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ALPRS - A New Approach for License Plate Recognition using the Sift Algorithm
cs.CV
This paper presents a new approach for the automatic license plate recognition, which includes the SIFT algorithm in step to locate the plate in the input image. In this new approach, besides the comparison of the features obtained with the SIFT algorithm, the correspondence between the spatial orientations and the pos...
computer science
23,903
Simplifying Energy Optimization using Partial Enumeration
cs.CV
Energies with high-order non-submodular interactions have been shown to be very useful in vision due to their high modeling power. Optimization of such energies, however, is generally NP-hard. A naive approach that works for small problem instances is exhaustive search, that is, enumeration of all possible labelings of...
computer science
23,904
Improving Automatic Emotion Recognition from speech using Rhythm and Temporal feature
cs.CV
This paper is devoted to improve automatic emotion recognition from speech by incorporating rhythm and temporal features. Research on automatic emotion recognition so far has mostly been based on applying features like MFCCs, pitch and energy or intensity. The idea focuses on borrowing rhythm features from linguistic a...
computer science
23,905
Watersheds on edge or node weighted graphs "par l'exemple"
cs.CV
Watersheds have been defined both for node and edge weighted graphs. We show that they are identical: for each edge (resp.\ node) weighted graph exists a node (resp. edge) weighted graph with the same minima and catchment basin.
computer science
23,906
Least-Squares FIR Models of Low-Resolution MR data for Efficient Phase-Error Compensation with Simultaneous Artefact Removal
cs.CV
Signal space models in both phase-encode, and frequency-encode directions are presented for extrapolation of 2D partial kspace. Using the boxcar representation of low-resolution spatial data, and a geometrical representation of signal space vectors in both positive and negative phase-encode directions, a robust predict...
computer science
23,907
Voxel-wise Weighted MR Image Enhancement using an Extended Neighborhood Filter
cs.CV
We present an edge preserving and denoising filter for enhancing the features in images, which contain an ROI having a narrow spatial extent. Typical examples include angiograms, or ROI spatially distributed in multiple locations and contained within an outlying region, such as in multiple-sclerosis. The filtering invo...
computer science
23,908
A Low-Complexity Algorithm for Static Background Estimation from Cluttered Image Sequences in Surveillance Contexts
cs.CV
For the purposes of foreground estimation, the true background model is unavailable in many practical circumstances and needs to be estimated from cluttered image sequences. We propose a sequential technique for static background estimation in such conditions, with low computational and memory requirements. Image seque...
computer science
23,909
Joint optimization of fitting & matching in multi-view reconstruction
cs.CV
Many standard approaches for geometric model fitting are based on pre-matched image features. Typically, such pre-matching uses only feature appearances (e.g. SIFT) and a large number of non-unique features must be discarded in order to control the false positive rate. In contrast, we solve feature matching and multi-m...
computer science
23,910
Kernel Sparse Models for Automated Tumor Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose sparse coding-based approaches for segmentation of tumor regions from MR images. Sparse coding with data-adapted dictionaries has been successfully employed in several image recovery and vision problems. The proposed approaches obtain sparse codes for each pixel in brain magnetic resonance ima...
computer science
23,911
Bilateral Filter: Graph Spectral Interpretation and Extensions
cs.CV
In this paper we study the bilateral filter proposed by Tomasi and Manduchi, as a spectral domain transform defined on a weighted graph. The nodes of this graph represent the pixels in the image and a graph signal defined on the nodes represents the intensity values. Edge weights in the graph correspond to the bilatera...
computer science
23,912
Gaussian Mixture Model for Handwritten Script Identification
cs.CV
This paper presents a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to identify the script of handwritten words of Roman, Devanagari, Kannada and Telugu scripts. It emphasizes the significance of directional energies for identification of script of the word. It is robust to varied image sizes and different styles of writing. A GMM is m...
computer science
23,913
Combined Learning of Salient Local Descriptors and Distance Metrics for Image Set Face Verification
cs.CV
In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while representing faces in a rigid and holistic manner. Such representations are eas...
computer science
23,914
A Stochastic Grammar for Natural Shapes
cs.CV
We consider object detection using a generic model for natural shapes. A common approach for object recognition involves matching object models directly to images. Another approach involves building intermediate representations via a generic grouping processes. We argue that these two processes (model-based recognition...
