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Scribbler: Controlling Deep Image Synthesis with Sketch and Color
cs.CV
Recently, there have been several promising methods to generate realistic imagery from deep convolutional networks. These methods sidestep the traditional computer graphics rendering pipeline and instead generate imagery at the pixel level by learning from large collections of photos (e.g. faces or bedrooms). However, ...
computer science
8,201
Deep Metric Learning via Facility Location
cs.CV
Learning the representation and the similarity metric in an end-to-end fashion with deep networks have demonstrated outstanding results for clustering and retrieval. However, these recent approaches still suffer from the performance degradation stemming from the local metric training procedure which is unaware of the g...
computer science
8,202
Deep Image Category Discovery using a Transferred Similarity Function
cs.CV
Automatically discovering image categories in unlabeled natural images is one of the important goals of unsupervised learning. However, the task is challenging and even human beings define visual categories based on a large amount of prior knowledge. In this paper, we similarly utilize prior knowledge to facilitate the...
computer science
8,203
Core Sampling Framework for Pixel Classification
cs.CV
The intermediate map responses of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) contain information about an image that can be used to extract contextual knowledge about it. In this paper, we present a core sampling framework that is able to use these activation maps from several layers as features to another neural network usi...
computer science
8,204
Spatially Adaptive Computation Time for Residual Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a deep learning architecture based on Residual Network that dynamically adjusts the number of executed layers for the regions of the image. This architecture is end-to-end trainable, deterministic and problem-agnostic. It is therefore applicable without any modifications to a wide range of computer ...
computer science
8,205
Inverse Compositional Spatial Transformer Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we establish a theoretical connection between the classical Lucas & Kanade (LK) algorithm and the emerging topic of Spatial Transformer Networks (STNs). STNs are of interest to the vision and learning communities due to their natural ability to combine alignment and classification within the same theoret...
computer science
8,206
Detect, Replace, Refine: Deep Structured Prediction For Pixel Wise Labeling
cs.CV
Pixel wise image labeling is an interesting and challenging problem with great significance in the computer vision community. In order for a dense labeling algorithm to be able to achieve accurate and precise results, it has to consider the dependencies that exist in the joint space of both the input and the output var...
computer science
8,207
Towards Score Following in Sheet Music Images
cs.LG
This paper addresses the matching of short music audio snippets to the corresponding pixel location in images of sheet music. A system is presented that simultaneously learns to read notes, listens to music and matches the currently played music to its corresponding notes in the sheet. It consists of an end-to-end mult...
computer science
8,208
CSVideoNet: A Real-time End-to-end Learning Framework for High-frame-rate Video Compressive Sensing
cs.CV
This paper addresses the real-time encoding-decoding problem for high-frame-rate video compressive sensing (CS). Unlike prior works that perform reconstruction using iterative optimization-based approaches, we propose a non-iterative model, named "CSVideoNet". CSVideoNet directly learns the inverse mapping of CS and re...
computer science
8,209
Learning to predict where to look in interactive environments using deep recurrent q-learning
cs.CV
Bottom-Up (BU) saliency models do not perform well in complex interactive environments where humans are actively engaged in tasks (e.g., sandwich making and playing the video games). In this paper, we leverage Reinforcement Learning (RL) to highlight task-relevant locations of input frames. We propose a soft attention ...
computer science
8,210
Deep Multi-instance Networks with Sparse Label Assignment for Whole Mammogram Classification
cs.CV
Mammogram classification is directly related to computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Traditional methods requires great effort to annotate the training data by costly manual labeling and specialized computational models to detect these annotations during test. Inspired by the success of using deep convolutional f...
computer science
8,211
Adversarial Deep Structural Networks for Mammographic Mass Segmentation
cs.CV
Mass segmentation is an important task in mammogram analysis, providing effective morphological features and regions of interest (ROI) for mass detection and classification. Inspired by the success of using deep convolutional features for natural image analysis and conditional random fields (CRF) for structural learnin...
computer science
8,212
On Random Weights for Texture Generation in One Layer Neural Networks
cs.CV
Recent work in the literature has shown experimentally that one can use the lower layers of a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) to model natural textures. More interestingly, it has also been experimentally shown that only one layer with random filters can also model textures although with less variability. In...
