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A study of parameters affecting visual saliency assessment
cs.CV
Since the early 2000s, computational visual saliency has been a very active research area. Each year, more and more new models are published in the main computer vision conferences. Nowadays, one of the big challenges is to find a way to fairly evaluate all of these models. In this paper, a new framework is proposed to...
computer science
24,303
Visual saliency estimation by integrating features using multiple kernel learning
cs.CV
In the last few decades, significant achievements have been attained in predicting where humans look at images through different computational models. However, how to determine contributions of different visual features to overall saliency still remains an open problem. To overcome this issue, a recent class of models ...
computer science
24,304
Is Bottom-Up Attention Useful for Scene Recognition?
cs.CV
The human visual system employs a selective attention mechanism to understand the visual world in an eficient manner. In this paper, we show how computational models of this mechanism can be exploited for the computer vision application of scene recognition. First, we consider saliency weighting and saliency pruning, a...
computer science
24,305
Saliency-Guided Perceptual Grouping Using Motion Cues in Region-Based Artificial Visual Attention
cs.CV
Region-based artificial attention constitutes a framework for bio-inspired attentional processes on an intermediate abstraction level for the use in computer vision and mobile robotics. Segmentation algorithms produce regions of coherently colored pixels. These serve as proto-objects on which the attentional processes ...
computer science
24,306
Appearance Descriptors for Person Re-identification: a Comprehensive Review
cs.CV
In video-surveillance, person re-identification is the task of recognising whether an individual has already been observed over a network of cameras. Typically, this is achieved by exploiting the clothing appearance, as classical biometric traits like the face are impractical in real-world video surveillance scenarios....
computer science
24,307
An Adaptive GMM Approach to Background Subtraction for Application in Real Time Surveillance
cs.CV
Efficient security management has become an important parameter in todays world. As the problem is growing, there is an urgent need for the introduction of advanced technology and equipment to improve the state-of art of surveillance. In this paper we propose a model for real time background subtraction using AGMM. The...
computer science
24,308
6th International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems 2013
cs.CV
This volume contains the papers accepted at the 6th International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems (ISACS 2013), held in Beijing, August 5, 2013. The aim of this symposium is to highlight the central role of attention on various kinds of performance in cognitive systems processing. It brings together researc...
computer science
24,309
Matching-Constrained Active Contours
cs.CV
In object segmentation by active contours, the initial contour is often required. Conventionally, the initial contour is provided by the user. This paper extends the conventional active contour model by incorporating feature matching in the formulation, which gives rise to a novel matching-constrained active contour. T...
computer science
24,310
Selection Mammogram Texture Descriptors Based on Statistics Properties Backpropagation Structure
cs.CV
Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system has been developed for the early detection of breast cancer, one of the most deadly cancer for women. The benign of mammogram has different texture from malignant. There are fifty mammogram images used in this work which are divided for training and testing. Therefore, the selectio...
computer science
24,311
Veni Vidi Vici, A Three-Phase Scenario For Parameter Space Analysis in Image Analysis and Visualization
cs.CV
Automatic analysis of the enormous sets of images is a critical task in life sciences. This faces many challenges such as: algorithms are highly parameterized, significant human input is intertwined, and lacking a standard meta-visualization approach. This paper proposes an alternative iterative approach for optimizing...
computer science
24,312
Automatic Mammogram image Breast Region Extraction and Removal of Pectoral Muscle
cs.CV
Currently Mammography is a most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the screening of breast cancer. Finding an accurate, robust and efficient breast region segmentation technique still remains a challenging problem in digital mammography. Extraction of the breast profile region and the removal of pector...
computer science
24,313
Efficient Energy Minimization for Enforcing Statistics
cs.CV
Energy minimization algorithms, such as graph cuts, enable the computation of the MAP solution under certain probabilistic models such as Markov random fields. However, for many computer vision problems, the MAP solution under the model is not the ground truth solution. In many problem scenarios, the system has access ...
computer science
24,314
An Integrated System for 3D Gaze Recovery and Semantic Analysis of Human Attention
cs.CV
This work describes a computer vision system that enables pervasive mapping and monitoring of human attention. The key contribution is that our methodology enables full 3D recovery of the gaze pointer, human view frustum and associated human centered measurements directly into an automatically computed 3D model in real...