computer science
23,915
Statistical Texture Features based Handwritten and Printed Text Classification in South Indian Documents
cs.CV
In this paper, we use statistical texture features for handwritten and printed text classification. We primarily aim for word level classification in south Indian scripts. Words are first extracted from the scanned document. For each extracted word, statistical texture features are computed such as mean, standard devia...
computer science
23,916
Material quality assessment of silk nanofibers based on swarm intelligence
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for texture analysis based on artificial crawler model. Our method assumes that each agent can interact with the environment and each other. The evolution process converges to an equilibrium state according to the set of rules. For each textured image, the feature vector is co...
computer science
23,917
Improved Foreground Detection via Block-based Classifier Cascade with Probabilistic Decision Integration
cs.CV
Background subtraction is a fundamental low-level processing task in numerous computer vision applications. The vast majority of algorithms process images on a pixel-by-pixel basis, where an independent decision is made for each pixel. A general limitation of such processing is that rich contextual information is not t...
computer science
23,918
Handwritten and Printed Text Separation in Real Document
cs.CV
The aim of the paper is to separate handwritten and printed text from a real document embedded with noise, graphics including annotations. Relying on run-length smoothing algorithm (RLSA), the extracted pseudo-lines and pseudo-words are used as basic blocks for classification. To handle this, a multi-class support vect...
computer science
23,919
A Survey of Appearance Models in Visual Object Tracking
cs.CV
Visual object tracking is a significant computer vision task which can be applied to many domains such as visual surveillance, human computer interaction, and video compression. In the literature, researchers have proposed a variety of 2D appearance models. To help readers swiftly learn the recent advances in 2D appear...
computer science
23,920
The State of the Art Recognize in Arabic Script through Combination of Online and Offline
cs.CV
Handwriting recognition refers to the identification of written characters. Handwriting recognition has become an acute research area in recent years for the ease of access of computer science. In this paper primarily discussed On-line and Off-line handwriting recognition methods for Arabic words which are often used a...
computer science
23,921
Asynchronous Cellular Operations on Gray Images Extracting Topographic Shape Features and Their Relations
cs.CV
A variety of operations of cellular automata on gray images is presented. All operations are of a wave-front nature finishing in a stable state. They are used to extract shape descripting gray objects robust to a variety of pattern distortions. Topographic terms are used: "lakes", "dales", "dales of dales". It is shown...
computer science
23,922
On Constructing the Value Function for Optimal Trajectory Problem and its Application to Image Processing
cs.CV
We proposed an algorithm for solving Hamilton-Jacobi equation associated to an optimal trajectory problem for a vehicle moving inside the pre-specified domain with the speed depending upon the direction of the motion and current position of the vehicle. The dynamics of the vehicle is defined by an ordinary differential...
computer science
23,923
A Robust Rapid Approach to Image Segmentation with Optimal Thresholding and Watershed Transform
cs.CV
This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as Binary Gradient Masking, dilation which segment the image in proper way. The algorit...
computer science
23,924
Cortical Surface Co-Registration based on MRI Images and Photos
cs.CV
Brain shift, i.e. the change in configuration of the brain after opening the dura mater, is a key problem in neuronavigation. We present an approach to co-register intra-operative microscope images with pre-operative MRI to adapt and optimize intra-operative neuronavigation. The tools are a robust classification of sul...
computer science
23,925
Asymmetric Pruning for Learning Cascade Detectors
cs.CV
Cascade classifiers are one of the most important contributions to real-time object detection. Nonetheless, there are many challenging problems arising in training cascade detectors. One common issue is that the node classifier is trained with a symmetric classifier. Having a low misclassification error rate does not g...
computer science
23,926
Performance Evaluation of Edge-Directed Interpolation Methods for Images
cs.CV
Many interpolation methods have been developed for high visual quality, but fail for inability to preserve image structures. Edges carry heavy structural information for detection, determination and classification. Edge-adaptive interpolation approaches become a center of focus. In this paper, performance of four edge-...
