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Online Supervised Hashing for Ever-Growing Datasets
cs.CV
Supervised hashing methods are widely-used for nearest neighbor search in computer vision applications. Most state-of-the-art supervised hashing approaches employ batch-learners. Unfortunately, batch-learning strategies can be inefficient when confronted with large training datasets. Moreover, with batch-learners, it i...
computer science
25,703
The Fast Bilateral Solver
cs.CV
We present the bilateral solver, a novel algorithm for edge-aware smoothing that combines the flexibility and speed of simple filtering approaches with the accuracy of domain-specific optimization algorithms. Our technique is capable of matching or improving upon state-of-the-art results on several different computer v...
computer science
25,704
Semantic Image Segmentation with Task-Specific Edge Detection Using CNNs and a Discriminatively Trained Domain Transform
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the backbone of state-of-art semantic image segmentation systems. Recent work has shown that complementing CNNs with fully-connected conditional random fields (CRFs) can significantly enhance their object localization accuracy, yet dense CRF inference is computationally exp...
computer science
25,705
Attention to Scale: Scale-aware Semantic Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Incorporating multi-scale features in fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) has been a key element to achieving state-of-the-art performance on semantic image segmentation. One common way to extract multi-scale features is to feed multiple resized input images to a shared deep network and then merge the resulting ...
computer science
25,706
Facial Expression Detection using Patch-based Eigen-face Isomap Networks
cs.CV
Automated facial expression detection problem pose two primary challenges that include variations in expression and facial occlusions (glasses, beard, mustache or face covers). In this paper we introduce a novel automated patch creation technique that masks a particular region of interest in the face, followed by Eigen...
computer science
25,707
A Directional Diffusion Algorithm for Inpainting
cs.CV
The problem of inpainting involves reconstructing the missing areas of an image. Inpainting has many applications, such as reconstructing old damaged photographs or removing obfuscations from images. In this paper we present the directional diffusion algorithm for inpainting. Typical diffusion algorithms are bad at pro...
computer science
25,708
God(s) Know(s): Developmental and Cross-Cultural Patterns in Children Drawings
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel approach to data analysis designed for the needs of specialists in psychology of religion. We detect developmental and cross-cultural patterns in children's drawings of God(s) and other supernatural agents. We develop methods to objectively evaluate our empirical observations of the drawin...
computer science
25,709
Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Encoder for Video Representation with Application to Captioning
cs.CV
Recently, deep learning approach, especially deep Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets), have achieved overwhelming accuracy with fast processing speed for image classification. Incorporating temporal structure with deep ConvNets for video representation becomes a fundamental problem for video content analysis. In t...
computer science
25,710
A Continuous Max-Flow Approach to Cyclic Field Reconstruction
cs.CV
Reconstruction of an image from noisy data using Markov Random Field theory has been explored by both the graph-cuts and continuous max-flow community in the form of the Potts and Ishikawa models. However, neither model takes into account the particular cyclic topology of specific intensity types such as the hue in nat...
computer science
25,711
Piecewise Linear Activation Functions For More Efficient Deep Networks
cs.CV
This submission has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators because it is intentionally incomplete, which is in violation of our policies.
computer science
25,712
Automatic Content-Aware Color and Tone Stylization
cs.CV
We introduce a new technique that automatically generates diverse, visually compelling stylizations for a photograph in an unsupervised manner. We achieve this by learning style ranking for a given input using a large photo collection and selecting a diverse subset of matching styles for final style transfer. We also p...
computer science
25,713
Shearlet-Based Detection of Flame Fronts
cs.CV
Identifying and characterizing flame fronts is the most common task in the computer-assisted analysis of data obtained from imaging techniques such as planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF), laser Rayleigh scattering (LRS), or particle imaging velocimetry (PIV). We present a novel edge and ridge (line) detection algo...
computer science
25,714
ProNet: Learning to Propose Object-specific Boxes for Cascaded Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper aims to classify and locate objects accurately and efficiently, without using bounding box annotations. It is challenging as objects in the wild could appear at arbitrary locations and in different scales. In this paper, we propose a novel classification architecture ProNet based on convolutional neural netw...
