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Bi-directional Shape Correspondences (BSC): A Novel Technique for 2-d Shape Warping in Quadratic Time?
cs.CV
We propose Bidirectional Shape Correspondence (BSC) as a possible improvement on the famous shape contexts (SC) framework. Our proposals derive from the observation that the SC framework enforces a one-to-one correspondence between sample points, and that this leads to two possible drawbacks. First, this denies the fra...
computer science
24,903
Mixture of Parts Revisited: Expressive Part Interactions for Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Part-based models with restrictive tree-structured interactions for the Human Pose Estimation problem, leaves many part interactions unhandled. Two of the most common and strong manifestations of such unhandled interactions are self-occlusion among the parts and the confusion in the localization of the non-adjacent sym...
computer science
24,904
A New Way to Factorize Linear Cameras
cs.CV
The implementation details of factorizing the 3x4 projection matrices of linear cameras into their left matrix factors and the 4x4 homogeneous central(also parallel for infinite center cases) projection factors are presented in this work. Any full row rank 3x4 real matrix can be factorized into such basic matrices whic...
computer science
24,905
Learning of Proto-object Representations via Fixations on Low Resolution
cs.CV
While previous researches in eye fixation prediction typically rely on integrating low-level features (e.g. color, edge) to form a saliency map, recently it has been found that the structural organization of these features into a proto-object representation can play a more significant role. In this work, we present a c...
computer science
24,906
Fusing Color and Texture Cues to Categorize the Fruit Diseases from Images
cs.CV
The economic and production losses in agricultural industry worldwide are due to the presence of diseases in the several kinds of fruits. In this paper, a method for the classification of fruit diseases is proposed and experimentally validated. The image processing based proposed approach is composed of the following m...
computer science
24,907
AltecOnDB: A Large-Vocabulary Arabic Online Handwriting Recognition Database
cs.CV
Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute to making computational approaches to Arabic very challenging. As a result, a pr...
computer science
24,908
A Fuzzy Based Model to Identify Printed Sinhala Characters (ICIAfS14)
cs.CV
Character recognition techniques for printed documents are widely used for English language. However, the systems that are implemented to recognize Asian languages struggle to increase the accuracy of recognition. Among other Asian languages (such as Arabic, Tamil, Chinese), Sinhala characters are unique, mainly becaus...
computer science
24,909
Locating Tables in Scanned Documents for Reconstructing and Republishing (ICIAfS14)
cs.CV
Pool of knowledge available to the mankind depends on the source of learning resources, which can vary from ancient printed documents to present electronic material. The rapid conversion of material available in traditional libraries to digital form needs a significant amount of work if we are to maintain the format an...
computer science
24,910
Texture analysis using volume-radius fractal dimension
cs.CV
Texture plays an important role in computer vision. It is one of the most important visual attributes used in image analysis, once it provides information about pixel organization at different regions of the image. This paper presents a novel approach for texture characterization, based on complexity analysis. The prop...
computer science
24,911
Brachiaria species identification using imaging techniques based on fractal descriptors
cs.CV
The use of a rapid and accurate method in diagnosis and classification of species and/or cultivars of forage has practical relevance, scientific and trade in various areas of study. Thus, leaf samples of fodder plant species \textit{Brachiaria} were previously identified, collected and scanned to be treated by means of...
computer science
24,912
Fractal descriptors based on the probability dimension: a texture analysis and classification approach
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a novel technique for obtaining descriptors of gray-level texture images. The descriptors are provided by applying a multiscale transform to the fractal dimension of the image estimated through the probability (Voss) method. The effectiveness of the descriptors is verified in a classification t...
computer science
24,913
Joint Deep Learning for Car Detection
cs.CV
Traditional object recognition approaches apply feature extraction, part deformation handling, occlusion handling and classification sequentially while they are independent from each other. Ouyang and Wang proposed a model for jointly learning of all of the mentioned processes using one deep neural network. We utilized...
computer science
24,914
Gabor wavelets combined with volumetric fractal dimension applied to texture analysis
cs.CV
Texture analysis and classification remain as one of the biggest challenges for the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. On this matter, Gabor wavelets has proven to be a useful technique to characterize distinctive texture patterns. However, most of the approaches used to extract descriptors of the Gabor ...