computer science
23,927
An N-dimensional approach towards object based classification of remotely sensed imagery
cs.CV
Remote sensing techniques are widely used for land cover classification and urban analysis. The availability of high resolution remote sensing imagery limits the level of classification accuracy attainable from pixel-based approach. In this paper object-based classification scheme based on a hierarchical support vector...
computer science
23,928
An intelligent approach towards automatic shape modeling and object extraction from satellite images using cellular automata based algorithm
cs.CV
Automatic feature extraction domain has witnessed the application of many intelligent methodologies over past decade; however detection accuracy of these approaches were limited as object geometry and contextual knowledge were not given enough consideration. In this paper, we propose a frame work for accurate detection...
computer science
23,929
A Comparative Analysis on the Applicability of Entropy in remote sensing
cs.CV
Entropy is the measure of uncertainty in any data and is adopted for maximisation of mutual information in many remote sensing operations. The availability of wide entropy variations motivated us for an investigation over the suitability preference of these versions to specific operations. Methodologies were implemente...
computer science
23,930
An investigation towards wavelet based optimization of automatic image registration techniques
cs.CV
Image registration is the process of transforming different sets of data into one coordinate system and is required for various remote sensing applications like change detection, image fusion, and other related areas. The effect of increased relief displacement, requirement of more control points, and increased data vo...
computer science
23,931
Geometric tree kernels: Classification of COPD from airway tree geometry
cs.CV
Methodological contributions: This paper introduces a family of kernels for analyzing (anatomical) trees endowed with vector valued measurements made along the tree. While state-of-the-art graph and tree kernels use combinatorial tree/graph structure with discrete node and edge labels, the kernels presented in this pap...
computer science
23,932
A Robust Alternating Direction Method for Constrained Hybrid Variational Deblurring Model
cs.CV
In this work, a new constrained hybrid variational deblurring model is developed by combining the non-convex first- and second-order total variation regularizers. Moreover, a box constraint is imposed on the proposed model to guarantee high deblurring performance. The developed constrained hybrid variational model coul...
computer science
23,933
Learning to Rank for Blind Image Quality Assessment
cs.CV
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to predict perceptual image quality scores without access to reference images. State-of-the-art BIQA methods typically require subjects to score a large number of images to train a robust model. However, the acquisition of image quality scores has several limitations: 1) score...
computer science
23,934
Multi-Column Deep Neural Networks for Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Classification
cs.CV
Our Multi-Column Deep Neural Networks achieve best known recognition rates on Chinese characters from the ICDAR 2011 and 2013 offline handwriting competitions, approaching human performance.
computer science
23,935
A Study on Unsupervised Dictionary Learning and Feature Encoding for Action Classification
cs.CV
Many efforts have been devoted to develop alternative methods to traditional vector quantization in image domain such as sparse coding and soft-assignment. These approaches can be split into a dictionary learning phase and a feature encoding phase which are often closely connected. In this paper, we investigate the eff...
computer science
23,936
Minutiae Based Thermal Face Recognition using Blood Perfusion Data
cs.CV
This paper describes an efficient approach for human face recognition based on blood perfusion data from infra-red face images. Blood perfusion data are characterized by the regional blood flow in human tissue and therefore do not depend entirely on surrounding temperature. These data bear a great potential for derivin...
computer science
23,937
Automated Thermal Face recognition based on Minutiae Extraction
cs.CV
In this paper an efficient approach for human face recognition based on the use of minutiae points in thermal face image is proposed. The thermogram of human face is captured by thermal infra-red camera. Image processing methods are used to pre-process the captured thermogram, from which different physiological feature...
computer science
23,938
A Comparative Study of Human thermal face recognition based on Haar wavelet transform (HWT) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP)
cs.CV
Thermal infra-red (IR) images focus on changes of temperature distribution on facial muscles and blood vessels. These temperature changes can be regarded as texture features of images. A comparative study of face recognition methods working in thermal spectrum is carried out in this paper. In these study two local-matc...
computer science
23,939
Boosting in Location Space
cs.CV
The goal of object detection is to find objects in an image. An object detector accepts an image and produces a list of locations as $(x,y)$ pairs. Here we introduce a new concept: {\bf location-based boosting}. Location-based boosting differs from previous boosting algorithms because it optimizes a new spatial loss fu...
