no code implementations • 13 Jan 2025 • Sree Bhattacharyya, Shuhua Yang, James Z. Wang
Our work highlights the significance of exploiting advanced deep learning techniques for less-explored problems in Affective Computing.
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2024 • Yimu Pan, Sitao Zhang, Alison D. Gernand, Jeffery A. Goldstein, James Z. Wang
Robustness and generalizability in medical image segmentation are often hindered by scarcity and limited diversity of training data, which stands in contrast to the variability encountered during inference.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2024 • LiZhen Zhu, James Z. Wang, Wonseuk Lee, Brad Wyble
The historical spatial context of the agent provides a similarity signal for self-supervised contrastive learning.
1 code implementation • 5 Dec 2023 • Yimu Pan, Sitao Zhang, Alison D. Gernand, Jeffery A. Goldstein, James Z. Wang
Interactive approaches, exemplified by the Segment Anything Model (SAM), have shown promise as pre-trained models.
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2023 • James Z. Wang, Sicheng Zhao, Chenyan Wu, Reginald B. Adams, Michelle G. Newman, Tal Shafir, Rachelle Tsachor
The emergence of artificial emotional intelligence technology is revolutionizing the fields of computers and robotics, allowing for a new level of communication and understanding of human behavior that was once thought impossible.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Sitao Zhang, Yimu Pan, James Z. Wang
We present EmotionCLIP, the first pre-training paradigm to extract visual emotion representations from verbal and nonverbal communication using only uncurated data.
Ranked #2 on Emotion Recognition in Context on BoLD
no code implementations • 5 Apr 2023 • Chenyan Wu, Dolzodmaa Davaasuren, Tal Shafir, Rachelle Tsachor, James Z. Wang
Body movements carry important information about a person's emotions or mental state and are essential in daily communication.
no code implementations • 2 Mar 2023 • Chenyan Wu, Yimu Pan, Yandong Li, James Z. Wang
Test-time adaptation (TTA) is a technique used to reduce distribution gaps between the training and testing sets by leveraging unlabeled test data during inference.
1 code implementation • 30 Jun 2022 • Haomiao Ni, Yuan Xue, Kelvin Wong, John Volpi, Stephen T. C. Wong, James Z. Wang, Xiaolei Huang
In this paper, we propose a novel Asymmetry Disentanglement Network (ADN) to automatically separate pathological asymmetries and intrinsic anatomical asymmetries in NCCTs for more effective and interpretable AIS segmentation.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2022 • Benjamin Wortman, James Z. Wang
Unlike theory of emotion, which has been the historical focus in psychology, emotion models are a descriptive tools.
1 code implementation • 3 Jun 2022 • Yanglan Ou, Ye Yuan, Xiaolei Huang, Stephen T. C. Wong, John Volpi, James Z. Wang, Kelvin Wong
We also propose a new mixture-of-experts (MoE) based decoder, which treats the feature maps from the encoder as experts and selects a suitable set of expert features to predict the label for each pixel.
no code implementations • 6 May 2022 • Jiaqi Gao, Jingqi Li, Hongming Shan, Yanyun Qu, James Z. Wang, Fei-Yue Wang, Junping Zhang
Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2022 • Li Yu, Kareem Metwaly, James Z. Wang, Vishal Monga
Detecting and evaluating surface coating defects is important for marine vessel maintenance.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2022 • Zhuomin Zhang, Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Jia Li, John Russell, George S. Young, Catherine Adams, James Z. Wang
The British landscape painter John Constable is considered foundational for the Realist movement in 19th-century European painting.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2022 • LiZhen Zhu, Brad Wyble, James Z. Wang
Children learn to build a visual representation of the world from unsupervised exploration and we hypothesize that a key part of this learning ability is the use of self-generated navigational information as a similarity label to drive a learning objective for self-supervised learning.
2 code implementations • 13 Jan 2022 • Jiaqi Gao, Zhizhong Huang, Yiming Lei, Hongming Shan, James Z. Wang, Fei-Yue Wang, Junping Zhang
Specifically, we propose a Deep Rank-consistEnt pyrAmid Model (DREAM), which makes full use of rank consistency across coarse-to-fine pyramid features in latent spaces for enhanced crowd counting with massive unlabeled images.
