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Revisiting Collaboration Through Mixed Reality: The Evolution Of Groupware, Barrett Ens, Joel Lanir, Anthony Tang, Scott Bateman, Gun Lee, Thammathip Piumsomboon, Mark Billinghurst Nov 2019

Revisiting Collaboration Through Mixed Reality: The Evolution Of Groupware, Barrett Ens, Joel Lanir, Anthony Tang, Scott Bateman, Gun Lee, Thammathip Piumsomboon, Mark Billinghurst

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Collaborative Mixed Reality (MR) systems are at a critical point in time as they are soon to become more commonplace. However, MR technology has only recently matured to the point where researchers can focus deeply on the nuances of supporting collaboration, rather than needing to focus on creating the enabling technology. In parallel, but largely independently, the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has focused on the fundamental concerns that underlie human communication and collaboration over the past 30-plus years. Since MR research is now on the brink of moving into the real world, we reflect on three decades …


Vireo-Eurecom @ Trecvid 2019: Ad-Hoc Video Search (Avs), Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jiaxin Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Francis Danny, Benoit Huet Nov 2019

Vireo-Eurecom @ Trecvid 2019: Ad-Hoc Video Search (Avs), Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jiaxin Wu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Francis Danny, Benoit Huet

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In this paper, we describe the systems developed for Ad-hoc Video Search (AVS) task at TRECVID 2019[1] and the achieved results.


Vireojd-Mm @ Trecvid 2019: Activities In Extended Video (Actev), Zhijian Hou, Ying-Wei Pan, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo Nov 2019

Vireojd-Mm @ Trecvid 2019: Activities In Extended Video (Actev), Zhijian Hou, Ying-Wei Pan, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo

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In this paper, we describe the system developed for Activities in Extended Video(ActEV) task at TRECVid 2019 [1] and the achieved results. Activities in Extended Video(ActEV): The goal of Activities in Extended Video is to spatially and temporally localize the action instances in a surveillance setting. We have participated in previous ActEV prize challenge. Since the only difference between the two challenges is evaluation metric, we maintain previous pipeline [2] for this challenge. The pipeline has three stages: object detection, tubelet generation and temporal action localization. This time we extend the system for two aspects separately: better object detection and …


Low-Resource Name Tagging Learned With Weakly Labeled Data, Yixin Cao, Zikun Hu, Tat-Seng Chua, Zhiyuan Liu, Heng Ji Nov 2019

Low-Resource Name Tagging Learned With Weakly Labeled Data, Yixin Cao, Zikun Hu, Tat-Seng Chua, Zhiyuan Liu, Heng Ji

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Name tagging in low-resource languages or domains suffers from inadequate training data. Existing work heavily relies on additional information, while leaving those noisy annotations unexplored that extensively exist on the web. In this paper, we propose a novel neural model for name tagging solely based on weakly labeled (WL) data, so that it can be applied in any low-resource settings. To take the best advantage of all WL sentences, we split them into high-quality and noisy portions for two modules, respectively: (1) a classification module focusing on the large portion of noisy data can efficiently and robustly pretrain the tag …


Mixed-Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation Networks, Lixi Deng, Jingjing Chen, Qianru Sun, Xiangnan He, Sheng Tang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yongdong Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua Oct 2019

Mixed-Dish Recognition With Contextual Relation Networks, Lixi Deng, Jingjing Chen, Qianru Sun, Xiangnan He, Sheng Tang, Zhaoyan Ming, Yongdong Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua

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Mixed dish is a food category that contains different dishes mixed in one plate, and is popular in Eastern and Southeast Asia. Recognizing individual dishes in a mixed dish image is important for health related applications, e.g. calculating the nutrition values. However, most existing methods that focus on single dish classification are not applicable to mixed-dish recognition. The new challenge in recognizing mixed-dish images are the complex ingredient combination and severe overlap among different dishes. In order to tackle these problems, we propose a novel approach called contextual relation networks (CR-Nets) that encodes the implicit and explicit contextual relations among …


Multi-Label Thoracic Disease Image Classification With Cross-Attention Networks, Congbo Ma, Hu Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi Oct 2019