computer science
23,940
Minutiae Based Thermal Human Face Recognition using Label Connected Component Algorithm
cs.CV
In this paper, a thermal infra red face recognition system for human identification and verification using blood perfusion data and back propagation feed forward neural network is proposed. The system consists of three steps. At the very first step face region is cropped from the colour 24-bit input images. Secondly fa...
computer science
23,941
Thermal Human face recognition based on Haar wavelet transform and series matching technique
cs.CV
Thermal infrared (IR) images represent the heat patterns emitted from hot object and they do not consider the energies reflected from an object. Objects living or non-living emit different amounts of IR energy according to their body temperature and characteristics. Humans are homoeothermic and hence capable of maintai...
computer science
23,942
Practical Matrix Completion and Corruption Recovery using Proximal Alternating Robust Subspace Minimization
cs.CV
Low-rank matrix completion is a problem of immense practical importance. Recent works on the subject often use nuclear norm as a convex surrogate of the rank function. Despite its solid theoretical foundation, the convex version of the problem often fails to work satisfactorily in real-life applications. Real data ofte...
computer science
23,943
Topology preserving thinning for cell complexes
cs.CV
A topology preserving skeleton is a synthetic representation of an object that retains its topology and many of its significant morphological properties. The process of obtaining the skeleton, referred to as skeletonization or thinning, is a very active research area. It plays a central role in reducing the amount of i...
computer science
23,944
Radar shadow detection in SAR images using DEM and projections
cs.CV
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along with the digital elevation model (DEM) which corresponds to the given geo-reference...
computer science
23,945
Single image super resolution in spatial and wavelet domain
cs.CV
Recently single image super resolution is very important research area to generate high resolution image from given low resolution image. Algorithms of single image resolution are mainly based on wavelet domain and spatial domain. Filters support to model the regularity of natural images is exploited in wavelet domain ...
computer science
23,946
A multi-stream hmm approach to offline handwritten arabic word recognition
cs.CV
In This paper we presented new approach for cursive Arabic text recognition system. The objective is to propose methodology analytical offline recognition of handwritten Arabic for rapid implementation. The first part in the writing recognition system is the preprocessing phase is the preprocessing phase to prepare the...
computer science
23,947
Robust Periocular Recognition By Fusing Sparse Representations of Color and Geometry Information
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a re-weighted elastic net (REN) model for biometric recognition. The new model is applied to data separated into geometric and color spatial components. The geometric information is extracted using a fast cartoon - texture decomposition model based on a dual formulation of the total variation ...
computer science
23,948
The Classification Accuracy of Multiple-Metric Learning Algorithm on Multi-Sensor Fusion
cs.CV
This paper focuses on two main issues; first one is the impact of Similarity Search to learning the training sample in metric space, and searching based on supervised learning classi-fication. In particular, four metrics space searching are based on spatial information that are introduced as the following; Cheby-shev D...
computer science
23,949
A Novel Approach in detecting pose orientation of a 3D face required for face
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel approach that takes as input a 3D image and gives as output its pose i.e. it tells whether the face is oriented with respect the X, Y or Z axes with angles of rotation up to 40 degree. All the experiments have been performed on the FRAV3D Database. After applying the proposed algorithm ...
computer science
23,950
A method for nose-tip based 3D face registration using maximum intensity algorithm
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel technique of registering 3D images across pose. In this context, we have taken into account the images which are aligned across X, Y and Z axes. We have first determined the angle across which the image is rotated with respect to X, Y and Z axes and then translation is performed on the ...
computer science
23,951
SEEDS: Superpixels Extracted via Energy-Driven Sampling
cs.CV
Superpixel algorithms aim to over-segment the image by grouping pixels that belong to the same object. Many state-of-the-art superpixel algorithms rely on minimizing objective functions to enforce color ho- mogeneity. The optimization is accomplished by sophis- ticated methods that progressively build the superpix- els...
computer science
23,952
GRED: Graph-Regularized 3D Shape Reconstruction from Highly Anisotropic and Noisy Images
cs.CV
Analysis of microscopy images can provide insight into many biological processes. One particularly challenging problem is cell nuclear segmentation in highly anisotropic and noisy 3D image data. Manually localizing and segmenting each and every cell nuclei is very time consuming, which remains a bottleneck in large sca...
