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Measurement of Road Traffic Parameters Based on Multi-Vehicle Tracking
cs.CV
Development of computing power and cheap video cameras enabled today's traffic management systems to include more cameras and computer vision applications for transportation system monitoring and control. Combined with image processing algorithms cameras are used as sensors to measure road traffic parameters like flow ...
computer science
25,603
You-Do, I-Learn: Unsupervised Multi-User egocentric Approach Towards Video-Based Guidance
cs.CV
This paper presents an unsupervised approach towards automatically extracting video-based guidance on object usage, from egocentric video and wearable gaze tracking, collected from multiple users while performing tasks. The approach i) discovers task relevant objects, ii) builds a model for each, iii) distinguishes dif...
computer science
25,604
An Extension to Hough Transform Based on Gradient Orientation
cs.CV
The Hough transform is one of the most common methods for line detection. In this paper we propose a novel extension of the regular Hough transform. The proposed extension combines the extension of the accumulator space and the local gradient orientation resulting in clutter reduction and yielding more prominent peaks,...
computer science
25,605
No Spare Parts: Sharing Part Detectors for Image Categorization
cs.CV
This work aims for image categorization using a representation of distinctive parts. Different from existing part-based work, we argue that parts are naturally shared between image categories and should be modeled as such. We motivate our approach with a quantitative and qualitative analysis by backtracking where selec...
computer science
25,606
Integral Images: Efficient Algorithms for Their Computation and Storage in Resource-Constrained Embedded Vision Systems
cs.CV
The integral image, an intermediate image representation, has found extensive use in multi-scale local feature detection algorithms, such as Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF), allowing fast computation of rectangular features at constant speed, independent of filter size. For resource-constrained real-time embedded vis...
computer science
25,607
Memory-Efficient Design Strategy for a Parallel Embedded Integral Image Computation Engine
cs.CV
In embedded vision systems, parallel computation of the integral image presents several design challenges in terms of hardware resources, speed and power consumption. Although recursive equations significantly reduce the number of operations for computing the integral image, the required internal memory becomes prohibi...
computer science
25,608
Rapid Online Analysis of Local Feature Detectors and Their Complementarity
cs.CV
A vision system that can assess its own performance and take appropriate actions online to maximize its effectiveness would be a step towards achieving the long-cherished goal of imitating humans. This paper proposes a method for performing an online performance analysis of local feature detectors, the primary stage of...
computer science
25,609
Assessing The Performance Bounds Of Local Feature Detectors: Taking Inspiration From Electronics Design Practices
cs.CV
Since local feature detection has been one of the most active research areas in computer vision, a large number of detectors have been proposed. This has rendered the task of characterizing the performance of various feature detection methods an important issue in vision research. Inspired by the good practices of elec...
computer science
25,610
Performance Characterization of Image Feature Detectors in Relation to the Scene Content Utilizing a Large Image Database
cs.CV
Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research. No state-of-the-art image feature detector works satisfactorily under all types of image transformations. Although the literature offers a ...
computer science
25,611
Real-time Tracking Based on Neuromrophic Vision
cs.CV
Real-time tracking is an important problem in computer vision in which most methods are based on the conventional cameras. Neuromorphic vision is a concept defined by incorporating neuromorphic vision sensors such as silicon retinas in vision processing system. With the development of the silicon technology, asynchrono...
computer science
25,612
Color graph based wavelet transform with perceptual information
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a numerical strategy to define a multiscale analysis for color and multicomponent images based on the representation of data on a graph. Our approach consists in computing the graph of an image using the psychovisual information and analysing it by using the spectral graph wavelet transform. W...
computer science
25,613
DeepSaliency: Multi-Task Deep Neural Network Model for Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
A key problem in salient object detection is how to effectively model the semantic properties of salient objects in a data-driven manner. In this paper, we propose a multi-task deep saliency model based on a fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) with global input (whole raw images) and global output (whole saliency...
computer science
25,614
Sparse + Low Rank Decomposition of Annihilating Filter-based Hankel Matrix for Impulse Noise Removal
cs.CV
Recently, so called annihilating filer-based low rank Hankel matrix (ALOHA) approach was proposed as a powerful image inpainting method. Based on the observation that smoothness or textures within an image patch corresponds to sparse spectral components in the frequency domain, ALOHA exploits the existence of annihilat...