computer science
24,915
Sparkle Vision: Seeing the World through Random Specular Microfacets
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of reproducing the world lighting from a single image of an object covered with random specular microfacets on the surface. We show that such reflectors can be interpreted as a randomized mapping from the lighting to the image. Such specular objects have very different optical proper...
computer science
24,916
Improved texture image classification through the use of a corrosion-inspired cellular automaton
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of classifying synthetic and natural texture images is addressed. To tackle this problem, an innovative method is proposed that combines concepts from corrosion modeling and cellular automata to generate a texture descriptor. The core processes of metal (pitting) corrosion are identified and ...
computer science
24,917
Detect2Rank : Combining Object Detectors Using Learning to Rank
cs.CV
Object detection is an important research area in the field of computer vision. Many detection algorithms have been proposed. However, each object detector relies on specific assumptions of the object appearance and imaging conditions. As a consequence, no algorithm can be considered as universal. With the large variet...
computer science
24,918
Texture analysis by multi-resolution fractal descriptors
cs.CV
This work proposes a texture descriptor based on fractal theory. The method is based on the Bouligand-Minkowski descriptors. We decompose the original image recursively into 4 equal parts. In each recursion step, we estimate the average and the deviation of the Bouligand-Minkowski descriptors computed over each part. T...
computer science
24,919
Functional correspondence by matrix completion
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the problem of finding dense intrinsic correspondence between manifolds using the recently introduced functional framework. We pose the functional correspondence problem as matrix completion with manifold geometric structure and inducing functional localization with the $L_1$ norm. We discuss...
computer science
24,920
Metacarpal Bones Localization in X-ray Imagery Using Particle Filter Segmentation
cs.CV
Statistical methods such as sequential Monte Carlo Methods were proposed for detection, segmentation and tracking of objects in digital images. A similar approach, called Shape Particle Filters was introduced for the segmentation of vertebra, lungs and hearts [1]. In this contribution, a global shape and a local appear...
computer science
24,921
Rigid and Non-rigid Shape Evolutions for Shape Alignment and Recovery in Images
cs.CV
The same type of objects in different images may vary in their shapes because of rigid and non-rigid shape deformations, occluding foreground as well as cluttered background. The problem concerned in this work is the shape extraction in such challenging situations. We approach the shape extraction through shape alignme...
computer science
24,922
Accurate Localization in Dense Urban Area Using Google Street View Image
cs.CV
Accurate information about the location and orientation of a camera in mobile devices is central to the utilization of location-based services (LBS). Most of such mobile devices rely on GPS data but this data is subject to inaccuracy due to imperfections in the quality of the signal provided by satellites. This shortco...
computer science
24,923
Domain-Size Pooling in Local Descriptors: DSP-SIFT
cs.CV
We introduce a simple modification of local image descriptors, such as SIFT, based on pooling gradient orientations across different domain sizes, in addition to spatial locations. The resulting descriptor, which we call DSP-SIFT, outperforms other methods in wide-baseline matching benchmarks, including those based on ...
computer science
24,924
Deep Roto-Translation Scattering for Object Classification
cs.CV
Dictionary learning algorithms or supervised deep convolution networks have considerably improved the efficiency of predefined feature representations such as SIFT. We introduce a deep scattering convolution network, with predefined wavelet filters over spatial and angular variables. This representation brings an impor...
computer science
24,925
Face recognition using color local binary pattern from mutually independent color channels
cs.CV
In this paper, a high performance face recognition system based on local binary pattern (LBP) using the probability distribution functions (PDF) of pixels in different mutually independent color channels which are robust to frontal homogenous illumination and planer rotation is proposed. The illumination of faces is en...
computer science
24,926
Understanding Trajectory Behavior: A Motion Pattern Approach
cs.CV
Mining the underlying patterns in gigantic and complex data is of great importance to data analysts. In this paper, we propose a motion pattern approach to mine frequent behaviors in trajectory data. Motion patterns, defined by a set of highly similar flow vector groups in a spatial locality, have been shown to be very...
