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Image registration plays a crucial role in histological image analysis, encompassing tasks like multi-modality fusion and disease grading. 
Traditional registration methods optimize objective functions for each image pair, yielding reliable accuracy but demanding heavy inference burdens.
Recently, learning-based registration methods utilize networks to learn the optimization process during training and apply a one-step forward process during testing. 
While these methods offer promising registration performance with reduced inference time, they remain sensitive to appearance variances and local structure changes commonly encountered in histological image registration scenarios.
In this paper, for the first time, we propose a novel test-time adaptation method for histological image registration, aiming to improve the generalization ability of learning-based methods. 
Specifically, we design two operations, style guidance and shape guidance, for the test-time adaptation process. 
The former leverages style representations encoded by feature statistics to address the issue of appearance variances, while the latter incorporates shape representations encoded by HOG features to improve registration accuracy in regions with structural changes.
Furthermore, we consider the continuity of the model during the test-time adaptation process.
Different from the previous methods initialized by a given trained model, we introduce a smoothing strategy to leverage historical models for better generalization. 
We conduct experiments with several representative learning-based backbones on the public histological dataset, demonstrating the superior registration performance of our test-time adaptation method.

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Test-Time Adaptation via Style and Structure Guidance for Histological Image Registration

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cv: medical and biological imaging

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ICPR 2020 is the premier international conference on Pattern Recognition, gathering leading researchers from around the world to present their latest achievements in Pattern Analysis and Recognition, applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The topic of the year is " Putting Artificial intelligence to work on Patterns". 
For the first time, ICPR has employed a two-round review process similar to journal submissions, with new papers allowed to be submitted in either the first or second round and papers submitted in the first round and not accepted allowed to be revised and re-submitted for second round review. 

In this edition of the **ICPR 2020** Conference, there are 1407 Oral/Poster presentations organized in five Tracks: 
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- Biometrics, Human Analysis and Behavior Understanding; Computer Vision, Robotics and Intelligent Systems; 
- Document and Media Analysis; and 
- Image and Signal Processing. 

The **ICPR 2020** Main Conference program also includes 7 Keynotes from prominent world-renowned scientists, 8 Tutorials, 28 Demos, 8 Challenges, 2 Panels, as well as an Industry/Sponsor Exhibition. In addition, 41 Workshops on a range of important current and emerging research topics complete the ICPR 2020 program. 


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The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. 

In recent years, following the success of text guided image generation, text guided 3D generation has gained increasing attention among researchers. Dreamfusion is a notable approach that enhances generation quality by utilizing 2D text guided diffusion models and introducing SDS loss, a technique for distilling 2D diffusion model information to train 3D models. However, the SDS loss has two major limitations that hinder its effectiveness. Firstly, when given a text prompt, the SDS loss struggles to produce diverse content. Secondly, during training, SDS loss may cause the generated content to overfit and collapse, limiting the model's ability to learn intricate texture details. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel approach called Noise Recalibration algorithm. By incorporating this technique, we can generate 3D content with significantly greater diversity and stunning details. Our approach offers a promising solution to the limitations of SDS loss.

Diverse and Stable 2D Diffusion Guided Text to 3D Generation with Noise Recalibration

Open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection aims to extend video visual relationship detection beyond annotated categories by detecting unseen relationships between objects in videos. 
Recent progresses in open-vocabulary perception, primarily driven by large-scale image-text pre-trained models like CLIP, have shown remarkable success in recognizing novel objects and semantic categories. 
However, directly applying CLIP-like models  to video visual relationship detection encounters significant challenges due to the substantial gap between images and video object relationships.
To address this challenge, we propose a multi-modal prompting method that adapts CLIP well to open-vocabulary video visual relationship detection by prompt-tuning on both visual representation and language input.
Specifically, we enhance the image encoder of CLIP by using spatio-temporal visual prompting to capture spatio-temporal contexts, thereby making it suitable for object-level relationship representation in videos.
Furthermore, we propose visual-guided language prompting to leverage CLIP's comprehensive semantic knowledge for discovering unseen relationship categories, thus facilitating recognizing novel video relationships.
Extensive experiments on two public datasets,  VidVRD and  VidOR, demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, especially achieving a significant gain of nearly 10\% in mAP on novel relationship categories on the VidVRD dataset.

