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Cascaded Sparse Spatial Bins for Efficient and Effective Generic Object Detection
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A novel efficient method for extraction of object proposals is introduced. Its "objectness" function exploits deep spatial pyramid features, a novel fast-to-compute HoG-based edge statistic and the EdgeBoxes score. The efficiency is achieved by the use of spatial bins in a novel combination with sparsity-inducing group...
computer science
25,103
Shape Representation and Classification through Pattern Spectrum and Local Binary Pattern - A Decision Level Fusion Approach
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a decision level fused local Morphological Pattern Spectrum(PS) and Local Binary Pattern (LBP) approach for an efficient shape representation and classification. This method makes use of Earth Movers Distance(EMD) as the measure in feature matching and shape retrieval process. The proposed app...
computer science
25,104
Combining Local Appearance and Holistic View: Dual-Source Deep Neural Networks for Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We propose a new learning-based method for estimating 2D human pose from a single image, using Dual-Source Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DS-CNN). Recently, many methods have been developed to estimate human pose by using pose priors that are estimated from physiologically inspired graphical models or learned from...
computer science
25,105
Dynamic Body VSLAM with Semantic Constraints
cs.CV
Image based reconstruction of urban environments is a challenging problem that deals with optimization of large number of variables, and has several sources of errors like the presence of dynamic objects. Since most large scale approaches make the assumption of observing static scenes, dynamic objects are relegated to ...
computer science
25,106
Mid-level Elements for Object Detection
cs.CV
Building on the success of recent discriminative mid-level elements, we propose a surprisingly simple approach for object detection which performs comparable to the current state-of-the-art approaches on PASCAL VOC comp-3 detection challenge (no external data). Through extensive experiments and ablation analysis, we sh...
computer science
25,107
Convolutional Channel Features
cs.CV
Deep learning methods are powerful tools but often suffer from expensive computation and limited flexibility. An alternative is to combine light-weight models with deep representations. As successful cases exist in several visual problems, a unified framework is absent. In this paper, we revisit two widely used approac...
computer science
25,108
Embedded Platforms for Computer Vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems: a Survey
cs.CV
Computer Vision, either alone or combined with other technologies such as radar or Lidar, is one of the key technologies used in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Its role understanding and analysing the driving scene is of great importance as it can be noted by the number of ADAS applications that use this te...
computer science
25,109
Identifying Reliable Annotations for Large Scale Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Challenging computer vision tasks, in particular semantic image segmentation, require large training sets of annotated images. While obtaining the actual images is often unproblematic, creating the necessary annotation is a tedious and costly process. Therefore, one often has to work with unreliable annotation sources,...
computer science
25,110
Compact CNN for Indexing Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
While egocentric video is becoming increasingly popular, browsing it is very difficult. In this paper we present a compact 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for long-term activity recognition in egocentric videos. Recognizing long-term activities enables us to temporally segment (index) long and unstru...
computer science
25,111
Speeding Up Neural Networks for Large Scale Classification using WTA Hashing
cs.CV
In this paper we propose to use the Winner Takes All hashing technique to speed up forward propagation and backward propagation in fully connected layers in convolutional neural networks. The proposed technique reduces significantly the computational complexity, which in turn, allows us to train layers with a large num...
computer science
25,112
A Robust Lane Detection and Departure Warning System
cs.CV
In this work, we have developed a robust lane detection and departure warning technique. Our system is based on single camera sensor. For lane detection a modified Inverse Perspective Mapping using only a few extrinsic camera parameters and illuminant Invariant techniques is used. Lane markings are represented using a ...
computer science
25,113
Intelligent Health Recommendation System for Computer Users
cs.CV
The time people spend in front of computers has been increasing steadily due to the role computers play in modern society. Individuals who sit in front of computers for an extended period of time, specifically with improper postures may incur various health issues. In this work, individuals' behaviors in front of compu...
computer science
25,114
Bilinear CNNs for Fine-grained Visual Recognition
cs.CV
We present a simple and effective architecture for fine-grained visual recognition called Bilinear Convolutional Neural Networks (B-CNNs). These networks represent an image as a pooled outer product of features derived from two CNNs and capture localized feature interactions in a translationally invariant manner. B-CNN...
