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Using User Generated Online Photos to Estimate and Monitor Air Pollution in Major Cities
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With the rapid development of economy in China over the past decade, air pollution has become an increasingly serious problem in major cities and caused grave public health concerns in China. Recently, a number of studies have dealt with air quality and air pollution. Among them, some attempt to predict and monitor the...
computer science
25,403
Seeing Behind the Camera: Identifying the Authorship of a Photograph
cs.CV
We introduce the novel problem of identifying the photographer behind a photograph. To explore the feasibility of current computer vision techniques to address this problem, we created a new dataset of over 180,000 images taken by 41 well-known photographers. Using this dataset, we examined the effectiveness of a varie...
computer science
25,404
Improving Image Restoration with Soft-Rounding
cs.CV
Several important classes of images such as text, barcode and pattern images have the property that pixels can only take a distinct subset of values. This knowledge can benefit the restoration of such images, but it has not been widely considered in current restoration methods. In this work, we describe an effective an...
computer science
25,405
Flow Fields: Dense Correspondence Fields for Highly Accurate Large Displacement Optical Flow Estimation
cs.CV
Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the major disadvantage of being very outlier prone as they are not designed to find ...
computer science
25,406
Exemplar Based Deep Discriminative and Shareable Feature Learning for Scene Image Classification
cs.CV
In order to encode the class correlation and class specific information in image representation, we propose a new local feature learning approach named Deep Discriminative and Shareable Feature Learning (DDSFL). DDSFL aims to hierarchically learn feature transformation filter banks to transform raw pixel image patches ...
computer science
25,407
Morphometry-Based Longitudinal Neurodegeneration Simulation with MR Imaging
cs.CV
We present a longitudinal MR simulation framework which simulates the future neurodegenerative progression by outputting the predicted follow-up MR image and the voxel-based morphometry (VBM) map. This framework expects the patients to have at least 2 historical MR images available. The longitudinal and cross-sectional...
computer science
25,408
Iterative Thresholded Bi-Histogram Equalization for Medical Image Enhancement
cs.CV
Enhancement of human vision to get an insight to information content is of vital importance. The traditional histogram equalization methods have been suffering from amplified contrast with the addition of artifacts and a surprising unnatural visibility of the processed images. In order to overcome these drawbacks, this...
computer science
25,409
Optical images-based edge detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar images
cs.CV
We address the issue of adapting optical images-based edge detection techniques for use in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery. We modify the gravitational edge detection technique (inspired by the Law of Universal Gravity) proposed by Lopez-Molina et al, using the non-standard neighbourhood configur...
computer science
25,410
An algorithm for Left Atrial Thrombi detection using Transesophageal Echocardiography
cs.CV
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is widely used to detect left atrium (LA)/left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombi. In this paper, the local binary pattern variance (LBPV) features are extracted from region of interest (ROI). And the dynamic features are formed by using the information of its neighbor frames in the s...
computer science
25,411
Wavelet subspace decomposition of thermal infrared images for defect detection in artworks
cs.CV
Monitoring the health of ancient artworks requires adequate prudence because of the sensitive nature of these materials. Classical techniques for identifying the development of faults rely on acoustic testing. These techniques, being invasive, may result in causing permanent damage to the material, especially if the ma...
computer science
25,412
Cooking in the kitchen: Recognizing and Segmenting Human Activities in Videos
cs.CV
As research on action recognition matures, the focus is shifting away from categorizing basic task-oriented actions using hand-segmented video datasets to understanding complex goal-oriented daily human activities in real-world settings. Temporally structured models would seem obvious to tackle this set of problems, bu...
computer science
25,413
Accurate Urban Road Centerline Extraction from VHR Imagery via Multiscale Segmentation and Tensor Voting
cs.CV
It is very useful and increasingly popular to extract accurate road centerlines from very-high-resolution (VHR) re- mote sensing imagery for various applications, such as road map generation and updating etc. There are three shortcomings of current methods: (a) Due to the noise and occlusions (owing to vehicles and tre...