computer science
8,213
Beyond Skip Connections: Top-Down Modulation for Object Detection
cs.CV
In recent years, we have seen tremendous progress in the field of object detection. Most of the recent improvements have been achieved by targeting deeper feedforward networks. However, many hard object categories such as bottle, remote, etc. require representation of fine details and not just coarse, semantic represen...
computer science
8,214
An Empirical Study of Language CNN for Image Captioning
cs.CV
Language Models based on recurrent neural networks have dominated recent image caption generation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a Language CNN model which is suitable for statistical language modeling tasks and shows competitive performance in image captioning. In contrast to previous models which predict next wor...
computer science
8,215
Offline Signature Identification by Fusion of Multiple Classifiers using Statistical Learning Theory
cs.CV
This paper uses Support Vector Machines (SVM) to fuse multiple classifiers for an offline signature system. From the signature images, global and local features are extracted and the signatures are verified with the help of Gaussian empirical rule, Euclidean and Mahalanobis distance based classifiers. SVM is used to fu...
computer science
8,216
A Machine Learning Approach to Recovery of Scene Geometry from Images
cs.CV
Recovering the 3D structure of the scene from images yields useful information for tasks such as shape and scene recognition, object detection, or motion planning and object grasping in robotics. In this thesis, we introduce a general machine learning approach called unsupervised CRF learning based on maximizing the co...
computer science
8,217
Visual Transfer Learning: Informal Introduction and Literature Overview
cs.CV
Transfer learning techniques are important to handle small training sets and to allow for quick generalization even from only a few examples. The following paper is the introduction as well as the literature overview part of my thesis related to the topic of transfer learning for visual recognition problems.
computer science
8,218
Image denoising with multi-layer perceptrons, part 1: comparison with existing algorithms and with bounds
cs.CV
Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. The best currently available denoising methods approximate this mapping with cleverly engineered algorithms. In this work we attempt to learn this mapping directly with plain multi layer perceptrons (MLP) applied to ima...
computer science
8,219
Image denoising with multi-layer perceptrons, part 2: training trade-offs and analysis of their mechanisms
cs.CV
Image denoising can be described as the problem of mapping from a noisy image to a noise-free image. In another paper, we show that multi-layer perceptrons can achieve outstanding image denoising performance for various types of noise (additive white Gaussian noise, mixed Poisson-Gaussian noise, JPEG artifacts, salt-an...
computer science
8,220
Tangent-based manifold approximation with locally linear models
cs.LG
In this paper, we consider the problem of manifold approximation with affine subspaces. Our objective is to discover a set of low dimensional affine subspaces that represents manifold data accurately while preserving the manifold's structure. For this purpose, we employ a greedy technique that partitions manifold sampl...
computer science
8,221
Deep and Wide Multiscale Recursive Networks for Robust Image Labeling
cs.CV
Feedforward multilayer networks trained by supervised learning have recently demonstrated state of the art performance on image labeling problems such as boundary prediction and scene parsing. As even very low error rates can limit practical usage of such systems, methods that perform closer to human accuracy remain de...
computer science
8,222
Efficient pedestrian detection by directly optimize the partial area under the ROC curve
cs.CV
Many typical applications of object detection operate within a prescribed false-positive range. In this situation the performance of a detector should be assessed on the basis of the area under the ROC curve over that range, rather than over the full curve, as the performance outside the range is irrelevant. This mea...
computer science
8,223
Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Representations in Hierarchical Architectures
cs.CV
The present phase of Machine Learning is characterized by supervised learning algorithms relying on large sets of labeled examples ($n \to \infty$). The next phase is likely to focus on algorithms capable of learning from very few labeled examples ($n \to 1$), like humans seem able to do. We propose an approach to this...
computer science
8,224
Dual coordinate solvers for large-scale structural SVMs
cs.LG
This manuscript describes a method for training linear SVMs (including binary SVMs, SVM regression, and structural SVMs) from large, out-of-core training datasets. Current strategies for large-scale learning fall into one of two camps; batch algorithms which solve the learning problem given a finite datasets, and onlin...