Multi-Label Thoracic Disease Image Classification With Cross-Attention Networks, Congbo Ma, Hu Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi

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Automated disease classification of radiology images has been emerging as a promising technique to support clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Unlike generic image classification tasks, a real-world radiology image classification task is significantly more challenging as it is far more expensive to collect the training data where the labeled data is in nature multi-label; and more seriously samples from easy classes often dominate; training data is highly class-imbalanced problem exists in practice as well. To overcome these challenges, in this paper, we propose a novel scheme of Cross-Attention Networks (CAN) for automated thoracic disease classification from chest x-ray images, which …


Fusion Of Multimodal Embeddings For Ad-Hoc Video Search, Danny Francis, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Benoit Huet, Chong-Wah Ngo Oct 2019

Fusion Of Multimodal Embeddings For Ad-Hoc Video Search, Danny Francis, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Benoit Huet, Chong-Wah Ngo

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The challenge of Ad-Hoc Video Search (AVS) originates from free-form (i.e., no pre-defined vocabulary) and freestyle (i.e., natural language) query description. Bridging the semantic gap between AVS queries and videos becomes highly difficult as evidenced from the low retrieval accuracy of AVS benchmarking in TRECVID. In this paper, we study a new method to fuse multimodal embeddings which have been derived based on completely disjoint datasets. This method is tested on two datasets for two distinct tasks: on MSR-VTT for unique video retrieval and on V3C1 for multiple videos retrieval.


Semi-Supervised Deep Quantization For Cross-Modal Search, Xin Wang, Wenwu Zhu, Chenghao Liu Oct 2019

Semi-Supervised Deep Quantization For Cross-Modal Search, Xin Wang, Wenwu Zhu, Chenghao Liu

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The problem of cross-modal similarity search, which aims at making efficient and accurate queries across multiple domains, has become a significant and important research topic. Composite quantization, a compact coding solution superior to hashing techniques, has shown its effectiveness for similarity search. However, most existing works utilizing composite quantization to search multi-domain content only consider either pairwise similarity information or class label information across different domains, which fails to tackle the semi-supervised problem in composite quantization. In this paper, we address the semi-supervised quantization problem by considering: (i) pairwise similarity information (without class label information) across different domains, which captures …


Nonuniform Timeslicing Of Dynamic Graphs Based On Visual Complexity, Yong Wang, Daniel Archambault, Hammad Haleem, Torsten Moeller, Yanhong Wu, Huamin Qu Oct 2019

Nonuniform Timeslicing Of Dynamic Graphs Based On Visual Complexity, Yong Wang, Daniel Archambault, Hammad Haleem, Torsten Moeller, Yanhong Wu, Huamin Qu

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Uniform timeslicing of dynamic graphs has been used due to its convenience and uniformity across the time dimension. However, uniform timeslicing does not take the data set into account, which can generate cluttered timeslices with edge bursts and empty timeslices with few interactions. The graph mining filed has explored nonuniform timeslicing methods specifically designed to preserve graph features for mining tasks. In this paper, we propose a nonuni-form timeslicing approach for dynamic graph visualization. Our goal is to create timeslices of equal visual complexity. To this end, we adapt histogram equalization to create timeslices with a similar number of events, …


Rotation Invariant Convolutions For 3d Point Clouds Deep Learning, Zhiyuan Zhang, Binh-Son Hua, David W. Rosen, Sai-Kit Yeung Sep 2019

Rotation Invariant Convolutions For 3d Point Clouds Deep Learning, Zhiyuan Zhang, Binh-Son Hua, David W. Rosen, Sai-Kit Yeung

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Recent progresses in 3D deep learning has shown that it is possible to design special convolution operators to consume point cloud data. However, a typical drawback is that rotation invariance is often not guaranteed, resulting in networks that generalizes poorly to arbitrary rotations. In this paper, we introduce a novel convolution operator for point clouds that achieves rotation invariance. Our core idea is to use low-level rotation invariant geometric features such as distances and angles to design a convolution operator for point cloud learning. The well-known point ordering problem is also addressed by a binning approach seamlessly built into the …


