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A New Approach of Gray Images Binarization with Threshold Methods
cs.CV
The paper presents some aspects of the (gray level) image binarization methods used in artificial vision systems. It is introduced a new approach of gray level image binarization for artificial vision systems dedicated to industrial automation temporal thresholding. In the first part of the paper are extracted some lim...
computer science
25,903
Improving Human Activity Recognition Through Ranking and Re-ranking
cs.CV
We propose two well-motivated ranking-based methods to enhance the performance of current state-of-the-art human activity recognition systems. First, as an improvement over the classic power normalization method, we propose a parameter-free ranking technique called rank normalization (RaN). RaN normalizes each dimensio...
computer science
25,904
RNN Fisher Vectors for Action Recognition and Image Annotation
cs.CV
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have had considerable success in classifying and predicting sequences. We demonstrate that RNNs can be effectively used in order to encode sequences and provide effective representations. The methodology we use is based on Fisher Vectors, where the RNNs are the generative probabilistic ...
computer science
25,905
Action Recognition with Image Based CNN Features
cs.CV
Most of human actions consist of complex temporal compositions of more simple actions. Action recognition tasks usually relies on complex handcrafted structures as features to represent the human action model. Convolutional Neural Nets (CNN) have shown to be a powerful tool that eliminate the need for designing handcra...
computer science
25,906
Deep Tracking: Visual Tracking Using Deep Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we study a discriminatively trained deep convolutional network for the task of visual tracking. Our tracker utilizes both motion and appearance features that are extracted from a pre-trained dual stream deep convolution network. We show that the features extracted from our dual-stream network can provide...
computer science
25,907
Cross-dimensional Weighting for Aggregated Deep Convolutional Features
cs.CV
We propose a simple and straightforward way of creating powerful image representations via cross-dimensional weighting and aggregation of deep convolutional neural network layer outputs. We first present a generalized framework that encompasses a broad family of approaches and includes cross-dimensional pooling and wei...
computer science
25,908
Learning the Correction for Multi-Path Deviations in Time-of-Flight Cameras
cs.CV
The Multipath effect in Time-of-Flight(ToF) cameras still remains to be a challenging problem that hinders further processing of 3D data information. Based on the evidence from previous literature, we explored the possibility of using machine learning techniques to correct this effect. Firstly, we created two new datas...
computer science
25,909
Deep Learning-Based Image Kernel for Inductive Transfer
cs.CV
We propose a method to classify images from target classes with a small number of training examples based on transfer learning from non-target classes. Without using any more information than class labels for samples from non-target classes, we train a Siamese net to estimate the probability of two images to belong to ...
computer science
25,910
Deep Relative Attributes
cs.CV
Visual attributes are great means of describing images or scenes, in a way both humans and computers understand. In order to establish a correspondence between images and to be able to compare the strength of each property between images, relative attributes were introduced. However, since their introduction, hand-craf...
computer science
25,911
Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation of Repetitive Human Actions Based on Kinematic Modeling and Frequency Analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a method for temporal segmentation of human repetitive actions based on frequency analysis of kinematic parameters, zero-velocity crossing detection, and adaptive k-means clustering. Since the human motion data may be captured with different modalities which have different temporal sampling ra...
computer science
25,912
Articulated Pose Estimation Using Hierarchical Exemplar-Based Models
cs.CV
Exemplar-based models have achieved great success on localizing the parts of semi-rigid objects. However, their efficacy on highly articulated objects such as humans is yet to be explored. Inspired by hierarchical object representation and recent application of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) on human pose e...
computer science
25,913
Inside-Outside Net: Detecting Objects in Context with Skip Pooling and Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
It is well known that contextual and multi-scale representations are important for accurate visual recognition. In this paper we present the Inside-Outside Net (ION), an object detector that exploits information both inside and outside the region of interest. Contextual information outside the region of interest is int...
computer science
25,914
Learning Deep Features for Discriminative Localization
cs.CV
In this work, we revisit the global average pooling layer proposed in [13], and shed light on how it explicitly enables the convolutional neural network to have remarkable localization ability despite being trained on image-level labels. While this technique was previously proposed as a means for regularizing training,...