computer science
24,927
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Dense Correspondences across Scenes
cs.CV
We propose a fast, accurate matching method for estimating dense pixel correspondences across scenes. It is a challenging problem to estimate dense pixel correspondences between images depicting different scenes or instances of the same object category. While most such matching methods rely on hand-crafted features suc...
computer science
24,928
Group $K$-Means
cs.CV
We study how to learn multiple dictionaries from a dataset, and approximate any data point by the sum of the codewords each chosen from the corresponding dictionary. Although theoretically low approximation errors can be achieved by the global solution, an effective solution has not been well studied in practice. To so...
computer science
24,929
Fast forward feature selection for the nonlinear classification of hyperspectral images
cs.CV
A fast forward feature selection algorithm is presented in this paper. It is based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. GMM are used for classifying hyperspectral images. The algorithm selects iteratively spectral features that maximizes an estimation of the classification rate. The estimation is done using th...
computer science
24,930
Learning to Recognize Pedestrian Attribute
cs.CV
Learning to recognize pedestrian attributes at far distance is a challenging problem in visual surveillance since face and body close-shots are hardly available; instead, only far-view image frames of pedestrian are given. In this study, we present an alternative approach that exploits the context of neighboring pedest...
computer science
24,931
Adaptive Objectness for Object Tracking
cs.CV
Object tracking is a long standing problem in vision. While great efforts have been spent to improve tracking performance, a simple yet reliable prior knowledge is left unexploited: the target object in tracking must be an object other than non-object. The recently proposed and popularized objectness measure provides a...
computer science
24,932
Stem-Calyx Recognition of an Apple using Shape Descriptors
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel method to recognize stem - calyx of an apple using shape descriptors. The main drawback of existing apple grading techniques is that stem - calyx part of an apple is treated as defects, this leads to poor grading of apples. In order to overcome this drawback, we proposed an approach to recog...
computer science
24,933
A Novel Technique for Grading of Dates using Shape and Texture Features
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel method to grade the date fruits based on the combination of shape and texture features. The method begins with reducing the specular reflection and small noise using a bilateral filter. Threshold based segmentation is performed for background removal and fruit part selection from the given i...
computer science
24,934
A Study on Clustering for Clustering Based Image De-Noising
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of de-noising of an image contaminated with Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) is studied. This subject is an open problem in signal processing for more than 50 years. Local methods suggested in recent years, have obtained better results than global methods. However by more intelligent trai...
computer science
24,935
Object localization in ImageNet by looking out of the window
cs.CV
We propose a method for annotating the location of objects in ImageNet. Traditionally, this is cast as an image window classification problem, where each window is considered independently and scored based on its appearance alone. Instead, we propose a method which scores each candidate window in the context of all oth...
computer science
24,936
Analysing domain shift factors between videos and images for object detection
cs.CV
Object detection is one of the most important challenges in computer vision. Object detectors are usually trained on bounding-boxes from still images. Recently, video has been used as an alternative source of data. Yet, for a given test domain (image or video), the performance of the detector depends on the domain it w...
computer science
24,937
Leader Follower Formation Control of Ground Vehicles Using Camshift Based Guidance
cs.CV
Autonomous ground vehicles have been designed for the purpose of that relies on ranging and bearing information received from forward looking camera on the Formation control . A visual guidance control algorithm is designed where real time image processing is used to provide feedback signals. The vision subsystem and c...
computer science
24,938
Weighted Schatten $p$-Norm Minimization for Image Denoising with Local and Nonlocal Regularization
cs.CV
This paper presents a patch-wise low-rank based image denoising method with constrained variational model involving local and nonlocal regularization. On one hand, recent patch-wise methods can be represented as a low-rank matrix approximation problem whose convex relaxation usually depends on nuclear norm minimization...
computer science
24,939
Implementation of Auto Monitoring and Short-Message-Service System via GSM Modem
cs.CV
Auto-Monitoring and Short-Messaging-Service System is a real-time monitoring system for any critical operational environments. It detects an undesired event occurring in the environment, generates an alert with detailed message and sends it to the user to prevent hazards. This system employs a Friendly ARM as main cont...