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2021 • Tongan Cai, Haomiao Ni, Mingli Yu, Xiaolei Huang, Kelvin Wong, John Volpi, James Z. Wang, Stephen T. C. Wong
In an emergency room (ER) setting, stroke triage or screening is a common challenge.
1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2021 • Yanglan Ou, Ye Yuan, Xiaolei Huang, Kelvin Wong, John Volpi, James Z. Wang, Stephen T. C. Wong
Thus, it is not ideal to apply most existing segmentation methods as they are designed for either 2D or 3D images.
no code implementations • 4 Apr 2021 • Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Rana Forsati, James Z. Wang, Mehrdad Mahdavi
The proposed PEF notion is definition-agnostic, meaning that any well-defined notion of fairness can be reduced to the PEF notion.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2020 • Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Sadegh Farhang, Mehrdad Mahdavi, James Z. Wang
The proposed framework, named targeted data-driven regularization (TDR), is model- and dataset-agnostic and employs a target dataset that resembles the desired nature of test data in order to guide the learning process in a coupled manner.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2018 • Farshid Farhat, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, James Z. Wang
A user study demonstrates that the work is useful to those taking photos.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2018 • Yukun Tian, Yiming Lei, Junping Zhang, James Z. Wang
We propose a novel framework, the Pan-Density Network (PaDNet), for pan-density crowd counting.
1 code implementation • 28 Aug 2018 • Yu Luo, Jianbo Ye, Reginald B. Adams, Jr., Jia Li, Michelle G. Newman, James Z. Wang
A system to model the emotional expressions based on bodily movements, named ARBEE (Automated Recognition of Bodily Expression of Emotion), has also been developed and evaluated.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2018 • Haiping Zhu, Qi Zhou, Junping Zhang, James Z. Wang
The latent vector preserves personalized face features and the age controls facial aging and rejuvenation.
Ranked #1 on Age Estimation on MORPH
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2018 • Xinye Zheng, Jianbo Ye, Yukun Chen, Stephen Wistar, Jia Li, Jose A. Piedra-Fernández, Michael A. Steinberg, James Z. Wang
Meteorologists use shapes and movements of clouds in satellite images as indicators of several major types of severe storms.
3 code implementations • ICLR 2018 • Jianbo Ye, Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, James Z. Wang
Model pruning has become a useful technique that improves the computational efficiency of deep learning, making it possible to deploy solutions in resource-limited scenarios.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Jianbo Ye, Yan-ran Li, Zhaohui Wu, James Z. Wang, Wenjie Li, Jia Li
The new clustering method is easy to use and consistently outperforms other methods on a variety of data sets.
1 code implementation • 4 Jan 2017 • Jianbo Ye, Jia Li, Michelle G. Newman, Reginald B. Adams, Jr., James Z. Wang
We proposed a probabilistic approach to joint modeling of participants' reliability and humans' regularity in crowdsourced affective studies.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2016 • Zihan Zhou, Farshid Farhat, James Z. Wang
To overcome this difficulty, we propose a novel vanishing point detection method that exploits global structures in the scene via contour detection.
no code implementations • 31 May 2016 • Zihan Zhou, Siqiong He, Jia Li, James Z. Wang
The capacity of automatically modeling photographic composition is valuable for many real-world machine vision applications such as digital photography, image retrieval, image understanding, and image aesthetics assessment.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2016 • Yu Zhang, Stephen Wistar, Jia Li, Michael Steinberg, James Z. Wang
In our system, we extract and summarize important visual storm evidence from satellite image sequences in the way that meteorologists interpret the images.
no code implementations • ICCV 2015 • Xin Lu, Zhe Lin, Xiaohui Shen, Radomir Mech, James Z. Wang
We propose a deep multi-patch aggregation network training approach, which allows us to train models using multiple patches generated from one image.
Ranked #8 on Aesthetics Quality Assessment on AVA
2 code implementations • 30 Sep 2015 • Jianbo Ye, Panruo Wu, James Z. Wang, Jia Li
In a variety of research areas, the weighted bag of vectors and the histogram are widely used descriptors for complex objects.