computer science
24,315
Hybrid Affinity Propagation
cs.CV
In this paper, we address a problem of managing tagged images with hybrid summarization. We formulate this problem as finding a few image exemplars to represent the image set semantically and visually, and solve it in a hybrid way by exploiting both visual and textual information associated with images. We propose a no...
computer science
24,316
A Prototyping Environment for Integrated Artificial Attention Systems
cs.CV
Artificial visual attention systems aim to support technical systems in visual tasks by applying the concepts of selective attention observed in humans and other animals. Such systems are typically evaluated against ground truth obtained from human gaze-data or manually annotated test images. When applied to robotics, ...
computer science
24,317
Who and Where: People and Location Co-Clustering
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the clustering problem on images where each image contains patches in people and location domains. We exploit the correlation between people and location domains, and proposed a semi-supervised co-clustering algorithm to cluster images. Our algorithm updates the correlation links at the runti...
computer science
24,318
Personal Identification from Lip-Print Features using a Statistical Model
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach towards identification of human beings from the statistical analysis of their lip prints. Lip features are extracted by studying the spatial orientations of the grooves present in lip prints of individuals using standard edge detection techniques. Horizontal, vertical and diagonal g...
computer science
24,319
Analysis of Amoeba Active Contours
cs.CV
Subject of this paper is the theoretical analysis of structure-adaptive median filter algorithms that approximate curvature-based PDEs for image filtering and segmentation. These so-called morphological amoeba filters are based on a concept introduced by Lerallut et al. They achieve similar results as the well-known ge...
computer science
24,320
Object Detection Using Keygraphs
cs.CV
We propose a new framework for object detection based on a generalization of the keypoint correspondence framework. This framework is based on replacing keypoints by keygraphs, i.e. isomorph directed graphs whose vertices are keypoints, in order to explore relative and structural information. Unlike similar works in th...
computer science
24,321
Surface Registration Using Genetic Algorithm in Reduced Search Space
cs.CV
Surface registration is a technique that is used in various areas such as object recognition and 3D model reconstruction. Problem of surface registration can be analyzed as an optimization problem of seeking a rigid motion between two different views. Genetic algorithms can be used for solving this optimization problem...
computer science
24,322
Filtering for More Accurate Dense Tissue Segmentation in Digitized Mammograms
cs.CV
Breast tissue segmentation into dense and fat tissue is important for determining the breast density in mammograms. Knowing the breast density is important both in diagnostic and computer-aided detection applications. There are many different ways to express the density of a breast and good quality segmentation should ...
computer science
24,323
Flexible Visual Quality Inspection in Discrete Manufacturing
cs.CV
Most visual quality inspections in discrete manufacturing are composed of length, surface, angle or intensity measurements. Those are implemented as end-user configurable inspection tools that should not require an image processing expert to set up. Currently available software solutions providing such capability use a...
computer science
24,324
Using the Random Sprays Retinex Algorithm for Global Illumination Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper the use of Random Sprays Retinex (RSR) algorithm for global illumination estimation is proposed and its feasibility tested. Like other algorithms based on the Retinex model, RSR also provides local illumination estimation and brightness adjustment for each pixel and it is faster than other path-wise Retin...
computer science
24,325
Combining Spatio-Temporal Appearance Descriptors and Optical Flow for Human Action Recognition in Video Data
cs.CV
This paper proposes combining spatio-temporal appearance (STA) descriptors with optical flow for human action recognition. The STA descriptors are local histogram-based descriptors of space-time, suitable for building a partial representation of arbitrary spatio-temporal phenomena. Because of the possibility of iterati...
computer science
24,326
A Novel Georeferenced Dataset for Stereo Visual Odometry
cs.CV
In this work, we present a novel dataset for assessing the accuracy of stereo visual odometry. The dataset has been acquired by a small-baseline stereo rig mounted on the top of a moving car. The groundtruth is supplied by a consumer grade GPS device without IMU. Synchronization and alignment between GPS readings and s...