computer science
24,940
Super-resolution MRI Using Finite Rate of Innovation Curves
cs.CV
We propose a two-stage algorithm for the super-resolution of MR images from their low-frequency k-space samples. In the first stage we estimate a resolution-independent mask whose zeros represent the edges of the image. This builds off recent work extending the theory of sampling signals of finite rate of innovation (F...
computer science
24,941
An Effective Image Feature Classiffication using an improved SOM
cs.CV
Image feature classification is a challenging problem in many computer vision applications, specifically, in the fields of remote sensing, image analysis and pattern recognition. In this paper, a novel Self Organizing Map, termed improved SOM (iSOM), is proposed with the aim of effectively classifying Mammographic imag...
computer science
24,942
Optimal Radiometric Calibration for Camera-Display Communication
cs.CV
We present a novel method for communicating between a camera and display by embedding and recovering hidden and dynamic information within a displayed image. A handheld camera pointed at the display can receive not only the display image, but also the underlying message. These active scenes are fundamentally different ...
computer science
24,943
Filter Design and Performance Evaluation for Fingerprint Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Fingerprint recognition plays an important role in many commercial applications and is used by millions of people every day, e.g. for unlocking mobile phones. Fingerprint image segmentation is typically the first processing step of most fingerprint algorithms and it divides an image into foreground, the region of inter...
computer science
24,944
Efficient Rotation-Scaling-Translation Parameters Estimation Based on Fractal Image Model
cs.CV
This paper deals with area-based subpixel image registration under rotation-isometric scaling-translation transformation hypothesis. Our approach is based on a parametrical modeling of geometrically transformed textural image fragments and maximum likelihood estimation of transformation vector between them. Due to the ...
computer science
24,945
Tri-Subject Kinship Verification: Understanding the Core of A Family
cs.CV
One major challenge in computer vision is to go beyond the modeling of individual objects and to investigate the bi- (one-versus-one) or tri- (one-versus-two) relationship among multiple visual entities, answering such questions as whether a child in a photo belongs to given parents. The child-parents relationship play...
computer science
24,946
EpicFlow: Edge-Preserving Interpolation of Correspondences for Optical Flow
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach for optical flow estimation , targeted at large displacements with significant oc-clusions. It consists of two steps: i) dense matching by edge-preserving interpolation from a sparse set of matches; ii) variational energy minimization initialized with the dense matches. The sparse-to-dense i...
computer science
24,947
Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark
cs.CV
We extensively compare, qualitatively and quantitatively, 40 state-of-the-art models (28 salient object detection, 10 fixation prediction, 1 objectness, and 1 baseline) over 6 challenging datasets for the purpose of benchmarking salient object detection and segmentation methods. From the results obtained so far, our ev...
computer science
24,948
A Survey on Recent Advances of Computer Vision Algorithms for Egocentric Video
cs.CV
Recent technological advances have made lightweight, head mounted cameras both practical and affordable and products like Google Glass show first approaches to introduce the idea of egocentric (first-person) video to the mainstream. Interestingly, the computer vision community has only recently started to explore this ...
computer science
24,949
Deep Image: Scaling up Image Recognition
cs.CV
We present a state-of-the-art image recognition system, Deep Image, developed using end-to-end deep learning. The key components are a custom-built supercomputer dedicated to deep learning, a highly optimized parallel algorithm using new strategies for data partitioning and communication, larger deep neural network mod...
computer science
24,950
Online Handwritten Devanagari Stroke Recognition Using Extended Directional Features
cs.CV
This paper describes a new feature set, called the extended directional features (EDF) for use in the recognition of online handwritten strokes. We use EDF specifically to recognize strokes that form a basis for producing Devanagari script, which is the most widely used Indian language script. It should be noted that s...
computer science
24,951
An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System Modeling for Grid-Adaptive Interpolation over Depth Images
cs.CV
A suitable interpolation method is essential to keep the noise level minimum along with the time-delay. In recent years, many different interpolation filters have been developed for instance H.264-6 tap filter, and AVS- 4 tap filter. The present work uses Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) technique to model...
computer science
24,952
Learning from Multiple Sources for Video Summarisation
cs.CV
Many visual surveillance tasks, e.g.video summarisation, is conventionally accomplished through analysing imagerybased features. Relying solely on visual cues for public surveillance video understanding is unreliable, since visual observations obtained from public space CCTV video data are often not sufficiently trustw...
