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Learning Robust Deep Face Representation
cs.CV
With the development of convolution neural network, more and more researchers focus their attention on the advantage of CNN for face recognition task. In this paper, we propose a deep convolution network for learning a robust face representation. The deep convolution net is constructed by 4 convolution layers, 4 max po...
computer science
25,303
Classification of Complex Wishart Matrices with a Diffusion-Reaction System guided by Stochastic Distances
cs.CV
We propose a new method for PolSAR (Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery classification based on stochastic distances in the space of random matrices obeying complex Wishart distributions. Given a collection of prototypes $\{Z_m\}_{m=1}^M$ and a stochastic distance $d(.,.)$, we classify any random matrix $X$ ...
computer science
25,304
Hand Gesture Recognition Library
cs.CV
In this paper we have presented a hand gesture recognition library. Various functions include detecting cluster count, cluster orientation, finger pointing direction, etc. To use these functions first the input image needs to be processed into a logical array for which a function has been developed. The library has bee...
computer science
25,305
Handwriting Recognition
cs.CV
This paper describes the method to recognize offline handwritten characters. A robust algorithm for handwriting segmentation is described here with the help of which individual characters can be segmented from a selected word from a paragraph of handwritten text image which is given as input.
computer science
25,306
Learning Complexity-Aware Cascades for Deep Pedestrian Detection
cs.CV
The design of complexity-aware cascaded detectors, combining features of very different complexities, is considered. A new cascade design procedure is introduced, by formulating cascade learning as the Lagrangian optimization of a risk that accounts for both accuracy and complexity. A boosting algorithm, denoted as com...
computer science
25,307
A Parameter-free Affinity Based Clustering
cs.CV
Several methods have been proposed to estimate the number of clusters in a dataset; the basic ideal behind all of them has been to study an index that measures inter-cluster separation and intra-cluster cohesion over a range of cluster numbers and report the number which gives an optimum value of the index. In this pap...
computer science
25,308
Efficient moving point handling for incremental 3D manifold reconstruction
cs.CV
As incremental Structure from Motion algorithms become effective, a good sparse point cloud representing the map of the scene becomes available frame-by-frame. From the 3D Delaunay triangulation of these points, state-of-the-art algorithms build a manifold rough model of the scene. These algorithms integrate incrementa...
computer science
25,309
Subspace Alignment Based Domain Adaptation for RCNN Detector
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose subspace alignment based domain adaptation of the state of the art RCNN based object detector. The aim is to be able to achieve high quality object detection in novel, real world target scenarios without requiring labels from the target domain. While, unsupervised domain adaptation has been st...
computer science
25,310
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Reasoning with Hierarchical Rectified Gaussians
cs.CV
Convolutional neural nets (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in recent history. Such approaches tend to work in a unidirectional bottom-up feed-forward fashion. However, practical experience and biological evidence tells us that feedback plays a crucial role, particularly for detailed spatial understanding...
computer science
25,311
An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition
cs.CV
Image-based sequence recognition has been a long-standing research topic in computer vision. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scene text recognition, which is among the most important and challenging tasks in image-based sequence recognition. A novel neural network architecture, which integrates feature ext...
computer science
25,312
Rule Of Thumb: Deep derotation for improved fingertip detection
cs.CV
We investigate a novel global orientation regression approach for articulated objects using a deep convolutional neural network. This is integrated with an in-plane image derotation scheme, DeROT, to tackle the problem of per-frame fingertip detection in depth images. The method reduces the complexity of learning in th...
computer science
25,313
Online Metric-Weighted Linear Representations for Robust Visual Tracking
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a visual tracker based on a metric-weighted linear representation of appearance. In order to capture the interdependence of different feature dimensions, we develop two online distance metric learning methods using proximity comparison information and structured output learning. The learned me...
computer science
25,314
Every Moment Counts: Dense Detailed Labeling of Actions in Complex Videos
cs.CV
Every moment counts in action recognition. A comprehensive understanding of human activity in video requires labeling every frame according to the actions occurring, placing multiple labels densely over a video sequence. To study this problem we extend the existing THUMOS dataset and introduce MultiTHUMOS, a new datase...
