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Egocentric Pose Recognition in Four Lines of Code
cs.CV
We tackle the problem of estimating the 3D pose of an individual's upper limbs (arms+hands) from a chest mounted depth-camera. Importantly, we consider pose estimation during everyday interactions with objects. Past work shows that strong pose+viewpoint priors and depth-based features are crucial for robust performance...
computer science
24,803
A Bayesian Framework for Sparse Representation-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
A Bayesian framework for 3D human pose estimation from monocular images based on sparse representation (SR) is introduced. Our probabilistic approach aims at simultaneously learning two overcomplete dictionaries (one for the visual input space and the other for the pose space) with a shared sparse representation. Exist...
computer science
24,804
3D Hand Pose Detection in Egocentric RGB-D Images
cs.CV
We focus on the task of everyday hand pose estimation from egocentric viewpoints. For this task, we show that depth sensors are particularly informative for extracting near-field interactions of the camera wearer with his/her environment. Despite the recent advances in full-body pose estimation using Kinect-like sensor...
computer science
24,805
Pedestrian Detection aided by Deep Learning Semantic Tasks
cs.CV
Deep learning methods have achieved great success in pedestrian detection, owing to its ability to learn features from raw pixels. However, they mainly capture middle-level representations, such as pose of pedestrian, but confuse positive with hard negative samples, which have large ambiguity, e.g. the shape and appear...
computer science
24,806
Color image quality assessment measure using multivariate generalized Gaussian distribution
cs.CV
This paper deals with color image quality assessment in the reduced-reference framework based on natural scenes statistics. In this context, we propose to model the statistics of the steerable pyramid coefficients by a Multivariate Generalized Gaussian distribution (MGGD). This model allows taking into account the high...
computer science
24,807
Robust Camera Location Estimation by Convex Programming
cs.CV
$3$D structure recovery from a collection of $2$D images requires the estimation of the camera locations and orientations, i.e. the camera motion. For large, irregular collections of images, existing methods for the location estimation part, which can be formulated as the inverse problem of estimating $n$ locations $\m...
computer science
24,808
A Clearer Picture of Blind Deconvolution
cs.CV
Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort resulted in the deployment of effective algorithms, the theoretical findings gen...
computer science
24,809
Kernel Methods on Riemannian Manifolds with Gaussian RBF Kernels
cs.CV
In this paper, we develop an approach to exploiting kernel methods with manifold-valued data. In many computer vision problems, the data can be naturally represented as points on a Riemannian manifold. Due to the non-Euclidean geometry of Riemannian manifolds, usual Euclidean computer vision and machine learning algori...
computer science
24,810
Untangling Local and Global Deformations in Deep Convolutional Networks for Image Classification and Sliding Window Detection
cs.CV
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) commonly use generic `max-pooling' (MP) layers to extract deformation-invariant features, but we argue in favor of a more refined treatment. First, we introduce epitomic convolution as a building block alternative to the common convolution-MP cascade of DCNNs; while having ide...
computer science
24,811
Recovering Spatiotemporal Correspondence between Deformable Objects by Exploiting Consistent Foreground Motion in Video
cs.CV
Given unstructured videos of deformable objects, we automatically recover spatiotemporal correspondences to map one object to another (such as animals in the wild). While traditional methods based on appearance fail in such challenging conditions, we exploit consistency in object motion between instances. Our approach ...
computer science
24,812
Orthogonal Matrix Retrieval in Cryo-Electron Microscopy
cs.CV
In single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its 2D projection images taken at unknown viewing directions. Zvi Kam showed already in 1980 that the autocorrelation function of the 3D molecule over the rotation group SO(3) can ...
computer science
24,813
Material Recognition in the Wild with the Materials in Context Database
cs.CV
Recognizing materials in real-world images is a challenging task. Real-world materials have rich surface texture, geometry, lighting conditions, and clutter, which combine to make the problem particularly difficult. In this paper, we introduce a new, large-scale, open dataset of materials in the wild, the Materials in ...
