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Autonomous vehicle framework relies on localization algorithms to position itself and navigates to the destination. In this paper, we explore a light-weight visual localization method to realize the vehicle position and attitude estimation based on images rather than the dominant LIDAR data. We apply SLAM and an offline map correction method to generate a high precision map, which composes 3D points and feature descriptors. For each image, we extract the features and match against the map to explore correspondences.

Discovering and exploiting the causality in deep neural networks (DNNs) are crucial challenges for understanding and reasoning causal effects (CE) on an explainable visual model. "Intervention" has been widely used for recognizing a causal relation ontologically. In this paper, we propose a causal inference framework for visual reasoning via do-calculus. To study the intervention effects on pixel-level features for causal reasoning, we introduce pixel-wise masking and adversarial perturbation.

In this work we explore an overcomplete representation of
multiview imagery for the purpose of compression. We
present a rate-distortion (R-D) driven approach to decompose
multiview datasets into two additive parts which can
be interpreted as being the diffuse and specular components.
We apply different transforms to each component such that
the compressibility of input data is improved. We describe
a framework which performs the R-D optimized separation
in a registered domain to avoid the complexity of warping

Depth estimation from a single underwater image is one of the most challenging problems and is highly ill-posed. Due to the absence of large generalized underwater depth datasets and the difficulty in obtaining ground truth depth-maps, supervised learning techniques such as direct depth regression cannot be used. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for depth estimation from a single underwater image taken "in the wild" by using haze as a cue for depth.