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Auxiliary Image Regularization for Deep CNNs with Noisy Labels
cs.CV
Precisely-labeled data sets with sufficient amount of samples are very important for training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, many of the available real-world data sets contain erroneously labeled samples and those errors substantially hinder the learning of very accurate CNN models. In this work, w...
computer science
25,803
Adapting Deep Visuomotor Representations with Weak Pairwise Constraints
cs.CV
Real-world robotics problems often occur in domains that differ significantly from the robot's prior training environment. For many robotic control tasks, real world experience is expensive to obtain, but data is easy to collect in either an instrumented environment or in simulation. We propose a novel domain adaptatio...
computer science
25,804
Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions
cs.CV
State-of-the-art models for semantic segmentation are based on adaptations of convolutional networks that had originally been designed for image classification. However, dense prediction and image classification are structurally different. In this work, we develop a new convolutional network module that is specifically...
computer science
25,805
DeePM: A Deep Part-Based Model for Object Detection and Semantic Part Localization
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a deep part-based model (DeePM) for symbiotic object detection and semantic part localization. For this purpose, we annotate semantic parts for all 20 object categories on the PASCAL VOC 2012 dataset, which provides information on object pose, occlusion, viewpoint and functionality. DeePM is a...
computer science
25,806
Face Alignment Across Large Poses: A 3D Solution
cs.CV
Face alignment, which fits a face model to an image and extracts the semantic meanings of facial pixels, has been an important topic in CV community. However, most algorithms are designed for faces in small to medium poses (below 45 degree), lacking the ability to align faces in large poses up to 90 degree. The challen...
computer science
25,807
Rendering refraction and reflection of eyeglasses for synthetic eye tracker images
cs.CV
While for the evaluation of robustness of eye tracking algorithms the use of real-world data is essential, there are many applications where simulated, synthetic eye images are of advantage. They can generate labelled ground-truth data for appearance based gaze estimation algorithms or enable the development of model b...
computer science
25,808
Node Specificity in Convolutional Deep Nets Depends on Receptive Field Position and Size
cs.CV
In convolutional deep neural networks, receptive field (RF) size increases with hierarchical depth. When RF size approaches full coverage of the input image, different RF positions result in RFs with different specificity, as portions of the RF fall out of the input space. This leads to a departure from the convolution...
computer science
25,809
Recombinator Networks: Learning Coarse-to-Fine Feature Aggregation
cs.CV
Deep neural networks with alternating convolutional, max-pooling and decimation layers are widely used in state of the art architectures for computer vision. Max-pooling purposefully discards precise spatial information in order to create features that are more robust, and typically organized as lower resolution spatia...
computer science
25,810
Where To Look: Focus Regions for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
We present a method that learns to answer visual questions by selecting image regions relevant to the text-based query. Our method exhibits significant improvements in answering questions such as "what color," where it is necessary to evaluate a specific location, and "what room," where it selectively identifies inform...
computer science
25,811
Learning Visual Predictive Models of Physics for Playing Billiards
cs.CV
The ability to plan and execute goal specific actions in varied, unexpected settings is a central requirement of intelligent agents. In this paper, we explore how an agent can be equipped with an internal model of the dynamics of the external world, and how it can use this model to plan novel actions by running multipl...
computer science
25,812
Real-Time Anomalous Behavior Detection and Localization in Crowded Scenes
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an accurate and real-time anomaly detection and localization in crowded scenes, and two descriptors for representing anomalous behavior in video are proposed. We consider a video as being a set of cubic patches. Based on the low likelihood of an anomaly occurrence, and the redundancy of struct...
computer science
25,813
Constrained Deep Metric Learning for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Person re-identification aims to re-identify the probe image from a given set of images under different camera views. It is challenging due to large variations of pose, illumination, occlusion and camera view. Since the convolutional neural networks (CNN) have excellent capability of feature extraction, certain deep le...
