Abstract: The paper deals with encoding the contours of given regions in an image. All contours are represented as a sequence of contour segments, each such segment being defined by an anchor ...

[2022/02/01] The initial release! We release all source code for pre-training and downstream evaluation. We release three pre-trained ResNet-50 models: 200 epochs (single-crop), 200 epochs (multi-crop ...

We present two comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate the performance of language models in coding assistance tasks, covering code writing, debugging, code review, and conceptual understanding. Our main ...

Abstract: An efficient technique for encoding arbitrary contours is presented. It is based on the concept of transition points of a contour map and relies on a new four-symbol adaptive context-based ...

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