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Image Retrieval Based on LBP Pyramidal Multiresolution using Reversible Watermarking
cs.CV
In the medical field, images are increasingly used to facilitate diagnosis of diseases. These images are stored in multimedia databases accompanied by doctor s prescriptions and other information related to patients.Search for medical images has become for clinical applications an essential tool to bring effective aid ...
computer science
25,503
On Large-Scale Retrieval: Binary or n-ary Coding?
cs.CV
The growing amount of data available in modern-day datasets makes the need to efficiently search and retrieve information. To make large-scale search feasible, Distance Estimation and Subset Indexing are the main approaches. Although binary coding has been popular for implementing both techniques, n-ary coding (known a...
computer science
25,504
On 3D Face Reconstruction via Cascaded Regression in Shape Space
cs.CV
Cascaded regression has been recently applied to reconstructing 3D faces from single 2D images directly in shape space, and achieved state-of-the-art performance. This paper investigates thoroughly such cascaded regression based 3D face reconstruction approaches from four perspectives that are not well studied yet: (i)...
computer science
25,505
LEWIS: Latent Embeddings for Word Images and their Semantics
cs.CV
The goal of this work is to bring semantics into the tasks of text recognition and retrieval in natural images. Although text recognition and retrieval have received a lot of attention in recent years, previous works have focused on recognizing or retrieving exactly the same word used as a query, without taking the sem...
computer science
25,506
Evaluating the visualization of what a Deep Neural Network has learned
cs.CV
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance in complex machine learning tasks such as image classification or speech recognition. However, due to their multi-layer nonlinear structure, they are not transparent, i.e., it is hard to grasp what makes them arrive at a particular classification or r...
computer science
25,507
From Facial Parts Responses to Face Detection: A Deep Learning Approach
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel deep convolutional network (DCN) that achieves outstanding performance on FDDB, PASCAL Face, and AFW. Specifically, our method achieves a high recall rate of 90.99% on the challenging FDDB benchmark, outperforming the state-of-the-art method by a large margin of 2.91%. Importantly, we ...
computer science
25,508
Understand Scene Categories by Objects: A Semantic Regularized Scene Classifier Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Scene classification is a fundamental perception task for environmental understanding in today's robotics. In this paper, we have attempted to exploit the use of popular machine learning technique of deep learning to enhance scene understanding, particularly in robotics applications. As scene images have larger diversi...
computer science
25,509
Local Multi-Grouped Binary Descriptor with Ring-based Pooling Configuration and Optimization
cs.CV
Local binary descriptors are attracting increasingly attention due to their great advantages in computational speed, which are able to achieve real-time performance in numerous image/vision applications. Various methods have been proposed to learn data-dependent binary descriptors. However, most existing binary descrip...
computer science
25,510
Attribute-Graph: A Graph based approach to Image Ranking
cs.CV
We propose a novel image representation, termed Attribute-Graph, to rank images by their semantic similarity to a given query image. An Attribute-Graph is an undirected fully connected graph, incorporating both local and global image characteristics. The graph nodes characterise objects as well as the overall scene con...
computer science
25,511
A Dual-Source Approach for 3D Pose Estimation from a Single Image
cs.CV
One major challenge for 3D pose estimation from a single RGB image is the acquisition of sufficient training data. In particular, collecting large amounts of training data that contain unconstrained images and are annotated with accurate 3D poses is infeasible. We therefore propose to use two independent training sourc...
computer science
25,512
Algebraic Clustering of Affine Subspaces
cs.CV
Subspace clustering is an important problem in machine learning with many applications in computer vision and pattern recognition. Prior work has studied this problem using algebraic, iterative, statistical, low-rank and sparse representation techniques. While these methods have been applied to both linear and affine s...
computer science
25,513
New Fuzzy LBP Features for Face Recognition
cs.CV
There are many Local texture features each very in way they implement and each of the Algorithm trying improve the performance. An attempt is made in this paper to represent a theoretically very simple and computationally effective approach for face recognition. In our implementation the face image is divided into 3x3 ...
computer science
25,514
Robust Object Tracking with a Hierarchical Ensemble Framework
cs.CV
Autonomous robots enjoy a wide popularity nowadays and have been applied in many applications, such as home security, entertainment, delivery, navigation and guidance. It is vital to robots to track objects accurately in these applications, so it is necessary to focus on tracking algorithms to improve the robustness an...