computer science
8,225
Classifiers With a Reject Option for Early Time-Series Classification
cs.CV
Early classification of time-series data in a dynamic environment is a challenging problem of great importance in signal processing. This paper proposes a classifier architecture with a reject option capable of online decision making without the need to wait for the entire time series signal to be present. The main ide...
computer science
8,226
ECOC-Based Training of Neural Networks for Face Recognition
cs.CV
Error Correcting Output Codes, ECOC, is an output representation method capable of discovering some of the errors produced in classification tasks. This paper describes the application of ECOC to the training of feed forward neural networks, FFNN, for improving the overall accuracy of classification systems. Indeed, to...
computer science
8,227
Using Web Co-occurrence Statistics for Improving Image Categorization
cs.CV
Object recognition and localization are important tasks in computer vision. The focus of this work is the incorporation of contextual information in order to improve object recognition and localization. For instance, it is natural to expect not to see an elephant to appear in the middle of an ocean. We consider a simpl...
computer science
8,228
Sequentially Generated Instance-Dependent Image Representations for Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we investigate a new framework for image classification that adaptively generates spatial representations. Our strategy is based on a sequential process that learns to explore the different regions of any image in order to infer its category. In particular, the choice of regions is specific to each image...
computer science
8,229
Active Deformable Part Models
cs.CV
This paper presents an active approach for part-based object detection, which optimizes the order of part filter evaluations and the time at which to stop and make a prediction. Statistics, describing the part responses, are learned from training data and are used to formalize the part scheduling problem as an offline ...
computer science
8,230
Exploiting Linear Structure Within Convolutional Networks for Efficient Evaluation
cs.CV
We present techniques for speeding up the test-time evaluation of large convolutional networks, designed for object recognition tasks. These models deliver impressive accuracy but each image evaluation requires millions of floating point operations, making their deployment on smartphones and Internet-scale clusters pro...
computer science
8,231
Fast Supervised Hashing with Decision Trees for High-Dimensional Data
cs.CV
Supervised hashing aims to map the original features to compact binary codes that are able to preserve label based similarity in the Hamming space. Non-linear hash functions have demonstrated the advantage over linear ones due to their powerful generalization capability. In the literature, kernel functions are typicall...
computer science
8,232
Cost-Effective HITs for Relative Similarity Comparisons
cs.CV
Similarity comparisons of the form "Is object a more similar to b than to c?" are useful for computer vision and machine learning applications. Unfortunately, an embedding of $n$ points is specified by $n^3$ triplets, making collecting every triplet an expensive task. In noticing this difficulty, other researchers have...
computer science
8,233
Scalable Similarity Learning using Large Margin Neighborhood Embedding
cs.CV
Classifying large-scale image data into object categories is an important problem that has received increasing research attention. Given the huge amount of data, non-parametric approaches such as nearest neighbor classifiers have shown promising results, especially when they are underpinned by a learned distance or sim...
computer science
8,234
Geometric Tight Frame based Stylometry for Art Authentication of van Gogh Paintings
cs.LG
This paper is about authenticating genuine van Gogh paintings from forgeries. The authentication process depends on two key steps: feature extraction and outlier detection. In this paper, a geometric tight frame and some simple statistics of the tight frame coefficients are used to extract features from the paintings. ...
computer science
8,235
Optimizing Ranking Measures for Compact Binary Code Learning
cs.LG
Hashing has proven a valuable tool for large-scale information retrieval. Despite much success, existing hashing methods optimize over simple objectives such as the reconstruction error or graph Laplacian related loss functions, instead of the performance evaluation criteria of interest---multivariate performance measu...
computer science
8,236
Weakly Supervised Action Labeling in Videos Under Ordering Constraints
cs.CV
We are given a set of video clips, each one annotated with an {\em ordered} list of actions, such as "walk" then "sit" then "answer phone" extracted from, for example, the associated text script. We seek to temporally localize the individual actions in each clip as well as to learn a discriminative classifier for each ...
computer science
8,237
An SVM Based Approach for Cardiac View Planning
cs.LG
We consider the problem of automatically prescribing oblique planes (short axis, 4 chamber and 2 chamber views) in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). A concern with technologist-driven acquisitions of these planes is the quality and time taken for the total examination. We propose an automated solution incorpora...
