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The notorious incident of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) can easily happen to a newborn due to many environmental factors. To prevent such tragic incidents from happening, we propose a multi-task deep learning framework that detects different facial traits and two life-threatening indicators, i.e. which facial parts are occluded or covered, by analyzing the infant head image. Furthermore, we extend and adapt the recently developed models that capture data-dependent uncertainty from noisy observations for our application.

This work exploits the basic denoising autoencoding (DAE) as enhanced priori for color image restoration (IR). The proposed method consists of two steps: enhanced DAE network learning and iterative restoration. To be special, at the training phase, a denoising network taking 6-dimensional variable as input is trained. Then, the network-driven high-dimensional prior information embedded DAE priori is utilized in the iterative restoration procedure. We first map the intermediate color image to be 6 dimensional and employ the higher-dimensional network to handle its corrupted version.

Insufficient reasoning for their predictions has for long been a major drawback of neural networks and has proved to be a major obstacle for their adoption by several fields of application. This paper presents a framework for discriminative localization, which helps shed some light into the decision-making of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our framework generates robust, refined and high-quality Class Activation Maps, without impacting the CNN’s performance.

The goal of endoscopic analysis is to find abnormal lesions and determine further therapy from the obtained information. However, the procedure produces a variety of non-informative frames and lesions can be missed due to poor video quality. Especially when analyzing entire endoscopic videos made by non-expert endoscopists, informative frame classification is crucial to e.g. video quality grading. This work concentrates on the design of an automated indication of informativeness of video frames.

Convolutional neural network (CNN) delivers impressive achievements in computer vision and machine learning field. However, CNN incurs high computational complexity, especially for vision quality applications because of large image resolution. In this paper, we propose an iterative architecture-aware pruning algorithm with adaptive magnitude threshold while cooperating with quality-metric measurement simultaneously. We show the performance improvement applied on vision quality applications and provide comprehensive analysis with flexible pruning configuration.

Binary neural networks are a promising approach to execute convolutional neural networks on devices with low computational power. Previous work on this subject often quantizes pretrained full-precision models and uses complex training strategies. In our work, we focus on increasing the performance of binary neural networks by training from scratch with a simple training strategy. In our experiments we show that we are able to achieve state-of-the-art results on standard benchmark datasets.