computer science
25,814
Mouse Pose Estimation From Depth Images
cs.CV
We focus on the challenging problem of efficient mouse 3D pose estimation based on static images, and especially single depth images. We introduce an approach to discriminatively train the split nodes of trees in random forest to improve their performance on estimation of 3D joint positions of mouse. Our algorithm is c...
computer science
25,815
Bayesian Identification of Fixations, Saccades, and Smooth Pursuits
cs.CV
Smooth pursuit eye movements provide meaningful insights and information on subject's behavior and health and may, in particular situations, disturb the performance of typical fixation/saccade classification algorithms. Thus, an automatic and efficient algorithm to identify these eye movements is paramount for eye-trac...
computer science
25,816
Weakly Supervised Object Boundaries
cs.CV
State-of-the-art learning based boundary detection methods require extensive training data. Since labelling object boundaries is one of the most expensive types of annotations, there is a need to relax the requirement to carefully annotate images to make both the training more affordable and to extend the amount of tra...
computer science
25,817
Shape and Symmetry Induction for 3D Objects
cs.CV
Actions as simple as grasping an object or navigating around it require a rich understanding of that object's 3D shape from a given viewpoint. In this paper we repurpose powerful learning machinery, originally developed for object classification, to discover image cues relevant for recovering the 3D shape of potentiall...
computer science
25,818
Principal Basis Analysis in Sparse Representation
cs.CV
This article introduces a new signal analysis method, which can be interpreted as a principal component analysis in sparse decomposition of the signal. The method, called principal basis analysis, is based on a novel criterion: reproducibility of component which is an intrinsic characteristic of regularity in natural s...
computer science
25,819
Video Tracking Using Learned Hierarchical Features
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an approach to learn hierarchical features for visual object tracking. First, we offline learn features robust to diverse motion patterns from auxiliary video sequences. The hierarchical features are learned via a two-layer convolutional neural network. Embedding the temporal slowness constrai...
computer science
25,820
PASCAL Boundaries: A Class-Agnostic Semantic Boundary Dataset
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the boundary detection task motivated by the ambiguities in current definition of edge detection. To this end, we generate a large database consisting of more than 10k images (which is 20x bigger than existing edge detection databases) along with ground truth boundaries between 459 semantic cl...
computer science
25,821
Calculate distance to object in the area where car, using video analysis
cs.CV
The method of using video cameras installed on the car, to calculate the distance to the object in its area of movement.
computer science
25,822
Pedestrian Detection Inspired by Appearance Constancy and Shape Symmetry
cs.CV
The discrimination and simplicity of features are very important for effective and efficient pedestrian detection. However, most state-of-the-art methods are unable to achieve good tradeoff between accuracy and efficiency. Inspired by some simple inherent attributes of pedestrians (i.e., appearance constancy and shape ...
computer science
25,823
Higher Order Conditional Random Fields in Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We address the problem of semantic segmentation using deep learning. Most segmentation systems include a Conditional Random Field (CRF) to produce a structured output that is consistent with the image's visual features. Recent deep learning approaches have incorporated CRFs into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), wi...
computer science
25,824
Unsupervised Deep Feature Extraction for Remote Sensing Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper introduces the use of single layer and deep convolutional networks for remote sensing data analysis. Direct application to multi- and hyper-spectral imagery of supervised (shallow or deep) convolutional networks is very challenging given the high input data dimensionality and the relatively small amount of a...
computer science
25,825
Tracking Motion and Proxemics using Thermal-sensor Array
cs.CV
Indoor tracking has all-pervasive applications beyond mere surveillance, for example in education, health monitoring, marketing, energy management and so on. Image and video based tracking systems are intrusive. Thermal array sensors on the other hand can provide coarse-grained tracking while preserving privacy of the ...
computer science
25,826
Exploring Person Context and Local Scene Context for Object Detection
cs.CV
In this paper we explore two ways of using context for object detection. The first model focusses on people and the objects they commonly interact with, such as fashion and sports accessories. The second model considers more general object detection and uses the spatial relationships between objects and between objects...