computer science
8,238
An landcover fuzzy logic classification by maximumlikelihood
cs.CV
In present days remote sensing is most used application in many sectors. This remote sensing uses different images like multispectral, hyper spectral or ultra spectral. The remote sensing image classification is one of the significant method to classify image. In this state we classify the maximum likelihood classifica...
computer science
8,239
Feature and Region Selection for Visual Learning
cs.CV
Visual learning problems such as object classification and action recognition are typically approached using extensions of the popular bag-of-words (BoW) model. Despite its great success, it is unclear what visual features the BoW model is learning: Which regions in the image or video are used to discriminate among cla...
computer science
8,240
The U-curve optimization problem: improvements on the original algorithm and time complexity analysis
cs.LG
The U-curve optimization problem is characterized by a decomposable in U-shaped curves cost function over the chains of a Boolean lattice. This problem can be applied to model the classical feature selection problem in Machine Learning. Recently, the U-Curve algorithm was proposed to give optimal solutions to the U-cur...
computer science
8,241
Beyond KernelBoost
cs.CV
In this Technical Report we propose a set of improvements with respect to the KernelBoost classifier presented in [Becker et al., MICCAI 2013]. We start with a scheme inspired by Auto-Context, but that is suitable in situations where the lack of large training sets poses a potential problem of overfitting. The aim is t...
computer science
8,242
Constructing a Non-Negative Low Rank and Sparse Graph with Data-Adaptive Features
cs.CV
This paper aims at constructing a good graph for discovering intrinsic data structures in a semi-supervised learning setting. Firstly, we propose to build a non-negative low-rank and sparse (referred to as NNLRS) graph for the given data representation. Specifically, the weights of edges in the graph are obtained by se...
computer science
8,243
Linear, Deterministic, and Order-Invariant Initialization Methods for the K-Means Clustering Algorithm
cs.LG
Over the past five decades, k-means has become the clustering algorithm of choice in many application domains primarily due to its simplicity, time/space efficiency, and invariance to the ordering of the data points. Unfortunately, the algorithm's sensitivity to the initial selection of the cluster centers remains to b...
computer science
8,244
Unsupervised learning of clutter-resistant visual representations from natural videos
cs.CV
Populations of neurons in inferotemporal cortex (IT) maintain an explicit code for object identity that also tolerates transformations of object appearance e.g., position, scale, viewing angle [1, 2, 3]. Though the learning rules are not known, recent results [4, 5, 6] suggest the operation of an unsupervised temporal-...
computer science
8,245
Transfer Learning for Video Recognition with Scarce Training Data for Deep Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Unconstrained video recognition and Deep Convolution Network (DCN) are two active topics in computer vision recently. In this work, we apply DCNs as frame-based recognizers for video recognition. Our preliminary studies, however, show that video corpora with complete ground truth are usually not large and diverse enoug...
computer science
8,246
Compute Less to Get More: Using ORC to Improve Sparse Filtering
cs.CV
Sparse Filtering is a popular feature learning algorithm for image classification pipelines. In this paper, we connect the performance of Sparse Filtering with spectral properties of the corresponding feature matrices. This connection provides new insights into Sparse Filtering; in particular, it suggests early stoppin...
computer science
8,247
Pedestrian Detection with Spatially Pooled Features and Structured Ensemble Learning
cs.CV
Many typical applications of object detection operate within a prescribed false-positive range. In this situation the performance of a detector should be assessed on the basis of the area under the ROC curve over that range, rather than over the full curve, as the performance outside the range is irrelevant. This measu...
computer science
8,248
A non-linear learning & classification algorithm that achieves full training accuracy with stellar classification accuracy
cs.CV
A fast Non-linear and non-iterative learning and classification algorithm is synthesized and validated. This algorithm named the "Reverse Ripple Effect(R.R.E)", achieves 100% learning accuracy but is computationally expensive upon classification. The R.R.E is a (deterministic) algorithm that super imposes Gaussian weig...
computer science
8,249
HSR: L1/2 Regularized Sparse Representation for Fast Face Recognition using Hierarchical Feature Selection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel method for fast face recognition called L1/2 Regularized Sparse Representation using Hierarchical Feature Selection (HSR). By employing hierarchical feature selection, we can compress the scale and dimension of global dictionary, which directly contributes to the decrease of computatio...
