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Many-to-Many Graph Matching: a Continuous Relaxation Approach
stat.ML
Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a graph matching problem where one seeks a mapping between vertices of two graphs whic...
computer science
4,301
C-HiLasso: A Collaborative Hierarchical Sparse Modeling Framework
stat.ML
Sparse modeling is a powerful framework for data analysis and processing. Traditionally, encoding in this framework is performed by solving an L1-regularized linear regression problem, commonly referred to as Lasso or Basis Pursuit. In this work we combine the sparsity-inducing property of the Lasso model at the indivi...
computer science
4,302
Toward Parts-Based Scene Understanding with Pixel-Support Parts-Sparse Pictorial Structures
cs.CV
Scene understanding remains a significant challenge in the computer vision community. The visual psychophysics literature has demonstrated the importance of interdependence among parts of the scene. Yet, the majority of methods in computer vision remain local. Pictorial structures have arisen as a fundamental parts-bas...
computer science
4,303
Joint-ViVo: Selecting and Weighting Visual Words Jointly for Bag-of-Features based Tissue Classification in Medical Images
cs.CV
Automatically classifying the tissues types of Region of Interest (ROI) in medical imaging has been an important application in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD), such as classification of breast parenchymal tissue in the mammogram, classify lung disease patterns in High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) etc. Recently...
computer science
4,304
A Unified Approach for Modeling and Recognition of Individual Actions and Group Activities
cs.CV
Recognizing group activities is challenging due to the difficulties in isolating individual entities, finding the respective roles played by the individuals and representing the complex interactions among the participants. Individual actions and group activities in videos can be represented in a common framework as the...
computer science
4,305
BSVM: A Banded Suport Vector Machine
stat.ML
We describe a novel binary classification technique called Banded SVM (B-SVM). In the standard C-SVM formulation of Cortes et al. (1995), the decision rule is encouraged to lie in the interval [1, \infty]. The new B-SVM objective function contains a penalty term that encourages the decision rule to lie in a user specif...
computer science
4,306
Hybrid Linear Modeling via Local Best-fit Flats
cs.CV
We present a simple and fast geometric method for modeling data by a union of affine subspaces. The method begins by forming a collection of local best-fit affine subspaces, i.e., subspaces approximating the data in local neighborhoods. The correct sizes of the local neighborhoods are determined automatically by the Jo...
computer science
4,307
Convex Approaches to Model Wavelet Sparsity Patterns
cs.CV
Statistical dependencies among wavelet coefficients are commonly represented by graphical models such as hidden Markov trees(HMTs). However, in linear inverse problems such as deconvolution, tomography, and compressed sensing, the presence of a sensing or observation matrix produces a linear mixing of the simple Markov...
computer science
4,308
Multi-Stage Classifier Design
cs.CV
In many classification systems, sensing modalities have different acquisition costs. It is often {\it unnecessary} to use every modality to classify a majority of examples. We study a multi-stage system in a prediction time cost reduction setting, where the full data is available for training, but for a test example, m...
computer science
4,309
Polarimetric SAR Image Segmentation with B-Splines and a New Statistical Model
cs.CV
We present an approach for polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image region boundary detection based on the use of B-Spline active contours and a new model for polarimetric SAR data: the GHP distribution. In order to detect the boundary of a region, initial B-Spline curves are specified, either automatically or...
computer science
4,310
On the convergence of the IRLS algorithm in Non-Local Patch Regression
cs.CV
Recently, it was demonstrated in [CS2012,CS2013] that the robustness of the classical Non-Local Means (NLM) algorithm [BCM2005] can be improved by incorporating $\ell^p (0 < p \leq 2)$ regression into the NLM framework. This general optimization framework, called Non-Local Patch Regression (NLPR), contains NLM as a spe...
computer science
4,311
Learning Stable Multilevel Dictionaries for Sparse Representations
cs.CV
Sparse representations using learned dictionaries are being increasingly used with success in several data processing and machine learning applications. The availability of abundant training data necessitates the development of efficient, robust and provably good dictionary learning algorithms. Algorithmic stability an...