computer science
25,315
The Cumulative Distribution Transform and Linear Pattern Classification
cs.CV
Discriminating data classes emanating from sensors is an important problem with many applications in science and technology. We describe a new transform for pattern identification that interprets patterns as probability density functions, and has special properties with regards to classification. The transform, which w...
computer science
25,316
Towards Storytelling from Visual Lifelogging: An Overview
cs.CV
Visual lifelogging consists of acquiring images that capture the daily experiences of the user by wearing a camera over a long period of time. The pictures taken offer considerable potential for knowledge mining concerning how people live their lives, hence, they open up new opportunities for many potential application...
computer science
25,317
Data-free parameter pruning for Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep Neural nets (NNs) with millions of parameters are at the heart of many state-of-the-art computer vision systems today. However, recent works have shown that much smaller models can achieve similar levels of performance. In this work, we address the problem of pruning parameters in a trained NN model. Instead of re...
computer science
25,318
Bayesian Time-of-Flight for Realtime Shape, Illumination and Albedo
cs.CV
We propose a computational model for shape, illumination and albedo inference in a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) camera. In contrast to TOF cameras based on phase modulation, our camera enables general exposure profiles. This results in added flexibility and requires novel computational approaches. To address this chal...
computer science
25,319
Particle detection and tracking in fluorescence time-lapse imaging: a contrario approach
cs.CV
This paper proposes a probabilistic approach for the detection and the tracking of particles in fluorescent time-lapse imaging. In the presence of a very noised and poor-quality data, particles and trajectories can be characterized by an a contrario model, that estimates the probability of observing the structures of i...
computer science
25,320
Part Localization using Multi-Proposal Consensus for Fine-Grained Categorization
cs.CV
We present a simple deep learning framework to simultaneously predict keypoint locations and their respective visibilities and use those to achieve state-of-the-art performance for fine-grained classification. We show that by conditioning the predictions on object proposals with sufficient image support, our method can...
computer science
25,321
Multi-Target Tracking with Time-Varying Clutter Rate and Detection Profile: Application to Time-lapse Cell Microscopy Sequences
cs.CV
Quantitative analysis of the dynamics of tiny cellular and sub-cellular structures, known as particles, in time-lapse cell microscopy sequences requires the development of a reliable multi-target tracking method capable of tracking numerous similar targets in the presence of high levels of noise, high target density, c...
computer science
25,322
Deep Fishing: Gradient Features from Deep Nets
cs.CV
Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) have recently improved image recognition performance thanks to end-to-end learning of deep feed-forward models from raw pixels. Deep learning is a marked departure from the previous state of the art, the Fisher Vector (FV), which relied on gradient-based encoding of local hand-crafted ...
computer science
25,323
Active skeleton for bacteria modeling
cs.CV
The investigation of spatio-temporal dynamics of bacterial cells and their molecular components requires automated image analysis tools to track cell shape properties and molecular component locations inside the cells. In the study of bacteria aging, the molecular components of interest are protein aggregates accumulat...
computer science
25,324
Fourier descriptors based on the structure of the human primary visual cortex with applications to object recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a supervised object recognition method using new global features and inspired by the model of the human primary visual cortex V1 as the semidiscrete roto-translation group $SE(2,N) = \mathbb Z_N\rtimes \mathbb R^2$. The proposed technique is based on generalized Fourier descriptors on the latte...
computer science
25,325
Descriptors and regions of interest fusion for gender classification in the wild. Comparison and combination with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Gender classification (GC) has achieved high accuracy in different experimental evaluations based mostly on inner facial details. However, these results do not generalize well in unrestricted datasets and particularly in cross-database experiments, where the performance drops drastically. In this paper, we analyze the ...
computer science
25,326
Efficient Face Alignment via Locality-constrained Representation for Robust Recognition
cs.CV
Practical face recognition has been studied in the past decades, but still remains an open challenge. Current prevailing approaches have already achieved substantial breakthroughs in recognition accuracy. However, their performance usually drops dramatically if face samples are severely misaligned. To address this prob...