computer science
25,414
SPF-CellTracker: Tracking multiple cells with strongly-correlated moves using a spatial particle filter
cs.CV
Tracking many cells in time-lapse 3D image sequences is an important challenging task of bioimage informatics. Motivated by a study of brain-wide 4D imaging of neural activity in C. elegans, we present a new method of multi-cell tracking. Data types to which the method is applicable are characterized as follows: (i) ce...
computer science
25,415
Maximum-Margin Structured Learning with Deep Networks for 3D Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This paper focuses on structured-output learning using deep neural networks for 3D human pose estimation from monocular images. Our network takes an image and 3D pose as inputs and outputs a score value, which is high when the image-pose pair matches and low otherwise. The network structure consists of a convolutional ...
computer science
25,416
Image Type Water Meter Character Recognition Based on Embedded DSP
cs.CV
In the paper, we combined DSP processor with image processing algorithm and studied the method of water meter character recognition. We collected water meter image through camera at a fixed angle, and the projection method is used to recognize those digital images. The experiment results show that the method can recogn...
computer science
25,417
A Comparative Analysis of Retrieval Techniques In Content Based Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Basic group of visual techniques such as color, shape, texture are used in Content Based Image Retrievals (CBIR) to retrieve query image or subregion of image to find similar images in image database. To improve query result, relevance feedback is used many times in CBIR to help user to express their preference and imp...
computer science
25,418
Shopper Analytics: a customer activity recognition system using a distributed RGB-D camera network
cs.CV
The aim of this paper is to present an integrated system consisted of a RGB-D camera and a software able to monitor shoppers in intelligent retail environments. We propose an innovative low cost smart system that can understand the shoppers' behavior and, in particular, their interactions with the products in the shelv...
computer science
25,419
Discrete Hashing with Deep Neural Network
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of learning binary hash codes for large scale image search by proposing a novel hashing method based on deep neural network. The advantage of our deep model over previous deep model used in hashing is that our model contains necessary criteria for producing good codes such as similarity...
computer science
25,420
Mixed Gaussian-Impulse Noise Removal from Highly Corrupted Images via Adaptive Local and Nonlocal Statistical Priors
cs.CV
The motivation of this paper is to introduce a novel framework for the restoration of images corrupted by mixed Gaussian-impulse noise. To this aim, first, an adaptive curvelet thresholding criterion is proposed which tries to adaptively remove the perturbations appeared during denoising process. Then, a new statistica...
computer science
25,421
Image Annotation Incorporating Low-Rankness, Tag and Visual Correlation and Inhomogeneous Errors
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, TBIR is still suffering from the incomplete and inaccurate tags provided by users, posing a great challenge for tag-based image management applications. In this work, ...
computer science
25,422
Love Thy Neighbors: Image Annotation by Exploiting Image Metadata
cs.CV
Some images that are difficult to recognize on their own may become more clear in the context of a neighborhood of related images with similar social-network metadata. We build on this intuition to improve multilabel image annotation. Our model uses image metadata nonparametrically to generate neighborhoods of related ...
computer science
25,423
Action Recognition by Hierarchical Mid-level Action Elements
cs.CV
Realistic videos of human actions exhibit rich spatiotemporal structures at multiple levels of granularity: an action can always be decomposed into multiple finer-grained elements in both space and time. To capture this intuition, we propose to represent videos by a hierarchy of mid-level action elements (MAEs), where ...
computer science
25,424
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Fields in Video
cs.CV
We introduce RIANN (Ring Intersection Approximate Nearest Neighbor search), an algorithm for matching patches of a video to a set of reference patches in real-time. For each query, RIANN finds potential matches by intersecting rings around key points in appearance space. Its search complexity is reversely correlated to...
computer science
25,425
FlatCam: Thin, Bare-Sensor Cameras using Coded Aperture and Computation
cs.CV
FlatCam is a thin form-factor lensless camera that consists of a coded mask placed on top of a bare, conventional sensor array. Unlike a traditional, lens-based camera where an image of the scene is directly recorded on the sensor pixels, each pixel in FlatCam records a linear combination of light from multiple scene e...
computer science
25,426
Discovery Radiomics for Pathologically-Proven Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Prediction
cs.CV
Lung cancer is the leading cause for cancer related deaths. As such, there is an urgent need for a streamlined process that can allow radiologists to provide diagnosis with greater efficiency and accuracy. A powerful tool to do this is radiomics: a high-dimension imaging feature set. In this study, we take the idea of ...
