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This document includes the slides of the ICIP2019 presentation of the publication "DVDnet: A Fast Network for Deep Video Denoising".

While Deep Neural Networks trained for solving inverse imaging problems (such as super-resolution, denoising, or inpainting tasks) regularly achieve new state-of-the-art restoration performance, this increase in performance is often accompanied with undesired artifacts generated in their solution. These artifacts are usually specific to the type of neural network architecture, training, or test input image used for the inverse imaging problem at hand. In this paper, we propose a fast, efficient post-processing method for reducing these artifacts.

In this paper, we are interested in exploiting textual and acoustic data of an utterance for the speech emotion classification task. The baseline approach models the information from audio and text independently using two deep neural networks (DNNs). The outputs from both the DNNs are then fused for classification. As opposed to using knowledge from both the modalities separately, we propose a framework to exploit acoustic information in tandem with lexical data.

Graph neural networks (GNNs) regularize classical neural networks by exploiting the underlying irregular structure supporting graph data, extending its application to broader data domains. The aggregation GNN presented here is a novel GNN that exploits the fact that the data collected at a single node by means of successive local exchanges with neighbors exhibits a regular structure. Thus, regular convolution and regular pooling yield an appropriately regularized GNN.

We address the problem of adding new classes to an existing classifier without hurting the original classes, when no access is allowed to any sample from the original classes. This problem arises frequently since models are often shared without their training data, due to privacy and data ownership concerns. We propose an easy-to-use approach that modifies the original classifier by retraining a suitable subset of layers using a linearly-tuned, knowledge-distillation regularization.

In this paper, we address the problem of bird audio detec-
tion and propose a new convolutional neural network archi-
tecture together with a divergence based information channel
weighing strategy in order to achieve improved state-of-the-
art performance and faster convergence. The effectiveness of
the methodology is shown on the Bird Audio Detection Chal-
lenge 2018 (Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes
and Events Challenge, Task 3) development data set.

Diversity plays a vital role in many text generating applications. In recent years, Conditional Variational Auto Encoders (CVAE) have shown promising performances for this task. However, they often encounter the so called KL-Vanishing problem. Previous works mitigated such problem by heuristic methods such as strengthening the encoder or weakening the decoder while optimizing the CVAE objective function. Nevertheless, the optimizing direction of these methods are implicit and it is hard to find an appropriate degree to which these methods should be applied.