computer science
25,915
Compressed Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Background Modeling
cs.CV
We introduce the method of compressed dynamic mode decomposition (cDMD) for background modeling. The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a regression technique that integrates two of the leading data analysis methods in use today: Fourier transforms and singular value decomposition. Borrowing ideas from compressed sens...
computer science
25,916
On the Relation between two Rotation Metrics
cs.CV
In their work "Global Optimization through Rotation Space Search", Richard Hartley and Fredrik Kahl introduce a global optimization strategy for problems in geometric computer vision, based on rotation space search using a branch-and-bound algorithm. In its core, Lemma 2 of their publication is the important foundation...
computer science
25,917
Instance-aware Semantic Segmentation via Multi-task Network Cascades
cs.CV
Semantic segmentation research has recently witnessed rapid progress, but many leading methods are unable to identify object instances. In this paper, we present Multi-task Network Cascades for instance-aware semantic segmentation. Our model consists of three networks, respectively differentiating instances, estimating...
computer science
25,918
Sparse Representation of a Blur Kernel for Blind Image Restoration
cs.CV
Blind image restoration is a non-convex problem which involves restoration of images from an unknown blur kernel. The factors affecting the performance of this restoration are how much prior information about an image and a blur kernel are provided and what algorithm is used to perform the restoration task. Prior infor...
computer science
25,919
Semantic-enriched Visual Vocabulary Construction in a Weakly Supervised Context
cs.CV
One of the prevalent learning tasks involving images is content-based image classification. This is a difficult task especially because the low-level features used to digitally describe images usually capture little information about the semantics of the images. In this paper, we tackle this difficulty by enriching the...
computer science
25,920
Context Driven Label Fusion for segmentation of Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat in CT Volumes
cs.CV
Quantification of adipose tissue (fat) from computed tomography (CT) scans is conducted mostly through manual or semi-automated image segmentation algorithms with limited efficacy. In this work, we propose a completely unsupervised and automatic method to identify adipose tissue, and then separate Subcutaneous Adipose ...
computer science
25,921
Fine-grained Categorization and Dataset Bootstrapping using Deep Metric Learning with Humans in the Loop
cs.CV
Existing fine-grained visual categorization methods often suffer from three challenges: lack of training data, large number of fine-grained categories, and high intraclass vs. low inter-class variance. In this work we propose a generic iterative framework for fine-grained categorization and dataset bootstrapping that h...
computer science
25,922
Shape and Spatially-Varying Reflectance Estimation From Virtual Exemplars
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of estimating the shape of objects that exhibit spatially-varying reflectance. We assume that multiple images of the object are obtained under a fixed view-point and varying illumination, i.e., the setting of photometric stereo. At the core of our techniques is the assumption that the B...
computer science
25,923
Multiregion Bilinear Convolutional Neural Networks for Person Re-Identification
cs.CV
In this work we propose a new architecture for person re-identification. As the task of re-identification is inherently associated with embedding learning and non-rigid appearance description, our architecture is based on the deep bilinear convolutional network (Bilinear-CNN) that has been proposed recently for fine-gr...
computer science
25,924
Numerical Demultiplexing of Color Image Sensor Measurements via Non-linear Random Forest Modeling
cs.CV
The simultaneous capture of imaging data at multiple wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum is highly challenging, requiring complex and costly multispectral image sensors. In this study, we introduce a comprehensive framework for performing simultaneous multispectral imaging using conventional image sensors w...
computer science
25,925
Large Scale Business Discovery from Street Level Imagery
cs.CV
Search with local intent is becoming increasingly useful due to the popularity of the mobile device. The creation and maintenance of accurate listings of local businesses worldwide is time consuming and expensive. In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically discover businesses that are visible on street leve...
computer science
25,926
Reconstruction of Enhanced Ultrasound Images From Compressed Measurements Using Simultaneous Direction Method of Multipliers
cs.CV
High resolution ultrasound image reconstruction from a reduced number of measurements is of great interest in ultrasound imaging, since it could enhance both the frame rate and image resolution. Compressive deconvolution, combining compressed sensing and image deconvolution, represents an interesting possibility to con...
