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Skin Texture Recognition Using Neural Networks
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Skin recognition is used in many applications ranging from algorithms for face detection, hand gesture analysis, and to objectionable image filtering. In this work a skin recognition system was developed and tested. While many skin segmentation algorithms relay on skin color, our work relies on both skin color and text...
computer science
24,403
Stitched Panoramas from Toy Airborne Video Cameras
cs.CV
Effective panoramic photographs are taken from vantage points that are high. High vantage points have recently become easier to reach as the cost of quadrotor helicopters has dropped to nearly disposable levels. Although cameras carried by such aircraft weigh only a few grams, their low-quality video can be converted i...
computer science
24,404
Hilditchs Algorithm Based Tamil Character Recognition
cs.CV
Character identification plays a vital role in the contemporary world of Image processing. It can solve many composite problems and makes humans work easier. An instance is Handwritten Character detection. Handwritten recognition is not a novel expertise, but it has not gained community notice until Now. The eventual a...
computer science
24,405
Detection of Partially Visible Objects
cs.CV
An "elephant in the room" for most current object detection and localization methods is the lack of explicit modelling of partial visibility due to occlusion by other objects or truncation by the image boundary. Based on a sliding window approach, we propose a detection method which explicitly models partial visibility...
computer science
24,406
Modeling Radiometric Uncertainty for Vision with Tone-mapped Color Images
cs.CV
To produce images that are suitable for display, tone-mapping is widely used in digital cameras to map linear color measurements into narrow gamuts with limited dynamic range. This introduces non-linear distortion that must be undone, through a radiometric calibration process, before computer vision systems can analyze...
computer science
24,407
A novel framework for image forgery localization
cs.CV
Image forgery localization is a very active and open research field for the difficulty to handle the large variety of manipulations a malicious user can perform by means of more and more sophisticated image editing tools. Here, we propose a localization framework based on the fusion of three very different tools, based...
computer science
24,408
Image forgery detection based on the fusion of machine learning and block-matching methods
cs.CV
Dense local descriptors and machine learning have been used with success in several applications, like classification of textures, steganalysis, and forgery detection. We develop a new image forgery detector building upon some descriptors recently proposed in the steganalysis field suitably merging some of such descrip...
computer science
24,409
A Novel Illumination-Invariant Loss for Monocular 3D Pose Estimation
cs.CV
The problem of identifying the 3D pose of a known object from a given 2D image has important applications in Computer Vision. Our proposed method of registering a 3D model of a known object on a given 2D photo of the object has numerous advantages over existing methods. It does not require prior training, knowledge of ...
computer science
24,410
Unobtrusive Low Cost Pupil Size Measurements using Web cameras
cs.CV
Unobtrusive every day health monitoring can be of important use for the elderly population. In particular, pupil size may be a valuable source of information, since, apart from pathological cases, it can reveal the emotional state, the fatigue and the ageing. To allow for unobtrusive monitoring to gain acceptance, one ...
computer science
24,411
Improving Texture Categorization with Biologically Inspired Filtering
cs.CV
Within the domain of texture classification, a lot of effort has been spent on local descriptors, leading to many powerful algorithms. However, preprocessing techniques have received much less attention despite their important potential for improving the overall classification performance. We address this question by p...
computer science
24,412
Template-Based Active Contours
cs.CV
We develop a generalized active contour formalism for image segmentation based on shape templates. The shape template is subjected to a restricted affine transformation (RAT) in order to segment the object of interest. RAT allows for translation, rotation, and scaling, which give a total of five degrees of freedom. The...
computer science
24,413
Feature Extraction of Human Lip Prints
cs.CV
Methods have been used for identification of human by recognizing lip prints. Human lips have a number of elevation and depressions features called lip prints and examination of lip prints is referred to as cheiloscopy. Lip prints of each human being are unique in nature like many others features of human. In this pape...
computer science
24,414
Multi-Sensor Image Fusion Based on Moment Calculation
cs.CV
An image fusion method based on salient features is proposed in this paper. In this work, we have concentrated on salient features of the image for fusion in order to preserve all relevant information contained in the input images and tried to enhance the contrast in fused image and also suppressed noise to a maximum e...