computer science
24,327
Multiclass Road Sign Detection using Multiplicative Kernel
cs.CV
We consider the problem of multiclass road sign detection using a classification function with multiplicative kernel comprised from two kernels. We show that problems of detection and within-foreground classification can be jointly solved by using one kernel to measure object-background differences and another one to a...
computer science
24,328
Global Localization Based on 3D Planar Surface Segments
cs.CV
Global localization of a mobile robot using planar surface segments extracted from depth images is considered. The robot's environment is represented by a topological map consisting of local models, each representing a particular location modeled by a set of planar surface segments. The discussed localization approach ...
computer science
24,329
Computer Vision Systems in Road Vehicles: A Review
cs.CV
The number of road vehicles significantly increased in recent decades. This trend accompanied a build-up of road infrastructure and development of various control systems to increase road traffic safety, road capacity and travel comfort. In traffic safety significant development has been made and today's systems more a...
computer science
24,330
Classifying Traffic Scenes Using The GIST Image Descriptor
cs.CV
This paper investigates classification of traffic scenes in a very low bandwidth scenario, where an image should be coded by a small number of features. We introduce a novel dataset, called the FM1 dataset, consisting of 5615 images of eight different traffic scenes: open highway, open road, settlement, tunnel, tunnel ...
computer science
24,331
An Overview and Evaluation of Various Face and Eyes Detection Algorithms for Driver Fatigue Monitoring Systems
cs.CV
In this work various methods and algorithms for face and eyes detection are examined in order to decide which of them are applicable for use in a driver fatigue monitoring system. In the case of face detection the standard Viola-Jones face detector has shown best results, while the method of finding the eye centers by ...
computer science
24,332
Second Croatian Computer Vision Workshop (CCVW 2013)
cs.CV
Proceedings of the Second Croatian Computer Vision Workshop (CCVW 2013, http://www.fer.unizg.hr/crv/ccvw2013) held September 19, 2013, in Zagreb, Croatia. Workshop was organized by the Center of Excellence for Computer Vision of the University of Zagreb.
computer science
24,333
The complex-valued encoding for dicision-making based on aliasing data
cs.CV
It is proposed a complex valued channel encoding for multidimensional data. The basic approach contains overlapping of complex nonlinear mappings. Its development leads to sparse representation of multi-channel data, increasing their dimensions and the distance between the images.
computer science
24,334
Second order scattering descriptors predict fMRI activity due to visual textures
cs.CV
Second layer scattering descriptors are known to provide good classification performance on natural quasi-stationary processes such as visual textures due to their sensitivity to higher order moments and continuity with respect to small deformations. In a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) experiment we prese...
computer science
24,335
DeCAF: A Deep Convolutional Activation Feature for Generic Visual Recognition
cs.CV
We evaluate whether features extracted from the activation of a deep convolutional network trained in a fully supervised fashion on a large, fixed set of object recognition tasks can be re-purposed to novel generic tasks. Our generic tasks may differ significantly from the originally trained tasks and there may be insu...
computer science
24,336
Online Unsupervised Feature Learning for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Feature encoding with respect to an over-complete dictionary learned by unsupervised methods, followed by spatial pyramid pooling, and linear classification, has exhibited powerful strength in various vision applications. Here we propose to use the feature learning pipeline for visual tracking. Tracking is implemented ...
computer science
24,337
Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions
cs.CV
The problem of minimizing the Potts energy function frequently occurs in computer vision applications. One way to tackle this NP-hard problem was proposed by Kovtun [19,20]. It identifies a part of an optimal solution by running $k$ maxflow computations, where $k$ is the number of labels. The number of "labeled" pixels...
computer science
24,338
End-to-End Text Recognition with Hybrid HMM Maxout Models
cs.CV
The problem of detecting and recognizing text in natural scenes has proved to be more challenging than its counterpart in documents, with most of the previous work focusing on a single part of the problem. In this work, we propose new solutions to the character and word recognition problems and then show how to combine...
computer science
24,339
A State Of the Art Report on Research in Multiple RGB-D sensor Setups
cs.CV
That the Microsoft Kinect, an RGB-D sensor, transformed the gaming and end consumer sector has been anticipated by the developers. That it also impacted in rigorous computer vision research has probably been a surprise to the whole community. Shortly before the commercial deployment of its successor, Kinect One, the re...