computer science
24,814
Fast Sublinear Sparse Representation using Shallow Tree Matching Pursuit
cs.CV
Sparse approximations using highly over-complete dictionaries is a state-of-the-art tool for many imaging applications including denoising, super-resolution, compressive sensing, light-field analysis, and object recognition. Unfortunately, the applicability of such methods is severely hampered by the computational burd...
computer science
24,815
Learning Spatiotemporal Features with 3D Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
We propose a simple, yet effective approach for spatiotemporal feature learning using deep 3-dimensional convolutional networks (3D ConvNets) trained on a large scale supervised video dataset. Our findings are three-fold: 1) 3D ConvNets are more suitable for spatiotemporal feature learning compared to 2D ConvNets; 2) A...
computer science
24,816
Feedforward semantic segmentation with zoom-out features
cs.CV
We introduce a purely feed-forward architecture for semantic segmentation. We map small image elements (superpixels) to rich feature representations extracted from a sequence of nested regions of increasing extent. These regions are obtained by "zooming out" from the superpixel all the way to scene-level resolution. Th...
computer science
24,817
Fast Steerable Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
Cryo-electron microscopy nowadays often requires the analysis of hundreds of thousands of 2D images as large as a few hundred pixels in each direction. Here we introduce an algorithm that efficiently and accurately performs principal component analysis (PCA) for a large set of two-dimensional images, and, for each imag...
computer science
24,818
Analytical Comparison of Noise Reduction Filters for Image Restoration Using SNR Estimation
cs.CV
Noise removal from images is a part of image restoration in which we try to reconstruct or recover an image that has been degraded by using apriori knowledge of the degradation phenomenon. Noises present in images can be of various types with their characteristic Probability Distribution Functions (PDF). Noise removal ...
computer science
24,819
Hashing on Nonlinear Manifolds
cs.CV
Learning based hashing methods have attracted considerable attention due to their ability to greatly increase the scale at which existing algorithms may operate. Most of these methods are designed to generate binary codes preserving the Euclidean similarity in the original space. Manifold learning techniques, in contra...
computer science
24,820
Covariance estimation using conjugate gradient for 3D classification in Cryo-EM
cs.CV
Classifying structural variability in noisy projections of biological macromolecules is a central problem in Cryo-EM. In this work, we build on a previous method for estimating the covariance matrix of the three-dimensional structure present in the molecules being imaged. Our proposed method allows for incorporation of...
computer science
24,821
DeepEdge: A Multi-Scale Bifurcated Deep Network for Top-Down Contour Detection
cs.CV
Contour detection has been a fundamental component in many image segmentation and object detection systems. Most previous work utilizes low-level features such as texture or saliency to detect contours and then use them as cues for a higher-level task such as object detection. However, we claim that recognizing objects...
computer science
24,822
Detector Discovery in the Wild: Joint Multiple Instance and Representation Learning
cs.CV
We develop methods for detector learning which exploit joint training over both weak and strong labels and which transfer learned perceptual representations from strongly-labeled auxiliary tasks. Previous methods for weak-label learning often learn detector models independently using latent variable optimization, but f...
computer science
24,823
Gradient Boundary Histograms for Action Recognition
cs.CV
This paper introduces a high efficient local spatiotemporal descriptor, called gradient boundary histograms (GBH). The proposed GBH descriptor is built on simple spatio-temporal gradients, which are fast to compute. We demonstrate that it can better represent local structure and motion than other gradient-based descrip...
computer science
24,824
Simple Two-Dimensional Object Tracking based on a Graph Algorithm
cs.CV
The visual observation and tracking of cells and other micrometer-sized objects has many different biomedical applications. The automation of those tasks based on computer methods helps in the evaluation of such measurements. In this work, we present a general purpose algorithm that excels at evaluating deterministic b...
computer science
24,825
Deeply learned face representations are sparse, selective, and robust
cs.CV
This paper designs a high-performance deep convolutional network (DeepID2+) for face recognition. It is learned with the identification-verification supervisory signal. By increasing the dimension of hidden representations and adding supervision to early convolutional layers, DeepID2+ achieves new state-of-the-art on L...