Multimodal Transformer Networks For End-To-End Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems, Hung Le, Doyen Sahoo, Nancy F. Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi Aug 2019

Multimodal Transformer Networks For End-To-End Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems, Hung Le, Doyen Sahoo, Nancy F. Chen, Steven C. H. Hoi

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Developing Video-Grounded Dialogue Systems (VGDS), where a dialogue is conducted based on visual and audio aspects of a given video, is significantly more challenging than traditional image or text-grounded dialogue systems because (1) feature space of videos span across multiple picture frames, making it difficult to obtain semantic information; and (2) a dialogue agent must perceive and process information from different modalities (audio, video, caption, etc.) to obtain a comprehensive understanding. Most existing work is based on RNNs and sequence-to-sequence architectures, which are not very effective for capturing complex long-term dependencies (like in videos). To overcome this, we propose Multimodal …


Generalized Majorization-Minimization For Non-Convex Optimization, Hu Zhang, Pan Zhou, Yi Yang, Jiashi Feng Aug 2019

Generalized Majorization-Minimization For Non-Convex Optimization, Hu Zhang, Pan Zhou, Yi Yang, Jiashi Feng

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Majorization-Minimization (MM) algorithms optimize an objective function by iteratively minimizing its majorizing surrogate and offer attractively fast convergence rate for convex problems. However, their convergence behaviors for non-convex problems remain unclear. In this paper, we propose a novel MM surrogate function from strictly upper bounding the objective to bounding the objective in expectation. With this generalized surrogate conception, we develop a new optimization algorithm, termed SPI-MM, that leverages the recent proposed SPIDER for more efficient non-convex optimization. We prove that for finite-sum problems, the SPI-MM algorithm converges to an stationary point within deterministic and lower stochastic gradient complexity. To our …


Bidding Mechanisms In Graph Games, Guy Avni, Thomas A. Henzinger, Dorde Zikelic Aug 2019

Bidding Mechanisms In Graph Games, Guy Avni, Thomas A. Henzinger, Dorde Zikelic

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In two-player games on graphs, the players move a token through a graph to produce a finite or infinite path, which determines the qualitative winner or quantitative payoff of the game. We study bidding games in which the players bid for the right to move the token. Several bidding rules were studied previously. In Richman bidding, in each round, the players simultaneously submit bids, and the higher bidder moves the token and pays the other player. Poorman bidding is similar except that the winner of the bidding pays the “bank” rather than the other player. Taxman bidding spans the spectrum …


Kgat: Knowledge Graph Attention Network For Recommendation, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Yixin Cao, Meng Liu, Tat-Seng Chua Aug 2019

Kgat: Knowledge Graph Attention Network For Recommendation, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Yixin Cao, Meng Liu, Tat-Seng Chua

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To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM) cast it as a supervised learning problem, which assumes each interaction as an independent instance with side information encoded. Due to the overlook of the relations among instances or items (e.g., the director of a movie is also an actor of another movie), these methods are insufficient to distill the collaborative signal from the collective behaviors of users. In this work, we investigate the utility of knowledge graph (KG), which breaks …


Personalized Fashion Recommendation With Visual Explanations Based On Multimodal Attention Network: Towards Visually Explainable Recommendation, Xu Chen, Hanxiong Chen, Hongteng Xu, Yongfeng Zhang, Yixin Cao, Zheng Qin, Hongyuan Zha Jul 2019

Personalized Fashion Recommendation With Visual Explanations Based On Multimodal Attention Network: Towards Visually Explainable Recommendation, Xu Chen, Hanxiong Chen, Hongteng Xu, Yongfeng Zhang, Yixin Cao, Zheng Qin, Hongyuan Zha

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Fashion recommendation has attracted increasing attention from both industry and academic communities. This paper proposes a novel neural architecture for fashion recommendation based on both image region-level features and user review information. Our basic intuition is that: for a fashion image, not all the regions are equally important for the users, i.e., people usually care about a few parts of the fashion image. To model such human sense, we learn an attention model over many pre-segmented image regions, based on which we can understand where a user is really interested in on the image, and correspondingly, represent the image in …