computer science
25,715
Hand-Object Interaction and Precise Localization in Transitive Action Recognition
cs.CV
Action recognition in still images has seen major improvement in recent years due to advances in human pose estimation, object recognition and stronger feature representations produced by deep neural networks. However, there are still many cases in which performance remains far from that of humans. A major difficulty a...
computer science
25,716
When Naïve Bayes Nearest Neighbours Meet Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Since Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the leading learning paradigm in visual recognition, Naive Bayes Nearest Neighbour (NBNN)-based classifiers have lost momentum in the community. This is because (1) such algorithms cannot use CNN activations as input features; (2) they cannot be used as final layer...
computer science
25,717
LLNet: A Deep Autoencoder Approach to Natural Low-light Image Enhancement
cs.CV
In surveillance, monitoring and tactical reconnaissance, gathering the right visual information from a dynamic environment and accurately processing such data are essential ingredients to making informed decisions which determines the success of an operation. Camera sensors are often cost-limited in ability to clearly ...
computer science
25,718
Human Curation and Convnets: Powering Item-to-Item Recommendations on Pinterest
cs.CV
This paper presents Pinterest Related Pins, an item-to-item recommendation system that combines collaborative filtering with content-based ranking. We demonstrate that signals derived from user curation, the activity of users organizing content, are highly effective when used in conjunction with content-based ranking. ...
computer science
25,719
Facial Landmark Detection with Tweaked Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) design for facial landmark coordinate regression. We examine the intermediate features of a standard CNN trained for landmark detection and show that features extracted from later, more specialized layers capture rough landmark locations. This provides a natural mea...
computer science
25,720
Newtonian Image Understanding: Unfolding the Dynamics of Objects in Static Images
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the challenging problem of predicting the dynamics of objects in static images. Given a query object in an image, our goal is to provide a physical understanding of the object in terms of the forces acting upon it and its long term motion as response to those forces. Direct and explicit estimati...
computer science
25,721
Deep Gaussian Conditional Random Field Network: A Model-based Deep Network for Discriminative Denoising
cs.CV
We propose a novel deep network architecture for image\\ denoising based on a Gaussian Conditional Random Field (GCRF) model. In contrast to the existing discriminative denoising methods that train a separate model for each noise level, the proposed deep network explicitly models the input noise variance and hence is c...
computer science
25,722
Basic Level Categorization Facilitates Visual Object Recognition
cs.CV
Recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in the computer vision field, especially for visual object recognition tasks. The features useful for object classification are learned by feed-forward deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) automatically, and they are shown to be able to predict and ...
computer science
25,723
UA-DETRAC: A New Benchmark and Protocol for Multi-Object Detection and Tracking
cs.CV
In recent years, numerous effective multi-object tracking (MOT) methods are developed because of the wide range of applications. Existing performance evaluations of MOT methods usually separate the object tracking step from the object detection step by using the same fixed object detection results for comparisons. In t...
computer science
25,724
Unsupervised Learning of Edges
cs.CV
Data-driven approaches for edge detection have proven effective and achieve top results on modern benchmarks. However, all current data-driven edge detectors require manual supervision for training in the form of hand-labeled region segments or object boundaries. Specifically, human annotators mark semantically meaning...
computer science
25,725
Sequence to Sequence Learning for Optical Character Recognition
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end recurrent encoder-decoder based sequence learning approach for printed text Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In contrast to present day existing state-of-art OCR solution which uses connectionist temporal classification (CTC) output layer, our approach makes minimalistic assumptions on the ...
computer science
25,726
DISC: Deep Image Saliency Computing via Progressive Representation Learning
cs.CV
Salient object detection increasingly receives attention as an important component or step in several pattern recognition and image processing tasks. Although a variety of powerful saliency models have been intensively proposed, they usually involve heavy feature (or model) engineering based on priors (or assumptions) ...
