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Learning Joint Representations of Videos and Sentences with Web Image Search
cs.CV
Our objective is video retrieval based on natural language queries. In addition, we consider the analogous problem of retrieving sentences or generating descriptions given an input video. Recent work has addressed the problem by embedding visual and textual inputs into a common space where semantic similarities correla...
computer science
26,003
A combined Approach Based on Fuzzy Classification and Contextual Region Growing to Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We present in this paper an image segmentation approach that combines a fuzzy semantic region classification and a context based region-growing. Input image is first over-segmented. Then, prior domain knowledge is used to perform a fuzzy classification of these regions to provide a fuzzy semantic labeling. This allows ...
computer science
26,004
Comparative study and enhancement of Camera Tampering Detection algorithms
cs.CV
Recently the use of video surveillance systems is widely increasing. Different places are equipped by camera surveillances such as hospitals, schools, airports, museums and military places in order to ensure the safety and security of the persons and their property. Therefore it becomes significant to guarantee the pro...
computer science
26,005
Database of handwritten Arabic mathematical formulas images
cs.CV
Although publicly available, ground-truthed database have proven useful for training, evaluating, and comparing recognition systems in many domains, the availability of such database for handwritten Arabic mathematical formula recognition in particular, is currently quite poor. In this paper, we present a new public da...
computer science
26,006
End-to-End Localization and Ranking for Relative Attributes
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end deep convolutional network to simultaneously localize and rank relative visual attributes, given only weakly-supervised pairwise image comparisons. Unlike previous methods, our network jointly learns the attribute's features, localization, and ranker. The localization module of our network disc...
computer science
26,007
Convolutional Oriented Boundaries
cs.CV
We present Convolutional Oriented Boundaries (COB), which produces multiscale oriented contours and region hierarchies starting from generic image classification Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). COB is computationally efficient, because it requires a single CNN forward pass for contour detection and it uses a nove...
computer science
26,008
Deep Convolution Networks for Compression Artifacts Reduction
cs.CV
Lossy compression introduces complex compression artifacts, particularly blocking artifacts, ringing effects and blurring. Existing algorithms either focus on removing blocking artifacts and produce blurred output, or restore sharpened images that are accompanied with ringing effects. Inspired by the success of deep co...
computer science
26,009
Camera Pose Estimation from Lines using Plücker Coordinates
cs.CV
Correspondences between 3D lines and their 2D images captured by a camera are often used to determine position and orientation of the camera in space. In this work, we propose a novel algebraic algorithm to estimate the camera pose. We parameterize 3D lines using Pl\"ucker coordinates that allow linear projection of th...
computer science
26,010
Residual Networks of Residual Networks: Multilevel Residual Networks
cs.CV
A residual-networks family with hundreds or even thousands of layers dominates major image recognition tasks, but building a network by simply stacking residual blocks inevitably limits its optimization ability. This paper proposes a novel residual-network architecture, Residual networks of Residual networks (RoR), to ...
computer science
26,011
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Microscopy-Based Point of Care Diagnostics
cs.CV
Point of care diagnostics using microscopy and computer vision methods have been applied to a number of practical problems, and are particularly relevant to low-income, high disease burden areas. However, this is subject to the limitations in sensitivity and specificity of the computer vision methods used. In general, ...
computer science
26,012
Fashion Landmark Detection in the Wild
cs.CV
Visual fashion analysis has attracted many attentions in the recent years. Previous work represented clothing regions by either bounding boxes or human joints. This work presents fashion landmark detection or fashion alignment, which is to predict the positions of functional key points defined on the fashion items, suc...
computer science
26,013
Object Detection, Tracking, and Motion Segmentation for Object-level Video Segmentation
cs.CV
We present an approach for object segmentation in videos that combines frame-level object detection with concepts from object tracking and motion segmentation. The approach extracts temporally consistent object tubes based on an off-the-shelf detector. Besides the class label for each tube, this provides a location pri...
computer science
26,014
3D Human Pose Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Networks with 2D Pose Information
cs.CV
While there has been a success in 2D human pose estimation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), 3D human pose estimation has not been thoroughly studied. In this paper, we tackle the 3D human pose estimation task with end-to-end learning using CNNs. Relative 3D positions between one joint and the other joints are...
