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Subsampled terahertz data reconstruction based on spatio-temporal dictionary learning
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of terahertz pulsed imaging and reconstruction is addressed. It is assumed that an incomplete (subsampled) three dimensional THz data set has been acquired and the aim is to recover all missing samples. A sparsity-inducing approach is proposed for this purpose. First, a simple interpolation i...
computer science
25,203
Decoupled Deep Neural Network for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose a novel deep neural network architecture for semi-supervised semantic segmentation using heterogeneous annotations. Contrary to existing approaches posing semantic segmentation as a single task of region-based classification, our algorithm decouples classification and segmentation, and learns a separate netw...
computer science
25,204
Histopathological Image Classification using Discriminative Feature-oriented Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
In histopathological image analysis, feature extraction for classification is a challenging task due to the diversity of histology features suitable for each problem as well as presence of rich geometrical structures. In this paper, we propose an automatic feature discovery framework via learning class-specific diction...
computer science
25,205
Depth Perception in Autostereograms: 1/f-Noise is Best
cs.CV
An autostereogram is a single image that encodes depth information that pops out when looking at it. The trick is achieved by replicating a vertical strip that sets a basic two-dimensional pattern with disparity shifts that encode a three-dimensional scene. It is of interest to explore the dependency between the ease o...
computer science
25,206
Extract an essential skeleton of a character as a graph from a character image
cs.CV
This paper aims to make a graph representing an essential skeleton of a character from an image that includes a machine printed or a handwritten character using the growing neural gas (GNG) method and the relative neighborhood graph (RNG) algorithm. The visual system in our brain can recognize printed characters and ha...
computer science
25,207
Robust High Quality Image Guided Depth Upsampling
cs.CV
Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensing camera is able to obtain depth maps at a high frame rate. However, its low resolution and sensitivity to the noise are always a concern. A popular solution is upsampling the obtained noisy low resolution depth map with the guidance of the companion high resolution color image. However...
computer science
25,208
A Discriminative Representation of Convolutional Features for Indoor Scene Recognition
cs.CV
Indoor scene recognition is a multi-faceted and challenging problem due to the diverse intra-class variations and the confusing inter-class similarities. This paper presents a novel approach which exploits rich mid-level convolutional features to categorize indoor scenes. Traditionally used convolutional features prese...
computer science
25,209
CFORB: Circular FREAK-ORB Visual Odometry
cs.CV
We present a novel Visual Odometry algorithm entitled Circular FREAK-ORB (CFORB). This algorithm detects features using the well-known ORB algorithm [12] and computes feature descriptors using the FREAK algorithm [14]. CFORB is invariant to both rotation and scale changes, and is suitable for use in environments with u...
computer science
25,210
Partial Functional Correspondence
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for computing partial functional correspondence between non-rigid shapes. We use perturbation analysis to show how removal of shape parts changes the Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions, and exploit it as a prior on the spectral representation of the correspondence. Corresponding parts ar...
computer science
25,211
A Spatial Layout and Scale Invariant Feature Representation for Indoor Scene Classification
cs.CV
Unlike standard object classification, where the image to be classified contains one or multiple instances of the same object, indoor scene classification is quite different since the image consists of multiple distinct objects. Further, these objects can be of varying sizes and are present across numerous spatial loca...
computer science
25,212
Deep Generative Image Models using a Laplacian Pyramid of Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
In this paper we introduce a generative parametric model capable of producing high quality samples of natural images. Our approach uses a cascade of convolutional networks within a Laplacian pyramid framework to generate images in a coarse-to-fine fashion. At each level of the pyramid, a separate generative convnet mod...
computer science
25,213
To Know Where We Are: Vision-Based Positioning in Outdoor Environments
cs.CV
Augmented reality (AR) displays become more and more popular recently, because of its high intuitiveness for humans and high-quality head-mounted display have rapidly developed. To achieve such displays with augmented information, highly accurate image registration or ego-positioning are required, but little attention ...