computer science
25,727
Structure Inference Machines: Recurrent Neural Networks for Analyzing Relations in Group Activity Recognition
cs.CV
Rich semantic relations are important in a variety of visual recognition problems. As a concrete example, group activity recognition involves the interactions and relative spatial relations of a set of people in a scene. State of the art recognition methods center on deep learning approaches for training highly effecti...
computer science
25,728
An Adaptive Data Representation for Robust Point-Set Registration and Merging
cs.CV
This paper presents a framework for rigid point-set registration and merging using a robust continuous data representation. Our point-set representation is constructed by training a one-class support vector machine with a Gaussian radial basis function kernel and subsequently approximating the output function with a Ga...
computer science
25,729
Volume-based Semantic Labeling with Signed Distance Functions
cs.CV
Research works on the two topics of Semantic Segmentation and SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) have been following separate tracks. Here, we link them quite tightly by delineating a category label fusion technique that allows for embedding semantic information into the dense map created by a volume-based SL...
computer science
25,730
Learning to Assign Orientations to Feature Points
cs.CV
We show how to train a Convolutional Neural Network to assign a canonical orientation to feature points given an image patch centered on the feature point. Our method improves feature point matching upon the state-of-the art and can be used in conjunction with any existing rotation sensitive descriptors. To avoid the t...
computer science
25,731
Standard methods for inexpensive pollen loads authentication by means of computer vision and machine learning
cs.CV
We present a complete methodology for authenticating local bee pollen against fraudulent samples using image processing and machine learning techniques. The proposed standard methods do not need expensive equipment such as advanced microscopes and can be used for a preliminary fast rejection of unknown pollen types. Th...
computer science
25,732
Learning Dense Convolutional Embeddings for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture that learns pixel embeddings, such that pairwise distances between the embeddings can be used to infer whether or not the pixels lie on the same region. That is, for any two pixels on the same object, the embeddings are trained to be simila...
computer science
25,733
Deep Reflectance Maps
cs.CV
Undoing the image formation process and therefore decomposing appearance into its intrinsic properties is a challenging task due to the under-constraint nature of this inverse problem. While significant progress has been made on inferring shape, materials and illumination from images only, progress in an unconstrained ...
computer science
25,734
Robust Face Alignment Using a Mixture of Invariant Experts
cs.CV
Face alignment, which is the task of finding the locations of a set of facial landmark points in an image of a face, is useful in widespread application areas. Face alignment is particularly challenging when there are large variations in pose (in-plane and out-of-plane rotations) and facial expression. To address this ...
computer science
25,735
Transductive Zero-Shot Action Recognition by Word-Vector Embedding
cs.CV
The number of categories for action recognition is growing rapidly and it has become increasingly hard to label sufficient training data for learning conventional models for all categories. Instead of collecting ever more data and labelling them exhaustively for all categories, an attractive alternative approach is zer...
computer science
25,736
Solving Jigsaw Puzzles with Linear Programming
cs.CV
We propose a novel Linear Program (LP) based formula- tion for solving jigsaw puzzles. We formulate jigsaw solving as a set of successive global convex relaxations of the stan- dard NP-hard formulation, that can describe both jigsaws with pieces of unknown position and puzzles of unknown po- sition and orientation. The...
computer science
25,737
Semantic Object Parsing with Local-Global Long Short-Term Memory
cs.CV
Semantic object parsing is a fundamental task for understanding objects in detail in computer vision community, where incorporating multi-level contextual information is critical for achieving such fine-grained pixel-level recognition. Prior methods often leverage the contextual information through post-processing pred...
computer science
25,738
Sequential Optimization for Efficient High-Quality Object Proposal Generation
cs.CV
We are motivated by the need for a generic object proposal generation algorithm which achieves good balance between object detection recall, proposal localization quality and computational efficiency. We propose a novel object proposal algorithm, BING++, which inherits the virtue of good computational efficiency of BIN...
computer science
25,739
Zero-Shot Learning via Joint Latent Similarity Embedding
cs.CV
Zero-shot recognition (ZSR) deals with the problem of predicting class labels for target domain instances based on source domain side information (e.g. attributes) of unseen classes. We formulate ZSR as a binary prediction problem. Our resulting classifier is class-independent. It takes an arbitrary pair of source and ...