computer science
24,415
Geometric Feature Based Face-Sketch Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel facial sketch image or face-sketch recognition approach based on facial feature extraction. To recognize a face-sketch, we have concentrated on a set of geometric face features like eyes, nose, eyebrows, lips, etc and their length and width ratio because it is difficult to match photos and s...
computer science
24,416
An adaptive block based integrated LDP,GLCM,and Morphological features for Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper proposes a technique for automatic face recognition using integrated multiple feature sets extracted from the significant blocks of a gradient image. We discuss about the use of novel morphological, local directional pattern (LDP) and gray-level co-occurrence matrix GLCM based feature extraction technique to...
computer science
24,417
A Gabor block based Kernel Discriminative Common Vector (KDCV) approach using cosine kernels for Human Face Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper a nonlinear Gabor Wavelet Transform (GWT) discriminant feature extraction approach for enhanced face recognition is proposed. Firstly, the low-energized blocks from Gabor wavelet transformed images are extracted. Secondly, the nonlinear discriminating features are analyzed and extracted from the selected ...
computer science
24,418
A Face Recognition approach based on entropy estimate of the nonlinear DCT features in the Logarithm Domain together with Kernel Entropy Component Analysis
cs.CV
This paper exploits the feature extraction capabilities of the discrete cosine transform (DCT) together with an illumination normalization approach in the logarithm domain that increase its robustness to variations in facial geometry and illumination. Secondly in the same domain the entropy measures are applied on the ...
computer science
24,419
An Approach: Modality Reduction and Face-Sketch Recognition
cs.CV
To recognize face sketch through face photo database is a challenging task for todays researchers. Because face photo images in training set and face sketch images in testing set have different modality. Difference between two face photos of difference person is smaller than the difference between same person in a face...
computer science
24,420
Face Recognition using Hough Peaks extracted from the significant blocks of the Gradient Image
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new technique for automatic face recognition using integrated peaks of the Hough transformed significant blocks of the binary gradient image. In this approach firstly the gradient of an image is calculated and a threshold is set to obtain a binary gradient image, which is less sensitive to noise a...
computer science
24,421
High Performance Human Face Recognition using Gabor based Pseudo Hidden Markov Model
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel methodology that combines the multi-resolution feature of the Gabor wavelet transformation (GWT) with the local interactions of the facial structures expressed through the Pseudo Hidden Markov model (PHMM). Unlike the traditional zigzag scanning method for feature extraction a continuous s...
computer science
24,422
Human Face Recognition using Gabor based Kernel Entropy Component Analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel Gabor wavelet based Kernel Entropy Component Analysis (KECA) method by integrating the Gabor wavelet transformation (GWT) of facial images with the KECA method for enhanced face recognition performance. Firstly, from the Gabor wavelet transformed images the most important discriminativ...
computer science
24,423
Multi-frame denoising of high speed optical coherence tomography data using inter-frame and intra-frame priors
cs.CV
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an important interferometric diagnostic technique which provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of biological tissues. However, the imaging quality of high-speed OCT is limited due to the large speckle noise. To address this problem, this paper proposes a mu...
computer science
24,424
On the Performance of Filters for Reduction of Speckle Noise in SAR Images off the Coast of the Gulf of Guinea
cs.CV
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to monitor oil spills are some methods that have been proposed for the West African sub-region. With the increase in the number of oil exploration companies in Ghana (and her neighbors) and the rise in the coastal activities in the sub-region, there is the need for proper monitori...
computer science
24,425
Heat kernel coupling for multiple graph analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce heat kernel coupling (HKC) as a method of constructing multimodal spectral geometry on weighted graphs of different size without vertex-wise bijective correspondence. We show that Laplacian averaging can be derived as a limit case of HKC, and demonstrate its applications on several problems ...
computer science
24,426
Fast Approximate $K$-Means via Cluster Closures
cs.CV
$K$-means, a simple and effective clustering algorithm, is one of the most widely used algorithms in multimedia and computer vision community. Traditional $k$-means is an iterative algorithm---in each iteration new cluster centers are computed and each data point is re-assigned to its nearest center. The cluster re-ass...
