Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning

Imitation learning addresses the challenge of learning by observing an expert's demonstrations without access to reward signals from the environment. Behavioral cloning (BC) formulates imitation learning as a supervised learning problem and learns from sampled state-action pairs. Despite its simplicity, it often fails to capture the temporal structure of the task and the global information of expert demonstrations. This work aims to augment BC by employing diffusion models for modeling expert behaviors, and designing a learning objective that leverages learned diffusion models to guide policy learning. To this end, we propose diffusion model-augmented behavioral cloning (Diffusion-BC) that combines our proposed diffusion model guided learning objective with the BC objective, which complements each other. Our proposed method outperforms baselines or achieves competitive performance in various continuous control domains, including navigation, robot arm manipulation, and locomotion. Ablation studies justify our design choices and investigate the effect of balancing the BC and our proposed diffusion model objective.

Learning Facial Liveness Representation for Domain Generalized Face Anti-spoofing

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) aims at distinguishing face spoof attacks from the authentic ones, which is typically approached by learning proper models for performing the associated classification task. In practice, one would expect such models to be generalized to FAS in different image domains. Moreover, it is not practical to assume that the type of spoof attacks would be known in advance. In this paper, we propose a deep learning model for addressing the aforementioned domain-generalized face anti-spoofing task. In particular, our proposed network is able to disentangle facial liveness representation from the irrelevant ones (i.e., facial content and image domain features). The resulting liveness representation exhibits sufficient domain invariant properties, and thus it can be applied for performing domain-generalized FAS. In our experiments, we conduct experiments on five benchmark datasets with various settings, and we verify that our model performs favorably against state-of-the-art approaches in identifying novel types of spoof attacks in unseen image domains.

Domain-Generalized Textured Surface Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal data that deviates from the normal ones, while typically requiring a sufficient amount of normal data to train the model for performing this task. Despite the success of recent anomaly detection methods, performing anomaly detection in an unseen domain remain a challenging task. In this paper, we address the task of domain-generalized textured surface anomaly detection. By observing normal and abnormal surface data across multiple source domains, our model is expected to be generalized to an unseen textured surface of interest, in which only a small number of normal data can be observed during testing. Although with only image-level labels observed in the training data, our patch-based meta-learning model exhibits promising generalization ability: not only can it generalize to unseen image domains, but it can also localize abnormal regions in the query image. Our experiments verify that our model performs favorably against state-of-the-art anomaly detection and domain generalization approaches in various settings.

Deep Representation Decomposition for Feature Disentanglement

Representation disentanglement aims at learning interpretable features, so that the output can be recovered or manipulated accordingly. While existing works like infoGAN and AC-GAN exist, they choose to derive disjoint attribute code for feature disentanglement, which is not applicable for existing/trained generative models. In this paper, we propose a decomposition-GAN (dec-GAN), which is able to achieve the decomposition of an existing latent representation into content and attribute features. Guided by the classifier pre-trained on the attributes of interest, our dec-GAN decomposes the attributes of interest from the latent representation, while data recovery and feature consistency objectives enforce the learning of our proposed method. Our experiments on multiple image datasets confirm the effectiveness and robustness of our dec-GAN over recent representation disentanglement models.

Order-Free RNN with Visual Attention for Multi-Label Classification

In this paper, we propose the joint learning attention and recurrent neural network (RNN) models for multi-label classification. While approaches based on the use of either model exist (e.g., for the task of image captioning), training such existing network architectures typically require pre-defined label sequences. For multi-label classification, it would be desirable to have a robust inference process, so that the prediction error would not propagate and thus affect the performance. Our proposed model uniquely integrates attention and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) models, which not only addresses the above problem but also allows one to identify visual objects of interests with varying sizes without the prior knowledge of particular label ordering. More importantly, label co-occurrence information can be jointly exploited by our LSTM model. Finally, by advancing the technique of beam search, prediction of multiple labels can be efficiently achieved by our proposed network model.