computer science
26,015
DeepCAMP: Deep Convolutional Action & Attribute Mid-Level Patterns
cs.CV
The recognition of human actions and the determination of human attributes are two tasks that call for fine-grained classification. Indeed, often rather small and inconspicuous objects and features have to be detected to tell their classes apart. In order to deal with this challenge, we propose a novel convolutional ne...
computer science
26,016
Gaze2Segment: A Pilot Study for Integrating Eye-Tracking Technology into Medical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
This study introduced a novel system, called Gaze2Segment, integrating biological and computer vision techniques to support radiologists' reading experience with an automatic image segmentation task. During diagnostic assessment of lung CT scans, the radiologists' gaze information were used to create a visual attention...
computer science
26,017
Fractional Calculus In Image Processing: A Review
cs.CV
Over the last decade, it has been demonstrated that many systems in science and engineering can be modeled more accurately by fractional-order than integer-order derivatives, and many methods are developed to solve the problem of fractional systems. Due to the extra free parameter order, fractional-order based methods ...
computer science
26,018
Approximate search with quantized sparse representations
cs.CV
This paper tackles the task of storing a large collection of vectors, such as visual descriptors, and of searching in it. To this end, we propose to approximate database vectors by constrained sparse coding, where possible atom weights are restricted to belong to a finite subset. This formulation encompasses, as partic...
computer science
26,019
Enabling My Robot To Play Pictionary : Recurrent Neural Networks For Sketch Recognition
cs.CV
Freehand sketching is an inherently sequential process. Yet, most approaches for hand-drawn sketch recognition either ignore this sequential aspect or exploit it in an ad-hoc manner. In our work, we propose a recurrent neural network architecture for sketch object recognition which exploits the long-term sequential and...
computer science
26,020
Automatic text extraction and character segmentation using maximally stable extremal regions
cs.CV
Text detection and segmentation is an important prerequisite for many content based image analysis tasks. The paper proposes a novel text extraction and character segmentation algorithm using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions as basic letter candidates. These regions are then subjected to thresholding and thereafter va...
computer science
26,021
Solving Visual Madlibs with Multiple Cues
cs.CV
This paper focuses on answering fill-in-the-blank style multiple choice questions from the Visual Madlibs dataset. Previous approaches to Visual Question Answering (VQA) have mainly used generic image features from networks trained on the ImageNet dataset, despite the wide scope of questions. In contrast, our approach ...
computer science
26,022
Recurrent Neural Networks to Correct Satellite Image Classification Maps
cs.CV
While initially devised for image categorization, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are being increasingly used for the pixelwise semantic labeling of images. However, the proper nature of the most common CNN architectures makes them good at recognizing but poor at localizing objects precisely. This problem is magni...
computer science
26,023
Learning Dynamic Hierarchical Models for Anytime Scene Labeling
cs.CV
With increasing demand for efficient image and video analysis, test-time cost of scene parsing becomes critical for many large-scale or time-sensitive vision applications. We propose a dynamic hierarchical model for anytime scene labeling that allows us to achieve flexible trade-offs between efficiency and accuracy in ...
computer science
26,024
Clockwork Convnets for Video Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in still-image segmentation; however the na\"ive application of these state-of-the-art algorithms to every video frame requires considerable computation and ignores the temporal continuity inherent in video. We propose a video recognition framework that relies on two key obser...
computer science
26,025
Automatic detection of moving objects in video surveillance
cs.CV
This work is in the field of video surveillance including motion detection. The video surveillance is one of essential techniques for automatic video analysis to extract crucial information or relevant scenes in video surveillance systems. The aim of our work is to propose solutions for the automatic detection of movin...
computer science
26,026
Deep Hashing: A Joint Approach for Image Signature Learning
cs.CV
Similarity-based image hashing represents crucial technique for visual data storage reduction and expedited image search. Conventional hashing schemes typically feed hand-crafted features into hash functions, which separates the procedures of feature extraction and hash function learning. In this paper, we propose a no...