computer science
24,427
Fast Neighborhood Graph Search using Cartesian Concatenation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new data structure for approximate nearest neighbor search. This structure augments the neighborhood graph with a bridge graph. We propose to exploit Cartesian concatenation to produce a large set of vectors, called bridge vectors, from several small sets of subvectors. Each bridge vector is...
computer science
24,428
Thickness Mapping of Eleven Retinal Layers in Normal Eyes Using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
cs.CV
Purpose. This study was conducted to determine the thickness map of eleven retinal layers in normal subjects by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and evaluate their association with sex and age. Methods. Mean regional retinal thickness of 11 retinal layers were obtained by automatic three-dimensiona...
computer science
24,429
Associative embeddings for large-scale knowledge transfer with self-assessment
cs.CV
We propose a method for knowledge transfer between semantically related classes in ImageNet. By transferring knowledge from the images that have bounding-box annotations to the others, our method is capable of automatically populating ImageNet with many more bounding-boxes and even pixel-level segmentations. The underl...
computer science
24,430
Analysis and Understanding of Various Models for Efficient Representation and Accurate Recognition of Human Faces
cs.CV
In this paper we have tried to compare the various face recognition models against their classical problems. We look at the methods followed by these approaches and evaluate to what extent they are able to solve the problems. All methods proposed have some drawbacks under certain conditions. To overcome these drawbacks...
computer science
24,431
Clustering using Vector Membership: An Extension of the Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm
cs.CV
Clustering is an important facet of explorative data mining and finds extensive use in several fields. In this paper, we propose an extension of the classical Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The proposed algorithm, abbreviated as VFC, adopts a multi-dimensional membership vector for each data point instead of the t...
computer science
24,432
A robust Iris recognition method on adverse conditions
cs.CV
As a stable biometric system, iris has recently attracted great attention among the researchers. However, research is still needed to provide appropriate solutions to ensure the resistance of the system against error factors. The present study has tried to apply a mask to the image so that the unexpected factors affect...
computer science
24,433
One-Shot-Learning Gesture Recognition using HOG-HOF Features
cs.CV
The purpose of this paper is to describe one-shot-learning gesture recognition systems developed on the \textit{ChaLearn Gesture Dataset}. We use RGB and depth images and combine appearance (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) and motion descriptors (Histogram of Optical Flow) for parallel temporal segmentation and recog...
computer science
24,434
DeepPose: Human Pose Estimation via Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We propose a method for human pose estimation based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The pose estimation is formulated as a DNN-based regression problem towards body joints. We present a cascade of such DNN regressors which results in high precision pose estimates. The approach has the advantage of reasoning about pose ...
computer science
24,435
Learning High-level Image Representation for Image Retrieval via Multi-Task DNN using Clickthrough Data
cs.CV
Image retrieval refers to finding relevant images from an image database for a query, which is considered difficult for the gap between low-level representation of images and high-level representation of queries. Recently further developed Deep Neural Network sheds light on automatically learning high-level image repre...
computer science
24,436
Co-Sparse Textural Similarity for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose an algorithm for segmenting natural images based on texture and color information, which leverages the co-sparse analysis model for image segmentation within a convex multilabel optimization framework. As a key ingredient of this method, we introduce a novel textural similarity measure, which builds upon the...
computer science
24,437
BW - Eye Ophthalmologic decision support system based on clinical workflow and data mining techniques-image registration algorithm
cs.CV
Blueworks - Medical Expert Diagnosis is developing an application, BWEye, to be used as an ophthalmology consultation decision support system. The implementation of this application involves several different tasks and one of them is the implementation of an ophthalmology images registration algorithm. The work reporte...
computer science
24,438
Deep Convolutional Ranking for Multilabel Image Annotation
cs.CV
Multilabel image annotation is one of the most important challenges in computer vision with many real-world applications. While existing work usually use conventional visual features for multilabel annotation, features based on Deep Neural Networks have shown potential to significantly boost performance. In this work, ...