computer science
25,740
Reversible Recursive Instance-level Object Segmentation
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a novel Reversible Recursive Instance-level Object Segmentation (R2-IOS) framework to address the challenging instance-level object segmentation task. R2-IOS consists of a reversible proposal refinement sub-network that predicts bounding box offsets for refining the object proposal locations, a...
computer science
25,741
Learning Fine-grained Features via a CNN Tree for Large-scale Classification
cs.CV
We propose a novel approach to enhance the discriminability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The key idea is to build a tree structure that could progressively learn fine-grained features to distinguish a subset of classes, by learning features only among these classes. Such features are expected to be more disc...
computer science
25,742
Jointly Learning Non-negative Projection and Dictionary with Discriminative Graph Constraints for Classification
cs.CV
Sparse coding with dictionary learning (DL) has shown excellent classification performance. Despite the considerable number of existing works, how to obtain features on top of which dictionaries can be better learned remains an open and interesting question. Many current prevailing DL methods directly adopt well-perfor...
computer science
25,743
Implementation and comparative quantitative assessment of different multispectral image pansharpening approches
cs.CV
In remote sensing, images acquired by various earth observation satellites tend to have either a high spatial and low spectral resolution or vice versa. Pansharpening is a technique which aims to improve spatial resolution of multispectral image. The challenges involve in the pansharpening are not only to improve the s...
computer science
25,744
Deep Neural Network for Real-Time Autonomous Indoor Navigation
cs.CV
Autonomous indoor navigation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) possesses many challenges. One main reason is that GPS has limited precision in indoor environments. The additional fact that MAVs are not able to carry heavy weight or power consuming sensors, such as range finders, makes indoor autonomous navigation a chall...
computer science
25,745
Uncovering Temporal Context for Video Question and Answering
cs.CV
In this work, we introduce Video Question Answering in temporal domain to infer the past, describe the present and predict the future. We present an encoder-decoder approach using Recurrent Neural Networks to learn temporal structures of videos and introduce a dual-channel ranking loss to answer multiple-choice questio...
computer science
25,746
Learning Mid-level Words on Riemannian Manifold for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Human action recognition remains a challenging task due to the various sources of video data and large intra-class variations. It thus becomes one of the key issues in recent research to explore effective and robust representation to handle such challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel representation approach by c...
computer science
25,747
Coarse-to-fine Face Alignment with Multi-Scale Local Patch Regression
cs.CV
Facial landmark localization plays an important role in face recognition and analysis applications. In this paper, we give a brief introduction to a coarse-to-fine pipeline with neural networks and sequential regression. First, a global convolutional network is applied to the holistic facial image to give an initial la...
computer science
25,748
Identification and Counting White Blood Cells and Red Blood Cells using Image Processing Case Study of Leukemia
cs.CV
Leukemia is diagnosed with complete blood counts which is by calculating all blood cells and compare the number of white blood cells (White Blood Cells / WBC) and red blood cells (Red Blood Cells / RBC). Information obtained from a complete blood count, has become a cornerstone in the hematology laboratory for diagnost...
computer science
25,749
Sample and Filter: Nonparametric Scene Parsing via Efficient Filtering
cs.CV
Scene parsing has attracted a lot of attention in computer vision. While parametric models have proven effective for this task, they cannot easily incorporate new training data. By contrast, nonparametric approaches, which bypass any learning phase and directly transfer the labels from the training data to the query im...
computer science
25,750
Handcrafted Local Features are Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Image and video classification research has made great progress through the development of handcrafted local features and learning based features. These two architectures were proposed roughly at the same time and have flourished at overlapping stages of history. However, they are typically viewed as distinct approache...
computer science
25,751
An Empirical Study of Recent Face Alignment Methods
cs.CV
The problem of face alignment has been intensively studied in the past years. A large number of novel methods have been proposed and reported very good performance on benchmark dataset such as 300W. However, the differences in the experimental setting and evaluation metric, missing details in the description of the met...