computer science
24,340
The role of RGB-D benchmark datasets: an overview
cs.CV
The advent of the Microsoft Kinect three years ago stimulated not only the computer vision community for new algorithms and setups to tackle well-known problems in the community but also sparked the launch of several new benchmark datasets to which future algorithms can be compared 019 to. This review of the literature...
computer science
24,341
A Robust Variational Model for Positive Image Deconvolution
cs.CV
In this paper, an iterative method for robust deconvolution with positivity constraints is discussed. It is based on the known variational interpretation of the Richardson-Lucy iterative deconvolution as fixed-point iteration for the minimisation of an information divergence functional under a multiplicative perturbati...
computer science
24,342
Linear Algorithm for Digital Euclidean Connected Skeleton
cs.CV
The skeleton is an essential shape characteristic providing a compact representation of the studied shape. Its computation on the image grid raises many issues. Due to the effects of discretization, the required properties of the skeleton - thinness, homotopy to the shape, reversibility, connectivity - may become incom...
computer science
24,343
From Shading to Local Shape
cs.CV
We develop a framework for extracting a concise representation of the shape information available from diffuse shading in a small image patch. This produces a mid-level scene descriptor, comprised of local shape distributions that are inferred separately at every image patch across multiple scales. The framework is bas...
computer science
24,344
Bayesian Estimation of White Matter Atlas from High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging
cs.CV
We present a Bayesian probabilistic model to estimate the brain white matter atlas from high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data. This model incorporates a shape prior of the white matter anatomy and the likelihood of individual observed HARDI datasets. We first assume that the atlas is generated from a k...
computer science
24,345
PCG-Cut: Graph Driven Segmentation of the Prostate Central Gland
cs.CV
Prostate cancer is the most abundant cancer in men, with over 200,000 expected new cases and around 28,000 deaths in 2012 in the US alone. In this study, the segmentation results for the prostate central gland (PCG) in MR scans are presented. The aim of this research study is to apply a graph-based algorithm to automat...
computer science
24,346
An Improved K-means Clustering Based Approach to Detect a DNA Structure in H&E Image of Mouse Tissue Reacted with CD4-Green Antigen
cs.CV
In this manuscript we present the technique to detect and analyze the DNA rich structure in Haemotoxylin & Eosin (H&E) image of a tissue treated with anti CD4 green antigen. The detection of DNA rich structure can be considered as a detection of blue nuclei present through the biomedical signal/image processing techniq...
computer science
24,347
Dense Scattering Layer Removal
cs.CV
We propose a new model, together with advanced optimization, to separate a thick scattering media layer from a single natural image. It is able to handle challenging underwater scenes and images taken in fog and sandstorm, both of which are with significantly reduced visibility. Our method addresses the critical issue ...
computer science
24,348
Misfire Detection in IC Engine using Kstar Algorithm
cs.CV
Misfire in an IC Engine continues to be a problem leading to reduced fuel efficiency, increased power loss and emissions containing heavy concentration of hydrocarbons. Misfiring creates a unique vibration pattern attributed to a particular cylinder. Useful features can be extracted from these patterns and can be analy...
computer science
24,349
Optimal Sensor Placement and Enhanced Sparsity for Classification
cs.CV
The goal of compressive sensing is efficient reconstruction of data from few measurements, sometimes leading to a categorical decision. If only classification is required, reconstruction can be circumvented and the measurements needed are orders-of-magnitude sparser still. We define enhanced sparsity as the reduction i...
computer science
24,350
Fine-grained Categorization -- Short Summary of our Entry for the ImageNet Challenge 2012
cs.CV
In this paper, we tackle the problem of visual categorization of dog breeds, which is a surprisingly challenging task due to simultaneously present low interclass distances and high intra-class variances. Our approach combines several techniques well known in our community but often not utilized for fine-grained recogn...