computer science
25,214
New Descriptor for Glomerulus Detection in Kidney Microscopy Image
cs.CV
Glomerulus detection is a key step in histopathological evaluation of microscopy images of kidneys. However, the task of automatic detection of glomeruli poses challenges due to the disparity in sizes and shapes of glomeruli in renal sections. Moreover, extensive variations of their intensities due to heterogeneity in ...
computer science
25,215
Exploring the influence of scale on artist attribution
cs.CV
Previous work has shown that the artist of an artwork can be identified by use of computational methods that analyse digital images. However, the digitised artworks are often investigated at a coarse scale discarding many of the important details that may define an artist's style. In recent years high resolution images...
computer science
25,216
Scene-adaptive Coded Apertures Imaging
cs.CV
Coded aperture imaging systems have recently shown great success in recovering scene depth and extending the depth-of-field. The ideal pattern, however, would have to serve two conflicting purposes: 1) be broadband to ensure robust deconvolution and 2) has sufficient zero-crossings for a high depth discrepancy. This pa...
computer science
25,217
Stereoscopic Cinema
cs.CV
Stereoscopic cinema has seen a surge of activity in recent years, and for the first time all of the major Hollywood studios released 3-D movies in 2009. This is happening alongside the adoption of 3-D technology for sports broadcasting, and the arrival of 3-D TVs for the home. Two previous attempts to introduce 3-D cin...
computer science
25,218
Crowd Flow Segmentation in Compressed Domain using CRF
cs.CV
Crowd flow segmentation is an important step in many video surveillance tasks. In this work, we propose an algorithm for segmenting flows in H.264 compressed videos in a completely unsupervised manner. Our algorithm works on motion vectors which can be obtained by partially decoding the compressed video without extract...
computer science
25,219
moco: Fast Motion Correction for Calcium Imaging
cs.CV
Motion correction is the first in a pipeline of algorithms to analyze calcium imaging videos and extract biologically relevant information, for example the network structure of the neurons therein. Fast motion correction would be especially critical for closed-loop activity triggered stimulation experiments, where accu...
computer science
25,220
Learning to Segment Object Candidates
cs.CV
Recent object detection systems rely on two critical steps: (1) a set of object proposals is predicted as efficiently as possible, and (2) this set of candidate proposals is then passed to an object classifier. Such approaches have been shown they can be fast, while achieving the state of the art in detection performan...
computer science
25,221
3D Reconstruction from Full-view Fisheye Camera
cs.CV
In this report, we proposed a 3D reconstruction method for the full-view fisheye camera. The camera we used is Ricoh Theta, which captures spherical images and has a wide field of view (FOV). The conventional stereo apporach based on perspective camera model cannot be directly applied and instead we used a spherical ca...
computer science
25,222
Filtrated Algebraic Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
Subspace clustering is the problem of clustering data that lie close to a union of linear subspaces. In the abstract form of the problem, where no noise or other corruptions are present, the data are assumed to lie in general position inside the algebraic variety of a union of subspaces, and the objective is to decompo...
computer science
25,223
Mining Mid-level Visual Patterns with Deep CNN Activations
cs.CV
The purpose of mid-level visual element discovery is to find clusters of image patches that are both representative and discriminative. Here we study this problem from the prospective of pattern mining while relying on the recently popularized Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We observe that a fully-connected CNN ...
computer science
25,224
DeepOrgan: Multi-level Deep Convolutional Networks for Automated Pancreas Segmentation
cs.CV
Automatic organ segmentation is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. The pancreas is an abdominal organ with very high anatomical variability. This inhibits previous segmentation methods from achieving high accuracies, especially compared to other organs such as the liver, heart or kidneys. ...
computer science
25,225
Target Tracking In Real Time Surveillance Cameras and Videos
cs.CV
Security concerns has been kept on increasing, so it is important for everyone to keep their property safe from thefts and destruction. So the need for surveillance techniques are also increasing. The system has been developed to detect the motion in a video. A system has been developed for real time applications by us...
computer science
25,226
Adaptive Digital Scan Variable Pixels
cs.CV
The square and rectangular shape of the pixels in the digital images for sensing and display purposes introduces several inaccuracies in the representation of digital images. The major disadvantage of square pixel shapes is the inability to accurately capture and display the details in the objects having variable orien...