computer science
8,250
Large-scale Online Feature Selection for Ultra-high Dimensional Sparse Data
cs.LG
Feature selection with large-scale high-dimensional data is important yet very challenging in machine learning and data mining. Online feature selection is a promising new paradigm that is more efficient and scalable than batch feature section methods, but the existing online approaches usually fall short in their infe...
computer science
8,251
$\ell_1$-K-SVD: A Robust Dictionary Learning Algorithm With Simultaneous Update
cs.CV
We develop a dictionary learning algorithm by minimizing the $\ell_1$ distortion metric on the data term, which is known to be robust for non-Gaussian noise contamination. The proposed algorithm exploits the idea of iterative minimization of weighted $\ell_2$ error. We refer to this algorithm as $\ell_1$-K-SVD, where t...
computer science
8,252
Bayesian Robust Tensor Factorization for Incomplete Multiway Data
cs.CV
We propose a generative model for robust tensor factorization in the presence of both missing data and outliers. The objective is to explicitly infer the underlying low-CP-rank tensor capturing the global information and a sparse tensor capturing the local information (also considered as outliers), thus providing the r...
computer science
8,253
Implicit segmentation of Kannada characters in offline handwriting recognition using hidden Markov models
cs.LG
We describe a method for classification of handwritten Kannada characters using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Kannada script is agglutinative, where simple shapes are concatenated horizontally to form a character. This results in a large number of characters making the task of classification difficult. Character segment...
computer science
8,254
MKL-RT: Multiple Kernel Learning for Ratio-trace Problems via Convex Optimization
cs.CV
In the recent past, automatic selection or combination of kernels (or features) based on multiple kernel learning (MKL) approaches has been receiving significant attention from various research communities. Though MKL has been extensively studied in the context of support vector machines (SVM), it is relatively less ex...
computer science
8,255
KCRC-LCD: Discriminative Kernel Collaborative Representation with Locality Constrained Dictionary for Visual Categorization
cs.CV
We consider the image classification problem via kernel collaborative representation classification with locality constrained dictionary (KCRC-LCD). Specifically, we propose a kernel collaborative representation classification (KCRC) approach in which kernel method is used to improve the discrimination ability of colla...
computer science
8,256
Geodesic Exponential Kernels: When Curvature and Linearity Conflict
cs.LG
We consider kernel methods on general geodesic metric spaces and provide both negative and positive results. First we show that the common Gaussian kernel can only be generalized to a positive definite kernel on a geodesic metric space if the space is flat. As a result, for data on a Riemannian manifold, the geodesic G...
computer science
8,257
Electrocardiography Separation of Mother and Baby
cs.CV
Extraction of Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) signals of mother and baby is a challenging task, because one single device is used and it receives a mixture of multiple heart beats. In this paper, we would like to design a filter to separate the signals from each other.
computer science
8,258
Deep Belief Network Training Improvement Using Elite Samples Minimizing Free Energy
cs.LG
Nowadays this is very popular to use deep architectures in machine learning. Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) are deep architectures that use stack of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM) to create a powerful generative model using training data. In this paper we present an improvement in a common method that is usually used...
computer science
8,259
Anisotropic Agglomerative Adaptive Mean-Shift
cs.CV
Mean Shift today, is widely used for mode detection and clustering. The technique though, is challenged in practice due to assumptions of isotropicity and homoscedasticity. We present an adaptive Mean Shift methodology that allows for full anisotropic clustering, through unsupervised local bandwidth selection. The band...
computer science
8,260
Joint cross-domain classification and subspace learning for unsupervised adaptation
cs.CV
Domain adaptation aims at adapting the knowledge acquired on a source domain to a new different but related target domain. Several approaches have beenproposed for classification tasks in the unsupervised scenario, where no labeled target data are available. Most of the attention has been dedicated to searching a new d...
computer science
8,261
Multiple Instance Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Weakly-Supervised Detection in Images
cs.CV
State-of-the-art visual recognition and detection systems increasingly rely on large amounts of training data and complex classifiers. Therefore it becomes increasingly expensive both to manually annotate datasets and to keep running times at levels acceptable for practical applications. In this paper, we propose two s...
