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Segmentation of Camera Captured Business Card Images for Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Due to huge deformation in the camera captured images, variety in nature of the business cards and the computational constraints of the mobile devices, design of an efficient Business Card Reader (BCR) is challenging to the researchers. Extraction of text regions and segmenting them into characters is one of such chall...
computer science
23,703
Application of Freeman Chain Codes: An Alternative Recognition Technique for Malaysian Car Plates
cs.CV
Various applications of car plate recognition systems have been developed using various kinds of methods and techniques by researchers all over the world. The applications developed were only suitable for specific country due to its standard specification endorsed by the transport department of particular countries. Th...
computer science
23,704
Illustrating Color Evolution and Color Blindness by the Decoding Model of Color Vision
cs.CV
A symmetrical model of color vision, the decoding model as a new version of zone model, was introduced. The model adopts new continuous-valued logic and works in a way very similar to the way a 3-8 decoder in a numerical circuit works. By the decoding model, Young and Helmholtz's tri-pigment theory and Hering's opponen...
computer science
23,705
Automatic segmentation of HeLa cell images
cs.CV
In this work, the possibilities for segmentation of cells from their background and each other in digital image were tested, combined and improoved. Lot of images with young, adult and mixture cells were able to prove the quality of described algorithms. Proper segmentation is one of the main task of image analysis and...
computer science
23,706
A Review of Research on Devnagari Character Recognition
cs.CV
English Character Recognition (CR) has been extensively studied in the last half century and progressed to a level, sufficient to produce technology driven applications. But same is not the case for Indian languages which are complicated in terms of structure and computations. Rapidly growing computational power may en...
computer science
23,707
Diffusion framework for geometric and photometric data fusion in non-rigid shape analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we explore the use of the diffusion geometry framework for the fusion of geometric and photometric information in local and global shape descriptors. Our construction is based on the definition of a diffusion process on the shape manifold embedded into a high-dimensional space where the embedding coordin...
computer science
23,708
A Panorama on Multiscale Geometric Representations, Intertwining Spatial, Directional and Frequency Selectivity
cs.CV
The richness of natural images makes the quest for optimal representations in image processing and computer vision challenging. The latter observation has not prevented the design of image representations, which trade off between efficiency and complexity, while achieving accurate rendering of smooth regions as well as...
computer science
23,709
Image Retrieval Method Using Top-surf Descriptor
cs.CV
This report presents the results and details of a content-based image retrieval project using the Top-surf descriptor. The experimental results are preliminary, however, it shows the capability of deducing objects from parts of the objects or from the objects that are similar. This paper uses a dataset consisting of 12...
computer science
23,710
Visual Concept Detection and Real Time Object Detection
cs.CV
Bag-of-words model is implemented and tried on 10-class visual concept detection problem. The experimental results show that "DURF+ERT+SVM" outperforms "SIFT+ERT+SVM" both in detection performance and computation efficiency. Besides, combining DURF and SIFT results in even better detection performance. Real-time object...
computer science
23,711
A Statistical Nonparametric Approach of Face Recognition: Combination of Eigenface & Modified k-Means Clustering
cs.CV
Facial expressions convey non-verbal cues, which play an important role in interpersonal relations. Automatic recognition of human face based on facial expression can be an important component of natural human-machine interface. It may also be used in behavioural science. Although human can recognize the face practical...
computer science
23,712
Gaussian Affine Feature Detector
cs.CV
A new method is proposed to get image features' geometric information. Using Gaussian as an input signal, a theoretical optimal solution to calculate feature's affine shape is proposed. Based on analytic result of a feature model, the method is different from conventional iterative approaches. From the model, feature's...
computer science
23,713
Fuzzy Rules and Evidence Theory for Satellite Image Analysis
cs.CV
Design of a fuzzy rule based classifier is proposed. The performance of the classifier for multispectral satellite image classification is improved using Dempster- Shafer theory of evidence that exploits information of the neighboring pixels. The classifiers are tested rigorously with two known images and their perform...
