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Feature Sampling Strategies for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Although dense local spatial-temporal features with bag-of-features representation achieve state-of-the-art performance for action recognition, the huge feature number and feature size prevent current methods from scaling up to real size problems. In this work, we investigate different types of feature sampling strateg...
computer science
25,003
End-to-End Photo-Sketch Generation via Fully Convolutional Representation Learning
cs.CV
Sketch-based face recognition is an interesting task in vision and multimedia research, yet it is quite challenging due to the great difference between face photos and sketches. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for photo-sketch generation, aiming to automatically transform face photos into detail-preserving p...
computer science
25,004
On Vectorization of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision Tasks
cs.CV
We recently have witnessed many ground-breaking results in machine learning and computer vision, generated by using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). While the success mainly stems from the large volume of training data and the deep network architectures, the vector processing hardware (e.g. GPU) undisputedly p...
computer science
25,005
Learning And-Or Models to Represent Context and Occlusion for Car Detection and Viewpoint Estimation
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for learning And-Or models to represent context and occlusion for car detection and viewpoint estimation. The learned And-Or model represents car-to-car context and occlusion configurations at three levels: (i) spatially-aligned cars, (ii) single car under different occlusion configurations...
computer science
25,006
Weakly Supervised Learning for Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
Recent advances in supervised salient object detection has resulted in significant performance on benchmark datasets. Training such models, however, requires expensive pixel-wise annotations of salient objects. Moreover, many existing salient object detection models assume that at least one salient object exists in the...
computer science
25,007
Disaggregation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in Heterogeneous Landscapes using Holistic Structure based Models
cs.CV
In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm is presented for disaggregation of satellite soil moisture (SM) based on self-regularized regressive models (SRRM) using high-resolution correlated information from auxiliary sources. It includes regularized clustering that assigns soft memberships to each pixel at fine...
computer science
25,008
Vector Quantization by Minimizing Kullback-Leibler Divergence
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new method for vector quantization by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler Divergence between the class label distributions over the quantization inputs, which are original vectors, and the output, which is the quantization subsets of the vector set. In this way, the vector quantization output can keep...
computer science
25,009
Downscaling Microwave Brightness Temperatures Using Self Regularized Regressive Models
cs.CV
A novel algorithm is proposed to downscale microwave brightness temperatures ($\mathrm{T_B}$), at scales of 10-40 km such as those from the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission to a resolution meaningful for hydrological and agricultural applications. This algorithm, called Self-Regularized Regressive Models (SRRM), us...
computer science
25,010
Blob indentation identification via curvature measurement
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel method for identifying indentations on the boundary of solid 2D shape. It uses the signed curvature at a set of points along the boundary to identify indentations and provides one parameter for tuning the selection mechanism for discriminating indentations from other boundary irregularities....
computer science
25,011
Co-Regularized Deep Representations for Video Summarization
cs.CV
Compact keyframe-based video summaries are a popular way of generating viewership on video sharing platforms. Yet, creating relevant and compelling summaries for arbitrarily long videos with a small number of keyframes is a challenging task. We propose a comprehensive keyframe-based summarization framework combining de...
computer science
25,012
A Proximal Bregman Projection Approach to Continuous Max-Flow Problems Using Entropic Distances
cs.CV
One issue limiting the adaption of large-scale multi-region segmentation is the sometimes prohibitive memory requirements. This is especially troubling considering advances in massively parallel computing and commercial graphics processing units because of their already limited memory compared to the current random acc...
computer science
25,013
An Analytical Study of different Document Image Binarization Methods
cs.CV
Document image has been the area of research for a couple of decades because of its potential application in the area of text recognition, line recognition or any other shape recognition from the image. For most of these purposes binarization of image becomes mandatory as far as recognition is concerned. Throughout cou...
computer science
25,014
Multi-task Image Classification via Collaborative, Hierarchical Spike-and-Slab Priors
cs.CV
Promising results have been achieved in image classification problems by exploiting the discriminative power of sparse representations for classification (SRC). Recently, it has been shown that the use of \emph{class-specific} spike-and-slab priors in conjunction with the class-specific dictionaries from SRC is particu...