computer science
25,927
Effects of GIMP Retinex Filtering Evaluated by the Image Entropy
cs.CV
A GIMP Retinex filtering can be used for enhancing images, with good results on foggy images, as recently discussed. Since this filter has some parameters that can be adjusted to optimize the output image, several approaches can be decided according to desired results. Here, as a criterion for optimizing the filtering ...
computer science
25,928
Deformable Distributed Multiple Detector Fusion for Multi-Person Tracking
cs.CV
This paper addresses fully automated multi-person tracking in complex environments with challenging occlusion and extensive pose variations. Our solution combines multiple detectors for a set of different regions of interest (e.g., full-body and head) for multi-person tracking. The use of multiple detectors leads to fe...
computer science
25,929
Face Hallucination using Linear Models of Coupled Sparse Support
cs.CV
Most face super-resolution methods assume that low-resolution and high-resolution manifolds have similar local geometrical structure, hence learn local models on the lowresolution manifolds (e.g. sparse or locally linear embedding models), which are then applied on the high-resolution manifold. However, the low-resolut...
computer science
25,930
Multiclass Classification of Cervical Cancer Tissues by Hidden Markov Model
cs.CV
In this paper, we report a hidden Markov model based multiclass classification of cervical cancer tissues. This model has been validated directly over time series generated by the medium refractive index fluctuations extracted from differential interference contrast images of healthy and different stages of cancer tiss...
computer science
25,931
Modeling Colors of Single Attribute Variations with Application to Food Appearance
cs.CV
This paper considers the intra-image color-space of an object or a scene when these are subject to a dominant single-source of variation. The source of variation can be intrinsic or extrinsic (i.e., imaging conditions) to the object. We observe that the quantized colors for such objects typically lie on a planar subspa...
computer science
25,932
Combining patch-based strategies and non-rigid registration-based label fusion methods
cs.CV
The objective of this study is to develop a patch-based labeling method that cooperates with a label fusion using non-rigid registrations. We present a novel patch-based label fusion method, whose selected patches and their weights are calculated from a combination of similarity measures between patches using intensity...
computer science
25,933
Multistage SFM: A Coarse-to-Fine Approach for 3D Reconstruction
cs.CV
Several methods have been proposed for large-scale 3D reconstruction from large, unorganized image collections. A large reconstruction problem is typically divided into multiple components which are reconstructed independently using structure from motion (SFM) and later merged together. Incremental SFM methods are most...
computer science
25,934
Neutro-Connectedness Cut
cs.CV
Interactive image segmentation is a challenging task and receives increasing attention recently; however, two major drawbacks exist in interactive segmentation approaches. First, the segmentation performance of ROI-based methods is sensitive to the initial ROI: different ROIs may produce results with great difference. ...
computer science
25,935
Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated impressive performance in various computer vision tasks. However, high performance hardware is typically indispensable for the application of CNN models due to the high computation complexity, which prohibits their further extensions. In this paper, we pro...
computer science
25,936
Harnessing the Deep Net Object Models for Enhancing Human Action Recognition
cs.CV
In this study, the influence of objects is investigated in the scenario of human action recognition with large number of classes. We hypothesize that the objects the humans are interacting will have good say in determining the action being performed. Especially, if the objects are non-moving, such as objects appearing ...
computer science
25,937
Spatial Phase-Sweep: Increasing temporal resolution of transient imaging using a light source array
cs.CV
Transient imaging or light-in-flight techniques capture the propagation of an ultra-short pulse of light through a scene, which in effect captures the optical impulse response of the scene. Recently, it has been shown that we can capture transient images using commercially available Time-of-Flight (ToF) systems such as...
computer science
25,938
Analysis of Vessel Connectivities in Retinal Images by Cortically Inspired Spectral Clustering
cs.CV
Retinal images provide early signs of diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and hypertension. These signs can be investigated based on microaneurysms or smaller vessels. The diagnostic biomarkers are the change of vessel widths and angles especially at junctions, which are investigated using the vessel segmentation or tracki...
computer science
25,939
Local and global gestalt laws: A neurally based spectral approach
cs.CV
A mathematical model of figure-ground articulation is presented, taking into account both local and global gestalt laws. The model is compatible with the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex (V1). Particularly the local gestalt law of good continuity is described by means of suitable connectivity kernel...