computer science
23,714
Benchmarking the Quality of Diffusion-Weighted Images
cs.CV
We present a novel method that allows for measuring the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images dependent on the image resolution and the image noise. For this purpose, we introduce a new thresholding technique so that noise and the signal can automatically be estimated from a single data set. Thus, no user interaction...
computer science
23,715
Off-Line Handwritten Signature Retrieval using Curvelet Transforms
cs.CV
In this paper, a new method for offline handwritten signature retrieval is based on curvelet transform is proposed. Many applications in image processing require similarity retrieval of an image from a large collection of images. In such cases, image indexing becomes important for efficient organization and retrieval o...
computer science
23,716
Template-based matching using weight maps
cs.CV
Template matching is one of the most prevalent pattern recognition methods worldwide. It has found uses in most visual concept detection fields. In this work, we investigate methods for improving template matching by adjusting the weights of different regions of the template. We compare several weight maps and test the...
computer science
23,717
GEOMIR2K9 - A Similar Scene Finder
cs.CV
The main goal of the GEOMIR2K9 project is to create a software program that is able to find similar scenic images clustered by geographical location and sorted by similarity based only on their visual content. The user should be able to input a query image, based on this given query image the program should find releva...
computer science
23,718
From a Modified Ambrosio-Tortorelli to a Randomized Part Hierarchy Tree
cs.CV
We demonstrate the possibility of coding parts, features that are higher level than boundaries, using a modified AT field after augmenting the interaction term of the AT energy with a non-local term and weakening the separation into boundary/not-boundary phases. The iteratively extracted parts using the level curves wi...
computer science
23,719
Extracting Parts of 2D Shapes Using Local and Global Interactions Simultaneously
cs.CV
Perception research provides strong evidence in favor of part based representation of shapes in human visual system. Despite considerable differences among different theories in terms of how part boundaries are found, there is substantial agreement on that the process depends on many local and global geometric factors....
computer science
23,720
An Axis-Based Representation for Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a new axis-based shape representation scheme along with a matching framework to address the problem of generic shape recognition. The main idea is to define the relative spatial arrangement of local symmetry axes and their metric properties in a shape centered coordinate frame. The resulting descrip...
computer science
23,721
Disconnected Skeleton: Shape at its Absolute Scale
cs.CV
We present a new skeletal representation along with a matching framework to address the deformable shape recognition problem. The disconnectedness arises as a result of excessive regularization that we use to describe a shape at an attainably coarse scale. Our motivation is to rely on the stable properties of the shape...
computer science
23,722
Hue Histograms to Spatiotemporal Local Features for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Despite the recent developments in spatiotemporal local features for action recognition in video sequences, local color information has so far been ignored. However, color has been proved an important element to the success of automated recognition of objects and scenes. In this paper we extend the space-time interest ...
computer science
23,723
A Meshless Method for Variational Nonrigid 2-D Shape Registration
cs.CV
We present a method for nonrigid registration of 2-D geometric shapes. Our contribution is twofold. First, we extend the classic chamfer-matching energy to a variational functional. Secondly, we introduce a meshless deformation model that can handle significant high-curvature deformations. We represent 2-D shapes impli...
computer science
23,724
Curved Gabor Filters for Fingerprint Image Enhancement
cs.CV
Gabor filters play an important role in many application areas for the enhancement of various types of images and the extraction of Gabor features. For the purpose of enhancing curved structures in noisy images, we introduce curved Gabor filters which locally adapt their shape to the direction of flow. These curved Gab...
computer science
23,725
Positive Semidefinite Metric Learning Using Boosting-like Algorithms
cs.CV
The success of many machine learning and pattern recognition methods relies heavily upon the identification of an appropriate distance metric on the input data. It is often beneficial to learn such a metric from the input training data, instead of using a default one such as the Euclidean distance. In this work, we pro...
computer science
23,726
Preprocessing: A Step in Automating Early Detection of Cervical Cancer
cs.CV
This paper has been withdrawn
computer science
23,727
A supervised clustering approach for fMRI-based inference of brain states
cs.CV
We propose a method that combines signals from many brain regions observed in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to predict the subject's behavior during a scanning session. Such predictions suffer from the huge number of brain regions sampled on the voxel grid of standard fMRI data sets: the curse of dimensi...
