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Towards a statistical theory of data selection under weak supervision
Given a sample of size $N$, it is often useful to select a subsample of smaller size $n<N$ to be used for statistical estimation or learning.
PIM: Video Coding using Perceptual Importance Maps
The contributions of this work are threefold: (1) we introduce a web-tool which allows scalable collection of fine-grained perceptual importance, by having users interactively paint spatio-temporal maps over encoded videos; (2) we use this tool to collect a dataset with 178 videos with a total of 14443 frames of human annotated spatio-temporal importance maps over the videos; and (3) we use our curated dataset to train a lightweight machine learning model which can predict these spatio-temporal importance regions.
An Interactive Annotation Tool for Perceptual Video Compression
We use this tool to collect data in-the-wild (10 videos, 17 users) and utilize the obtained importance maps in the context of x264 coding to demonstrate that the tool can indeed be used to generate videos which, at the same bitrate, look perceptually better through a subjective study - and are 1. 9 times more likely to be preferred by viewers.
Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text
Video represents the majority of internet traffic today, driving a continual race between the generation of higher quality content, transmission of larger file sizes, and the development of network infrastructure.
CAMBI: Contrast-aware Multiscale Banding Index
Banding artifacts are artificially-introduced contours arising from the quantization of a smooth region in a video.
Efficient and Robust Spiking Neural Circuit for Navigation Inspired by Echolocating Bats
We demonstrate a spiking neural circuit for azimuth angle detection inspired by the echolocation circuits of the Horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and utilize it to devise a model for navigation and target tracking, capturing several key aspects of information transmission in biology.
