Autodiffusion: Training-free optimization of time steps and architectures for automated diffusion model acceleration

L Li, H Li, X Zheng, J Wu, X Xiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Diffusion models are emerging expressive generative models, in which a large number of
time steps (inference steps) are required for a single image generation. To accelerate such …

Neural architecture search for dense prediction tasks in computer vision

R Mohan, T Elsken, A Zela, JH Metzen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The success of deep learning in recent years has lead to a rising demand for neural network
architecture engineering. As a consequence, neural architecture search (NAS), which aims …

Towards diverse binary segmentation via a simple yet general gated network

X Zhao, Y Pang, L Zhang, H Lu, L Zhang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
In many binary segmentation tasks, most CNNs-based methods use a U-shape encoder-
decoder network as their basic structure. They ignore two key problems when the encoder …

Saliency hierarchy modeling via generative kernels for salient object detection

W Zhang, L Zheng, H Wang, X Wu, X Li - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Salient Object Detection (SOD) is a challenging problem that aims to precisely
recognize and segment the salient objects. In ground-truth maps, all pixels belonging to the …

NAS-ASDet: An adaptive design method for surface defect detection network using neural architecture search

Z Wang, B Li, W Li, S Niu, M Wang, T Niu - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in surface defect
detection. However, no CNN architecture is suitable for all detection tasks and designing …

Pixel is all you need: adversarial trajectory-ensemble active learning for salient object detection

Z Wu, L Wang, W Wang, Q Xia, C Chen… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Although weakly-supervised techniques can reduce the labeling effort, it is unclear whether
a saliency model trained with weakly-supervised data (eg, point annotation) can achieve the …

LARNet: Towards Lightweight, Accurate and Real-time Salient Object Detection

Z Wang, Y Zhang, Y Liu, C Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Salient object detection (SOD) has rapidly developed in recent years, and detection
performance has greatly improved. However, the price of these improvements is …

DetOFA: Efficient Training of Once-for-All Networks for Object Detection using Path Filter

Y Sakuma, M Ishii, T Narihira - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the challenge of training a large supernet for the object detection task, using a
relatively small amount of training data. Specifically, we propose an efficient supernet-based …

Searching lightweight neural network for image signal processing

H Lin, L Li, X Zheng, F Chao, R Ji - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recently, it has been shown that the traditional Image Signal Processing (ISP) can be
replaced by deep neural networks due to their superior performance. However, most of …

3D human pose estimation with self-supervision and learnable data generation

M Gholami - 2024 - open.library.ubc.ca
The estimation of 3D human body poses from 2D images is needed in a wide-ranging
application across robotics, computer graphics, and patient monitoring. While Deep …