computer science
23,728
Dimensionality Reduction and Classification feature using Mutual Information applied to Hyperspectral Images : A Filter strategy based algorithm
cs.CV
Hyperspectral images (HIS) classification is a high technical remote sensing tool. The goal is to reproduce a thematic map that will be compared with a reference ground truth map (GT), constructed by expecting the region. The HIS contains more than a hundred bidirectional measures, called bands (or simply images), of t...
computer science
23,729
Demosaicing and Superresolution for Color Filter Array via Residual Image Reconstruction and Sparse Representation
cs.CV
A framework of demosaicing and superresolution for color filter array (CFA) via residual image reconstruction and sparse representation is presented.Given the intermediate image produced by certain demosaicing and interpolation technique, a residual image between the final reconstruction image and the intermediate imag...
computer science
23,730
Intra-Retinal Layer Segmentation of 3D Optical Coherence Tomography Using Coarse Grained Diffusion Map
cs.CV
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful and noninvasive method for retinal imaging. In this paper, we introduce a fast segmentation method based on a new variant of spectral graph theory named diffusion maps. The research is performed on spectral domain (SD) OCT images depicting macular and optic nerve head ap...
computer science
23,731
Enhanced Techniques for PDF Image Segmentation and Text Extraction
cs.CV
Extracting text objects from the PDF images is a challenging problem. The text data present in the PDF images contain certain useful information for automatic annotation, indexing etc. However variations of the text due to differences in text style, font, size, orientation, alignment as well as complex structure make t...
computer science
23,732
Combined Descriptors in Spatial Pyramid Domain for Image Classification
cs.CV
Recently spatial pyramid matching (SPM) with scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) descriptor has been successfully used in image classification. Unfortunately, the codebook generation and feature quantization procedures using SIFT feature have the high complexity both in time and space. To address this problem, in ...
computer science
23,733
Band Selection and Classification of Hyperspectral Images using Mutual Information: An algorithm based on minimizing the error probability using the inequality of Fano
cs.CV
Hyperspectral image is a substitution of more than a hundred images, called bands, of the same region. They are taken at juxtaposed frequencies. The reference image of the region is called Ground Truth map (GT). the problematic is how to find the good bands to classify the pixels of regions; because the bands can be no...
computer science
23,734
Multibiometric: Feature Level Fusion Using FKP Multi-Instance biometric
cs.CV
This paper proposed the use of multi-instance feature level fusion as a means to improve the performance of Finger Knuckle Print (FKP) verification. A log-Gabor filter has been used to extract the image local orientation information, and represent the FKP features. Experiments are performed using the FKP database, whic...
computer science
23,735
A Survey of Multibiometric Systems
cs.CV
Most biometric systems deployed in real-world applications are unimodal. Using unimodal biometric systems have to contend with a variety of problems such as: Noise in sensed data; Intra-class variations; Inter-class similarities; Non-universality; Spoof attacks. These problems have addressed by using multibiometric sys...
computer science
23,736
Blurred Image Classification based on Adaptive Dictionary
cs.CV
Two types of framework for blurred image classification based on adaptive dictionary are proposed. Given a blurred image, instead of image deblurring, the semantic category of the image is determined by blur insensitive sparse coefficients calculated depending on an adaptive dictionary. The dictionary is adaptive to th...
computer science
23,737
Robust Degraded Face Recognition Using Enhanced Local Frequency Descriptor and Multi-scale Competition
cs.CV
Recognizing degraded faces from low resolution and blurred images are common yet challenging task. Local Frequency Descriptor (LFD) has been proved to be effective for this task yet it is extracted from a spatial neighborhood of a pixel of a frequency plane independently regardless of correlations between frequencies. ...
computer science
23,738
Learning Locality-Constrained Collaborative Representation for Face Recognition
cs.CV
The model of low-dimensional manifold and sparse representation are two well-known concise models that suggest each data can be described by a few characteristics. Manifold learning is usually investigated for dimension reduction by preserving some expected local geometric structures from the original space to a low-di...