computer science
8,262
Metric Learning Driven Multi-Task Structured Output Optimization for Robust Keypoint Tracking
cs.CV
As an important and challenging problem in computer vision and graphics, keypoint-based object tracking is typically formulated in a spatio-temporal statistical learning framework. However, most existing keypoint trackers are incapable of effectively modeling and balancing the following three aspects in a simultaneous ...
computer science
8,263
Learning Multi-target Tracking with Quadratic Object Interactions
cs.CV
We describe a model for multi-target tracking based on associating collections of candidate detections across frames of a video. In order to model pairwise interactions between different tracks, such as suppression of overlapping tracks and contextual cues about co-occurence of different objects, we augment a standard ...
computer science
8,264
Nearest Descent, In-Tree, and Clustering
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a physically inspired graph-theoretical clustering method, which first makes the data points organized into an attractive graph, called In-Tree, via a physically inspired rule, called Nearest Descent (ND). In particular, the rule of ND works to select the nearest node in the descending directi...
computer science
8,265
Automatic Training Data Synthesis for Handwriting Recognition Using the Structural Crossing-Over Technique
cs.CV
The paper presents a novel technique called "Structural Crossing-Over" to synthesize qualified data for training machine learning-based handwriting recognition. The proposed technique can provide a greater variety of patterns of training data than the existing approaches such as elastic distortion and tangent-based aff...
computer science
8,266
Speeding-up Convolutional Neural Networks Using Fine-tuned CP-Decomposition
cs.CV
We propose a simple two-step approach for speeding up convolution layers within large convolutional neural networks based on tensor decomposition and discriminative fine-tuning. Given a layer, we use non-linear least squares to compute a low-rank CP-decomposition of the 4D convolution kernel tensor into a sum of a smal...
computer science
8,267
Automatic Discovery and Optimization of Parts for Image Classification
cs.CV
Part-based representations have been shown to be very useful for image classification. Learning part-based models is often viewed as a two-stage problem. First, a collection of informative parts is discovered, using heuristics that promote part distinctiveness and diversity, and then classifiers are trained on the vect...
computer science
8,268
Video (language) modeling: a baseline for generative models of natural videos
cs.LG
We propose a strong baseline model for unsupervised feature learning using video data. By learning to predict missing frames or extrapolate future frames from an input video sequence, the model discovers both spatial and temporal correlations which are useful to represent complex deformations and motion patterns. The m...
computer science
8,269
A Novel Feature Selection and Extraction Technique for Classification
cs.LG
This paper presents a versatile technique for the purpose of feature selection and extraction - Class Dependent Features (CDFs). We use CDFs to improve the accuracy of classification and at the same time control computational expense by tackling the curse of dimensionality. In order to demonstrate the generality of thi...
computer science
8,270
Riemannian Metric Learning for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
cs.CV
Over the past few years, symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices have been receiving considerable attention from computer vision community. Though various distance measures have been proposed in the past for comparing SPD matrices, the two most widely-used measures are affine-invariant distance and log-Euclidean dis...
computer science
8,271
Pairwise Constraint Propagation on Multi-View Data
cs.CV
This paper presents a graph-based learning approach to pairwise constraint propagation on multi-view data. Although pairwise constraint propagation has been studied extensively, pairwise constraints are usually defined over pairs of data points from a single view, i.e., only intra-view constraint propagation is conside...
computer science
8,272
Robust Face Recognition by Constrained Part-based Alignment
cs.CV
Developing a reliable and practical face recognition system is a long-standing goal in computer vision research. Existing literature suggests that pixel-wise face alignment is the key to achieve high-accuracy face recognition. By assuming a human face as piece-wise planar surfaces, where each surface corresponds to a f...
computer science
8,273
Deep Semantic Ranking Based Hashing for Multi-Label Image Retrieval
cs.CV
With the rapid growth of web images, hashing has received increasing interests in large scale image retrieval. Research efforts have been devoted to learning compact binary codes that preserve semantic similarity based on labels. However, most of these hashing methods are designed to handle simple binary similarity. Th...