computer science
24,826
Convolutional Feature Masking for Joint Object and Stuff Segmentation
cs.CV
The topic of semantic segmentation has witnessed considerable progress due to the powerful features learned by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The current leading approaches for semantic segmentation exploit shape information by extracting CNN features from masked image regions. This strategy introduces artificia...
computer science
24,827
Scalable, High-Quality Object Detection
cs.CV
Current high-quality object detection approaches use the scheme of salience-based object proposal methods followed by post-classification using deep convolutional features. This spurred recent research in improving object proposal methods. However, domain agnostic proposal generation has the principal drawback that the...
computer science
24,828
Memory Bounded Deep Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this work, we investigate the use of sparsity-inducing regularizers during training of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). These regularizers encourage that fewer connections in the convolution and fully connected layers take non-zero values and in effect result in sparse connectivity between hidden units in the dee...
computer science
24,829
Event Retrieval Using Motion Barcodes
cs.CV
We introduce a simple and effective method for retrieval of videos showing a specific event, even when the videos of that event were captured from significantly different viewpoints. Appearance-based methods fail in such cases, as appearances change with large changes of viewpoints. Our method is based on a pixel-bas...
computer science
24,830
Textural Approach for Mass Abnormality Segmentation in Mammographic Images
cs.CV
Mass abnormality segmentation is a vital step for the medical diagnostic process and is attracting more and more the interest of many research groups. Currently, most of the works achieved in this area have used the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) as texture features with a region-based approach. These features ...
computer science
24,831
Parsing Occluded People by Flexible Compositions
cs.CV
This paper presents an approach to parsing humans when there is significant occlusion. We model humans using a graphical model which has a tree structure building on recent work [32, 6] and exploit the connectivity prior that, even in presence of occlusion, the visible nodes form a connected subtree of the graphical mo...
computer science
24,832
Convolutional Neural Networks at Constrained Time Cost
cs.CV
Though recent advanced convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been improving the image recognition accuracy, the models are getting more complex and time-consuming. For real-world applications in industrial and commercial scenarios, engineers and developers are often faced with the requirement of constrained time bu...
computer science
24,833
Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this work we present an end-to-end system for text spotting -- localising and recognising text in natural scene images -- and text based image retrieval. This system is based on a region proposal mechanism for detection and deep convolutional neural networks for recognition. Our pipeline uses a novel combination of ...
computer science
24,834
Person Re-identification by Saliency Learning
cs.CV
Human eyes can recognize person identities based on small salient regions, i.e. human saliency is distinctive and reliable in pedestrian matching across disjoint camera views. However, such valuable information is often hidden when computing similarities of pedestrian images with existing approaches. Inspired by our us...
computer science
24,835
Background Modelling using Octree Color Quantization
cs.CV
By assuming that the most frequently occuring color in a video or a region of a video I propose a new algorithm for detecting foreground objects in a video. The process of detecting the foreground objects is complicated because of the fact that there may be swaying trees, objects of the background being moved around or...
computer science
24,836
CoMIC: Good features for detection and matching at object boundaries
cs.CV
Feature or interest points typically use information aggregation in 2D patches which does not remain stable at object boundaries when there is object motion against a significantly varying background. Level or iso-intensity curves are much more stable under such conditions, especially the longer ones. In this paper, we...
computer science
24,837
Risk Estimation Without Using Stein's Lemma -- Application to Image Denoising
cs.CV
We address the problem of image denoising in additive white noise without placing restrictive assumptions on its statistical distribution. In the recent literature, specific noise distributions have been considered and correspondingly, optimal denoising techniques have been developed. One of the successful approaches f...
computer science
24,838
Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions
cs.CV
We present a model that generates natural language descriptions of images and their regions. Our approach leverages datasets of images and their sentence descriptions to learn about the inter-modal correspondences between language and visual data. Our alignment model is based on a novel combination of Convolutional Neu...