Evaluating The Readability Of Force Directed Graph Layouts: A Deep Learning Approach, Hammad Haleem, Yong Wang, Abishek Puri, Sahil Wadhwa, Huamin Qu Jul 2019

Evaluating The Readability Of Force Directed Graph Layouts: A Deep Learning Approach, Hammad Haleem, Yong Wang, Abishek Puri, Sahil Wadhwa, Huamin Qu

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Existing graph layout algorithms are usually not able to optimize all the aesthetic properties desired in a graph layout. To evaluate how well the desired visual features are reflected in a graph layout, many readability metrics have been proposed in the past decades. However, the calculation of these readability metrics often requires access to the node and edge coordinates and is usually computationally inefficient, especially for dense graphs. Importantly, when the node and edge coordinates are not accessible, it becomes impossible to evaluate the graph layouts quantitatively. In this paper, we present a novel deep learning-based approach to evaluate the …


Multi-Channel Graph Neural Network For Entity Alignment, Yixin Cao, Zhiyuan Liu, Chengjiang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua Jul 2019

Multi-Channel Graph Neural Network For Entity Alignment, Yixin Cao, Zhiyuan Liu, Chengjiang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Juanzi Li, Tat-Seng Chua

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Entity alignment typically suffers from the issues of structural heterogeneity and limited seed alignments. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-channel Graph Neural Network model (MuGNN) to learn alignment-oriented knowledge graph (KG) embeddings by robustly encoding two KGs via multiple channels. Each channel encodes KGs via different relation weighting schemes with respect to self-attention towards KG completion and cross-KG attention for pruning exclusive entities respectively, which are further combined via pooling techniques. Moreover, we also infer and transfer rule knowledge for completing two KGs consistently. MuGNN is expected to reconcile the structural differences of two KGs, and thus make …


Learning Spatio-Temporal Representation With Local And Global Diffusion, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xinmei Tian, Tao Mei Jun 2019

Learning Spatio-Temporal Representation With Local And Global Diffusion, Zhaofan Qiu, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xinmei Tian, Tao Mei

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been regarded as a powerful class of models for visual recognition problems. Nevertheless, the convolutional filters in these networks are local operations while ignoring the large-range dependency. Such drawback becomes even worse particularly for video recognition, since video is an information-intensive media with complex temporal variations. In this paper, we present a novel framework to boost the spatio-temporal representation learning by Local and Global Diffusion (LGD). Specifically, we construct a novel neural network architecture that learns the local and global representations in parallel. The architecture is composed of LGD blocks, where each block updates local …


Mixed Dish Recognition Through Multi-Label Learning, Yunan Wang, Jing-Jing Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Tat-Seng Chua, Wanli Zuo, Zhaoyan Ming Jun 2019

Mixed Dish Recognition Through Multi-Label Learning, Yunan Wang, Jing-Jing Chen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Tat-Seng Chua, Wanli Zuo, Zhaoyan Ming

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Mix dish recognition, whose goal is to identify each of the dish type presented on one plate, is generally regarded as a difficult problem. The major challenge of this problem is that different dishes presented in one plate may overlap with each other and there may be no clear boundaries among them. Therefore, labeling the bounding box of each dish type is difficult and not necessarily leading to good results. This paper studies the problem from the perspective of multi-label learning. Specially, we propose to perform dish recognition on region level with multiple granularities. For experimental purpose, we collect two …


Exploring Object Relation In Mean Teacher For Cross-Domain Detection, Qi Cai, Yingwei Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xinmei Tian, Lingyu Duan, Ting Yao Jun 2019

Exploring Object Relation In Mean Teacher For Cross-Domain Detection, Qi Cai, Yingwei Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo, Xinmei Tian, Lingyu Duan, Ting Yao

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Rendering synthetic data (e.g., 3D CAD-rendered images) to generate annotations for learning deep models in vision tasks has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, simply applying the models learnt on synthetic images may lead to high generalization error on real images due to domain shift. To address this issue, recent progress in cross-domain recognition has featured the Mean Teacher, which directly simulates unsupervised domain adaptation as semi-supervised learning. The domain gap is thus naturally bridged with consistency regularization in a teacher-student scheme. In this work, we advance this Mean Teacher paradigm to be applicable for crossdomain detection. Specifically, we …