computer science
25,327
A Study of Morphological Filtering Using Graph and Hypergraphs
cs.CV
Mathematical morphology (MM) helps to describe and analyze shapes using set theory. MM can be effectively applied to binary images which are treated as sets. Basic morphological operators defined can be used as an effective tool in image processing. Morphological operators are also developed based on graph and hypergra...
computer science
25,328
Thinning Algorithm Using Hypergraph Based Morphological Operators
cs.CV
The object recognition is a complex problem in the image processing. Mathematical morphology is Shape oriented operations, that simplify image data, preserving their essential shape characteristics and eliminating irrelevancies. This paper briefly describes morphological operators using hypergraph and its applications ...
computer science
25,329
Capturing the Dynamics of Pedestrian Traffic Using a Machine Vision System
cs.CV
We developed a machine vision system to automatically capture the dynamics of pedestrians under four different traffic scenarios. By considering the overhead view of each pedestrian as a digital object, the system processes the image sequences to track the pedestrians. Considering the perspective effect of the camera l...
computer science
25,330
Face Search at Scale: 80 Million Gallery
cs.CV
Due to the prevalence of social media websites, one challenge facing computer vision researchers is to devise methods to process and search for persons of interest among the billions of shared photos on these websites. Facebook revealed in a 2013 white paper that its users have uploaded more than 250 billion photos, an...
computer science
25,331
Discovery of Shared Semantic Spaces for Multi-Scene Video Query and Summarization
cs.CV
The growing rate of public space CCTV installations has generated a need for automated methods for exploiting video surveillance data including scene understanding, query, behaviour annotation and summarization. For this reason, extensive research has been performed on surveillance scene understanding and analysis. How...
computer science
25,332
Real-time 2D/3D Registration via CNN Regression
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) regression approach for real-time 2-D/3-D registration. Different from optimization-based methods, which iteratively optimize the transformation parameters over a scalar-valued metric function representing the quality of the registration, the proposed metho...
computer science
25,333
Fast Segmentation of Left Ventricle in CT Images by Explicit Shape Regression using Random Pixel Difference Features
cs.CV
Recently, machine learning has been successfully applied to model-based left ventricle (LV) segmentation. The general framework involves two stages, which starts with LV localization and is followed by boundary delineation. Both are driven by supervised learning techniques. When compared to previous non-learning-based ...
computer science
25,334
Relating Cascaded Random Forests to Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
We consider the task of pixel-wise semantic segmentation given a small set of labeled training images. Among two of the most popular techniques to address this task are Random Forests (RF) and Neural Networks (NN). The main contribution of this work is to explore the relationship between two special forms of these tech...
computer science
25,335
Learning 3D Deformation of Animals from 2D Images
cs.CV
Understanding how an animal can deform and articulate is essential for a realistic modification of its 3D model. In this paper, we show that such information can be learned from user-clicked 2D images and a template 3D model of the target animal. We present a volumetric deformation framework that produces a set of new ...
computer science
25,336
A Multi-Camera Image Processing and Visualization System for Train Safety Assessment
cs.CV
In this paper we present a machine vision system to efficiently monitor, analyze and present visual data acquired with a railway overhead gantry equipped with multiple cameras. This solution aims to improve the safety of daily life railway transportation in a two- fold manner: (1) by providing automatic algorithms that...
computer science
25,337
Occlusion-Aware Object Localization, Segmentation and Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We present a learning approach for localization and segmentation of objects in an image in a manner that is robust to partial occlusion. Our algorithm produces a bounding box around the full extent of the object and labels pixels in the interior that belong to the object. Like existing segmentation aware detection appr...
computer science
25,338
Adapted sampling for 3D X-ray computed tomography
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a method to build an adapted mesh representation of a 3D object for X-Ray tomography reconstruction. Using this representation, we provide means to reduce the computational cost of reconstruction by way of iterative algorithms. The adapted sampling of the reconstruction space is directly obt...
computer science
25,339
Collaborative Representation Classification Ensemble for Face Recognition
cs.CV
Collaborative Representation Classification (CRC) for face recognition attracts a lot attention recently due to its good recognition performance and fast speed. Compared to Sparse Representation Classification (SRC), CRC achieves a comparable recognition performance with 10-1000 times faster speed. In this paper, we pr...
