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Development and clinical validation of computational imaging biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

Neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory disorders often involve complex pathophysiological mechanisms that are â to this date â only partially understood. A more comprehensive understanding of those microstructural processes and their characterization ...

EPFL2024

BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets

Pascal Fua, Sean Lewis Hill, Jiancheng Yang, Amos Sironi, Jian Yang

BigNeuron is an open community bench-testing platform with the goal of setting open standards for accurate and fast automatic neuron tracing. We gathered a diverse set of image volumes across several species that is representative of the data obtained in m ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Stop Pre-Training: Adapt Visual-Language Models to Unseen Languages

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Negar Foroutan Eghlidi

Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) has advanced the performance of many visionlanguage tasks, such as image-text retrieval, visual entailment, and visual reasoning. The pre-training mostly utilizes lexical databases and image queries in English. Previous w ...

Assoc Computational Linguistics-Acl2023

Scale-Aware Test-Time Click Adaptation for Pulmonary Nodule and Mass Segmentation

Li Zhang, Jiancheng Yang

Pulmonary nodules and masses are crucial imaging features in lung cancer screening that require careful management in clinical diagnosis. Despite the success of deep learning-based medical image segmentation, the robust performance on various sizes of lesi ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2023

Knowledge-Aware Cross-Modal Text-Image Retrieval for Remote Sensing Images

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Li Mi, Siran Li

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is difficult, because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the proposition image as a guide. By using text as a query language, the retrieval system gains in usabili ...

2022

Genealogy, Tradition: An Anthology

Paola Viganò

The Anthology concludes the series of publications on the “Horizontal Metropolis,” a research and an oxymoron whose strength resides in expanding the traditional image of the metropolis to a larger territory where urban and non-urban elements live side by ...

Springer2022

QAIR: Practical Query-efficient Black-Box Attacks for Image Retrieval

Shaokai Ye

We study the query-based attack against image retrieval to evaluate its robustness against adversarial examples under the black-box setting, where the adversary only has query access to the top-1 ranked unlabeled images from the database. Compared with que ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Mengshi Qi

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

2021

Defect segmentation for multi-illumination quality control systems

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Siavash Arjomand Bigdeli, David Honzátko

Thanks to recent advancements in image processing and deep learning techniques, visual surface inspection in production lines has become an automated process as long as all the defects are visible in a single or a few images. However, it is often necessary ...

2021

Learning a Unified Blind Image Quality Metric via On-Line and Off-Line Big Training Instances

Daniel Thalmann

In this work, we resolve a big challenge that most current image quality metrics (IQMs) are unavailable across different image contents, especially simultaneously coping with natural scene (NS) images or screen content (SC) images. By comparison with exist ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Synchrotron-based phase-contrast micro-CT as a tool for understanding pulmonary vascular pathobiology and the 3-D microanatomy of alveolar capillary dysplasia

Goran Lovric

This study aimed to explore the value of synchrotron-based phase-contrast microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) in pulmonary vascular pathobiology. The microanatomy of the lung is complex with intricate branching patterns. Tissue sections are therefore diffi ...

AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC2020

AIDE: Accelerating image‐based ecological surveys with interactive machine learning

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

Ecological surveys increasingly rely on large‐scale image datasets, typically terabytes of imagery for a single survey. The ability to collect this volume of data allows surveys of unprecedented scale, at the cost of expansive volumes of photo‐interpretati ...

2020

Deep Feature Factorization For Content-Based Image Retrieval And Localization

Sabine Süsstrunk, Edo Collins

State of the art content-based image retrieval algorithms owe their excellent performance to the rich semantics encoded in the deep activations of a convolutional neural network. The difference between these algorithms lies mostly in how activations are co ...

IEEE2019

Learning to Reduce Annotation Load

Ksenia Konyushkova

Modern machine learning methods and their applications in computer vision are known to crave for large amounts of training data to reach their full potential. Because training data is mostly obtained through humans who manually label samples, it induces a ...

EPFL2019

What Face and Body Shapes Can Tell Us About Height

Pascal Fua, Helge Jochen Rhodin, Semih Günel

Recovering a person's height from a single image is important for virtual garment fitting, autonomous driving and surveillance. However, it is also very challenging without absolute scale information. Here, we examine the rarely addressed case, where camer ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Joint Learning of Semantic Alignment and Object Landmark Detection

Seungryong Kim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based approaches for semantic alignment and object landmark detection have improved their performance significantly. Current efforts for the two tasks focus on addressing the lack of massive training data through weakly ...

IEEE2019

Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Depth-Based Multi-Person Pose Estimation

Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Michael Villamizar

Achieving robust multi-person 2D body landmark localization and pose estimation is essential for human behavior and interaction understanding as encountered for instance in HRI settings. Accurate methods have been proposed recently, but they usually rely o ...

2020

Semantic Attribute Matching Networks

Seungryong Kim

We present semantic attribute matching networks (SAM-Net) for jointly establishing correspondences and transferring attributes across semantically similar images, which intelligently weaves the advantages of the two tasks while overcoming their limitations ...

IEEE2019

Evaluating and Interpreting Deep Convolutional Neural Networks via Non-negative Matrix Factorization

Edo Collins

With ever greater computational resources and more accessible software, deep neural networks have become ubiquitous across industry and academia. Their remarkable ability to generalize to new samples defies the conventional view, which holds that complex, ...

EPFL2019

Fractal and Complexity Analysis of Crack Patterns of Masonry Walls

Katrin Beyer, Amir Rezaie

In order to develop automatic image-based methods for damage evaluation after earthquakes, crack maps need to be evaluated using computer-based algorithms. A common method to link the crack map to a damage state is to compute the fractal dimension of the c ...

2018