computer science
23,953
A novel approach for nose tip detection using smoothing by weighted median filtering applied to 3D face images in variant poses
cs.CV
This paper is based on an application of smoothing of 3D face images followed by feature detection i.e. detecting the nose tip. The present method uses a weighted mesh median filtering technique for smoothing. In this present smoothing technique we have built the neighborhood surrounding a particular point in 3D face a...
computer science
23,954
Detection of pose orientation across single and multiple axes in case of 3D face images
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new approach that takes as input a 3D face image across X, Y and Z axes as well as both Y and X axes and gives output as its pose i.e. it tells whether the face is oriented with respect the X, Y or Z axes or is it oriented across multiple axes with angles of rotation up to 42 degree. All the...
computer science
23,955
A novel approach to nose-tip and eye corners detection using H-K Curvature Analysis in case of 3D images
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel method that combines a HK curvature-based approach for three-dimensional (3D) face detection in different poses (X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis). Salient face features, such as the eyes and nose, are detected through an analysis of the curvature of the entire facial surface. All the experime...
computer science
23,956
Blind Deconvolution via Maximum Kurtosis Adaptive Filtering
cs.CV
In this paper, we present an algorithm for identifying a parametrically described destructive unknown system based on a non-gaussianity measure. It is known that under certain conditions the output of a linear system is more gaussian than the input. Hence, an inverse filter is searched, such that its output is minimall...
computer science
23,957
Development of Comprehensive Devnagari Numeral and Character Database for Offline Handwritten Character Recognition
cs.CV
In handwritten character recognition, benchmark database plays an important role in evaluating the performance of various algorithms and the results obtained by various researchers. In Devnagari script, there is lack of such official benchmark. This paper focuses on the generation of offline benchmark database for Devn...
computer science
23,958
Generic Image Classification Approaches Excel on Face Recognition
cs.CV
The main finding of this work is that the standard image classification pipeline, which consists of dictionary learning, feature encoding, spatial pyramid pooling and linear classification, outperforms all state-of-the-art face recognition methods on the tested benchmark datasets (we have tested on AR, Extended Yale B,...
computer science
23,959
Scan-based Compressed Terahertz Imaging and Real-Time Reconstruction via the Complex-valued Fast Block Sparse Bayesian Learning Algorithm
cs.CV
Compressed Sensing based Terahertz imaging (CS-THz) is a computational imaging technique. It uses only one THz receiver to accumulate the random modulated image measurements where the original THz image is reconstruct from these measurements using compressed sensing solvers. The advantage of the CS-THz is its reduced a...
computer science
23,960
Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping and Probabilistic Atlas Generation of Hybrid Diffusion Imaging based on BFOR Signal Basis
cs.CV
We propose a large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping algorithm to align multiple b-value diffusion weighted imaging (mDWI) data, specifically acquired via hybrid diffusion imaging (HYDI), denoted as LDDMM-HYDI. We then propose a Bayesian model for estimating the white matter atlas from HYDIs. We adopt the work g...
computer science
23,961
Contextually learnt detection of unusual motion-based behaviour in crowded public spaces
cs.CV
In this paper we are interested in analyzing behaviour in crowded public places at the level of holistic motion. Our aim is to learn, without user input, strong scene priors or labelled data, the scope of "normal behaviour" for a particular scene and thus alert to novelty in unseen footage. The first contribution is a ...
computer science
23,962
Multiple-object tracking in cluttered and crowded public spaces
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of tracking moving objects of variable appearance in challenging scenes rich with features and texture. Reliable tracking is of pivotal importance in surveillance applications. It is made particularly difficult by the nature of objects encountered in such scenes: these too change in app...
computer science
23,963
Characterness: An Indicator of Text in the Wild
cs.CV
Text in an image provides vital information for interpreting its contents, and text in a scene can aide with a variety of tasks from navigation, to obstacle avoidance, and odometry. Despite its value, however, identifying general text in images remains a challenging research problem. Motivated by the need to consider t...