computer science
25,615
Sequential Score Adaptation with Extreme Value Theory for Robust Railway Track Inspection
cs.CV
Periodic inspections are necessary to keep railroad tracks in state of good repair and prevent train accidents. Automatic track inspection using machine vision technology has become a very effective inspection tool. Because of its non-contact nature, this technology can be deployed on virtually any railway vehicle to c...
computer science
25,616
Content adaptive screen image scaling
cs.CV
This paper proposes an efficient content adaptive screen image scaling scheme for the real-time screen applications like remote desktop and screen sharing. In the proposed screen scaling scheme, a screen content classification step is first introduced to classify the screen image into text and pictorial regions. Afterw...
computer science
25,617
Towards Direct Medical Image Analysis without Segmentation
cs.CV
Direct methods have recently emerged as an effective and efficient tool in automated medical image analysis and become a trend to solve diverse challenging tasks in clinical practise. Compared to traditional methods, direct methods are of much more clinical significance by straightly targeting to the final clinical goa...
computer science
25,618
Personalized Age Progression with Aging Dictionary
cs.CV
In this paper, we aim to automatically render aging faces in a personalized way. Basically, a set of age-group specific dictionaries are learned, where the dictionary bases corresponding to the same index yet from different dictionaries form a particular aging process pattern cross different age groups, and a linear co...
computer science
25,619
Modelling, Measuring and Compensating Color Weak Vision
cs.CV
We use methods from Riemann geometry to investigate transformations between the color spaces of color-normal and color weak observers. The two main applications are the simulation of the perception of a color weak observer for a color normal observer and the compensation of color images in a way that a color weak obser...
computer science
25,620
Efficient Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation of Motion Data
cs.CV
We introduce a method for automated temporal segmentation of human motion data into distinct actions and compositing motion primitives based on self-similar structures in the motion sequence. We use neighbourhood graphs for the partitioning and the similarity information in the graph is further exploited to cluster the...
computer science
25,621
Order-Fractal transition in abstract paintings
cs.CV
We report the degree of order of twenty-two Jackson Pollock's paintings using \emph{Hausdorff-Besicovitch fractal dimension}. Through the maximum value of each multi-fractal spectrum, the artworks are classify by the year in which they were painted. It has been reported that Pollock's paintings are fractal and it incre...
computer science
25,622
Semi-Automatic Segmentation of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidneys using Random Forests
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for 3D segmentation of kidneys from patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and severe renal insufficiency, using computed tomography (CT) data. ADPKD severely alters the shape of the kidneys due to non-uniform formation of cysts. As a consequence, fully automatic...
computer science
25,623
Objects2action: Classifying and localizing actions without any video example
cs.CV
The goal of this paper is to recognize actions in video without the need for examples. Different from traditional zero-shot approaches we do not demand the design and specification of attribute classifiers and class-to-attribute mappings to allow for transfer from seen classes to unseen classes. Our key contribution is...
computer science
25,624
Predicting Performance of a Face Recognition System Based on Image Quality
cs.CV
In this dissertation, we present a generative model to capture the relation between facial image quality features (like pose, illumination direction, etc) and face recognition performance. Such a model can be used to predict the performance of a face recognition system. Since the model is based solely on image quality ...
computer science
25,625
Predicting Face Recognition Performance Using Image Quality
cs.CV
This paper proposes a data driven model to predict the performance of a face recognition system based on image quality features. We model the relationship between image quality features (e.g. pose, illumination, etc.) and recognition performance measures using a probability density function. To address the issue of lim...
computer science
25,626
Image Parsing with a Wide Range of Classes and Scene-Level Context
cs.CV
This paper presents a nonparametric scene parsing approach that improves the overall accuracy, as well as the coverage of foreground classes in scene images. We first improve the label likelihood estimates at superpixels by merging likelihood scores from different probabilistic classifiers. This boosts the classificati...