computer science
25,115
Comparative study of image registration techniques for bladder video-endoscopy
cs.CV
Bladder cancer is widely spread in the world. Many adequate diagnosis techniques exist. Video-endoscopy remains the standard clinical procedure for visual exploration of the bladder internal surface. However, video-endoscopy presents the limit that the imaged area for each image is about nearly 1cm2. And, lesions are, ...
computer science
25,116
A Flexible Tensor Block Coordinate Ascent Scheme for Hypergraph Matching
cs.CV
The estimation of correspondences between two images resp. point sets is a core problem in computer vision. One way to formulate the problem is graph matching leading to the quadratic assignment problem which is NP-hard. Several so called second order methods have been proposed to solve this problem. In recent years hy...
computer science
25,117
Robust hyperspectral image classification with rejection fields
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel method for robust hyperspectral image classification using context and rejection. Hyperspectral image classification is generally an ill-posed image problem where pixels may belong to unknown classes, and obtaining representative and complete training sets is costly. Furthermore, the ne...
computer science
25,118
Patch-based Convolutional Neural Network for Whole Slide Tissue Image Classification
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks. However, to recognize cancer subtypes automatically, training a CNN on gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Tissue Images (WSI) is currently computationally impossible. The differentiation of cancer subtypes is based on cel...
computer science
25,119
Exploring Integral Image Word Length Reduction Techniques for SURF Detector
cs.CV
Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) is a state of the art computer vision algorithm that relies on integral image representation for performing fast detection and description of image features that are scale and rotation invariant. Integral image representation, however, has major draw back of large binary word length th...
computer science
25,120
Hardware based Scale- and Rotation-Invariant Feature Extraction: A Retrospective Analysis and Future Directions
cs.CV
Computer Vision techniques represent a class of algorithms that are highly computation and data intensive in nature. Generally, performance of these algorithms in terms of execution speed on desktop computers is far from real-time. Since real-time performance is desirable in many applications, special-purpose hardware ...
computer science
25,121
Anticipating Visual Representations from Unlabeled Video
cs.CV
Anticipating actions and objects before they start or appear is a difficult problem in computer vision with several real-world applications. This task is challenging partly because it requires leveraging extensive knowledge of the world that is difficult to write down. We believe that a promising resource for efficient...
computer science
25,122
Fast R-CNN
cs.CV
This paper proposes a Fast Region-based Convolutional Network method (Fast R-CNN) for object detection. Fast R-CNN builds on previous work to efficiently classify object proposals using deep convolutional networks. Compared to previous work, Fast R-CNN employs several innovations to improve training and testing speed w...
computer science
25,123
Predicting People's 3D Poses from Short Sequences
cs.CV
We propose an efficient approach to exploiting motion information from consecutive frames of a video sequence to recover the 3D pose of people. Instead of computing candidate poses in individual frames and then linking them, as is often done, we regress directly from a spatio-temporal block of frames to a 3D pose in th...
computer science
25,124
Neural Activation Constellations: Unsupervised Part Model Discovery with Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Part models of object categories are essential for challenging recognition tasks, where differences in categories are subtle and only reflected in appearances of small parts of the object. We present an approach that is able to learn part models in a completely unsupervised manner, without part annotations and even wit...
computer science
25,125
Efficient Image-Space Extraction and Representation of 3D Surface Topography
cs.CV
Surface topography refers to the geometric micro-structure of a surface and defines its tactile characteristics (typically in the sub-millimeter range). High-resolution 3D scanning techniques developed recently enable the 3D reconstruction of surfaces including their surface topography. In his paper, we present an effi...
computer science
25,126
PerforatedCNNs: Acceleration through Elimination of Redundant Convolutions
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach to reduce the computational cost of evaluation of convolutional neural networks, a factor that has hindered their deployment in low-power devices such as mobile phones. Inspired by the loop perforation technique from source code optimization, we speed up the bottleneck convolutional layers b...
