitz, A., Phan, T., Gabor, T., Linnhoff, C. Risk-Sensitivity in Simulation Based Online Planning KI 2018: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 41st German Conference on AI, pages: 229-240, (Editors: F. Trollmann and A. Y. Turhan), Springer, Cham, September 2018 (conference)

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Learning Human Optical Flow

Ranjan, A., Romero, J., Black, M. J.

In 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method by hand is impractical, so we develop a new training database of image sequences with ground truth optical flow. For this we use a 3D model of the human body and motion capture data to synthesize realistic flow fields. We then train a convolutional neural network to estimate human flow fields from pairs of images. Since many applications in human motion analysis depend on speed, and we anticipate mobile applications, we base our method on SpyNet with several modifications. We demonstrate that our trained network is more accurate than a wide range of top methods on held-out test data and that it generalizes well to real image sequences. When combined with a person detector/tracker, the approach provides a full solution to the problem of 2D human flow estimation. Both the code and the dataset are available for research.

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ps Ranjan, A., Romero, J., Black, M. J. Learning Human Optical Flow In 29th British Machine Vision Conference, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Texture Transfer for Single Image Super-resolution

Gondal, M. W., Schölkopf, B., Hirsch, M.

Workshop and Challenge on Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) at the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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ei Gondal, M. W., Schölkopf, B., Hirsch, M. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Texture Transfer for Single Image Super-resolution Workshop and Challenge on Perceptual Image Restoration and Manipulation (PIRM) at the 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation

(Best Student Paper Award)

Omran, M., Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., Gehler, P. V., Schiele, B.

In 3DV, September 2018 (inproceedings)

Abstract

Direct prediction of 3D body pose and shape remains a challenge even for highly parameterized deep learning models. Mapping from the 2D image space to the prediction space is difficult: perspective ambiguities make the loss function noisy and training data is scarce. In this paper, we propose a novel approach (Neural Body Fitting (NBF)). It integrates a statistical body model within a CNN, leveraging reliable bottom-up semantic body part segmentation and robust top-down body model constraints. NBF is fully differentiable and can be trained using 2D and 3D annotations. In detailed experiments, we analyze how the components of our model affect performance, especially the use of part segmentations as an explicit intermediate representation, and present a robust, efficiently trainable framework for 3D human pose estimation from 2D images with competitive results on standard benchmarks. Code is available at https://github.com/mohomran/neural_body_fitting

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ps Omran, M., Lassner, C., Pons-Moll, G., Gehler, P. V., Schiele, B. Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation In 3DV, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Frame Optical Flow with Occlusions

Janai, J., Güney, F., Ranjan, A., Black, M. J., Geiger, A.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11220, pages: 713-731, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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avg ps Janai, J., Güney, F., Ranjan, A., Black, M. J., Geiger, A. Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Frame Optical Flow with Occlusions In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11220, pages: 713-731, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Learning an Infant Body Model from RGB-D Data for Accurate Full Body Motion Analysis

Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Bodensteiner, C., Arens, M., Hofmann, U. G., Tacke, U., Hadders-Algra, M., Weinberger, R., Muller-Felber, W., Schroeder, A. S.

In Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Infant motion analysis enables early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders like cerebral palsy (CP). Diagnosis, however, is challenging, requiring expert human judgement. An automated solution would be beneficial but requires the accurate capture of 3D full-body movements. To that end, we develop a non-intrusive, low-cost, lightweight acquisition system that captures the shape and motion of infants. Going beyond work on modeling adult body shape, we learn a 3D Skinned Multi-Infant Linear body model (SMIL) from noisy, low-quality, and incomplete RGB-D data. We demonstrate the capture of shape and motion with 37 infants in a clinical environment. Quantitative experiments show that SMIL faithfully represents the data and properly factorizes the shape and pose of the infants. With a case study based on general movement assessment (GMA), we demonstrate that SMIL captures enough information to allow medical assessment. SMIL provides a new tool and a step towards a fully automatic system for GMA.

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ps Hesse, N., Pujades, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Bodensteiner, C., Arens, M., Hofmann, U. G., Tacke, U., Hadders-Algra, M., Weinberger, R., Muller-Felber, W., Schroeder, A. S. Learning an Infant Body Model from RGB-D Data for Accurate Full Body Motion Analysis In Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Deep Directional Statistics: Pose Estimation with Uncertainty Quantification

Prokudin, S., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

Abstract

Modern deep learning systems successfully solve many perception tasks such as object pose estimation when the input image is of high quality. However, in challenging imaging conditions such as on low resolution images or when the image is corrupted by imaging artifacts, current systems degrade considerably in accuracy. While a loss in performance is unavoidable we would like our models to quantify their uncertainty in order to achieve robustness against images of varying quality. Probabilistic deep learning models combine the expressive power of deep learning with uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we propose a novel probabilistic deep learning model for the task of angular regression. Our model uses von Mises distributions to predict a distribution over object pose angle. Whereas a single von Mises distribution is making strong assumptions about the shape of the distribution, we extend the basic model to predict a mixture of von Mises distributions. We show how to learn a mixture model using a finite and infinite number of mixture components. Our model allow for likelihood-based training and efficient inference at test time. We demonstrate on a number of challenging pose estimation datasets that our model produces calibrated probability predictions and competitive or superior point estimates compared to the current state-of-the-art.

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ps Prokudin, S., Gehler, P., Nowozin, S. Deep Directional Statistics: Pose Estimation with Uncertainty Quantification European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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SphereNet: Learning Spherical Representations for Detection and Classification in Omnidirectional Images

Coors, B., Condurache, A. P., Geiger, A.