computer science
24,439
Stable Camera Motion Estimation Using Convex Programming
cs.CV
We study the inverse problem of estimating n locations $t_1, ..., t_n$ (up to global scale, translation and negation) in $R^d$ from noisy measurements of a subset of the (unsigned) pairwise lines that connect them, that is, from noisy measurements of $\pm (t_i - t_j)/\|t_i - t_j\|$ for some pairs (i,j) (where the signs...
computer science
24,440
Some Improvements on Deep Convolutional Neural Network Based Image Classification
cs.CV
We investigate multiple techniques to improve upon the current state of the art deep convolutional neural network based image classification pipeline. The techiques include adding more image transformations to training data, adding more transformations to generate additional predictions at test time and using complemen...
computer science
24,441
An Adaptive Dictionary Learning Approach for Modeling Dynamical Textures
cs.CV
Video representation is an important and challenging task in the computer vision community. In this paper, we assume that image frames of a moving scene can be modeled as a Linear Dynamical System. We propose a sparse coding framework, named adaptive video dictionary learning (AVDL), to model a video adaptively. The de...
computer science
24,442
EXMOVES: Classifier-based Features for Scalable Action Recognition
cs.CV
This paper introduces EXMOVES, learned exemplar-based features for efficient recognition of actions in videos. The entries in our descriptor are produced by evaluating a set of movement classifiers over spatial-temporal volumes of the input sequence. Each movement classifier is a simple exemplar-SVM trained on low-leve...
computer science
24,443
Generic Deep Networks with Wavelet Scattering
cs.CV
We introduce a two-layer wavelet scattering network, for object classification. This scattering transform computes a spatial wavelet transform on the first layer and a new joint wavelet transform along spatial, angular and scale variables in the second layer. Numerical experiments demonstrate that this two layer convol...
computer science
24,444
Occupancy Detection in Vehicles Using Fisher Vector Image Representation
cs.CV
Due to the high volume of traffic on modern roadways, transportation agencies have proposed High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes and High Occupancy Tolling (HOT) lanes to promote car pooling. However, enforcement of the rules of these lanes is currently performed by roadside enforcement officers using visual observation....
computer science
24,445
Deep Inside Convolutional Networks: Visualising Image Classification Models and Saliency Maps
cs.CV
This paper addresses the visualisation of image classification models, learnt using deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets). We consider two visualisation techniques, based on computing the gradient of the class score with respect to the input image. The first one generates an image, which maximises the class score [Erh...
computer science
24,446
Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Recognizing arbitrary multi-character text in unconstrained natural photographs is a hard problem. In this paper, we address an equally hard sub-problem in this domain viz. recognizing arbitrary multi-digit numbers from Street View imagery. Traditional approaches to solve this problem typically separate out the localiz...
computer science
24,447
Multi-View Priors for Learning Detectors from Sparse Viewpoint Data
cs.CV
While the majority of today's object class models provide only 2D bounding boxes, far richer output hypotheses are desirable including viewpoint, fine-grained category, and 3D geometry estimate. However, models trained to provide richer output require larger amounts of training data, preferably well covering the releva...
computer science
24,448
Learning Generative Models with Visual Attention
cs.CV
Attention has long been proposed by psychologists as important for effectively dealing with the enormous sensory stimulus available in the neocortex. Inspired by the visual attention models in computational neuroscience and the need of object-centric data for generative models, we describe for generative learning frame...
computer science
24,449
A Review on Automated Brain Tumor Detection and Segmentation from MRI of Brain
cs.CV
Tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is an important but time consuming manual task performed by medical experts. Automating this process is a challenging task because of the high diversity in the appearance of tumor tissues among different patients and in many cases similarity with the normal ...
computer science
24,450
Learned versus Hand-Designed Feature Representations for 3d Agglomeration
cs.CV
For image recognition and labeling tasks, recent results suggest that machine learning methods that rely on manually specified feature representations may be outperformed by methods that automatically derive feature representations based on the data. Yet for problems that involve analysis of 3d objects, such as mesh se...
computer science
24,451
Extracting Region of Interest for Palm Print Authentication
cs.CV
Biometrics authentication is an effective method for automatically recognizing individuals. The authentication consists of an enrollment phase and an identification or verification phase. In the stages of enrollment known (training) samples after the pre-processing stage are used for suitable feature extraction to gene...
