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Microscopic Muscle Image Enhancement
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We propose a robust image enhancement algorithm dedicated for muscle fiber specimen images captured by optical microscopes. Blur or out of focus problems are prevalent in muscle images during the image acquisition stage. Traditional image deconvolution methods do not work since they assume the blur kernels are known an...
computer science
24,103
3D Shape Induction from 2D Views of Multiple Objects
cs.CV
In this paper we investigate the problem of inducing a distribution over three-dimensional structures given two-dimensional views of multiple objects taken from unknown viewpoints. Our approach called "projective generative adversarial networks" (PrGANs) trains a deep generative model of 3D shapes whose projections mat...
computer science
24,104
Deep Learning on Lie Groups for Skeleton-based Action Recognition
cs.CV
In recent years, skeleton-based action recognition has become a popular 3D classification problem. State-of-the-art methods typically first represent each motion sequence as a high-dimensional trajectory on a Lie group with an additional dynamic time warping, and then shallowly learn favorable Lie group features. In th...
computer science
24,105
Learning a No-Reference Quality Metric for Single-Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
Numerous single-image super-resolution algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but few studies address the problem of performance evaluation based on visual perception. While most super-resolution images are evaluated by fullreference metrics, the effectiveness is not clear and the required ground-truth images...
computer science
24,106
Parsing Images of Overlapping Organisms with Deep Singling-Out Networks
cs.CV
This work is motivated by the mostly unsolved task of parsing biological images with multiple overlapping articulated model organisms (such as worms or larvae). We present a general approach that separates the two main challenges associated with such data, individual object shape estimation and object groups disentangl...
computer science
24,107
Dual Deep Network for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Visual tracking addresses the problem of identifying and localizing an unknown target in a video given the target specified by a bounding box in the first frame. In this paper, we propose a dual network to better utilize features among layers for visual tracking. It is observed that features in higher layers encode sem...
computer science
24,108
X-ray In-Depth Decomposition: Revealing The Latent Structures
cs.CV
X-ray radiography is the most readily available imaging modality and has a broad range of applications that spans from diagnosis to intra-operative guidance in cardiac, orthopedics, and trauma procedures. Proper interpretation of the hidden and obscured anatomy in X-ray images remains a challenge and often requires hig...
computer science
24,109
Cross-Modal Manifold Learning for Cross-modal Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper presents a new scalable algorithm for cross-modal similarity preserving retrieval in a learnt manifold space. Unlike existing approaches that compromise between preserving global and local geometries, the proposed technique respects both simultaneously during manifold alignment. The global topologies are mai...
computer science
24,110
Active and Continuous Exploration with Deep Neural Networks and Expected Model Output Changes
cs.CV
The demands on visual recognition systems do not end with the complexity offered by current large-scale image datasets, such as ImageNet. In consequence, we need curious and continuously learning algorithms that actively acquire knowledge about semantic concepts which are present in available unlabeled data. As a step ...
computer science
24,111
Few-Shot Object Recognition from Machine-Labeled Web Images
cs.CV
With the tremendous advances of Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) on object recognition, we can now obtain reliable enough machine-labeled annotations easily by predictions from off-the-shelf ConvNets. In this work, we present an abstraction memory based framework for few-shot learning, building upon machine-lab...
computer science
24,112
Photo-Quality Evaluation based on Computational Aesthetics: Review of Feature Extraction Techniques
cs.CV
Researchers try to model the aesthetic quality of photographs into low and high- level features, drawing inspiration from art theory, psychology and marketing. We attempt to describe every feature extraction measure employed in the above process. The contribution of this literature review is the taxonomy of each featur...
computer science
24,113
Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Attentive Deep Local Features
cs.CV
We propose an attentive local feature descriptor suitable for large-scale image retrieval, referred to as DELF (DEep Local Feature). The new feature is based on convolutional neural networks, which are trained only with image-level annotations on a landmark image dataset. To identify semantically useful local features ...
computer science
24,114
Semantic Jitter: Dense Supervision for Visual Comparisons via Synthetic Images
cs.CV
Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual comparisons remains non-trivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in the number of training images, but also access to images adequately spanning the space of fine-grained visual differences is limited. We p...