computer science
4,312
Sparsity Based Poisson Denoising with Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
The problem of Poisson denoising appears in various imaging applications, such as low-light photography, medical imaging and microscopy. In cases of high SNR, several transformations exist so as to convert the Poisson noise into an additive i.i.d. Gaussian noise, for which many effective algorithms are available. Howev...
computer science
4,313
Randomized Robust Subspace Recovery for High Dimensional Data Matrices
stat.ML
This paper explores and analyzes two randomized designs for robust Principal Component Analysis (PCA) employing low-dimensional data sketching. In one design, a data sketch is constructed using random column sampling followed by low dimensional embedding, while in the other, sketching is based on random column and row ...
computer science
4,314
Writer-independent Feature Learning for Offline Signature Verification using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Automatic Offline Handwritten Signature Verification has been researched over the last few decades from several perspectives, using insights from graphology, computer vision, signal processing, among others. In spite of the advancements on the field, building classifiers that can separate between genuine signatures and...
computer science
4,315
A Probabilistic Adaptive Search System for Exploring the Face Space
stat.ML
Face recall is a basic human cognitive process performed routinely, e.g., when meeting someone and determining if we have met that person before. Assisting a subject during face recall by suggesting candidate faces can be challenging. One of the reasons is that the search space - the face space - is quite large and lac...
computer science
4,316
Automatic post-picking using MAPPOS improves particle image detection from Cryo-EM micrographs
stat.ML
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies using single particle reconstruction are extensively used to reveal structural information on macromolecular complexes. Aiming at the highest achievable resolution, state of the art electron microscopes automatically acquire thousands of high-quality micrographs. Particles are...
computer science
4,317
Rotation invariants of two dimensional curves based on iterated integrals
cs.CV
We introduce a novel class of rotation invariants of two dimensional curves based on iterated integrals. The invariants we present are in some sense complete and we describe an algorithm to calculate them, giving explicit computations up to order six. We present an application to online (stroke-trajectory based) charac...
computer science
4,318
Matching Image Sets via Adaptive Multi Convex Hull
cs.CV
Traditional nearest points methods use all the samples in an image set to construct a single convex or affine hull model for classification. However, strong artificial features and noisy data may be generated from combinations of training samples when significant intra-class variations and/or noise occur in the image s...
computer science
4,319
Multi-Shot Person Re-Identification via Relational Stein Divergence
cs.CV
Person re-identification is particularly challenging due to significant appearance changes across separate camera views. In order to re-identify people, a representative human signature should effectively handle differences in illumination, pose and camera parameters. While general appearance-based methods are modelled...
computer science
4,320
Random Projections on Manifolds of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices for Image Classification
cs.CV
Recent advances suggest that encoding images through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices and then interpreting such matrices as points on Riemannian manifolds can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account manifold geometry is typically done via (1) embedding the manifolds in tangent space...
computer science
4,321
Sparsity Based Methods for Overparameterized Variational Problems
cs.CV
Two complementary approaches have been extensively used in signal and image processing leading to novel results, the sparse representation methodology and the variational strategy. Recently, a new sparsity based model has been proposed, the cosparse analysis framework, which may potentially help in bridging sparse appr...
computer science
4,322
ExtremeWeather: A large-scale climate dataset for semi-supervised detection, localization, and understanding of extreme weather events
cs.CV
Then detection and identification of extreme weather events in large-scale climate simulations is an important problem for risk management, informing governmental policy decisions and advancing our basic understanding of the climate system. Recent work has shown that fully supervised convolutional neural networks (CNNs...
computer science
4,323
Learning Localized Geometric Features Using 3D-CNN: An Application to Manufacturability Analysis of Drilled Holes
cs.CV
3D convolutional neural networks (3D-CNN) have been used for object recognition based on the voxelized shape of an object. In this paper, we present a 3D-CNN based method to learn distinct local geometric features of interest within an object. In this context, the voxelized representation may not be sufficient to captu...