computer science
25,627
Computational models of attention
cs.CV
This chapter reviews recent computational models of visual attention. We begin with models for the bottom-up or stimulus-driven guidance of attention to salient visual items, which we examine in seven different broad categories. We then examine more complex models which address the top-down or goal-oriented guidance of...
computer science
25,628
Depth Extraction from Videos Using Geometric Context and Occlusion Boundaries
cs.CV
We present an algorithm to estimate depth in dynamic video scenes. We propose to learn and infer depth in videos from appearance, motion, occlusion boundaries, and geometric context of the scene. Using our method, depth can be estimated from unconstrained videos with no requirement of camera pose estimation, and with s...
computer science
25,629
Geometric Context from Videos
cs.CV
We present a novel algorithm for estimating the broad 3D geometric structure of outdoor video scenes. Leveraging spatio-temporal video segmentation, we decompose a dynamic scene captured by a video into geometric classes, based on predictions made by region-classifiers that are trained on appearance and motion features...
computer science
25,630
Finding Temporally Consistent Occlusion Boundaries in Videos using Geometric Context
cs.CV
We present an algorithm for finding temporally consistent occlusion boundaries in videos to support segmentation of dynamic scenes. We learn occlusion boundaries in a pairwise Markov random field (MRF) framework. We first estimate the probability of an spatio-temporal edge being an occlusion boundary by using appearanc...
computer science
25,631
Vehicle Color Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Vehicle color information is one of the important elements in ITS (Intelligent Traffic System). In this paper, we present a vehicle color recognition method using convolutional neural network (CNN). Naturally, CNN is designed to learn classification method based on shape information, but we proved that CNN can also lea...
computer science
25,632
A Markov Random Field and Active Contour Image Segmentation Model for Animal Spots Patterns
cs.CV
Non-intrusive biometrics of animals using images allows to analyze phenotypic populations and individuals with patterns like stripes and spots without affecting the studied subjects. However, non-intrusive biometrics demand a well trained subject or the development of computer vision algorithms that ease the identifica...
computer science
25,633
Aggregating Deep Convolutional Features for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Several recent works have shown that image descriptors produced by deep convolutional neural networks provide state-of-the-art performance for image classification and retrieval problems. It has also been shown that the activations from the convolutional layers can be interpreted as local features describing particular...
computer science
25,634
Video Paragraph Captioning Using Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present an approach that exploits hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to tackle the video captioning problem, i.e., generating one or multiple sentences to describe a realistic video. Our hierarchical framework contains a sentence generator and a paragraph generator. The sentence generator produces one sim...
computer science
25,635
Computational models: Bottom-up and top-down aspects
cs.CV
Computational models of visual attention have become popular over the past decade, we believe primarily for two reasons: First, models make testable predictions that can be explored by experimentalists as well as theoreticians, second, models have practical and technological applications of interest to the applied scie...
computer science
25,636
Some like it hot - visual guidance for preference prediction
cs.CV
For people first impressions of someone are of determining importance. They are hard to alter through further information. This begs the question if a computer can reach the same judgement. Earlier research has already pointed out that age, gender, and average attractiveness can be estimated with reasonable precision. ...
computer science
25,637
Defect Detection Techniques for Airbag Production Sewing Stages
cs.CV
Airbags are subject to strict quality control in order to ensure passengers safety. The quality of fabric and sewing thread influence the final product and therefore, sewing defects must be early and accurately detected, in order to remove the item from production. Airbag seams assembly can take various forms, using li...
computer science
25,638
Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
We propose a novel visual tracking algorithm based on the representations from a discriminatively trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our algorithm pretrains a CNN using a large set of videos with tracking ground-truths to obtain a generic target representation. Our network is composed of shared layers and mult...
computer science
25,639
ENFT: Efficient Non-Consecutive Feature Tracking for Robust Structure-from-Motion
cs.CV
Structure-from-motion (SfM) largely relies on feature tracking. In image sequences, if disjointed tracks caused by objects moving in and out of the field of view, occasional occlusion, or image noise, are not handled well, corresponding SfM could be affected. This problem becomes severer for large-scale scenes, which t...
