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most citedDeep Convolutional Networks are Hierarchical Kernel Machines

26 citations · 100 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CV2023

Dissecting Multimodality in VideoQA Transformer Models by Impairing Modality Fusion

Ishaan Singh Rawal, Alexander Matyasko, Shantanu Jaiswal +2

While VideoQA Transformer models demonstrate competitive performance on standard benchmarks, the reasons behind their success are not fully understood. Do these models capture the…

cs.CV2023

Read My Mind: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Human Belief Prediction

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Nicholas Tan +2

Understanding human intentions is key to enabling effective and efficient human-robot interaction (HRI) in collaborative settings. To enable developments and evaluation of the abil…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Robustness of Utilizing Feedback in Embodied Visual Navigation

Jenny Zhang, Samson Yu, Jiafei Duan +1

This paper presents a framework for training an agent to actively request help in object-goal navigation tasks, with feedback indicating the location of the target object in its fi…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Inferring Past Human Actions in Homes with Abductive Reasoning

Clement Tan, Chai Kiat Yeo, Cheston Tan +1

Abductive reasoning aims to make the most likely inference for a given set of incomplete observations. In this paper, we introduce "Abductive Past Action Inference", a novel resear…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

BOSS: A Benchmark for Human Belief Prediction in Object-context Scenarios

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Nicholas Tan +2

Humans with an average level of social cognition can infer the beliefs of others based solely on the nonverbal communication signals (e.g. gaze, gesture, pose and contextual inform…

cs.AI2022

ABCDE: An Agent-Based Cognitive Development Environment

Jieyi Ye, Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu +2

Children's cognitive abilities are sometimes cited as AI benchmarks. How can the most common 1,000 concepts (89\% of everyday use) be learnt in a naturalistic children's setting? C…

cs.LG2022

Good Time to Ask: A Learning Framework for Asking for Help in Embodied Visual Navigation

Jenny Zhang, Samson Yu, Jiafei Duan +1

In reality, it is often more efficient to ask for help than to search the entire space to find an object with an unknown location. We present a learning framework that enables an a…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

A Survey on Machine Learning Approaches for Modelling Intuitive Physics

Jiafei Duan, Arijit Dasgupta, Jason Fischer +1

Research in cognitive science has provided extensive evidence of human cognitive ability in performing physical reasoning of objects from noisy perceptual inputs. Such a cognitive…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

A Benchmark for Modeling Violation-of-Expectation in Physical Reasoning Across Event Categories

Arijit Dasgupta, Jiafei Duan, Marcelo H. Ang +4

Recent work in computer vision and cognitive reasoning has given rise to an increasing adoption of the Violation-of-Expectation (VoE) paradigm in synthetic datasets. Inspired by in…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

AVoE: A Synthetic 3D Dataset on Understanding Violation of Expectation for Artificial Cognition

Arijit Dasgupta, Jiafei Duan, Marcelo H. Ang +1

Recent work in cognitive reasoning and computer vision has engendered an increasing popularity for the Violation-of-Expectation (VoE) paradigm in synthetic datasets. Inspired by wo…

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

TDAM: Top-Down Attention Module for Contextually Guided Feature Selection in CNNs

Shantanu Jaiswal, Basura Fernando, Cheston Tan

Attention modules for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are an effective method to enhance performance on multiple computer-vision tasks. While existing methods appropriately mo…

cs.CV2021

PIP: Physical Interaction Prediction via Mental Simulation with Span Selection

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Soujanya Poria +2

Accurate prediction of physical interaction outcomes is a crucial component of human intelligence and is important for safe and efficient deployments of robots in the real world. W…

cs.AI2021★ 4 cited

SPACE: A Simulator for Physical Interactions and Causal Learning in 3D Environments

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu Bai Jian, Cheston Tan

Recent advancements in deep learning, computer vision, and embodied AI have given rise to synthetic causal reasoning video datasets. These datasets facilitate the development of AI…

cs.NE2021★ 6 cited

A nonlinear hidden layer enables actor-critic agents to learn multiple paired association navigation

M Ganesh Kumar, Cheston Tan, Camilo Libedinsky +2

Navigation to multiple cued reward locations has been increasingly used to study rodent learning. Though deep reinforcement learning agents have been shown to be able to learn the…

cs.NE2021★ 2 cited

One-shot learning of paired association navigation with biologically plausible schemas

M Ganesh Kumar, Cheston Tan, Camilo Libedinsky +2

After learning a multiple paired-association (MPA) navigation task, rodents can rapidly learn new cue-location associations after a single exposure, a phenomenon proposed to be fac…

cs.AI2021★ 25 cited

A Survey of Embodied AI: From Simulators to Research Tasks

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Hui Li Tan +2

There has been an emerging paradigm shift from the era of "internet AI" to "embodied AI", where AI algorithms and agents no longer learn from datasets of images, videos or text cur…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

Actionet: An Interactive End-To-End Platform For Task-Based Data Collection And Augmentation In 3D Environment

Jiafei Duan, Samson Yu, Hui Li Tan +1

The problem of task planning for artificial agents remains largely unsolved. While there has been increasing interest in data-driven approaches for the study of task planning for a…

cs.RO2019★ 2 cited

Efficient Robotic Task Generalization Using Deep Model Fusion Reinforcement Learning

Tianying Wang, Hao Zhang, Wei Qi Toh +5

Learning-based methods have been used to pro-gram robotic tasks in recent years. However, extensive training is usually required not only for the initial task learning but also for…

cs.CV2019★ 8 cited

6D Pose Estimation with Correlation Fusion

Yi Cheng, Hongyuan Zhu, Ying Sun +6

6D object pose estimation is widely applied in robotic tasks such as grasping and manipulation. Prior methods using RGB-only images are vulnerable to heavy occlusion and poor illum…

cs.CV2019★ 7 cited

An End-to-End Network for Generating Social Relationship Graphs

Arushi Goel, Keng Teck Ma, Cheston Tan

Socially-intelligent agents are of growing interest in artificial intelligence. To this end, we need systems that can understand social relationships in diverse social contexts. In…

q-bio.NC2017★ 1 cited

Neurogenesis and multiple plasticity mechanisms enhance associative memory retrieval in a spiking network model of the hippocampus

Yansong Chua, Cheston Tan

Hippocampal CA3 is crucial for the formation of long-term associative memory. It has a heavily recurrent connectivity, and memories are thought to be stored as memory engrams in th…

cs.LG2015★ 26 cited

Deep Convolutional Networks are Hierarchical Kernel Machines

Fabio Anselmi, Lorenzo Rosasco, Cheston Tan +1

In i-theory a typical layer of a hierarchical architecture consists of HW modules pooling the dot products of the inputs to the layer with the transformations of a few templates un…

cs.AI2014★ 2 cited

Neural tuning size is a key factor underlying holistic face processing

Cheston Tan, Tomaso Poggio

Faces are a class of visual stimuli with unique significance, for a variety of reasons. They are ubiquitous throughout the course of a person's life, and face recognition is crucia…