computer science
25,227
DeepStereo: Learning to Predict New Views from the World's Imagery
cs.CV
Deep networks have recently enjoyed enormous success when applied to recognition and classification problems in computer vision, but their use in graphics problems has been limited. In this work, we present a novel deep architecture that performs new view synthesis directly from pixels, trained from a large number of p...
computer science
25,228
Autonomous 3D Reconstruction Using a MAV
cs.CV
An approach is proposed for high resolution 3D reconstruction of an object using a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). A system is described which autonomously captures images and performs a dense 3D reconstruction via structure from motion with no prior knowledge of the environment. Only the MAVs own sensors, the front facing ca...
computer science
25,229
Automatic vehicle tracking and recognition from aerial image sequences
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of automated vehicle tracking and recognition from aerial image sequences. Motivated by its successes in the existing literature focus on the use of linear appearance subspaces to describe multi-view object appearance and highlight the challenges involved in their application as a part ...
computer science
25,230
SALSA: A Novel Dataset for Multimodal Group Behavior Analysis
cs.CV
Studying free-standing conversational groups (FCGs) in unstructured social settings (e.g., cocktail party ) is gratifying due to the wealth of information available at the group (mining social networks) and individual (recognizing native behavioral and personality traits) levels. However, analyzing social scenes involv...
computer science
25,231
Person re-identification via efficient inference in fully connected CRF
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of person re-identification problem, i.e., retrieving instances from gallery which are generated by the same person as the given probe image. This is very challenging because the person's appearance usually undergoes significant variations due to changes in illumination, camera ang...
computer science
25,232
R-CNN minus R
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have had a major impact in most areas of image understanding, including object category detection. In object detection, methods such as R-CNN have obtained excellent results by integrating CNNs with region proposal generation algorithms such as selective search. In this paper, ...
computer science
25,233
Improving Fiber Alignment in HARDI by Combining Contextual PDE Flow with Constrained Spherical Deconvolution
cs.CV
We propose two strategies to improve the quality of tractography results computed from diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) data. Both methods are based on the same PDE framework, defined in the coupled space of positions and orientations, associated with a stochastic process describing the enhancemen...
computer science
25,234
Segmentation of Three-dimensional Images with Parametric Active Surfaces and Topology Changes
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a novel parametric method for segmentation of three-dimensional images. We consider a piecewise constant version of the Mumford-Shah and the Chan-Vese functionals and perform a region-based segmentation of 3D image data. An evolution law is derived from energy minimization problems which pus...
computer science
25,235
Deep CNN Ensemble with Data Augmentation for Object Detection
cs.CV
We report on the methods used in our recent DeepEnsembleCoco submission to the PASCAL VOC 2012 challenge, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on the object detection task. Our method is a variant of the R-CNN model proposed Girshick:CVPR14 with two key improvements to training and evaluation. First, our method ...
computer science
25,236
A Novel Feature Extraction Method for Scene Recognition Based on Centered Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machines
cs.CV
Scene recognition is an important research topic in computer vision, while feature extraction is a key step of object recognition. Although classical Restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) can efficiently represent complicated data, it is hard to handle large images due to its complexity in computation. In this paper, a n...
computer science
25,237
Natural Scene Recognition Based on Superpixels and Deep Boltzmann Machines
cs.CV
The Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBM) is a state-of-the-art unsupervised learning model, which has been successfully applied to handwritten digit recognition and, as well as object recognition. However, the DBM is limited in scene recognition due to the fact that natural scene images are usually very large. In this paper, ...
computer science
25,238
Targeting Ultimate Accuracy: Face Recognition via Deep Embedding
cs.CV
Face Recognition has been studied for many decades. As opposed to traditional hand-crafted features such as LBP and HOG, much more sophisticated features can be learned automatically by deep learning methods in a data-driven way. In this paper, we propose a two-stage approach that combines a multi-patch deep CNN and de...