computer science
25,640
Hybrid One-Shot 3D Hand Pose Estimation by Exploiting Uncertainties
cs.CV
Model-based approaches to 3D hand tracking have been shown to perform well in a wide range of scenarios. However, they require initialisation and cannot recover easily from tracking failures that occur due to fast hand motions. Data-driven approaches, on the other hand, can quickly deliver a solution, but the results o...
computer science
25,641
Scale-aware Fast R-CNN for Pedestrian Detection
cs.CV
In this work, we consider the problem of pedestrian detection in natural scenes. Intuitively, instances of pedestrians with different spatial scales may exhibit dramatically different features. Thus, large variance in instance scales, which results in undesirable large intra-category variance in features, may severely ...
computer science
25,642
VISALOGY: Answering Visual Analogy Questions
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of answering visual analogy questions. These questions take the form of image A is to image B as image C is to what. Answering these questions entails discovering the mapping from image A to image B and then extending the mapping to image C and searching for the image D such that the...
computer science
25,643
Postprocessing of Compressed Images via Sequential Denoising
cs.CV
In this work we propose a novel postprocessing technique for compression-artifact reduction. Our approach is based on posing this task as an inverse problem, with a regularization that leverages on existing state-of-the-art image denoising algorithms. We rely on the recently proposed Plug-and-Play Prior framework, sugg...
computer science
25,644
Deep Recurrent Regression for Facial Landmark Detection
cs.CV
We propose a novel end-to-end deep architecture for face landmark detection, based on a deep convolutional and deconvolutional network followed by carefully designed recurrent network structures. The pipeline of this architecture consists of three parts. Through the first part, we encode an input face image to resoluti...
computer science
25,645
Estimating Target Signatures with Diverse Density
cs.CV
Hyperspectral target detection algorithms rely on knowing the desired target signature in advance. However, obtaining an effective target signature can be difficult; signatures obtained from laboratory measurements or hand-spectrometers in the field may not transfer to airborne imagery effectively. One approach to deal...
computer science
25,646
Bioinspired Visual Motion Estimation
cs.CV
Visual motion estimation is a computationally intensive, but important task for sighted animals. Replicating the robustness and efficiency of biological visual motion estimation in artificial systems would significantly enhance the capabilities of future robotic agents. 25 years ago, in this very journal, Carver Mead o...
computer science
25,647
Semantic Cross-View Matching
cs.CV
Matching cross-view images is challenging because the appearance and viewpoints are significantly different. While low-level features based on gradient orientations or filter responses can drastically vary with such changes in viewpoint, semantic information of images however shows an invariant characteristic in this r...
computer science
25,648
Fast Neuromimetic Object Recognition using FPGA Outperforms GPU Implementations
cs.CV
Recognition of objects in still images has traditionally been regarded as a difficult computational problem. Although modern automated methods for visual object recognition have achieved steadily increasing recognition accuracy, even the most advanced computational vision approaches are unable to obtain performance equ...
computer science
25,649
Regional Active Contours based on Variational level sets and Machine Learning for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation is the problem of partitioning an image into different subsets, where each subset may have a different characterization in terms of color, intensity, texture, and/or other features. Segmentation is a fundamental component of image processing, and plays a significant role in computer vision, object re...
computer science
25,650
FireCaffe: near-linear acceleration of deep neural network training on compute clusters
cs.CV
Long training times for high-accuracy deep neural networks (DNNs) impede research into new DNN architectures and slow the development of high-accuracy DNNs. In this paper we present FireCaffe, which successfully scales deep neural network training across a cluster of GPUs. We also present a number of best practices to ...
computer science
25,651
Towards Reading Hidden Emotions: A comparative Study of Spontaneous Micro-expression Spotting and Recognition Methods
cs.CV
Micro-expressions (MEs) are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. Studying MEs is valuable as recognizing them has many important applications, particularly in forensic science and psychotherapy. However, analyzing spontaneous MEs is very challenging due to their...
computer science
25,652
Semantic Summarization of Egocentric Photo Stream Events
cs.CV
With the rapid increase of users of wearable cameras in recent years and of the amount of data they produce, there is a strong need for automatic retrieval and summarization techniques. This work addresses the problem of automatically summarizing egocentric photo streams captured through a wearable camera by taking an ...