computer science
26,027
Reasoning and Algorithm Selection Augmented Symbolic Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper we present an alternative method to symbolic segmentation: we approach symbolic segmentation as an algorithm selection problem. That is, let there be a set A of available algorithms for symbolic segmentation, a set of input features $F$, a set of image attribute $\mathbb{A}$ and a selection mechanism $S(F...
computer science
26,028
Self-paced Learning for Weakly Supervised Evidence Discovery in Multimedia Event Search
cs.CV
Multimedia event detection has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Besides recognizing an event, the discovery of evidences (which is refered to as "recounting") is also crucial for user to better understand the searching result. Due to the difficulty of evidence annotation, only limited supervision of...
computer science
26,029
Beyond Correlation Filters: Learning Continuous Convolution Operators for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) have demonstrated excellent performance for visual object tracking. The key to their success is the ability to efficiently exploit available negative data by including all shifted versions of a training sample. However, the underlying DCF formulation is restricted to single-reso...
computer science
26,030
DeepDiary: Automatic Caption Generation for Lifelogging Image Streams
cs.CV
Lifelogging cameras capture everyday life from a first-person perspective, but generate so much data that it is hard for users to browse and organize their image collections effectively. In this paper, we propose to use automatic image captioning algorithms to generate textual representations of these collections. We d...
computer science
26,031
On Minimal Accuracy Algorithm Selection in Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems
cs.CV
In this paper we discuss certain theoretical properties of algorithm selection approach to image processing and to intelligent system in general. We analyze the theoretical limits of algorithm selection with respect to the algorithm selection accuracy. We show the theoretical formulation of a crisp bound on the algorit...
computer science
26,032
Temporal Registration in In-Utero Volumetric MRI Time Series
cs.CV
We present a robust method to correct for motion and deformations for in-utero volumetric MRI time series. Spatio-temporal analysis of dynamic MRI requires robust alignment across time in the presence of substantial and unpredictable motion. We make a Markov assumption on the nature of deformations to take advantage of...
computer science
26,033
When was that made?
cs.CV
In this paper, we explore deep learning methods for estimating when objects were made. Automatic methods for this task could potentially be useful for historians, collectors, or any individual interested in estimating when their artifact was created. Direct applications include large-scale data organization or retrieva...
computer science
26,034
Human Pose Estimation from Depth Images via Inference Embedded Multi-task Learning
cs.CV
Human pose estimation (i.e., locating the body parts / joints of a person) is a fundamental problem in human-computer interaction and multimedia applications. Significant progress has been made based on the development of depth sensors, i.e., accessible human pose prediction from still depth images [32]. However, most ...
computer science
26,035
Beyond a Gaussian Denoiser: Residual Learning of Deep CNN for Image Denoising
cs.CV
Discriminative model learning for image denoising has been recently attracting considerable attentions due to its favorable denoising performance. In this paper, we take one step forward by investigating the construction of feed-forward denoising convolutional neural networks (DnCNNs) to embrace the progress in very de...
computer science
26,036
Branching Gaussian Processes with Applications to Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of 3D Trees
cs.CV
We propose a robust method for estimating dynamic 3D curvilinear branching structure from monocular images. While 3D reconstruction from images has been widely studied, estimating thin structure has received less attention. This problem becomes more challenging in the presence of camera error, scene motion, and a const...
computer science
26,037
SSHMT: Semi-supervised Hierarchical Merge Tree for Electron Microscopy Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Region-based methods have proven necessary for improving segmentation accuracy of neuronal structures in electron microscopy (EM) images. Most region-based segmentation methods use a scoring function to determine region merging. Such functions are usually learned with supervised algorithms that demand considerable grou...
computer science
26,038
About Pyramid Structure in Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) brought revolution without any doubt to various challenging tasks, mainly in computer vision. However, their model designing still requires attention to reduce number of learnable parameters, with no meaningful reduction in performance. In this paper we investigate to what exten...
computer science
26,039
The Importance of Skip Connections in Biomedical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the influence of both long and short skip connections on Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) for biomedical image segmentation. In standard FCNs, only long skip connections are used to skip features from the contracting path to the expanding path in order to recover spatial information lost durin...