computer science
25,940
Sparse Coding with Fast Image Alignment via Large Displacement Optical Flow
cs.CV
Sparse representation-based classifiers have shown outstanding accuracy and robustness in image classification tasks even with the presence of intense noise and occlusion. However, it has been discovered that the performance degrades significantly either when test image is not aligned with the dictionary atoms or the d...
computer science
25,941
Instance-Level Segmentation for Autonomous Driving with Deep Densely Connected MRFs
cs.CV
Our aim is to provide a pixel-wise instance-level labeling of a monocular image in the context of autonomous driving. We build on recent work [Zhang et al., ICCV15] that trained a convolutional neural net to predict instance labeling in local image patches, extracted exhaustively in a stride from an image. A simple Mar...
computer science
25,942
Car Segmentation and Pose Estimation using 3D Object Models
cs.CV
Image segmentation and 3D pose estimation are two key cogs in any algorithm for scene understanding. However, state-of-the-art CRF-based models for image segmentation rely mostly on 2D object models to construct top-down high-order potentials. In this paper, we propose new top-down potentials for image segmentation and...
computer science
25,943
Transformed Residual Quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
cs.CV
The success of product quantization (PQ) for fast nearest neighbor search depends on the exponentially reduced complexities of both storage and computation with respect to the codebook size. Recent efforts have been focused on employing sophisticated optimization strategies, or seeking more effective models. Residual q...
computer science
25,944
Multi-Instance Visual-Semantic Embedding
cs.CV
Visual-semantic embedding models have been recently proposed and shown to be effective for image classification and zero-shot learning, by mapping images into a continuous semantic label space. Although several approaches have been proposed for single-label embedding tasks, handling images with multiple labels (which i...
computer science
25,945
Seeing through the Human Reporting Bias: Visual Classifiers from Noisy Human-Centric Labels
cs.CV
When human annotators are given a choice about what to label in an image, they apply their own subjective judgments on what to ignore and what to mention. We refer to these noisy "human-centric" annotations as exhibiting human reporting bias. Examples of such annotations include image tags and keywords found on photo s...
computer science
25,946
Deep Learning with S-shaped Rectified Linear Activation Units
cs.CV
Rectified linear activation units are important components for state-of-the-art deep convolutional networks. In this paper, we propose a novel S-shaped rectified linear activation unit (SReLU) to learn both convex and non-convex functions, imitating the multiple function forms given by the two fundamental laws, namely ...
computer science
25,947
Cost-based Feature Transfer for Vehicle Occupant Classification
cs.CV
Knowledge of human presence and interaction in a vehicle is of growing interest to vehicle manufacturers for design and safety purposes. We present a framework to perform the tasks of occupant detection and occupant classification for automatic child locks and airbag suppression. It operates for all passenger seats, us...
computer science
25,948
Do Less and Achieve More: Training CNNs for Action Recognition Utilizing Action Images from the Web
cs.CV
Recently, attempts have been made to collect millions of videos to train CNN models for action recognition in videos. However, curating such large-scale video datasets requires immense human labor, and training CNNs on millions of videos demands huge computational resources. In contrast, collecting action images from t...
computer science
25,949
Mid-level Representation for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
Visual Recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in AI, where the goal is to understand the semantics of visual data. Employing mid-level representation, in particular, shifted the paradigm in visual recognition. The mid-level image/video representation involves discovering and training a set of mid-level visual...
computer science
25,950
Convolutional Architecture Exploration for Action Recognition and Image Classification
cs.CV
Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Encoding (CAFFE) [11] is a software package for the training, classifying, and feature extraction of images. The UCF Sports Action dataset is a widely used machine learning dataset that has 200 videos taken in 720x480 resolution of 9 different sporting activities: diving, gol...
computer science
25,951
Recovering 6D Object Pose and Predicting Next-Best-View in the Crowd
cs.CV
Object detection and 6D pose estimation in the crowd (scenes with multiple object instances, severe foreground occlusions and background distractors), has become an important problem in many rapidly evolving technological areas such as robotics and augmented reality. Single shot-based 6D pose estimators with manually d...