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

Abstract

Omnidirectional cameras offer great benefits over classical cameras wherever a wide field of view is essential, such as in virtual reality applications or in autonomous robots. Unfortunately, standard convolutional neural networks are not well suited for this scenario as the natural projection surface is a sphere which cannot be unwrapped to a plane without introducing significant distortions, particularly in the polar regions. In this work, we present SphereNet, a novel deep learning framework which encodes invariance against such distortions explicitly into convolutional neural networks. Towards this goal, SphereNet adapts the sampling locations of the convolutional filters, effectively reversing distortions, and wraps the filters around the sphere. By building on regular convolutions, SphereNet enables the transfer of existing perspective convolutional neural network models to the omnidirectional case. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on the tasks of image classification and object detection, exploiting two newly created semi-synthetic and real-world omnidirectional datasets.

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avg Coors, B., Condurache, A. P., Geiger, A. SphereNet: Learning Spherical Representations for Detection and Classification in Omnidirectional Images European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018 (conference)

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Recovering Accurate 3D Human Pose in The Wild Using IMUs and a Moving Camera

Marcard, T. V., Henschel, R., Black, M. J., Rosenhahn, B., Pons-Moll, G.

In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11214, pages: 614-631, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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In this work, we propose a method that combines a single hand-held camera and a set of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) attached at the body limbs to estimate accurate 3D poses in the wild. This poses many new challenges: the moving camera, heading drift, cluttered background, occlusions and many people visible in the video. We associate 2D pose detections in each image to the corresponding IMU-equipped persons by solving a novel graph based optimization problem that forces 3D to 2D coherency within a frame and across long range frames. Given associations, we jointly optimize the pose of a statistical body model, the camera pose and heading drift using a continuous optimization framework. We validated our method on the TotalCapture dataset, which provides video and IMU synchronized with ground truth. We obtain an accuracy of 26mm, which makes it accurate enough to serve as a benchmark for image-based 3D pose estimation in the wild. Using our method, we recorded 3D Poses in the Wild (3DPW ), a new dataset consisting of more than 51; 000 frames with accurate 3D pose in challenging sequences, including walking in the city, going up-stairs, having coffee or taking the bus. We make the reconstructed 3D poses, video, IMU and 3D models available for research purposes at http://virtualhumans.mpi-inf.mpg.de/3DPW.

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ps Marcard, T. V., Henschel, R., Black, M. J., Rosenhahn, B., Pons-Moll, G. Recovering Accurate 3D Human Pose in The Wild Using IMUs and a Moving Camera In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11214, pages: 614-631, Springer, Cham, September 2018 (inproceedings)

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Visual Perception and Evaluation of Photo-Realistic Self-Avatars From 3D Body Scans in Males and Females

Thaler, A., Piryankova, I., Stefanucci, J. K., Pujades, S., de la Rosa, S., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J.

Frontiers in ICT, 5, pages: 1-14, September 2018 (article)

Abstract

The creation or streaming of photo-realistic self-avatars is important for virtual reality applications that aim for perception and action to replicate real world experience. The appearance and recognition of a digital self-avatar may be especially important for applications related to telepresence, embodied virtual reality, or immersive games. We investigated gender differences in the use of visual cues (shape, texture) of a self-avatar for estimating body weight and evaluating avatar appearance. A full-body scanner was used to capture each participant's body geometry and color information and a set of 3D virtual avatars with realistic weight variations was created based on a statistical body model. Additionally, a second set of avatars was created with an average underlying body shape matched to each participant’s height and weight. In four sets of psychophysical experiments, the influence of visual cues on the accuracy of body weight estimation and the sensitivity to weight changes was assessed by manipulating body shape (own, average) and texture (own photo-realistic, checkerboard). The avatars were presented on a large-screen display, and participants responded to whether the avatar's weight corresponded to their own weight. Participants also adjusted the avatar's weight to their desired weight and evaluated the avatar's appearance with regard to similarity to their own body, uncanniness, and their willingness to accept it as a digital representation of the self. The results of the psychophysical experiments revealed no gender difference in the accuracy of estimating body weight in avatars. However, males accepted a larger weight range of the avatars as corresponding to their own. In terms of the ideal body weight, females but not males desired a thinner body. With regard to the evaluation of avatar appearance, the questionnaire responses suggest that own photo-realistic texture was more important to males for higher similarity ratings, while own body shape seemed to be more important to females. These results argue for gender-specific considerations when creating self-avatars.

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ps Thaler, A., Piryankova, I., Stefanucci, J. K., Pujades, S., de la Rosa, S., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J. Visual Perception and Evaluation of Photo-Realistic Self-Avatars From 3D Body Scans in Males and Females Frontiers in ICT, 5, pages: 1-14, September 2018 (article)

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From Deterministic ODEs to Dynamic Structural Causal Models

Rubenstein, P. K., Bongers, S., Schölkopf, B., Mooij, J. M.

Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), August 2018 (conference)

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ei Rubenstein, P. K., Bongers, S., Schölkopf, B., Mooij, J. M. From Deterministic ODEs to Dynamic Structural Causal Models Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), August 2018 (conference)

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Generalized Score Functions for Causal Discovery

Huang, B., Zhang, K., Lin, Y., Schölkopf, B., Glymour, C.

Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pages: 1551-1560, (Editors: Yike Guo and Faisal Farooq), ACM, August 2018 (conference)

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ei Huang, B., Zhang, K., Lin, Y., Schölkopf, B., Glymour, C. Generalized Score Functions for Causal Discovery Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), pages: 1551-1560, (Editors: Yike Guo and Faisal Farooq), ACM, August 2018 (conference)

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