computer science
23,964
Online Algorithms for Factorization-Based Structure from Motion
cs.CV
We present a family of online algorithms for real-time factorization-based structure from motion, leveraging a relationship between incremental singular value decomposition and recently proposed methods for online matrix completion. Our methods are orders of magnitude faster than previous state of the art, can handle m...
computer science
23,965
Adopting level set theory based algorithms to segment human ear
cs.CV
Human identification has always been a topic that interested researchers around the world. Biometric methods are found to be more effective and much easier for the users than the traditional identification methods like keys, smart cards and passwords. Unlike with the traditional methods, with biometric methods the data...
computer science
23,966
Face Verification Using Boosted Cross-Image Features
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new approach for face verification, where a pair of images needs to be classified as belonging to the same person or not. This problem is relatively new and not well-explored in the literature. Current methods mostly adopt techniques borrowed from face recognition, and process each of the images i...
computer science
23,967
CSIFT Based Locality-constrained Linear Coding for Image Classification
cs.CV
In the past decade, SIFT descriptor has been witnessed as one of the most robust local invariant feature descriptors and widely used in various vision tasks. Most traditional image classification systems depend on the luminance-based SIFT descriptors, which only analyze the gray level variations of the images. Misclass...
computer science
23,968
Identificación y Registro Catastral de Cuerpos de Agua mediante Técnicas de Procesamiento Digital de Imagenes
cs.CV
The effects of global climate change on Peruvian glaciers have brought about several processes of deglaciation during the last few years. The immediate effect is the change of size of lakes and rivers. Public institutions that monitor water resources currently have only recent studies which make up less than 10% of the...
computer science
23,969
Correcting Multi-focus Images via Simple Standard Deviation for Image Fusion
cs.CV
Image fusion is one of the recent trends in image registration which is an essential field of image processing. The basic principle of this paper is to fuse multi-focus images using simple statistical standard deviation. Firstly, the simple standard deviation for the k-by-k window inside each of the multi-focus images ...
computer science
23,970
An Image-Based Fluid Surface Pattern Model
cs.CV
This work aims at generating a model of the ocean surface and its dynamics from one or more video cameras. The idea is to model wave patterns from video as a first step towards a larger system of photogrammetric monitoring of marine conditions for use in offshore oil drilling platforms. The first part of the proposed a...
computer science
23,971
Overlapping and Non-overlapping Camera Layouts for Robot Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We study the use of overlapping and non-overlapping camera layouts in estimating the ego-motion of a moving robot. To estimate the location and orientation of the robot, we investigate using four cameras as non-overlapping individuals, and as two stereo pairs. The pros and cons of the two approaches are elucidated. The...
computer science
23,972
Pose Induction for Novel Object Categories
cs.CV
We address the task of predicting pose for objects of unannotated object categories from a small seed set of annotated object classes. We present a generalized classifier that can reliably induce pose given a single instance of a novel category. In case of availability of a large collection of novel instances, our appr...
computer science
23,973
Image Denoising using Optimally Weighted Bilateral Filters: A Sure and Fast Approach
cs.CV
The bilateral filter is known to be quite effective in denoising images corrupted with small dosages of additive Gaussian noise. The denoising performance of the filter, however, is known to degrade quickly with the increase in noise level. Several adaptations of the filter have been proposed in the literature to addre...
computer science
23,974
Fast and Accurate Bilateral Filtering using Gauss-Polynomial Decomposition
cs.CV
The bilateral filter is a versatile non-linear filter that has found diverse applications in image processing, computer vision, computer graphics, and computational photography. A widely-used form of the filter is the Gaussian bilateral filter in which both the spatial and range kernels are Gaussian. A direct implement...
computer science
23,975
The Cross-Depiction Problem: Computer Vision Algorithms for Recognising Objects in Artwork and in Photographs
cs.CV
The cross-depiction problem is that of recognising visual objects regardless of whether they are photographed, painted, drawn, etc. It is a potentially significant yet under-researched problem. Emulating the remarkable human ability to recognise objects in an astonishingly wide variety of depictive forms is likely to a...
computer science
23,976
SynthCam3D: Semantic Understanding With Synthetic Indoor Scenes
cs.CV
We are interested in automatic scene understanding from geometric cues. To this end, we aim to bring semantic segmentation in the loop of real-time reconstruction. Our semantic segmentation is built on a deep autoencoder stack trained exclusively on synthetic depth data generated from our novel 3D scene library, SynthC...