computer science
24,115
Asynchronous Temporal Fields for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Actions are more than just movements and trajectories: we cook to eat and we hold a cup to drink from it. A thorough understanding of videos requires going beyond appearance modeling and necessitates reasoning about the sequence of activities, as well as the higher-level constructs such as intentions. But how do we mod...
computer science
24,116
Feature Encoding in Band-limited Distributed Surveillance Systems
cs.CV
Distributed surveillance systems have become popular in recent years due to security concerns. However, transmitting high dimensional data in bandwidth-limited distributed systems becomes a major challenge. In this paper, we address this issue by proposing a novel probabilistic algorithm based on the divergence between...
computer science
24,117
Fractal Descriptors of Texture Images Based on the Triangular Prism Dimension
cs.CV
This work presents a novel descriptor for texture images based on fractal geometry and its application to image analysis. The descriptors are provided by estimating the triangular prism fractal dimension under different scales with a weight exponential parameter, followed by dimensionality reduction using Karhunen-Lo\`...
computer science
24,118
Binary Distance Transform to Improve Feature Extraction
cs.CV
To recognize textures many methods have been developed along the years. However, texture datasets may be hard to be classified due to artefacts such as a variety of scale, illumination and noise. This paper proposes the application of binary distance transform on the original dataset to add information to texture repre...
computer science
24,119
Exploring Structure for Long-Term Tracking of Multiple Objects in Sports Videos
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for exploiting structural relations to track multiple objects that may undergo long-term occlusion and abrupt motion. We use a model-free approach that relies only on annotations given in the first frame of the video to track all the objects online, i.e. without knowledge from...
computer science
24,120
High Performance Software in Multidimensional Reduction Methods for Image Processing with Application to Ancient Manuscripts
cs.CV
Multispectral imaging is an important technique for improving the readability of written or printed text where the letters have faded, either due to deliberate erasing or simply due to the ravages of time. Often the text can be read simply by looking at individual wavelengths, but in some cases the images need further ...
computer science
24,121
Efficiently Computing Piecewise Flat Embeddings for Data Clustering and Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation is a popular area of research in computer vision that has many applications in automated image processing. A recent technique called piecewise flat embeddings (PFE) has been proposed for use in image segmentation; PFE transforms image pixel data into a lower dimensional representation where similar p...
computer science
24,122
Deeply Aggregated Alternating Minimization for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Regularization-based image restoration has remained an active research topic in computer vision and image processing. It often leverages a guidance signal captured in different fields as an additional cue. In this work, we present a general framework for image restoration, called deeply aggregated alternating minimizat...
computer science
24,123
3D Human Pose Estimation = 2D Pose Estimation + Matching
cs.CV
We explore 3D human pose estimation from a single RGB image. While many approaches try to directly predict 3D pose from image measurements, we explore a simple architecture that reasons through intermediate 2D pose predictions. Our approach is based on two key observations (1) Deep neural nets have revolutionized 2D po...
computer science
24,124
Wide-Slice Residual Networks for Food Recognition
cs.CV
Food diary applications represent a tantalizing market. Such applications, based on image food recognition, opened to new challenges for computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms. Recent works in the field are focusing either on hand-crafted representations or on learning these by exploiting deep neural networ...
computer science
24,125
End-to-End Pedestrian Collision Warning System based on a Convolutional Neural Network with Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Traditional pedestrian collision warning systems sometimes raise alarms even when there is no danger (e.g., when all pedestrians are walking on the sidewalk). These false alarms can make it difficult for drivers to concentrate on their driving. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for an end-to-end pedestrian co...
computer science
24,126
Deep Motion Features for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Robust visual tracking is a challenging computer vision problem, with many real-world applications. Most existing approaches employ hand-crafted appearance features, such as HOG or Color Names. Recently, deep RGB features extracted from convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied for tracking. Despite ...