computer science
4,324
Multi-source Transfer Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks for Lung Pattern Analysis
cs.CV
Early diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases is crucial for their treatment, but even experienced physicians find it difficult, as their clinical manifestations are similar. In order to assist with the diagnosis, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been developed. These commonly rely on a fixed scale classifie...
computer science
4,325
Permutation-equivariant neural networks applied to dynamics prediction
cs.CV
The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries of the image domain. In comparison, there are a number of problems in which the...
computer science
4,326
Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
cs.CV
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, sLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. However, these models are confined to crisp segmentation, forcing a visual word (i.e., an image patch) to belong to one and only one topic. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp categorical label (e....
computer science
4,327
Quantum Clustering and Gaussian Mixtures
stat.ML
The mixture of Gaussian distributions, a soft version of k-means , is considered a state-of-the-art clustering algorithm. It is widely used in computer vision for selecting classes, e.g., color, texture, and shapes. In this algorithm, each class is described by a Gaussian distribution, defined by its mean and covarianc...
computer science
4,328
Cross-Domain Sparse Coding
cs.CV
Sparse coding has shown its power as an effective data representation method. However, up to now, all the sparse coding approaches are limited within the single domain learning problem. In this paper, we extend the sparse coding to cross domain learning problem, which tries to learn from a source domain to a target dom...
computer science
4,329
Scalable Object Detection using Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance on a number of image recognition benchmarks, including the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC-2012). The winning model on the localization sub-task was a network that predicts a single bounding box and a confid...
computer science
4,330
Zero Shot Recognition with Unreliable Attributes
cs.CV
In principle, zero-shot learning makes it possible to train a recognition model simply by specifying the category's attributes. For example, with classifiers for generic attributes like \emph{striped} and \emph{four-legged}, one can construct a classifier for the zebra category by enumerating which properties it posses...
computer science
4,331
Learning to Transfer Privileged Information
cs.CV
We introduce a learning framework called learning using privileged information (LUPI) to the computer vision field. We focus on the prototypical computer vision problem of teaching computers to recognize objects in images. We want the computers to be able to learn faster at the expense of providing extra information du...
computer science
4,332
Zero-Shot Object Recognition System based on Topic Model
cs.CV
Object recognition systems usually require fully complete manually labeled training data to train the classifier. In this paper, we study the problem of object recognition where the training samples are missing during the classifier learning stage, a task also known as zero-shot learning. We propose a novel zero-shot l...
computer science
4,333
A Fusion Approach for Efficient Human Skin Detection
cs.CV
A reliable human skin detection method that is adaptable to different human skin colours and illu- mination conditions is essential for better human skin segmentation. Even though different human skin colour detection solutions have been successfully applied, they are prone to false skin detection and are not able to c...
computer science
4,334
Enhanced Random Forest with Image/Patch-Level Learning for Image Understanding
cs.CV
Image understanding is an important research domain in the computer vision due to its wide real-world applications. For an image understanding framework that uses the Bag-of-Words model representation, the visual codebook is an essential part. Random forest (RF) as a tree-structure discriminative codebook has been a po...
computer science
4,335
Crowd Saliency Detection via Global Similarity Structure
cs.CV
It is common for CCTV operators to overlook inter- esting events taking place within the crowd due to large number of people in the crowded scene (i.e. marathon, rally). Thus, there is a dire need to automate the detection of salient crowd regions acquiring immediate attention for a more effective and proactive surveil...
computer science
4,336
Randomized Structural Sparsity via Constrained Block Subsampling for Improved Sensitivity of Discriminative Voxel Identification
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider voxel selection for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) brain data with the aim of finding a more complete set of probably correlated discriminative voxels, thus improving interpretation of the discovered potential biomarkers. The main difficulty in doing this is an extremely high di...
computer science
4,337
Capturing spatial interdependence in image features: the counting grid, an epitomic representation for bags of features
cs.CV
In recent scene recognition research images or large image regions are often represented as disorganized "bags" of features which can then be analyzed using models originally developed to capture co-variation of word counts in text. However, image feature counts are likely to be constrained in different ways than word ...