computer science
26,040
Every Filter Extracts A Specific Texture In Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Many works have concentrated on visualizing and understanding the inner mechanism of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by generating images that activate some specific neurons, which is called deep visualization. However, it is still unclear what the filters extract from images intuitively. In this paper, we propose...
computer science
26,041
Occlusion-Model Guided Anti-Occlusion Depth Estimation in Light Field
cs.CV
Occlusion is one of the most challenging problems in depth estimation. Previous work has modeled the single-occluder occlusion in light field and get good results, however it is still difficult to obtain accurate depth for multi-occluder occlusion. In this paper, we explore the multi-occluder occlusion model in light f...
computer science
26,042
Face Alignment In-the-Wild: A Survey
cs.CV
Over the last two decades, face alignment or localizing fiducial facial points has received increasing attention owing to its comprehensive applications in automatic face analysis. However, such a task has proven extremely challenging in unconstrained environments due to many confounding factors, such as pose, occlusio...
computer science
26,043
Cross Euclidean-to-Riemannian Metric Learning with Application to Face Recognition from Video
cs.CV
Riemannian manifolds have been widely employed for video representations in visual classification tasks including video-based face recognition. The success mainly derives from learning a discriminant Riemannian metric which encodes the non-linear geometry of the underlying Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, we propos...
computer science
26,044
Generating Synthetic Data for Text Recognition
cs.CV
Generating synthetic images is an art which emulates the natural process of image generation in a closest possible manner. In this work, we exploit such a framework for data generation in handwritten domain. We render synthetic data using open source fonts and incorporate data augmentation schemes. As part of this work...
computer science
26,045
A Riemannian Network for SPD Matrix Learning
cs.CV
Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrix learning methods have become popular in many image and video processing tasks, thanks to their ability to learn appropriate statistical representations while respecting Riemannian geometry of underlying SPD manifolds. In this paper we build a Riemannian network architecture to o...
computer science
26,046
Visual place recognition using landmark distribution descriptors
cs.CV
Recent work by Suenderhauf et al. [1] demonstrated improved visual place recognition using proposal regions coupled with features from convolutional neural networks (CNN) to match landmarks between views. In this work we extend the approach by introducing descriptors built from landmark features which also encode the s...
computer science
26,047
Transitive Hashing Network for Heterogeneous Multimedia Retrieval
cs.CV
Hashing has been widely applied to large-scale multimedia retrieval due to the storage and retrieval efficiency. Cross-modal hashing enables efficient retrieval from database of one modality in response to a query of another modality. Existing work on cross-modal hashing assumes heterogeneous relationship across modali...
computer science
26,048
Weakly Supervised Object Localization Using Size Estimates
cs.CV
We present a technique for weakly supervised object localization (WSOL), building on the observation that WSOL algorithms usually work better on images with bigger objects. Instead of training the object detector on the entire training set at the same time, we propose a curriculum learning strategy to feed training ima...
computer science
26,049
Design of Efficient Convolutional Layers using Single Intra-channel Convolution, Topological Subdivisioning and Spatial "Bottleneck" Structure
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable visual recognition performance, at the cost of high computational complexity. In this paper, we have a new design of efficient convolutional layers based on three schemes. The 3D convolution operation in a convolutional layer can be considered as performing spatial ...
computer science
26,050
Depth2Action: Exploring Embedded Depth for Large-Scale Action Recognition
cs.CV
This paper performs the first investigation into depth for large-scale human action recognition in video where the depth cues are estimated from the videos themselves. We develop a new framework called depth2action and experiment thoroughly into how best to incorporate the depth information. We introduce spatio-tempora...
computer science
26,051
Intrinsic Light Field Images
cs.CV
We present a method to automatically decompose a light field into its intrinsic shading and albedo components. Contrary to previous work targeted to 2D single images and videos, a light field is a 4D structure that captures non-integrated incoming radiance over a discrete angular domain. This higher dimensionality of t...
computer science
26,052
SenTion: A framework for Sensing Facial Expressions
cs.CV
Facial expressions are an integral part of human cognition and communication, and can be applied in various real life applications. A vital precursor to accurate expression recognition is feature extraction. In this paper, we propose SenTion: A framework for sensing facial expressions. We propose a novel person indepen...