computer science
25,515
Is Image Super-resolution Helpful for Other Vision Tasks?
cs.CV
Despite the great advances made in the field of image super-resolution (ISR) during the last years, the performance has merely been evaluated perceptually. Thus, it is still unclear whether ISR is helpful for other vision tasks. In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study and analysis of the usefulness of I...
computer science
25,516
Automatic Concept Discovery from Parallel Text and Visual Corpora
cs.CV
Humans connect language and vision to perceive the world. How to build a similar connection for computers? One possible way is via visual concepts, which are text terms that relate to visually discriminative entities. We propose an automatic visual concept discovery algorithm using parallel text and visual corpora; it ...
computer science
25,517
Multi-Region Probabilistic Dice Similarity Coefficient using the Aitchison Distance and Bipartite Graph Matching
cs.CV
Validation of image segmentation methods is of critical importance. Probabilistic image segmentation is increasingly popular as it captures uncertainty in the results. Image segmentation methods that support multi-region (as opposed to binary) delineation are more favourable as they capture interactions between the dif...
computer science
25,518
Learning Visual Clothing Style with Heterogeneous Dyadic Co-occurrences
cs.CV
With the rapid proliferation of smart mobile devices, users now take millions of photos every day. These include large numbers of clothing and accessory images. We would like to answer questions like `What outfit goes well with this pair of shoes?' To answer these types of questions, one has to go beyond learning visua...
computer science
25,519
Learning Concept Embeddings with Combined Human-Machine Expertise
cs.CV
This paper presents our work on "SNaCK," a low-dimensional concept embedding algorithm that combines human expertise with automatic machine similarity kernels. Both parts are complimentary: human insight can capture relationships that are not apparent from the object's visual similarity and the machine can help relieve...
computer science
25,520
Incremental Loop Closure Verification by Guided Sampling
cs.CV
Loop closure detection, the task of identifying locations revisited by a robot in a sequence of odometry and perceptual observations, is typically formulated as a combination of two subtasks: (1) bag-of-words image retrieval and (2) post-verification using RANSAC geometric verification. The main contribution of this st...
computer science
25,521
Discriminative Map Retrieval Using View-Dependent Map Descriptor
cs.CV
Map retrieval, the problem of similarity search over a large collection of 2D pointset maps previously built by mobile robots, is crucial for autonomous navigation in indoor and outdoor environments. Bag-of-words (BoW) methods constitute a popular approach to map retrieval; however, these methods have extremely limited...
computer science
25,522
Self-localization Using Visual Experience Across Domains
cs.CV
In this study, we aim to solve the single-view robot self-localization problem by using visual experience across domains. Although the bag-of-words method constitutes a popular approach to single-view localization, it fails badly when it's visual vocabulary is learned and tested in different domains. Further, we are in...
computer science
25,523
Segment-Phrase Table for Semantic Segmentation, Visual Entailment and Paraphrasing
cs.CV
We introduce Segment-Phrase Table (SPT), a large collection of bijective associations between textual phrases and their corresponding segmentations. Leveraging recent progress in object recognition and natural language semantics, we show how we can successfully build a high-quality segment-phrase table using minimal hu...
computer science
25,524
Multivariate Median Filters and Partial Differential Equations
cs.CV
Multivariate median filters have been proposed as generalisations of the well-established median filter for grey-value images to multi-channel images. As multivariate median, most of the recent approaches use the $L^1$ median, i.e.\ the minimiser of an objective function that is the sum of distances to all input points...
computer science
25,525
Amodal Completion and Size Constancy in Natural Scenes
cs.CV
We consider the problem of enriching current object detection systems with veridical object sizes and relative depth estimates from a single image. There are several technical challenges to this, such as occlusions, lack of calibration data and the scale ambiguity between object size and distance. These have not been a...
computer science
25,526
Robust video object tracking using particle filter with likelihood based feature fusion and adaptive template updating
cs.CV
A robust algorithm solution is proposed for tracking an object in complex video scenes. In this solution, the bootstrap particle filter (PF) is initialized by an object detector, which models the time-evolving background of the video signal by an adaptive Gaussian mixture. The motion of the object is expressed by a Mar...