computer science
4,338
A Solution for Multi-Alignment by Transformation Synchronisation
cs.CV
The alignment of a set of objects by means of transformations plays an important role in computer vision. Whilst the case for only two objects can be solved globally, when multiple objects are considered usually iterative methods are used. In practice the iterative methods perform well if the relative transformations b...
computer science
4,339
Zero-Aliasing Correlation Filters for Object Recognition
cs.CV
Correlation filters (CFs) are a class of classifiers that are attractive for object localization and tracking applications. Traditionally, CFs have been designed in the frequency domain using the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), where correlation is efficiently implemented. However, existing CF designs do not account ...
computer science
4,340
On Coarse Graining of Information and Its Application to Pattern Recognition
cs.CV
We propose a method based on finite mixture models for classifying a set of observations into number of different categories. In order to demonstrate the method, we show how the component densities for the mixture model can be derived by using the maximum entropy method in conjunction with conservation of Pythagorean m...
computer science
4,341
Data Representation using the Weyl Transform
cs.CV
The Weyl transform is introduced as a rich framework for data representation. Transform coefficients are connected to the Walsh-Hadamard transform of multiscale autocorrelations, and different forms of dyadic periodicity in a signal are shown to appear as different features in its Weyl coefficients. The Weyl transform ...
computer science
4,342
Pairwise Rotation Hashing for High-dimensional Features
cs.CV
Binary Hashing is widely used for effective approximate nearest neighbors search. Even though various binary hashing methods have been proposed, very few methods are feasible for extremely high-dimensional features often used in visual tasks today. We propose a novel highly sparse linear hashing method based on pairwis...
computer science
4,343
The Approximation of the Dissimilarity Projection
stat.ML
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allow to reconstruct the 3D pathways of axons within the white matter of the brain as a tractography. The analysis of tractographies has drawn attention from the machine learning and pattern recognition communities providing novel challenges such as finding an appropriat...
computer science
4,344
Computational Cost Reduction in Learned Transform Classifications
cs.CV
We present a theoretical analysis and empirical evaluations of a novel set of techniques for computational cost reduction of classifiers that are based on learned transform and soft-threshold. By modifying optimization procedures for dictionary and classifier training, as well as the resulting dictionary entries, our t...
computer science
4,345
Tree-Cut for Probabilistic Image Segmentation
stat.ML
This paper presents a new probabilistic generative model for image segmentation, i.e. the task of partitioning an image into homogeneous regions. Our model is grounded on a mid-level image representation, called a region tree, in which regions are recursively split into subregions until superpixels are reached. Given t...
computer science
4,346
Offline Handwritten Signature Verification - Literature Review
cs.CV
The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. The objective of signature verification systems is to discriminate if a given signature is genuine (produced by the claimed individual), or a forgery (produced by an impostor). This has ...
computer science
4,347
Automatic Extraction of the Passing Strategies of Soccer Teams
cs.CV
Technology offers new ways to measure the locations of the players and of the ball in sports. This translates to the trajectories the ball takes on the field as a result of the tactics the team applies. The challenge professionals in soccer are facing is to take the reverse path: given the trajectories of the ball is i...
computer science
4,348
Tumor Motion Tracking in Liver Ultrasound Images Using Mean Shift and Active Contour
cs.CV
In this paper we present a new method for motion tracking of tumors in liver ultrasound image sequences. Our algorithm has two main steps. In the first step, we apply mean shift algorithm with multiple features to estimate the center of the target in each frame. Target in the first frame is defined using an ellipse. Ed...
computer science
4,349
An On-line Variational Bayesian Model for Multi-Person Tracking from Cluttered Scenes
cs.CV
Object tracking is an ubiquitous problem that appears in many applications such as remote sensing, audio processing, computer vision, human-machine interfaces, human-robot interaction, etc. Although thoroughly investigated in computer vision, tracking a time-varying number of persons remains a challenging open problem....
computer science
4,350
Zero-Shot Learning via Semantic Similarity Embedding
cs.CV
In this paper we consider a version of the zero-shot learning problem where seen class source and target domain data are provided. The goal during test-time is to accurately predict the class label of an unseen target domain instance based on revealed source domain side information (\eg attributes) for unseen classes. ...