computer science
25,427
Robust Face Recognition via Multimodal Deep Face Representation
cs.CV
Face images appeared in multimedia applications, e.g., social networks and digital entertainment, usually exhibit dramatic pose, illumination, and expression variations, resulting in considerable performance degradation for traditional face recognition algorithms. This paper proposes a comprehensive deep learning frame...
computer science
25,428
Fast Randomized Singular Value Thresholding for Low-rank Optimization
cs.CV
Rank minimization can be converted into tractable surrogate problems, such as Nuclear Norm Minimization (NNM) and Weighted NNM (WNNM). The problems related to NNM, or WNNM, can be solved iteratively by applying a closed-form proximal operator, called Singular Value Thresholding (SVT), or Weighted SVT, but they suffer f...
computer science
25,429
Iterative hypothesis testing for multi-object tracking in presence of features with variable reliability
cs.CV
This paper assumes prior detections of multiple targets at each time instant, and uses a graph-based approach to connect those detections across time, based on their position and appearance estimates. In contrast to most earlier works in the field, our framework has been designed to exploit the appearance features, eve...
computer science
25,430
DAG-Recurrent Neural Networks For Scene Labeling
cs.CV
In image labeling, local representations for image units are usually generated from their surrounding image patches, thus long-range contextual information is not effectively encoded. In this paper, we introduce recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to address this issue. Specifically, directed acyclic graph RNNs (DAG-RNNs)...
computer science
25,431
Exploring Online Ad Images Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Approach
cs.CV
Online advertising is a huge, rapidly growing advertising market in today's world. One common form of online advertising is using image ads. A decision is made (often in real time) every time a user sees an ad, and the advertiser is eager to determine the best ad to display. Consequently, many algorithms have been deve...
computer science
25,432
Manipulated Object Proposal: A Discriminative Object Extraction and Feature Fusion Framework for First-Person Daily Activity Recognition
cs.CV
Detecting and recognizing objects interacting with humans lie in the center of first-person (egocentric) daily activity recognition. However, due to noisy camera motion and frequent changes in viewpoint and scale, most of the previous egocentric action recognition methods fail to capture and model highly discriminative...
computer science
25,433
Dictionary based Approach to Edge Detection
cs.CV
Edge detection is a very essential part of image processing, as quality and accuracy of detection determines the success of further processing. We have developed a new self learning technique for edge detection using dictionary comprised of eigenfilters constructed using features of the input image. The dictionary base...
computer science
25,434
Depth Fields: Extending Light Field Techniques to Time-of-Flight Imaging
cs.CV
A variety of techniques such as light field, structured illumination, and time-of-flight (TOF) are commonly used for depth acquisition in consumer imaging, robotics and many other applications. Unfortunately, each technique suffers from its individual limitations preventing robust depth sensing. In this paper, we explo...
computer science
25,435
A Novice Guide towards Human Motion Analysis and Understanding
cs.CV
Human motion analysis and understanding has been, and is still, the focus of attention of many disciplines which is considered an obvious indicator of the wide and massive importance of the subject. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on this very important subject, so it can be a good insight for a novic...
computer science
25,436
Vision-Based Road Detection using Contextual Blocks
cs.CV
Road detection is a fundamental task in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we consider the case of monocular road detection, where images are segmented into road and non-road regions. Our starting point is the well-known machine learning approach, in which a classifier is trained to distinguish road and non-...
computer science
25,437
Image Classification with Rejection using Contextual Information
cs.CV
We introduce a new supervised algorithm for image classification with rejection using multiscale contextual information. Rejection is desired in image-classification applications that require a robust classifier but not the classification of the entire image. The proposed algorithm combines local and multiscale context...
computer science
25,438
Semantic Amodal Segmentation
cs.CV
Common visual recognition tasks such as classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation are rapidly reaching maturity, and given the recent rate of progress, it is not unreasonable to conjecture that techniques for many of these problems will approach human levels of performance in the next few years. In th...