computer science
25,340
Cross-pose Face Recognition by Canonical Correlation Analysis
cs.CV
The pose problem is one of the bottlenecks in automatic face recognition. We argue that one of the diffculties in this problem is the severe misalignment in face images or feature vectors with different poses. In this paper, we propose that this problem can be statistically solved or at least mitigated by maximizing th...
computer science
25,341
Tracking Randomly Moving Objects on Edge Box Proposals
cs.CV
Most tracking-by-detection methods employ a local search window around the predicted object location in the current frame assuming the previous location is accurate, the trajectory is smooth, and the computational capacity permits a search radius that can accommodate the maximum speed yet small enough to reduce mismatc...
computer science
25,342
Fast Robust PCA on Graphs
cs.CV
Mining useful clusters from high dimensional data has received significant attention of the computer vision and pattern recognition community in the recent years. Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction has played an important role to overcome the curse of dimensionality. However, often such methods are accompan...
computer science
25,343
Beamforming through regularized inverse problems in ultrasound medical imaging
cs.CV
Beamforming in ultrasound imaging has significant impact on the quality of the final image, controlling its resolution and contrast. Despite its low spatial resolution and contrast, delay-and-sum is still extensively used nowadays in clinical applications, due to its real-time capabilities. The most common alternatives...
computer science
25,344
Action recognition in still images by latent superpixel classification
cs.CV
Action recognition from still images is an important task of computer vision applications such as image annotation, robotic navigation, video surveillance and several others. Existing approaches mainly rely on either bag-of-feature representations or articulated body-part models. However, the relationship between the a...
computer science
25,345
When VLAD met Hilbert
cs.CV
Vectors of Locally Aggregated Descriptors (VLAD) have emerged as powerful image/video representations that compete with or even outperform state-of-the-art approaches on many challenging visual recognition tasks. In this paper, we address two fundamental limitations of VLAD: its requirement for the local descriptors to...
computer science
25,346
Multilinear Map Layer: Prediction Regularization by Structural Constraint
cs.CV
In this paper we propose and study a technique to impose structural constraints on the output of a neural network, which can reduce amount of computation and number of parameters besides improving prediction accuracy when the output is known to approximately conform to the low-rankness prior. The technique proceeds by ...
computer science
25,347
People Counting in High Density Crowds from Still Images
cs.CV
We present a method of estimating the number of people in high density crowds from still images. The method estimates counts by fusing information from multiple sources. Most of the existing work on crowd counting deals with very small crowds (tens of individuals) and use temporal information from videos. Our method us...
computer science
25,348
Beyond Gauss: Image-Set Matching on the Riemannian Manifold of PDFs
cs.CV
State-of-the-art image-set matching techniques typically implicitly model each image-set with a Gaussian distribution. Here, we propose to go beyond these representations and model image-sets as probability distribution functions (PDFs) using kernel density estimators. To compare and match image-sets, we exploit Csisza...
computer science
25,349
Flip-Rotate-Pooling Convolution and Split Dropout on Convolution Neural Networks for Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper presents a new version of Dropout called Split Dropout (sDropout) and rotational convolution techniques to improve CNNs' performance on image classification. The widely used standard Dropout has advantage of preventing deep neural networks from overfitting by randomly dropping units during training. Our sDro...
computer science
25,350
Multimodal Multipart Learning for Action Recognition in Depth Videos
cs.CV
The articulated and complex nature of human actions makes the task of action recognition difficult. One approach to handle this complexity is dividing it to the kinetics of body parts and analyzing the actions based on these partial descriptors. We propose a joint sparse regression based learning method which utilizes ...
computer science
25,351
Deep Networks for Image Super-Resolution with Sparse Prior
cs.CV
Deep learning techniques have been successfully applied in many areas of computer vision, including low-level image restoration problems. For image super-resolution, several models based on deep neural networks have been recently proposed and attained superior performance that overshadows all previous handcrafted model...
computer science
25,352
Land Use Classification in Remote Sensing Images by Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We explore the use of convolutional neural networks for the semantic classification of remote sensing scenes. Two recently proposed architectures, CaffeNet and GoogLeNet, are adopted, with three different learning modalities. Besides conventional training from scratch, we resort to pre-trained networks that are only fi...