computer science
25,653
Circle detection using isosceles triangles sampling
cs.CV
Detection of circular objects in digital images is an important problem in several vision applications. Circle detection using randomized sampling has been developed in recent years to reduce the computational intensity. Randomized sampling, however, is sensitive to noise that can lead to reduced accuracy and false-pos...
computer science
25,654
Water Detection through Spatio-Temporal Invariant Descriptors
cs.CV
In this work, we aim to segment and detect water in videos. Water detection is beneficial for appllications such as video search, outdoor surveillance, and systems such as unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles. The specific problem, however, is less discussed compared to general texture recognition. Her...
computer science
25,655
Pixel-wise Segmentation of Street with Neural Networks
cs.CV
Pixel-wise street segmentation of photographs taken from a drivers perspective is important for self-driving cars and can also support other object recognition tasks. A framework called SST was developed to examine the accuracy and execution time of different neural networks. The best neural network achieved an $F_1$-s...
computer science
25,656
Color Space Transformation Network
cs.CV
Deep networks have become very popular over the past few years. The main reason for this widespread use is their excellent ability to learn and predict knowledge in a very easy and efficient way. Convolutional neural networks and auto-encoders have become the normal in the area of imaging and computer vision achieving ...
computer science
25,657
Robust Registration of Calcium Images by Learned Contrast Synthesis
cs.CV
Multi-modal image registration is a challenging task that is vital to fuse complementary signals for subsequent analyses. Despite much research into cost functions addressing this challenge, there exist cases in which these are ineffective. In this work, we show that (1) this is true for the registration of in-vivo Dro...
computer science
25,658
Robust Large-Scale Localization in 3D Point Clouds Revisited
cs.CV
We tackle the problem of getting a full 6-DOF pose estimation of a query image inside a given point cloud. This technical report re-evaluates the algorithms proposed by Y. Li et al. "Worldwide Pose Estimation using 3D Point Cloud". Our code computes poses from 3 or 4 points, with both known and unknown focal length. Th...
computer science
25,659
Image-Based Correction of Continuous and Discontinuous Non-Planar Axial Distortion in Serial Section Microscopy
cs.CV
Motivation: Serial section microscopy is an established method for detailed anatomy reconstruction of biological specimen. During the last decade, high resolution electron microscopy (EM) of serial sections has become the de-facto standard for reconstruction of neural connectivity at ever increasing scales (EM connecto...
computer science
25,660
Cell identification in whole-brain multiview images of neural activation
cs.CV
We present a scalable method for brain cell identification in multiview confocal light sheet microscopy images. Our algorithmic pipeline includes a hierarchical registration approach and a novel multiview version of semantic deconvolution that simultaneously enhance visibility of fluorescent cell bodies, equalize their...
computer science
25,661
Face Aging Effect Simulation using Hidden Factor Analysis Joint Sparse Representation
cs.CV
Face aging simulation has received rising investigations nowadays, whereas it still remains a challenge to generate convincing and natural age-progressed face images. In this paper, we present a novel approach to such an issue by using hidden factor analysis joint sparse representation. In contrast to the majority of t...
computer science
25,662
Decomposition into Low-rank plus Additive Matrices for Background/Foreground Separation: A Review for a Comparative Evaluation with a Large-Scale Dataset
cs.CV
Recent research on problem formulations based on decomposition into low-rank plus sparse matrices shows a suitable framework to separate moving objects from the background. The most representative problem formulation is the Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) solved via Principal Component Pursuit (PCP) which de...
computer science
25,663
Towards a tracking algorithm based on the clustering of spatio-temporal clouds of points
cs.CV
The interest in 3D dynamical tracking is growing in fields such as robotics, biology and fluid dynamics. Recently, a major source of progress in 3D tracking has been the study of collective behaviour in biological systems, where the trajectories of individual animals moving within large and dense groups need to be reco...
computer science
25,664
Enhancing Feature Tracking With Gyro Regularization
cs.CV
We present a deeply integrated method of exploiting low-cost gyroscopes to improve general purpose feature tracking. Most previous methods use gyroscopes to initialize and bound the search for features. In contrast, we use them to regularize the tracking energy function so that they can directly assist in the tracking ...