computer science
25,827
A Computational Model for Amodal Completion
cs.CV
This paper presents a computational model to recover the most likely interpretation of the 3D scene structure from a planar image, where some objects may occlude others. The estimated scene interpretation is obtained by integrating some global and local cues and provides both the complete disoccluded objects that form ...
computer science
25,828
Towards Automatic Image Editing: Learning to See another You
cs.CV
Learning the distribution of images in order to generate new samples is a challenging task due to the high dimensionality of the data and the highly non-linear relations that are involved. Nevertheless, some promising results have been reported in the literature recently,building on deep network architectures. In this ...
computer science
25,829
An analysis of the factors affecting keypoint stability in scale-space
cs.CV
The most popular image matching algorithm SIFT, introduced by D. Lowe a decade ago, has proven to be sufficiently scale invariant to be used in numerous applications. In practice, however, scale invariance may be weakened by various sources of error inherent to the SIFT implementation affecting the stability and accura...
computer science
25,830
TennisVid2Text: Fine-grained Descriptions for Domain Specific Videos
cs.CV
Automatically describing videos has ever been fascinating. In this work, we attempt to describe videos from a specific domain - broadcast videos of lawn tennis matches. Given a video shot from a tennis match, we intend to generate a textual commentary similar to what a human expert would write on a sports website. Unli...
computer science
25,831
Structured learning of metric ensembles with application to person re-identification
cs.CV
Matching individuals across non-overlapping camera networks, known as person re-identification, is a fundamentally challenging problem due to the large visual appearance changes caused by variations of viewpoints, lighting, and occlusion. Approaches in literature can be categoried into two streams: The first stream is ...
computer science
25,832
Loss Functions for Neural Networks for Image Processing
cs.CV
Neural networks are becoming central in several areas of computer vision and image processing and different architectures have been proposed to solve specific problems. The impact of the loss layer of neural networks, however, has not received much attention in the context of image processing: the default and virtually...
computer science
25,833
Real-Time Depth Refinement for Specular Objects
cs.CV
The introduction of consumer RGB-D scanners set off a major boost in 3D computer vision research. Yet, the precision of existing depth scanners is not accurate enough to recover fine details of a scanned object. While modern shading based depth refinement methods have been proven to work well with Lambertian objects, t...
computer science
25,834
Sliding-Window Optimization on an Ambiguity-Clearness Graph for Multi-object Tracking
cs.CV
Multi-object tracking remains challenging due to frequent occurrence of occlusions and outliers. In order to handle this problem, we propose an Approximation-Shrink Scheme for sequential optimization. This scheme is realized by introducing an Ambiguity-Clearness Graph to avoid conflicts and maintain sequence independen...
computer science
25,835
Sparseness helps: Sparsity Augmented Collaborative Representation for Classification
cs.CV
Many classification approaches first represent a test sample using the training samples of all the classes. This collaborative representation is then used to label the test sample. It was a common belief that sparseness of the representation is the key to success for this classification scheme. However, more recently, ...
computer science
25,836
On-line Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Symbols
cs.CV
Finding the name of an unknown symbol is often hard, but writing the symbol is easy. This bachelor's thesis presents multiple systems that use the pen trajectory to classify handwritten symbols. Five preprocessing steps, one data augmentation algorithm, five features and five variants for multilayer Perceptron training...
computer science
25,837
The Multiverse Loss for Robust Transfer Learning
cs.CV
Deep learning techniques are renowned for supporting effective transfer learning. However, as we demonstrate, the transferred representations support only a few modes of separation and much of its dimensionality is unutilized. In this work, we suggest to learn, in the source domain, multiple orthogonal classifiers. We ...
computer science
25,838
Sparse Coral Classification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Autonomous repair of deep-sea coral reefs is a recent proposed idea to support the oceans ecosystem in which is vital for commercial fishing, tourism and other species. This idea can be operated through using many small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and swarm intelligence techniques to locate and replace chunks...
computer science
25,839
Hierarchical Invariant Feature Learning with Marginalization for Person Re-Identification
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of matching pedestrians across multiple camera views, known as person re-identification. Variations in lighting conditions, environment and pose changes across camera views make re-identification a challenging problem. Previous methods address these challenges by designing specific feat...