computer science
25,127
Bag-of-Genres for Video Genre Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper presents a higher level representation for videos aiming at video genre retrieval. In video genre retrieval, there is a challenge that videos may comprise multiple categories, for instance, news videos may be composed of sports, documentary, and action. Therefore, it is interesting to encode the distribution...
computer science
25,128
A Review of Feature and Data Fusion with Medical Images
cs.CV
The fusion techniques that utilize multiple feature sets to form new features that are often more robust and contain useful information for future processing are referred to as feature fusion. The term data fusion is applied to the class of techniques used for combining decisions obtained from multiple feature sets to ...
computer science
25,129
Using curvature to distinguish between surface reflections and vessel contents in computer vision based recognition of materials in transparent vessels
cs.CV
The recognition of materials and objects inside transparent containers using computer vision has a wide range of applications, ranging from industrial bottles filling to the automation of chemistry laboratory. One of the main challenges in such recognition is the ability to distinguish between image features resulting ...
computer science
25,130
RBIR using Interest Regions and Binary Signatures
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce an approach to overcome the low accuracy of the Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) (when using the global features). To increase the accuracy, we use Harris-Laplace detector to identify the interest regions of image. Then, we build the Region-Based Image Retrieval (RBIR). For the efficient...
computer science
25,131
Hierarchical structure-and-motion recovery from uncalibrated images
cs.CV
This paper addresses the structure-and-motion problem, that requires to find camera motion and 3D struc- ture from point matches. A new pipeline, dubbed Samantha, is presented, that departs from the prevailing sequential paradigm and embraces instead a hierarchical approach. This method has several advantages, like a p...
computer science
25,132
An Efficient Algorithm for Video Super-Resolution Based On a Sequential Model
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a novel procedure for video super-resolution, that is the recovery of a sequence of high-resolution images from its low-resolution counterpart. Our approach is based on a "sequential" model (i.e., each high-resolution frame is supposed to be a displaced version of the preceding one) and conside...
computer science
25,133
Robust Face Recognition with Structural Binary Gradient Patterns
cs.CV
This paper presents a computationally efficient yet powerful binary framework for robust facial representation based on image gradients. It is termed as structural binary gradient patterns (SBGP). To discover underlying local structures in the gradient domain, we compute image gradients from multiple directions and sim...
computer science
25,134
What Makes Kevin Spacey Look Like Kevin Spacey
cs.CV
We reconstruct a controllable model of a person from a large photo collection that captures his or her {\em persona}, i.e., physical appearance and behavior. The ability to operate on unstructured photo collections enables modeling a huge number of people, including celebrities and other well photographed people withou...
computer science
25,135
Image Retrieval Based on Binary Signature ang S-kGraph
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce an optimum approach for querying similar images on large digital-image databases. Our work is based on RBIR (region-based image retrieval) method which uses multiple regions as the key to retrieval images. This method significantly improves the accuracy of queries. However, this also increas...
computer science
25,136
Classify Images with Conceptor Network
cs.CV
This article demonstrates a new conceptor network based classifier in classifying images. Mathematical descriptions and analysis are presented. Various tests are experimented using three benchmark datasets: MNIST, CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100. The experiments displayed that conceptor network can offer superior results and fl...
computer science
25,137
Facial Expressions Tracking and Recognition: Database Protocols for Systems Validation and Evaluation
cs.CV
Each human face is unique. It has its own shape, topology, and distinguishing features. As such, developing and testing facial tracking systems are challenging tasks. The existing face recognition and tracking algorithms in Computer Vision mainly specify concrete situations according to particular goals and application...
computer science
25,138
Bilinear Random Projections for Locality-Sensitive Binary Codes
cs.CV
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) is a popular data-independent indexing method for approximate similarity search, where random projections followed by quantization hash the points from the database so as to ensure that the probability of collision is much higher for objects that are close to each other than for those t...
computer science
25,139
Hyperspectral Image Classification and Clutter Detection via Multiple Structural Embeddings and Dimension Reductions
cs.CV
We present a new and effective approach for Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification and clutter detection, overcoming a few long-standing challenges presented by HSI data characteristics. Residing in a high-dimensional spectral attribute space, HSI data samples are known to be strongly correlated in their spectral sig...