computer science
25,665
Coherent Motion Segmentation in Moving Camera Videos using Optical Flow Orientations
cs.CV
In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share the same real-world motion. This can cause a depth-dependent segmentation of th...
computer science
25,666
Background subtraction - separating the modeling and the inference
cs.CV
In its early implementations, background modeling was a process of building a model for the background of a video with a stationary camera, and identifying pixels that did not conform well to this model. The pixels that were not well-described by the background model were assumed to be moving objects. Many systems toda...
computer science
25,667
Background Modeling Using Adaptive Pixelwise Kernel Variances in a Hybrid Feature Space
cs.CV
Recent work on background subtraction has shown developments on two major fronts. In one, there has been increasing sophistication of probabilistic models, from mixtures of Gaussians at each pixel [7], to kernel density estimates at each pixel [1], and more recently to joint domainrange density estimates that incorpora...
computer science
25,668
Image classification based on support vector machine and the fusion of complementary features
cs.CV
Image Classification based on BOW (Bag-of-words) has broad application prospect in pattern recognition field but the shortcomings are existed because of single feature and low classification accuracy. To this end we combine three ingredients: (i) Three features with functions of mutual complementation are adopted to de...
computer science
25,669
Multi-Target Tracking and Occlusion Handling with Learned Variational Bayesian Clusters and a Social Force Model
cs.CV
This paper considers the problem of multiple human target tracking in a sequence of video data. A solution is proposed which is able to deal with the challenges of a varying number of targets, interactions and when every target gives rise to multiple measurements. The developed novel algorithm comprises variational Bay...
computer science
25,670
Wood Species Recognition Based on SIFT Keypoint Histogram
cs.CV
Traditionally, only experts who are equipped with professional knowledge and rich experience are able to recognize different species of wood. Applying image processing techniques for wood species recognition can not only reduce the expense to train qualified identifiers, but also increase the recognition accuracy. In t...
computer science
25,671
Radon-Nikodym approximation in application to image analysis
cs.CV
For an image pixel information can be converted to the moments of some basis $Q_k$, e.g. Fourier-Mellin, Zernike, monomials, etc. Given sufficient number of moments pixel information can be completely recovered, for insufficient number of moments only partial information can be recovered and the image reconstruction is...
computer science
25,672
Recovering hard-to-find object instances by sampling context-based object proposals
cs.CV
In this paper we focus on improving object detection performance in terms of recall. We propose a post-detection stage during which we explore the image with the objective of recovering missed detections. This exploration is performed by sampling object proposals in the image. We analyze four different strategies to pe...
computer science
25,673
Facial Expression Recognition Using Sparse Gaussian Conditional Random Field
cs.CV
The analysis of expression and facial Action Units (AUs) detection are very important tasks in fields of computer vision and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) due to the wide range of applications in human life. Many works has been done during the past few years which has their own advantages and disadvantages. In this ...
computer science
25,674
Pooling the Convolutional Layers in Deep ConvNets for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Deep ConvNets have shown its good performance in image classification tasks. However it still remains as a problem in deep video representation for action recognition. The problem comes from two aspects: on one hand, current video ConvNets are relatively shallow compared with image ConvNets, which limits its capability...
computer science
25,675
Seven ways to improve example-based single image super resolution
cs.CV
In this paper we present seven techniques that everybody should know to improve example-based single image super resolution (SR): 1) augmentation of data, 2) use of large dictionaries with efficient search structures, 3) cascading, 4) image self-similarities, 5) back projection refinement, 6) enhanced prediction by con...
computer science
25,676
Learning Visual Features from Large Weakly Supervised Data
cs.CV
Convolutional networks trained on large supervised dataset produce visual features which form the basis for the state-of-the-art in many computer-vision problems. Further improvements of these visual features will likely require even larger manually labeled data sets, which severely limits the pace at which progress ca...
computer science
25,677
Fingertip in the Eye: A cascaded CNN pipeline for the real-time fingertip detection in egocentric videos
cs.CV
We introduce a new pipeline for hand localization and fingertip detection. For RGB images captured from an egocentric vision mobile camera, hand and fingertip detection remains a challenging problem due to factors like background complexity and hand shape variety. To address these issues accurately and robustly, we bui...
