What if we only use real datasets for scene text recognition? toward scene text recognition with fewer labels

J Baek, Y Matsui, K Aizawa - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene text recognition (STR) task has a common practice: All state-of-the-art STR models
are trained on large synthetic data. In contrast to this practice, training STR models only on …

Recall@ k surrogate loss with large batches and similarity mixup

Y Patel, G Tolias, J Matas - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This work focuses on learning deep visual representation models for retrieval by exploring
the interplay between a new loss function, the batch size, and a new regularization …

Generalized differentiable RANSAC

T Wei, Y Patel, A Shekhovtsov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose-RANSAC, a generalized differentiable RANSAC that allows learning the entire
randomized robust estimation pipeline. The proposed approach enables the use of …

Auto seg-loss: Searching metric surrogates for semantic segmentation

H Li, C Tao, X Zhu, X Wang, G Huang, J Dai - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Designing proper loss functions is essential in training deep networks. Especially in the field
of semantic segmentation, various evaluation metrics have been proposed for diverse …

ZeroGrads: Learning Local Surrogates for Non-Differentiable Graphics

M Fischer, T Ritschel - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2024 - dl.acm.org
Gradient-based optimization is now ubiquitous across graphics, but unfortunately can not be
applied to problems with undefined or zero gradients. To circumvent this issue, the loss …

Metricopt: Learning to optimize black-box evaluation metrics

C Huang, S Zhai, P Guo… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We study the problem of directly optimizing arbitrary non-differentiable task evaluation
metrics such as misclassification rate and recall. Our method, named MetricOpt, operates in …

Zero Grads Ever Given: Learning Local Surrogate Losses for Non-Differentiable Graphics

M Fischer, T Ritschel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.05739, 2023 - arxiv.org
Gradient-based optimization is now ubiquitous across graphics, but unfortunately can not be
applied to problems with undefined or zero gradients. To circumvent this issue, the loss …

Amortized synthesis of constrained configurations using a differentiable surrogate

X Sun, T Xue, S Rusinkiewicz… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In design, fabrication, and control problems, we are often faced with the task of synthesis, in
which we must generate an object or configuration that satisfies a set of constraints while …

Neural network-based acoustic vehicle counting

S Djukanović, Y Patel, J Matas… - 2021 29th European …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses acoustic vehicle counting using one-channel audio. We predict the
pass-by instants of vehicles from local minima of clipped vehicle-to-microphone distance …

Searching parameterized AP loss for object detection

T Chenxin, Z Li, X Zhu, G Huang… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Loss functions play an important role in training deep-network-based object detectors. The
most widely used evaluation metric for object detection is Average Precision (AP), which …