computer science
26,053
Unconstrained Two-parallel-plane Model for Focused Plenoptic Cameras Calibration
cs.CV
The plenoptic camera can capture both angular and spatial information of the rays, enabling 3D reconstruction by single exposure. The geometry of the recovered scene structure is affected by the calibration of the plenoptic camera significantly. In this paper, we propose a novel unconstrained two-parallel-plane (TPP) m...
computer science
26,054
A Comparative Study for the Weighted Nuclear Norm Minimization and Nuclear Norm Minimization
cs.CV
Nuclear norm minimization (NNM) tends to over-shrink the rank components and treats the different rank components equally, thus limits its capability and flexibility. Recent studies have shown that the weighted nuclear norm minimization (WNNM) is expected to be more accurate than NNM. However, it still lacks a plausibl...
computer science
26,055
Temporally Consistent Motion Segmentation from RGB-D Video
cs.CV
We present a method for temporally consistent motion segmentation from RGB-D videos assuming a piecewise rigid motion model. We formulate global energies over entire RGB-D sequences in terms of the segmentation of each frame into a number of objects, and the rigid motion of each object through the sequence. We develop ...
computer science
26,056
Parameterized Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
When modeling multivariate data, one might have an extra parameter of contextual information that could be used to treat some observations as more similar to others. For example, images of faces can vary by age, and one would expect the face of a 40 year old to be more similar to the face of a 30 year old than to a bab...
computer science
26,057
Geometry-aware Similarity Learning on SPD Manifolds for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been widely used for data representation in many visual recognition tasks. The success mainly attributes to learning discriminative SPD matrices with encoding the Riemannian geometry of the underlying SPD manifold. In this paper, we propose a geometry-aware SPD similarity...
computer science
26,058
Frame- and Segment-Level Features and Candidate Pool Evaluation for Video Caption Generation
cs.CV
We present our submission to the Microsoft Video to Language Challenge of generating short captions describing videos in the challenge dataset. Our model is based on the encoder--decoder pipeline, popular in image and video captioning systems. We propose to utilize two different kinds of video features, one to capture ...
computer science
26,059
Large Angle based Skeleton Extraction for 3D Animation
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a solution for arbitrary 3D character deformation by investigating rotation angle of decomposition and preserving the mesh topology structure. In computer graphics, skeleton extraction and skeleton-driven animation is an active areas and gains increasing interests from researchers. The accurac...
computer science
26,060
Scene Labeling Through Knowledge-Based Rules Employing Constrained Integer Linear Programing
cs.CV
Scene labeling task is to segment the image into meaningful regions and categorize them into classes of objects which comprised the image. Commonly used methods typically find the local features for each segment and label them using classifiers. Afterward, labeling is smoothed in order to make sure that neighboring reg...
computer science
26,061
IM2CAD
cs.CV
Given a single photo of a room and a large database of furniture CAD models, our goal is to reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to the scene depicted in the photograph, and composed of objects drawn from the database. We present a completely automatic system to address this IM2CAD problem that produces h...
computer science
26,062
A Systematic Approach for Cross-source Point Cloud Registration by Preserving Macro and Micro Structures
cs.CV
We propose a systematic approach for registering cross-source point clouds. The compelling need for cross-source point cloud registration is motivated by the rapid development of a variety of 3D sensing techniques, but many existing registration methods face critical challenges as a result of the large variations in cr...
computer science
26,063
Full Resolution Image Compression with Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper presents a set of full-resolution lossy image compression methods based on neural networks. Each of the architectures we describe can provide variable compression rates during deployment without requiring retraining of the network: each network need only be trained once. All of our architectures consist of a...
computer science
26,064
Multi-stage Object Detection with Group Recursive Learning
cs.CV
Most of existing detection pipelines treat object proposals independently and predict bounding box locations and classification scores over them separately. However, the important semantic and spatial layout correlations among proposals are often ignored, which are actually useful for more accurate object detection. In...