computer science
24,351
Principal motion components for gesture recognition using a single-example
cs.CV
This paper introduces principal motion components (PMC), a new method for one-shot gesture recognition. In the considered scenario a single training-video is available for each gesture to be recognized, which limits the application of traditional techniques (e.g., HMMs). In PMC, a 2D map of motion energy is obtained pe...
computer science
24,352
Dictionary Learning and Sparse Coding on Grassmann Manifolds: An Extrinsic Solution
cs.CV
Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning suggest that a wide range of problems can be addressed more appropriately by considering non-Euclidean geometry. In this paper we explore sparse dictionary learning over the space of linear subspaces, which form Riemannian structures known as Grassmann manifolds. ...
computer science
24,353
Advances in Hyperspectral Image Classification: Earth monitoring with statistical learning methods
cs.CV
Hyperspectral images show similar statistical properties to natural grayscale or color photographic images. However, the classification of hyperspectral images is more challenging because of the very high dimensionality of the pixels and the small number of labeled examples typically available for learning. These pecul...
computer science
24,354
Ship Detection and Segmentation using Image Correlation
cs.CV
There have been intensive research interests in ship detection and segmentation due to high demands on a wide range of civil applications in the last two decades. However, existing approaches, which are mainly based on statistical properties of images, fail to detect smaller ships and boats. Specifically, known techniq...
computer science
24,355
Devnagari Handwritten Numeral Recognition using Geometric Features and Statistical Combination Classifier
cs.CV
This paper presents a Devnagari Numerical recognition method based on statistical discriminant functions. 17 geometric features based on pixel connectivity, lines, line directions, holes, image area, perimeter, eccentricity, solidity, orientation etc. are used for representing the numerals. Five discriminant functions ...
computer science
24,356
Contextual Hypergraph Modelling for Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
Salient object detection aims to locate objects that capture human attention within images. Previous approaches often pose this as a problem of image contrast analysis. In this work, we model an image as a hypergraph that utilizes a set of hyperedges to capture the contextual properties of image pixels or regions. As a...
computer science
24,357
Fusion of Hyperspectral and Panchromatic Images using Spectral Uumixing Results
cs.CV
Hyperspectral imaging, due to providing high spectral resolution images, is one of the most important tools in the remote sensing field. Because of technological restrictions hyperspectral sensors has a limited spatial resolution. On the other hand panchromatic image has a better spatial resolution. Combining this info...
computer science
24,358
Improvement of Automatic Hemorrhages Detection Methods Using Shapes Recognition
cs.CV
Diabetic Retinopathy is a medical condition where the retina is damaged because fluid leaks from blood vessels into the retina. The presence of hemorrhages in the retina is the earliest symptom of diabetic retinopathy. The number and shape of hemorrhages is used to indicate the severity of the disease. Early automated ...
computer science
24,359
Word Spotting in Cursive Handwritten Documents using Modified Character Shape Codes
cs.CV
There is a large collection of Handwritten English paper documents of Historical and Scientific importance. But paper documents are not recognized directly by computer. Hence the closest way of indexing these documents is by storing their document digital image. Hence a large database of document images can replace the...
computer science
24,360
Skin Segmentation based Elastic Bunch Graph Matching for efficient multiple Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper is aimed at developing and combining different algorithms for face detection and face recognition to generate an efficient mechanism that can detect and recognize the facial regions of input image. For the detection of face from complex region, skin segmentation isolates the face-like regions in a complex im...
computer science
24,361
A Ray-based Approach for Boundary Estimation of Fiber Bundles Derived from Diffusion Tensor Imaging
cs.CV
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a non-invasive imaging technique that allows estimation of the location of white matter tracts in-vivo, based on the measurement of water diffusion properties. For each voxel, a second-order tensor can be calculated by using diffusion-weighted sequences (DWI) that are sensitive to the ...
computer science
24,362
Can Facial Uniqueness be Inferred from Impostor Scores?
cs.CV
In Biometrics, facial uniqueness is commonly inferred from impostor similarity scores. In this paper, we show that such uniqueness measures are highly unstable in the presence of image quality variations like pose, noise and blur. We also experimentally demonstrate the instability of a recently introduced impostor-base...