computer science
4,351
Group Membership Prediction
cs.CV
The group membership prediction (GMP) problem involves predicting whether or not a collection of instances share a certain semantic property. For instance, in kinship verification given a collection of images, the goal is to predict whether or not they share a {\it familial} relationship. In this context we propose a n...
computer science
4,352
Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
stat.ML
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, SLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. These models are confined to crisp segmentation. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp label (e.g., transition regions between a foggy sky and the ground or between sand and water at a beach). In the...
computer science
4,353
Fast clustering for scalable statistical analysis on structured images
stat.ML
The use of brain images as markers for diseases or behavioral differences is challenged by the small effects size and the ensuing lack of power, an issue that has incited researchers to rely more systematically on large cohorts. Coupled with resolution increases, this leads to very large datasets. A striking example in...
computer science
4,354
Cross-scale predictive dictionaries
cs.CV
We propose a novel signal model, based on sparse representations, that captures cross-scale features for visual signals. We show that cross-scale predictive model enables faster solutions to sparse approximation problems. This is achieved by first solving the sparse approximation problem for the downsampled signal and ...
computer science
4,355
Domain Adaptation and Transfer Learning in StochasticNets
cs.CV
Transfer learning is a recent field of machine learning research that aims to resolve the challenge of dealing with insufficient training data in the domain of interest. This is a particular issue with traditional deep neural networks where a large amount of training data is needed. Recently, StochasticNets was propose...
computer science
4,356
Blind Image Denoising via Dependent Dirichlet Process Tree
cs.CV
Most existing image denoising approaches assumed the noise to be homogeneous white Gaussian distributed with known intensity. However, in real noisy images, the noise models are usually unknown beforehand and can be much more complex. This paper addresses this problem and proposes a novel blind image denoising algorith...
computer science
4,357
An Overview of Melanoma Detection in Dermoscopy Images Using Image Processing and Machine Learning
cs.CV
The incidence of malignant melanoma continues to increase worldwide. This cancer can strike at any age; it is one of the leading causes of loss of life in young persons. Since this cancer is visible on the skin, it is potentially detectable at a very early stage when it is curable. New developments have converged to ma...
computer science
4,358
Dimensionality Reduction via Regression in Hyperspectral Imagery
stat.ML
This paper introduces a new unsupervised method for dimensionality reduction via regression (DRR). The algorithm belongs to the family of invertible transforms that generalize Principal Component Analysis (PCA) by using curvilinear instead of linear features. DRR identifies the nonlinear features through multivariate r...
computer science
4,359
Image Denoising with Kernels based on Natural Image Relations
cs.CV
A successful class of image denoising methods is based on Bayesian approaches working in wavelet representations. However, analytical estimates can be obtained only for particular combinations of analytical models of signal and noise, thus precluding its straightforward extension to deal with other arbitrary noise sour...
computer science
4,360
A Framework for Fast Image Deconvolution with Incomplete Observations
cs.CV
In image deconvolution problems, the diagonalization of the underlying operators by means of the FFT usually yields very large speedups. When there are incomplete observations (e.g., in the case of unknown boundaries), standard deconvolution techniques normally involve non-diagonalizable operators, resulting in rather ...
computer science
4,361
Shape-aware Surface Reconstruction from Sparse 3D Point-Clouds
cs.CV
The reconstruction of an object's shape or surface from a set of 3D points plays an important role in medical image analysis, e.g. in anatomy reconstruction from tomographic measurements or in the process of aligning intra-operative navigation and preoperative planning data. In such scenarios, one usually has to deal w...
computer science
4,362
Discriminative models for robust image classification
stat.ML
A variety of real-world tasks involve the classification of images into pre-determined categories. Designing image classification algorithms that exhibit robustness to acquisition noise and image distortions, particularly when the available training data are insufficient to learn accurate models, is a significant chall...