computer science
25,527
Fast Non-local Stereo Matching based on Hierarchical Disparity Prediction
cs.CV
Stereo matching is the key step in estimating depth from two or more images. Recently, some tree-based non-local stereo matching methods have been proposed, which achieved state-of-the-art performance. The algorithms employed some tree structures to aggregate cost and thus improved the performance and reduced the coput...
computer science
25,528
Learning FRAME Models Using CNN Filters
cs.CV
The convolutional neural network (ConvNet or CNN) has proven to be very successful in many tasks such as those in computer vision. In this conceptual paper, we study the generative perspective of the discriminative CNN. In particular, we propose to learn the generative FRAME (Filters, Random field, And Maximum Entropy)...
computer science
25,529
Efficient Discriminative Nonorthogonal Binary Subspace with its Application to Visual Tracking
cs.CV
One of the crucial problems in visual tracking is how the object is represented. Conventional appearance-based trackers are using increasingly more complex features in order to be robust. However, complex representations typically not only require more computation for feature extraction, but also make the state inferen...
computer science
25,530
Hyper-Fisher Vectors for Action Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel encoding scheme combining Fisher vector and bag-of-words encodings has been proposed for recognizing action in videos. The proposed Hyper-Fisher vector encoding is sum of local Fisher vectors which are computed based on the traditional Bag-of-Words (BoW) encoding. Thus, the proposed encoding is s...
computer science
25,531
Long-Range Trajectories from Global and Local Motion Representations
cs.CV
Motion is a fundamental cue for scene analysis and human activity understan- ding in videos. It can be encoded in trajectories for tracking objects and for action recognition, or in form of flow to address behaviour analysis in crowded scenes. Each approach can only be applied on limited scenarios. We propose a motion-...
computer science
25,532
Retinex filtering of foggy images: generation of a bulk set with selection and ranking
cs.CV
In this paper we are proposing the use of GIMP Retinex, a filter of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, for enhancing foggy images. This filter involves adjusting four different parameters to find the output image which has to be preferred according to some specific purposes. Aiming to obtain a processing, which is abl...
computer science
25,533
Scalable Nonlinear Embeddings for Semantic Category-based Image Retrieval
cs.CV
We propose a novel algorithm for the task of supervised discriminative distance learning by nonlinearly embedding vectors into a low dimensional Euclidean space. We work in the challenging setting where supervision is with constraints on similar and dissimilar pairs while training. The proposed method is derived by an ...
computer science
25,534
Light Field Reconstruction Using Shearlet Transform
cs.CV
In this article we develop an image based rendering technique based on light field reconstruction from a limited set of perspective views acquired by cameras. Our approach utilizes sparse representation of epipolar-plane images in a directionally sensitive transform domain, obtained by an adapted discrete shearlet tran...
computer science
25,535
Energy-Efficient Object Detection using Semantic Decomposition
cs.CV
Machine-learning algorithms offer immense possibilities in the development of several cognitive applications. In fact, large scale machine-learning classifiers now represent the state-of-the-art in a wide range of object detection/classification problems. However, the network complexities of large-scale classifiers pre...
computer science
25,536
Conditional Deep Learning for Energy-Efficient and Enhanced Pattern Recognition
cs.CV
Deep learning neural networks have emerged as one of the most powerful classification tools for vision related applications. However, the computational and energy requirements associated with such deep nets can be quite high, and hence their energy-efficient implementation is of great interest. Although traditionally t...
computer science
25,537
Stats-Calculus Pose Descriptor Feeding A Discrete HMM Low-latency Detection and Recognition System For 3D Skeletal Actions
cs.CV
Recognition of human actions, under low observational latency, is a growing interest topic, nowadays. Many approaches have been represented based on a provided set of 3D Cartesian coordinates system originated at a certain specific point located on a root joint. In this paper, We will present a statistical detection an...
computer science
25,538
Moving Object Detection in Video Using Saliency Map and Subspace Learning
cs.CV
Moving object detection is a key to intelligent video analysis. On the one hand, what moves is not only interesting objects but also noise and cluttered background. On the other hand, moving objects without rich texture are prone not to be detected. So there are undesirable false alarms and missed alarms in many algori...