computer science
23,977
Application of S-Transform on Hyper kurtosis based Modified Duo Histogram Equalized DIC images for Pre-cancer Detection
cs.CV
Our proposed hyper kurtosis based histogram equalized DIC images enhances the contrast by preserving the brightness. The evolution and development of precancerous activity among tissues are studied through S-transform (ST). The significant variations of amplitude spectra can be observed due to increased medium roughnes...
computer science
23,978
Volumetric Bias in Segmentation and Reconstruction: Secrets and Solutions
cs.CV
Many standard optimization methods for segmentation and reconstruction compute ML model estimates for appearance or geometry of segments, e.g. Zhu-Yuille 1996, Torr 1998, Chan-Vese 2001, GrabCut 2004, Delong et al. 2012. We observe that the standard likelihood term in these formulations corresponds to a generalized pro...
computer science
23,979
Image Segmentation by Size-Dependent Single Linkage Clustering of a Watershed Basin Graph
cs.CV
We present a method for hierarchical image segmentation that defines a disaffinity graph on the image, over-segments it into watershed basins, defines a new graph on the basins, and then merges basins with a modified, size-dependent version of single linkage clustering. The quasilinear runtime of the method makes it su...
computer science
23,980
DeepDriving: Learning Affordance for Direct Perception in Autonomous Driving
cs.CV
Today, there are two major paradigms for vision-based autonomous driving systems: mediated perception approaches that parse an entire scene to make a driving decision, and behavior reflex approaches that directly map an input image to a driving action by a regressor. In this paper, we propose a third paradigm: a direct...
computer science
23,981
Joint Object and Part Segmentation using Deep Learned Potentials
cs.CV
Segmenting semantic objects from images and parsing them into their respective semantic parts are fundamental steps towards detailed object understanding in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a joint solution that tackles semantic object and part segmentation simultaneously, in which higher object-level context...
computer science
23,982
Dense Optical Flow Prediction from a Static Image
cs.CV
Given a scene, what is going to move, and in what direction will it move? Such a question could be considered a non-semantic form of action prediction. In this work, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach for motion prediction. Given a static image, this CNN predicts the future motion of each an...
computer science
23,983
Object-Scene Convolutional Neural Networks for Event Recognition in Images
cs.CV
Event recognition from still images is of great importance for image understanding. However, compared with event recognition in videos, there are much fewer research works on event recognition in images. This paper addresses the issue of event recognition from images and proposes an effective method with deep neural ne...
computer science
23,984
Learning Temporal Embeddings for Complex Video Analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose to learn temporal embeddings of video frames for complex video analysis. Large quantities of unlabeled video data can be easily obtained from the Internet. These videos possess the implicit weak label that they are sequences of temporally and semantically coherent images. We leverage this info...
computer science
23,985
Joint Multi-Leaf Segmentation, Alignment and Tracking from Fluorescence Plant Videos
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel framework for fluorescence plant video processing. The plant research community is interested in the leaf-level photosynthetic analysis within a plant. A prerequisite for such analysis is to segment all leaves, estimate their structures, and track them over time. We identify this as a joint ...
computer science
23,986
Detail-preserving and Content-aware Variational Multi-view Stereo Reconstruction
cs.CV
Accurate recovery of 3D geometrical surfaces from calibrated 2D multi-view images is a fundamental yet active research area in computer vision. Despite the steady progress in multi-view stereo reconstruction, most existing methods are still limited in recovering fine-scale details and sharp features while suppressing n...
computer science
23,987
ReNet: A Recurrent Neural Network Based Alternative to Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a deep neural network architecture for object recognition based on recurrent neural networks. The proposed network, called ReNet, replaces the ubiquitous convolution+pooling layer of the deep convolutional neural network with four recurrent neural networks that sweep horizontally and verticall...
computer science
23,988
On a fast bilateral filtering formulation using functional rearrangements
cs.CV
We introduce an exact reformulation of a broad class of neighborhood filters, among which the bilateral filters, in terms of two functional rearrangements: the decreasing and the relative rearrangements. Independently of the image spatial dimension (one-dimensional signal, image, volume of images, etc.), we reformula...
