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  • Antonio Manuel López

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  • ERFNet: Efficient Residual Factorized ConvNet for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation

    Eduardo Romera, José Manuel Álvarez, Luis Miguel Bergasa, Roberto Arroyo

    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2017

    A deep architecture that is able to run in real time while providing accurate semantic segmentation, and a novel layer that uses residual connections and factorized convolutions in order to remain efficient while retaining remarkable accuracy is proposed.

    1,484
  • SegFormer: Simple and Efficient Design for Semantic Segmentation with Transformers

    Enze Xie, Wenhai Wang, Zhiding Yu, Animashree Anandkumar, José Manuel Álvarez, Ping Luo

    CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) · 2021

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  • Dreaming to Distill: Data-Free Knowledge Transfer via DeepInversion

    Hongxu Yin, Pavlo A. Molchanov, José Manuel Álvarez, Zhizhong Li, Arun Mallya, Derek Hoiem, Niraj Kumar Jha, Jan Kautz

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    DeepInversion is introduced, a new method for synthesizing images from the image distribution used to train a deep neural network, which optimizes the input while regularizing the distribution of intermediate feature maps using information stored in the batch normalization layers of the teacher.

    738
  • See through Gradients: Image Batch Recovery via GradInversion

    Hongxu Yin, Arun Mallya, Arash Vahdat, José Manuel Álvarez, Jan Kautz, Pavlo A. Molchanov

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    It is shown that gradients encode a surprisingly large amount of information, such that all the individual images can be recovered with high fidelity via GradInversion, even for complex datasets, deep networks, and large batch sizes.

    648
  • A-ViT: Adaptive Tokens for Efficient Vision Transformer

    Hongxu Yin, Arash Vahdat, José Manuel Álvarez, Arun Mallya, Jan Kautz, Pavlo A. Molchanov

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work introduces A - ViT, a method that adaptively adjusts the inference cost of vision transformer (ViT) for images of different complexity by automatically reducing the number of tokens in vision transformers that are processed in the network as inference proceeds, and demonstrates that it requires no extra parameters or sub-network for halting.

    606
  • Invertible Conditional GANs for image editing

    Guim Perarnau, Joost van de Weijer, Bogdan Raducanu, José Manuel Álvarez

    arXiv · 2016

    513
  • VoxFormer: Sparse Voxel Transformer for Camera-Based 3D Semantic Scene Completion

    Yiming Li, Zhiding Yu, Christopher Choy, Chaowei Xiao, José Manuel Álvarez, Sanja Fidler, Chen Feng, Animashree Anandkumar

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    VoxFormer, a Transformer-based semantic scene completion framework that can output complete 3D volumetric semantics from only 2D images that outperforms the state of the art with a relative improvement of 20.0% in geometry and 18.1% in semantics.

    479
  • Cost Volume Pyramid Based Depth Inference for Multi-View Stereo

    Jiayu Yang, Wei Mao, José Manuel Álvarez, Miaomiao Liu

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    It is demonstrated that building a cost volume pyramid in a coarse-to-fine manner instead of constructing a costvolume at a fixed resolution leads to a compact, lightweight network and allows us inferring high resolution depth maps to achieve better reconstruction results.

    429
  • Less Is More: Towards Compact CNNs

    Hao Zhou, José Manuel Álvarez, Fatih Porikli

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work shows that, by incorporating sparse constraints into the objective function, it is possible to decimate the number of neurons during the training stage, thus theNumber of parameters and the memory footprint of the neural network are reduced, which is desirable at the test time.

    343
  • Road Detection Based on Illuminant Invariance

    José Manuel Álvarez, Antonio Manuel López

    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2010

    336
  • Is Ego Status All You Need for Open-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving?

    Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, Shiyi Lan, Jiahan Li, Jan Kautz, Tong Lü, José Manuel Álvarez

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This paper conducts thorough analyses and introduces a new metric to evaluate whether the predicted trajectories adhere to the road, and proposes a simple baseline able to achieve competitive results without relying on perception annotations.

    296
  • Hydra-MDP: End-to-end Multimodal Planning with Multi-target Hydra-Distillation

    Zhenxin Li, Kailin Li, Shihao Wang, Shiyi Lan, Zhiding Yu, Yishen Ji, Zhiqi Li, Ziyue Zhu, +4 more

    arXiv · 2024

    Hydra-MDP, a novel paradigm employing multiple teachers in a teacher-student model, which features a multi-head decoder to learn diverse trajectory candidates tailored to various evaluation metrics, achieves the 1-st place in the Navsim challenge.

    288
  • Understanding The Robustness in Vision Transformers

    Daquan Zhou, Zhiding Yu, Enze Xie, Chaowei Xiao, Animashree Anandkumar, Jiashi Feng, José Manuel Álvarez

    CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) · 2022

    This paper examines the role of self-attention in learning robust representations in Vision Transformers and proposes a family of fully attentional networks (FANs) that strengthen this capability by incorporating an attentional channel processing design.