computer science
24,953
Robust and Real Time Detection of Curvy Lanes (Curves) with Desired Slopes for Driving Assistance and Autonomous Vehicles
cs.CV
One of the biggest reasons for road accidents is curvy lanes and blind turns. Even one of the biggest hurdles for new autonomous vehicles is to detect curvy lanes, multiple lanes and lanes with a lot of discontinuity and noise. This paper presents very efficient and advanced algorithm for detecting curves having desire...
computer science
24,954
Image enhancement in intensity projected multichannel MRI using spatially adaptive directional anisotropic diffusion
cs.CV
Anisotropic Diffusion is widely used for noise reduction with simultaneous preservation of vascular structures in maximum intensity projected (MIP) angiograms. However, extension to minimum intensity projected (mIP) venograms in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) poses difficulties due to spatially varying baseline....
computer science
24,955
On the Distribution of Salient Objects in Web Images and its Influence on Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
It has become apparent that a Gaussian center bias can serve as an important prior for visual saliency detection, which has been demonstrated for predicting human eye fixations and salient object detection. Tseng et al. have shown that the photographer's tendency to place interesting objects in the center is a likely c...
computer science
24,956
LATCH: Learned Arrangements of Three Patch Codes
cs.CV
We present a novel means of describing local image appearances using binary strings. Binary descriptors have drawn increasing interest in recent years due to their speed and low memory footprint. A known shortcoming of these representations is their inferior performance compared to larger, histogram based descriptors s...
computer science
24,957
Screen Content Image Segmentation Using Least Absolute Deviation Fitting
cs.CV
We propose an algorithm for separating the foreground (mainly text and line graphics) from the smoothly varying background in screen content images. The proposed method is designed based on the assumption that the background part of the image is smoothly varying and can be represented by a linear combination of a few s...
computer science
24,958
Computer-assisted polyp matching between optical colonoscopy and CT colonography: a phantom study
cs.CV
Potentially precancerous polyps detected with CT colonography (CTC) need to be removed subsequently, using an optical colonoscope (OC). Due to large colonic deformations induced by the colonoscope, even very experienced colonoscopists find it difficult to pinpoint the exact location of the colonoscope tip in relation t...
computer science
24,959
A new ADMM algorithm for the Euclidean median and its application to robust patch regression
cs.CV
The Euclidean Median (EM) of a set of points $\Omega$ in an Euclidean space is the point x minimizing the (weighted) sum of the Euclidean distances of x to the points in $\Omega$. While there exits no closed-form expression for the EM, it can nevertheless be computed using iterative methods such as the Wieszfeld algori...
computer science
24,960
Mind the Gap: Subspace based Hierarchical Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Domain adaptation techniques aim at adapting a classifier learnt on a source domain to work on the target domain. Exploiting the subspaces spanned by features of the source and target domains respectively is one approach that has been investigated towards solving this problem. These techniques normally assume the exist...
computer science
24,961
A Fast Fractal Image Compression Algorithm Using Predefined Values for Contrast Scaling
cs.CV
In this paper a new fractal image compression algorithm is proposed in which the time of encoding process is considerably reduced. The algorithm exploits a domain pool reduction approach, along with using innovative predefined values for contrast scaling factor, S, instead of scanning the parameter space [0,1]. Within ...
computer science
24,962
Meaningful Objects Segmentation from SAR Images via A Multi-Scale Non-Local Active Contour Model
cs.CV
The segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a longstanding yet challenging task, not only because of the presence of speckle, but also due to the variations of surface backscattering properties in the images. Tremendous investigations have been made to eliminate the speckle effects for the segmentation...
computer science
24,963
Correlation Adaptive Subspace Segmentation by Trace Lasso
cs.CV
This paper studies the subspace segmentation problem. Given a set of data points drawn from a union of subspaces, the goal is to partition them into their underlying subspaces they were drawn from. The spectral clustering method is used as the framework. It requires to find an affinity matrix which is close to block di...
computer science
24,964
Correntropy Induced L2 Graph for Robust Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the robust subspace clustering problem, which aims to cluster the given possibly noisy data points into their underlying subspaces. A large pool of previous subspace clustering methods focus on the graph construction by different regularization of the representation coefficient. We instead focus...