computer science
25,239
Salient Object Detection via Objectness Measure
cs.CV
Salient object detection has become an important task in many image processing applications. The existing approaches exploit background prior and contrast prior to attain state of the art results. In this paper, instead of using background cues, we estimate the foreground regions in an image using objectness proposals ...
computer science
25,240
Kernel Cuts: MRF meets Kernel & Spectral Clustering
cs.CV
We propose a new segmentation model combining common regularization energies, e.g. Markov Random Field (MRF) potentials, and standard pairwise clustering criteria like Normalized Cut (NC), average association (AA), etc. These clustering and regularization models are widely used in machine learning and computer vision, ...
computer science
25,241
Unshredding of Shredded Documents: Computational Framework and Implementation
cs.CV
A shredded document $D$ is a document whose pages have been cut into strips for the purpose of destroying private, confidential, or sensitive information $I$ contained in $D$. Shredding has become a standard means of government organizations, businesses, and private individuals to destroy archival records that have bee...
computer science
25,242
DeepMatching: Hierarchical Deformable Dense Matching
cs.CV
We introduce a novel matching algorithm, called DeepMatching, to compute dense correspondences between images. DeepMatching relies on a hierarchical, multi-layer, correlational architecture designed for matching images and was inspired by deep convolutional approaches. The proposed matching algorithm can handle non-rig...
computer science
25,243
Camera Calibration from Dynamic Silhouettes Using Motion Barcodes
cs.CV
Computing the epipolar geometry between cameras with very different viewpoints is often problematic as matching points are hard to find. In these cases, it has been proposed to use information from dynamic objects in the scene for suggesting point and line correspondences. We propose a speed up of about two orders of...
computer science
25,244
Spectral Collaborative Representation based Classification for Hand Gestures recognition on Electromyography Signals
cs.CV
In this study, we introduce a novel variant and application of the Collaborative Representation based Classification in spectral domain for recognition of the hand gestures using the raw surface Electromyography signals. The intuitive use of spectral features are explained via circulant matrices. The proposed Spectral ...
computer science
25,245
Occlusion Coherence: Detecting and Localizing Occluded Faces
cs.CV
The presence of occluders significantly impacts object recognition accuracy. However, occlusion is typically treated as an unstructured source of noise and explicit models for occluders have lagged behind those for object appearance and shape. In this paper we describe a hierarchical deformable part model for face dete...
computer science
25,246
A note on patch-based low-rank minimization for fast image denoising
cs.CV
Patch-based low-rank minimization for image processing attracts much attention in recent years. The minimization of the matrix rank coupled with the Frobenius norm data fidelity can be solved by the hard thresholding filter with principle component analysis (PCA) or singular value decomposition (SVD). Based on this ide...
computer science
25,247
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing of Video Collections
cs.CV
Human communication typically has an underlying structure. This is reflected in the fact that in many user generated videos, a starting point, ending, and certain objective steps between these two can be identified. In this paper, we propose a method for parsing a video into such semantic steps in an unsupervised way. ...
computer science
25,248
The Multi-Strand Graph for a PTZ Tracker
cs.CV
High-resolution images can be used to resolve matching ambiguities between trajectory fragments (tracklets), which is one of the main challenges in multiple target tracking. A PTZ camera, which can pan, tilt and zoom, is a powerful and efficient tool that offers both close-up views and wide area coverage on demand. The...
computer science
25,249
Tell and Predict: Kernel Classifier Prediction for Unseen Visual Classes from Unstructured Text Descriptions
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a framework for predicting kernelized classifiers in the visual domain for categories with no training images where the knowledge comes from textual description about these categories. Through our optimization framework, the proposed approach is capable of embedding the class-level knowledge fr...
computer science
25,250
Automatic Channel Network Extraction from Remotely Sensed Images by Singularity Analysis
cs.CV
Quantitative analysis of channel networks plays an important role in river studies. To provide a quantitative representation of channel networks, we propose a new method that extracts channels from remotely sensed images and estimates their widths. Our fully automated method is based on a recently proposed Multiscale S...