computer science
26,065
AID: A Benchmark Dataset for Performance Evaluation of Aerial Scene Classification
cs.CV
Aerial scene classification, which aims to automatically label an aerial image with a specific semantic category, is a fundamental problem for understanding high-resolution remote sensing imagery. In recent years, it has become an active task in remote sensing area and numerous algorithms have been proposed for this ta...
computer science
26,066
Deeply-Supervised Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Saliency Detection
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel saliency detection method by developing a deeply-supervised recurrent convolutional neural network (DSRCNN), which performs a full image-to-image saliency prediction. For saliency detection, the local, global, and contextual information of salient objects is important to obtain a high qualit...
computer science
26,067
A Holistic Approach for Data-Driven Object Cutout
cs.CV
Object cutout is a fundamental operation for image editing and manipulation, yet it is extremely challenging to automate it in real-world images, which typically contain considerable background clutter. In contrast to existing cutout methods, which are based mainly on low-level image analysis, we propose a more holisti...
computer science
26,068
Saliency Detection via Combining Region-Level and Pixel-Level Predictions with CNNs
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel saliency detection method by combining region-level saliency estimation and pixel-level saliency prediction with CNNs (denoted as CRPSD). For pixel-level saliency prediction, a fully convolutional neural network (called pixel-level CNN) is constructed by modifying the VGGNet architecture to ...
computer science
26,069
Seeing with Humans: Gaze-Assisted Neural Image Captioning
cs.CV
Gaze reflects how humans process visual scenes and is therefore increasingly used in computer vision systems. Previous works demonstrated the potential of gaze for object-centric tasks, such as object localization and recognition, but it remains unclear if gaze can also be beneficial for scene-centric tasks, such as im...
computer science
26,070
Refining Geometry from Depth Sensors using IR Shading Images
cs.CV
We propose a method to refine geometry of 3D meshes from a consumer level depth camera, e.g. Kinect, by exploiting shading cues captured from an infrared (IR) camera. A major benefit to using an IR camera instead of an RGB camera is that the IR images captured are narrow band images that filter out most undesired ambie...
computer science
26,071
Efficient Multi-Frequency Phase Unwrapping using Kernel Density Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper we introduce an efficient method to unwrap multi-frequency phase estimates for time-of-flight ranging. The algorithm generates multiple depth hypotheses and uses a spatial kernel density estimate (KDE) to rank them. The confidence produced by the KDE is also an effective means to detect outliers. We also ...
computer science
26,072
How Image Degradations Affect Deep CNN-based Face Recognition?
cs.CV
Face recognition approaches that are based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been dominating the field. The performance improvements they have provided in the so called in-the-wild datasets are significant, however, their performance under image quality degradations have not been assessed, yet. This is p...
computer science
26,073
Leveraging Structural Context Models and Ranking Score Fusion for Human Interaction Prediction
cs.CV
Predicting an interaction before it is fully executed is very important in applications such as human-robot interaction and video surveillance. In a two-human interaction scenario, there often contextual dependency structure between the global interaction context of the two humans and the local context of the different...
computer science
26,074
Photo Filter Recommendation by Category-Aware Aesthetic Learning
cs.CV
Nowadays, social media has become a popular platform for the public to share photos. To make photos more visually appealing, users usually apply filters on their photos without domain knowledge. However, due to the growing number of filter types, it becomes a major issue for users to choose the best filter type. For th...
computer science
26,075
Multi-Person Tracking by Multicut and Deep Matching
cs.CV
In [1], we proposed a graph-based formulation that links and clusters person hypotheses over time by solving a minimum cost subgraph multicut problem. In this paper, we modify and extend [1] in three ways: 1) We introduce a novel local pairwise feature based on local appearance matching that is robust to partial occlus...
computer science
26,076
Semantic Understanding of Scenes through the ADE20K Dataset
cs.CV
Scene parsing, or recognizing and segmenting objects and stuff in an image, is one of the key problems in computer vision. Despite the community's efforts in data collection, there are still few image datasets covering a wide range of scenes and object categories with dense and detailed annotations for scene parsing. I...