computer science
24,127
Dynamic Action Recognition: A convolutional neural network model for temporally organized joint location data
cs.CV
Motivation: Recognizing human actions in a video is a challenging task which has applications in various fields. Previous works in this area have either used images from a 2D or 3D camera. Few have used the idea that human actions can be easily identified by the movement of the joints in the 3D space and instead used a...
computer science
24,128
Two decades of local binary patterns: A survey
cs.CV
Texture is an important characteristic for many types of images. In recent years very discriminative and computationally efficient local texture descriptors based on local binary patterns (LBP) have been developed, which has led to significant progress in applying texture methods to different problems and applications....
computer science
24,129
Center-Focusing Multi-task CNN with Injected Features for Classification of Glioma Nuclear Images
cs.CV
Classifying the various shapes and attributes of a glioma cell nucleus is crucial for diagnosis and understanding the disease. We investigate automated classification of glioma nuclear shapes and visual attributes using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on pathology images of automatically segmented nuclei. We propo...
computer science
24,130
From Images to 3D Shape Attributes
cs.CV
Our goal in this paper is to investigate properties of 3D shape that can be determined from a single image. We define 3D shape attributes -- generic properties of the shape that capture curvature, contact and occupied space. Our first objective is to infer these 3D shape attributes from a single image. A second objecti...
computer science
24,131
A Statistical Approach to Continuous Self-Calibrating Eye Gaze Tracking for Head-Mounted Virtual Reality Systems
cs.CV
We present a novel, automatic eye gaze tracking scheme inspired by smooth pursuit eye motion while playing mobile games or watching virtual reality contents. Our algorithm continuously calibrates an eye tracking system for a head mounted display. This eliminates the need for an explicit calibration step and automatical...
computer science
24,132
Unsupervised Place Discovery for Visual Place Classification
cs.CV
In this study, we explore the use of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in visual place classification for robotic mapping and localization. An open question is how to partition the robot's workspace into places to maximize the performance (e.g., accuracy, precision, recall) of potential DCNN classifiers. This ...
computer science
24,133
Temporal Tessellation: A Unified Approach for Video Analysis
cs.CV
We present a general approach to video understanding, inspired by semantic transfer techniques that have been successfully used for 2D image analysis. Our method considers a video to be a 1D sequence of clips, each one associated with its own semantics. The nature of these semantics -- natural language captions or othe...
computer science
24,134
Image biomarker standardisation initiative
cs.CV
While analysis of medical images has practically taken place since the first image was recorded, high throughput analysis of medical images is a more recent phenomenon. The aim of such a radiomics process is to provide decision support based on medical imaging. Part of the radiomics process is the conversion of image d...
computer science
24,135
Trilaminar Multiway Reconstruction Tree for Efficient Large Scale Structure from Motion
cs.CV
Accuracy and efficiency are two key problems in large scale incremental Structure from Motion (SfM). In this paper, we propose a unified framework to divide the image set into clusters suitable for reconstruction as well as find multiple reliable and stable starting points. Image partitioning performs in two steps. Fir...
computer science
24,136
A Unified Framework for Tumor Proliferation Score Prediction in Breast Histopathology
cs.CV
We present a unified framework to predict tumor proliferation scores from breast histopathology whole slide images. Our system offers a fully automated solution to predicting both a molecular data-based, and a mitosis counting-based tumor proliferation score. The framework integrates three modules, each fine-tuned to m...
computer science
24,137
Learning Motion Patterns in Videos
cs.CV
The problem of determining whether an object is in motion, irrespective of camera motion, is far from being solved. We address this challenging task by learning motion patterns in videos. The core of our approach is a fully convolutional network, which is learned entirely from synthetic video sequences, and their groun...
computer science
24,138
Beyond Holistic Object Recognition: Enriching Image Understanding with Part States
cs.CV
Important high-level vision tasks such as human-object interaction, image captioning and robotic manipulation require rich semantic descriptions of objects at part level. Based upon previous work on part localization, in this paper, we address the problem of inferring rich semantics imparted by an object part in still ...
computer science
24,139
Top-down Visual Saliency Guided by Captions
cs.CV
Neural image/video captioning models can generate accurate descriptions, but their internal process of mapping regions to words is a black box and therefore difficult to explain. Top-down neural saliency methods can find important regions given a high-level semantic task such as object classification, but cannot use a ...