Multi-Modal Prompting for Open-Vocabulary Video Visual Relationship Detection

Fraud detection on multi-relation graphs aims to identify fraudsters in graphs. Graph Neural Network (GNN) models leverage graph structures to pass messages from neighbors to the target nodes, thereby enriching the representations of those target nodes. However, feature and structural inconsistency in the graph, owing to fraudsters' camouflage behaviors, diminish the suspiciousness of fraud nodes which hinders the effectiveness of GNN-based models. In this work, we propose DiG-In-GNN, Discriminative Feature Guided GNN against Inconsistency, to dig into graphs for fraudsters. Specifically, we use multi-scale contrastive learning from the perspective of the neighborhood subgraph where the target node is located to generate guidance nodes to cope with the feature inconsistency. Then, guided by the guidance nodes, we conduct fine-grained neighbor selection through reinforcement learning for each neighbor node to precisely filter nodes that can enhance the message passing and therefore alleviate structural inconsistency. Finally, the two modules are integrated together to obtain discriminable representations of the nodes. Experiments on three fraud detection datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method DiG-In-GNN, which obtains up to 20.73% improvement over previous state-of-the-art methods. Our code can be found at https://github.com/GraphBerry/DiG-In-GNN.

DiG-In-GNN: Discriminative Feature Guided GNN-based Fraud Detector against Inconsistencies in Multi-Relation Fraud Graph

Identifying speakers of quotations in narratives is an important task in literary analysis, with challenging scenarios including the out-of-domain inference for unseen speakers, and non-explicit cases where there are no speaker mentions in surrounding context. 
In this work, we propose a simple and effective approach SIG, a generation-based method that verbalizes the task and quotation input based on designed prompt templates, which also enables easy integration of other auxiliary tasks that further bolster the speaker identification performance. The prediction can either come from direct generation by the model, or be determined by the highest generation probability of each speaker candidate. Based on our approach design, SIG supports out-of-domain evaluation, and achieves open-world classification paradigm that is able to accept any forms of candidate input. We perform both cross-domain evaluation and in-domain evaluation on PDNC, the largest dataset of this task, where empirical results suggest that SIG outperforms previous baselines of complicated designs, as well as the zero-shot ChatGPT, especially excelling at those hard non-explicit scenarios by up to 17% improvement. Additional experiments on another dataset WP further corroborate the efficacy of SIG.

SIG: Speaker Identification in Literature via Prompt-Based Generation

Multistream classification poses significant challenges due to the necessity for rapid adaptation in dynamic streaming processes with concept drift. Despite the growing research outcomes in this area, there has been a notable oversight regarding the temporal dynamic relationships between these streams, leading to the issue of negative transfer arising from irrelevant data. In this paper, we propose a novel Online Boosting Adaptive Learning (OBAL) method that effectively addresses this limitation by adaptively learning the dynamic correlation among different streams. Specifically, OBAL operates in a dual-phase mechanism, in the first of which we design an Adaptive COvariate Shift Adaptation (AdaCOSA) algorithm to construct an initialized ensemble model using archived data from various source streams, thus mitigating the covariate shift while learning the dynamic correlations via an adaptive re-weighting strategy. During the online process, we employ a Gaussian Mixture Model-based weighting mechanism, which is seamlessly integrated with the acquired correlations via AdaCOSA to effectively handle asynchronous drift. This approach significantly improves the predictive performance and stability of the target stream. We conduct comprehensive experiments on several synthetic and real-world data streams, encompassing various drifting scenarios and types. The results clearly demonstrate that OBAL achieves remarkable advancements in addressing multistream classification problems by effectively leveraging positive knowledge derived from multiple sources.

Online Boosting Adaptive Learning under Concept Drift for Multistream Classification

The ability to accurately predict the trajectory of surrounding vehicles is a critical hurdle to overcome on the journey to fully autonomous vehicles. To address this challenge, we pioneer a novel behavior-aware trajectory prediction model (BAT) that incorporates insights and findings from traffic psychology, human behavior, and decision-making. Our model consists of behavior-aware, interaction-aware, priority-aware, and position-aware modules that perceive and understand the underlying interactions and account for uncertainty and variability in prediction, enabling higher-level learning and flexibility without rigid categorization of driving behavior. Importantly, this approach eliminates the need for manual labeling in the training process and addresses the challenges of non-continuous behavior labeling and the selection of appropriate time windows.
We evaluate BAT's performance across the Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM), Highway Drone (HighD), Roundabout Drone (RounD), and Macao Connected Autonomous Driving (MoCAD) datasets, showcasing its superiority over prevailing state-of-the-art (SOTA) benchmarks in terms of prediction accuracy and efficiency. Remarkably, even when trained on reduced portions of the training data (25%), our model outperforms most of the baselines, demonstrating its robustness and efficiency in predicting vehicle trajectories, and the potential to reduce the amount of data required to train autonomous vehicles, especially in corner cases. In conclusion, the behavior-aware model represents a significant advancement in the development of autonomous vehicles capable of predicting trajectories with the same level of proficiency as human drivers.