computer science
24,363
Pseudo vs. True Defect Classification in Printed Circuits Boards using Wavelet Features
cs.CV
In recent years, Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) have become the backbone of a large number of consumer electronic devices leading to a surge in their production. This has made it imperative to employ automatic inspection systems to identify manufacturing defects in PCB before they are installed in the respective systems....
computer science
24,364
Fast 3D Salient Region Detection in Medical Images using GPUs
cs.CV
Automated detection of visually salient regions is an active area of research in computer vision. Salient regions can serve as inputs for object detectors as well as inputs for region based registration algorithms. In this paper we consider the problem of speeding up computationally intensive bottom-up salient region d...
computer science
24,365
Gender Classification Using Gradient Direction Pattern
cs.CV
A novel methodology for gender classification is presented in this paper. It extracts feature from local region of a face using gray color intensity difference. The facial area is divided into sub-regions and GDP histogram extracted from those regions are concatenated into a single vector to represent the face. The cla...
computer science
24,366
Efficient Information Theoretic Clustering on Discrete Lattices
cs.CV
We consider the problem of clustering data that reside on discrete, low dimensional lattices. Canonical examples for this setting are found in image segmentation and key point extraction. Our solution is based on a recent approach to information theoretic clustering where clusters result from an iterative procedure tha...
computer science
24,367
Object Recognition System Design in Computer Vision: a Universal Approach
cs.CV
The first contribution of this paper is architecture of a multipurpose system, which delegates a range of object detection tasks to a classifier, applied in special grid positions of the tested image. The second contribution is Gray Level-Radius Co-occurrence Matrix, which describes local image texture and topology and...
computer science
24,368
Neural perceptual model to global-local vision for recognition of the logical structure of administrative documents
cs.CV
This paper gives the definition of Transparent Neural Network "TNN" for the simulation of the globallocal vision and its application to the segmentation of administrative document image. We have developed and have adapted a recognition method which models the contextual effects reported from studies in experimental psy...
computer science
24,369
Impulse Noise Removal In Speech Using Wavelets
cs.CV
A new method for removing impulse noise from speech in the wavelet transform domain is proposed. The method utilizes the multiresolution property of the wavelet transform, which provides finer time resolution at the higher frequencies than the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), to effectively identify and remove impu...
computer science
24,370
An iterative algorithm for computed tomography image reconstruction from limited-angle projections
cs.CV
In application of tomography imaging, limited-angle problem is a quite practical and important issue. In this paper, an iterative reprojection-reconstruction (IRR) algorithm using a modified Papoulis-Gerchberg (PG) iterative scheme is developed for reconstruction from limited-angle projections which contain noise. The ...
computer science
24,371
Iterative Bilateral Filtering of Polarimetric SAR Data
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both spatial and radiometric domains. To deal with polarimetric data, we study the use of...
computer science
24,372
Quality Assessment of Pixel-Level ImageFusion Using Fuzzy Logic
cs.CV
Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy in the output while maximizing relevant information from two or more images of a scene into a single composite image that is more informative and is more suitable for visual perception or processing tasks like medical imaging, remote sensing, concealed weapo...
computer science
24,373
Face Recognition via Globality-Locality Preserving Projections
cs.CV
We present an improved Locality Preserving Projections (LPP) method, named Gloablity-Locality Preserving Projections (GLPP), to preserve both the global and local geometric structures of data. In our approach, an additional constraint of the geometry of classes is imposed to the objective function of conventional LPP f...
computer science
24,374
Biometric Signature Processing & Recognition Using Radial Basis Function Network
cs.CV
Automatic recognition of signature is a challenging problem which has received much attention during recent years due to its many applications in different fields. Signature has been used for long time for verification and authentication purpose. Earlier methods were manual but nowadays they are getting digitized. This...
computer science
24,375
Efficient Regularization of Squared Curvature
cs.CV
Curvature has received increased attention as an important alternative to length based regularization in computer vision. In contrast to length, it preserves elongated structures and fine details. Existing approaches are either inefficient, or have low angular resolution and yield results with strong block artifacts. W...
computer science
24,376
Submodularization for Quadratic Pseudo-Boolean Optimization
cs.CV
Many computer vision problems require optimization of binary non-submodular energies. We propose a general optimization framework based on local submodular approximations (LSA). Unlike standard LP relaxation methods that linearize the whole energy globally, our approach iteratively approximates the energies locally. On...