computer science
24,839
Bayesian Image Restoration for Poisson Corrupted Image using a Latent Variational Method with Gaussian MRF
cs.CV
We treat an image restoration problem with a Poisson noise chan- nel using a Bayesian framework. The Poisson randomness might be appeared in observation of low contrast object in the field of imaging. The noise observation is often hard to treat in a theo- retical analysis. In our formulation, we interpret the observat...
computer science
24,840
An Approach for Reducing Outliers of Non Local Means Image Denoising Filter
cs.CV
We propose an adaptive approach for non local means (NLM) image filtering termed as non local adaptive clipped means (NLACM), which reduces the effect of outliers and improves the denoising quality as compared to traditional NLM. Common method to neglect outliers from a data population is computation of mean in a range...
computer science
24,841
Actions and Attributes from Wholes and Parts
cs.CV
We investigate the importance of parts for the tasks of action and attribute classification. We develop a part-based approach by leveraging convolutional network features inspired by recent advances in computer vision. Our part detectors are a deep version of poselets and capture parts of the human body under a distinc...
computer science
24,842
Image quality assessment measure based on natural image statistics in the Tetrolet domain
cs.CV
This paper deals with a reduced reference (RR) image quality measure based on natural image statistics modeling. For this purpose, Tetrolet transform is used since it provides a convenient way to capture local geometric structures. This transform is applied to both reference and distorted images. Then, Gaussian Scale M...
computer science
24,843
Joint Segmentation and Deconvolution of Ultrasound Images Using a Hierarchical Bayesian Model based on Generalized Gaussian Priors
cs.CV
This paper proposes a joint segmentation and deconvolution Bayesian method for medical ultrasound (US) images. Contrary to piecewise homogeneous images, US images exhibit heavy characteristic speckle patterns correlated with the tissue structures. The generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD) has been shown to be one of ...
computer science
24,844
Cancer Detection with Multiple Radiologists via Soft Multiple Instance Logistic Regression and $L_1$ Regularization
cs.CV
This paper deals with the multiple annotation problem in medical application of cancer detection in digital images. The main assumption is that though images are labeled by many experts, the number of images read by the same expert is not large. Thus differing with the existing work on modeling each expert and ground t...
computer science
24,845
Brain Tumor Detection Based on Bilateral Symmetry Information
cs.CV
Advances in computing technology have allowed researchers across many fields of endeavor to collect and maintain vast amounts of observational statistical data such as clinical data,biological patient data,data regarding access of web sites,financial data,and the like.Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)segmentation i...
computer science
24,846
Road Detection via On--line Label Transfer
cs.CV
Vision-based road detection is an essential functionality for supporting advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) such as road following and vehicle and pedestrian detection. The major challenges of road detection are dealing with shadows and lighting variations and the presence of other objects in the scene. Current ...
computer science
24,847
Object-centric Sampling for Fine-grained Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper proposes to go beyond the state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) by incorporating the information from object detection, focusing on dealing with fine-grained image classification. Unfortunately, CNN suffers from over-fiting when it is trained on existing fine-grained image classification b...
computer science
24,848
Candidate Constrained CRFs for Loss-Aware Structured Prediction
cs.CV
When evaluating computer vision systems, we are often concerned with performance on a task-specific evaluation measure such as the Intersection-Over-Union score used in the PASCAL VOC image segmentation challenge. Ideally, our systems would be tuned specifically to these evaluation measures. However, despite much work ...
computer science
24,849
Multi-Atlas Segmentation of Biomedical Images: A Survey
cs.CV
Multi-atlas segmentation (MAS), first introduced and popularized by the pioneering work of Rohlfing, Brandt, Menzel and Maurer Jr (2004), Klein, Mensh, Ghosh, Tourville and Hirsch (2005), and Heckemann, Hajnal, Aljabar, Rueckert and Hammers (2006), is becoming one of the most widely-used and successful image segmentati...
computer science
24,850
Deep Domain Confusion: Maximizing for Domain Invariance
cs.CV
Recent reports suggest that a generic supervised deep CNN model trained on a large-scale dataset reduces, but does not remove, dataset bias on a standard benchmark. Fine-tuning deep models in a new domain can require a significant amount of data, which for many applications is simply not available. We propose a new CNN...