computer science
25,439
Learning Temporal Alignment Uncertainty for Efficient Event Detection
cs.CV
In this paper we tackle the problem of efficient video event detection. We argue that linear detection functions should be preferred in this regard due to their scalability and efficiency during estimation and evaluation. A popular approach in this regard is to represent a sequence using a bag of words (BOW) representa...
computer science
25,440
Conjugate Gradient Acceleration of Non-Linear Smoothing Filters
cs.CV
The most efficient signal edge-preserving smoothing filters, e.g., for denoising, are non-linear. Thus, their acceleration is challenging and is often performed in practice by tuning filter parameters, such as by increasing the width of the local smoothing neighborhood, resulting in more aggressive smoothing of a singl...
computer science
25,441
Object Recognition from Short Videos for Robotic Perception
cs.CV
Deep neural networks have become the primary learning technique for object recognition. Videos, unlike still images, are temporally coherent which makes the application of deep networks non-trivial. Here, we investigate how motion can aid object recognition in short videos. Our approach is based on Long Short-Term Memo...
computer science
25,442
Chebyshev and Conjugate Gradient Filters for Graph Image Denoising
cs.CV
In 3D image/video acquisition, different views are often captured with varying noise levels across the views. In this paper, we propose a graph-based image enhancement technique that uses a higher quality view to enhance a degraded view. A depth map is utilized as auxiliary information to match the perspectives of the ...
computer science
25,443
Co-interest Person Detection from Multiple Wearable Camera Videos
cs.CV
Wearable cameras, such as Google Glass and Go Pro, enable video data collection over larger areas and from different views. In this paper, we tackle a new problem of locating the co-interest person (CIP), i.e., the one who draws attention from most camera wearers, from temporally synchronized videos taken by multiple w...
computer science
25,444
Unsupervised Cross-Domain Recognition by Identifying Compact Joint Subspaces
cs.CV
This paper introduces a new method to solve the cross-domain recognition problem. Different from the traditional domain adaption methods which rely on a global domain shift for all classes between source and target domain, the proposed method is more flexible to capture individual class variations across domains. By ad...
computer science
25,445
Joint Color-Spatial-Directional clustering and Region Merging (JCSD-RM) for unsupervised RGB-D image segmentation
cs.CV
Recent advances in depth imaging sensors provide easy access to the synchronized depth with color, called RGB-D image. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for indoor RGB-D image segmentation and analysis. We consider a statistical image generation model based on the color and geometry of the scene. Our met...
computer science
25,446
An end-to-end generative framework for video segmentation and recognition
cs.CV
We describe an end-to-end generative approach for the segmentation and recognition of human activities. In this approach, a visual representation based on reduced Fisher Vectors is combined with a structured temporal model for recognition. We show that the statistical properties of Fisher Vectors make them an especiall...
computer science
25,447
A New Low-Rank Tensor Model for Video Completion
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new low-rank tensor model based on the circulant algebra, namely, twist tensor nuclear norm or t-TNN for short. The twist tensor denotes a 3-way tensor representation to laterally store 2D data slices in order. On one hand, t-TNN convexly relaxes the tensor multi-rank of the twist tensor in ...
computer science
25,448
Future Localization from an Egocentric Depth Image
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for future localization: to predict a set of plausible trajectories of ego-motion given a depth image. We predict paths avoiding obstacles, between objects, even paths turning around a corner into space behind objects. As a byproduct of the predicted trajectories of ego-motion, we discover ...
computer science
25,449
Convexity Shape Constraints for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Segmenting an image into multiple components is a central task in computer vision. In many practical scenarios, prior knowledge about plausible components is available. Incorporating such prior knowledge into models and algorithms for image segmentation is highly desirable, yet can be non-trivial. In this work, we intr...
computer science
25,450
Structured Prediction with Output Embeddings for Semantic Image Annotation
cs.CV
We address the task of annotating images with semantic tuples. Solving this problem requires an algorithm which is able to deal with hundreds of classes for each argument of the tuple. In such contexts, data sparsity becomes a key challenge, as there will be a large number of classes for which only a few examples are a...
computer science
25,451
Object Proposals for Text Extraction in the Wild
cs.CV
Object Proposals is a recent computer vision technique receiving increasing interest from the research community. Its main objective is to generate a relatively small set of bounding box proposals that are most likely to contain objects of interest. The use of Object Proposals techniques in the scene text understanding...
