Customer-obsessed science

Unsupervised object-centric learning methods allow the partitioning of scenes into entities without additional localization information and are excellent candidates for reducing the annotation burden of multiple-object tracking (MOT) pipelines. Unfortunately, they lack two key properties: objects are often split into parts and are not consistently tracked over time. In fact, state-of-the-art models achieve

Video amodal segmentation is a particularly challenging task in computer vision, which requires to deduce the full shape of an object from the visible parts of it. Recently, some studies have achieved promising performance by using motion flow to integrate information across frames under a self-supervised setting. However, motion flow has a clear limitation by the two factors of moving cameras and object

Amodal object segmentation is a challenging task that involves segmenting both visible and occluded parts of an object. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation (C2F-Seg), that addresses this problem by progressively modeling the amodal segmentation. C2F-Seg initially reduces the learning space from the pixel-level image space to the vector-quantized latent space. This

In the framework of perspectivism, analyzing how people perceive pragmatic phenomena, like irony, is relevant for deeply understanding the different points of view, and for creating more robust perspective-aware models. This paper presents a linguistic analysis of irony perception in 11 perspectivist models. Each model is trained on annotations by crowd-sourcing workers different in gender, age, and nationalities

Modern virtual assistants are trained to classify customer requests into a taxonomy of predesigned intents. Requests that fall outside of this taxonomy, however, are often unhandled and need to be clustered to define new experiences. Recently, state-of-the-art results in intent clustering were achieved by training a neural network with a latent structured prediction loss. Unfortunately, though, this new