Publications related to ActiveMoCap: Optimized Viewpoint Selection for Active Human Motion Capture

Test-time adaptation for 6D pose tracking

We propose a test -time adaptation for 6D object pose tracking that learns to adapt a pre -trained model to track the 6D pose of novel objects. We consider the problem of 6D object pose tracking as a 3D keypoint detection and matching task and present a mo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Few-shot Learning for Efficient and Effective Machine Learning Model Adaptation

Arnout Jan J Devos

Machine learning (ML) enables artificial intelligent (AI) agents to learn autonomously from data obtained from their environment to perform tasks. Modern ML systems have proven to be extremely effective, reaching or even exceeding human intelligence. Altho ...

EPFL2024

Robust machine learning for neuroscientific inference

Steffen Schneider

Modern neuroscience research is generating increasingly large datasets, from recording thousands of neurons over long timescales to behavioral recordings of animals spanning weeks, months, or even years. Despite a great variety in recording setups and expe ...

EPFL2024

Meta-learning to address diverse Earth observation problems across resolutions

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger, Marc Conrad Russwurm

Earth scientists study a variety of problems with remote sensing data, but they most often consider them in isolation from each other, which limits information flows across disciplines. In this work, we present METEOR, a meta-learning methodology for Earth ...

Springernature2024

Self-Supervised Learning for Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis in Computational Pathology: An Application to Colorectal Cancer

Christian Robert Abbet

Over the years, clinical institutes accumulated large amounts of digital slides from resected tissue specimens. These digital images, called whole slide images (WSIs), are high-resolution tissue snapshots that depict the complex interaction of cells at the ...

EPFL2023

From finger animation to full-body embodiment of avatars with different morphologies and proportions

Mathias Guy Delahaye

VR (Virtual Reality) is a real-time simulation that creates the subjective illusion of being in a virtual world. This thesis explores how integrating the user's body and fingers can be achieved and beneficial for the user to experience VR. At the advent of ...

EPFL2023

Self-Supervised Bayesian representation learning of acoustic emissions from laser powder bed Fusion process for in-situ monitoring

Christian Leinenbach, Rafal Wróbel, Marc Leparoux, Sergey Shevchik

This study presents a self-supervised Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) framework using air-borne Acoustic Emission (AE) to identify different Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) process regimes such as Lack of Fusion, conduction mode, and keyhole without ground-tr ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Self-supervised Dense Representation Learning for Live-Cell Microscopy with Time Arrow Prediction

Max Stieber, Martin Weigert, Benjamin Tobias Gallusser

State-of-the-art object detection and segmentation methods for microscopy images rely on supervised machine learning, which requires laborious manual annotation of training data. Here we present a self-supervised method based on time arrow prediction pre-t ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2023

Supervised learning and inference of spiking neural networks with temporal coding

Ana Stanojevic

The way biological brains carry out advanced yet extremely energy efficient signal processing remains both fascinating and unintelligible. It is known however that at least some areas of the brain perform fast and low-cost processing relying only on a smal ...

EPFL2023

Automated Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis

Sena Kiciroglu

Human motion analysis and synthesis is integral to many computer vision applications, from autonomous driving to sports analysis. In this thesis, we address several problems in this domain. First we consider active viewpoint selection for pose estimation w ...

EPFL2023

Temporal Representation Learning on Monocular Videos for 3D Human Pose Estimation

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Victor Constantin, Helge Jochen Rhodin, Sina Honari

In this paper we propose an unsupervised feature extraction method to capture temporal information on monocular videos, where we detect and encode subject of interest in each frame and leverage contrastive self-supervised (CSS) learning to extract rich lat ...

2022

Using Animal Motion Capture to Learn Neural Representations

Semih Günel

Understanding behavior from neural activity is a fundamental goal in neuroscience. It has practical applications in building robust brain-machine interfaces, human-computer interaction, and assisting patients with neurological disabilities. Despite the eve ...

EPFL2022

Metric learning for kernel ridge regression: assessment of molecular similarity

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Puck Elisabeth van Gerwen, Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat

Supervised and unsupervised kernel-based algorithms widely used in the physical sciences depend upon the notion of similarity. Their reliance on pre-defined distance metrics-e.g. the Euclidean or Manhattan distance-are problematic especially when used in c ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Combining Model Driven and Data Driven Approaches for Inverse Problems in Parameter Estimation and Image Reconstruction: From Modelling to Validation

Thomas Yu

Machine learning has become the state of the art for the solution of the diverse inverse problems arising from computer vision and medical imaging, e.g. denoising, super-resolution, de-blurring, reconstruction from scanner data, quantitative magnetic reson ...

EPFL2022

Unsupervised Visual Entity Abstraction towards 2D and 3D Compositional Models

Beril Besbinar

Object-centric learning has gained significant attention over the last years as it can serve as a powerful tool to analyze complex scenes as a composition of simpler entities. Well-established tasks in computer vision, such as object detection or instance ...

EPFL2022

Using Machine Learning to Predict Mortality for COVID-19 Patients on Day 0 in the ICU

Sahand Jamal Rahi, Nahal Mansouri

Rationale: Given the expanding number of COVID-19 cases and the potential for new waves of infection, there is an urgent need for early prediction of the severity of the disease in intensive care unit (ICU) patients to optimize treatment strategies.Objecti ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

A Wearable Smart Glove and Its Application of Pose and Gesture Detection to Sign Language Classification

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Advances in soft sensors coupled with machine learning are enabling increasingly capable wearable systems. Since hand motion in particular can convey useful information for developing intuitive interfaces, glove-based systems can have a significant impact ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2022

Kernel Methods and Similarity Learning Applied in Computational Chemistry

Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat

Over the last two decades, data-powered machine learning (ML) tools have profoundly transformed numerous scientific fields. In computational chemistry, machine learning applications have permitted faster predictions of chemical properties and provided powe ...

EPFL2022

Preventing Breaks in Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality

Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Virtual reality (VR) is immersive not only because of visual integration, but because we can act and perform in a virtual environment (VE). Beyond the mere fact that a VR system provides images computed directly from the users' viewpoint in stereoscopy, it ...

EPFL2021

Counting using deep learning regression gives value to ecological surveys

Devis Tuia, Benjamin Alexander Kellenberger

Many ecological studies rely on count data and involve manual counting of objects of interest, which is time-consuming and especially disadvantageous when time in the field or lab is limited. However, an increasing number of works uses digital imagery, whi ...

Nature Research2021