computer science
24,140
Automatic Identification of Scenedesmus Polymorphic Microalgae from Microscopic Images
cs.CV
Microalgae counting is used to measure biomass quantity. Usually, it is performed in a manual way using a Neubauer chamber and expert criterion, with the risk of a high error rate. This paper addresses the methodology for automatic identification of Scenedesmus microalgae (used in the methane production and food indust...
computer science
24,141
Physically-Based Rendering for Indoor Scene Understanding Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Indoor scene understanding is central to applications such as robot navigation and human companion assistance. Over the last years, data-driven deep neural networks have outperformed many traditional approaches thanks to their representation learning capabilities. One of the bottlenecks in training for better represent...
computer science
24,142
Deep Blind Compressed Sensing
cs.CV
This work addresses the problem of extracting deeply learned features directly from compressive measurements. There has been no work in this area. Existing deep learning tools only give good results when applied on the full signal, that too usually after preprocessing. These techniques require the signal to be reconstr...
computer science
24,143
Handwriting recognition using Cohort of LSTM and lexicon verification with extremely large lexicon
cs.CV
State-of-the-art methods for handwriting recognition are based on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural networks (RNN), which now provides very impressive character recognition performance. The character recognition is generally coupled with a lexicon driven decoding process which integrates dictionaries. Unfo...
computer science
24,144
A Revisit of Hashing Algorithms for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
cs.CV
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a fundamental problem in many areas of machine learning and data mining. During the past decade, numerous hashing algorithms are proposed to solve this problem. Every proposed algorithm claims outperform other state-of-the-art hashing algorithms. However, the evaluation of ...
computer science
24,145
Hardware for Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
cs.CV
Machine learning plays a critical role in extracting meaningful information out of the zetabytes of sensor data collected every day. For some applications, the goal is to analyze and understand the data to identify trends (e.g., surveillance, portable/wearable electronics); in other applications, the goal is to take im...
computer science
24,146
Set2Model Networks: Learning Discriminatively To Learn Generative Models
cs.CV
We present a new "learning-to-learn"-type approach that enables rapid learning of concepts from small-to-medium sized training sets and is primarily designed for web-initialized image retrieval. At the core of our approach is a deep architecture (a Set2Model network) that maps sets of examples to simple generative prob...
computer science
24,147
Adversarial Examples Detection in Deep Networks with Convolutional Filter Statistics
cs.CV
Deep learning has greatly improved visual recognition in recent years. However, recent research has shown that there exist many adversarial examples that can negatively impact the performance of such an architecture. This paper focuses on detecting those adversarial examples by analyzing whether they come from the same...
computer science
24,148
First-Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
We address the problem of incrementally modeling and forecasting long-term goals of a first-person camera wearer: what the user will do, where they will go, and what goal they seek. In contrast to prior work in trajectory forecasting, our algorithm, DARKO, goes further to reason about semantic states (will I pick up an...
computer science
24,149
DARN: a Deep Adversial Residual Network for Intrinsic Image Decomposition
cs.CV
We present a new deep supervised learning method for intrinsic decomposition of a single image into its albedo and shading components. Our contributions are based on a new fully convolutional neural network that estimates absolute albedo and shading jointly. Our solution relies on a single end-to-end deep sequence of r...
computer science
24,150
Understanding Non-optical Remote-sensed Images: Needs, Challenges and Ways Forward
cs.CV
Non-optical remote-sensed images are going to be used more often in man- aging disaster, crime and precision agriculture. With more small satellites and unmanned air vehicles planning to carry radar and hyperspectral image sensors there is going to be an abundance of such data in the recent future. Understanding these ...
computer science
24,151
Two-stream convolutional neural network for accurate RGB-D fingertip detection using depth and edge information
cs.CV
Accurate detection of fingertips in depth image is critical for human-computer interaction. In this paper, we present a novel two-stream convolutional neural network (CNN) for RGB-D fingertip detection. Firstly edge image is extracted from raw depth image using random forest. Then the edge information is combined with ...