computer science
25,251
Human Shape Variation - An Efficient Implementation using Skeleton
cs.CV
It is at times important to detect human presence automatically in secure environments. This needs a shape recognition algorithm that is robust, fast and has low error rates. The algorithm needs to process camera images quickly to detect any human in the range of vision, and generate alerts, especially if the object un...
computer science
25,252
An automatic and efficient foreground object extraction scheme
cs.CV
This paper presents a method to differentiate the foreground objects from the background of a color image. Firstly a color image of any size is input for processing. The algorithm converts it to a grayscale image. Next we apply canny edge detector to find the boundary of the foreground object. We concentrate to find th...
computer science
25,253
Spectral Motion Synchronization in SE(3)
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of motion synchronization (or averaging) and describes a simple, closed-form solution based on a spectral decomposition, which does not consider rotation and translation separately but works straight in SE(3), the manifold of rigid motions. Besides its theoretical interest, being the fi...
computer science
25,254
Tracking Direction of Human Movement - An Efficient Implementation using Skeleton
cs.CV
Sometimes a simple and fast algorithm is required to detect human presence and movement with a low error rate in a controlled environment for security purposes. Here a light weight algorithm has been presented that generates alert on detection of human presence and its movement towards a certain direction. The algorith...
computer science
25,255
Long-Range Motion Trajectories Extraction of Articulated Human Using Mesh Evolution
cs.CV
This letter presents a novel approach to extract reliable dense and long-range motion trajectories of articulated human in a video sequence. Compared with existing approaches that emphasize temporal consistency of each tracked point, we also consider the spatial structure of tracked points on the articulated human. We ...
computer science
25,256
Forming A Random Field via Stochastic Cliques: From Random Graphs to Fully Connected Random Fields
cs.CV
Random fields have remained a topic of great interest over past decades for the purpose of structured inference, especially for problems such as image segmentation. The local nodal interactions commonly used in such models often suffer the short-boundary bias problem, which are tackled primarily through the incorporati...
computer science
25,257
Multi-Cue Structure Preserving MRF for Unconstrained Video Segmentation
cs.CV
Video segmentation is a stepping stone to understanding video context. Video segmentation enables one to represent a video by decomposing it into coherent regions which comprise whole or parts of objects. However, the challenge originates from the fact that most of the video segmentation algorithms are based on unsuper...
computer science
25,258
Discovering Characteristic Landmarks on Ancient Coins using Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel method to find characteristic landmarks on ancient Roman imperial coins using deep convolutional neural network models (CNNs). We formulate an optimization problem to discover class-specific regions while guaranteeing specific controlled loss of accuracy. Analysis on visualization of t...
computer science
25,259
Learning to Detect Blue-white Structures in Dermoscopy Images with Weak Supervision
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach to identify one of the most significant dermoscopic criteria in the diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanoma: the Blue-whitish structure. In this paper, we achieve this goal in a Multiple Instance Learning framework using only image-level labels of whether the feature is present or not. As the output...
computer science
25,260
Representing data by sparse combination of contextual data points for classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of using contextual da- ta points of a data point for its classification problem. We propose to represent a data point as the sparse linear reconstruction of its context, and learn the sparse context to gather with a linear classifier in a su- pervised way to increase its discriminat...
computer science
25,261
Supervised Learning of Semantics-Preserving Hash via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper presents a simple yet effective supervised deep hash approach that constructs binary hash codes from labeled data for large-scale image search. We assume that the semantic labels are governed by several latent attributes with each attribute on or off, and classification relies on these attributes. Based on t...
computer science
25,262
Polarimetric Hierarchical Semantic Model and Scattering Mechanism Based PolSAR Image Classification
cs.CV
For polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image classification, it is a challenge to classify the aggregated terrain types, such as the urban area, into semantic homogenous regions due to sharp bright-dark variations in intensity. The aggregated terrain type is formulated by the similar ground objects aggregated together. In this ...
computer science
25,263
Compressive Deconvolution in Medical Ultrasound Imaging
cs.CV
The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small number of measurements and/or using a reduced number of ultrasound pulse emission...
