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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

NSFC Project: Using transfer learning to understand visual objects and their relationships

Participant : Miaojing Shi.

Duration: 2 years, start in Jan 2019

Partners: Tongji University, China

This project is supported by China National Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese Scholars. Machine Perception tasks have flourished since the advent of deep learning techniques. Next key problem lies on visual scene understanding. To make sense of visual scenes, we need to rely on the visual object relationships inside. The challenge for this task is that 1) the training data is limited, on particular those unusual seen objects/object relationships; 2) visual relationships become complicated and diverse with an increase of object numbers. This research shall employ the transfer learning methods to transfer available knowledge of visual relationships to new objects with unknown relationships. The significance of this research is not just to enhance the machine perception ability; it allows us to leverage a relatively small amount of expensively annotated images to detect new objects and their relationships in a much larger dataset without or with only cheap image-level labels.

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