computer science
24,152
Validation, comparison, and combination of algorithms for automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images: the LUNA16 challenge
cs.CV
Automatic detection of pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans has been an active area of research for the last two decades. However, there have only been few studies that provide a comparative performance evaluation of different systems on a common database. We have therefore set up the LUNA16 cha...
computer science
24,153
Active Learning and Proofreading for Delineation of Curvilinear Structures
cs.CV
Many state-of-the-art delineation methods rely on supervised machine learning algorithms. As a result, they require manually annotated training data, which is tedious to obtain. Furthermore, even minor classification errors may significantly affect the topology of the final result. In this paper we propose a generic ap...
computer science
24,154
Blind restoration for non-uniform aerial images using non-local Retinex model and shearlet-based higher-order regularization
cs.CV
Aerial images are often degraded by space-varying motion blur and simultaneous uneven illumination. To recover high-quality aerial image from its non-uniform version, we propose a novel patch-wise restoration approach based on a key observation that the degree of blurring is inevitably affected by the illuminated condi...
computer science
24,155
Correlation Preserving Sparse Coding Over Multi-level Dictionaries for Image Denoising
cs.CV
In this letter, we propose a novel image denoising method based on correlation preserving sparse coding. Because the instable and unreliable correlations among basis set can limit the performance of the dictionary-driven denoising methods, two effective regularized strategies are employed in the coding process. Specifi...
computer science
24,156
Unsupervised Video Segmentation via Spatio-Temporally Nonlocal Appearance Learning
cs.CV
Video object segmentation is challenging due to the factors like rapidly fast motion, cluttered backgrounds, arbitrary object appearance variation and shape deformation. Most existing methods only explore appearance information between two consecutive frames, which do not make full use of the usefully long-term nonloca...
computer science
24,157
PixelCNN Models with Auxiliary Variables for Natural Image Modeling
cs.CV
We study probabilistic models of natural images and extend the autoregressive family of PixelCNN architectures by incorporating auxiliary variables. Subsequently, we describe two new generative image models that exploit different image transformations as auxiliary variables: a quantized grayscale view of the image or a...
computer science
24,158
A Fixed-Point Model for Pancreas Segmentation in Abdominal CT Scans
cs.CV
Deep neural networks have been widely adopted for automatic organ segmentation from abdominal CT scans. However, the segmentation accuracy of some small organs (e.g., the pancreas) is sometimes below satisfaction, arguably because deep networks are easily disrupted by the complex and variable background regions which o...
computer science
24,159
YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
cs.CV
We introduce YOLO9000, a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system that can detect over 9000 object categories. First we propose various improvements to the YOLO detection method, both novel and drawn from prior work. The improved model, YOLOv2, is state-of-the-art on standard detection tasks like PASCAL VOC ...
computer science
24,160
Globally Optimal Object Tracking with Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Tracking is one of the most important but still difficult tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. The main difficulties in the tracking field are appearance variation and occlusion. Most traditional tracking methods set the parameters or templates to track target objects in advance and should be modified acco...
computer science
24,161
Extracting Sub-Exposure Images from a Single Capture Through Fourier-based Optical Modulation
cs.CV
Through pixel-wise optical coding of images during exposure time, it is possible to extract sub-exposure images from a single capture. Such a capability can be used for different purposes, including high-speed imaging, high-dynamic-range imaging and compressed sensing. In this paper, we demonstrate a sub-exposure image...
computer science
24,162
Signature of Geometric Centroids for 3D Local Shape Description and Partial Shape Matching
cs.CV
Depth scans acquired from different views may contain nuisances such as noise, occlusion, and varying point density. We propose a novel Signature of Geometric Centroids descriptor, supporting direct shape matching on the scans, without requiring any preprocessing such as scan denoising or converting into a mesh. First,...
computer science
24,163
An Automated CNN Recommendation System for Image Classification Tasks
cs.CV
Nowadays the CNN is widely used in practical applications for image classification task. However the design of the CNN model is very professional work and which is very difficult for ordinary users. Besides, even for experts of CNN, to select an optimal model for specific task may still need a lot of time (to train man...