computer science
25,752
Proposal Flow
cs.CV
Finding image correspondences remains a challenging problem in the presence of intra-class variations and large changes in scene layout.~Semantic flow methods are designed to handle images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We introduce a novel approach to semantic flow, dubbed proposal...
computer science
25,753
Joint Training of Generic CNN-CRF Models with Stochastic Optimization
cs.CV
We propose a new CNN-CRF end-to-end learning framework, which is based on joint stochastic optimization with respect to both Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Conditional Random Field (CRF) parameters. While stochastic gradient descent is a standard technique for CNN training, it was not used for joint models so f...
computer science
25,754
Understanding learned CNN features through Filter Decoding with Substitution
cs.CV
In parallel with the success of CNNs to solve vision problems, there is a growing interest in developing methodologies to understand and visualize the internal representations of these networks. How the responses of a trained CNN encode the visual information is a fundamental question both for computer and human vision...
computer science
25,755
Nonlinear Local Metric Learning for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Person re-identification aims at matching pedestrians observed from non-overlapping camera views. Feature descriptor and metric learning are two significant problems in person re-identification. A discriminative metric learning method should be capable of exploiting complex nonlinear transformations due to the large va...
computer science
25,756
Visualizing and Understanding Deep Texture Representations
cs.CV
A number of recent approaches have used deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to build texture representations. Nevertheless, it is still unclear how these models represent texture and invariances to categorical variations. This work conducts a systematic evaluation of recent CNN-based texture descriptors for recog...
computer science
25,757
Learning Expressionlets via Universal Manifold Model for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition
cs.CV
Facial expression is temporally dynamic event which can be decomposed into a set of muscle motions occurring in different facial regions over various time intervals. For dynamic expression recognition, two key issues, temporal alignment and semantics-aware dynamic representation, must be taken into account. In this pap...
computer science
25,758
Hierarchical Spatial Sum-Product Networks for Action Recognition in Still Images
cs.CV
Recognizing actions from still images is popularly studied recently. In this paper, we model an action class as a flexible number of spatial configurations of body parts by proposing a new spatial SPN (Sum-Product Networks). First, we discover a set of parts in image collections via unsupervised learning. Then, our new...
computer science
25,759
Towards Predicting the Likeability of Fashion Images
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for ranking fashion images to find the ones which might be liked by more people. We collect two new datasets from image sharing websites (Pinterest and Polyvore). We represent fashion images based on attributes: semantic attributes and data-driven attributes. To learn semantic attribu...
computer science
25,760
Super-Resolution with Deep Convolutional Sufficient Statistics
cs.CV
Inverse problems in image and audio, and super-resolution in particular, can be seen as high-dimensional structured prediction problems, where the goal is to characterize the conditional distribution of a high-resolution output given its low-resolution corrupted observation. When the scaling ratio is small, point estim...
computer science
25,761
Compositional Memory for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Visual Question Answering (VQA) emerges as one of the most fascinating topics in computer vision recently. Many state of the art methods naively use holistic visual features with language features into a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) module, neglecting the sophisticated interaction between them. This coarse modeling al...
computer science
25,762
Labeled pupils in the wild: A dataset for studying pupil detection in unconstrained environments
cs.CV
We present labelled pupils in the wild (LPW), a novel dataset of 66 high-quality, high-speed eye region videos for the development and evaluation of pupil detection algorithms. The videos in our dataset were recorded from 22 participants in everyday locations at about 95 FPS using a state-of-the-art dark-pupil head-mou...
computer science
25,763
From Pose to Activity: Surveying Datasets and Introducing CONVERSE
cs.CV
We present a review on the current state of publicly available datasets within the human action recognition community; highlighting the revival of pose based methods and recent progress of understanding person-person interaction modeling. We categorize datasets regarding several key properties for usage as a benchmark ...
computer science
25,764
Particular object retrieval with integral max-pooling of CNN activations
cs.CV
Recently, image representation built upon Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been shown to provide effective descriptors for image search, outperforming pre-CNN features as short-vector representations. Yet such models are not compatible with geometry-aware re-ranking methods and still outperformed, on some particu...