computer science
23,739
A comparative study on face recognition techniques and neural network
cs.CV
In modern times, face recognition has become one of the key aspects of computer vision. There are at least two reasons for this trend; the first is the commercial and law enforcement applications, and the second is the availability of feasible technologies after years of research. Due to the very nature of the problem,...
computer science
23,740
Computationally Efficient Implementation of Convolution-based Locally Adaptive Binarization Techniques
cs.CV
One of the most important steps of document image processing is binarization. The computational requirements of locally adaptive binarization techniques make them unsuitable for devices with limited computing facilities. In this paper, we have presented a computationally efficient implementation of convolution based lo...
computer science
23,741
Enhanced Compressed Sensing Recovery with Level Set Normals
cs.CV
We propose a compressive sensing algorithm that exploits geometric properties of images to recover images of high quality from few measurements. The image reconstruction is done by iterating the two following steps: 1) estimation of normal vectors of the image level curves and 2) reconstruction of an image fitting the ...
computer science
23,742
A polygon-based interpolation operator for super-resolution imaging
cs.CV
We outline the super-resolution reconstruction problem posed as a maximization of probability. We then introduce an interpolation method based on polygonal pixel overlap, express it as a linear operator, and use it to improve reconstruction. Polygon interpolation outperforms the simpler bilinear interpolation operator ...
computer science
23,743
Image Processing using Smooth Ordering of its Patches
cs.CV
We propose an image processing scheme based on reordering of its patches. For a given corrupted image, we extract all patches with overlaps, refer to these as coordinates in high-dimensional space, and order them such that they are chained in the "shortest possible path", essentially solving the traveling salesman prob...
computer science
23,744
DBN-Based Combinatorial Resampling for Articulated Object Tracking
cs.CV
Particle Filter is an effective solution to track objects in video sequences in complex situations. Its key idea is to estimate the density over the possible states of the object using a weighted sample whose elements are called particles. One of its crucial step is a resampling step in which particles are resampled to...
computer science
23,745
Identifications of concealed weapon in a Human Body
cs.CV
The detection of weapons concealed underneath a person cloths is very much important to the improvement of the security of the public as well as the safety of public assets like airports, buildings and railway stations etc.
computer science
23,746
Developing ICC Profile Using Gray Level Control In Offset Printing Process
cs.CV
In prepress department RGB image has to be converted to CMYK image. To control that amount of black, cyan, magenta and yellow has to be controlled by using color separation method. Graycolor separation method is selected to control the amounts of these colors because it increase the quality of printing also. A single p...
computer science
23,747
Novel Architecture for 3D model in virtual communities from detected face
cs.CV
In this research paper we suggest how to extract a face from an image, modify it, characterize it in terms of high-level properties, and apply it to the creation of a personalized avatar. In this research work we tested, we implemented the algorithm on several hundred facial images, including many taken under uncontrol...
computer science
23,748
Computer vision tools for the non-invasive assessment of autism-related behavioral markers
cs.CV
The early detection of developmental disorders is key to child outcome, allowing interventions to be initiated that promote development and improve prognosis. Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests behavioral markers can be observed late in the first year of life. Many of these studies involved extensive f...
computer science
23,749
3D Face Recognition using Significant Point based SULD Descriptor
cs.CV
In this work, we present a new 3D face recognition method based on Speeded-Up Local Descriptor (SULD) of significant points extracted from the range images of faces. The proposed model consists of a method for extracting distinctive invariant features from range images of faces that can be used to perform reliable matc...
computer science
23,750
Resolution Enhancement of Range Images via Color-Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We report a method for super-resolution of range images. Our approach leverages the interpretation of LR image as sparse samples on the HR grid. Based on this interpretation, we demonstrate that our recently reported approach, which reconstructs dense range images from sparse range data by exploiting a registered colou...
computer science
23,751
The fortresses of Ejin: an example of outlining a site from satellite images
cs.CV
From 1960's to 1970's, the Chinese Army built some fortified artificial hills. Some of them are located in the Inner Mongolia, Western China. These large fortresses are surrounded by moats. For some of them it is still possible to see earthworks, trenches and ditches, the planning of which could have a symbolic meaning...