computer science
24,851
Road Detection by One-Class Color Classification: Dataset and Experiments
cs.CV
Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These algorithms reduce the effect of lighting variations and weather conditions by exploiti...
computer science
24,852
A Novel Adaptive Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm
cs.CV
In this paper a novel possibilistic c-means clustering algorithm, called Adaptive Possibilistic c-means, is presented. Its main feature is that {\it all} its parameters, after their initialization, are properly adapted during its execution. Provided that the algorithm starts with a reasonable overestimate of the number...
computer science
24,853
An active search strategy for efficient object class detection
cs.CV
Object class detectors typically apply a window classifier to all the windows in a large set, either in a sliding window manner or using object proposals. In this paper, we develop an active search strategy that sequentially chooses the next window to evaluate based on all the information gathered before. This results ...
computer science
24,854
Edge Preserving Multi-Modal Registration Based On Gradient Intensity Self-Similarity
cs.CV
Image registration is a challenging task in the world of medical imaging. Particularly, accurate edge registration plays a central role in a variety of clinical conditions. The Modality Independent Neighbourhood Descriptor (MIND) demonstrates state of the art alignment, based on the image self-similarity. However, this...
computer science
24,855
An Automatic Seeded Region Growing for 2D Biomedical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, an automatic seeded region growing algorithm is proposed for cellular image segmentation. First, the regions of interest (ROIs) extracted from the preprocessed image. Second, the initial seeds are automatically selected based on ROIs extracted from the image. Third, the most reprehensive seeds are select...
computer science
24,856
Representing Data by a Mixture of Activated Simplices
cs.CV
We present a new model which represents data as a mixture of simplices. Simplices are geometric structures that generalize triangles. We give a simple geometric understanding that allows us to learn a simplicial structure efficiently. Our method requires that the data are unit normalized (and thus lie on the unit spher...
computer science
24,857
Kernel Methods on the Riemannian Manifold of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
cs.CV
Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have become popular to encode image information. Accounting for the geometry of the Riemannian manifold of SPD matrices has proven key to the success of many algorithms. However, most existing methods only approximate the true shape of the manifold locally by its tangent plane...
computer science
24,858
A Framework for Shape Analysis via Hilbert Space Embedding
cs.CV
We propose a framework for 2D shape analysis using positive definite kernels defined on Kendall's shape manifold. Different representations of 2D shapes are known to generate different nonlinear spaces. Due to the nonlinearity of these spaces, most existing shape classification algorithms resort to nearest neighbor met...
computer science
24,859
Optimizing Over Radial Kernels on Compact Manifolds
cs.CV
We tackle the problem of optimizing over all possible positive definite radial kernels on Riemannian manifolds for classification. Kernel methods on Riemannian manifolds have recently become increasingly popular in computer vision. However, the number of known positive definite kernels on manifolds remain very limited....
computer science
24,860
Oriented Edge Forests for Boundary Detection
cs.CV
We present a simple, efficient model for learning boundary detection based on a random forest classifier. Our approach combines (1) efficient clustering of training examples based on simple partitioning of the space of local edge orientations and (2) scale-dependent calibration of individual tree output probabilities p...
computer science
24,861
A survey of modern optical character recognition techniques
cs.CV
This report explores the latest advances in the field of digital document recognition. With the focus on printed document imagery, we discuss the major developments in optical character recognition (OCR) and document image enhancement/restoration in application to Latin and non-Latin scripts. In addition, we review and...
computer science
24,862
Descriptor Ensemble: An Unsupervised Approach to Descriptor Fusion in the Homography Space
cs.CV
With the aim to improve the performance of feature matching, we present an unsupervised approach to fuse various local descriptors in the space of homographies. Inspired by the observation that the homographies of correct feature correspondences vary smoothly along the spatial domain, our approach stands on the unsuper...
computer science
24,863
The application of the Bayes Ying Yang harmony based GMMs in on-line signature verification
cs.CV
In this contribution, a Bayes Ying Yang(BYY) harmony based approach for on-line signature verification is presented. In the proposed method, a simple but effective Gaussian Mixture Models(GMMs) is used to represent for each user's signature model based on the prior information collected. Different from the early works,...