computer science
25,840
Incidental Scene Text Understanding: Recent Progresses on ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition Challenge 4
cs.CV
Different from focused texts present in natural images, which are captured with user's intention and intervention, incidental texts usually exhibit much more diversity, variability and complexity, thus posing significant difficulties and challenges for scene text detection and recognition algorithms. The ICDAR 2015 Rob...
computer science
25,841
Fine-Grained Classification via Mixture of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system for fine-grained image classification, called a mixture of DCNNs (MixDCNN). The fine-grained image classification problem is characterised by large intra-class variations and small inter-class variations. To overcome these problems our proposed MixDCNN ...
computer science
25,842
Design of Kernels in Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification
cs.CV
Despite the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, our understanding of the relationship between shape of convolution kernels and learned representations is limited. In this work, we explore and employ the relationship between shape of kernels which define Receptive Fields (RFs)...
computer science
25,843
Behavior Discovery and Alignment of Articulated Object Classes from Unstructured Video
cs.CV
We propose an automatic system for organizing the content of a collection of unstructured videos of an articulated object class (e.g. tiger, horse). By exploiting the recurring motion patterns of the class across videos, our system: 1) identifies its characteristic behaviors; and 2) recovers pixel-to-pixel alignments a...
computer science
25,844
Sparseness Meets Deepness: 3D Human Pose Estimation from Monocular Video
cs.CV
This paper addresses the challenge of 3D full-body human pose estimation from a monocular image sequence. Here, two cases are considered: (i) the image locations of the human joints are provided and (ii) the image locations of joints are unknown. In the former case, a novel approach is introduced that integrates a spar...
computer science
25,845
Implicit Sparse Code Hashing
cs.CV
We address the problem of converting large-scale high-dimensional image data into binary codes so that approximate nearest-neighbor search over them can be efficiently performed. Different from most of the existing unsupervised approaches for yielding binary codes, our method is based on a dimensionality-reduction crit...
computer science
25,846
Analyzing Classifiers: Fisher Vectors and Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Fisher Vector classifiers and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are popular and successful algorithms for solving image classification problems. However, both are generally considered `black box' predictors as the non-linear transformations involved have so far prevented transparent and interpretable reasoning. Recently, a p...
computer science
25,847
Fast and High Quality Highlight Removal from A Single Image
cs.CV
Specular reflection exists widely in photography and causes the recorded color deviating from its true value, so fast and high quality highlight removal from a single nature image is of great importance. In spite of the progress in the past decades in highlight removal, achieving wide applicability to the large diversi...
computer science
25,848
Labeling the Features Not the Samples: Efficient Video Classification with Minimal Supervision
cs.CV
Feature selection is essential for effective visual recognition. We propose an efficient joint classifier learning and feature selection method that discovers sparse, compact representations of input features from a vast sea of candidates, with an almost unsupervised formulation. Our method requires only the following ...
computer science
25,849
Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision
cs.CV
Convolutional networks are at the core of most state-of-the-art computer vision solutions for a wide variety of tasks. Since 2014 very deep convolutional networks started to become mainstream, yielding substantial gains in various benchmarks. Although increased model size and computational cost tend to translate to imm...
computer science
25,850
The MegaFace Benchmark: 1 Million Faces for Recognition at Scale
cs.CV
Recent face recognition experiments on a major benchmark LFW show stunning performance--a number of algorithms achieve near to perfect score, surpassing human recognition rates. In this paper, we advocate evaluations at the million scale (LFW includes only 13K photos of 5K people). To this end, we have assembled the Me...
computer science
25,851
Double Sparse Multi-Frame Image Super Resolution
cs.CV
A large number of image super resolution algorithms based on the sparse coding are proposed, and some algorithms realize the multi-frame super resolution. In multi-frame super resolution based on the sparse coding, both accurate image registration and sparse coding are required. Previous study on multi-frame super reso...