computer science
25,678
Deep Sliding Shapes for Amodal 3D Object Detection in RGB-D Images
cs.CV
We focus on the task of amodal 3D object detection in RGB-D images, which aims to produce a 3D bounding box of an object in metric form at its full extent. We introduce Deep Sliding Shapes, a 3D ConvNet formulation that takes a 3D volumetric scene from a RGB-D image as input and outputs 3D object bounding boxes. In our...
computer science
25,679
Review of Person Re-identification Techniques
cs.CV
Person re-identification across different surveillance cameras with disjoint fields of view has become one of the most interesting and challenging subjects in the area of intelligent video surveillance. Although several methods have been developed and proposed, certain limitations and unresolved issues remain. In all o...
computer science
25,680
A Survey of the Trends in Facial and Expression Recognition Databases and Methods
cs.CV
Automated facial identification and facial expression recognition have been topics of active research over the past few decades. Facial and expression recognition find applications in human-computer interfaces, subject tracking, real-time security surveillance systems and social networking. Several holistic and geometr...
computer science
25,681
SCUT-FBP: A Benchmark Dataset for Facial Beauty Perception
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel face dataset with attractiveness ratings, namely, the SCUT-FBP dataset, is developed for automatic facial beauty perception. This dataset provides a benchmark to evaluate the performance of different methods for facial attractiveness prediction, including the state-of-the-art deep learning method...
computer science
25,682
LOGO-Net: Large-scale Deep Logo Detection and Brand Recognition with Deep Region-based Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Logo detection from images has many applications, particularly for brand recognition and intellectual property protection. Most existing studies for logo recognition and detection are based on small-scale datasets which are not comprehensive enough when exploring emerging deep learning techniques. In this paper, we int...
computer science
25,683
A new humanlike facial attractiveness predictor with cascaded fine-tuning deep learning model
cs.CV
This paper proposes a deep leaning method to address the challenging facial attractiveness prediction problem. The method constructs a convolutional neural network of facial beauty prediction using a new deep cascaded fine-turning scheme with various face inputting channels, such as the original RGB face image, the det...
computer science
25,684
A Century of Portraits: A Visual Historical Record of American High School Yearbooks
cs.CV
Many details about our world are not captured in written records because they are too mundane or too abstract to describe in words. Fortunately, since the invention of the camera, an ever-increasing number of photographs capture much of this otherwise lost information. This plethora of artifacts documenting our "visual...
computer science
25,685
Semantic Segmentation with Boundary Neural Fields
cs.CV
The state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation is currently represented by fully convolutional networks (FCNs). However, FCNs use large receptive fields and many pooling layers, both of which cause blurring and low spatial resolution in the deep layers. As a result FCNs tend to produce segmentations that are poorly loca...
computer science
25,686
Exploiting Egocentric Object Prior for 3D Saliency Detection
cs.CV
On a minute-to-minute basis people undergo numerous fluid interactions with objects that barely register on a conscious level. Recent neuroscientific research demonstrates that humans have a fixed size prior for salient objects. This suggests that a salient object in 3D undergoes a consistent transformation such that p...
computer science
25,687
A Light CNN for Deep Face Representation with Noisy Labels
cs.CV
Convolution neural network (CNN) has significantly pushed forward the development of face recognition and analysis techniques. Current CNN models tend to be deeper and larger to better fit large amounts of training data. When training data are from internet, their labels are often ambiguous and inaccurate. This paper p...
computer science
25,688
Weakly Supervised Deep Detection Networks
cs.CV
Weakly supervised learning of object detection is an important problem in image understanding that still does not have a satisfactory solution. In this paper, we address this problem by exploiting the power of deep convolutional neural networks pre-trained on large-scale image-level classification tasks. We propose a w...
computer science
25,689
Spatially Coherent Random Forests
cs.CV
Spatially Coherent Random Forest (SCRF) extends Random Forest to create spatially coherent labeling. Each split function in SCRF is evaluated based on a traditional information gain measure that is regularized by a spatial coherency term. This way, SCRF is encouraged to choose split functions that cluster pixels both i...