computer science
25,140
Unsupervised domain adaption dictionary learning for visual recognition
cs.CV
Over the last years, dictionary learning method has been extensively applied to deal with various computer vision recognition applications, and produced state-of-the-art results. However, when the data instances of a target domain have a different distribution than that of a source domain, the dictionary learning metho...
computer science
25,141
What value do explicit high level concepts have in vision to language problems?
cs.CV
Much of the recent progress in Vision-to-Language (V2L) problems has been achieved through a combination of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). This approach does not explicitly represent high-level semantic concepts, but rather seeks to progress directly from image features to te...
computer science
25,142
Understanding deep features with computer-generated imagery
cs.CV
We introduce an approach for analyzing the variation of features generated by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with respect to scene factors that occur in natural images. Such factors may include object style, 3D viewpoint, color, and scene lighting configuration. Our approach analyzes CNN feature responses corresp...
computer science
25,143
Color Image Retrieval Using Fuzzy Measure Hamming and S-Tree
cs.CV
This chapter approaches the image retrieval system on the base of the colors of image. It creates fuzzy signature to describe the color of image on color space HSV and builds fuzzy Hamming distance (FHD) to evaluate the similarity between the images. In order to reduce the storage space and speed up the search of simil...
computer science
25,144
One-to-many face recognition with bilinear CNNs
cs.CV
The recent explosive growth in convolutional neural network (CNN) research has produced a variety of new architectures for deep learning. One intriguing new architecture is the bilinear CNN (B-CNN), which has shown dramatic performance gains on certain fine-grained recognition problems [15]. We apply this new CNN to th...
computer science
25,145
Recognition of Changes in SAR Images Based on Gauss-Log Ratio and MRFFCM
cs.CV
A modified version of MRFFCM (Markov Random Field Fuzzy C means) based SAR (Synthetic aperture Radar) image change detection method is proposed in this paper. It involves three steps: Difference Image (DI) generation by using Gauss-log ratio operator, speckle noise reduction by SRAD (Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffus...
computer science
25,146
Comparing the Performance of L*A*B* and HSV Color Spaces with Respect to Color Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Color image segmentation is a very emerging topic for image processing research. Since it has the ability to present the result in a way that is much more close to the human yes perceive, so todays more research is going on this area. Choosing a proper color space is a very important issue for color image segmentation ...
computer science
25,147
Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks
cs.CV
State-of-the-art object detection networks depend on region proposal algorithms to hypothesize object locations. Advances like SPPnet and Fast R-CNN have reduced the running time of these detection networks, exposing region proposal computation as a bottleneck. In this work, we introduce a Region Proposal Network (RPN)...
computer science
25,148
Multilayer Structured NMF for Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral Images
cs.CV
One of the challenges in hyperspectral data analysis is the presence of mixed pixels. Mixed pixels are the result of low spatial resolution of hyperspectral sensors. Spectral unmixing methods decompose a mixed pixel into a set of endmembers and abundance fractions. Due to nonnegativity constraint on abundance fraction ...
computer science
25,149
A Novel Approach Towards Clustering Based Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In computer vision, image segmentation is always selected as a major research topic by researchers. Due to its vital rule in image processing, there always arises the need of a better image segmentation method. Clustering is an unsupervised study with its application in almost every field of science and engineering. Ma...
computer science
25,150
Learning to track for spatio-temporal action localization
cs.CV
We propose an effective approach for spatio-temporal action localization in realistic videos. The approach first detects proposals at the frame-level and scores them with a combination of static and motion CNN features. It then tracks high-scoring proposals throughout the video using a tracking-by-detection approach. O...
computer science
25,151
Facial Expressions recognition Based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
cs.CV
The facial expression recognition is an ocular task that can be performed without human discomfort, is really a speedily growing on the computer research field. There are many applications and programs uses facial expression to evaluate human character, judgment, feelings, and viewpoint. The process of recognizing faci...
