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Point processes are finding increasing applications in neuroscience, genomics, and social media. But basic modelling properties are little studied. Here we consider a periodic time-varying Poisson model and develop the asymptotic Cramer-Rao bound. We also develop, for the first time, a maximum likelihood algorithm for parameter estimation.

Generative models are now capable of synthesizing images, speeches, and videos that are hardly distinguishable from authentic contents. Such capabilities cause concerns such as malicious impersonation and IP theft. This paper investigates a solution for model attribution, i.e., the classification of synthetic contents by their source models via watermarks embedded in the contents.

In this study, we investigate how different types of masks affect automatic emotion classification in different channels of audio, visual, and multimodal. We train emotion classification models for each modality with the original data without mask and the re-generated data with mask respectively, and investigate how muffled speech and occluded facial expressions change the prediction of emotions.

With the aim of addressing audio signal restoration as a sequential inference problem, we build upon Gabor regression to propose a state-space model for audio time series. Exploiting the structure of our model, we devise a sequential Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm to explore the sequence of filtering distributions of the synthesis coefficients. The algorithm is then tested on a series of denoising examples.

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in augmenting datasets and boosting convolutional neural networks' (CNN) performance on image classification tasks. But they introduce more hyperparameters to tune as well as the need for additional time and computational power to train supplementary to the CNN. In this work, we examine the potential for Auxiliary-Classifier GANs (AC-GANs) as a 'one-stop-shop' architecture for image classification, particularly in low data regimes.