computer science
25,264
Pose Embeddings: A Deep Architecture for Learning to Match Human Poses
cs.CV
We present a method for learning an embedding that places images of humans in similar poses nearby. This embedding can be used as a direct method of comparing images based on human pose, avoiding potential challenges of estimating body joint positions. Pose embedding learning is formulated under a triplet-based distanc...
computer science
25,265
Convolutional Color Constancy
cs.CV
Color constancy is the problem of inferring the color of the light that illuminated a scene, usually so that the illumination color can be removed. Because this problem is underconstrained, it is often solved by modeling the statistical regularities of the colors of natural objects and illumination. In contrast, in thi...
computer science
25,266
Cross Modal Distillation for Supervision Transfer
cs.CV
In this work we propose a technique that transfers supervision between images from different modalities. We use learned representations from a large labeled modality as a supervisory signal for training representations for a new unlabeled paired modality. Our method enables learning of rich representations for unlabele...
computer science
25,267
Fine-grained Recognition Datasets for Biodiversity Analysis
cs.CV
In the following paper, we present and discuss challenging applications for fine-grained visual classification (FGVC): biodiversity and species analysis. We not only give details about two challenging new datasets suitable for computer vision research with up to 675 highly similar classes, but also present first result...
computer science
25,268
Parsimonious Labeling
cs.CV
We propose a new family of discrete energy minimization problems, which we call parsimonious labeling. Specifically, our energy functional consists of unary potentials and high-order clique potentials. While the unary potentials are arbitrary, the clique potentials are proportional to the {\em diversity} of set of the ...
computer science
25,269
Autoencoding the Retrieval Relevance of Medical Images
cs.CV
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of medical images is a crucial task that can contribute to a more reliable diagnosis if applied to big data. Recent advances in feature extraction and classification have enormously improved CBIR results for digital images. However, considering the increasing accessibility of big da...
computer science
25,270
Visual Data Deblocking using Structural Layer Priors
cs.CV
The blocking artifact frequently appears in compressed real-world images or video sequences, especially coded at low bit rates, which is visually annoying and likely hurts the performance of many computer vision algorithms. A compressed frame can be viewed as the superimposition of an intrinsic layer and an artifact on...
computer science
25,271
Learning Better Encoding for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Dictionary Annealing
cs.CV
We introduce a novel dictionary optimization method for high-dimensional vector quantization employed in approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Vector quantization methods first seek a series of dictionaries, then approximate each vector by a sum of elements selected from these dictionaries. An optimal series of di...
computer science
25,272
Beyond Semantic Image Segmentation : Exploring Efficient Inference in Video
cs.CV
We explore the efficiency of the CRF inference module beyond image level semantic segmentation. The key idea is to combine the best of two worlds of semantic co-labeling and exploiting more expressive models. Similar to [Alvarez14] our formulation enables us perform inference over ten thousand images within seconds. On...
computer science
25,273
Joint Calibration for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Semantic segmentation is the task of assigning a class-label to each pixel in an image. We propose a region-based semantic segmentation framework which handles both full and weak supervision, and addresses three common problems: (1) Objects occur at multiple scales and therefore we should use regions at multiple scales...
computer science
25,274
DCTNet : A Simple Learning-free Approach for Face Recognition
cs.CV
PCANet was proposed as a lightweight deep learning network that mainly leverages Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to learn multistage filter banks followed by binarization and block-wise histograming. PCANet was shown worked surprisingly well in various image classification tasks. However, PCANet is data-dependence h...
computer science
25,275
Spotlight the Negatives: A Generalized Discriminative Latent Model
cs.CV
Discriminative latent variable models (LVM) are frequently applied to various visual recognition tasks. In these systems the latent (hidden) variables provide a formalism for modeling structured variation of visual features. Conventionally, latent variables are de- fined on the variation of the foreground (positive) cl...
computer science
25,276
Towards Good Practices for Very Deep Two-Stream ConvNets
cs.CV
Deep convolutional networks have achieved great success for object recognition in still images. However, for action recognition in videos, the improvement of deep convolutional networks is not so evident. We argue that there are two reasons that could probably explain this result. First the current network architecture...