computer science
25,152
Spatial Transformer Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks define an exceptionally powerful class of models, but are still limited by the lack of ability to be spatially invariant to the input data in a computationally and parameter efficient manner. In this work we introduce a new learnable module, the Spatial Transformer, which explicitly allows...
computer science
25,153
Sentence Directed Video Object Codetection
cs.CV
We tackle the problem of video object codetection by leveraging the weak semantic constraint implied by sentences that describe the video content. Unlike most existing work that focuses on codetecting large objects which are usually salient both in size and appearance, we can codetect objects that are small or medium s...
computer science
25,154
What's the Point: Semantic Segmentation with Point Supervision
cs.CV
The semantic image segmentation task presents a trade-off between test time accuracy and training-time annotation cost. Detailed per-pixel annotations enable training accurate models but are very time-consuming to obtain, image-level class labels are an order of magnitude cheaper but result in less accurate models. We ...
computer science
25,155
Color Constancy by Learning to Predict Chromaticity from Luminance
cs.CV
Color constancy is the recovery of true surface color from observed color, and requires estimating the chromaticity of scene illumination to correct for the bias it induces. In this paper, we show that the per-pixel color statistics of natural scenes---without any spatial or semantic context---can by themselves be a po...
computer science
25,156
Capturing Hands in Action using Discriminative Salient Points and Physics Simulation
cs.CV
Hand motion capture is a popular research field, recently gaining more attention due to the ubiquity of RGB-D sensors. However, even most recent approaches focus on the case of a single isolated hand. In this work, we focus on hands that interact with other hands or objects and present a framework that successfully cap...
computer science
25,157
First-Take-All: Temporal Order-Preserving Hashing for 3D Action Videos
cs.CV
With the prevalence of the commodity depth cameras, the new paradigm of user interfaces based on 3D motion capturing and recognition have dramatically changed the way of interactions between human and computers. Human action recognition, as one of the key components in these devices, plays an important role to guarante...
computer science
25,158
Describing Common Human Visual Actions in Images
cs.CV
Which common human actions and interactions are recognizable in monocular still images? Which involve objects and/or other people? How many is a person performing at a time? We address these questions by exploring the actions and interactions that are detectable in the images of the MS COCO dataset. We make two main co...
computer science
25,159
Boosting Optical Character Recognition: A Super-Resolution Approach
cs.CV
Text image super-resolution is a challenging yet open research problem in the computer vision community. In particular, low-resolution images hamper the performance of typical optical character recognition (OCR) systems. In this article, we summarize our entry to the ICDAR2015 Competition on Text Image Super-Resolution...
computer science
25,160
Well-posedness of a nonlinear integro-differential problem and its rearranged formulation
cs.CV
We study the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a nonlinear integro-differential problem which we reformulate introducing the notion of the decreasing rearrangement of the solution. A dimensional reduction of the problem is obtained and a detailed analysis of the properties of the solutions of the model is provid...
computer science
25,161
Randomized Structural Sparsity based Support Identification with Applications to Locating Activated or Discriminative Brain Areas: A Multi-center Reproducibility Study
cs.CV
In this paper, we focus on how to locate the relevant or discriminative brain regions related with external stimulus or certain mental decease, which is also called support identification, based on the neuroimaging data. The main difficulty lies in the extremely high dimensional voxel space and relatively few training ...
computer science
25,162
EventNet: A Large Scale Structured Concept Library for Complex Event Detection in Video
cs.CV
Event-specific concepts are the semantic concepts designed for the events of interest, which can be used as a mid-level representation of complex events in videos. Existing methods only focus on defining event-specific concepts for a small number of predefined events, but cannot handle novel unseen events. This motivat...
computer science
25,163
Wavelets and continuous wavelet transform for autostereoscopic multiview images
cs.CV
Recently, the reference functions for the synthesis and analysis of the autostereoscopic multiview and integral images in three-dimensional displays we introduced. In the current paper, we propose the wavelets to analyze such images. The wavelets are built on the reference functions as on the scaling functions of the w...