computer science
25,015
Weakly Supervised Learning of Objects, Attributes and their Associations
cs.CV
When humans describe images they tend to use combinations of nouns and adjectives, corresponding to objects and their associated attributes respectively. To generate such a description automatically, one needs to model objects, attributes and their associations. Conventional methods require strong annotation of object ...
computer science
25,016
Efficient piecewise training of deep structured models for semantic segmentation
cs.CV
Recent advances in semantic image segmentation have mostly been achieved by training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We show how to improve semantic segmentation through the use of contextual information; specifically, we explore `patch-patch' context between image regions, and `patch-background' context. Fo...
computer science
25,017
Discriminative and Efficient Label Propagation on Complementary Graphs for Multi-Object Tracking
cs.CV
Given a set of detections, detected at each time instant independently, we investigate how to associate them across time. This is done by propagating labels on a set of graphs, each graph capturing how either the spatio-temporal or the appearance cues promote the assignment of identical or distinct labels to a pair of ...
computer science
25,018
Matching-CNN Meets KNN: Quasi-Parametric Human Parsing
cs.CV
Both parametric and non-parametric approaches have demonstrated encouraging performances in the human parsing task, namely segmenting a human image into several semantic regions (e.g., hat, bag, left arm, face). In this work, we aim to develop a new solution with the advantages of both methodologies, namely supervision...
computer science
25,019
Knowledge driven Offline to Online Script Conversion
cs.CV
The problem of offline to online script conversion is a challenging and an ill-posed problem. The interest in offline to online conversion exists because there are a plethora of robust algorithms in online script literature which can not be used on offline scripts. In this paper, we propose a method, based on heuristic...
computer science
25,020
Locally Non-rigid Registration for Mobile HDR Photography
cs.CV
Image registration for stack-based HDR photography is challenging. If not properly accounted for, camera motion and scene changes result in artifacts in the composite image. Unfortunately, existing methods to address this problem are either accurate, but too slow for mobile devices, or fast, but prone to failing. We pr...
computer science
25,021
Mobile Phone Based Vehicle License Plate Recognition for Road Policing
cs.CV
Identity of a vehicle is done through the vehicle license plate by traffic police in general. Au- tomatic vehicle license plate recognition has several applications in intelligent traffic management systems. The security situation across the globe and particularly in India demands a need to equip the traffic police wit...
computer science
25,022
On-line Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition using Fuzzy Directional Features
cs.CV
This paper describes a new feature set for use in the recognition of on-line handwritten Devanagari script based on Fuzzy Directional Features. Experiments are conducted for the automatic recognition of isolated handwritten character primitives (sub-character units). Initially we describe the proposed feature set, call...
computer science
25,023
Design and Implementation of a 3D Undersea Camera System
cs.CV
In this paper, we present the design and development of an undersea camera system. The goal of our system is to provide a 3D model of the undersea habitat in a long-term continuous manner. The most important feature of our system is the use of multiple cameras and multiple projectors, which is able to provide accurate ...
computer science
25,024
Heterogeneous Tensor Decomposition for Clustering via Manifold Optimization
cs.CV
Tensors or multiarray data are generalizations of matrices. Tensor clustering has become a very important research topic due to the intrinsically rich structures in real-world multiarray datasets. Subspace clustering based on vectorizing multiarray data has been extensively researched. However, vectorization of tensori...
computer science
25,025
A Multicomponent Approach to Nonrigid Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images
cs.CV
We propose a nonrigid registration approach for diffusion tensor images using a multicomponent information-theoretic measure. Explicit orientation optimization is enabled by incorporating tensor reorientation, which is necessary for wrapping diffusion tensor images. Experimental results on diffusion tensor images indic...
computer science
25,026
Kernelized Low Rank Representation on Grassmann Manifolds
cs.CV
Low rank representation (LRR) has recently attracted great interest due to its pleasing efficacy in exploring low-dimensional subspace structures embedded in data. One of its successful applications is subspace clustering which means data are clustered according to the subspaces they belong to. In this paper, at a high...