computer science
25,452
HEp-2 Cell Classification: The Role of Gaussian Scale Space Theory as A Pre-processing Approach
cs.CV
\textit{Indirect Immunofluorescence Imaging of Human Epithelial Type 2} (HEp-2) cells is an effective way to identify the presence of Anti-Nuclear Antibody (ANA). Most existing works on HEp-2 cell classification mainly focus on feature extraction, feature encoding and classifier design. Very few efforts have been devot...
computer science
25,453
Semantic Video Segmentation : Exploring Inference Efficiency
cs.CV
We explore the efficiency of the CRF inference beyond image level semantic segmentation and perform joint inference in video frames. The key idea is to combine best of two worlds: semantic co-labeling and more expressive models. Our formulation enables us to perform inference over ten thousand images within seconds and...
computer science
25,454
Accelerated graph-based spectral polynomial filters
cs.CV
Graph-based spectral denoising is a low-pass filtering using the eigendecomposition of the graph Laplacian matrix of a noisy signal. Polynomial filtering avoids costly computation of the eigendecomposition by projections onto suitable Krylov subspaces. Polynomial filters can be based, e.g., on the bilateral and guided ...
computer science
25,455
A Dual Fast and Slow Feature Interaction in Biologically Inspired Visual Recognition of Human Action
cs.CV
Computational neuroscience studies that have examined human visual system through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have identified a model where the mammalian brain pursues two distinct pathways (for recognition of biological movement tasks). In the brain, dorsal stream analyzes the information of motion (o...
computer science
25,456
Semantic Image Segmentation via Deep Parsing Network
cs.CV
This paper addresses semantic image segmentation by incorporating rich information into Markov Random Field (MRF), including high-order relations and mixture of label contexts. Unlike previous works that optimized MRFs using iterative algorithm, we solve MRF by proposing a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), namely Dee...
computer science
25,457
Proposal-free Network for Instance-level Object Segmentation
cs.CV
Instance-level object segmentation is an important yet under-explored task. The few existing studies are almost all based on region proposal methods to extract candidate segments and then utilize object classification to produce final results. Nonetheless, generating accurate region proposals itself is quite challengin...
computer science
25,458
Shape Interaction Matrix Revisited and Robustified: Efficient Subspace Clustering with Corrupted and Incomplete Data
cs.CV
The Shape Interaction Matrix (SIM) is one of the earliest approaches to performing subspace clustering (i.e., separating points drawn from a union of subspaces). In this paper, we revisit the SIM and reveal its connections to several recent subspace clustering methods. Our analysis lets us derive a simple, yet effectiv...
computer science
25,459
Dictionary Learning and Sparse Coding for Third-order Super-symmetric Tensors
cs.CV
Super-symmetric tensors - a higher-order extension of scatter matrices - are becoming increasingly popular in machine learning and computer vision for modelling data statistics, co-occurrences, or even as visual descriptors. However, the size of these tensors are exponential in the data dimensionality, which is a signi...
computer science
25,460
Real-time Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks from Depth map
cs.CV
Sign language recognition is important for natural and convenient communication between deaf community and hearing majority. We take the highly efficient initial step of automatic fingerspelling recognition system using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) from depth maps. In this work, we consider relatively larger nu...
computer science
25,461
STC: A Simple to Complex Framework for Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Recently, significant improvement has been made on semantic object segmentation due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). Training such a DCNN usually relies on a large number of images with pixel-level segmentation masks, and annotating these images is very costly in terms of both finance a...
computer science
25,462
Learning Sparse Feature Representations using Probabilistic Quadtrees and Deep Belief Nets
cs.CV
Learning sparse feature representations is a useful instrument for solving an unsupervised learning problem. In this paper, we present three labeled handwritten digit datasets, collectively called n-MNIST. Then, we propose a novel framework for the classification of handwritten digits that learns sparse representations...
computer science
25,463
A reliable order-statistics-based approximate nearest neighbor search algorithm
cs.CV
We propose a new algorithm for fast approximate nearest neighbor search based on the properties of ordered vectors. Data vectors are classified based on the index and sign of their largest components, thereby partitioning the space in a number of cones centered in the origin. The query is itself classified, and the sea...