computer science
25,164
Reflection Invariance: an important consideration of image orientation
cs.CV
In this position paper, we consider the state of computer vision research with respect to invariance to the horizontal orientation of an image -- what we term reflection invariance. We describe why we consider reflection invariance to be an important property and provide evidence where the absence of this invariance pr...
computer science
25,165
Fast ConvNets Using Group-wise Brain Damage
cs.CV
We revisit the idea of brain damage, i.e. the pruning of the coefficients of a neural network, and suggest how brain damage can be modified and used to speedup convolutional layers. The approach uses the fact that many efficient implementations reduce generalized convolutions to matrix multiplications. The suggested br...
computer science
25,166
Circulant temporal encoding for video retrieval and temporal alignment
cs.CV
We address the problem of specific video event retrieval. Given a query video of a specific event, e.g., a concert of Madonna, the goal is to retrieve other videos of the same event that temporally overlap with the query. Our approach encodes the frame descriptors of a video to jointly represent their appearance and te...
computer science
25,167
You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection
cs.CV
We present YOLO, a new approach to object detection. Prior work on object detection repurposes classifiers to perform detection. Instead, we frame object detection as a regression problem to spatially separated bounding boxes and associated class probabilities. A single neural network predicts bounding boxes and class ...
computer science
25,168
Fast Geometric Fit Algorithm for Sphere Using Exact Solution
cs.CV
Sphere fitting is a common problem in almost all science and engineering disciplines. Most of methods available are iterative in behavior. This involves fitting of the parameters in a least square sense or in a geometric sense. Here we extend the methods of Thomas Chan and Landau who fitted the 2D data using circle. Th...
computer science
25,169
Flowing ConvNets for Human Pose Estimation in Videos
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The objective of this work is human pose estimation in videos, where multiple frames are available. We investigate a ConvNet architecture that is able to benefit from temporal context by combining information across the multiple frames using optical flow. To this end we propose a network architecture with the followi...
computer science
25,170
Compact Shape Trees: A Contribution to the Forest of Shape Correspondences and Matching Methods
cs.CV
We propose a novel technique, termed compact shape trees, for computing correspondences of single-boundary 2-D shapes in O(n2) time. Together with zero or more features defined at each of n sample points on the shape's boundary, the compact shape tree of a shape comprises the O(n) collection of vectors emanating from a...
computer science
25,171
Learning to Linearize Under Uncertainty
cs.CV
Training deep feature hierarchies to solve supervised learning tasks has achieved state of the art performance on many problems in computer vision. However, a principled way in which to train such hierarchies in the unsupervised setting has remained elusive. In this work we suggest a new architecture and loss for train...
computer science
25,172
License Plate Recognition System Based on Color Coding Of License Plates
cs.CV
License Plate Recognition Systems are used to determine the license plate number of a vehicle. The current system mainly uses Optical Character Recognition to recognize the number plate. There are several problems to this system. Some of them include interchanging of several letters or numbers (letter O with digit 0), ...
computer science
25,173
ICDAR 2015 Text Reading in the Wild Competition
cs.CV
Recently, text detection and recognition in natural scenes are becoming increasing popular in the computer vision community as well as the document analysis community. However, majority of the existing ideas, algorithms and systems are specifically designed for English. This technical report presents the final results ...
computer science
25,174
Wide baseline stereo matching with convex bounded-distortion constraints
cs.CV
Finding correspondences in wide baseline setups is a challenging problem. Existing approaches have focused largely on developing better feature descriptors for correspondence and on accurate recovery of epipolar line constraints. This paper focuses on the challenging problem of finding correspondences once approximate ...
computer science
25,175
LSUN: Construction of a Large-scale Image Dataset using Deep Learning with Humans in the Loop
cs.CV
While there has been remarkable progress in the performance of visual recognition algorithms, the state-of-the-art models tend to be exceptionally data-hungry. Large labeled training datasets, expensive and tedious to produce, are required to optimize millions of parameters in deep network models. Lagging behind the gr...