computer science
25,539
Online Object Tracking with Proposal Selection
cs.CV
Tracking-by-detection approaches are some of the most successful object trackers in recent years. Their success is largely determined by the detector model they learn initially and then update over time. However, under challenging conditions where an object can undergo transformations, e.g., severe rotation, these meth...
computer science
25,540
A spatial compositional model (SCM) for linear unmixing and endmember uncertainty estimation
cs.CV
The normal compositional model (NCM) has been extensively used in hyperspectral unmixing. However, most of the previous research has focused on estimation of endmembers and/or their variability. Also, little work has employed spatial information in NCM. In this paper, we show that NCM can be used for calculating the un...
computer science
25,541
General Dynamic Scene Reconstruction from Multiple View Video
cs.CV
This paper introduces a general approach to dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple moving cameras without prior knowledge or limiting constraints on the scene structure, appearance, or illumination. Existing techniques for dynamic scene reconstruction from multiple wide-baseline camera views primarily focus on accu...
computer science
25,542
Fast Single Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of single image super-resolution (SR), which consists of recovering a high resolution image from its blurred, decimated and noisy version. The existing algorithms for single image SR use different strategies to handle the decimation and blurring operators. In addition to the traditional...
computer science
25,543
Data Association for an Adaptive Multi-target Particle Filter Tracking System
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach to improve the accuracy of tracking multiple objects in a static scene using a particle filter system by introducing a data association step, a state queue for the collection of tracked objects and adaptive parameters to the system. The data association step makes use of the object ...
computer science
25,544
Off-the-Grid Recovery of Piecewise Constant Images from Few Fourier Samples
cs.CV
We introduce a method to recover a continuous domain representation of a piecewise constant two-dimensional image from few low-pass Fourier samples. Assuming the edge set of the image is localized to the zero set of a trigonometric polynomial, we show the Fourier coefficients of the partial derivatives of the image sat...
computer science
25,545
Learning a Discriminative Model for the Perception of Realism in Composite Images
cs.CV
What makes an image appear realistic? In this work, we are answering this question from a data-driven perspective by learning the perception of visual realism directly from large amounts of data. In particular, we train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model that distinguishes natural photographs from automatically...
computer science
25,546
Effective Object Tracking in Unstructured Crowd Scenes
cs.CV
In this paper, we are presenting a rotation variant Oriented Texture Curve (OTC) descriptor based mean shift algorithm for tracking an object in an unstructured crowd scene. The proposed algorithm works by first obtaining the OTC features for a manually selected object target, then a visual vocabulary is created by usi...
computer science
25,547
Local Higher-Order Statistics (LHS) describing images with statistics of local non-binarized pixel patterns
cs.CV
We propose a new image representation for texture categorization and facial analysis, relying on the use of higher-order local differential statistics as features. It has been recently shown that small local pixel pattern distributions can be highly discriminative while being extremely efficient to compute, which is in...
computer science
25,548
Human Action Recognition using Factorized Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Human actions in video sequences are three-dimensional (3D) spatio-temporal signals characterizing both the visual appearance and motion dynamics of the involved humans and objects. Inspired by the success of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for image classification, recent attempts have been made to learn 3D CNNs f...
computer science
25,549
WHOI-Plankton- A Large Scale Fine Grained Visual Recognition Benchmark Dataset for Plankton Classification
cs.CV
Planktonic organisms are of fundamental importance to marine ecosystems: they form the basis of the food web, provide the link between the atmosphere and the deep ocean, and influence global-scale biogeochemical cycles. Scientists are increasingly using imaging-based technologies to study these creatures in their natur...
computer science
25,550
Background Image Generation Using Boolean Operations
cs.CV
Tracking moving objects from a video sequence requires segmentation of these objects from the background image. However, getting the actual background image automatically without object detection and using only the video is difficult. In this paper, we describe a novel algorithm that generates background from real worl...
computer science
25,551
Cross-convolutional-layer Pooling for Image Recognition
cs.CV
Recent studies have shown that a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) pretrained on a large image dataset can be used as a universal image descriptor, and that doing so leads to impressive performance for a variety of image classification tasks. Most of these studies adopt activations from a single DCNN layer, usua...