computer science
25,027
Low Rank Representation on Grassmann Manifolds: An Extrinsic Perspective
cs.CV
Many computer vision algorithms employ subspace models to represent data. The Low-rank representation (LRR) has been successfully applied in subspace clustering for which data are clustered according to their subspace structures. The possibility of extending LRR on Grassmann manifold is explored in this paper. Rather t...
computer science
25,028
Robust real time face recognition and tracking on gpu using fusion of rgb and depth image
cs.CV
This paper presents a real-time face recognition system using kinect sensor. The algorithm is implemented on GPU using opencl and significant speed improvements are observed. We use kinect depth image to increase the robustness and reduce computational cost of conventional LBP based face recognition. The main objective...
computer science
25,029
Evaluating Two-Stream CNN for Video Classification
cs.CV
Videos contain very rich semantic information. Traditional hand-crafted features are known to be inadequate in analyzing complex video semantics. Inspired by the huge success of the deep learning methods in analyzing image, audio and text data, significant efforts are recently being devoted to the design of deep nets f...
computer science
25,030
MOTChallenge 2015: Towards a Benchmark for Multi-Target Tracking
cs.CV
In the recent past, the computer vision community has developed centralized benchmarks for the performance evaluation of a variety of tasks, including generic object and pedestrian detection, 3D reconstruction, optical flow, single-object short-term tracking, and stereo estimation. Despite potential pitfalls of such be...
computer science
25,031
Image Subset Selection Using Gabor Filters and Neural Networks
cs.CV
An automatic method for the selection of subsets of images, both modern and historic, out of a set of landmark large images collected from the Internet is presented in this paper. This selection depends on the extraction of dominant features using Gabor filtering. Features are selected carefully from a preliminary imag...
computer science
25,032
Extraction of Protein Sequence Motif Information using PSO K-Means
cs.CV
The main objective of the paper is to find the motif information.The functionalities of the proteins are ideally found from their motif information which is extracted using various techniques like clustering with k-means, hybrid k-means, self-organising maps, etc., in the literature. In this work protein sequence infor...
computer science
25,033
Near-Online Multi-target Tracking with Aggregated Local Flow Descriptor
cs.CV
In this paper, we focus on the two key aspects of multiple target tracking problem: 1) designing an accurate affinity measure to associate detections and 2) implementing an efficient and accurate (near) online multiple target tracking algorithm. As the first contribution, we introduce a novel Aggregated Local Flow Desc...
computer science
25,034
Predicting Complete 3D Models of Indoor Scenes
cs.CV
One major goal of vision is to infer physical models of objects, surfaces, and their layout from sensors. In this paper, we aim to interpret indoor scenes from one RGBD image. Our representation encodes the layout of walls, which must conform to a Manhattan structure but is otherwise flexible, and the layout and extent...
computer science
25,035
What Do Deep CNNs Learn About Objects?
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks learn extremely powerful image representations, yet most of that power is hidden in the millions of deep-layer parameters. What exactly do these parameters represent? Recent work has started to analyse CNN representations, finding that, e.g., they are invariant to some 2D transformati...
computer science
25,036
HEp-2 Cell Image Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Efficient Human Epithelial-2 (HEp-2) cell image classification can facilitate the diagnosis of many autoimmune diseases. This paper presents an automatic framework for this classification task, by utilizing the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which have recently attracted intensive attention in visual recogni...
computer science
25,037
A Coarse-to-Fine Model for 3D Pose Estimation and Sub-category Recognition
cs.CV
Despite the fact that object detection, 3D pose estimation, and sub-category recognition are highly correlated tasks, they are usually addressed independently from each other because of the huge space of parameters. To jointly model all of these tasks, we propose a coarse-to-fine hierarchical representation, where each...
computer science
25,038
Car that Knows Before You Do: Anticipating Maneuvers via Learning Temporal Driving Models
cs.CV
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have made driving safer over the last decade. They prepare vehicles for unsafe road conditions and alert drivers if they perform a dangerous maneuver. However, many accidents are unavoidable because by the time drivers are alerted, it is already too late. Anticipating maneuvers...