computer science
26,077
We Can "See" You via Wi-Fi - WiFi Action Recognition via Vision-based Methods
cs.CV
Recently, Wi-Fi has caught tremendous attention for its ubiquity, and, motivated by Wi-Fi's low cost and privacy preservation, researchers have been putting lots of investigation into its potential on action recognition and even person identification. In this paper, we offer an comprehensive overview on these two topic...
computer science
26,078
A Recurrent Encoder-Decoder Network for Sequential Face Alignment
cs.CV
We propose a novel recurrent encoder-decoder network model for real-time video-based face alignment. Our proposed model predicts 2D facial point maps regularized by a regression loss, while uniquely exploiting recurrent learning at both spatial and temporal dimensions. At the spatial level, we add a feedback loop conne...
computer science
26,079
On the Existence of a Projective Reconstruction
cs.CV
In this note we study the connection between the existence of a projective reconstruction and the existence of a fundamental matrix satisfying the epipolar constraints.
computer science
26,080
Rigid Slice-To-Volume Medical Image Registration through Markov Random Fields
cs.CV
Rigid slice-to-volume registration is a challenging task, which finds application in medical imaging problems like image fusion for image guided surgeries and motion correction for volume reconstruction. It is usually formulated as an optimization problem and solved using standard continuous methods. In this paper, we ...
computer science
26,081
Learning Spatially Regularized Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Robust and accurate visual tracking is one of the most challenging computer vision problems. Due to the inherent lack of training data, a robust approach for constructing a target appearance model is crucial. Recently, discriminatively learned correlation filters (DCF) have been successfully applied to address this pro...
computer science
26,082
Detecting Vanishing Points using Global Image Context in a Non-Manhattan World
cs.CV
We propose a novel method for detecting horizontal vanishing points and the zenith vanishing point in man-made environments. The dominant trend in existing methods is to first find candidate vanishing points, then remove outliers by enforcing mutual orthogonality. Our method reverses this process: we propose a set of h...
computer science
26,083
Back to Basics: Unsupervised Learning of Optical Flow via Brightness Constancy and Motion Smoothness
cs.CV
Recently, convolutional networks (convnets) have proven useful for predicting optical flow. Much of this success is predicated on the availability of large datasets that require expensive and involved data acquisition and laborious la- beling. To bypass these challenges, we propose an unsuper- vised approach (i.e., wit...
computer science
26,084
Visual Processing by a Unified Schatten-$p$ Norm and $\ell_q$ Norm Regularized Principal Component Pursuit
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a non-convex formulation to recover the authentic structure from the corrupted real data. Typically, the specific structure is assumed to be low rank, which holds for a wide range of data, such as images and videos. Meanwhile, the corruption is assumed to be sparse. In the literature, such a p...
computer science
26,085
VoxResNet: Deep Voxelwise Residual Networks for Volumetric Brain Segmentation
cs.CV
Recently deep residual learning with residual units for training very deep neural networks advanced the state-of-the-art performance on 2D image recognition tasks, e.g., object detection and segmentation. However, how to fully leverage contextual representations for recognition tasks from volumetric data has not been w...
computer science
26,086
STFCN: Spatio-Temporal FCN for Semantic Video Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel method to involve both spatial and temporal features for semantic video segmentation. Current work on convolutional neural networks(CNNs) has shown that CNNs provide advanced spatial features supporting a very good performance of solutions for both image and video analysis, especially for th...
computer science
26,087
Domain Separation Networks
cs.CV
The cost of large scale data collection and annotation often makes the application of machine learning algorithms to new tasks or datasets prohibitively expensive. One approach circumventing this cost is training models on synthetic data where annotations are provided automatically. Despite their appeal, such models of...
computer science
26,088
Multiple objects tracking in surveillance video using color and Hu moments
cs.CV
Multiple objects tracking finds its applications in many high level vision analysis like object behaviour interpretation and gait recognition. In this paper, a feature based method to track the multiple moving objects in surveillance video sequence is proposed. Object tracking is done by extracting the color and Hu mom...
computer science
26,089
Efficient Continuous Relaxations for Dense CRF
cs.CV
Dense conditional random fields (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials have emerged as a popular framework for several computer vision applications such as stereo correspondence and semantic segmentation. By modeling long-range interactions, dense CRFs provide a more detailed labelling compared to their sparse counter...