computer science
24,164
End-to-End Data Visualization by Metric Learning and Coordinate Transformation
cs.CV
This paper presents a deep nonlinear metric learning framework for data visualization on an image dataset. We propose the Triangular Similarity and prove its equivalence to the Cosine Similarity in measuring a data pair. Based on this novel similarity, a geometrically motivated loss function - the triangular loss - is ...
computer science
24,165
Learning Non-Lambertian Object Intrinsics across ShapeNet Categories
cs.CV
We consider the non-Lambertian object intrinsic problem of recovering diffuse albedo, shading, and specular highlights from a single image of an object. We build a large-scale object intrinsics database based on existing 3D models in the ShapeNet database. Rendered with realistic environment maps, millions of synthet...
computer science
24,166
Robust LSTM-Autoencoders for Face De-Occlusion in the Wild
cs.CV
Face recognition techniques have been developed significantly in recent years. However, recognizing faces with partial occlusion is still challenging for existing face recognizers which is heavily desired in real-world applications concerning surveillance and security. Although much research effort has been devoted to ...
computer science
24,167
Superpixel Segmentation Using Gaussian Mixture Model
cs.CV
Superpixel segmentation algorithms are to partition an image into perceptually coherence atomic regions by assigning every pixel a superpixel label. Those algorithms have been wildly used as a preprocessing step in computer vision works, as they can enormously reduce the number of entries of subsequent algorithms. In t...
computer science
24,168
Symbolic Representation and Classification of Logos
cs.CV
In this paper, a model for classification of logos based on symbolic representation of features is presented. The proposed model makes use of global features of logo images such as color, texture, and shape features for classification. The logo images are broadly classified into three different classes, viz., logo imag...
computer science
24,169
Multivariate mixture model for myocardium segmentation combining multi-source images
cs.CV
This paper proposes a method for simultaneous segmentation of multi-source images, using the multivariate mixture model (MvMM) and maximum of log-likelihood (LL) framework. The segmentation is a procedure of texture classification, and the MvMM is used to model the joint intensity distribution of the images. Specifical...
computer science
24,170
Semantic Video Segmentation by Gated Recurrent Flow Propagation
cs.CV
Semantic video segmentation is challenging due to the sheer amount of data that needs to be processed and labeled in order to construct accurate models. In this paper we present a deep, end-to-end trainable methodology to video segmentation that is capable of leveraging information present in unlabeled data in order to...
computer science
24,171
MARTA GANs: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification
cs.CV
With the development of deep learning, supervised learning has frequently been adopted to classify remotely sensed images using convolutional networks (CNNs). However, due to the limited amount of labeled data available, supervised learning is often difficult to carry out. Therefore, we proposed an unsupervised model c...
computer science
24,172
Unsupervised domain adaptation in brain lesion segmentation with adversarial networks
cs.CV
Significant advances have been made towards building accurate automatic segmentation systems for a variety of biomedical applications using machine learning. However, the performance of these systems often degrades when they are applied on new data that differ from the training data, for example, due to variations in i...
computer science
24,173
Learning Visual N-Grams from Web Data
cs.CV
Real-world image recognition systems need to recognize tens of thousands of classes that constitute a plethora of visual concepts. The traditional approach of annotating thousands of images per class for training is infeasible in such a scenario, prompting the use of webly supervised data. This paper explores the train...
computer science
24,174
Deep Learning Logo Detection with Data Expansion by Synthesising Context
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Logo detection in unconstrained images is challenging, particularly when only very sparse labelled training images are accessible due to high labelling costs. In this work, we describe a model training image synthesising method capable of improving significantly logo detection performance when only a handful of (e.g., ...
computer science
24,175
Rotation equivariant vector field networks
cs.CV
In many computer vision tasks, we expect a particular behavior of the output with respect to rotations of the input image. If this relationship is explicitly encoded, instead of treated as any other variation, the complexity of the problem is decreased, leading to a reduction in the size of the required model. In this ...