computer science
23,989
Object Class Detection and Classification using Multi Scale Gradient and Corner Point based Shape Descriptors
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel multi scale gradient and a corner point based shape descriptors. The novel multi scale gradient based shape descriptor is combined with generic Fourier descriptors to extract contour and region based shape information. Shape information based object class detection and classification techniq...
computer science
23,990
Sequence to Sequence -- Video to Text
cs.CV
Real-world videos often have complex dynamics; and methods for generating open-domain video descriptions should be sensitive to temporal structure and allow both input (sequence of frames) and output (sequence of words) of variable length. To approach this problem, we propose a novel end-to-end sequence-to-sequence mod...
computer science
23,991
Modeling Representation of Videos for Anomaly Detection using Deep Learning: A Review
cs.CV
This review article surveys the current progresses made toward video-based anomaly detection. We address the most fundamental aspect for video anomaly detection, that is, video feature representation. Much research works have been done in finding the right representation to perform anomaly detection in video streams ac...
computer science
23,992
Learning Document Image Binarization from Data
cs.CV
In this paper we present a fully trainable binarization solution for degraded document images. Unlike previous attempts that often used simple features with a series of pre- and post-processing, our solution encodes all heuristics about whether or not a pixel is foreground text into a high-dimensional feature vector an...
computer science
23,993
Activity recognition from videos with parallel hypergraph matching on GPUs
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for activity recognition from videos based on sparse local features and hypergraph matching. We benefit from special properties of the temporal domain in the data to derive a sequential and fast graph matching algorithm for GPUs. Traditionally, graphs and hypergraphs are frequently ...
computer science
23,994
See the Difference: Direct Pre-Image Reconstruction and Pose Estimation by Differentiating HOG
cs.CV
The Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) descriptor has led to many advances in computer vision over the last decade and is still part of many state of the art approaches. We realize that the associated feature computation is piecewise differentiable and therefore many pipelines which build on HOG can be made different...
computer science
23,995
Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations using Videos
cs.CV
Is strong supervision necessary for learning a good visual representation? Do we really need millions of semantically-labeled images to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)? In this paper, we present a simple yet surprisingly powerful approach for unsupervised learning of CNN. Specifically, we use hundreds of tho...
computer science
23,996
A Gaussian Scale Space Approach For Exudates Detection, Classification And Severity Prediction
cs.CV
In the context of Computer Aided Diagnosis system for diabetic retinopathy, we present a novel method for detection of exudates and their classification for disease severity prediction. The method is based on Gaussian scale space based interest map and mathematical morphology. It makes use of support vector machine for...
computer science
23,997
Adaptive diffusion constrained total variation scheme with application to `cartoon + texture + edge' image decomposition
cs.CV
We consider an image decomposition model involving a variational (minimization) problem and an evolutionary partial differential equation (PDE). We utilize a linear inhomogenuous diffusion constrained and weighted total variation (TV) scheme for image adaptive decomposition. An adaptive weight along with TV regularizat...
computer science
23,998
Fast Guided Filter
cs.CV
The guided filter is a technique for edge-aware image filtering. Because of its nice visual quality, fast speed, and ease of implementation, the guided filter has witnessed various applications in real products, such as image editing apps in phones and stereo reconstruction, and has been included in official MATLAB and...
computer science
23,999
Proceedings of The 39th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM), 2015
cs.CV
The 39th annual workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (OAGM/AAPR) provides a platform for presentation and discussion of research progress as well as research projects within the OAGM/AAPR community.
computer science
24,000
Fusion of Range and Thermal Images for Person Detection
cs.CV
Detecting people in images is a challenging problem. Differences in pose, clothing and lighting, along with other factors, cause a lot of variation in their appearance. To overcome these issues, we propose a system based on fused range and thermal infrared images. These measurements show considerably less variation and...
computer science
24,001
Saliency Driven Image Manipulation
cs.CV
Have you ever taken a picture only to find out that an unimportant background object ended up being overly salient? Or one of those team sports photos where your favorite player blends with the rest? Wouldn't it be nice if you could tweak these pictures just a little bit so that the distractor would be attenuated and y...
computer science