computer science
24,377
Fast Tracking via Spatio-Temporal Context Learning
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a simple yet fast and robust algorithm which exploits the spatio-temporal context for visual tracking. Our approach formulates the spatio-temporal relationships between the object of interest and its local context based on a Bayesian framework, which models the statistical correlation between ...
computer science
24,378
A new stopping criterion for the mean shift iterative algorithm
cs.CV
The mean shift iterative algorithm was proposed in 2006, for using the entropy as a stopping criterion. From then on, a theoretical base has been developed and a group of applications has been carried out using this algorithm. This paper proposes a new stopping criterion for the mean shift iterative algorithm, where st...
computer science
24,379
An Experimental Comparison of Trust Region and Level Sets
cs.CV
High-order (non-linear) functionals have become very popular in segmentation, stereo and other computer vision problems. Level sets is a well established general gradient descent framework, which is directly applicable to optimization of such functionals and widely used in practice. Recently, another general optimizati...
computer science
24,380
Neighborhood filters and the decreasing rearrangement
cs.CV
Nonlocal filters are simple and powerful techniques for image denoising. In this paper, we give new insights into the analysis of one kind of them, the Neighborhood filter, by using a classical although not very common transformation: the decreasing rearrangement of a function (the image). Independently of the dimensio...
computer science
24,381
Notes on Elementary Spectral Graph Theory. Applications to Graph Clustering Using Normalized Cuts
cs.CV
These are notes on the method of normalized graph cuts and its applications to graph clustering. I provide a fairly thorough treatment of this deeply original method due to Shi and Malik, including complete proofs. I include the necessary background on graphs and graph Laplacians. I then explain in detail how the eigen...
computer science
24,382
Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation
cs.CV
Object detection performance, as measured on the canonical PASCAL VOC dataset, has plateaued in the last few years. The best-performing methods are complex ensemble systems that typically combine multiple low-level image features with high-level context. In this paper, we propose a simple and scalable detection algorit...
computer science
24,383
Determining Leishmania Infection Levels by Automatic Analysis of Microscopy Images
cs.CV
Analysis of microscopy images is one important tool in many fields of biomedical research, as it allows the quantification of a multitude of parameters at the cellular level. However, manual counting of these images is both tiring and unreliable and ultimately very time-consuming for biomedical researchers. Not only do...
computer science
24,384
Second-order Shape Optimization for Geometric Inverse Problems in Vision
cs.CV
We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian, which is generally hard to compute and suffers from a series of degeneracies. O...
computer science
24,385
Volumetric Reconstruction Applied to Perceptual Studies of Size and Weight
cs.CV
We explore the application of volumetric reconstruction from structured-light sensors in cognitive neuroscience, specifically in the quantification of the size-weight illusion, whereby humans tend to systematically perceive smaller objects as heavier. We investigate the performance of two commercial structured-light sc...
computer science
24,386
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Large Convolutional Network models have recently demonstrated impressive classification performance on the ImageNet benchmark. However there is no clear understanding of why they perform so well, or how they might be improved. In this paper we address both issues. We introduce a novel visualization technique that gives...
computer science
24,387
An Efficient Method for Recognizing the Low Quality Fingerprint Verification by Means of Cross Correlation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an efficient method to provide personal identification using fingerprint to get better accuracy even in noisy condition. The fingerprint matching based on the number of corresponding minutia pairings, has been in use for a long time, which is not very efficient for recognizing the low quality ...
computer science
24,388
On a non-local spectrogram for denoising one-dimensional signals
cs.CV
In previous works, we investigated the use of local filters based on partial differential equations (PDE) to denoise one-dimensional signals through the image processing of time-frequency representations, such as the spectrogram. In this image denoising algorithms, the particularity of the image was hardly taken into a...
computer science
24,389
A Study of Actor and Action Semantic Retention in Video Supervoxel Segmentation
cs.CV
Existing methods in the semantic computer vision community seem unable to deal with the explosion and richness of modern, open-source and social video content. Although sophisticated methods such as object detection or bag-of-words models have been well studied, they typically operate on low level features and ultimate...