computer science
25,690
Massive Online Crowdsourced Study of Subjective and Objective Picture Quality
cs.CV
Most publicly available image quality databases have been created under highly controlled conditions by introducing graded simulated distortions onto high-quality photographs. However, images captured using typical real-world mobile camera devices are usually afflicted by complex mixtures of multiple distortions, which...
computer science
25,691
Hyperspectral Image Recovery via Hybrid Regularization
cs.CV
Natural images tend to mostly consist of smooth regions with individual pixels having highly correlated spectra. This information can be exploited to recover hyperspectral images of natural scenes from their incomplete and noisy measurements. To perform the recovery while taking full advantage of the prior knowledge, w...
computer science
25,692
Traffic Sign Classification Using Deep Inception Based Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a novel deep network for traffic sign classification that achieves outstanding performance on GTSRB surpassing all previous methods. Our deep network consists of spatial transformer layers and a modified version of inception module specifically designed for capturing local and global features t...
computer science
25,693
Improvised Salient Object Detection and Manipulation
cs.CV
In case of salient subject recognition, computer algorithms have been heavily relied on scanning of images from top-left to bottom-right systematically and apply brute-force when attempting to locate objects of interest. Thus, the process turns out to be quite time consuming. Here a novel approach and a simple solution...
computer science
25,694
Deep Representation of Facial Geometric and Photometric Attributes for Automatic 3D Facial Expression Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel approach to automatic 3D Facial Expression Recognition (FER) based on deep representation of facial 3D geometric and 2D photometric attributes. A 3D face is firstly represented by its geometric and photometric attributes, including the geometry map, normal maps, normalized curvature ma...
computer science
25,695
3D Time-lapse Reconstruction from Internet Photos
cs.CV
Given an Internet photo collection of a landmark, we compute a 3D time-lapse video sequence where a virtual camera moves continuously in time and space. While previous work assumed a static camera, the addition of camera motion during the time-lapse creates a very compelling impression of parallax. Achieving this goal,...
computer science
25,696
Online Action Recognition based on Incremental Learning of Weighted Covariance Descriptors
cs.CV
Different from traditional action recognition based on video segments, online action recognition aims to recognize actions from unsegmented streams of data in a continuous manner. One way for online recognition is based on the evidence accumulation over time to make predictions from stream videos. This paper presents a...
computer science
25,697
Analyzing Stability of Convolutional Neural Networks in the Frequency Domain
cs.CV
Understanding the internal process of ConvNets is commonly done using visualization techniques. However, these techniques do not usually provide a tool for estimating the stability of a ConvNet against noise. In this paper, we show how to analyze a ConvNet in the frequency domain using a 4-dimensional visualization tec...
computer science
25,698
Dynamic Belief Fusion for Object Detection
cs.CV
A novel approach for the fusion of heterogeneous object detection methods is proposed. In order to effectively integrate the outputs of multiple detectors, the level of ambiguity in each individual detection score is estimated using the precision/recall relationship of the corresponding detector. The main contribution ...
computer science
25,699
The Radon cumulative distribution transform and its application to image classification
cs.CV
Invertible image representation methods (transforms) are routinely employed as low-level image processing operations based on which feature extraction and recognition algorithms are developed. Most transforms in current use (e.g. Fourier, Wavelet, etc.) are linear transforms, and, by themselves, are unable to substanti...
computer science
25,700
Semantic Instance Annotation of Street Scenes by 3D to 2D Label Transfer
cs.CV
Semantic annotations are vital for training models for object recognition, semantic segmentation or scene understanding. Unfortunately, pixelwise annotation of images at very large scale is labor-intensive and only little labeled data is available, particularly at instance level and for street scenes. In this paper, we...
computer science
25,701
TemplateNet for Depth-Based Object Instance Recognition
cs.CV
We present a novel deep architecture termed templateNet for depth based object instance recognition. Using an intermediate template layer we exploit prior knowledge of an object's shape to sparsify the feature maps. This has three advantages: (i) the network is better regularised resulting in structured filters; (ii) t...
computer science