computer science
25,039
siftservice.com - Turning a Computer Vision algorithm into a World Wide Web Service
cs.CV
Image features detection and description is a longstanding topic in computer vision and pattern recognition areas. The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is probably the most popular and widely demanded feature descriptor which facilitates a variety of computer vision applications such as image registration, obje...
computer science
25,040
High Density Noise Removal by Cascading Algorithms
cs.CV
An advanced non-linear cascading filter algorithm for the removal of high density salt and pepper noise from the digital images is proposed. The proposed method consists of two stages. The first stage Decision base Median Filter (DMF) acts as the preliminary noise removal algorithm. The second stage is either Modified ...
computer science
25,041
Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation in the Wild
cs.CV
Appearance-based gaze estimation is believed to work well in real-world settings, but existing datasets have been collected under controlled laboratory conditions and methods have been not evaluated across multiple datasets. In this work we study appearance-based gaze estimation in the wild. We present the MPIIGaze dat...
computer science
25,042
Joint Learning of Distributed Representations for Images and Texts
cs.CV
This technical report provides extra details of the deep multimodal similarity model (DMSM) which was proposed in (Fang et al. 2015, arXiv:1411.4952). The model is trained via maximizing global semantic similarity between images and their captions in natural language using the public Microsoft COCO database, which cons...
computer science
25,043
Multiple Measurements and Joint Dimensionality Reduction for Large Scale Image Search with Short Vectors - Extended Version
cs.CV
This paper addresses the construction of a short-vector (128D) image representation for large-scale image and particular object retrieval. In particular, the method of joint dimensionality reduction of multiple vocabularies is considered. We study a variety of vocabulary generation techniques: different k-means initial...
computer science
25,044
Improving Object Detection with Deep Convolutional Networks via Bayesian Optimization and Structured Prediction
cs.CV
Object detection systems based on the deep convolutional neural network (CNN) have recently made ground- breaking advances on several object detection benchmarks. While the features learned by these high-capacity neural networks are discriminative for categorization, inaccurate localization is still a major source of e...
computer science
25,045
A Novel Approach to Develop a New Hybrid Technique for Trademark Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Trademark Image Retrieval is playing a vital role as a part of CBIR System. Trademark is of great significance because it carries the status value of any company. To retrieve such a fake or copied trademark we design a retrieval system which is based on hybrid techniques. It contains a mixture of two different feature ...
computer science
25,046
Clustering Assisted Fundamental Matrix Estimation
cs.CV
In computer vision, the estimation of the fundamental matrix is a basic problem that has been extensively studied. The accuracy of the estimation imposes a significant influence on subsequent tasks such as the camera trajectory determination and 3D reconstruction. In this paper we propose a new method for fundamental m...
computer science
25,047
Simultaneous Feature Learning and Hash Coding with Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-engineering visual features, followed by another separate projection or quantization step that generates binary codes....
computer science
25,048
Image Denoising Using Low Rank Minimization With Modified Noise Estimation
cs.CV
Recently, the application of low rank minimization to image denoising has shown remarkable denoising results which are equivalent or better than those of the existing state-of-the-art algorithms. However, due to iterative nature of low rank optimization, estimation of residual noise is an essential requirement after ea...
computer science
25,049
Sketch-based 3D Shape Retrieval using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Retrieving 3D models from 2D human sketches has received considerable attention in the areas of graphics, image retrieval, and computer vision. Almost always in state of the art approaches a large amount of "best views" are computed for 3D models, with the hope that the query sketch matches one of these 2D projections ...
computer science
25,050
Efficient Scene Text Localization and Recognition with Local Character Refinement
cs.CV
An unconstrained end-to-end text localization and recognition method is presented. The method detects initial text hypothesis in a single pass by an efficient region-based method and subsequently refines the text hypothesis using a more robust local text model, which deviates from the common assumption of region-based ...
computer science
25,051
Background Subtraction via Generalized Fused Lasso Foreground Modeling
cs.CV
Background Subtraction (BS) is one of the key steps in video analysis. Many background models have been proposed and achieved promising performance on public data sets. However, due to challenges such as illumination change, dynamic background etc. the resulted foreground segmentation often consists of holes as well as...