computer science
24,452
OverFeat: Integrated Recognition, Localization and Detection using Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
We present an integrated framework for using Convolutional Networks for classification, localization and detection. We show how a multiscale and sliding window approach can be efficiently implemented within a ConvNet. We also introduce a novel deep learning approach to localization by learning to predict object boundar...
computer science
24,453
An Efficient Edge Detection Technique by Two Dimensional Rectangular Cellular Automata
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new pattern of two dimensional cellular automata linear rules that are used for efficient edge detection of an image. Since cellular automata is inherently parallel in nature, it has produced desired output within a unit time interval. We have observed four linear rules among 512 total linear rule...
computer science
24,454
A Survey on Eye-Gaze Tracking Techniques
cs.CV
Study of eye-movement is being employed in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Eye - gaze tracking is one of the most challenging problems in the area of computer vision. The goal of this paper is to present a review of latest research in this continued growth of remote eye-gaze tracking. This overview includes ...
computer science
24,455
Top Down Approach to Multiple Plane Detection
cs.CV
Detecting multiple planes in images is a challenging problem, but one with many applications. Recent work such as J-Linkage and Ordered Residual Kernels have focussed on developing a domain independent approach to detect multiple structures. These multiple structure detection methods are then used for estimating multip...
computer science
24,456
3D Interest Point Detection via Discriminative Learning
cs.CV
The task of detecting the interest points in 3D meshes has typically been handled by geometric methods. These methods, while greatly describing human preference, can be ill-equipped for handling the variety and subjectivity in human responses. Different tasks have different requirements for interest point detection; so...
computer science
24,457
Face Detection from still and Video Images using Unsupervised Cellular Automata with K means clustering algorithm
cs.CV
Pattern recognition problem rely upon the features inherent in the pattern of images. Face detection and recognition is one of the challenging research areas in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we present a method to identify skin pixels from still and video images using skin color. Face regions are identif...
computer science
24,458
Finding More Relevance: Propagating Similarity on Markov Random Field for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
To effectively retrieve objects from large corpus with high accuracy is a challenge task. In this paper, we propose a method that propagates visual feature level similarities on a Markov random field (MRF) to obtain a high level correspondence in image space for image pairs. The proposed correspondence between image pa...
computer science
24,459
Lesion Border Detection in Dermoscopy Images Using Ensembles of Thresholding Methods
cs.CV
Dermoscopy is one of the major imaging modalities used in the diagnosis of melanoma and other pigmented skin lesions. Due to the difficulty and subjectivity of human interpretation, automated analysis of dermoscopy images has become an important research area. Border detection is often the first step in this analysis. ...
computer science
24,460
Shape Primitive Histogram: A Novel Low-Level Face Representation for Face Recognition
cs.CV
We further exploit the representational power of Haar wavelet and present a novel low-level face representation named Shape Primitives Histogram (SPH) for face recognition. Since human faces exist abundant shape features, we address the face representation issue from the perspective of the shape feature extraction. In ...
computer science
24,461
Collaborative Discriminant Locality Preserving Projections With its Application to Face Recognition
cs.CV
We present a novel Discriminant Locality Preserving Projections (DLPP) algorithm named Collaborative Discriminant Locality Preserving Projection (CDLPP). In our algorithm, the discriminating power of DLPP are further exploited from two aspects. On the one hand, the global optimum of class scattering is guaranteed via u...
computer science
24,462
A Novel Retinal Vessel Segmentation Based On Histogram Transformation Using 2-D Morlet Wavelet and Supervised Classification
cs.CV
The appearance and structure of blood vessels in retinal images have an important role in diagnosis of diseases. This paper proposes a method for automatic retinal vessel segmentation. In this work, a novel preprocessing based on local histogram equalization is used to enhance the original image then pixels are classif...
computer science
24,463
Actions in the Eye: Dynamic Gaze Datasets and Learnt Saliency Models for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
Systems based on bag-of-words models from image features collected at maxima of sparse interest point operators have been used successfully for both computer visual object and action recognition tasks. While the sparse, interest-point based approach to recognition is not inconsistent with visual processing in biologica...