computer science
25,277
Iris Recognition Using Scattering Transform and Textural Features
cs.CV
Iris recognition has drawn a lot of attention since the mid-twentieth century. Among all biometric features, iris is known to possess a rich set of features. Different features have been used to perform iris recognition in the past. In this paper, two powerful sets of features are introduced to be used for iris recogni...
computer science
25,278
Feature Representation in Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are powerful models that achieve impressive results for image classification. In addition, pre-trained CNNs are also useful for other computer vision tasks as generic feature extractors. This paper aims to gain insight into the feature aspect of CNN and demonstrate other uses of CNN...
computer science
25,279
Neural Network Classifiers for Natural Food Products
cs.CV
Two cheap, off-the-shelf machine vision systems (MVS), each using an artificial neural network (ANN) as classifier, were developed, improved and evaluated to automate the classification of tomato ripeness and acceptability of eggs, respectively. Six thousand color images of human-graded tomatoes and 750 images of human...
computer science
25,280
Understanding Intra-Class Knowledge Inside CNN
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been successful in image recognition tasks, and recent works shed lights on how CNN separates different classes with the learned inter-class knowledge through visualization. In this work, we instead visualize the intra-class knowledge inside CNN to better understand how an object ...
computer science
25,281
Learning Structured Ordinal Measures for Video based Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a structured ordinal measure method for video-based face recognition that simultaneously learns ordinal filters and structured ordinal features. The problem is posed as a non-convex integer program problem that includes two parts. The first part learns stable ordinal filters to project video data in...
computer science
25,282
Towards Effective Codebookless Model for Image Classification
cs.CV
The bag-of-features (BoF) model for image classification has been thoroughly studied over the last decade. Different from the widely used BoF methods which modeled images with a pre-trained codebook, the alternative codebook free image modeling method, which we call Codebookless Model (CLM), attracted little attention....
computer science
25,283
Generalized Video Deblurring for Dynamic Scenes
cs.CV
Several state-of-the-art video deblurring methods are based on a strong assumption that the captured scenes are static. These methods fail to deblur blurry videos in dynamic scenes. We propose a video deblurring method to deal with general blurs inherent in dynamic scenes, contrary to other methods. To handle locally v...
computer science
25,284
Multi-Type Activity Recognition in Robot-Centric Scenarios
cs.CV
Activity recognition is very useful in scenarios where robots interact with, monitor or assist humans. In the past years many types of activities -- single actions, two persons interactions or ego-centric activities, to name a few -- have been analyzed. Whereas traditional methods treat such types of activities separat...
computer science
25,285
Deep filter banks for texture recognition, description, and segmentation
cs.CV
Visual textures have played a key role in image understanding because they convey important semantics of images, and because texture representations that pool local image descriptors in an orderless manner have had a tremendous impact in diverse applications. In this paper we make several contributions to texture under...
computer science
25,286
Robot In a Room: Toward Perfect Object Recognition in Closed Environments
cs.CV
While general object recognition is still far from being solved, this paper proposes a way for a robot to recognize every object at an almost human-level accuracy. Our key observation is that many robots will stay in a relatively closed environment (e.g. a house or an office). By constraining a robot to stay in a limit...
computer science
25,287
Riemannian Dictionary Learning and Sparse Coding for Positive Definite Matrices
cs.CV
Data encoded as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices frequently arise in many areas of computer vision and machine learning. While these matrices form an open subset of the Euclidean space of symmetric matrices, viewing them through the lens of non-Euclidean Riemannian geometry often turns out to be better suited...
computer science
25,288
Robust Performance-driven 3D Face Tracking in Long Range Depth Scenes
cs.CV
We introduce a novel robust hybrid 3D face tracking framework from RGBD video streams, which is capable of tracking head pose and facial actions without pre-calibration or intervention from a user. In particular, we emphasize on improving the tracking performance in instances where the tracked subject is at a large dis...