computer science
25,052
Text Localization in Video Using Multiscale Weber's Local Descriptor
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for detecting the text present in videos and scene images based on the Multiscale Weber's Local Descriptor (MWLD). Given an input video, the shots are identified and the key frames are extracted based on their spatio-temporal relationship. From each key frame, we detect the lo...
computer science
25,053
Tracking Live Fish from Low-Contrast and Low-Frame-Rate Stereo Videos
cs.CV
Non-extractive fish abundance estimation with the aid of visual analysis has drawn increasing attention. Unstable illumination, ubiquitous noise and low frame rate video capturing in the underwater environment, however, make conventional tracking methods unreliable. In this paper, we present a multiple fish tracking sy...
computer science
25,054
Deep convolutional networks for pancreas segmentation in CT imaging
cs.CV
Automatic organ segmentation is an important prerequisite for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. The high anatomical variability of organs in the abdomen, such as the pancreas, prevents many segmentation methods from achieving high accuracies when compared to other segmentation of organs like the liver, heart or ki...
computer science
25,055
Anatomy-specific classification of medical images using deep convolutional nets
cs.CV
Automated classification of human anatomy is an important prerequisite for many computer-aided diagnosis systems. The spatial complexity and variability of anatomy throughout the human body makes classification difficult. "Deep learning" methods such as convolutional networks (ConvNets) outperform other state-of-the-ar...
computer science
25,056
FPA-CS: Focal Plane Array-based Compressive Imaging in Short-wave Infrared
cs.CV
Cameras for imaging in short and mid-wave infrared spectra are significantly more expensive than their counterparts in visible imaging. As a result, high-resolution imaging in those spectrum remains beyond the reach of most consumers. Over the last decade, compressive sensing (CS) has emerged as a potential means to re...
computer science
25,057
Segmentation of Subspaces in Sequential Data
cs.CV
We propose Ordered Subspace Clustering (OSC) to segment data drawn from a sequentially ordered union of subspaces. Similar to Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) we formulate the problem as one of finding a sparse representation but include an additional penalty term to take care of sequential data. We test our method on ...
computer science
25,058
Color Constancy Using CNNs
cs.CV
In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most previous methods. The network consists of one convolutional layer with max pooling,...
computer science
25,059
Biometrics for Child Vaccination and Welfare: Persistence of Fingerprint Recognition for Infants and Toddlers
cs.CV
With a number of emerging applications requiring biometric recognition of children (e.g., tracking child vaccination schedules, identifying missing children and preventing newborn baby swaps in hospitals), investigating the temporal stability of biometric recognition accuracy for children is important. The persistence ...
computer science
25,060
Understanding the Fisher Vector: a multimodal part model
cs.CV
Fisher Vectors and related orderless visual statistics have demonstrated excellent performance in object detection, sometimes superior to established approaches such as the Deformable Part Models. However, it remains unclear how these models can capture complex appearance variations using visual codebooks of limited si...
computer science
25,061
Visual Recognition Using Directional Distribution Distance
cs.CV
In computer vision, an entity such as an image or video is often represented as a set of instance vectors, which can be SIFT, motion, or deep learning feature vectors extracted from different parts of that entity. Thus, it is essential to design efficient and effective methods to compare two sets of instance vectors. E...
computer science
25,062
DEEP-CARVING: Discovering Visual Attributes by Carving Deep Neural Nets
cs.CV
Most of the approaches for discovering visual attributes in images demand significant supervision, which is cumbersome to obtain. In this paper, we aim to discover visual attributes in a weakly supervised setting that is commonly encountered with contemporary image search engines. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CN...
computer science
25,063
Learning discriminative trajectorylet detector sets for accurate skeleton-based action recognition
cs.CV
The introduction of low-cost RGB-D sensors has promoted the research in skeleton-based human action recognition. Devising a representation suitable for characterising actions on the basis of noisy skeleton sequences remains a challenge, however. We here provide two insights into this challenge. First, we show that the ...