    268
  • Context Based Emotion Recognition using EMOTIC Dataset

    Ronak Kosti, José Manuel Álvarez, Adrià Recasens, Àgata Lapedriza

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    This paper presents EMOTIC, a dataset of images of people in a diverse set of natural situations, annotated with their apparent emotion, and trains different CNN models for emotion recognition, combining the information of the bounding box containing the person with the contextual information extracted from the scene.

    266
  • Road Scene Segmentation from a Single Image

    José Manuel Álvarez, Theo Gevers, Yann LeCun, Antonio Manuel López

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2012

    It is concluded that convolutional neural networks are suitable for learning 3D scene layout from noisy labels and provides a relative improvement of 7% compared to the baseline and combining color planes provides a statistical description of road areas that exhibits maximal uniformity.

    261
  • M$^2$BEV: Multi-Camera Joint 3D Detection and Segmentation with Unified Birds-Eye View Representation

    Enze Xie, Zhiding Yu, Daquan Zhou, Jonah Philion, Animashree Anandkumar, Sanja Fidler, Ping Luo, José Manuel Álvarez

    arXiv · 2022

    A unified framework that jointly performs 3D object detection and map segmentation in the Birds Eye View~(BEV) space with multi-camera image inputs, which is memory efficient, allowing significantly higher resolution images as input, with faster inference speed.

    249
  • FB-OCC: 3D Occupancy Prediction based on Forward-Backward View Transformation

    Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, David E. Austin, Mingsheng Fang, Shiyi Lan, Jan Kautz, José Manuel Álvarez

    arXiv · 2023

    The proposed solution FB-OCC builds upon FB-BEV, a cutting-edge camera-based bird's-eye view perception design using forward-backward projection, and results in a state-of-the-art mIoU score of 54.19% on the nuScenes dataset.

    222
  • Learning Image Matching by Simply Watching Video

    Gucan Long, Laurent Kneip, José Manuel Álvarez, Hongdong Li, Xiaohu Zhang, Qifeng Yu

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    An unsupervised learning based approach to the ubiquitous computer vision problem of image matching that achieves surprising performance comparable to traditional empirically designed methods.

    217
  • Emotion Recognition in Context

    Ronak Kosti, José Manuel Álvarez, Adrià Recasens, Àgata Lapedriza

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    215
  • OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning

    Shihao Wang, Zhiding Yu, Xiaohui Jiang, Shiyi Lan, Min Shi, Nadine Chang, Jan Kautz, Ying Li, +1 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    This work proposes OmniDrive, a holistic vision-language dataset that aligns agent models with 3D driving tasks through counter-factual reasoning, and explores two advanced OmniDrive-Agent frameworks to assess the importance of vision-language alignment versus 3D perception.

    212
  • Panoptic SegFormer: Delving Deeper into Panoptic Segmentation with Transformers

    Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Enze Xie, Zhiding Yu, Animashree Anandkumar, José Manuel Álvarez, Ping Luo, Tong Lü

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    This work presents Panoptic SegFormer, a general framework for panoptic segmentation with transformers, which contains three innovative components: an efficient deeply-supervised mask decoder, a query decoupling strategy, and an improved postprocessing method.

    199
  • FB-BEV: BEV Representation from Forward-Backward View Transformations

    Zhiqi Li, Zhiding Yu, Wenhai Wang, Animashree Anandkumar, Tong Lü, José Manuel Álvarez

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    This work proposes a novel forward-backward view transformation module that compensates for the deficiencies in both existing methods, allowing them to enhance each other to obtain higher quality BEV representations mutually.

    171
  • Effective Use of Synthetic Data for Urban Scene Semantic Segmentation

    Fatemeh Sadat Saleh, Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian, Mathieu Salzmann, Lars Petersson, José Manuel Álvarez

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    A drastically different way to handle synthetic images that does not require seeing any real images at training time is introduced, which builds on the observation that foreground and background classes are not affected in the same manner by the domain shift, and thus should be treated differently.

    164
  • Learning the Number of Neurons in Deep Networks

    José Manuel Álvarez, Mathieu Salzmann

    arXiv · 2016

    164
  • FasterViT: Fast Vision Transformers with Hierarchical Attention

    Ali Hatamizadeh, Greg Heinrich, Hongxu Yin, Andrew Tao, José Manuel Álvarez, Jan Kautz, Pavlo A. Molchanov

    arXiv · 2023

    The newly introduced Hierarchical Attention (HAT) approach decomposes global self-attention with quadratic complexity into a multi-level attention with reduced computational costs and can be used as a plug-and-play module for existing networks and enhance them.

    158

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