computer science
25,852
Active Learning for Delineation of Curvilinear Structures
cs.CV
Many recent delineation techniques owe much of their increased effectiveness to path classification algorithms that make it possible to distinguish promising paths from others. The downside of this development is that they require annotated training data, which is tedious to produce. In this paper, we propose an Acti...
computer science
25,853
Actions ~ Transformations
cs.CV
What defines an action like "kicking ball"? We argue that the true meaning of an action lies in the change or transformation an action brings to the environment. In this paper, we propose a novel representation for actions by modeling an action as a transformation which changes the state of the environment before the a...
computer science
25,854
Compressive hyperspectral imaging via adaptive sampling and dictionary learning
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new sampling strategy for hyperspectral signals that is based on dictionary learning and singular value decomposition (SVD). Specifically, we first learn a sparsifying dictionary from training spectral data using dictionary learning. We then perform an SVD on the dictionary and use the first...
computer science
25,855
The Indian Spontaneous Expression Database for Emotion Recognition
cs.CV
Automatic recognition of spontaneous facial expressions is a major challenge in the field of affective computing. Head rotation, face pose, illumination variation, occlusion etc. are the attributes that increase the complexity of recognition of spontaneous expressions in practical applications. Effective recognition of...
computer science
25,856
A Literature Survey of various Fingerprint De-noising Techniques to justify the need of a new De-noising model based upon Pixel Component Analysis
cs.CV
Image Preprocessing is a vital step in the field of image processing for biometric pattern recognition. This paper studies and reviews various classical and modern fingerprint image de-noising models. The various model used for de-noising ranges widely from transform matrix using frequency, histogram model de-noising, ...
computer science
25,857
Weighted Schatten $p$-Norm Minimization for Image Denoising and Background Subtraction
cs.CV
Low rank matrix approximation (LRMA), which aims to recover the underlying low rank matrix from its degraded observation, has a wide range of applications in computer vision. The latest LRMA methods resort to using the nuclear norm minimization (NNM) as a convex relaxation of the nonconvex rank minimization. However, N...
computer science
25,858
Simulations for Validation of Vision Systems
cs.CV
As the computer vision matures into a systems science and engineering discipline, there is a trend in leveraging latest advances in computer graphics simulations for performance evaluation, learning, and inference. However, there is an open question on the utility of graphics simulations for vision with apparently cont...
computer science
25,859
Occlusion-Aware Human Pose Estimation with Mixtures of Sub-Trees
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the problem of learning a model for human pose estimation as mixtures of compositional sub-trees in two layers of prediction. This involves estimating the pose of a sub-tree followed by identifying the relationships between sub-trees that are used to handle occlusions between different parts. Th...
computer science
25,860
Prototypical Priors: From Improving Classification to Zero-Shot Learning
cs.CV
Recent works on zero-shot learning make use of side information such as visual attributes or natural language semantics to define the relations between output visual classes and then use these relationships to draw inference on new unseen classes at test time. In a novel extension to this idea, we propose the use of vi...
computer science
25,861
What can we learn about CNNs from a large scale controlled object dataset?
cs.CV
Tolerance to image variations (e.g. translation, scale, pose, illumination) is an important desired property of any object recognition system, be it human or machine. Moving towards increasingly bigger datasets has been trending in computer vision specially with the emergence of highly popular deep learning models. Whi...
computer science
25,862
Staple: Complementary Learners for Real-Time Tracking
cs.CV
Correlation Filter-based trackers have recently achieved excellent performance, showing great robustness to challenging situations exhibiting motion blur and illumination changes. However, since the model that they learn depends strongly on the spatial layout of the tracked object, they are notoriously sensitive to def...
computer science
25,863
Sublabel-Accurate Relaxation of Nonconvex Energies
cs.CV
We propose a novel spatially continuous framework for convex relaxations based on functional lifting. Our method can be interpreted as a sublabel-accurate solution to multilabel problems. We show that previously proposed functional lifting methods optimize an energy which is linear between two labels and hence require ...