computer science
24,965
Image classification by visual bag-of-words refinement and reduction
cs.CV
This paper presents a new framework for visual bag-of-words (BOW) refinement and reduction to overcome the drawbacks associated with the visual BOW model which has been widely used for image classification. Although very influential in the literature, the traditional visual BOW model has two distinct drawbacks. Firstly...
computer science
24,966
Reconstruction-free action inference from compressive imagers
cs.CV
Persistent surveillance from camera networks, such as at parking lots, UAVs, etc., often results in large amounts of video data, resulting in significant challenges for inference in terms of storage, communication and computation. Compressive cameras have emerged as a potential solution to deal with the data deluge iss...
computer science
24,967
Instance Significance Guided Multiple Instance Boosting for Robust Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) recently provides an appealing way to alleviate the drifting problem in visual tracking. Following the tracking-by-detection framework, an online MILBoost approach is developed that sequentially chooses weak classifiers by maximizing the bag likelihood. In this paper, we extend this ide...
computer science
24,968
Robust Visual Tracking via Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Deep networks have been successfully applied to visual tracking by learning a generic representation offline from numerous training images. However the offline training is time-consuming and the learned generic representation may be less discriminative for tracking specific objects. In this paper we present that, even ...
computer science
24,969
Coupled Depth Learning
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a method for estimating depth from a single image using a coarse to fine approach. We argue that modeling the fine depth details is easier after a coarse depth map has been computed. We express a global (coarse) depth map of an image as a linear combination of a depth basis learned from trainin...
computer science
24,970
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Action Recognition Using Depth Map Sequences
cs.CV
Recently, deep learning approach has achieved promising results in various fields of computer vision. In this paper, a new framework called Hierarchical Depth Motion Maps (HDMM) + 3 Channel Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (3ConvNets) is proposed for human action recognition using depth map sequences. Firstly, we rot...
computer science
24,971
Naive-Deep Face Recognition: Touching the Limit of LFW Benchmark or Not?
cs.CV
Face recognition performance improves rapidly with the recent deep learning technique developing and underlying large training dataset accumulating. In this paper, we report our observations on how big data impacts the recognition performance. According to these observations, we build our Megvii Face Recognition System...
computer science
24,972
Tracing the boundaries of materials in transparent vessels using computer vision
cs.CV
Visual recognition of material boundaries in transparent vessels is valuable for numerous applications. Such recognition is essential for estimation of fill-level, volume and phase-boundaries as well as for tracking of such chemical processes as precipitation, crystallization, condensation, evaporation and phase-separa...
computer science
24,973
Distributed Data Association in Smart Camera Networks via Dual Decomposition
cs.CV
One of the fundamental requirements for visual surveillance using smart camera networks is the correct association of each persons observations generated on different cameras. Recently, distributed data association that involves only local information processing on each camera node and mutual information exchanging bet...
computer science
24,974
Constructing Binary Descriptors with a Stochastic Hill Climbing Search
cs.CV
Binary descriptors of image patches provide processing speed advantages and require less storage than methods that encode the patch appearance with a vector of real numbers. We provide evidence that, despite its simplicity, a stochastic hill climbing bit selection procedure for descriptor construction defeats recently ...
computer science
24,975
A Light Transport Model for Mitigating Multipath Interference in TOF Sensors
cs.CV
Continuous-wave Time-of-flight (TOF) range imaging has become a commercially viable technology with many applications in computer vision and graphics. However, the depth images obtained from TOF cameras contain scene dependent errors due to multipath interference (MPI). Specifically, MPI occurs when multiple optical re...
computer science
24,976
Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me, is the error small?
cs.CV
Do object part localization methods produce bilaterally symmetric results on mirror images? Surprisingly not, even though state of the art methods augment the training set with mirrored images. In this paper we take a closer look into this issue. We first introduce the concept of mirrorability as the ability of a model...