computer science
23,752
Performance Evaluation of Different Techniques for texture Classification
cs.CV
Texture is the term used to characterize the surface of a given object or phenomenon and is an important feature used in image processing and pattern recognition. Our aim is to compare various Texture analyzing methods and compare the results based on time complexity and accuracy of classification. The project describe...
computer science
23,753
On the Relation Between the Common Labelling and the Median Graph
cs.CV
In structural pattern recognition, given a set of graphs, the computation of a Generalized Median Graph is a well known problem. Some methods approach the problem by assuming a relation between the Generalized Median Graph and the Common Labelling problem. However, this relation has still not been formally proved. In t...
computer science
23,754
Circle detection using electro-magnetism optimization
cs.CV
This paper describes a circle detection method based on Electromagnetism-Like Optimization (EMO). Circle detection has received considerable attention over the last years thanks to its relevance for many computer vision tasks. EMO is a heuristic method for solving complex optimization problems inspired in electromagnet...
computer science
23,755
Combined Approach for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Many image segmentation techniques have been developed over the past two decades for segmenting the images, which help for object recognition, occlusion boundary estimation within motion or stereo systems, image compression, image editing. In this, there is a combined approach for segmenting the image. By using histo...
computer science
23,756
Seeing the Big Picture: Deep Embedding with Contextual Evidences
cs.CV
In the Bag-of-Words (BoW) model based image retrieval task, the precision of visual matching plays a critical role in improving retrieval performance. Conventionally, local cues of a keypoint are employed. However, such strategy does not consider the contextual evidences of a keypoint, a problem which would lead to the...
computer science
23,757
Ambiguous Proximity Distribution
cs.CV
Proximity Distribution Kernel is an effective method for bag-of-featues based image representation. In this paper, we investigate the soft assignment of visual words to image features for proximity distribution. Visual word contribution function is proposed to model ambiguous proximity distributions. Three ambiguous pr...
computer science
23,758
Continuous Action Recognition Based on Sequence Alignment
cs.CV
Continuous action recognition is more challenging than isolated recognition because classification and segmentation must be simultaneously carried out. We build on the well known dynamic time warping (DTW) framework and devise a novel visual alignment technique, namely dynamic frame warping (DFW), which performs isolat...
computer science
23,759
The constitution of visual perceptual units in the functional architecture of V1
cs.CV
Scope of this paper is to consider a mean field neural model which takes into account the functional neurogeometry of the visual cortex modelled as a group of rotations and translations. The model generalizes well known results of Bressloff and Cowan which, in absence of input, accounts for hallucination patterns. The ...
computer science
23,760
Generalized Max Pooling
cs.CV
State-of-the-art patch-based image representations involve a pooling operation that aggregates statistics computed from local descriptors. Standard pooling operations include sum- and max-pooling. Sum-pooling lacks discriminability because the resulting representation is strongly influenced by frequent yet often uninfo...
computer science
23,761
Image retrieval with hierarchical matching pursuit
cs.CV
A novel representation of images for image retrieval is introduced in this paper, by using a new type of feature with remarkable discriminative power. Despite the multi-scale nature of objects, most existing models perform feature extraction on a fixed scale, which will inevitably degrade the performance of the whole s...
computer science
23,762
Visual Reranking with Improved Image Graph
cs.CV
This paper introduces an improved reranking method for the Bag-of-Words (BoW) based image search. Built on [1], a directed image graph robust to outlier distraction is proposed. In our approach, the relevance among images is encoded in the image graph, based on which the initial rank list is refined. Moreover, we show ...
computer science
23,763
Improvement Tracking Dynamic Programming using Replication Function for Continuous Sign Language Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we used a Replication Function (R. F.)for improvement tracking with dynamic programming. The R. F. transforms values of gray level [0 255] to [0 1]. The resulting images of R. F. are more striking and visible in skin regions. The R. F. improves Dynamic Programming (D. P.) in overlapping hand and face. Res...
computer science
23,764
Multiscale Fields of Patterns
cs.CV
We describe a framework for defining high-order image models that can be used in a variety of applications. The approach involves modeling local patterns in a multiscale representation of an image. Local properties of a coarsened image reflect non-local properties of the original image. In the case of binary images loc...