computer science
24,864
A Study of Sindhi Related and Arabic Script Adapted languages Recognition
cs.CV
A large number of publications are available for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Significant researches, as well as articles are present for the Latin, Chinese and Japanese scripts. Arabic script is also one of mature script from OCR perspective. The adaptive languages which share Arabic script or its extended...
computer science
24,865
Combining the Best of Graphical Models and ConvNets for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
We present a two-module approach to semantic segmentation that incorporates Convolutional Networks (CNNs) and Graphical Models. Graphical models are used to generate a small (5-30) set of diverse segmentations proposals, such that this set has high recall. Since the number of required proposals is so low, we can extrac...
computer science
24,866
Inexact Alternating Direction Method Based on Newton descent algorithm with Application to Poisson Image Deblurring
cs.CV
The recovery of images from the observations that are degraded by a linear operator and further corrupted by Poisson noise is an important task in modern imaging applications such as astronomical and biomedical ones. Gradient-based regularizers involve the popular total variation semi-norm have become standard techniqu...
computer science
24,867
Fixed Point Algorithm Based on Quasi-Newton Method for Convex Minimization Problem with Application to Image Deblurring
cs.CV
Solving an optimization problem whose objective function is the sum of two convex functions has received considerable interests in the context of image processing recently. In particular, we are interested in the scenario when a non-differentiable convex function such as the total variation (TV) norm is included in the...
computer science
24,868
Automatic video scene segmentation based on spatial-temporal clues and rhythm
cs.CV
With ever increasing computing power and data storage capacity, the potential for large digital video libraries is growing rapidly.However, the massive use of video for the moment is limited by its opaque characteristics. Indeed, a user who has to handle and retrieve sequentially needs too much time in order to find ou...
computer science
24,869
Highly Efficient Forward and Backward Propagation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Pixelwise Classification
cs.CV
We present highly efficient algorithms for performing forward and backward propagation of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for pixelwise classification on images. For pixelwise classification tasks, such as image segmentation and object detection, surrounding image patches are fed into CNN for predicting the classes ...
computer science
24,870
Discovering beautiful attributes for aesthetic image analysis
cs.CV
Aesthetic image analysis is the study and assessment of the aesthetic properties of images. Current computational approaches to aesthetic image analysis either provide accurate or interpretable results. To obtain both accuracy and interpretability by humans, we advocate the use of learned and nameable visual attributes...
computer science
24,871
What is a salient object? A dataset and a baseline model for salient object detection
cs.CV
Salient object detection or salient region detection models, diverging from fixation prediction models, have traditionally been dealing with locating and segmenting the most salient object or region in a scene. While the notion of most salient object is sensible when multiple objects exist in a scene, current datasets ...
computer science
24,872
A Robust Regression Approach for Background/Foreground Segmentation
cs.CV
Background/foreground segmentation has a lot of applications in image and video processing. In this paper, a segmentation algorithm is proposed which is mainly designed for text and line extraction in screen content. The proposed method makes use of the fact that the background in each block is usually smoothly varying...
computer science
24,873
Iranian cashes recognition using mobile
cs.CV
In economical societies of today, using cash is an inseparable aspect of human life. People use cashes for marketing, services, entertainments, bank operations and so on. This huge amount of contact with cash and the necessity of knowing the monetary value of it caused one of the most challenging problems for visually ...
computer science
24,874
An Algebraical Model for Gray Level Images
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a new algebraical model for the gray level images. It can be used for digital image processing. The model adresses to those images which are generated in improper light conditions (very low or high level). The vector space structure is able to illustrate some features into the image using modif...
computer science
24,875
Color Image Enhancement In the Framework of Logarithmic Models
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a mathematical model for color image processing. It is a logarithmical one. We consider the cube (-1,1)x(-1,1)x(-1,1) as the set of values for the color space. We define two operations: addition <+> and real scalar multiplication <x>. With these operations the space of colors becomes a real ve...