computer science
24,977
A Graph Theoretic Approach for Object Shape Representation in Compositional Hierarchies Using a Hybrid Generative-Descriptive Model
cs.CV
A graph theoretic approach is proposed for object shape representation in a hierarchical compositional architecture called Compositional Hierarchy of Parts (CHOP). In the proposed approach, vocabulary learning is performed using a hybrid generative-descriptive model. First, statistical relationships between parts are l...
computer science
24,978
Enhanced Mixtures of Part Model for Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Mixture of parts model has been successfully applied to 2D human pose estimation problem either as explicitly trained body part model or as latent variables for the whole human body model. Mixture of parts model usually utilize tree structure for representing relations between body parts. Tree structures facilitate tra...
computer science
24,979
Point Context: An Effective Shape Descriptor for RST-invariant Trajectory Recognition
cs.CV
Motion trajectory recognition is important for characterizing the moving property of an object. The speed and accuracy of trajectory recognition rely on a compact and discriminative feature representation, and the situations of varying rotation, scaling and translation has to be specially considered. In this paper we p...
computer science
24,980
Handwritten Devanagari Script Segmentation: A non-linear Fuzzy Approach
cs.CV
The paper concentrates on improvement of segmentation accuracy by addressing some of the key challenges of handwritten Devanagari word image segmentation technique. In the present work, we have developed a new feature based approach for identification of Matra pixels from a word image, design of a non-linear fuzzy memb...
computer science
24,981
Design of a novel convex hull based feature set for recognition of isolated handwritten Roman numerals
cs.CV
In this paper, convex hull based features are used for recognition of isolated Roman numerals using a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) based classifier. Experiments of convex hull based features for handwritten character recognition are few in numbers. Convex hull of a pattern and the centroid of the convex hull both are a...
computer science
24,982
A GA Based approach for selection of local features for recognition of handwritten Bangla numerals
cs.CV
Soft computing approaches are mainly designed to address the real world ill-defined, imprecisely formulated problems, combining different kind of novel models of computation, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms (GAs. Handwritten digit recognition is a typical example of one such problem. In the current work we ...
computer science
24,983
An Improved Feature Descriptor for Recognition of Handwritten Bangla Alphabet
cs.CV
Appropriate feature set for representation of pattern classes is one of the most important aspects of handwritten character recognition. The effectiveness of features depends on the discriminating power of the features chosen to represent patterns of different classes. However, discriminatory features are not easily me...
computer science
24,984
Globally Optimal Cell Tracking using Integer Programming
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach to automatically tracking cell populations in time-lapse images. To account for cell occlusions and overlaps, we introduce a robust method that generates an over-complete set of competing detection hypotheses. We then perform detection and tracking simultaneously on these hypotheses by solvi...
computer science
24,985
Unsupervised image segmentation by Global and local Criteria Optimization Based on Bayesian Networks
cs.CV
Today Bayesian networks are more used in many areas of decision support and image processing. In this way, our proposed approach uses Bayesian Network to modelize the segmented image quality. This quality is calculated on a set of attributes that represent local evaluation measures. The idea is to have these local leve...
computer science
24,986
Active Mean Fields for Probabilistic Image Segmentation: Connections with Chan-Vese and Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Models
cs.CV
Segmentation is a fundamental task for extracting semantically meaningful regions from an image. The goal of segmentation algorithms is to accurately assign object labels to each image location. However, image-noise, shortcomings of algorithms, and image ambiguities cause uncertainty in label assignment. Estimating the...
computer science
24,987
Beyond Frontal Faces: Improving Person Recognition Using Multiple Cues
cs.CV
We explore the task of recognizing peoples' identities in photo albums in an unconstrained setting. To facilitate this, we introduce the new People In Photo Albums (PIPA) dataset, consisting of over 60000 instances of 2000 individuals collected from public Flickr photo albums. With only about half of the person images ...
computer science
24,988
Filtered Channel Features for Pedestrian Detection
cs.CV
This paper starts from the observation that multiple top performing pedestrian detectors can be modelled by using an intermediate layer filtering low-level features in combination with a boosted decision forest. Based on this observation we propose a unifying framework and experimentally explore different filter famili...
computer science
24,989
Taking a Deeper Look at Pedestrians
cs.CV
In this paper we study the use of convolutional neural networks (convnets) for the task of pedestrian detection. Despite their recent diverse successes, convnets historically underperform compared to other pedestrian detectors. We deliberately omit explicitly modelling the problem into the network (e.g. parts or occlus...