computer science
25,353
Towards Distortion-Predictable Embedding of Neural Networks
cs.CV
Current research in Computer Vision has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) give state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks and Computer Vision problems. The embedding of CNN, which is the internal representation produced by the last layer, can indirectly learn topological and relational prope...
computer science
25,354
Indexing of CNN Features for Large Scale Image Search
cs.CV
The convolutional neural network (CNN) features can give a good description of image content, which usually represent images with unique global vectors. Although they are compact compared to local descriptors, they still cannot efficiently deal with large-scale image retrieval due to the cost of the linear incremental ...
computer science
25,355
Partial matching face recognition method for rehabilitation nursing robots beds
cs.CV
In order to establish face recognition system in rehabilitation nursing robots beds and achieve real-time monitor the patient on the bed. We propose a face recognition method based on partial matching Hu moments which apply for rehabilitation nursing robots beds. Firstly we using Haar classifier to detect human faces a...
computer science
25,356
Recurrent Network Models for Human Dynamics
cs.CV
We propose the Encoder-Recurrent-Decoder (ERD) model for recognition and prediction of human body pose in videos and motion capture. The ERD model is a recurrent neural network that incorporates nonlinear encoder and decoder networks before and after recurrent layers. We test instantiations of ERD architectures in the ...
computer science
25,357
Dictionary and Image Recovery from Incomplete and Random Measurements
cs.CV
This paper tackles algorithmic and theoretical aspects of dictionary learning from incomplete and random block-wise image measurements and the performance of the adaptive dictionary for sparse image recovery. This problem is related to blind compressed sensing in which the sparsifying dictionary or basis is viewed as a...
computer science
25,358
On Hyperspectral Classification in the Compressed Domain
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of hyperspectral pixel classification based on the recently proposed architectures for compressive whisk-broom hyperspectral imagers without the need to reconstruct the complete data cube. A clear advantage of classification in the compressed domain is its suitability for real-time o...
computer science
25,359
Local Color Contrastive Descriptor for Image Classification
cs.CV
Image representation and classification are two fundamental tasks towards multimedia content retrieval and understanding. The idea that shape and texture information (e.g. edge or orientation) are the key features for visual representation is ingrained and dominated in current multimedia and computer vision communities...
computer science
25,360
Kernelized Multiview Projection
cs.CV
Conventional vision algorithms adopt a single type of feature or a simple concatenation of multiple features, which is always represented in a high-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised spectral embedding algorithm called Kernelized Multiview Projection (KMP) to better fuse and embed differe...
computer science
25,361
Evaluating software-based fingerprint liveness detection using Convolutional Networks and Local Binary Patterns
cs.CV
With the growing use of biometric authentication systems in the past years, spoof fingerprint detection has become increasingly important. In this work, we implement and evaluate two different feature extraction techniques for software-based fingerprint liveness detection: Convolutional Networks with random weights and...
computer science
25,362
Online Domain Adaptation for Multi-Object Tracking
cs.CV
Automatically detecting, labeling, and tracking objects in videos depends first and foremost on accurate category-level object detectors. These might, however, not always be available in practice, as acquiring high-quality large scale labeled training datasets is either too costly or impractical for all possible real-w...
computer science
25,363
Semantic Pose using Deep Networks Trained on Synthetic RGB-D
cs.CV
In this work we address the problem of indoor scene understanding from RGB-D images. Specifically, we propose to find instances of common furniture classes, their spatial extent, and their pose with respect to generalized class models. To accomplish this, we use a deep, wide, multi-output convolutional neural network (...
computer science
25,364
3D Automatic Segmentation Method for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Volume Data Using Boundary Surface Enhancement
cs.CV
With the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT), much larger image datasets are routinely acquired compared to what was possible using the previous generation of time-domain OCT. Thus, there is a critical need for the development of 3D segmentation methods for processing these data. We pre...