computer science
8,274
Hyper-parameter optimization of Deep Convolutional Networks for object recognition
cs.CV
Recently sequential model based optimization (SMBO) has emerged as a promising hyper-parameter optimization strategy in machine learning. In this work, we investigate SMBO to identify architecture hyper-parameters of deep convolution networks (DCNs) object recognition. We propose a simple SMBO strategy that starts from...
computer science
8,275
Real-World Font Recognition Using Deep Network and Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
We address a challenging fine-grain classification problem: recognizing a font style from an image of text. In this task, it is very easy to generate lots of rendered font examples but very hard to obtain real-world labeled images. This real-to-synthetic domain gap caused poor generalization to new real data in previou...
computer science
8,276
Direct l_(2,p)-Norm Learning for Feature Selection
cs.LG
In this paper, we propose a novel sparse learning based feature selection method that directly optimizes a large margin linear classification model sparsity with l_(2,p)-norm (0 < p < 1)subject to data-fitting constraints, rather than using the sparsity as a regularization term. To solve the direct sparsity optimizatio...
computer science
8,277
Unsupervised Feature Learning from Temporal Data
cs.CV
Current state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms rely on supervised training. In this work we study unsupervised feature learning in the context of temporally coherent video data. We focus on feature learning from unlabeled video data, using the assumption that adjacent video frames contain semantically...
computer science
8,278
Performance measures for classification systems with rejection
cs.CV
Classifiers with rejection are essential in real-world applications where misclassifications and their effects are critical. However, if no problem specific cost function is defined, there are no established measures to assess the performance of such classifiers. We introduce a set of desired properties for performance...
computer science
8,279
Learning Multiple Visual Tasks while Discovering their Structure
cs.LG
Multi-task learning is a natural approach for computer vision applications that require the simultaneous solution of several distinct but related problems, e.g. object detection, classification, tracking of multiple agents, or denoising, to name a few. The key idea is that exploring task relatedness (structure) can lea...
computer science
8,280
F-SVM: Combination of Feature Transformation and SVM Learning via Convex Relaxation
cs.LG
The generalization error bound of support vector machine (SVM) depends on the ratio of radius and margin, while standard SVM only considers the maximization of the margin but ignores the minimization of the radius. Several approaches have been proposed to integrate radius and margin for joint learning of feature transf...
computer science
8,281
Self-Tuned Deep Super Resolution
cs.LG
Deep learning has been successfully applied to image super resolution (SR). In this paper, we propose a deep joint super resolution (DJSR) model to exploit both external and self similarities for SR. A Stacked Denoising Convolutional Auto Encoder (SDCAE) is first pre-trained on external examples with proper data augmen...
computer science
8,282
Exploit Bounding Box Annotations for Multi-label Object Recognition
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great performance as general feature representations for object recognition applications. However, for multi-label images that contain multiple objects from different categories, scales and locations, global CNN features are not optimal. In this paper, we incorporate loca...
computer science
8,283
Max-margin Deep Generative Models
cs.LG
Deep generative models (DGMs) are effective on learning multilayered representations of complex data and performing inference of input data by exploring the generative ability. However, little work has been done on examining or empowering the discriminative ability of DGMs on making accurate predictions. This paper pre...
computer science
8,284
FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been very successful in a variety of computer vision tasks, especially on those linked to recognition. Optical flow estimation has not been among the tasks where CNNs were successful. In this paper we construct appropriate CNNs which are capable of solving the optical ...
computer science
8,285
Linear Spatial Pyramid Matching Using Non-convex and non-negative Sparse Coding for Image Classification
cs.CV
Recently sparse coding have been highly successful in image classification mainly due to its capability of incorporating the sparsity of image representation. In this paper, we propose an improved sparse coding model based on linear spatial pyramid matching(SPM) and Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT ) descriptors...
computer science
8,286
SVM and ELM: Who Wins? Object Recognition with Deep Convolutional Features from ImageNet
cs.LG
Deep learning with a convolutional neural network (CNN) has been proved to be very effective in feature extraction and representation of images. For image classification problems, this work aim at finding which classifier is more competitive based on high-level deep features of images. In this report, we have discussed...
computer science
8,287
Constrained Convolutional Neural Networks for Weakly Supervised Segmentation
cs.CV
We present an approach to learn a dense pixel-wise labeling from image-level tags. Each image-level tag imposes constraints on the output labeling of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifier. We propose Constrained CNN (CCNN), a method which uses a novel loss function to optimize for any set of linear constraint...