computer science
25,064
Weakly Supervised Fine-Grained Image Categorization
cs.CV
In this paper, we categorize fine-grained images without using any object / part annotation neither in the training nor in the testing stage, a step towards making it suitable for deployments. Fine-grained image categorization aims to classify objects with subtle distinctions. Most existing works heavily rely on object...
computer science
25,065
Exploiting Local Features from Deep Networks for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to image classification tasks. When these same networks have been applied to image retrieval, the assumption has been made that the last layers would give the best performance, as they do in classification. We show that for instance-level image retrieval...
computer science
25,066
Deep Spatial Pyramid: The Devil is Once Again in the Details
cs.CV
In this paper we show that by carefully making good choices for various detailed but important factors in a visual recognition framework using deep learning features, one can achieve a simple, efficient, yet highly accurate image classification system. We first list 5 important factors, based on both existing researche...
computer science
25,067
Viewpoint distortion compensation in practical surveillance systems
cs.CV
Our aim is to estimate the perspective-effected geometric distortion of a scene from a video feed. In contrast to all previous work we wish to achieve this using from low-level, spatio-temporally local motion features used in commercial semi-automatic surveillance systems. We: (i) describe a dense algorithm which uses ...
computer science
25,068
Groupwise registration of aerial images
cs.CV
This paper addresses the task of time separated aerial image registration. The ability to solve this problem accurately and reliably is important for a variety of subsequent image understanding applications. The principal challenge lies in the extent and nature of transient appearance variation that a land area can und...
computer science
25,069
The adaptable buffer algorithm for high quantile estimation in non-stationary data streams
cs.CV
The need to estimate a particular quantile of a distribution is an important problem which frequently arises in many computer vision and signal processing applications. For example, our work was motivated by the requirements of many semi-automatic surveillance analytics systems which detect abnormalities in close-circu...
computer science
25,070
Automatic Face Recognition from Video
cs.CV
The objective of this work is to automatically recognize faces from video sequences in a realistic, unconstrained setup in which illumination conditions are extreme and greatly changing, viewpoint and user motion pattern have a wide variability, and video input is of low quality. At the centre of focus are face appeara...
computer science
25,071
Key-Pose Prediction in Cyclic Human Motion
cs.CV
In this paper we study the problem of estimating innercyclic time intervals within repetitive motion sequences of top-class swimmers in a swimming channel. Interval limits are given by temporal occurrences of key-poses, i.e. distinctive postures of the body. A key-pose is defined by means of only one or two specific fe...
computer science
25,072
Adaptive Compressive Tracking via Online Vector Boosting Feature Selection
cs.CV
Recently, the compressive tracking (CT) method has attracted much attention due to its high efficiency, but it cannot well deal with the large scale target appearance variations due to its data-independent random projection matrix that results in less discriminative features. To address this issue, in this paper we pro...
computer science
25,073
A robust and efficient video representation for action recognition
cs.CV
This paper introduces a state-of-the-art video representation and applies it to efficient action recognition and detection. We first propose to improve the popular dense trajectory features by explicit camera motion estimation. More specifically, we extract feature point matches between frames using SURF descriptors an...
computer science
25,074
Median and Mode Ellipse Parameterization for Robust Contour Fitting
cs.CV
Problems that require the parameterization of closed contours arise frequently in computer vision applications. This article introduces a new curve parameterization algorithm that is able to fit a closed curve to a set of points while being robust to the presence of outliers and occlusions in the data. This robustness ...
computer science
25,075
Combining local regularity estimation and total variation optimization for scale-free texture segmentation
cs.CV
Texture segmentation constitutes a standard image processing task, crucial to many applications. The present contribution focuses on the particular subset of scale-free textures and its originality resides in the combination of three key ingredients: First, texture characterization relies on the concept of local regula...
computer science
25,076
LOAD: Local Orientation Adaptive Descriptor for Texture and Material Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel local feature, called Local Orientation Adaptive Descriptor (LOAD), to capture regional texture in an image. In LOAD, we proposed to define point description on an Adaptive Coordinate System (ACS), adopt a binary sequence descriptor to capture relationships between one point and its ne...