computer science
25,176
Image Tag Completion and Refinement by Subspace Clustering and Matrix Completion
cs.CV
Tag-based image retrieval (TBIR) has drawn much attention in recent years due to the explosive amount of digital images and crowdsourcing tags. However, the TBIR applications still suffer from the deficient and inaccurate tags provided by users. Inspired by the subspace clustering methods, we formulate the tag completi...
computer science
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BoWFire: Detection of Fire in Still Images by Integrating Pixel Color and Texture Analysis
cs.CV
Emergency events involving fire are potentially harmful, demanding a fast and precise decision making. The use of crowdsourcing image and videos on crisis management systems can aid in these situations by providing more information than verbal/textual descriptions. Due to the usual high volume of data, automatic soluti...
computer science
25,178
P-CNN: Pose-based CNN Features for Action Recognition
cs.CV
This work targets human action recognition in video. While recent methods typically represent actions by statistics of local video features, here we argue for the importance of a representation derived from human pose. To this end we propose a new Pose-based Convolutional Neural Network descriptor (P-CNN) for action re...
computer science
25,179
Pose-Invariant 3D Face Alignment
cs.CV
Face alignment aims to estimate the locations of a set of landmarks for a given image. This problem has received much attention as evidenced by the recent advancement in both the methodology and performance. However, most of the existing works neither explicitly handle face images with arbitrary poses, nor perform larg...
computer science
25,180
Techniques for effective and efficient fire detection from social media images
cs.CV
Social media could provide valuable information to support decision making in crisis management, such as in accidents, explosions and fires. However, much of the data from social media are images, which are uploaded in a rate that makes it impossible for human beings to analyze them. Despite the many works on image ana...
computer science
25,181
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Cephalometric Landmark Detection
cs.CV
Cephalometric analysis has an important role in dentistry and especially in orthodontics as a treatment planning tool to gauge the size and special relationships of the teeth, jaws and cranium. The first step of using such analyses is localizing some important landmarks known as cephalometric landmarks on craniofacial ...
computer science
25,182
Technical Report: Image Captioning with Semantically Similar Images
cs.CV
This report presents our submission to the MS COCO Captioning Challenge 2015. The method uses Convolutional Neural Network activations as an embedding to find semantically similar images. From these images, the most typical caption is selected based on unigram frequencies. Although the method received low scores with a...
computer science
25,183
Towards Benchmarking Scene Background Initialization
cs.CV
Given a set of images of a scene taken at different times, the availability of an initial background model that describes the scene without foreground objects is the prerequisite for a wide range of applications, ranging from video surveillance to computational photography. Even though several methods have been propose...
computer science
25,184
Deep Structured Models For Group Activity Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a deep neural-network-based hierarchical graphical model for individual and group activity recognition in surveillance scenes. Deep networks are used to recognize the actions of individual people in a scene. Next, a neural-network-based hierarchical graphical model refines the predicted labels for e...
computer science
25,185
Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting
cs.CV
The goal of precipitation nowcasting is to predict the future rainfall intensity in a local region over a relatively short period of time. Very few previous studies have examined this crucial and challenging weather forecasting problem from the machine learning perspective. In this paper, we formulate precipitation now...
computer science
25,186
Combinatorial Energy Learning for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We introduce a new machine learning approach for image segmentation that uses a neural network to model the conditional energy of a segmentation given an image. Our approach, combinatorial energy learning for image segmentation (CELIS) places a particular emphasis on modeling the inherent combinatorial nature of dense ...
computer science
25,187
Resolving Scale Ambiguity Via XSlit Aspect Ratio Analysis
cs.CV
In perspective cameras, images of a frontal-parallel 3D object preserve its aspect ratio invariant to its depth. Such an invariance is useful in photography but is unique to perspective projection. In this paper, we show that alternative non-perspective cameras such as the crossed-slit or XSlit cameras exhibit a differ...
computer science
25,188
Deep Secure Encoding: An Application to Face Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we present Deep Secure Encoding: a framework for secure classification using deep neural networks, and apply it to the task of biometric template protection for faces. Using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), we learn a robust mapping of face classes to high entropy secure codes. These secure code...
computer science
25,189
Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences
cs.CV
We develop a Deep-Text Recurrent Network (DTRN) that regards scene text reading as a sequence labelling problem. We leverage recent advances of deep convolutional neural networks to generate an ordered high-level sequence from a whole word image, avoiding the difficult character segmentation problem. Then a deep recurr...
computer science
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A Survey of Multithreading Image Analysis
cs.CV
Digital image analysis has made a big advance in many areas of enterprise applications including medicine, industry, and entertainment by assisting the extraction of semantic information from digital images. However, its large computational complexity has been a trouble to most real-time developments. While image analy...