computer science
25,289
Deep Perceptual Mapping for Thermal to Visible Face Recognition
cs.CV
Cross modal face matching between the thermal and visible spectrum is a much de- sired capability for night-time surveillance and security applications. Due to a very large modality gap, thermal-to-visible face recognition is one of the most challenging face matching problem. In this paper, we present an approach to br...
computer science
25,290
LooseCut: Interactive Image Segmentation with Loosely Bounded Boxes
cs.CV
One popular approach to interactively segment the foreground object of interest from an image is to annotate a bounding box that covers the foreground object. Then, a binary labeling is performed to achieve a refined segmentation. One major issue of the existing algorithms for such interactive image segmentation is the...
computer science
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Face Alignment Assisted by Head Pose Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a supervised initialization scheme for cascaded face alignment based on explicit head pose estimation. We first investigate the failure cases of most state of the art face alignment approaches and observe that these failures often share one common global property, i.e. the head pose variation i...
computer science
25,292
DeepFont: Identify Your Font from An Image
cs.CV
As font is one of the core design concepts, automatic font identification and similar font suggestion from an image or photo has been on the wish list of many designers. We study the Visual Font Recognition (VFR) problem, and advance the state-of-the-art remarkably by developing the DeepFont system. First of all, we bu...
computer science
25,293
Unconstrained Facial Landmark Localization with Backbone-Branches Fully-Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
This paper investigates how to rapidly and accurately localize facial landmarks in unconstrained, cluttered environments rather than in the well segmented face images. We present a novel Backbone-Branches Fully-Convolutional Neural Network (BB-FCN), which produces facial landmark response maps directly from raw images ...
computer science
25,294
Lifting GIS Maps into Strong Geometric Context for Scene Understanding
cs.CV
Contextual information can have a substantial impact on the performance of visual tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and geometric estimation. Data stored in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offers a rich source of contextual information that has been largely untapped by computer vision. We prop...
computer science
25,295
Unsupervised Decision Forest for Data Clustering and Density Estimation
cs.CV
An algorithm to improve performance parameter for unsupervised decision forest clustering and density estimation is presented. Specifically, a dual assignment parameter is introduced as a density estimator by combining Random Forest and Gaussian Mixture Model. The Random Forest method has been specifically applied to c...
computer science
25,296
A Deep Hashing Learning Network
cs.CV
Hashing-based methods seek compact and efficient binary codes that preserve the neighborhood structure in the original data space. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-crafted visual feature, followed by a hash projection and quantization step to get the compact binary vector...
computer science
25,297
Diagnosing State-Of-The-Art Object Proposal Methods
cs.CV
Object proposal has become a popular paradigm to replace exhaustive sliding window search in current top-performing methods in PASCAL VOC and ImageNet. Recently, Hosang et al. conduct the first unified study of existing methods' in terms of various image-level degradations. On the other hand, the vital question "what o...
computer science
25,298
Multi-Face Tracking by Extended Bag-of-Tracklets in Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
Wearable cameras offer a hands-free way to record egocentric images of daily experiences, where social events are of special interest. The first step towards detection of social events is to track the appearance of multiple persons involved in it. In this paper, we propose a novel method to find correspondences of mult...
computer science
25,299
Driver Gaze Region Estimation Without Using Eye Movement
cs.CV
Automated estimation of the allocation of a driver's visual attention may be a critical component of future Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. In theory, vision-based tracking of the eye can provide a good estimate of gaze location. In practice, eye tracking from video is challenging because of sunglasses, eyeglass re...
computer science
25,300
RBIR Based on Signature Graph
cs.CV
This paper approaches the image retrieval system on the base of visual features local region RBIR (region-based image retrieval). First of all, the paper presents a method for extracting the interest points based on Harris-Laplace to create the feature region of the image. Next, in order to reduce the storage space and...
computer science
25,301
Multiscale Adaptive Representation of Signals: I. The Basic Framework
cs.CV
We introduce a framework for designing multi-scale, adaptive, shift-invariant frames and bi-frames for representing signals. The new framework, called AdaFrame, improves over dictionary learning-based techniques in terms of computational efficiency at inference time. It improves classical multi-scale basis such as wave...
computer science