computer science
25,464
OCR accuracy improvement on document images through a novel pre-processing approach
cs.CV
Digital camera and mobile document image acquisition are new trends arising in the world of Optical Character Recognition and text detection. In some cases, such process integrates many distortions and produces poorly scanned text or text-photo images and natural images, leading to an unreliable OCR digitization. In th...
computer science
25,465
Person Recognition in Personal Photo Collections
cs.CV
Recognising persons in everyday photos presents major challenges (occluded faces, different clothing, locations, etc.) for machine vision. We propose a convnet based person recognition system on which we provide an in-depth analysis of informativeness of different body cues, impact of training data, and the common fail...
computer science
25,466
Fingerprint Recognition Using Translation Invariant Scattering Network
cs.CV
Fingerprint recognition has drawn a lot of attention during last decades. Different features and algorithms have been used for fingerprint recognition in the past. In this paper, a powerful image representation called scattering transform/network, is used for recognition. Scattering network is a convolutional network w...
computer science
25,467
DeepSat - A Learning framework for Satellite Imagery
cs.CV
Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification approaches are not suitable for handling satellite datasets. The progress of sat...
computer science
25,468
Oracle MCG: A first peek into COCO Detection Challenges
cs.CV
The recently presented COCO detection challenge will most probably be the reference benchmark in object detection in the next years. COCO is two orders of magnitude larger than Pascal and has four times the number of categories; so in all likelihood researchers will be faced with a number of new challenges. At this poi...
computer science
25,469
Learning Contextual Dependencies with Convolutional Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown their great success on image classification. CNNs mainly consist of convolutional and pooling layers, both of which are performed on local image areas without considering the dependencies among different image regions. However, such dependencies are very imp...
computer science
25,470
On Binary Classification with Single-Layer Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks are becoming standard tools for solving object recognition and visual tasks. However, most of the design and implementation of these complex models are based on trail-and-error. In this report, the main focus is to consider some of the important factors in designing convolutional networks ...
computer science
25,471
Learning to Divide and Conquer for Online Multi-Target Tracking
cs.CV
Online Multiple Target Tracking (MTT) is often addressed within the tracking-by-detection paradigm. Detections are previously extracted independently in each frame and then objects trajectories are built by maximizing specifically designed coherence functions. Nevertheless, ambiguities arise in presence of occlusions o...
computer science
25,472
Expanded Parts Model for Semantic Description of Humans in Still Images
cs.CV
We introduce an Expanded Parts Model (EPM) for recognizing human attributes (e.g. young, short hair, wearing suit) and actions (e.g. running, jumping) in still images. An EPM is a collection of part templates which are learnt discriminatively to explain specific scale-space regions in the images (in human centric coord...
computer science
25,473
gSLICr: SLIC superpixels at over 250Hz
cs.CV
We introduce a parallel GPU implementation of the Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (SLIC) superpixel segmentation. Using a single graphic card, our implementation achieves speedups of up to $83\times$ from the standard sequential implementation. Our implementation is fully compatible with the standard sequential impl...
computer science
25,474
Sparse Representation for 3D Shape Estimation: A Convex Relaxation Approach
cs.CV
We investigate the problem of estimating the 3D shape of an object defined by a set of 3D landmarks, given their 2D correspondences in a single image. A successful approach to alleviating the reconstruction ambiguity is the 3D deformable shape model and a sparse representation is often used to capture complex shape var...
computer science
25,475
Analyzing structural characteristics of object category representations from their semantic-part distributions
cs.CV
Studies from neuroscience show that part-mapping computations are employed by human visual system in the process of object recognition. In this work, we present an approach for analyzing semantic-part characteristics of object category representations. For our experiments, we use category-epitome, a recently proposed s...
computer science
25,476
Medical Image Classification via SVM using LBP Features from Saliency-Based Folded Data
cs.CV
Good results on image classification and retrieval using support vector machines (SVM) with local binary patterns (LBPs) as features have been extensively reported in the literature where an entire image is retrieved or classified. In contrast, in medical imaging, not all parts of the image may be equally significant o...