computer science
25,765
Collecting and Annotating the Large Continuous Action Dataset
cs.CV
We make available to the community a new dataset to support action-recognition research. This dataset is different from prior datasets in several key ways. It is significantly larger. It contains streaming video with long segments containing multiple action occurrences that often overlap in space and/or time. All actio...
computer science
25,766
ABC-CNN: An Attention Based Convolutional Neural Network for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
We propose a novel attention based deep learning architecture for visual question answering task (VQA). Given an image and an image related natural language question, VQA generates the natural language answer for the question. Generating the correct answers requires the model's attention to focus on the regions corresp...
computer science
25,767
Active Object Localization with Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
We present an active detection model for localizing objects in scenes. The model is class-specific and allows an agent to focus attention on candidate regions for identifying the correct location of a target object. This agent learns to deform a bounding box using simple transformation actions, with the goal of determi...
computer science
25,768
A Hierarchical Deep Temporal Model for Group Activity Recognition
cs.CV
In group activity recognition, the temporal dynamics of the whole activity can be inferred based on the dynamics of the individual people representing the activity. We build a deep model to capture these dynamics based on LSTM (long-short term memory) models. To make use of these ob- servations, we present a 2-stage de...
computer science
25,769
Compact Bilinear Pooling
cs.CV
Bilinear models has been shown to achieve impressive performance on a wide range of visual tasks, such as semantic segmentation, fine grained recognition and face recognition. However, bilinear features are high dimensional, typically on the order of hundreds of thousands to a few million, which makes them impractical ...
computer science
25,770
Structured Depth Prediction in Challenging Monocular Video Sequences
cs.CV
In this paper, we tackle the problem of estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular video sequence. In particular, we handle challenging scenarios, such as non-translational camera motion and dynamic scenes, where traditional structure from motion and motion stereo methods do not apply. To this end, we first study...
computer science
25,771
Quantitative Analysis of Particles Segregation
cs.CV
Segregation is a popular phenomenon. It has considerable effects on material performance. To the author's knowledge, there is still no automated objective quantitative indicator for segregation. In order to full fill this task, segregation of particles is analyzed. Edges of the particles are extracted from the digital ...
computer science
25,772
What Players do with the Ball: A Physically Constrained Interaction Modeling
cs.CV
Tracking the ball is critical for video-based analysis of team sports. However, it is difficult, especially in low-resolution images, due to the small size of the ball, its speed that creates motion blur, and its often being occluded by players. In this paper, we propose a generic and principled approach to modeling th...
computer science
25,773
Automatically selecting inference algorithms for discrete energy minimisation
cs.CV
Minimisation of discrete energies defined over factors is an important problem in computer vision, and a vast number of MAP inference algorithms have been proposed. Different inference algorithms perform better on factor graph models (GMs) from different underlying problem classes, and in general it is difficult to kno...
computer science
25,774
face anti-spoofing based on color texture analysis
cs.CV
Research on face spoofing detection has mainly been focused on analyzing the luminance of the face images, hence discarding the chrominance information which can be useful for discriminating fake faces from genuine ones. In this work, we propose a new face anti-spoofing method based on color texture analysis. We analyz...
computer science
25,775
Feature-based Attention in Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven effective for image processing tasks, such as object recognition and classification. Recently, CNNs have been enhanced with concepts of attention, similar to those found in biology. Much of this work on attention has focused on effective serial spatial processing. In thi...
computer science
25,776
Bidirectional Warping of Active Appearance Model
cs.CV
Active Appearance Model (AAM) is a commonly used method for facial image analysis with applications in face identification and facial expression recognition. This paper proposes a new approach based on image alignment for AAM fitting called bidirectional warping. Previous approaches warp either the input image or the a...
computer science
25,777
WIDER FACE: A Face Detection Benchmark
cs.CV
Face detection is one of the most studied topics in the computer vision community. Much of the progresses have been made by the availability of face detection benchmark datasets. We show that there is a gap between current face detection performance and the real world requirements. To facilitate future face detection r...