computer science
25,077
Edge Detection Based on Global and Local Parameters of the Image
cs.CV
This paper presents an edge detection method based on global and local parameters of the image, which produces satisfactory results on the edge detection of complex images and has a simple structure for execution. The local and global parameters of the image are arithmetic means and standard deviations, the former acqu...
computer science
25,078
Understanding and Diagnosing Visual Tracking Systems
cs.CV
Several benchmark datasets for visual tracking research have been proposed in recent years. Despite their usefulness, whether they are sufficient for understanding and diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of different trackers remains questionable. To address this issue, we propose a framework by breaking a tracker ...
computer science
25,079
Object Detection Networks on Convolutional Feature Maps
cs.CV
Most object detectors contain two important components: a feature extractor and an object classifier. The feature extractor has rapidly evolved with significant research efforts leading to better deep convolutional architectures. The object classifier, however, has not received much attention and many recent systems (l...
computer science
25,080
Online Adaptive Hidden Markov Model for Multi-Tracker Fusion
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel method for visual object tracking called HMMTxD. The method fuses observations from complementary out-of-the box trackers and a detector by utilizing a hidden Markov model whose latent states correspond to a binary vector expressing the failure of individual trackers. The Markov model ...
computer science
25,081
Sparse Radial Sampling LBP for Writer Identification
cs.CV
In this paper we present the use of Sparse Radial Sampling Local Binary Patterns, a variant of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) for text-as-texture classification. By adapting and extending the standard LBP operator to the particularities of text we get a generic text-as-texture classification scheme and apply it to writer ...
computer science
25,082
Robust Principal Component Analysis on Graphs
cs.CV
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most widely used tool for linear dimensionality reduction and clustering. Still it is highly sensitive to outliers and does not scale well with respect to the number of data samples. Robust PCA solves the first issue with a sparse penalty term. The second issue can be handled w...
computer science
25,083
High-for-Low and Low-for-High: Efficient Boundary Detection from Deep Object Features and its Applications to High-Level Vision
cs.CV
Most of the current boundary detection systems rely exclusively on low-level features, such as color and texture. However, perception studies suggest that humans employ object-level reasoning when judging if a particular pixel is a boundary. Inspired by this observation, in this work we show how to predict boundaries b...
computer science
25,084
An Elastic Image Registration Approach for Wireless Capsule Endoscope Localization
cs.CV
Wireless Capsule Endoscope (WCE) is an innovative imaging device that permits physicians to examine all the areas of the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is especially important for the small intestine, where traditional invasive endoscopies cannot reach. Although WCE represents an extremely important advance in medical...
computer science
25,085
Person Re-identification with Correspondence Structure Learning
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of handling spatial misalignments due to camera-view changes or human-pose variations in person re-identification. We first introduce a boosting-based approach to learn a correspondence structure which indicates the patch-wise matching probabilities between images from a target camera p...
computer science
25,086
Evolving Fuzzy Image Segmentation with Self-Configuration
cs.CV
Current image segmentation techniques usually require that the user tune several parameters in order to obtain maximum segmentation accuracy, a computationally inefficient approach, especially when a large number of images must be processed sequentially in daily practice. The use of evolving fuzzy systems for designing...
computer science
25,087
Holistically-Nested Edge Detection
cs.CV
We develop a new edge detection algorithm that tackles two important issues in this long-standing vision problem: (1) holistic image training and prediction; and (2) multi-scale and multi-level feature learning. Our proposed method, holistically-nested edge detection (HED), performs image-to-image prediction by means o...
computer science
25,088
Depth-based hand pose estimation: methods, data, and challenges
cs.CV
Hand pose estimation has matured rapidly in recent years. The introduction of commodity depth sensors and a multitude of practical applications have spurred new advances. We provide an extensive analysis of the state-of-the-art, focusing on hand pose estimation from a single depth frame. To do so, we have implemented a...
computer science
25,089
Situational Object Boundary Detection
cs.CV
Intuitively, the appearance of true object boundaries varies from image to image. Hence the usual monolithic approach of training a single boundary predictor and applying it to all images regardless of their content is bound to be suboptimal. In this paper we therefore propose situational object boundary detection: We ...