computer science
25,477
Self-Configuring and Evolving Fuzzy Image Thresholding
cs.CV
Every segmentation algorithm has parameters that need to be adjusted in order to achieve good results. Evolving fuzzy systems for adjustment of segmentation parameters have been proposed recently (Evolving fuzzy image segmentation -- EFIS [1]. However, similar to any other algorithm, EFIS too suffers from a few limitat...
computer science
25,478
SPECFACE - A Dataset of Human Faces Wearing Spectacles
cs.CV
This paper presents a database of human faces for persons wearing spectacles. The database consists of images of faces having significant variations with respect to illumination, head pose, skin color, facial expressions and sizes, and nature of spectacles. The database contains data of 60 subjects. This database is ex...
computer science
25,479
DenseBox: Unifying Landmark Localization with End to End Object Detection
cs.CV
How can a single fully convolutional neural network (FCN) perform on object detection? We introduce DenseBox, a unified end-to-end FCN framework that directly predicts bounding boxes and object class confidences through all locations and scales of an image. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we show that a single FCN...
computer science
25,480
An Improved Algorithm for Eye Corner Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, a modified algorithm for the detection of nasal and temporal eye corners is presented. The algorithm is a modification of the Santos and Proenka Method. In the first step, we detect the face and the eyes using classifiers based on Haar-like features. We then segment out the sclera, from the detected eye ...
computer science
25,481
Projection Bank: From High-dimensional Data to Medium-length Binary Codes
cs.CV
Recently, very high-dimensional feature representations, e.g., Fisher Vector, have achieved excellent performance for visual recognition and retrieval. However, these lengthy representations always cause extremely heavy computational and storage costs and even become unfeasible in some large-scale applications. A few e...
computer science
25,482
Guiding Long-Short Term Memory for Image Caption Generation
cs.CV
In this work we focus on the problem of image caption generation. We propose an extension of the long short term memory (LSTM) model, which we coin gLSTM for short. In particular, we add semantic information extracted from the image as extra input to each unit of the LSTM block, with the aim of guiding the model toward...
computer science
25,483
Human and Sheep Facial Landmarks Localisation by Triplet Interpolated Features
cs.CV
In this paper we present a method for localisation of facial landmarks on human and sheep. We introduce a new feature extraction scheme called triplet-interpolated feature used at each iteration of the cascaded shape regression framework. It is able to extract features from similar semantic location given an estimated ...
computer science
25,484
Overcomplete Dictionary Learning with Jacobi Atom Updates
cs.CV
Dictionary learning for sparse representations is traditionally approached with sequential atom updates, in which an optimized atom is used immediately for the optimization of the next atoms. We propose instead a Jacobi version, in which groups of atoms are updated independently, in parallel. Extensive numerical eviden...
computer science
25,485
Accelerated Distance Computation with Encoding Tree for High Dimensional Data
cs.CV
We propose a novel distance to calculate distance between high dimensional vector pairs, utilizing vector quantization generated encodings. Vector quantization based methods are successful in handling large scale high dimensional data. These methods compress vectors into short encodings, and allow efficient distance co...
computer science
25,486
HCLAE: High Capacity Locally Aggregating Encodings for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
cs.CV
Vector quantization-based approaches are successful to solve Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) problems which are critical to many applications. The idea is to generate effective encodings to allow fast distance approximation. We propose quantization-based methods should partition the data space finely and exhibit loc...
computer science
25,487
Improved Residual Vector Quantization for High-dimensional Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
cs.CV
Quantization methods have been introduced to perform large scale approximate nearest search tasks. Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) is one of the effective quantization methods. RVQ uses a multi-stage codebook learning scheme to lower the quantization error stage by stage. However, there are two major limitations for...
computer science
25,488
Hand-held Video Deblurring via Efficient Fourier Aggregation
cs.CV
Videos captured with hand-held cameras often suffer from a significant amount of blur, mainly caused by the inevitable natural tremor of the photographer's hand. In this work, we present an algorithm that removes blur due to camera shake by combining information in the Fourier domain from nearby frames in a video. The ...