computer science
26,090
CrowdNet: A Deep Convolutional Network for Dense Crowd Counting
cs.CV
Our work proposes a novel deep learning framework for estimating crowd density from static images of highly dense crowds. We use a combination of deep and shallow, fully convolutional networks to predict the density map for a given crowd image. Such a combination is used for effectively capturing both the high-level se...
computer science
26,091
Large-scale Continuous Gesture Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of continuous gesture recognition from sequences of depth maps using convolutional neutral networks (ConvNets). The proposed method first segments individual gestures from a depth sequence based on quantity of movement (QOM). For each segmented gesture, an Improved Depth Motion Map (IDM...
computer science
26,092
Convolutional Network for Attribute-driven and Identity-preserving Human Face Generation
cs.CV
This paper focuses on the problem of generating human face pictures from specific attributes. The existing CNN-based face generation models, however, either ignore the identity of the generated face or fail to preserve the identity of the reference face image. Here we address this problem from the view of optimization,...
computer science
26,093
Failure Detection for Facial Landmark Detectors
cs.CV
Most face applications depend heavily on the accuracy of the face and facial landmarks detectors employed. Prediction of attributes such as gender, age, and identity usually completely fail when the faces are badly aligned due to inaccurate facial landmark detection. Despite the impressive recent advances in face and f...
computer science
26,094
Searching Action Proposals via Spatial Actionness Estimation and Temporal Path Inference and Tracking
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of searching action proposals in unconstrained video clips. Our approach starts from actionness estimation on frame-level bounding boxes, and then aggregates the bounding boxes belonging to the same actor across frames via linking, associating, tracking to generate spatial-temporal...
computer science
26,095
Does V-NIR based Image Enhancement Come with Better Features?
cs.CV
Image enhancement using the visible (V) and near-infrared (NIR) usually enhances useful image details. The enhanced images are evaluated by observers perception, instead of quantitative feature evaluation. Thus, can we say that these enhanced images using NIR information has better features in comparison to the compute...
computer science
26,096
Neural Networks with Smooth Adaptive Activation Functions for Regression
cs.CV
In Neural Networks (NN), Adaptive Activation Functions (AAF) have parameters that control the shapes of activation functions. These parameters are trained along with other parameters in the NN. AAFs have improved performance of Neural Networks (NN) in multiple classification tasks. In this paper, we propose and apply A...
computer science
26,097
A Non-Local Conventional Approach for Noise Removal in 3D MRI
cs.CV
In this paper, a filtering approach for the 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assuming a Rician model for noise is addressed. Our denoising method is based on the Conventional Approach (CA) proposed to deal with the noise issue in the squared domain of the acquired magnitude MRI, where the noise distribution follows ...
computer science
26,098
On Clustering and Embedding Mixture Manifolds using a Low Rank Neighborhood Approach
cs.CV
Samples from intimate (non-linear) mixtures are generally modeled as being drawn from a smooth manifold. Scenarios where the data contains multiple intimate mixtures with some constituent materials in common can be thought of as manifolds which share a boundary. Two important steps in the processing of such data are (i...
computer science
26,099
Computer-Aided Colorectal Tumor Classification in NBI Endoscopy Using CNN Features
cs.CV
In this paper we report results for recognizing colorectal NBI endoscopic images by using features extracted from convolutional neural network (CNN). In this comparative study, we extract features from different layers from different CNN models, and then train linear SVM classifiers. Experimental results with 10-fold c...
computer science
26,100
Transfer Learning for Endoscopic Image Classification
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a method for transfer learning of endoscopic images. For transferring between features obtained from images taken by different (old and new) endoscopes, we extend the Max-Margin Domain Transfer (MMDT) proposed by Hoffman et al. in order to use L2 distance constraints as regularization, called M...
computer science
26,101
A Novel Approach for Shot Boundary Detection in Videos
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach for video shot boundary detection. The proposed approach is based on split and merge concept. A fisher linear discriminant criterion is used to guide the process of both splitting and merging. For the purpose of capturing the between class and within class scatter we employ 2D2 FLD ...
computer science