computer science
24,464
A Novel Method for Automatic Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Images
cs.CV
The brain tumor segmentation on MRI images is a very difficult and important task which is used in surgical and medical planning and assessments. If experts do the segmentation manually with their own medical knowledge, it will be time-consuming. Therefore, researchers propose methods and systems which can do the segme...
computer science
24,465
Constrained Parametric Proposals and Pooling Methods for Semantic Segmentation in RGB-D Images
cs.CV
We focus on the problem of semantic segmentation based on RGB-D data, with emphasis on analyzing cluttered indoor scenes containing many instances from many visual categories. Our approach is based on a parametric figure-ground intensity and depth-constrained proposal process that generates spatial layout hypotheses at...
computer science
24,466
Traffic Monitoring Using M2M Communication
cs.CV
This paper presents an intelligent traffic monitoring system using wireless vision sensor network that captures and processes the real-time video image to obtain the traffic flow rate and vehicle speeds along different urban roadways. This system will display the traffic states on the front roadways that can guide the ...
computer science
24,467
A Continuous Max-Flow Approach to General Hierarchical Multi-Labeling Problems
cs.CV
Multi-region segmentation algorithms often have the onus of incorporating complex anatomical knowledge representing spatial or geometric relationships between objects, and general-purpose methods of addressing this knowledge in an optimization-based manner have thus been lacking. This paper presents Generalized Hierarc...
computer science
24,468
A Comparative Study of Modern Inference Techniques for Structured Discrete Energy Minimization Problems
cs.CV
Szeliski et al. published an influential study in 2006 on energy minimization methods for Markov Random Fields (MRF). This study provided valuable insights in choosing the best optimization technique for certain classes of problems. While these insights remain generally useful today, the phenomenal success of random fi...
computer science
24,469
Weyl group orbit functions in image processing
cs.CV
We deal with the Fourier-like analysis of functions on discrete grids in two-dimensional simplexes using $C-$ and $E-$ Weyl group orbit functions. For these cases we present the convolution theorem. We provide an example of application of image processing using the $C-$ functions and the convolutions for spatial filter...
computer science
24,470
MBIS: Multivariate Bayesian Image Segmentation Tool
cs.CV
We present MBIS (Multivariate Bayesian Image Segmentation tool), a clustering tool based on the mixture of multivariate normal distributions model. MBIS supports multi-channel bias field correction based on a B-spline model. A second methodological novelty is the inclusion of graph-cuts optimization for the stationary ...
computer science
24,471
Extraction of Projection Profile, Run-Histogram and Entropy Features Straight from Run-Length Compressed Text-Documents
cs.CV
Document Image Analysis, like any Digital Image Analysis requires identification and extraction of proper features, which are generally extracted from uncompressed images, though in reality images are made available in compressed form for the reasons such as transmission and storage efficiency. However, this implies th...
computer science
24,472
An Efficient Two-Stage Sparse Representation Method
cs.CV
There are a large number of methods for solving under-determined linear inverse problem. Many of them have very high time complexity for large datasets. We propose a new method called Two-Stage Sparse Representation (TSSR) to tackle this problem. We decompose the representing space of signals into two parts, the measur...
computer science
24,473
Recognition of Handwritten MODI Numerals using Hu and Zernike features
cs.CV
Handwritten automatic character recognition has attracted many researchers all over the world to contribute automatic character recognition domain. Shape identification and feature extraction is very important part of any character recognition system and success of method is highly dependent on selection of features. H...
computer science
24,474
Pseudo-Zernike Based Multi-Pass Automatic Target Recognition From Multi-Channel SAR
cs.CV
The capability to exploit multiple sources of information is of fundamental importance in a battlefield scenario. Information obtained from different sources, and separated in space and time, provide the opportunity to exploit diversities in order to mitigate uncertainty. For the specific challenge of Automatic Target ...
computer science
24,475
Neural Codes for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
It has been shown that the activations invoked by an image within the top layers of a large convolutional neural network provide a high-level descriptor of the visual content of the image. In this paper, we investigate the use of such descriptors (neural codes) within the image retrieval application. In the experiments...