BAT: Behavior-Aware Human-Like Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving

Our work aims at efficiently leveraging ambiguous demonstrations for the training of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent. An ambiguous demonstration can usually be interpreted in multiple ways, which severely hinders the RL agent from learning stably and efficiently. Since an optimal demonstration may also suffer from being ambiguous, previous works that combine RL and learning from demonstration (RLfD works) may not work well. Inspired by how humans handle such situations, we propose to use self-explanation (an agent generates explanations for itself) to recognize valuable high-level relational features as an interpretation of why a successful trajectory is successful. This way, the agent can leverage the explained important relations as guidance for its RL learning. Our main contribution is to propose the Self-Explanation for RL from Demonstrations (SERLfD) framework, which can overcome the limitations of existing RLfD works. Our experimental results show that an RLfD model can be improved by using our SERLfD framework in terms of training stability and performance. To foster further research in self-explanation-guided robot learning, we have made our demonstrations and code publicly accessible at https://github.com/YantianZha/SERLfD. For a deeper understanding of our work, interested readers can refer to our arXiv version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05286.pdf, including an accompanying appendix.

Learning from Ambiguous Demonstrations with Self-Explanation Guided Reinforcement Learning

Fair allocation of indivisible goods presents intriguing challenges from both a social choice perspective and an algorithmic standpoint. Due to the indivisibility of goods, it is common for one agent to envy the bundle of goods assigned to another agent and, indeed, envy-free solutions do not exist in general. In line with the classical game-theoretic concept of Nucleolus in coalitional games, we propose that a fair allocation should minimize the agents’ dissatisfaction profile in a lexicographic manner, where the dissatisfaction of an agent is defined as her maximum envy towards other agents. Therefore, we seek allocations that minimize the maximum envy. In cases where multiple solutions have an equal maximum value, we minimize the second-worst value, and so on. Additionally, as is customary in fair division problems, we also consider an efficiency requirement: among the allocations with the best agents’ dissatisfaction profile, we prioritize those that maximize the sum of agents’ utilities, known as maximum social welfare. Such allocations, referred to as maxileximin allocations, always exist.
In this study, we analyze the computational properties of maxileximin allocations in the context of fair allocation problems with constraints. Specifically, we focus on the Connected Fair Division problem, where goods correspond to the nodes of a graph, and a bundle of goods is allowed if the subgraph formed by those goods is connected. We demonstrate that the problem is F∆P2 -complete, even for instances with simple graphical structures such as path and star graphs.
However, we identify islands of tractability for instances with more intricate graphs, such as those having bounded treewidth, provided that the number of agents is bounded by a fixed number and utility functions use small values.

Maxileximin Envy Allocations and Connected Goods

In this work, we focus on high-dimensional single index models with non-Gaussian sensing vectors and generative priors. More specifically, our goal is to estimate the underlying signal from $m$ i.i.d. realizations of the semi-parameterized single index model $y=f(\mathbf{a}^T\mathbf{x}^*, w)$, where the signal $\mathbf{x}^* \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is contained in (up to a constant scaling) the range of an $L$-Lipschitz continuous generative model with bounded $k$-dimensional inputs, $\mathbf{a} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ follows a non-Gaussian distribution, $w$ is a random noise variable that is independent of $\mathbf{a}$, $f\,:\, \mathbb{R}^2 \to  \mathbb{R}$ is an unknown non-linear link function that is differentiable with respect to the first argument, and $y$ is the observed random variable. Using the first- and second-order Stein's identity, we introduce efficient algorithms to obtain estimated vectors that achieve the near-optimal statistical rate. In particular, we demonstrate that roughly $O\big(\frac{k}{\varepsilon^2}\log L\big)$ samples are sufficient to ensure that the estimated vectors of the algorithms attain $\varepsilon$-accurate recovery. Experimental results on image datasets are provided to support our theory.

Efficient Algorithms for Non-gaussian Single Index Models with Generative Priors

With the rapid development of virtual reality, omnidirectional images (ODIs) have attracted much attention from both the industrial community and academia. However, due to storage and transmission limitations, the resolution of current ODIs is often insufficient to provide an immersive virtual reality experience. Previous approaches address this issue using conventional 2D super-resolution techniques on equirectangular projection without exploiting the unique geometric properties of ODIs. In particular, the equirectangular projection (ERP) provides a complete field-of-view but introduces significant distortion, while the cubemap projection (CMP) can reduce distortion yet has a limited field-of-view. In this paper, we present a novel Bi-Projection Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution (BPOSR) network to take advantage of the geometric properties of the above two projections. Then, we design two tailored attention methods for these projections: Horizontal Striped Transformer Block (HSTB) for ERP and Perspective Shift Transformer Block (PSTB) for CMP. Furthermore, we propose a fusion module to make these projections complement each other. Extensive experiments demonstrate that BPOSR achieves state-of-the-art performance on omnidirectional image super-resolution.

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