Sliced Wasserstein Generative Models, Jiqing Wu, Zhiwu Huang, Dinesh Acharya, Wen Li, Janine Thoma, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool Jun 2019

Sliced Wasserstein Generative Models, Jiqing Wu, Zhiwu Huang, Dinesh Acharya, Wen Li, Janine Thoma, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool

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In generative modeling, the Wasserstein distance (WD) has emerged as a useful metric to measure the discrepancy between generated and real data distributions. Unfortunately, it is challenging to approximate the WD of high-dimensional distributions. In contrast, the sliced Wasserstein distance (SWD) factorizes high-dimensional distributions into their multiple one-dimensional marginal distributions and is thus easier to approximate. In this paper, we introduce novel approximations of the primal and dual SWD. Instead of using a large number of random projections, as it is done by conventional SWD approximation methods, we propose to approximate SWDs with a small number of parameterized orthogonal projections …


R2gan: Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval With Generative Adversarial Network, Bin Zhu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jingjing Chen, Yanbin Hao Jun 2019

R2gan: Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval With Generative Adversarial Network, Bin Zhu, Chong-Wah Ngo, Jingjing Chen, Yanbin Hao

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Representing procedure text such as recipe for crossmodal retrieval is inherently a difficult problem, not mentioning to generate image from recipe for visualization. This paper studies a new version of GAN, named Recipe Retrieval Generative Adversarial Network (R2GAN), to explore the feasibility of generating image from procedure text for retrieval problem. The motivation of using GAN is twofold: learning compatible cross-modal features in an adversarial way, and explanation of search results by showing the images generated from recipes. The novelty of R2GAN comes from architecture design, specifically a GAN with one generator and dual discriminators is used, which makes the …


Dietlens-Eout: Large Scale Restaurant Food Photo Recognition, Zhipeng Wei, Jingjing Chen, Zhaoyan Ming, Chong-Wah Ngo, Tat-Seng Chua, Fengfeng Zhou Jun 2019

Dietlens-Eout: Large Scale Restaurant Food Photo Recognition, Zhipeng Wei, Jingjing Chen, Zhaoyan Ming, Chong-Wah Ngo, Tat-Seng Chua, Fengfeng Zhou

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Restaurant dishes represent a significant portion of food that people consume in their daily life. While people are becoming healthconscious in their food intake, convenient restaurant food tracking becomes an essential task in wellness and fitness applications. Given the huge number of dishes (food categories) involved, it becomes extremely challenging for traditional food photo classification to be feasible in both algorithm design and training data availability. In this work, we present a demo that runs on restaurant dish images in a city of millions of residents and tens of thousand restaurants. We propose a rank-loss based convolutional neural network to …


Pinchlist: Leveraging Pinch Gestures For Hierarchical List Navigation On Smartphones, Teng Han, Jie Liu, Khalad Hasan, Mingming Fan, Junhyeok Kim, Jiannan Li, Xiangmin Fan, Feng Tian, Edward Lank, Pourang Irani May 2019

Pinchlist: Leveraging Pinch Gestures For Hierarchical List Navigation On Smartphones, Teng Han, Jie Liu, Khalad Hasan, Mingming Fan, Junhyeok Kim, Jiannan Li, Xiangmin Fan, Feng Tian, Edward Lank, Pourang Irani

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Intensive exploration and navigation of hierarchical lists on smartphones can be tedious and time-consuming as it often requires users to frequently switch between multiple views. To overcome this limitation, we present PinchList, a novel interaction design that leverages pinch gestures to support seamless exploration of multi-level list items in hierarchical views. With PinchList, sub-lists are accessed with a pinch-out gesture whereas a pinch-in gesture navigates back to the previous level. Additionally, pinch and flick gestures are used to navigate lists consisting of more than two levels. We conduct a user study to refine the design parameters of PinchList such as …


Unifying Knowledge Graph Learning And Recommendation: Towards A Better Understanding Of User Preferences, Yixin Cao, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Zikun Hu, Tat-Seng Chua May 2019