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Circle-based Eye Center Localization (CECL)
cs.CV
We propose an improved eye center localization method based on the Hough transform, called Circle-based Eye Center Localization (CECL) that is simple, robust, and achieves accuracy on a par with typically more complex state-of-the-art methods. The CECL method relies on color and shape cues that distinguish the iris fro...
computer science
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ParseNet: Looking Wider to See Better
cs.CV
We present a technique for adding global context to deep convolutional networks for semantic segmentation. The approach is simple, using the average feature for a layer to augment the features at each location. In addition, we study several idiosyncrasies of training, significantly increasing the performance of baselin...
computer science
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Flow Segmentation in Dense Crowds
cs.CV
A framework is proposed in this paper that is used to segment flow of dense crowds. The flow field that is generated by the movement in the crowd is treated just like an aperiodic dynamic system. On this flow field a grid of particles is put over for particle advection by the use of a numerical integration scheme. Then...
computer science
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Thin Structure Estimation with Curvature Regularization
cs.CV
Many applications in vision require estimation of thin structures such as boundary edges, surfaces, roads, blood vessels, neurons, etc. Unlike most previous approaches, we simultaneously detect and delineate thin structures with sub-pixel localization and real-valued orientation estimation. This is an ill-posed problem...
computer science
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Leveraging the Power of Gabor Phase for Face Identification: A Block Matching Approach
cs.CV
Different from face verification, face identification is much more demanding. To reach comparable performance, an identifier needs to be roughly N times better than a verifier. To expect a breakthrough in face identification, we need a fresh look at the fundamental building blocks of face recognition. In this paper we ...
computer science
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Multi-path Convolutional Neural Networks for Complex Image Classification
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks demonstrate high performance on ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenges contest. Nevertheless, the published results only show the overall performance for all image classes. There is no further analysis why certain images get worse results and how they could be improved. In this...
computer science
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Slow and steady feature analysis: higher order temporal coherence in video
cs.CV
How can unlabeled video augment visual learning? Existing methods perform "slow" feature analysis, encouraging the representations of temporally close frames to exhibit only small differences. While this standard approach captures the fact that high-level visual signals change slowly over time, it fails to capture *how...
computer science
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Automatic Layer Separation using Light Field Imaging
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach that jointly removes reflection or translucent layer from a scene and estimates scene depth. The input data are captured via light field imaging. The problem is couched as minimizing the rank of the transmitted scene layer via Robust Principle Component Analysis (RPCA). We also impose regula...
computer science
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Layered Interpretation of Street View Images
cs.CV
We propose a layered street view model to encode both depth and semantic information on street view images for autonomous driving. Recently, stixels, stix-mantics, and tiered scene labeling methods have been proposed to model street view images. We propose a 4-layer street view model, a compact representation over the ...
computer science
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Evaluation of Denoising Techniques for EOG signals based on SNR Estimation
cs.CV
This paper evaluates four algorithms for denoising raw Electrooculography (EOG) data based on the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR). The SNR is computed using the eigenvalue method. The filtering algorithms are a) Finite Impulse Response (FIR) bandpass filters, b) Stationary Wavelet Transform, c) Empirical Mode Decomposition...
computer science
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End-to-end people detection in crowded scenes
cs.CV
Current people detectors operate either by scanning an image in a sliding window fashion or by classifying a discrete set of proposals. We propose a model that is based on decoding an image into a set of people detections. Our system takes an image as input and directly outputs a set of distinct detection hypotheses. B...
computer science