computer science
25,864
Model Validation for Vision Systems via Graphics Simulation
cs.CV
Rapid advances in computation, combined with latest advances in computer graphics simulations have facilitated the development of vision systems and training them in virtual environments. One major stumbling block is in certification of the designs and tuned parameters of these systems to work in real world. In this pa...
computer science
25,865
ASIST: Automatic Semantically Invariant Scene Transformation
cs.CV
We present ASIST, a technique for transforming point clouds by replacing objects with their semantically equivalent counterparts. Transformations of this kind have applications in virtual reality, repair of fused scans, and robotics. ASIST is based on a unified formulation of semantic labeling and object replacement; b...
computer science
25,866
Motion trails from time-lapse video
cs.CV
From an image sequence captured by a stationary camera, background subtraction can detect moving foreground objects in the scene. Distinguishing foreground from background is further improved by various heuristics. Then each object's motion can be emphasized by duplicating its positions as a motion trail. These trails ...
computer science
25,867
A Deep Structured Model with Radius-Margin Bound for 3D Human Activity Recognition
cs.CV
Understanding human activity is very challenging even with the recently developed 3D/depth sensors. To solve this problem, this work investigates a novel deep structured model, which adaptively decomposes an activity instance into temporal parts using the convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our model advances the tra...
computer science
25,868
A Shapley Value Solution to Game Theoretic-based Feature Reduction in False Alarm Detection
cs.CV
False alarm is one of the main concerns in intensive care units and can result in care disruption, sleep deprivation, and insensitivity of care-givers to alarms. Several methods have been proposed to suppress the false alarm rate through improving the quality of physiological signals by filtering, and developing more a...
computer science
25,869
Maximum Entropy Binary Encoding for Face Template Protection
cs.CV
In this paper we present a framework for secure identification using deep neural networks, and apply it to the task of template protection for face authentication. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn a mapping from face images to maximum entropy binary (MEB) codes. The mapping is robust enough to ...
computer science
25,870
Vanishing point attracts gaze in free-viewing and visual search tasks
cs.CV
To investigate whether the vanishing point (VP) plays a significant role in gaze guidance, we ran two experiments. In the first one, we recorded fixations of 10 observers (4 female; mean age 22; SD=0.84) freely viewing 532 images, out of which 319 had VP (shuffled presentation; each image for 4 secs). We found that the...
computer science
25,871
Image reconstruction from dense binary pixels
cs.CV
Recently, the dense binary pixel Gigavision camera had been introduced, emulating a digital version of the photographic film. While seems to be a promising solution for HDR imaging, its output is not directly usable and requires an image reconstruction process. In this work, we formulate this problem as the minimizatio...
computer science
25,872
The Next Best Underwater View
cs.CV
To image in high resolution large and occlusion-prone scenes, a camera must move above and around. Degradation of visibility due to geometric occlusions and distances is exacerbated by scattering, when the scene is in a participating medium. Moreover, underwater and in other media, artificial lighting is needed. Overal...
computer science
25,873
PatchBatch: a Batch Augmented Loss for Optical Flow
cs.CV
We propose a new pipeline for optical flow computation, based on Deep Learning techniques. We suggest using a Siamese CNN to independently, and in parallel, compute the descriptors of both images. The learned descriptors are then compared efficiently using the L2 norm and do not require network processing of patch pair...
computer science
25,874
Rank Pooling for Action Recognition
cs.CV
We propose a function-based temporal pooling method that captures the latent structure of the video sequence data - e.g. how frame-level features evolve over time in a video. We show how the parameters of a function that has been fit to the video data can serve as a robust new video representation. As a specific exampl...
computer science
25,875
Fixation prediction with a combined model of bottom-up saliency and vanishing point
cs.CV
By predicting where humans look in natural scenes, we can understand how they perceive complex natural scenes and prioritize information for further high-level visual processing. Several models have been proposed for this purpose, yet there is a gap between best existing saliency models and human performance. While man...