computer science
25,552
Efficient Hand Articulations Tracking using Adaptive Hand Model and Depth map
cs.CV
Real-time hand articulations tracking is important for many applications such as interacting with virtual / augmented reality devices or tablets. However, most of existing algorithms highly rely on expensive and high power-consuming GPUs to achieve real-time processing. Consequently, these systems are inappropriate for...
computer science
25,553
Single Image Dehazing through Improved Atmospheric Light Estimation
cs.CV
Image contrast enhancement for outdoor vision is important for smart car auxiliary transport systems. The video frames captured in poor weather conditions are often characterized by poor visibility. Most image dehazing algorithms consider to use a hard threshold assumptions or user input to estimate atmospheric light. ...
computer science
25,554
GPU-Based Computation of 2D Least Median of Squares with Applications to Fast and Robust Line Detection
cs.CV
The 2D Least Median of Squares (LMS) is a popular tool in robust regression because of its high breakdown point: up to half of the input data can be contaminated with outliers without affecting the accuracy of the LMS estimator. The complexity of 2D LMS estimation has been shown to be $\Omega(n^2)$ where $n$ is the tot...
computer science
25,555
Intensity-only optical compressive imaging using a multiply scattering material and a double phase retrieval approach
cs.CV
In this paper, the problem of compressive imaging is addressed using natural randomization by means of a multiply scattering medium. To utilize the medium in this way, its corresponding transmission matrix must be estimated. To calibrate the imager, we use a digital micromirror device (DMD) as a simple, cheap, and high...
computer science
25,556
Visual Tracking via Nonnegative Regularization Multiple Locality Coding
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel object tracking method based on approximated Locality-constrained Linear Coding (LLC). Rather than using a non-negativity constraint on encoding coefficients to guarantee these elements nonnegative, in this paper, the non-negativity constraint is substituted for a conventional $\ell_2$ norm ...
computer science
25,557
Efficient Object Detection for High Resolution Images
cs.CV
Efficient generation of high-quality object proposals is an essential step in state-of-the-art object detection systems based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) features. Current object proposal algorithms are computationally inefficient in processing high resolution images containing small objects, which mak...
computer science
25,558
Harvesting Discriminative Meta Objects with Deep CNN Features for Scene Classification
cs.CV
Recent work on scene classification still makes use of generic CNN features in a rudimentary manner. In this ICCV 2015 paper, we present a novel pipeline built upon deep CNN features to harvest discriminative visual objects and parts for scene classification. We first use a region proposal technique to generate a set o...
computer science
25,559
Unsupervised Extraction of Video Highlights Via Robust Recurrent Auto-encoders
cs.CV
With the growing popularity of short-form video sharing platforms such as \em{Instagram} and \em{Vine}, there has been an increasing need for techniques that automatically extract highlights from video. Whereas prior works have approached this problem with heuristic rules or supervised learning, we present an unsupervi...
computer science
25,560
Directional Global Three-part Image Decomposition
cs.CV
We consider the task of image decomposition and we introduce a new model coined directional global three-part decomposition (DG3PD) for solving it. As key ingredients of the DG3PD model, we introduce a discrete multi-directional total variation norm and a discrete multi-directional G-norm. Using these novel norms, the ...
computer science
25,561
Active Transfer Learning with Zero-Shot Priors: Reusing Past Datasets for Future Tasks
cs.CV
How can we reuse existing knowledge, in the form of available datasets, when solving a new and apparently unrelated target task from a set of unlabeled data? In this work we make a first contribution to answer this question in the context of image classification. We frame this quest as an active learning problem and us...
computer science
25,562
Learning Deep Representations of Appearance and Motion for Anomalous Event Detection
cs.CV
We present a novel unsupervised deep learning framework for anomalous event detection in complex video scenes. While most existing works merely use hand-crafted appearance and motion features, we propose Appearance and Motion DeepNet (AMDN) which utilizes deep neural networks to automatically learn feature representati...
computer science
25,563
Predicting Daily Activities From Egocentric Images Using Deep Learning
cs.CV
We present a method to analyze images taken from a passive egocentric wearable camera along with the contextual information, such as time and day of week, to learn and predict everyday activities of an individual. We collected a dataset of 40,103 egocentric images over a 6 month period with 19 activity classes and demo...