computer science
8,288
Time Series Classification using the Hidden-Unit Logistic Model
cs.LG
We present a new model for time series classification, called the hidden-unit logistic model, that uses binary stochastic hidden units to model latent structure in the data. The hidden units are connected in a chain structure that models temporal dependencies in the data. Compared to the prior models for time series cl...
computer science
8,289
CO2 Forest: Improved Random Forest by Continuous Optimization of Oblique Splits
cs.LG
We propose a novel algorithm for optimizing multivariate linear threshold functions as split functions of decision trees to create improved Random Forest classifiers. Standard tree induction methods resort to sampling and exhaustive search to find good univariate split functions. In contrast, our method computes a line...
computer science
8,290
Learning Discriminative Bayesian Networks from High-dimensional Continuous Neuroimaging Data
cs.CV
Due to its causal semantics, Bayesian networks (BN) have been widely employed to discover the underlying data relationship in exploratory studies, such as brain research. Despite its success in modeling the probability distribution of variables, BN is naturally a generative model, which is not necessarily discriminativ...
computer science
8,291
Parallel Multi-Dimensional LSTM, With Application to Fast Biomedical Volumetric Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can be shifted across 2D images or 3D videos to segment them. They have a fixed input size and typically perceive only small local contexts of the pixels to be classified as foreground or background. In contrast, Multi-Dimensional Recurrent NNs (MD-RNNs) can perceive the entire spat...
computer science
8,292
AttentionNet: Aggregating Weak Directions for Accurate Object Detection
cs.CV
We present a novel detection method using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named AttentionNet. We cast an object detection problem as an iterative classification problem, which is the most suitable form of a CNN. AttentionNet provides quantized weak directions pointing a target object and the ensemble of iter...
computer science
8,293
Variational Inference for Background Subtraction in Infrared Imagery
cs.CV
We propose a Gaussian mixture model for background subtraction in infrared imagery. Following a Bayesian approach, our method automatically estimates the number of Gaussian components as well as their parameters, while simultaneously it avoids over/under fitting. The equations for estimating model parameters are analyt...
computer science
8,294
Unsupervised Learning from Narrated Instruction Videos
cs.CV
We address the problem of automatically learning the main steps to complete a certain task, such as changing a car tire, from a set of narrated instruction videos. The contributions of this paper are three-fold. First, we develop a new unsupervised learning approach that takes advantage of the complementary nature of t...
computer science
8,295
Clustering Tree-structured Data on Manifold
cs.CV
Tree-structured data usually contain both topological and geometrical information, and are necessarily considered on manifold instead of Euclidean space for appropriate data parameterization and analysis. In this study, we propose a novel tree-structured data parameterization, called Topology-Attribute matrix (T-A matr...
computer science
8,296
Building a Large-scale Multimodal Knowledge Base System for Answering Visual Queries
cs.CV
The complexity of the visual world creates significant challenges for comprehensive visual understanding. In spite of recent successes in visual recognition, today's vision systems would still struggle to deal with visual queries that require a deeper reasoning. We propose a knowledge base (KB) framework to handle an a...
computer science
8,297
Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation via Kernel Regression on the Grassmannian
cs.LG
Most visual recognition methods implicitly assume the data distribution remains unchanged from training to testing. However, in practice domain shift often exists, where real-world factors such as lighting and sensor type change between train and test, and classifiers do not generalise from source to target domains. It...
computer science
8,298
Nonlinear Metric Learning for kNN and SVMs through Geometric Transformations
cs.LG
In recent years, research efforts to extend linear metric learning models to handle nonlinear structures have attracted great interests. In this paper, we propose a novel nonlinear solution through the utilization of deformable geometric models to learn spatially varying metrics, and apply the strategy to boost the per...
computer science
8,299
Manifold regularization in structured output space for semi-supervised structured output prediction
cs.LG
Structured output prediction aims to learn a predictor to predict a structured output from a input data vector. The structured outputs include vector, tree, sequence, etc. We usually assume that we have a training set of input-output pairs to train the predictor. However, in many real-world appli- cations, it is diffic...
computer science