computer science
25,952
Adaptive Object Detection Using Adjacency and Zoom Prediction
cs.CV
State-of-the-art object detection systems rely on an accurate set of region proposals. Several recent methods use a neural network architecture to hypothesize promising object locations. While these approaches are computationally efficient, they rely on fixed image regions as anchors for predictions. In this paper we p...
computer science
25,953
Fast Acquisition for Quantitative MRI Maps: Sparse Recovery from Non-linear Measurements
cs.CV
This work addresses the problem of estimating proton density and T1 maps from two partially sampled K-space scans such that the total acquisition time remains approximately the same as a single scan. Existing multi parametric non linear curve fitting techniques require a large number (8 or more) of echoes to estimate t...
computer science
25,954
G-CNN: an Iterative Grid Based Object Detector
cs.CV
We introduce G-CNN, an object detection technique based on CNNs which works without proposal algorithms. G-CNN starts with a multi-scale grid of fixed bounding boxes. We train a regressor to move and scale elements of the grid towards objects iteratively. G-CNN models the problem of object detection as finding a path f...
computer science
25,955
Truncated Max-of-Convex Models
cs.CV
Truncated convex models (TCM) are a special case of pairwise random fields that have been widely used in computer vision. However, by restricting the order of the potentials to be at most two, they fail to capture useful image statistics. We propose a natural generalization of TCM to high-order random fields, which we ...
computer science
25,956
Learning Transferrable Knowledge for Semantic Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
We propose a novel weakly-supervised semantic segmentation algorithm based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN). Contrary to existing weakly-supervised approaches, our algorithm exploits auxiliary segmentation annotations available for different categories to guide segmentations on images with only image-level c...
computer science
25,957
A Combined Deep-Learning and Deformable-Model Approach to Fully Automatic Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Cardiac MRI
cs.CV
Segmentation of the left ventricle (LV) from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets is an essential step for calculation of clinical indices such as ventricular volume and ejection fraction. In this work, we employ deep learning algorithms combined with deformable models to develop and evaluate a fully autom...
computer science
25,958
Assessment of texture measures susceptibility to noise in conventional and contrast enhanced computed tomography lung tumour images
cs.CV
Noise is one of the major problems that hinder an effective texture analysis of disease in medical images, which may cause variability in the reported diagnosis. In this paper seven texture measurement methods (two wavelet, two model and three statistical based) were applied to investigate their susceptibility to subtl...
computer science
25,959
Texture measures combination for improved meningioma classification of histopathological images
cs.CV
Providing an improved technique which can assist pathologists in correctly classifying meningioma tumours with a significant accuracy is our main objective. The proposed technique, which is based on optimum texture measure combination, inspects the separability of the RGB colour channels and selects the channel which b...
computer science
25,960
A Multiresolution Clinical Decision Support System Based on Fractal Model Design for Classification of Histological Brain Tumours
cs.CV
Tissue texture is known to exhibit a heterogeneous or non-stationary nature, therefore using a single resolution approach for optimum classification might not suffice. A clinical decision support system that exploits the subband textural fractal characteristics for best bases selection of meningioma brain histopatholog...
computer science
25,961
Part-Stacked CNN for Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
cs.CV
In the context of fine-grained visual categorization, the ability to interpret models as human-understandable visual manuals is sometimes as important as achieving high classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel Part-Stacked CNN architecture that explicitly explains the fine-grained recognition process ...
computer science
25,962
Data Driven Robust Image Guided Depth Map Restoration
cs.CV
Depth maps captured by modern depth cameras such as Kinect and Time-of-Flight (ToF) are usually contaminated by missing data, noises and suffer from being of low resolution. In this paper, we present a robust method for high-quality restoration of a degraded depth map with the guidance of the corresponding color image....
computer science
25,963
Improving Facial Analysis and Performance Driven Animation through Disentangling Identity and Expression
cs.CV
We present techniques for improving performance driven facial animation, emotion recognition, and facial key-point or landmark prediction using learned identity invariant representations. Established approaches to these problems can work well if sufficient examples and labels for a particular identity are available and...
computer science
25,964
Outlier Detection In Large-scale Traffic Data By Naïve Bayes Method and Gaussian Mixture Model Method
cs.CV
It is meaningful to detect outliers in traffic data for traffic management. However, this is a massive task for people from large-scale database to distinguish outliers. In this paper, we present two methods: Kernel Smoothing Na\"ive Bayes (NB) method and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) method to automatically detect any ...