computer science
25,365
Single and Multiple Illuminant Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper we present a method for the estimation of the color of the illuminant in RAW images. The method includes a Convolutional Neural Network that has been specially designed to produce multiple local estimates. A multiple illuminant detector determines whether or not the local outputs of the network must be ag...
computer science
25,366
On the convergence of the sparse possibilistic c-means algorithm
cs.CV
In this paper, a convergence proof for the recently proposed sparse possibilistic c-means (SPCM) algorithm is provided, utilizing the celebrated Zangwill convergence theorem. It is shown that the iterative sequence generated by SPCM converges to a stationary point or there exists a subsequence of it that converges to a...
computer science
25,367
Detection of Critical Number of People in Interlocked Doors for Security Access Control by Exploiting a Microwave Transceiver-Array
cs.CV
Counting the number of people is something many security application focus on, when dealing with controlling accesses in restricted areas, as it occurs with banks, airports, railway stations and governmental offices. This paper presents an automated solution for detecting the presence of more than one person into inter...
computer science
25,368
Evaluating color texture descriptors under large variations of controlled lighting conditions
cs.CV
The recognition of color texture under varying lighting conditions is still an open issue. Several features have been proposed for this purpose, ranging from traditional statistical descriptors to features extracted with neural networks. Still, it is not completely clear under what circumstances a feature performs bett...
computer science
25,369
Partitioned Shape Modeling with On-the-Fly Sparse Appearance Learning for Anterior Visual Pathway Segmentation
cs.CV
MRI quantification of cranial nerves such as anterior visual pathway (AVP) in MRI is challenging due to their thin small size, structural variation along its path, and adjacent anatomic structures. Segmentation of pathologically abnormal optic nerve (e.g. optic nerve glioma) poses additional challenges due to changes i...
computer science
25,370
Socially Constrained Structural Learning for Groups Detection in Crowd
cs.CV
Modern crowd theories agree that collective behavior is the result of the underlying interactions among small groups of individuals. In this work, we propose a novel algorithm for detecting social groups in crowds by means of a Correlation Clustering procedure on people trajectories. The affinity between crowd members ...
computer science
25,371
HFirst: A Temporal Approach to Object Recognition
cs.CV
This paper introduces a spiking hierarchical model for object recognition which utilizes the precise timing information inherently present in the output of biologically inspired asynchronous Address Event Representation (AER) vision sensors. The asynchronous nature of these systems frees computation and communication f...
computer science
25,372
TabletGaze: Unconstrained Appearance-based Gaze Estimation in Mobile Tablets
cs.CV
We study gaze estimation on tablets, our key design goal is uncalibrated gaze estimation using the front-facing camera during natural use of tablets, where the posture and method of holding the tablet is not constrained. We collected the first large unconstrained gaze dataset of tablet users, labeled Rice TabletGaze da...
computer science
25,373
Compact Convolutional Neural Network Cascade for Face Detection
cs.CV
The problem of faces detection in images or video streams is a classical problem of computer vision. The multiple solutions of this problem have been proposed, but the question of their optimality is still open. Many algorithms achieve a high quality face detection, but at the cost of high computational complexity. Thi...
computer science
25,374
Automatic 3D Liver Segmentation Using Sparse Representation of Global and Local Image Information via Level Set Formulation
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel framework for automated liver segmentation via a level set formulation is presented. A sparse representation of both global (region-based) and local (voxel-wise) image information is embedded in a level set formulation to innovate a new cost function. Two dictionaries are build: A region-based fe...
computer science
25,375
Places205-VGGNet Models for Scene Recognition
cs.CV
VGGNets have turned out to be effective for object recognition in still images. However, it is unable to yield good performance by directly adapting the VGGNet models trained on the ImageNet dataset for scene recognition. This report describes our implementation of training the VGGNets on the large-scale Places205 data...
computer science
25,376
Unconstrained Face Verification using Deep CNN Features
cs.CV
In this paper, we present an algorithm for unconstrained face verification based on deep convolutional features and evaluate it on the newly released IARPA Janus Benchmark A (IJB-A) dataset. The IJB-A dataset includes real-world unconstrained faces from 500 subjects with full pose and illumination variations which are ...