Unifying Knowledge Graph Learning And Recommendation: Towards A Better Understanding Of User Preferences, Yixin Cao, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Zikun Hu, Tat-Seng Chua

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Incorporating knowledge graph (KG) into recommender system is promising in improving the recommendation accuracy and explainability. However, existing methods largely assume that a KG is complete and simply transfer the ”knowledge” in KG at the shallow level of entity raw data or embeddings. This may lead to suboptimal performance, since a practical KG can hardly be complete, and it is common that a KG has missing facts, relations, and entities. Thus, we argue that it is crucial to consider the incomplete nature of KG when incorporating it into recommender system. In this paper, we jointly learn the model of recommendation …


Faster First-Order Methods For Stochastic Non-Convex Optimization On Riemannian Manifolds, Pan Zhou, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Jiashi Feng Apr 2019

Faster First-Order Methods For Stochastic Non-Convex Optimization On Riemannian Manifolds, Pan Zhou, Xiao-Tong Yuan, Jiashi Feng

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SPIDER (Stochastic Path Integrated Differential EstimatoR) is an efficient gradient estimation technique developed for non-convex stochastic optimization. Although having been shown to attain nearly optimal computational complexity bounds, the SPIDERtype methods are limited to linear metric spaces. In this paper, we introduce the Riemannian SPIDER (R-SPIDER) method as a novel nonlinear-metric extension of SPIDER for efficient non-convex optimization on Riemannian manifolds. We prove that for finitesum problems with n components, R-SPIDER converges to an -accuracy stationary point within O min n + √ n 2 , 1 3 stochastic gradient evaluations, which is sharper in magnitude than the prior Riemannian …


Peeling Back The (Onion) Layers Of The Dark Web, Singapore Management University Mar 2019

Peeling Back The (Onion) Layers Of The Dark Web, Singapore Management University

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Making Wearable Sensing Less Obtrusive, Huy Vu Tran, Archan Misra Mar 2019

Making Wearable Sensing Less Obtrusive, Huy Vu Tran, Archan Misra

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Sensing is a crucial part of any cyber-physical system. Wearable device has its huge potential for sensing applications because it is worn on the user body. However, wearable sensing can cause obtrusiveness to the user. Obtrusiveness can be seen as a perception of a lack of usefulness [1] such as a lag in user interaction channel. In addition, being worn by a user, it is not connected to a power supply, and thus needs to be removed to be charged regularly. This can cause a nuisance to elderly or disabled people. However, there are also opportunities for wearable devices to …


Explainable Reasoning Over Knowledge Graphs For Recommendation, Xiang Wang, Dingxian Wang, Canran Xu, Xiangnan He, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua Feb 2019

Explainable Reasoning Over Knowledge Graphs For Recommendation, Xiang Wang, Dingxian Wang, Canran Xu, Xiangnan He, Yixin Cao, Tat-Seng Chua

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Incorporating knowledge graph into recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years. By exploring the interlinks within a knowledge graph, the connectivity between users and items can be discovered as paths, which provide rich and complementary information to user-item interactions. Such connectivity not only reveals the semantics of entities and relations, but also helps to comprehend a user’s interest. However, existing efforts have not fully explored this connectivity to infer user preferences, especially in terms of modeling the sequential dependencies within and holistic semantics of a path. In this paper, we contribute a new model named Knowledgeaware Path Recurrent …


Vireo @ Video Browser Showdown 2019, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Danny Francis, Benoit Huet Jan 2019

Vireo @ Video Browser Showdown 2019, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Chong-Wah Ngo, Danny Francis, Benoit Huet

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In this paper, the VIREO team video retrieval tool is described in details. As learned from Video Browser Showdown (VBS) 2018, the visualization of video frames is a critical need to improve the browsing effectiveness. Based on this observation, a hierarchical structure that represents the video frame clusters has been built automatically using k-means and self-organizing-map and used for visualization. Also, the relevance feedback module which relies on real-time supportvector-machine classification becomes unfeasible with the large dataset provided in VBS 2019 and has been replaced by a browsing module with pre-calculated nearest neighbors. The preliminary user study results on IACC.3 …