computer science
25,965
Graph entropies in texture segmentation of images
cs.CV
We study the applicability of a set of texture descriptors introduced in recent work by the author to texture-based segmentation of images. The texture descriptors under investigation result from applying graph indices from quantitative graph theory to graphs encoding the local structure of images. The underlying graph...
computer science
25,966
MRF-Based Multispectral Image Fusion Using an Adaptive Approach Based on Edge-Guided Interpolation
cs.CV
In interpretation of remote sensing images, it is possible that some images which are supplied by different sensors become understandable. For better visual perception of these images, it is essential to operate series of pre-processing and elementary corrections and then operate a series of main processing steps for m...
computer science
25,967
A framework for robust object multi-detection with a vote aggregation and a cascade filtering
cs.CV
This paper presents a framework designed for the multi-object detection purposes and adjusted for the application of product search on the market shelves. The framework uses a single feedback loop and a pattern resizing mechanism to demonstrate the top effectiveness of the state-of-the-art local features. A high detect...
computer science
25,968
Robust Scene Text Recognition Using Sparse Coding based Features
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an effective scene text recognition method using sparse coding based features, called Histograms of Sparse Codes (HSC) features. For character detection, we use the HSC features instead of using the Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features. The HSC features are extracted by computing sp...
computer science
25,969
Combined statistical and model based texture features for improved image classification
cs.CV
This paper aims to improve the accuracy of texture classification based on extracting texture features using five different texture methods and classifying the patterns using a naive Bayesian classifier. Three statistical-based and two model-based methods are used to extract texture features from eight different textur...
computer science
25,970
Actor-Action Semantic Segmentation with Grouping Process Models
cs.CV
Actor-action semantic segmentation made an important step toward advanced video understanding problems: what action is happening; who is performing the action; and where is the action in space-time. Current models for this problem are local, based on layered CRFs, and are unable to capture long-ranging interaction of v...
computer science
25,971
LIBSVX: A Supervoxel Library and Benchmark for Early Video Processing
cs.CV
Supervoxel segmentation has strong potential to be incorporated into early video analysis as superpixel segmentation has in image analysis. However, there are many plausible supervoxel methods and little understanding as to when and where each is most appropriate. Indeed, we are not aware of a single comparative study ...
computer science
25,972
Exploiting Local Structures with the Kronecker Layer in Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose and study a technique to reduce the number of parameters and computation time in convolutional neural networks. We use Kronecker product to exploit the local structures within convolution and fully-connected layers, by replacing the large weight matrices by combinations of multiple Kronecker p...
computer science
25,973
Learning Local Image Descriptors with Deep Siamese and Triplet Convolutional Networks by Minimising Global Loss Functions
cs.CV
Recent innovations in training deep convolutional neural network (ConvNet) models have motivated the design of new methods to automatically learn local image descriptors. The latest deep ConvNets proposed for this task consist of a siamese network that is trained by penalising misclassification of pairs of local image ...
computer science
25,974
Event Specific Multimodal Pattern Mining with Image-Caption Pairs
cs.CV
In this paper we describe a novel framework and algorithms for discovering image patch patterns from a large corpus of weakly supervised image-caption pairs generated from news events. Current pattern mining techniques attempt to find patterns that are representative and discriminative, we stipulate that our discovered...
computer science
25,975
Understanding Symmetric Smoothing Filters: A Gaussian Mixture Model Perspective
cs.CV
Many patch-based image denoising algorithms can be formulated as applying a smoothing filter to the noisy image. Expressed as matrices, the smoothing filters must be row normalized so that each row sums to unity. Surprisingly, if we apply a column normalization before the row normalization, the performance of the smoot...
computer science
25,976
Discriminative Sparsity for Sonar ATR
cs.CV
Advancements in Sonar image capture have enabled researchers to apply sophisticated object identification algorithms in order to locate targets of interest in images such as mines. Despite progress in this field, modern sonar automatic target recognition (ATR) approaches lack robustness to the amount of noise one would...