computer science
25,489
Deep Multi-task Learning for Railway Track Inspection
cs.CV
Railroad tracks need to be periodically inspected and monitored to ensure safe transportation. Automated track inspection using computer vision and pattern recognition methods have recently shown the potential to improve safety by allowing for more frequent inspections while reducing human errors. Achieving full automa...
computer science
25,490
Recurrent Spatial Transformer Networks
cs.CV
We integrate the recently proposed spatial transformer network (SPN) [Jaderberg et. al 2015] into a recurrent neural network (RNN) to form an RNN-SPN model. We use the RNN-SPN to classify digits in cluttered MNIST sequences. The proposed model achieves a single digit error of 1.5% compared to 2.9% for a convolutional n...
computer science
25,491
Geometry-aware Deep Transform
cs.CV
Many recent efforts have been devoted to designing sophisticated deep learning structures, obtaining revolutionary results on benchmark datasets. The success of these deep learning methods mostly relies on an enormous volume of labeled training samples to learn a huge number of parameters in a network; therefore, under...
computer science
25,492
Facial Descriptors for Human Interaction Recognition In Still Images
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach in a rarely studied area of computer vision: Human interaction recognition in still images. We explore whether the facial regions and their spatial configurations contribute to the recognition of interactions. In this respect, our method involves extraction of several visual feature...
computer science
25,493
An Experimental Survey on Correlation Filter-based Tracking
cs.CV
Over these years, Correlation Filter-based Trackers (CFTs) have aroused increasing interests in the field of visual object tracking, and have achieved extremely compelling results in different competitions and benchmarks. In this paper, our goal is to review the developments of CFTs with extensive experimental results....
computer science
25,494
Efficient Clustering on Riemannian Manifolds: A Kernelised Random Projection Approach
cs.CV
Reformulating computer vision problems over Riemannian manifolds has demonstrated superior performance in various computer vision applications. This is because visual data often forms a special structure lying on a lower dimensional space embedded in a higher dimensional space. However, since these manifolds belong to ...
computer science
25,495
Linearized Kernel Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
In this paper we present a new approach of incorporating kernels into dictionary learning. The kernel K-SVD algorithm (KKSVD), which has been introduced recently, shows an improvement in classification performance, with relation to its linear counterpart K-SVD. However, this algorithm requires the storage and handling ...
computer science
25,496
Similar Handwritten Chinese Character Discrimination by Weakly Supervised Learning
cs.CV
Traditional approaches for handwritten Chinese character recognition suffer in classifying similar characters. In this paper, we propose to discriminate similar handwritten Chinese characters by using weakly supervised learning. Our approach learns a discriminative SVM for each similar pair which simultaneously localiz...
computer science
25,497
Face Photo Sketch Synthesis via Larger Patch and Multiresolution Spline
cs.CV
Face photo sketch synthesis has got some researchers' attention in recent years because of its potential applications in digital entertainment and law enforcement. Some patches based methods have been proposed to solve this problem. These methods usually focus more on how to get a sketch patch for a given photo patch t...
computer science
25,498
Robust Visual Tracking via Inverse Nonnegative Matrix Factorization
cs.CV
The establishment of robust target appearance model over time is an overriding concern in visual tracking. In this paper, we propose an inverse nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) method for robust appearance modeling. Rather than using a linear combination of nonnegative basis matrices for each target image patch i...
computer science
25,499
A Parallel Framework for Parametric Maximum Flow Problems in Image Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper presents a framework that supports the implementation of parallel solutions for the widespread parametric maximum flow computational routines used in image segmentation algorithms. The framework is based on supergraphs, a special construction combining several image graphs into a larger one, and works on var...
computer science
25,500
Image Set Querying Based Localization
cs.CV
Conventional single image based localization methods usually fail to localize a querying image when there exist large variations between the querying image and the pre-built scene. To address this, we propose an image-set querying based localization approach. When the localization by a single image fails to work, the s...
computer science
25,501
Deep Convolutional Features for Image Based Retrieval and Scene Categorization
cs.CV
Several recent approaches showed how the representations learned by Convolutional Neural Networks can be repurposed for novel tasks. Most commonly it has been shown that the activation features of the last fully connected layers (fc7 or fc6) of the network, followed by a linear classifier outperform the state-of-the-ar...
computer science