computer science
25,377
Digging Deep into the layers of CNNs: In Search of How CNNs Achieve View Invariance
cs.CV
This paper is focused on studying the view-manifold structure in the feature spaces implied by the different layers of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). There are several questions that this paper aims to answer: Does the learned CNN representation achieve viewpoint invariance? How does it achieve viewpoint invarian...
computer science
25,378
Feature Learning for Interaction Activity Recognition in RGBD Videos
cs.CV
This paper proposes a human activity recognition method which is based on features learned from 3D video data without incorporating domain knowledge. The experiments on data collected by RGBD cameras produce results outperforming other techniques. Our feature encoding method follows the bag-of-visual-word model, then w...
computer science
25,379
Gait Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis Patients Using Microsoft Kinect
cs.CV
Gait analysis of patients with neurological disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), is important for rehabilitation and treatment. The Mircrosoft Kinect sensor, which was developed for motion recognition in gaming applications, is an ideal candidate for an inexpensive system providing the capability for human gai...
computer science
25,380
InAR:Inverse Augmented Reality
cs.CV
Augmented reality is the art to seamlessly fuse virtual objects into real ones. In this short note, we address the opposite problem, the inverse augmented reality, that is, given a perfectly augmented reality scene where human is unable to distinguish real objects from virtual ones, how the machine could help do the jo...
computer science
25,381
What is Holding Back Convnets for Detection?
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks have recently shown excellent results in general object detection and many other tasks. Albeit very effective, they involve many user-defined design choices. In this paper we want to better understand these choices by inspecting two key aspects "what did the network learn?", and "what can ...
computer science
25,382
Trainable Nonlinear Reaction Diffusion: A Flexible Framework for Fast and Effective Image Restoration
cs.CV
Image restoration is a long-standing problem in low-level computer vision with many interesting applications. We describe a flexible learning framework based on the concept of nonlinear reaction diffusion models for various image restoration problems. By embodying recent improvements in nonlinear diffusion models, we p...
computer science
25,383
A massively parallel multi-level approach to a domain decomposition method for the optical flow estimation with varying illumination
cs.CV
We consider a variational method to solve the optical flow problem with varying illumination. We apply an adaptive control of the regularization parameter which allows us to preserve the edges and fine features of the computed flow. To reduce the complexity of the estimation for high resolution images and the time of c...
computer science
25,384
A New Approach to an Old Problem: The Reconstruction of a Go Game through a Series of Photographs
cs.CV
Given a series of photographs taken during a Go game, we describe the techniques we successfully employ for pinpointing the grid lines of the Go board and for tracking their small movements between consecutive photographs; then we discuss how to approximate the location and orientation of the observer's point of view, ...
computer science
25,385
Cost Sensitive Learning of Deep Feature Representations from Imbalanced Data
cs.CV
Class imbalance is a common problem in the case of real-world object detection and classification tasks. Data of some classes is abundant making them an over-represented majority, and data of other classes is scarce, making them an under-represented minority. This imbalance makes it challenging for a classifier to appr...
computer science
25,386
A Novel Approach For Finger Vein Verification Based on Self-Taught Learning
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for user Finger Vein Authentication (FVA) as a biometric system. Using the discriminative features for classifying theses finger veins is one of the main tips that make difference in related works, Thus we propose to learn a set of representative features, based on autoencoders. We mo...
computer science
25,387
Beat-Event Detection in Action Movie Franchises
cs.CV
While important advances were recently made towards temporally localizing and recognizing specific human actions or activities in videos, efficient detection and classification of long video chunks belonging to semantically defined categories such as "pursuit" or "romance" remains challenging.We introduce a new dataset...
computer science
25,388
Pose-Guided Human Parsing with Deep Learned Features
cs.CV
Parsing human body into semantic regions is crucial to human-centric analysis. In this paper, we propose a segment-based parsing pipeline that explores human pose information, i.e. the joint location of a human model, which improves the part proposal, accelerates the inference and regularizes the parsing process at the...
computer science
25,389
LCNN: Low-level Feature Embedded CNN for Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network framework embedded with low-level features (LCNN) for salient object detection in complex images. We utilise the advantage of convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the high-level features that capture the structured information and semantic context in...