computer science
25,977
Tensor Sparse and Low-Rank based Submodule Clustering Method for Multi-way Data
cs.CV
A new submodule clustering method via sparse and low-rank representation for multi-way data is proposed in this paper. Instead of reshaping multi-way data into vectors, this method maintains their natural orders to preserve data intrinsic structures, e.g., image data kept as matrices. To implement clustering, the multi...
computer science
25,978
A Unified Framework for Compositional Fitting of Active Appearance Models
cs.CV
Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are one of the most popular and well-established techniques for modeling deformable objects in computer vision. In this paper, we study the problem of fitting AAMs using Compositional Gradient Descent (CGD) algorithms. We present a unified and complete view of these algorithms and classi...
computer science
25,979
Susceptibility of texture measures to noise: an application to lung tumor CT images
cs.CV
Five different texture methods are used to investigate their susceptibility to subtle noise occurring in lung tumor Computed Tomography (CT) images caused by acquisition and reconstruction deficiencies. Noise of Gaussian and Rayleigh distributions with varying mean and variance was encountered in the analyzed CT images...
computer science
25,980
A fractal dimension based optimal wavelet packet analysis technique for classification of meningioma brain tumours
cs.CV
With the heterogeneous nature of tissue texture, using a single resolution approach for optimum classification might not suffice. In contrast, a multiresolution wavelet packet analysis can decompose the input signal into a set of frequency subbands giving the opportunity to characterise the texture at the appropriate f...
computer science
25,981
Supervised Texture Segmentation: A Comparative Study
cs.CV
This paper aims to compare between four different types of feature extraction approaches in terms of texture segmentation. The feature extraction methods that were used for segmentation are Gabor filters (GF), Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRF), run-length matrix (RLM) and co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). It was shown th...
computer science
25,982
Image Resolution Enhancement by Using Interpolation Followed by Iterative Back Projection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new super resolution technique based on the interpolation followed by registering them using iterative back projection (IBP). Low resolution images are being interpolated and then the interpolated images are being registered in order to generate a sharper high resolution image. The proposed ...
computer science
25,983
Automatic Detection and Decoding of Photogrammetric Coded Targets
cs.CV
Close-range Photogrammetry is widely used in many industries because of the cost effectiveness and efficiency of the technique. In this research, we introduce an automated coded target detection method which can be used to enhance the efficiency of the Photogrammetry.
computer science
25,984
Multi-task CNN Model for Attribute Prediction
cs.CV
This paper proposes a joint multi-task learning algorithm to better predict attributes in images using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). We consider learning binary semantic attributes through a multi-task CNN model, where each CNN will predict one binary attribute. The multi-task learning allows CNN models to ...
computer science
25,985
Kernel Sparse Subspace Clustering on Symmetric Positive Definite Manifolds
cs.CV
Sparse subspace clustering (SSC), as one of the most successful subspace clustering methods, has achieved notable clustering accuracy in computer vision tasks. However, SSC applies only to vector data in Euclidean space. As such, there is still no satisfactory approach to solve subspace clustering by ${\it self-express...
computer science
25,986
Matrix Variate RBM and Its Applications
cs.CV
Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is an importan- t generative model modeling vectorial data. While applying an RBM in practice to images, the data have to be vec- torized. This results in high-dimensional data and valu- able spatial information has got lost in vectorization. In this paper, a Matrix-Variate Restricted...
computer science
25,987
Robust Method of Vote Aggregation and Proposition Verification for Invariant Local Features
cs.CV
This paper presents a method for analysis of the vote space created from the local features extraction process in a multi-detection system. The method is opposed to the classic clustering approach and gives a high level of control over the clusters composition for further verification steps. Proposed method comprises o...
computer science
25,988
Gamifying Video Object Segmentation
cs.CV
Video object segmentation can be considered as one of the most challenging computer vision problems. Indeed, so far, no existing solution is able to effectively deal with the peculiarities of real-world videos, especially in cases of articulated motion and object occlusions; limitations that appear more evident when we...
computer science
25,989
Crater Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Craters are among the most studied geomorphic features in the Solar System because they yield important information about the past and present geological processes and provide information about the relative ages of observed geologic formations. We present a method for automatic crater detection using advanced machine l...