computer science
25,778
A dense subgraph based algorithm for compact salient image region detection
cs.CV
We present an algorithm for graph based saliency computation that utilizes the underlying dense subgraphs in finding visually salient regions in an image. To compute the salient regions, the model first obtains a saliency map using random walks on a Markov chain. Next, k-dense subgraphs are detected to further enhance ...
computer science
25,779
ElSe: Ellipse Selection for Robust Pupil Detection in Real-World Environments
cs.CV
Fast and robust pupil detection is an essential prerequisite for video-based eye-tracking in real-world settings. Several algorithms for image-based pupil detection have been proposed, their applicability is mostly limited to laboratory conditions. In realworld scenarios, automated pupil detection has to face various c...
computer science
25,780
Towards Arbitrary-View Face Alignment by Recommendation Trees
cs.CV
Learning to simultaneously handle face alignment of arbitrary views, e.g. frontal and profile views, appears to be more challenging than we thought. The difficulties lay in i) accommodating the complex appearance-shape relations exhibited in different views, and ii) encompassing the varying landmark point sets due to s...
computer science
25,781
DeepCut: Joint Subset Partition and Labeling for Multi Person Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This paper considers the task of articulated human pose estimation of multiple people in real world images. We propose an approach that jointly solves the tasks of detection and pose estimation: it infers the number of persons in a scene, identifies occluded body parts, and disambiguates body parts between people in cl...
computer science
25,782
Tracklet Association by Online Target-Specific Metric Learning and Coherent Dynamics Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel method based on online target-specific metric learning and coherent dynamics estimation for tracklet (track fragment) association by network flow optimization in long-term multi-person tracking. Our proposed framework aims to exploit appearance and motion cues to prevent identity switc...
computer science
25,783
Personalizing Human Video Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We propose a personalized ConvNet pose estimator that automatically adapts itself to the uniqueness of a person's appearance to improve pose estimation in long videos. We make the following contributions: (i) we show that given a few high-precision pose annotations, e.g. from a generic ConvNet pose estimator, additiona...
computer science
25,784
Deep End2End Voxel2Voxel Prediction
cs.CV
Over the last few years deep learning methods have emerged as one of the most prominent approaches for video analysis. However, so far their most successful applications have been in the area of video classification and detection, i.e., problems involving the prediction of a single class label or a handful of output va...
computer science
25,785
Direct Prediction of 3D Body Poses from Motion Compensated Sequences
cs.CV
We propose an efficient approach to exploiting motion information from consecutive frames of a video sequence to recover the 3D pose of people. Previous approaches typically compute candidate poses in individual frames and then link them in a post-processing step to resolve ambiguities. By contrast, we directly regress...
computer science
25,786
Multi-view 3D Models from Single Images with a Convolutional Network
cs.CV
We present a convolutional network capable of inferring a 3D representation of a previously unseen object given a single image of this object. Concretely, the network can predict an RGB image and a depth map of the object as seen from an arbitrary view. Several of these depth maps fused together give a full point cloud...
computer science
25,787
Semantic Diversity versus Visual Diversity in Visual Dictionaries
cs.CV
Visual dictionaries are a critical component for image classification/retrieval systems based on the bag-of-visual-words (BoVW) model. Dictionaries are usually learned without supervision from a training set of images sampled from the collection of interest. However, for large, general-purpose, dynamic image collection...
computer science
25,788
Superpixel Convolutional Networks using Bilateral Inceptions
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a CNN architecture for semantic image segmentation. We introduce a new 'bilateral inception' module that can be inserted in existing CNN architectures and performs bilateral filtering, at multiple feature-scales, between superpixels in an image. The feature spaces for bilateral filtering and ot...
computer science
25,789
Recognizing Activities of Daily Living with a Wrist-mounted Camera
cs.CV
We present a novel dataset and a novel algorithm for recognizing activities of daily living (ADL) from a first-person wearable camera. Handled objects are crucially important for egocentric ADL recognition. For specific examination of objects related to users' actions separately from other objects in an environment, ma...
