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Learning To See With Minimal Human Supervision, Zezhou Cheng Nov 2023

Learning To See With Minimal Human Supervision, Zezhou Cheng

Doctoral Dissertations

Deep learning has significantly advanced computer vision in the past decade, paving the way for practical applications such as facial recognition and autonomous driving. However, current techniques depend heavily on human supervision, limiting their broader deployment. This dissertation tackles this problem by introducing algorithms and theories to minimize human supervision in three key areas: data, annotations, and neural network architectures, in the context of various visual understanding tasks such as object detection, image restoration, and 3D generation. First, we present self-supervised learning algorithms to handle in-the-wild images and videos that traditionally require time-consuming manual curation and labeling. We demonstrate that …


Learning With Aggregate Data, Tao Sun Mar 2019

Learning With Aggregate Data, Tao Sun

Doctoral Dissertations

Various real-world applications involve directly dealing with aggregate data. In this work, we study Learning with Aggregate Data from several perspectives and try to address their combinatorial challenges. At first, we study the problem of learning in Collective Graphical Models (CGMs), where only noisy aggregate observations are available. Inference in CGMs is NP- hard and we proposed an approximate inference algorithm. By solving the inference problems, we are empowered to build large-scale bird migration models, and models for human mobility under the differential privacy setting. Secondly, we consider problems given bags of instances and bag-level aggregate supervisions. Specifically, we study …