computer science
24,176
Action Recognition Based on Joint Trajectory Maps with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) have recently shown promising performance in many computer vision tasks, especially image-based recognition. How to effectively apply ConvNets to sequence-based data is still an open problem. This paper proposes an effective yet simple method to represent spatio-temporal informa...
computer science
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Shape Estimation from Defocus Cue for Microscopy Images via Belief Propagation
cs.CV
In recent years, the usefulness of 3D shape estimation is being realized in microscopic or close-range imaging, as the 3D information can further be used in various applications. Due to limited depth of field at such small distances, the defocus blur induced in images can provide information about the 3D shape of the o...
computer science
24,178
Feedback Networks
cs.CV
Currently, the most successful learning models in computer vision are based on learning successive representations followed by a decision layer. This is usually actualized through feedforward multilayer neural networks, e.g. ConvNets, where each layer forms one of such successive representations. However, an alternativ...
computer science
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A Unified Tensor-based Active Appearance Face Model
cs.CV
Appearance variations result in many difficulties in face image analysis. To deal with this challenge, we present a Unified Tensor-based Active Appearance Model (UT-AAM) for jointly modelling the geometry and texture information of 2D faces. For each type of face information, namely shape and texture, we construct a un...
computer science
24,180
Text Line Segmentation of Historical Documents: a Survey
cs.CV
There is a huge amount of historical documents in libraries and in various National Archives that have not been exploited electronically. Although automatic reading of complete pages remains, in most cases, a long-term objective, tasks such as word spotting, text/image alignment, authentication and extraction of specif...
computer science
24,181
Scalable Large-Margin Mahalanobis Distance Metric Learning
cs.CV
For many machine learning algorithms such as $k$-Nearest Neighbor ($k$-NN) classifiers and $ k $-means clustering, often their success heavily depends on the metric used to calculate distances between different data points. An effective solution for defining such a metric is to learn it from a set of labeled training...
computer science
24,182
Text Region Extraction from Business Card Images for Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Designing a Business Card Reader (BCR) for mobile devices is a challenge to the researchers because of huge deformation in acquired images, multiplicity in nature of the business cards and most importantly the computational constraints of the mobile devices. This paper presents a text extraction method designed in our ...
computer science
24,183
Binarizing Business Card Images for Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Business card images are of multiple natures as these often contain graphics, pictures and texts of various fonts and sizes both in background and foreground. So, the conventional binarization techniques designed for document images can not be directly applied on mobile devices. In this paper, we have presented a fast ...
computer science
24,184
Properties of the Discrete Pulse Transform for Multi-Dimensional Arrays
cs.CV
This report presents properties of the Discrete Pulse Transform on multi-dimensional arrays introduced by the authors two or so years ago. The main result given here in Lemma 2.1 is also formulated in a paper to appear in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. However, the proof, being too technical, was omitted there ...
computer science
24,185
An Offline Technique for Localization of License Plates for Indian Commercial Vehicles
cs.CV
Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) is a challenging area of research due to its importance to variety of commercial applications. The overall problem may be subdivided into two key modules, firstly, localization of license plates from vehicle images, and secondly, optical character recognition of extracted lice...
computer science
24,186
Clinical gait data analysis based on Spatio-Temporal features
cs.CV
Analysing human gait has found considerable interest in recent computer vision research. So far, however, contributions to this topic exclusively dealt with the tasks of person identification or activity recognition. In this paper, we consider a different application for gait analysis and examine its use as a means of ...
computer science
24,187
Nonlinear Filter Based Image Denoising Using AMF Approach
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new technique based on nonlinear Adaptive Median filter (AMF) for image restoration. Image denoising is a common procedure in digital image processing aiming at the removal of noise, which may corrupt an image during its acquisition or transmission, while retaining its quality. This procedure is t...
computer science
24,188
Facial Gesture Recognition Using Correlation And Mahalanobis Distance
cs.CV
Augmenting human computer interaction with automated analysis and synthesis of facial expressions is a goal towards which much research effort has been devoted recently. Facial gesture recognition is one of the important component of natural human-machine interfaces; it may also be used in behavioural science, security...