computer science
4,363
Kernelized Weighted SUSAN based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering for Noisy Image Segmentation
cs.CV
The paper proposes a novel Kernelized image segmentation scheme for noisy images that utilizes the concept of Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus (SUSAN) and incorporates spatial constraints by computing circular colour map induced weights. Fuzzy damping coefficients are obtained for each nucleus or center p...
computer science
4,364
Discovering Causal Signals in Images
stat.ML
This paper establishes the existence of observable footprints that reveal the "causal dispositions" of the object categories appearing in collections of images. We achieve this goal in two steps. First, we take a learning approach to observational causal discovery, and build a classifier that achieves state-of-the-art ...
computer science
4,365
Statistical Pattern Recognition for Driving Styles Based on Bayesian Probability and Kernel Density Estimation
stat.ML
Driving styles have a great influence on vehicle fuel economy, active safety, and drivability. To recognize driving styles of path-tracking behaviors for different divers, a statistical pattern-recognition method is developed to deal with the uncertainty of driving styles or characteristics based on probability density...
computer science
4,366
Human Attention in Visual Question Answering: Do Humans and Deep Networks Look at the Same Regions?
stat.ML
We conduct large-scale studies on `human attention' in Visual Question Answering (VQA) to understand where humans choose to look to answer questions about images. We design and test multiple game-inspired novel attention-annotation interfaces that require the subject to sharpen regions of a blurred image to answer a qu...
computer science
4,367
Interpreting extracted rules from ensemble of trees: Application to computer-aided diagnosis of breast MRI
stat.ML
High predictive performance and ease of use and interpretability are important requirements for the applicability of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) to human reading studies. We propose a CAD system specifically designed to be more comprehensible to the radiologist reviewing screening breast MRI studies. Multiparametr...
computer science
4,368
Combining multiple resolutions into hierarchical representations for kernel-based image classification
cs.CV
Geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) framework has gained increasing interest recently. Following this popular paradigm, we propose a novel multiscale classification approach operating on a hierarchical image representation built from two images at different resolutions. They capture the same scene with diff...
computer science
4,369
Analyzing features learned for Offline Signature Verification using Deep CNNs
cs.CV
Research on Offline Handwritten Signature Verification explored a large variety of handcrafted feature extractors, ranging from graphology, texture descriptors to interest points. In spite of advancements in the last decades, performance of such systems is still far from optimal when we test the systems against skilled...
computer science
4,370
Variational Gaussian Process Auto-Encoder for Ordinal Prediction of Facial Action Units
stat.ML
We address the task of simultaneous feature fusion and modeling of discrete ordinal outputs. We propose a novel Gaussian process(GP) auto-encoder modeling approach. In particular, we introduce GP encoders to project multiple observed features onto a latent space, while GP decoders are responsible for reconstructing the...
computer science
4,371
Medical image denoising using convolutional denoising autoencoders
cs.CV
Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods, deep learning based models have shown a great promise. These methods are however ...
computer science
4,372
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
cs.CV
Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we super-resolve at large upscaling factors? The behavior of optimization-based super-res...
computer science
4,373
Real-Time Single Image and Video Super-Resolution Using an Efficient Sub-Pixel Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Recently, several models based on deep neural networks have achieved great success in terms of both reconstruction accuracy and computational performance for single image super-resolution. In these methods, the low resolution (LR) input image is upscaled to the high resolution (HR) space using a single filter, commonly...
computer science
4,374
A Discriminative Framework for Anomaly Detection in Large Videos
cs.CV
We address an anomaly detection setting in which training sequences are unavailable and anomalies are scored independently of temporal ordering. Current algorithms in anomaly detection are based on the classical density estimation approach of learning high-dimensional models and finding low-probability events. These al...
computer science
4,375
Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Pulmonary Nodule Detection in CT Imaging
stat.ML
Computed tomography (CT) generates a stack of cross-sectional images covering a region of the body. The visual assessment of these images for the identification of potential abnormalities is a challenging and time consuming task due to the large amount of information that needs to be processed. In this article we propo...