computer science
25,564
A Latent Source Model for Patch-Based Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Despite the popularity and empirical success of patch-based nearest-neighbor and weighted majority voting approaches to medical image segmentation, there has been no theoretical development on when, why, and how well these nonparametric methods work. We bridge this gap by providing a theoretical performance guarantee f...
computer science
25,565
Euclidean Auto Calibration of Camera Networks: Baseline Constraint Removes Scale Ambiguity
cs.CV
Metric auto calibration of a camera network from multiple views has been reported by several authors. Resulting 3D reconstruction recovers shape faithfully, but not scale. However, preservation of scale becomes critical in applications, such as multi-party telepresence, where multiple 3D scenes need to be fused into a ...
computer science
25,566
Diverse Large-Scale ITS Dataset Created from Continuous Learning for Real-Time Vehicle Detection
cs.CV
In traffic engineering, vehicle detectors are trained on limited datasets resulting in poor accuracy when deployed in real world applications. Annotating large-scale high quality datasets is challenging. Typically, these datasets have limited diversity; they do not reflect the real-world operating environment. There is...
computer science
25,567
Augmenting Bag-of-Words: Data-Driven Discovery of Temporal and Structural Information for Activity Recognition
cs.CV
We present data-driven techniques to augment Bag of Words (BoW) models, which allow for more robust modeling and recognition of complex long-term activities, especially when the structure and topology of the activities are not known a priori. Our approach specifically addresses the limitations of standard BoW approache...
computer science
25,568
Egocentric Field-of-View Localization Using First-Person Point-of-View Devices
cs.CV
We present a technique that uses images, videos and sensor data taken from first-person point-of-view devices to perform egocentric field-of-view (FOV) localization. We define egocentric FOV localization as capturing the visual information from a person's field-of-view in a given environment and transferring this infor...
computer science
25,569
Leveraging Context to Support Automated Food Recognition in Restaurants
cs.CV
The pervasiveness of mobile cameras has resulted in a dramatic increase in food photos, which are pictures reflecting what people eat. In this paper, we study how taking pictures of what we eat in restaurants can be used for the purpose of automating food journaling. We propose to leverage the context of where the pict...
computer science
25,570
DeepLogo: Hitting Logo Recognition with the Deep Neural Network Hammer
cs.CV
Recently, there has been a flurry of industrial activity around logo recognition, such as Ditto's service for marketers to track their brands in user-generated images, and LogoGrab's mobile app platform for logo recognition. However, relatively little academic or open-source logo recognition progress has been made in t...
computer science
25,571
Simultaneous Deep Transfer Across Domains and Tasks
cs.CV
Recent reports suggest that a generic supervised deep CNN model trained on a large-scale dataset reduces, but does not remove, dataset bias. Fine-tuning deep models in a new domain can require a significant amount of labeled data, which for many applications is simply not available. We propose a new CNN architecture to...
computer science
25,572
Learning Data-driven Reflectance Priors for Intrinsic Image Decomposition
cs.CV
We propose a data-driven approach for intrinsic image decomposition, which is the process of inferring the confounding factors of reflectance and shading in an image. We pose this as a two-stage learning problem. First, we train a model to predict relative reflectance ordering between image patches (`brighter', `darker...
computer science
25,573
Free-hand Sketch Synthesis with Deformable Stroke Models
cs.CV
We present a generative model which can automatically summarize the stroke composition of free-hand sketches of a given category. When our model is fit to a collection of sketches with similar poses, it discovers and learns the structure and appearance of a set of coherent parts, with each part represented by a group o...
computer science
25,574
Human Head Pose Estimation by Facial Features Location
cs.CV
We describe a method for estimating human head pose in a color image that contains enough of information to locate the head silhouette and detect non-trivial color edges of individual facial features. The method works by spotting the human head on an arbitrary background, extracting the head outline, and locating facia...
computer science
25,575
Where Is My Puppy? Retrieving Lost Dogs by Facial Features
cs.CV
A pet that goes missing is among many people's worst fears: a moment of distraction is enough for a dog or a cat wandering off from home. Some measures help matching lost animals to their owners; but automated visual recognition is one that - although convenient, highly available, and low-cost - is surprisingly overloo...