computer science
25,990
Space-Time Representation of People Based on 3D Skeletal Data: A Review
cs.CV
Spatiotemporal human representation based on 3D visual perception data is a rapidly growing research area. Based on the information sources, these representations can be broadly categorized into two groups based on RGB-D information or 3D skeleton data. Recently, skeleton-based human representations have been intensive...
computer science
25,991
Low-rank Matrix Factorization under General Mixture Noise Distributions
cs.CV
Many computer vision problems can be posed as learning a low-dimensional subspace from high dimensional data. The low rank matrix factorization (LRMF) represents a commonly utilized subspace learning strategy. Most of the current LRMF techniques are constructed on the optimization problems using L1-norm and L2-norm los...
computer science
25,992
Memory Matters: Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network for Scene Text Recognition
cs.CV
Text recognition in natural scene is a challenging problem due to the many factors affecting text appearance. In this paper, we presents a method that directly transcribes scene text images to text without needing of sophisticated character segmentation. We leverage recent advances of deep neural networks to model the ...
computer science
25,993
Image-based Vehicle Analysis using Deep Neural Network: A Systematic Study
cs.CV
We address the vehicle detection and classification problems using Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) approaches. Here we answer to questions that are specific to our application including how to utilize DNN for vehicle detection, what features are useful for vehicle classification, and how to extend a model trained on a limi...
computer science
25,994
Automatic 3D object detection of Proteins in Fluorescent labeled microscope images with spatial statistical analysis
cs.CV
Since manual object detection is very inaccurate and time consuming, some automatic object detection tools have been developed in recent years. At the moment, there is no image analysis software available which provides an automatic, objective assessment of 3D foci which is generally applicable. Complications arise fro...
computer science
25,995
Quality Adaptive Low-Rank Based JPEG Decoding with Applications
cs.CV
Small compression noises, despite being transparent to human eyes, can adversely affect the results of many image restoration processes, if left unaccounted for. Especially, compression noises are highly detrimental to inverse operators of high-boosting (sharpening) nature, such as deblurring and superresolution agains...
computer science
25,996
Stochastic Dykstra Algorithms for Metric Learning on Positive Semi-Definite Cone
cs.CV
Recently, covariance descriptors have received much attention as powerful representations of set of points. In this research, we present a new metric learning algorithm for covariance descriptors based on the Dykstra algorithm, in which the current solution is projected onto a half-space at each iteration, and runs at ...
computer science
25,997
Mixture of Bilateral-Projection Two-dimensional Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
The probabilistic principal component analysis (PPCA) is built upon a global linear mapping, with which it is insufficient to model complex data variation. This paper proposes a mixture of bilateral-projection probabilistic principal component analysis model (mixB2DPPCA) on 2D data. With multi-components in the mixture...
computer science
25,998
Block-Diagonal Sparse Representation by Learning a Linear Combination Dictionary for Recognition
cs.CV
In a sparse representation based recognition scheme, it is critical to learn a desired dictionary, aiming both good representational power and discriminative performance. In this paper, we propose a new dictionary learning model for recognition applications, in which three strategies are adopted to achieve these two ob...
computer science
25,999
On Some Properties of Calibrated Trifocal Tensors
cs.CV
In two-view geometry, the essential matrix describes the relative position and orientation of two calibrated images. In three views, a similar role is assigned to the calibrated trifocal tensor. It is a particular case of the (uncalibrated) trifocal tensor and thus it inherits all its properties but, due to the smaller...
computer science
26,000
Spontaneous Facial Micro-Expression Recognition using Discriminative Spatiotemporal Local Binary Pattern with an Improved Integral Projection
cs.CV
Recently, there are increasing interests in inferring mirco-expression from facial image sequences. Due to subtle facial movement of micro-expressions, feature extraction has become an important and critical issue for spontaneous facial micro-expression recognition. Recent works usually used spatiotemporal local binary...
computer science
26,001
Discriminatively Trained Latent Ordinal Model for Video Classification
cs.CV
We study the problem of video classification for facial analysis and human action recognition. We propose a novel weakly supervised learning method that models the video as a sequence of automatically mined, discriminative sub-events (eg. onset and offset phase for "smile", running and jumping for "highjump"). The prop...
computer science