computer science
4,376
Cooperative Training of Descriptor and Generator Networks
stat.ML
This paper studies the cooperative training of two probabilistic models of signals such as images. Both models are parametrized by convolutional neural networks (ConvNets). The first network is a descriptor network, which is an exponential family model or an energy-based model, whose feature statistics or energy functi...
computer science
4,377
Deep Learning Algorithms for Signal Recognition in Long Perimeter Monitoring Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors
cs.CV
In this paper, we show an approach to build deep learning algorithms for recognizing signals in distributed fiber optic monitoring and security systems for long perimeters. Synthesizing such detection algorithms poses a non-trivial research and development challenge, because these systems face stringent error (type I a...
computer science
4,378
PCM and APCM Revisited: An Uncertainty Perspective
cs.CV
In this paper, we take a new look at the possibilistic c-means (PCM) and adaptive PCM (APCM) clustering algorithms from the perspective of uncertainty. This new perspective offers us insights into the clustering process, and also provides us greater degree of flexibility. We analyze the clustering behavior of PCM-based...
computer science
4,379
Conditional Image Synthesis With Auxiliary Classifier GANs
stat.ML
Synthesizing high resolution photorealistic images has been a long-standing challenge in machine learning. In this paper we introduce new methods for the improved training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image synthesis. We construct a variant of GANs employing label conditioning that results in 128x128 r...
computer science
4,380
Texture Synthesis with Spatial Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a recent approach to train generative models of data, which have been shown to work particularly well on image data. In the current paper we introduce a new model for texture synthesis based on GAN learning. By extending the input noise distribution space from a single vector ...
computer science
4,381
The Geodesic Distance between $\mathcal{G}_I^0$ Models and its Application to Region Discrimination
cs.CV
The $\mathcal{G}_I^0$ distribution is able to characterize different regions in monopolarized SAR imagery. It is indexed by three parameters: the number of looks (which can be estimated in the whole image), a scale parameter and a texture parameter. This paper presents a new proposal for feature extraction and region d...
computer science
4,382
Synthesizing Normalized Faces from Facial Identity Features
cs.CV
We present a method for synthesizing a frontal, neutral-expression image of a person's face given an input face photograph. This is achieved by learning to generate facial landmarks and textures from features extracted from a facial-recognition network. Unlike previous approaches, our encoding feature vector is largely...
computer science
4,383
Universal representations:The missing link between faces, text, planktons, and cat breeds
cs.CV
With the advent of large labelled datasets and high-capacity models, the performance of machine vision systems has been improving rapidly. However, the technology has still major limitations, starting from the fact that different vision problems are still solved by different models, trained from scratch or fine-tuned o...
computer science
4,384
Automatic Estimation of Fetal Abdominal Circumference from Ultrasound Images
cs.CV
Ultrasound diagnosis is routinely used in obstetrics and gynecology for fetal biometry, and owing to its time-consuming process, there has been a great demand for automatic estimation. However, the automated analysis of ultrasound images is complicated because they are patient-specific, operator-dependent, and machine-...
computer science
4,385
A recommender system to restore images with impulse noise
cs.CV
We build a collaborative filtering recommender system to restore images with impulse noise for which the noisy pixels have been previously identified. We define this recommender system in terms of a new color image representation using three matrices that depend on the noise-free pixels of the image to restore, and two...
computer science
4,386
Lossy Image Compression with Compressive Autoencoders
stat.ML
We propose a new approach to the problem of optimizing autoencoders for lossy image compression. New media formats, changing hardware technology, as well as diverse requirements and content types create a need for compression algorithms which are more flexible than existing codecs. Autoencoders have the potential to ad...
computer science
4,387
Indoor Localization Using Visible Light Via Fusion Of Multiple Classifiers
stat.ML
A multiple classifiers fusion localization technique using received signal strengths (RSSs) of visible light is proposed, in which the proposed system transmits different intensity modulated sinusoidal signals by LEDs and the signals received by a Photo Diode (PD) placed at various grid points. First, we obtain some {\...