computer science
24,476
Improving Bilayer Product Quantization for Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbors in High Dimensions
cs.CV
The top-performing systems for billion-scale high-dimensional approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search are all based on two-layer architectures that include an indexing structure and a compressed datapoints layer. An indexing structure is crucial as it allows to avoid exhaustive search, while the lossy data compressio...
computer science
24,477
DenseNet: Implementing Efficient ConvNet Descriptor Pyramids
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can provide accurate object classification. They can be extended to perform object detection by iterating over dense or selected proposed object regions. However, the runtime of such detectors scales as the total number and/or area of regions to examine per image, and training such ...
computer science
24,478
Automatic Tracker Selection w.r.t Object Detection Performance
cs.CV
The tracking algorithm performance depends on video content. This paper presents a new multi-object tracking approach which is able to cope with video content variations. First the object detection is improved using Kanade- Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) feature tracking. Second, for each mobile object, an appropriate tracker is s...
computer science
24,479
Entropy Computation of Document Images in Run-Length Compressed Domain
cs.CV
Compression of documents, images, audios and videos have been traditionally practiced to increase the efficiency of data storage and transfer. However, in order to process or carry out any analytical computations, decompression has become an unavoidable pre-requisite. In this research work, we have attempted to compute...
computer science
24,480
Cascades of Regression Tree Fields for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Conditional random fields (CRFs) are popular discriminative models for computer vision and have been successfully applied in the domain of image restoration, especially to image denoising. For image deblurring, however, discriminative approaches have been mostly lacking. We posit two reasons for this: First, the blur k...
computer science
24,481
A Compact Linear Programming Relaxation for Binary Sub-modular MRF
cs.CV
We propose a novel compact linear programming (LP) relaxation for binary sub-modular MRF in the context of object segmentation. Our model is obtained by linearizing an $l_1^+$-norm derived from the quadratic programming (QP) form of the MRF energy. The resultant LP model contains significantly fewer variables and const...
computer science
24,482
RANCOR: Non-Linear Image Registration with Total Variation Regularization
cs.CV
Optimization techniques have been widely used in deformable registration, allowing for the incorporation of similarity metrics with regularization mechanisms. These regularization mechanisms are designed to mitigate the effects of trivial solutions to ill-posed registration problems and to otherwise ensure the resultin...
computer science
24,483
A Reverse Hierarchy Model for Predicting Eye Fixations
cs.CV
A number of psychological and physiological evidences suggest that early visual attention works in a coarse-to-fine way, which lays a basis for the reverse hierarchy theory (RHT). This theory states that attention propagates from the top level of the visual hierarchy that processes gist and abstract information of inpu...
computer science
24,484
Shrinkage Optimized Directed Information using Pictorial Structures for Action Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel action recognition framework. The method uses pictorial structures and shrinkage optimized directed information assessment (SODA) coupled with Markov Random Fields called SODA+MRF to model the directional temporal dependency and bidirectional spatial dependency. As a variant of mutual ...
computer science
24,485
Learning Deep Convolutional Features for MRI Based Alzheimer's Disease Classification
cs.CV
Effective and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) can be critical for early treatment and thus has attracted more and more attention nowadays. Since first introduced, machine learning methods have been gaining increasing popularity for AD related research. Among the various...
computer science
24,486
Proceedings of The 38th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (ÖAGM), 2014
cs.CV
The 38th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (\"OAGM) will be held at IST Austria, on May 22-23, 2014. The workshop provides a platform for researchers and industry to discuss traditional and new areas of computer vision. This year the main topic is: Pattern Recognition: interdisciplinar...
computer science
24,487
Recover Canonical-View Faces in the Wild with Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Face images in the wild undergo large intra-personal variations, such as poses, illuminations, occlusions, and low resolutions, which cause great challenges to face-related applications. This paper addresses this challenge by proposing a new deep learning framework that can recover the canonical view of face images. It...
computer science
24,488
Face Detection with a 3D Model
cs.CV
This paper presents a part-based face detection approach where the spatial relationship between the face parts is represented by a hidden 3D model with six parameters. The computational complexity of the search in the six dimensional pose space is addressed by proposing meaningful 3D pose candidates by image-based regr...