computer science
24,876
A Mathematical Model for Logarithmic Image Processing
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new mathematical model for image processing. It is a logarithmical one. We consider the bounded interval (-1, 1) as the set of gray levels. Firstly, we define two operations: addition <+> and real scalar multiplication <x>. With these operations, the set of gray levels becomes a real vector ...
computer science
24,877
The Affine Transforms for Image Enhancement in the Context of Logarithmic Models
cs.CV
The logarithmic model offers new tools for image processing. An efficient method for image enhancement is to use an affine transformation with the logarithmic operations: addition and scalar multiplication. We define some criteria for automatically determining the parameters of the processing and this is done via mean ...
computer science
24,878
Full-reference image quality assessment by combining global and local distortion measures
cs.CV
Full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) techniques compare a reference and a distorted/test image and predict the perceptual quality of the test image in terms of a scalar value representing an objective score. The evaluation of FR-IQA techniques is carried out by comparing the objective scores from the techni...
computer science
24,879
High Frequency Content based Stimulus for Perceptual Sharpness Assessment in Natural Images
cs.CV
A blind approach to evaluate the perceptual sharpness present in a natural image is proposed. Though the literature demonstrates a set of variegated visual cues to detect or evaluate the absence or presence of sharpness, we emphasize in the current work that high frequency content and local standard deviation can form ...
computer science
24,880
Towards Open World Recognition
cs.CV
With the of advent rich classification models and high computational power visual recognition systems have found many operational applications. Recognition in the real world poses multiple challenges that are not apparent in controlled lab environments. The datasets are dynamic and novel categories must be continuously...
computer science
24,881
Decomposition-Based Domain Adaptation for Real-World Font Recognition
cs.CV
We present a domain adaption framework to address a domain mismatch between synthetic training and real-world testing data. We demonstrate our method on a challenging fine-grain classification problem: recognizing a font style from an image of text. In this task, it is very easy to generate lots of rendered font exampl...
computer science
24,882
Image Dynamic Range Enhancement in the Context of Logarithmic Models
cs.CV
Images of a scene observed under a variable illumination or with a variable optical aperture are not identical. Does a privileged representant exist? In which mathematical context? How to obtain it? The authors answer to such questions in the context of logarithmic models for images. After a short presentation of the m...
computer science
24,883
Gray level image enhancement using the Bernstein polynomials
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for enhancing the gray level images. This presented method takes part from the category of point operations and it is based on piecewise linear functions. The interpolation nodes of these functions are calculated using the Bernstein polynomials.
computer science
24,884
Gray Level Image Enhancement Using Polygonal Functions
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for enhancing the gray level images. This method takes part from the category of point transforms and it is based on interpolation functions. The latter have a graphic represented by polygonal lines. The interpolation nodes of these functions are calculated taking into account the statistic...
computer science
24,885
Image Enhancement Using a Generalization of Homographic Function
cs.CV
This paper presents a new method of gray level image enhancement, based on point transforms. In order to define the transform function, it was used a generalization of the homographic function.
computer science
24,886
Contour Detection Using Contrast Formulas in the Framework of Logarithmic Models
cs.CV
In this paper we use a new logarithmic model of image representation, developed in [1,2], for edge detection. In fact, in the framework of the new model we obtain the formulas for computing the "contrast of a pixel" and the "contrast" image is just the "contour" or edge image. In our setting the range of values is pres...
computer science
24,887
Minimizing the Number of Matching Queries for Object Retrieval
cs.CV
To increase the computational efficiency of interest-point based object retrieval, researchers have put remarkable research efforts into improving the efficiency of kNN-based feature matching, pursuing to match thousands of features against a database within fractions of a second. However, due to the high-dimensional n...
computer science
24,888
Deep Structured Output Learning for Unconstrained Text Recognition
cs.CV
We develop a representation suitable for the unconstrained recognition of words in natural images: the general case of no fixed lexicon and unknown length. To this end we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) based architecture which incorporates a Conditional Random Field (CRF) graphical model, taking the who...