computer science
24,390
The STONE Transform: Multi-Resolution Image Enhancement and Real-Time Compressive Video
cs.CV
Compressed sensing enables the reconstruction of high-resolution signals from under-sampled data. While compressive methods simplify data acquisition, they require the solution of difficult recovery problems to make use of the resulting measurements. This article presents a new sensing framework that combines the advan...
computer science
24,391
Describing Textures in the Wild
cs.CV
Patterns and textures are defining characteristics of many natural objects: a shirt can be striped, the wings of a butterfly can be veined, and the skin of an animal can be scaly. Aiming at supporting this analytical dimension in image understanding, we address the challenging problem of describing textures with semant...
computer science
24,392
Recognizing Image Style
cs.CV
The style of an image plays a significant role in how it is viewed, but style has received little attention in computer vision research. We describe an approach to predicting style of images, and perform a thorough evaluation of different image features for these tasks. We find that features learned in a multi-layer ne...
computer science
24,393
Periodicity Extraction using Superposition of Distance Matching Function and One-dimensional Haar Wavelet Transform
cs.CV
Periodicity of a texture is one of the important visual characteristics and is often used as a measure for textural discrimination at the structural level. Knowledge about periodicity of a texture is very essential in the field of texture synthesis and texture compression and also in the design of frieze and wall paper...
computer science
24,394
Blind Deconvolution with Non-local Sparsity Reweighting
cs.CV
Blind deconvolution has made significant progress in the past decade. Most successful algorithms are classified either as Variational or Maximum a-Posteriori ($MAP$). In spite of the superior theoretical justification of variational techniques, carefully constructed $MAP$ algorithms have proven equally effective in pra...
computer science
24,395
A Comparative Study of Histogram Equalization Based Image Enhancement Techniques for Brightness Preservation and Contrast Enhancement
cs.CV
Histogram Equalization is a contrast enhancement technique in the image processing which uses the histogram of image. However histogram equalization is not the best method for contrast enhancement because the mean brightness of the output image is significantly different from the input image. There are several extensio...
computer science
24,396
Can a biologically-plausible hierarchy effectively replace face detection, alignment, and recognition pipelines?
cs.CV
The standard approach to unconstrained face recognition in natural photographs is via a detection, alignment, recognition pipeline. While that approach has achieved impressive results, there are several reasons to be dissatisfied with it, among them is its lack of biological plausibility. A recent theory of invariant r...
computer science
24,397
Comparative Study Of Image Edge Detection Algorithms
cs.CV
Since edge detection is in the forefront of image processing for object detection, it is crucial to have a good understanding of edge detection algorithms. The reason for this is that edges form the outline of an object. An edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and indicates the boundary between ov...
computer science
24,398
Adaptive Learning of Region-based pLSA Model for Total Scene Annotation
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a region-based pLSA model to accomplish the task of total scene annotation. To be more specific, we not only properly generate a list of tags for each image, but also localizing each region with its corresponding tag. We integrate advantages of different existing region-based works: employ eff...
computer science
24,399
PANDA: Pose Aligned Networks for Deep Attribute Modeling
cs.CV
We propose a method for inferring human attributes (such as gender, hair style, clothes style, expression, action) from images of people under large variation of viewpoint, pose, appearance, articulation and occlusion. Convolutional Neural Nets (CNN) have been shown to perform very well on large scale object recognitio...
computer science
24,400
Dynamic Model of Facial Expression Recognition based on Eigen-face Approach
cs.CV
Emotions are best way of communicating information; and sometimes it carry more information than words. Recently, there has been a huge interest in automatic recognition of human emotion because of its wide spread application in security, surveillance, marketing, advertisement, and human-computer interaction. To commun...
computer science
24,401
On the Design and Analysis of Multiple View Descriptors
cs.CV
We propose an extension of popular descriptors based on gradient orientation histograms (HOG, computed in a single image) to multiple views. It hinges on interpreting HOG as a conditional density in the space of sampled images, where the effects of nuisance factors such as viewpoint and illumination are marginalized. H...
computer science