computer science
24,489
Scalable Matting: A Sub-linear Approach
cs.CV
Natural image matting, which separates foreground from background, is a very important intermediate step in recent computer vision algorithms. However, it is severely underconstrained and difficult to solve. State-of-the-art approaches include matting by graph Laplacian, which significantly improves the underconstraine...
computer science
24,490
Spiralet Sparse Representation
cs.CV
This is the first report on Working Paper WP-RFM-14-01. The potential and capability of sparse representations is well-known. However, their (multivariate variable) vectorial form, which is completely fine in many fields and disciplines, results in removal and filtering of important "spatial" relations that are implici...
computer science
24,491
Generic Object Detection With Dense Neural Patterns and Regionlets
cs.CV
This paper addresses the challenge of establishing a bridge between deep convolutional neural networks and conventional object detection frameworks for accurate and efficient generic object detection. We introduce Dense Neural Patterns, short for DNPs, which are dense local features derived from discriminatively traine...
computer science
24,492
Cube-Cut: Vertebral Body Segmentation in MRI-Data through Cubic-Shaped Divergences
cs.CV
In this article, we present a graph-based method using a cubic template for volumetric segmentation of vertebrae in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisitions. The user can define the degree of deviation from a regular cube via a smoothness value Delta. The Cube-Cut algorithm generates a directed graph with two term...
computer science
24,493
Learning Fine-grained Image Similarity with Deep Ranking
cs.CV
Learning fine-grained image similarity is a challenging task. It needs to capture between-class and within-class image differences. This paper proposes a deep ranking model that employs deep learning techniques to learn similarity metric directly from images.It has higher learning capability than models based on hand-c...
computer science
24,494
Online Group Feature Selection
cs.CV
Online feature selection with dynamic features has become an active research area in recent years. However, in some real-world applications such as image analysis and email spam filtering, features may arrive by groups. Existing online feature selection methods evaluate features individually, while existing group featu...
computer science
24,495
Robust Face Recognition via Adaptive Sparse Representation
cs.CV
Sparse Representation (or coding) based Classification (SRC) has gained great success in face recognition in recent years. However, SRC emphasizes the sparsity too much and overlooks the correlation information which has been demonstrated to be critical in real-world face recognition problems. Besides, some work consid...
computer science
24,496
Automatic Annotation of Axoplasmic Reticula in Pursuit of Connectomes
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a new pipeline which automatically identifies and annotates axoplasmic reticula, which are small subcellular structures present only in axons. We run our algorithm on the Kasthuri11 dataset, which was color corrected using gradient-domain techniques to adjust contrast. We use a bilateral filte...
computer science
24,497
Unified Structured Learning for Simultaneous Human Pose Estimation and Garment Attribute Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we utilize structured learning to simultaneously address two intertwined problems: human pose estimation (HPE) and garment attribute classification (GAC), which are valuable for a variety of computer vision and multimedia applications. Unlike previous works that usually handle the two problems separately...
computer science
24,498
Geometric Abstraction from Noisy Image-Based 3D Reconstructions
cs.CV
Creating geometric abstracted models from image-based scene reconstructions is difficult due to noise and irregularities in the reconstructed model. In this paper, we present a geometric modeling method for noisy reconstructions dominated by planar horizontal and orthogonal vertical structures. We partition the scene i...
computer science
24,499
A higher-order MRF based variational model for multiplicative noise reduction
cs.CV
The Fields of Experts (FoE) image prior model, a filter-based higher-order Markov Random Fields (MRF) model, has been shown to be effective for many image restoration problems. Motivated by the successes of FoE-based approaches, in this letter, we propose a novel variational model for multiplicative noise reduction bas...
computer science
24,500
Fast Approximate Matching of Cell-Phone Videos for Robust Background Subtraction
cs.CV
We identify a novel instance of the background subtraction problem that focuses on extracting near-field foreground objects captured using handheld cameras. Given two user-generated videos of a scene, one with and the other without the foreground object(s), our goal is to efficiently generate an output video with only ...
computer science
24,501
Large Margin Image Set Representation and Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel image set representation and classification method by maximizing the margin of image sets. The margin of an image set is defined as the difference of the distance to its nearest image set from different classes and the distance to its nearest image set of the same class. By modeling th...
computer science