computer science
23,765
Beyond $χ^2$ Difference: Learning Optimal Metric for Boundary Detection
cs.CV
This letter focuses on solving the challenging problem of detecting natural image boundaries. A boundary usually refers to the border between two regions with different semantic meanings. Therefore, a measurement of dissimilarity between image regions plays a pivotal role in boundary detection of natural images. To imp...
computer science
23,766
Local Decorrelation For Improved Detection
cs.CV
Even with the advent of more sophisticated, data-hungry methods, boosted decision trees remain extraordinarily successful for fast rigid object detection, achieving top accuracy on numerous datasets. While effective, most boosted detectors use decision trees with orthogonal (single feature) splits, and the topology of ...
computer science
23,767
Shared Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Face Recognition
cs.CV
After intensive research, heterogenous face recognition is still a challenging problem. The main difficulties are owing to the complex relationship between heterogenous face image spaces. The heterogeneity is always tightly coupled with other variations, which makes the relationship of heterogenous face images highly n...
computer science
23,768
A Context-aware Delayed Agglomeration Framework for Electron Microscopy Segmentation
cs.CV
Electron Microscopy (EM) image (or volume) segmentation has become significantly important in recent years as an instrument for connectomics. This paper proposes a novel agglomerative framework for EM segmentation. In particular, given an over-segmented image or volume, we propose a novel framework for accurately clust...
computer science
23,769
Small Sample Learning of Superpixel Classifiers for EM Segmentation- Extended Version
cs.CV
Pixel and superpixel classifiers have become essential tools for EM segmentation algorithms. Training these classifiers remains a major bottleneck primarily due to the requirement of completely annotating the dataset which is tedious, error-prone and costly. In this paper, we propose an interactive learning scheme for ...
computer science
23,770
Fine-grained Activity Recognition with Holistic and Pose based Features
cs.CV
Holistic methods based on dense trajectories are currently the de facto standard for recognition of human activities in video. Whether holistic representations will sustain or will be superseded by higher level video encoding in terms of body pose and motion is the subject of an ongoing debate. In this paper we aim to ...
computer science
23,771
Refinement-Cut: User-Guided Segmentation Algorithm for Translational Science
cs.CV
In this contribution, a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for (medical) image analysis is presented. More precise, the approach belongs to the category of interactive contouring algorithms, which provide real-time feedback of the segmentation result. However, even with interactive real-time contouring approaches th...
computer science
23,772
Shape-from-intrinsic operator
cs.CV
Shape-from-X is an important class of problems in the fields of geometry processing, computer graphics, and vision, attempting to recover the structure of a shape from some observations. In this paper, we formulate the problem of shape-from-operator (SfO), recovering an embedding of a mesh from intrinsic differential o...
computer science
23,773
Structured Dictionary Learning for Classification
cs.CV
Sparsity driven signal processing has gained tremendous popularity in the last decade. At its core, the assumption is that the signal of interest is sparse with respect to either a fixed transformation or a signal dependent dictionary. To better capture the data characteristics, various dictionary learning methods have...
computer science
23,774
Detect What You Can: Detecting and Representing Objects using Holistic Models and Body Parts
cs.CV
Detecting objects becomes difficult when we need to deal with large shape deformation, occlusion and low resolution. We propose a novel approach to i) handle large deformations and partial occlusions in animals (as examples of highly deformable objects), ii) describe them in terms of body parts, and iii) detect them wh...
computer science
23,775
Log-Euclidean Bag of Words for Human Action Recognition
cs.CV
Representing videos by densely extracted local space-time features has recently become a popular approach for analysing actions. In this paper, we tackle the problem of categorising human actions by devising Bag of Words (BoW) models based on covariance matrices of spatio-temporal features, with the features formed fro...
computer science
23,776
Two-Stream Convolutional Networks for Action Recognition in Videos
cs.CV
We investigate architectures of discriminatively trained deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) for action recognition in video. The challenge is to capture the complementary information on appearance from still frames and motion between frames. We also aim to generalise the best performing hand-crafted features within...