computer science
25,090
Local Variation as a Statistical Hypothesis Test
cs.CV
The goal of image oversegmentation is to divide an image into several pieces, each of which should ideally be part of an object. One of the simplest and yet most effective oversegmentation algorithms is known as local variation (LV) (Felzenszwalb and Huttenlocher 2004). In this work, we study this algorithm and show th...
computer science
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Semantic Motion Segmentation Using Dense CRF Formulation
cs.CV
While the literature has been fairly dense in the areas of scene understanding and semantic labeling there have been few works that make use of motion cues to embellish semantic performance and vice versa. In this paper, we address the problem of semantic motion segmentation, and show how semantic and motion priors aug...
computer science
25,092
Object Level Deep Feature Pooling for Compact Image Representation
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features have been successfully employed in recent works as an image descriptor for various vision tasks. But the inability of the deep CNN features to exhibit invariance to geometric transformations and object compositions poses a great challenge for image search. In this work, we de...
computer science
25,093
WxBS: Wide Baseline Stereo Generalizations
cs.CV
We have presented a new problem -- the wide multiple baseline stereo (WxBS) -- which considers matching of images that simultaneously differ in more than one image acquisition factor such as viewpoint, illumination, sensor type or where object appearance changes significantly, e.g. over time. A new dataset with the gro...
computer science
25,094
Differential Recurrent Neural Networks for Action Recognition
cs.CV
The long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network is capable of processing complex sequential information since it utilizes special gating schemes for learning representations from long input sequences. It has the potential to model any sequential time-series data, where the current hidden state has to be considered in ...
computer science
25,095
Adaptive Locally Affine-Invariant Shape Matching
cs.CV
Matching deformable objects using their shapes is an important problem in computer vision since shape is perhaps the most distinguishable characteristic of an object. The problem is difficult due to many factors such as intra-class variations, local deformations, articulations, viewpoint changes and missed and extraneo...
computer science
25,096
SIFT Vs SURF: Quantifying the Variation in Transformations
cs.CV
This paper studies the robustness of SIFT and SURF against different image transforms (rigid body, similarity, affine and projective) by quantitatively analyzing the variations in the extent of transformations. Previous studies have been comparing the two techniques on absolute transformations rather than the specific ...
computer science
25,097
TurkerGaze: Crowdsourcing Saliency with Webcam based Eye Tracking
cs.CV
Traditional eye tracking requires specialized hardware, which means collecting gaze data from many observers is expensive, tedious and slow. Therefore, existing saliency prediction datasets are order-of-magnitudes smaller than typical datasets for other vision recognition tasks. The small size of these datasets limits ...
computer science
25,098
Fast Dictionary Matching for Content-based Image Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper describes a method for searching for common sets of descriptors between collections of images. The presented method operates on local interest keypoints, which are generated using the SURF algorithm. The use of a dictionary of descriptors allowed achieving good performance of the content-based image retrieva...
computer science
25,099
Detection and Recognition of Malaysian Special License Plate Based On SIFT Features
cs.CV
Automated car license plate recognition systems are developed and applied for purpose of facilitating the surveillance, law enforcement, access control and intelligent transportation monitoring with least human intervention. In this paper, an algorithm based on SIFT feature points clustering and matching is proposed to...
computer science
25,100
Compression Artifacts Reduction by a Deep Convolutional Network
cs.CV
Lossy compression introduces complex compression artifacts, particularly the blocking artifacts, ringing effects and blurring. Existing algorithms either focus on removing blocking artifacts and produce blurred output, or restores sharpened images that are accompanied with ringing effects. Inspired by the deep convolut...
computer science
25,101
SegSALSA-STR: A convex formulation to supervised hyperspectral image segmentation using hidden fields and structure tensor regularization
cs.CV
We present a supervised hyperspectral image segmentation algorithm based on a convex formulation of a marginal maximum a posteriori segmentation with hidden fields and structure tensor regularization: Segmentation via the Constraint Split Augmented Lagrangian Shrinkage by Structure Tensor Regularization (SegSALSA-STR)....
computer science