computer science
24,990
Unsupervised Segmentation of Multispectral Images with Cellular Automata
cs.CV
Multispectral images acquired by satellites are used to study phenomena on the Earth's surface. Unsupervised classification techniques analyze multispectral image content without considering prior knowledge of the observed terrain; this is done using techniques which group pixels that have similar statistics of digital...
computer science
24,991
Advances in Human Action Recognition: A Survey
cs.CV
Human action recognition has been an important topic in computer vision due to its many applications such as video surveillance, human machine interaction and video retrieval. One core problem behind these applications is automatically recognizing low-level actions and high-level activities of interest. The former is u...
computer science
24,992
Automatic Objects Removal for Scene Completion
cs.CV
With the explosive growth of web-based cameras and mobile devices, billions of photographs are uploaded to the internet. We can trivially collect a huge number of photo streams for various goals, such as 3D scene reconstruction and other big data applications. However, this is not an easy task due to the fact the retri...
computer science
24,993
Accurate automatic segmentation of retina layers with emphasis on first layer
cs.CV
Quantification of intra-retinal boundaries in optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a crucial task for studying and diagnosing neurological and ocular diseases. Since manual segmentation of layers is usually a time consuming task and relay on user, a lot of attempts done to do it automatically and without interference ...
computer science
24,994
An Occlusion Reasoning Scheme for Monocular Pedestrian Tracking in Dynamic Scenes
cs.CV
This paper looks into the problem of pedestrian tracking using a monocular, potentially moving, uncalibrated camera. The pedestrians are located in each frame using a standard human detector, which are then tracked in subsequent frames. This is a challenging problem as one has to deal with complex situations like chang...
computer science
24,995
Unsupervised Object Discovery and Localization in the Wild: Part-based Matching with Bottom-up Region Proposals
cs.CV
This paper addresses unsupervised discovery and localization of dominant objects from a noisy image collection with multiple object classes. The setting of this problem is fully unsupervised, without even image-level annotations or any assumption of a single dominant class. This is far more general than typical colocal...
computer science
24,996
Exploring Human Vision Driven Features for Pedestrian Detection
cs.CV
Motivated by the center-surround mechanism in the human visual attention system, we propose to use average contrast maps for the challenge of pedestrian detection in street scenes due to the observation that pedestrians indeed exhibit discriminative contrast texture. Our main contributions are first to design a local, ...
computer science
24,997
3D Human Activity Recognition with Reconfigurable Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Human activity understanding with 3D/depth sensors has received increasing attention in multimedia processing and interactions. This work targets on developing a novel deep model for automatic activity recognition from RGB-D videos. We represent each human activity as an ensemble of cubic-like video segments, and learn...
computer science
24,998
Geodesic convolutional neural networks on Riemannian manifolds
cs.CV
Feature descriptors play a crucial role in a wide range of geometry analysis and processing applications, including shape correspondence, retrieval, and segmentation. In this paper, we introduce Geodesic Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNN), a generalization of the convolutional networks (CNN) paradigm to non-Euclidean...
computer science
24,999
A General Preprocessing Method for Improved Performance of Epipolar Geometry Estimation Algorithms
cs.CV
In this paper a deterministic preprocessing algorithm is presented, whose output can be given as input to most state-of-the-art epipolar geometry estimation algorithms, improving their results considerably. They are now able to succeed on hard cases for which they failed before. The algorithm consists of three steps, w...
computer science
25,000
Parametric Image Segmentation of Humans with Structural Shape Priors
cs.CV
The figure-ground segmentation of humans in images captured in natural environments is an outstanding open problem due to the presence of complex backgrounds, articulation, varying body proportions, partial views and viewpoint changes. In this work we propose class-specific segmentation models that leverage parametric ...
computer science
25,001
A Cheap System for Vehicle Speed Detection
cs.CV
The reliable detection of speed of moving vehicles is considered key to traffic law enforcement in most countries, and is seen by many as an important tool to reduce the number of traffic accidents and fatalities. Many automatic systems and different methods are employed in different countries, but as a rule they tend ...
computer science