computer science
25,876
Recognition from Hand Cameras
cs.CV
We revisit the study of a wrist-mounted camera system (referred to as HandCam) for recognizing activities of hands. HandCam has two unique properties as compared to egocentric systems (referred to as HeadCam): (1) it avoids the need to detect hands; (2) it more consistently observes the activities of hands. By taking a...
computer science
25,877
Sparsifying Neural Network Connections for Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper proposes to learn high-performance deep ConvNets with sparse neural connections, referred to as sparse ConvNets, for face recognition. The sparse ConvNets are learned in an iterative way, each time one additional layer is sparsified and the entire model is re-trained given the initial weights learned in prev...
computer science
25,878
Scalable domain adaptation of convolutional neural networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) tend to become a standard approach to solve a wide array of computer vision problems. Besides important theoretical and practical advances in their design, their success is built on the existence of manually labeled visual resources, such as ImageNet. The creation of such datasets i...
computer science
25,879
Visualizing Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Natural Pre-Images
cs.CV
Image representations, from SIFT and bag of visual words to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a crucial component of almost all computer vision systems. However, our understanding of them remains limited. In this paper we study several landmark representations, both shallow and deep, by a number of complementary...
computer science
25,880
On The Continuous Steering of the Scale of Tight Wavelet Frames
cs.CV
In analogy with steerable wavelets, we present a general construction of adaptable tight wavelet frames, with an emphasis on scaling operations. In particular, the derived wavelets can be "dilated" by a procedure comparable to the operation of steering steerable wavelets. The fundamental aspects of the construction are...
computer science
25,881
In-situ multi-scattering tomography
cs.CV
To recover the three dimensional (3D) volumetric distribution of matter in an object, images of the object are captured from multiple directions and locations. Using these images tomographic computations extract the distribution. In highly scattering media and constrained, natural irradiance, tomography must explicitly...
computer science
25,882
Direct Intrinsics: Learning Albedo-Shading Decomposition by Convolutional Regression
cs.CV
We introduce a new approach to intrinsic image decomposition, the task of decomposing a single image into albedo and shading components. Our strategy, which we term direct intrinsics, is to learn a convolutional neural network (CNN) that directly predicts output albedo and shading channels from an input RGB image patch...
computer science
25,883
SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector
cs.CV
We present a method for detecting objects in images using a single deep neural network. Our approach, named SSD, discretizes the output space of bounding boxes into a set of default boxes over different aspect ratios and scales per feature map location. At prediction time, the network generates scores for the presence ...
computer science
25,884
Learning to Point and Count
cs.CV
This paper proposes the problem of point-and-count as a test case to break the what-and-where deadlock. Different from the traditional detection problem, the goal is to discover key salient points as a way to localize and count the number of objects simultaneously. We propose two alternatives, one that counts first and...
computer science
25,885
Computational Models for Multiview Dense Depth Maps of Dynamic Scene
cs.CV
This paper reviews the recent progresses of the depth map generation for dynamic scene and its corresponding computational models. This paper mainly covers the homogeneous ambiguity models in depth sensing, resolution models in depth processing, and consistency models in depth optimization. We also summarize the future...
computer science
25,886
Is Hamming distance the only way for matching binary image feature descriptors?
cs.CV
Brute force matching of binary image feature descriptors is conventionally performed using the Hamming distance. This paper assesses the use of alternative metrics in order to see whether they can produce feature correspondences that yield more accurate homography matrices. Two statistical tests, namely ANOVA (Analysis...
computer science
25,887
Towards the Application of Linear Programming Methods For Multi-Camera Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We presented a separation based optimization algorithm which, rather than optimization the entire variables altogether, This would allow us to employ: 1) a class of nonlinear functions with three variables and 2) a convex quadratic multivariable polynomial, for minimization of reprojection error. Neglecting the inversi...
computer science
25,888
Tracking Objects with Higher Order Interactions using Delayed Column Generation
cs.CV
We study the problem of multi-target tracking and data association in video. We formulate this in terms of selecting a subset of high-quality tracks subject to the constraint that no pair of selected tracks is associated with a common detection (of an object). This objective is equivalent to the classic NP-hard problem...