computer science
25,390
Sense Beyond Expressions: Cuteness
cs.CV
With the development of Internet culture, cuteness has become a popular concept. Many people are curious about what factors making a person look cute. However, there is rare research to answer this interesting question. In this work, we construct a dataset of personal images with comprehensively annotated cuteness scor...
computer science
25,391
Action Recognition based on Subdivision-Fusion Model
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel Subdivision-Fusion Model (SFM) to recognize human actions. In most action recognition tasks, overlapping feature distribution is a common problem leading to overfitting. In the subdivision stage of the proposed SFM, samples in each category are clustered. Then, such samples are grouped into ...
computer science
25,392
Low Rank Representation on Riemannian Manifold of Square Root Densities
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel low rank representation (LRR) algorithm for data lying on the manifold of square root densities. Unlike traditional LRR methods which rely on the assumption that the data points are vectors in the Euclidean space, our new algorithm is designed to incorporate the intrinsic geometric str...
computer science
25,393
Image tag completion by local learning
cs.CV
The problem of tag completion is to learn the missing tags of an image. In this paper, we propose to learn a tag scoring vector for each image by local linear learning. A local linear function is used in the neighborhood of each image to predict the tag scoring vectors of its neighboring images. We construct a unified ...
computer science
25,394
Preprint ARPPS Augmented Reality Pipeline Prospect System
cs.CV
This is the preprint version of our paper on ICONIP. Outdoor augmented reality geographic information system (ARGIS) is the hot application of augmented reality over recent years. This paper concludes the key solutions of ARGIS, designs the mobile augmented reality pipeline prospect system (ARPPS), and respectively rea...
computer science
25,395
A Deep Pyramid Deformable Part Model for Face Detection
cs.CV
We present a face detection algorithm based on Deformable Part Models and deep pyramidal features. The proposed method called DP2MFD is able to detect faces of various sizes and poses in unconstrained conditions. It reduces the gap in training and testing of DPM on deep features by adding a normalization layer to the d...
computer science
25,396
Multiresolution Approach to Acceleration of Iterative Image Reconstruction for X-Ray Imaging for Security Applications
cs.CV
Three-dimensional x-ray CT image reconstruction in baggage scanning in security applications is an important research field. The variety of materials to be reconstructed is broader than medical x-ray imaging. Presence of high attenuating materials such as metal may cause artifacts if analytical reconstruction methods a...
computer science
25,397
Bit-Scalable Deep Hashing with Regularized Similarity Learning for Image Retrieval and Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Extracting informative image features and learning effective approximate hashing functions are two crucial steps in image retrieval . Conventional methods often study these two steps separately, e.g., learning hash functions from a predefined hand-crafted feature space. Meanwhile, the bit lengths of output hashing code...
computer science
25,398
Learning Analysis-by-Synthesis for 6D Pose Estimation in RGB-D Images
cs.CV
Analysis-by-synthesis has been a successful approach for many tasks in computer vision, such as 6D pose estimation of an object in an RGB-D image which is the topic of this work. The idea is to compare the observation with the output of a forward process, such as a rendered image of the object of interest in a particul...
computer science
25,399
Saliency maps on image hierarchies
cs.CV
In this paper we propose two saliency models for salient object segmentation based on a hierarchical image segmentation, a tree-like structure that represents regions at different scales from the details to the whole image (e.g. gPb-UCM, BPT). The first model is based on a hierarchy of image partitions. The saliency at...
computer science
25,400
Recursive Training of 2D-3D Convolutional Networks for Neuronal Boundary Detection
cs.CV
Efforts to automate the reconstruction of neural circuits from 3D electron microscopic (EM) brain images are critical for the field of connectomics. An important computation for reconstruction is the detection of neuronal boundaries. Images acquired by serial section EM, a leading 3D EM technique, are highly anisotropi...
computer science
25,401
Introducing Geometry in Active Learning for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose an Active Learning approach to training a segmentation classifier that exploits geometric priors to streamline the annotation process in 3D image volumes. To this end, we use these priors not only to select voxels most in need of annotation but to guarantee that they lie on 2D planar patch, which makes it mu...
computer science