computer science
25,576
Dreaming More Data: Class-dependent Distributions over Diffeomorphisms for Learned Data Augmentation
cs.CV
Data augmentation is a key element in training high-dimensional models. In this approach, one synthesizes new observations by applying pre-specified transformations to the original training data; e.g.~new images are formed by rotating old ones. Current augmentation schemes, however, rely on manual specification of the ...
computer science
25,577
Wavelet Frame Based Image Restoration Using Sparsity, Nonlocal and Support Prior of Frame Coefficients
cs.CV
The wavelet frame systems have been widely investigated and applied for image restoration and many other image processing problems over the past decades, attributing to their good capability of sparsely approximating piece-wise smooth functions such as images. Most wavelet frame based models exploit the $l_1$ norm of f...
computer science
25,578
Learn to Evaluate Image Perceptual Quality Blindly from Statistics of Self-similarity
cs.CV
Among the various image quality assessment (IQA) tasks, blind IQA (BIQA) is particularly challenging due to the absence of knowledge about the reference image and distortion type. Features based on natural scene statistics (NSS) have been successfully used in BIQA, while the quality relevance of the feature plays an es...
computer science
25,579
Temporal Dynamic Appearance Modeling for Online Multi-Person Tracking
cs.CV
Robust online multi-person tracking requires the correct associations of online detection responses with existing trajectories. We address this problem by developing a novel appearance modeling approach to provide accurate appearance affinities to guide data association. In contrast to most existing algorithms that onl...
computer science
25,580
DeepFix: A Fully Convolutional Neural Network for predicting Human Eye Fixations
cs.CV
Understanding and predicting the human visual attentional mechanism is an active area of research in the fields of neuroscience and computer vision. In this work, we propose DeepFix, a first-of-its-kind fully convolutional neural network for accurate saliency prediction. Unlike classical works which characterize the sa...
computer science
25,581
Fast and Accurate Poisson Denoising with Optimized Nonlinear Diffusion
cs.CV
The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly concentrate on achieving utmost performance, with little consideration for the computat...
computer science
25,582
Spatial Semantic Regularisation for Large Scale Object Detection
cs.CV
Large scale object detection with thousands of classes introduces the problem of many contradicting false positive detections, which have to be suppressed. Class-independent non-maximum suppression has traditionally been used for this step, but it does not scale well as the number of classes grows. Traditional non-maxi...
computer science
25,583
Fast detection of multiple objects in traffic scenes with a common detection framework
cs.CV
Traffic scene perception (TSP) aims to real-time extract accurate on-road environment information, which in- volves three phases: detection of objects of interest, recognition of detected objects, and tracking of objects in motion. Since recognition and tracking often rely on the results from detection, the ability to ...
computer science
25,584
Interactive multiclass segmentation using superpixel classification
cs.CV
This paper adresses the problem of interactive multiclass segmentation. We propose a fast and efficient new interactive segmentation method called Superpixel Classification-based Interactive Segmentation (SCIS). From a few strokes drawn by a human user over an image, this method extracts relevant semantic objects. To g...
computer science
25,585
Using Anatomical Markers for Left Ventricular Segmentation of Long Axis Ultrasound Images
cs.CV
Left ventricular segmentation is essential for measuring left ventricular function indices. Segmentation of one or several images requires an initial guess of the contour. It is hypothesized here that creating an initial guess by first detecting anatomical markers, would lead to correct detection of the endocardium. Th...
computer science
25,586
Text-Attentional Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Text Detection
cs.CV
Recent deep learning models have demonstrated strong capabilities for classifying text and non-text components in natural images. They extract a high-level feature computed globally from a whole image component (patch), where the cluttered background information may dominate true text features in the deep representatio...
computer science
25,587
Deep convolutional neural networks for pedestrian detection
cs.CV
Pedestrian detection is a popular research topic due to its paramount importance for a number of applications, especially in the fields of automotive, surveillance and robotics. Despite the significant improvements, pedestrian detection is still an open challenge that calls for more and more accurate algorithms. In the...
computer science
25,588
SemanticPaint: A Framework for the Interactive Segmentation of 3D Scenes
cs.CV
We present an open-source, real-time implementation of SemanticPaint, a system for geometric reconstruction, object-class segmentation and learning of 3D scenes. Using our system, a user can walk into a room wearing a depth camera and a virtual reality headset, and both densely reconstruct the 3D scene and interactivel...