computer science
24,189
A GA based Window Selection Methodology to Enhance Window based Multi wavelet transformation and thresholding aided CT image denoising technique
cs.CV
Image denoising is getting more significance, especially in Computed Tomography (CT), which is an important and most common modality in medical imaging. This is mainly due to that the effectiveness of clinical diagnosis using CT image lies on the image quality. The denoising technique for CT images using window-based M...
computer science
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Investigation and Assessment of Disorder of Ultrasound B-mode Images
cs.CV
Digital image plays a vital role in the early detection of cancers, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, lungs cancer, cervical cancer. Ultrasound imaging method is also suitable for early detection of the abnormality of fetus. The accurate detection of region of interest in ultrasound image is crucial. Since the re...
computer science
24,191
Handwritten Arabic Numeral Recognition using a Multi Layer Perceptron
cs.CV
Handwritten numeral recognition is in general a benchmark problem of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Compared to the problem of printed numeral recognition, the problem of handwritten numeral recognition is compounded due to variations in shapes and sizes of handwritten characters. Considering all thes...
computer science
24,192
A comparative study of different feature sets for recognition of handwritten Arabic numerals using a Multi Layer Perceptron
cs.CV
The work presents a comparative assessment of seven different feature sets for recognition of handwritten Arabic numerals using a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) based classifier. The seven feature sets employed here consist of shadow features, octant centroids, longest runs, angular distances, effective spans, dynamic ce...
computer science
24,193
Pattern recognition using inverse resonance filtration
cs.CV
An approach to textures pattern recognition based on inverse resonance filtration (IRF) is considered. A set of principal resonance harmonics of textured image signal fluctuations eigen harmonic decomposition (EHD) is used for the IRF design. It was shown that EHD is invariant to textured image linear shift. The recogn...
computer science
24,194
Sliding window approach based Text Binarisation from Complex Textual images
cs.CV
Text binarisation process classifies individual pixels as text or background in the textual images. Binarization is necessary to bridge the gap between localization and recognition by OCR. This paper presents Sliding window method to binarise text from textual images with textured background. Suitable preprocessing tec...
computer science
24,195
System-theoretic approach to image interest point detection
cs.CV
Interest point detection is a common task in various computer vision applications. Although a big variety of detector are developed so far computational efficiency of interest point based image analysis remains to be the problem. Current paper proposes a system-theoretic approach to interest point detection. Starting f...
computer science
24,196
A Comprehensive Review of Image Enhancement Techniques
cs.CV
Principle objective of Image enhancement is to process an image so that result is more suitable than original image for specific application. Digital image enhancement techniques provide a multitude of choices for improving the visual quality of images. Appropriate choice of such techniques is greatly influenced by the...
computer science
24,197
Land-cover Classification and Mapping for Eastern Himalayan State Sikkim
cs.CV
Area of classifying satellite imagery has become a challenging task in current era where there is tremendous growth in settlement i.e. construction of buildings, roads, bridges, dam etc. This paper suggests an improvised k-means and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) classifier for land-cover mapping of Eastern Himalayan ...
computer science
24,198
Active Testing for Face Detection and Localization
cs.CV
We provide a novel search technique, which uses a hierarchical model and a mutual information gain heuristic to efficiently prune the search space when localizing faces in images. We show exponential gains in computation over traditional sliding window approaches, while keeping similar performance levels.
computer science
24,199
The Video Genome
cs.CV
Fast evolution of Internet technologies has led to an explosive growth of video data available in the public domain and created unprecedented challenges in the analysis, organization, management, and control of such content. The problems encountered in video analysis such as identifying a video in a large database (e.g...
computer science
24,200
Tuning CLD Maps
cs.CV
The Coherence Length Diagram and the related maps have been shown to represent a useful tool for image analysis. Setting threshold parameters is one of the most important issues when dealing with such applications, as they affect both the computability, which is outlined by the support map, and the appearance of the co...
computer science
24,201
Robust multi-camera view face recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents multi-appearance fusion of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and generalization of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for multi-camera view offline face recognition (verification) system. The generalization of LDA has been extended to establish correlations between the face classes in the transform...
computer science