computer science
25,790
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Noisy Data for Fine-Grained Recognition
cs.CV
Current approaches for fine-grained recognition do the following: First, recruit experts to annotate a dataset of images, optionally also collecting more structured data in the form of part annotations and bounding boxes. Second, train a model utilizing this data. Toward the goal of solving fine-grained recognition, we...
computer science
25,791
Ground-truth dataset and baseline evaluations for image base-detail separation algorithms
cs.CV
Base-detail separation is a fundamental computer vision problem consisting of modeling a smooth base layer with the coarse structures, and a detail layer containing the texture-like structures. One of the challenges of estimating the base is to preserve sharp boundaries between objects or parts to avoid halo artifacts....
computer science
25,792
Fidelity-Naturalness Evaluation of Single Image Super Resolution
cs.CV
We study the problem of evaluating super resolution methods. Traditional evaluation methods usually judge the quality of super resolved images based on a single measure of their difference with the original high resolution images. In this paper, we proposed to use both fidelity (the difference with original images) and...
computer science
25,793
TransCut: Transparent Object Segmentation from a Light-Field Image
cs.CV
The segmentation of transparent objects can be very useful in computer vision applications. However, because they borrow texture from their background and have a similar appearance to their surroundings, transparent objects are not handled well by regular image segmentation methods. We propose a method that overcomes t...
computer science
25,794
Convex Sparse Spectral Clustering: Single-view to Multi-view
cs.CV
Spectral Clustering (SC) is one of the most widely used methods for data clustering. It first finds a low-dimensonal embedding $\U$ of data by computing the eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian matrix, and then performs k-means on $\U^\top$ to get the final clustering result. In this work, we observe that, in the i...
computer science
25,795
Screen Content Image Segmentation Using Sparse-Smooth Decomposition
cs.CV
Sparse decomposition has been extensively used for different applications including signal compression and denoising and document analysis. In this paper, sparse decomposition is used for image segmentation. The proposed algorithm separates the background and foreground using a sparse-smooth decomposition technique suc...
computer science
25,796
Semantic Segmentation of Colon Glands with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Total Variation Segmentation
cs.CV
Segmentation of histopathology sections is an ubiquitous requirement in digital pathology and due to the large variability of biological tissue, machine learning techniques have shown superior performance over standard image processing methods. As part of the GlaS@MICCAI2015 colon gland segmentation challenge, we prese...
computer science
25,797
Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Localization in Crowded Scenes
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for real-time anomaly detection and localization in crowded scenes. Each video is defined as a set of non-overlapping cubic patches, and is described using two local and global descriptors. These descriptors capture the video properties from different aspects. By incorporating simple ...
computer science
25,798
Ask Me Anything: Free-form Visual Question Answering Based on Knowledge from External Sources
cs.CV
We propose a method for visual question answering which combines an internal representation of the content of an image with information extracted from a general knowledge base to answer a broad range of image-based questions. This allows more complex questions to be answered using the predominant neural network-based a...
computer science
25,799
Learning High-level Prior with Convolutional Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a convolutional neural network that can fuse high-level prior for semantic image segmentation. Motivated by humans' vision recognition system, our key design is a three-layer generative structure consisting of high-level coding, middle-level segmentation and low-level image to introduce global prior...
computer science
25,800
SceneNet: Understanding Real World Indoor Scenes With Synthetic Data
cs.CV
Scene understanding is a prerequisite to many high level tasks for any automated intelligent machine operating in real world environments. Recent attempts with supervised learning have shown promise in this direction but also highlighted the need for enormous quantity of supervised data --- performance increases in pro...
computer science
25,801
Fine-grained pose prediction, normalization, and recognition
cs.CV
Pose variation and subtle differences in appearance are key challenges to fine-grained classification. While deep networks have markedly improved general recognition, many approaches to fine-grained recognition rely on anchoring networks to parts for better accuracy. Identifying parts to find correspondence discounts p...
computer science