computer science
23,777
Synthetic Data and Artificial Neural Networks for Natural Scene Text Recognition
cs.CV
In this work we present a framework for the recognition of natural scene text. Our framework does not require any human-labelled data, and performs word recognition on the whole image holistically, departing from the character based recognition systems of the past. The deep neural network models at the centre of this f...
computer science
23,778
Robust Estimation of 3D Human Poses from a Single Image
cs.CV
Human pose estimation is a key step to action recognition. We propose a method of estimating 3D human poses from a single image, which works in conjunction with an existing 2D pose/joint detector. 3D pose estimation is challenging because multiple 3D poses may correspond to the same 2D pose after projection due to the ...
computer science
23,779
Depth Map Prediction from a Single Image using a Multi-Scale Deep Network
cs.CV
Predicting depth is an essential component in understanding the 3D geometry of a scene. While for stereo images local correspondence suffices for estimation, finding depth relations from a single image is less straightforward, requiring integration of both global and local information from various cues. Moreover, the t...
computer science
23,780
Parsing Semantic Parts of Cars Using Graphical Models and Segment Appearance Consistency
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of semantic part parsing (segmentation) of cars, i.e.assigning every pixel within the car to one of the parts (e.g.body, window, lights, license plates and wheels). We formulate this as a landmark identification problem, where a set of landmarks specifies the boundaries of the parts. A ...
computer science
23,781
Optimization Methods for Convolutional Sparse Coding
cs.CV
Sparse and convolutional constraints form a natural prior for many optimization problems that arise from physical processes. Detecting motifs in speech and musical passages, super-resolving images, compressing videos, and reconstructing harmonic motions can all leverage redundancies introduced by convolution. Solving p...
computer science
23,782
The Secrets of Salient Object Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper we provide an extensive evaluation of fixation prediction and salient object segmentation algorithms as well as statistics of major datasets. Our analysis identifies serious design flaws of existing salient object benchmarks, called the dataset design bias, by over emphasizing the stereotypical concepts o...
computer science
23,783
Bird Species Categorization Using Pose Normalized Deep Convolutional Nets
cs.CV
We propose an architecture for fine-grained visual categorization that approaches expert human performance in the classification of bird species. Our architecture first computes an estimate of the object's pose; this is used to compute local image features which are, in turn, used for classification. The features are c...
computer science
23,784
Joint Training of a Convolutional Network and a Graphical Model for Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new hybrid architecture that consists of a deep Convolutional Network and a Markov Random Field. We show how this architecture is successfully applied to the challenging problem of articulated human pose estimation in monocular images. The architecture can exploit structural domain constraints suc...
computer science
23,785
Fingers' Angle Calculation using Level-Set Method
cs.CV
In the current age, use of natural communication in human computer interaction is a known and well installed thought. Hand gesture recognition and gesture based applications has gained a significant amount of popularity amongst people all over the world. It has a number of applications ranging from security to entertai...
computer science
23,786
Human-Machine CRFs for Identifying Bottlenecks in Holistic Scene Understanding
cs.CV
Recent trends in image understanding have pushed for holistic scene understanding models that jointly reason about various tasks such as object detection, scene recognition, shape analysis, contextual reasoning, and local appearance based classifiers. In this work, we are interested in understanding the roles of these ...
computer science
23,787
A Fusion of Labeled-Grid Shape Descriptors with Weighted Ranking Algorithm for Shapes Recognition
cs.CV
Retrieving similar images from a large dataset based on the image content has been a very active research area and is a very challenging task. Studies have shown that retrieving similar images based on their shape is a very effective method. For this purpose a large number of methods exist in literature. The combinatio...
computer science
23,788
Impact of Exponent Parameter Value for the Partition Matrix on the Performance of Fuzzy C Means Algorithm
cs.CV
Soft Clustering plays a very important rule on clustering real world data where a data item contributes to more than one cluster. Fuzzy logic based algorithms are always suitable for performing soft clustering tasks. Fuzzy C Means (FCM) algorithm is a very popular fuzzy logic based algorithm. In case of fuzzy logic bas...