computer science
24,889
Unsupervised Learning of Spatiotemporally Coherent Metrics
cs.CV
Current state-of-the-art classification and detection algorithms rely on supervised training. In this work we study unsupervised feature learning in the context of temporally coherent video data. We focus on feature learning from unlabeled video data, using the assumption that adjacent video frames contain semantically...
computer science
24,890
Fractional Max-Pooling
cs.CV
Convolutional networks almost always incorporate some form of spatial pooling, and very often it is alpha times alpha max-pooling with alpha=2. Max-pooling act on the hidden layers of the network, reducing their size by an integer multiplicative factor alpha. The amazing by-product of discarding 75% of your data is tha...
computer science
24,891
Image enhancement using the mean dynamic range maximization with logarithmic operations
cs.CV
In this paper we use a logarithmic model for gray level image enhancement. We begin with a short presentation of the model and then, we propose a new formula for the mean dynamic range. After that we present two image transforms: one performs an optimal enhancement of the mean dynamic range using the logarithmic additi...
computer science
24,892
Semantic Part Segmentation using Compositional Model combining Shape and Appearance
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of semantic part segmentation for animals. This is more challenging than standard object detection, object segmentation and pose estimation tasks because semantic parts of animals often have similar appearance and highly varying shapes. To tackle these challenges, we build a mixture ...
computer science
24,893
Effective persistent homology of digital images
cs.CV
In this paper, three Computational Topology methods (namely effective homology, persistent homology and discrete vector fields) are mixed together to produce algorithms for homological digital image processing. The algorithms have been implemented as extensions of the Kenzo system and have shown a good performance when...
computer science
24,894
Automated Objective Surgical Skill Assessment in the Operating Room Using Unstructured Tool Motion
cs.CV
Previous work on surgical skill assessment using intraoperative tool motion in the operating room (OR) has focused on highly-structured surgical tasks such as cholecystectomy. Further, these methods only considered generic motion metrics such as time and number of movements, which are of limited instructive value. In t...
computer science
24,895
Learning to Segment Moving Objects in Videos
cs.CV
We segment moving objects in videos by ranking spatio-temporal segment proposals according to "moving objectness": how likely they are to contain a moving object. In each video frame, we compute segment proposals using multiple figure-ground segmentations on per frame motion boundaries. We rank them with a Moving Objec...
computer science
24,896
Pooled Motion Features for First-Person Videos
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a new feature representation for first-person videos. In first-person video understanding (e.g., activity recognition), it is very important to capture both entire scene dynamics (i.e., egomotion) and salient local motion observed in videos. We describe a representation framework based on time...
computer science
24,897
Fracking Deep Convolutional Image Descriptors
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a novel framework for learning local image descriptors in a discriminative manner. For this purpose we explore a siamese architecture of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), with a Hinge embedding loss on the L2 distance between descriptors. Since a siamese architecture uses pairs rather t...
computer science
24,898
Visual Instance Retrieval with Deep Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
This paper provides an extensive study on the availability of image representations based on convolutional networks (ConvNets) for the task of visual instance retrieval. Besides the choice of convolutional layers, we present an efficient pipeline exploiting multi-scale schemes to extract local features, in particular, ...
computer science
24,899
Visual Scene Representations: Contrast, Scaling and Occlusion
cs.CV
We study the structure of representations, defined as approximations of minimal sufficient statistics that are maximal invariants to nuisance factors, for visual data subject to scaling and occlusion of line-of-sight. We derive analytical expressions for such representations and show that, under certain restrictive ass...
computer science
24,900
The local low-dimensionality of natural images
cs.CV
We develop a new statistical model for photographic images, in which the local responses of a bank of linear filters are described as jointly Gaussian, with zero mean and a covariance that varies slowly over spatial position. We optimize sets of filters so as to minimize the nuclear norms of matrices of their local act...
computer science
24,901
Visualizing and Comparing Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved comparable error rates to well-trained human on ILSVRC2014 image classification task. To achieve better performance, the complexity of CNNs is continually increasing with deeper and bigger architectures. Though CNNs achieved promising external classification behavior, ...
computer science