computer science
4,388
Indoor Localization by Fusing a Group of Fingerprints Based on Random Forests
stat.ML
Indoor localization based on SIngle Of Fingerprint (SIOF) is rather susceptible to the changing environment, multipath, and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. Building SIOF is also a very time-consuming process. Recently, we first proposed a GrOup Of Fingerprints (GOOF) to improve the localization accuracy and reduc...
computer science
4,389
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis using Deep Learning with 3D Multiparametric MRI
cs.CV
A novel deep learning architecture (XmasNet) based on convolutional neural networks was developed for the classification of prostate cancer lesions, using the 3D multiparametric MRI data provided by the PROSTATEx challenge. End-to-end training was performed for XmasNet, with data augmentation done through 3D rotation a...
computer science
4,390
Classification of COPD with Multiple Instance Learning
cs.CV
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease where early detection benefits the survival rate. COPD can be quantified by classifying patches of computed tomography images, and combining patch labels into an overall diagnosis for the image. As labeled patches are often not available, image labels are p...
computer science
4,391
Transfer Learning by Asymmetric Image Weighting for Segmentation across Scanners
cs.CV
Supervised learning has been very successful for automatic segmentation of images from a single scanner. However, several papers report deteriorated performances when using classifiers trained on images from one scanner to segment images from other scanners. We propose a transfer learning classifier that adapts to diff...
computer science
4,392
Label Stability in Multiple Instance Learning
cs.CV
We address the problem of \emph{instance label stability} in multiple instance learning (MIL) classifiers. These classifiers are trained only on globally annotated images (bags), but often can provide fine-grained annotations for image pixels or patches (instances). This is interesting for computer aided diagnosis (CAD...
computer science
4,393
Low-rank and Sparse NMF for Joint Endmembers' Number Estimation and Blind Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images
cs.CV
Estimation of the number of endmembers existing in a scene constitutes a critical task in the hyperspectral unmixing process. The accuracy of this estimate plays a crucial role in subsequent unsupervised unmixing steps i.e., the derivation of the spectral signatures of the endmembers (endmembers' extraction) and the es...
computer science
4,394
Robust Kronecker-Decomposable Component Analysis for Low-Rank Modeling
stat.ML
Dictionary learning and component analysis are part of one of the most well-studied and active research fields, at the intersection of signal and image processing, computer vision, and statistical machine learning. In dictionary learning, the current methods of choice are arguably K-SVD and its variants, which learn a ...
computer science
4,395
Configurable, Photorealistic Image Rendering and Ground Truth Synthesis by Sampling Stochastic Grammars Representing Indoor Scenes
cs.CV
We propose the configurable rendering of massive quantities of photorealistic images with ground truth for the purposes of training, benchmarking, and diagnosing computer vision models. In contrast to the conventional (crowd-sourced) manual labeling of ground truth for a relatively modest number of RGB-D images capture...
computer science
4,396
Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation Methods for Glaucoma Detection with Modification of U-Net Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness all over the world, with approximately 60 million cases reported worldwide in 2010. If undiagnosed in time, glaucoma causes irreversible damage to the optic nerve leading to blindness. The optic nerve head examination, which involves measurement of cup-to-disc ratio, is...
computer science
4,397
Loss Max-Pooling for Semantic Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We introduce a novel loss max-pooling concept for handling imbalanced training data distributions, applicable as alternative loss layer in the context of deep neural networks for semantic image segmentation. Most real-world semantic segmentation datasets exhibit long tail distributions with few object categories compri...
computer science
4,398
Provable Self-Representation Based Outlier Detection in a Union of Subspaces
cs.CV
Many computer vision tasks involve processing large amounts of data contaminated by outliers, which need to be detected and rejected. While outlier detection methods based on robust statistics have existed for decades, only recently have methods based on sparse and low-rank representation been developed along with guar...
computer science
4,399
Discriminative Bimodal Networks for Visual Localization and Detection with Natural Language Queries
cs.CV
Associating image regions with text queries has been recently explored as a new way to bridge visual and linguistic representations. A few pioneering approaches have been proposed based on recurrent neural language models trained generatively (e.g., generating captions), but achieving somewhat limited localization accu...
computer science