computer science
25,589
Wide-Area Image Geolocalization with Aerial Reference Imagery
cs.CV
We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use state-of-the-art feature representations for ground-level images and introduce a cross-v...
computer science
25,590
Better Exploiting OS-CNNs for Better Event Recognition in Images
cs.CV
Event recognition from still images is one of the most important problems for image understanding. However, compared with object recognition and scene recognition, event recognition has received much less research attention in computer vision community. This paper addresses the problem of cultural event recognition in ...
computer science
25,591
Multiresolution Search of the Rigid Motion Space for Intensity Based Registration
cs.CV
We study the relation between the target functions of low-resolution and high-resolution intensity-based registration for the class of rigid transformations. Our results show that low resolution target values can tightly bound the high-resolution target function in natural images. This can help with analyzing and bette...
computer science
25,592
Fine-Grained Product Class Recognition for Assisted Shopping
cs.CV
Assistive solutions for a better shopping experience can improve the quality of life of people, in particular also of visually impaired shoppers. We present a system that visually recognizes the fine-grained product classes of items on a shopping list, in shelves images taken with a smartphone in a grocery store. Our s...
computer science
25,593
Dynamical spectral unmixing of multitemporal hyperspectral images
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the problem of unmixing a time series of hyperspectral images. We propose a dynamical model based on linear mixing processes at each time instant. The spectral signatures and fractional abundances of the pure materials in the scene are seen as latent variables, and assumed to follow a general...
computer science
25,594
A Novel Approach for Human Action Recognition from Silhouette Images
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel human action recognition technique from video is presented. Any action of human is a combination of several micro action sequences performed by one or more body parts of the human. The proposed approach uses spatio-temporal body parts movement (STBPM) features extracted from foreground silhouette...
computer science
25,595
DeepProposal: Hunting Objects by Cascading Deep Convolutional Layers
cs.CV
In this paper we evaluate the quality of the activation layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for the gen- eration of object proposals. We generate hypotheses in a sliding-window fashion over different activation layers and show that the final convolutional layers can find the object of interest with high reca...
computer science
25,596
Sparsity-aware Possibilistic Clustering Algorithms
cs.CV
In this paper two novel possibilistic clustering algorithms are presented, which utilize the concept of sparsity. The first one, called sparse possibilistic c-means, exploits sparsity and can deal well with closely located clusters that may also be of significantly different densities. The second one, called sparse ada...
computer science
25,597
Beyond Spatial Pyramid Matching: Space-time Extended Descriptor for Action Recognition
cs.CV
We address the problem of generating video features for action recognition. The spatial pyramid and its variants have been very popular feature models due to their success in balancing spatial location encoding and spatial invariance. Although it seems straightforward to extend spatial pyramid to the temporal domain (s...
computer science
25,598
A Brief Survey of Image Processing Algorithms in Electrical Capacitance Tomography
cs.CV
To study the fundamental physics of complex multiphase flow systems using advanced measurement techniques, especially the electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) approach, this article carries out an initial literature review of the ECT method from a point of view of signal processing and algorithm design. After introd...
computer science
25,599
A Picture is Worth a Billion Bits: Real-Time Image Reconstruction from Dense Binary Pixels
cs.CV
The pursuit of smaller pixel sizes at ever increasing resolution in digital image sensors is mainly driven by the stringent price and form-factor requirements of sensors and optics in the cellular phone market. Recently, Eric Fossum proposed a novel concept of an image sensor with dense sub-diffraction limit one-bit pi...
computer science
25,600
Shape Complexes in Continuous Max-Flow Hierarchical Multi-Labeling Problems
cs.CV
Although topological considerations amongst multiple labels have been previously investigated in the context of continuous max-flow image segmentation, similar investigations have yet to be made about shape considerations in a general and extendable manner. This paper presents shape complexes for segmentation, which ca...
computer science
25,601
Multiresolution hierarchy co-clustering for semantic segmentation in sequences with small variations
cs.CV
This paper presents a co-clustering technique that, given a collection of images and their hierarchies, clusters nodes from these hierarchies to obtain a coherent multiresolution representation of the image collection. We formalize the co-clustering as a Quadratic Semi-Assignment Problem and solve it with a linear prog...
computer science