computer science
25,889
Fine-grained Image Classification by Exploring Bipartite-Graph Labels
cs.CV
Given a food image, can a fine-grained object recognition engine tell "which restaurant which dish" the food belongs to? Such ultra-fine grained image recognition is the key for many applications like search by images, but it is very challenging because it needs to discern subtle difference between classes while dealin...
computer science
25,890
Embedding Label Structures for Fine-Grained Feature Representation
cs.CV
Recent algorithms in convolutional neural networks (CNN) considerably advance the fine-grained image classification, which aims to differentiate subtle differences among subordinate classes. However, previous studies have rarely focused on learning a fined-grained and structured feature representation that is able to l...
computer science
25,891
Video captioning with recurrent networks based on frame- and video-level features and visual content classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we describe the system for generating textual descriptions of short video clips using recurrent neural networks (RNN), which we used while participating in the Large Scale Movie Description Challenge 2015 in ICCV 2015. Our work builds on static image captioning systems with RNN based language models and ...
computer science
25,892
Minimally Supervised Feature Selection for Classification (Master's Thesis, University Politehnica of Bucharest)
cs.CV
In the context of the highly increasing number of features that are available nowadays we design a robust and fast method for feature selection. The method tries to select the most representative features that are independent from each other, but are strong together. We propose an algorithm that requires very limited l...
computer science
25,893
Deep Learning Algorithms with Applications to Video Analytics for A Smart City: A Survey
cs.CV
Deep learning has recently achieved very promising results in a wide range of areas such as computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. It aims to learn hierarchical representations of data by using deep architecture models. In a smart city, a lot of data (e.g. videos captured from many distrib...
computer science
25,894
Enhanced image feature coverage: Key-point selection using genetic algorithms
cs.CV
Coverage of image features play an important role in many vision algorithms since their distribution affect the estimated homography. This paper presents a Genetic Algorithm (GA) in order to select the optimal set of features yielding maximum coverage of the image which is measured by a robust method based on spatial s...
computer science
25,895
3D Reconstruction of Crime Scenes and Design Considerations for an Interactive Investigation Tool
cs.CV
Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) is a carefully planned systematic process with the purpose of acquiring physical evidences to shed light upon the physical reality of the crime and eventually detect the identity of the criminal. Capturing images and videos of the crime scene is an important part of this process in order...
computer science
25,896
VRFP: On-the-fly Video Retrieval using Web Images and Fast Fisher Vector Products
cs.CV
VRFP is a real-time video retrieval framework based on short text input queries, which obtains weakly labeled training images from the web after the query is known. The retrieved web images representing the query and each database video are treated as unordered collections of images, and each collection is represented ...
computer science
25,897
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
cs.CV
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced...
computer science
25,898
Evaluation of Object Detection Proposals Under Condition Variations
cs.CV
Object detection is a fundamental task in many computer vision applications, therefore the importance of evaluating the quality of object detection is well acknowledged in this domain. This process gives insight into the capabilities of methods in handling environmental changes. In this paper, a new method for object d...
computer science
25,899
Randomized Low-Rank Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Motion Detection
cs.CV
This paper introduces a fast algorithm for randomized computation of a low-rank Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) of a matrix. Here we consider this matrix to represent the development of a spatial grid through time e.g. data from a static video source. DMD was originally introduced in the fluid mechanics community, but...
computer science
25,900
Robust Dictionary based Data Representation
cs.CV
The robustness to noise and outliers is an important issue in linear representation in real applications. We focus on the problem that samples are grossly corrupted, which is also the 'sample specific' corruptions problem. A reasonable assumption is that corrupted samples cannot be represented by the dictionary while c...
computer science
25,901
Deep Feature Learning with Relative Distance Comparison for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Identifying the same individual across different scenes is an important yet difficult task in intelligent video surveillance. Its main difficulty lies in how to preserve similarity of the same person against large appearance and structure variation while discriminating different individuals. In this paper, we present a...
computer science