computer science
23,789
Person Re-identification by Local Maximal Occurrence Representation and Metric Learning
cs.CV
Person re-identification is an important technique towards automatic search of a person's presence in a surveillance video. Two fundamental problems are critical for person re-identification, feature representation and metric learning. An effective feature representation should be robust to illumination and viewpoint c...
computer science
23,790
Block matching algorithm based on Harmony Search optimization for motion estimation
cs.CV
Motion estimation is one of the major problems in developing video coding applications. Among all motion estimation approaches, Block-matching (BM) algorithms are the most popular methods due to their effectiveness and simplicity for both software and hardware implementations. A BM approach assumes that the movement of...
computer science
23,791
Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require a fixed-size (e.g., 224x224) input image. This requirement is "artificial" and may reduce the recognition accuracy for the images or sub-images of an arbitrary size/scale. In this work, we equip the networks with another pooling strategy, "spatial pyramid pooli...
computer science
23,792
Mass Classification Method in Mammogram Using Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbour Equality
cs.CV
Mass classification of objects is an important area of research and application in a variety of fields. In this paper, we present an efficient computer aided mass classification method in digitized mammograms using Fuzzy K-Nearest Neighbor Equality, which performs benign or malignant classification on region of interes...
computer science
23,793
Deep Learning Face Representation by Joint Identification-Verification
cs.CV
The key challenge of face recognition is to develop effective feature representations for reducing intra-personal variations while enlarging inter-personal differences. In this paper, we show that it can be well solved with deep learning and using both face identification and verification signals as supervision. The De...
computer science
23,794
Computer Vision Approach for Low Cost, High Precision Measurement of Grapevine Trunk Diameter in Outdoor Conditions
cs.CV
Trunk diameter is a variable of agricultural interest, used mainly in the prediction of fruit trees production. It is correlated with leaf area and biomass of trees, and consequently gives a good estimate of the potential production of the plants. This work presents a low cost, high precision method for the measurement...
computer science
23,795
Why are images smooth?
cs.CV
It is a well observed phenomenon that natural images are smooth, in the sense that nearby pixels tend to have similar values. We describe a mathematical model of images that makes no assumptions on the nature of the environment that images depict. It only assumes that images can be taken at different scales (zoom level...
computer science
23,796
Robust Outlier Detection Technique in Data Mining: A Univariate Approach
cs.CV
Outliers are the points which are different from or inconsistent with the rest of the data. They can be novel, new, abnormal, unusual or noisy information. Outliers are sometimes more interesting than the majority of the data. The main challenges of outlier detection with the increasing complexity, size and variety of ...
computer science
23,797
MRF-based Background Initialisation for Improved Foreground Detection in Cluttered Surveillance Videos
cs.CV
Robust foreground object segmentation via background modelling is a difficult problem in cluttered environments, where obtaining a clear view of the background to model is almost impossible. In this paper, we propose a method capable of robustly estimating the background and detecting regions of interest in such enviro...
computer science
23,798
R-CNNs for Pose Estimation and Action Detection
cs.CV
We present convolutional neural networks for the tasks of keypoint (pose) prediction and action classification of people in unconstrained images. Our approach involves training an R-CNN detector with loss functions depending on the task being tackled. We evaluate our method on the challenging PASCAL VOC dataset and com...
computer science
23,799
Web-Scale Training for Face Identification
cs.CV
Scaling machine learning methods to very large datasets has attracted considerable attention in recent years, thanks to easy access to ubiquitous sensing and data from the web. We study face recognition and show that three distinct properties have surprising effects on the transferability of deep convolutional networks...
computer science
23,800
Early Recognition of Human Activities from First-Person Videos Using Onset Representations
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a methodology for early recognition of human activities from videos taken with a first-person viewpoint. Early recognition, which is also known as activity prediction, is an ability to infer an ongoing activity at its early stage. We present an algorithm to perform recognition of activities ta...
computer science
23,801
Predicting Motivations of Actions by Leveraging Text
cs.CV
Understanding human actions is a key problem in computer vision. However, recognizing actions is only the first step of understanding what a person is doing. In this paper, we introduce the problem of predicting why a person has performed an action in images. This problem has many applications in human activity underst...
computer science