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A Study of Vision based Human Motion Recognition and Analysis
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Vision based human motion recognition has fascinated many researchers due to its critical challenges and a variety of applications. The applications range from simple gesture recognition to complicated behaviour understanding in surveillance system. This leads to major development in the techniques related to human mot...
computer science
26,103
In the Saddle: Chasing Fast and Repeatable Features
cs.CV
A novel similarity-covariant feature detector that extracts points whose neighbourhoods, when treated as a 3D intensity surface, have a saddle-like intensity profile. The saddle condition is verified efficiently by intensity comparisons on two concentric rings that must have exactly two dark-to-bright and two bright-to...
computer science
26,104
Absolute Pose Estimation from Line Correspondences using Direct Linear Transformation
cs.CV
This work is concerned with camera pose estimation from correspondences of 3D/2D lines, i. e. with the Perspective-n-Line (PnL) problem. We focus on large line sets, which can be efficiently solved by methods using linear formulation of PnL. We propose a novel method "DLT-Combined-Lines" based on the Direct Linear Tran...
computer science
26,105
A 4D Light-Field Dataset and CNN Architectures for Material Recognition
cs.CV
We introduce a new light-field dataset of materials, and take advantage of the recent success of deep learning to perform material recognition on the 4D light-field. Our dataset contains 12 material categories, each with 100 images taken with a Lytro Illum, from which we extract about 30,000 patches in total. To the be...
computer science
26,106
Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning
cs.CV
The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds can be used as a supervisory signal for learning visual models. To demonstrate this, we train a convolutional neural network to predict a stat...
computer science
26,107
Sympathy for the Details: Dense Trajectories and Hybrid Classification Architectures for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Action recognition in videos is a challenging task due to the complexity of the spatio-temporal patterns to model and the difficulty to acquire and learn on large quantities of video data. Deep learning, although a breakthrough for image classification and showing promise for videos, has still not clearly superseded ac...
computer science
26,108
Modeling and Propagating CNNs in a Tree Structure for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
We present an online visual tracking algorithm by managing multiple target appearance models in a tree structure. The proposed algorithm employs Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to represent target appearances, where multiple CNNs collaborate to estimate target states and determine the desirable paths for online mo...
computer science
26,109
Fast Trajectory Simplification Algorithm for Natural User Interfaces in Robot Programming by Demonstration
cs.CV
Trajectory simplification is a problem encountered in areas like Robot programming by demonstration, CAD/CAM, computer vision, and in GPS-based applications like traffic analysis. This problem entails reduction of the points in a given trajectory while keeping the relevant points which preserve important information. T...
computer science
26,110
Scalable Compression of Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep neural networks generally involve some layers with mil- lions of parameters, making them difficult to be deployed and updated on devices with limited resources such as mobile phones and other smart embedded systems. In this paper, we propose a scalable representation of the network parameters, so that different ap...
computer science
26,111
An Octree-Based Approach towards Efficient Variational Range Data Fusion
cs.CV
Volume-based reconstruction is usually expensive both in terms of memory consumption and runtime. Especially for sparse geometric structures, volumetric representations produce a huge computational overhead. We present an efficient way to fuse range data via a variational Octree-based minimization approach by taking th...
computer science
26,112
Mean Deviation Similarity Index: Efficient and Reliable Full-Reference Image Quality Evaluator
cs.CV
Applications of perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) in image and video processing, such as image acquisition, image compression, image restoration and multimedia communication, have led to the development of many IQA metrics. In this paper, a reliable full reference IQA model is proposed that utilize gradient sim...
computer science
26,113
Who Leads the Clothing Fashion: Style, Color, or Texture? A Computational Study
cs.CV
It is well known that clothing fashion is a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style in which a person dresses. Clothing fashions are usually expressed with visual stimuli such as style, color, and texture. However, it is not clear which visual stimulus places higher/lower influence on the updating of clothing...
computer science
26,114
Fine Hand Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We propose a method for extracting very accurate masks of hands in egocentric views. Our method is based on a novel Deep Learning architecture: In contrast with current Deep Learning methods, we do not use upscaling layers applied to a low-dimensional representation of the input image. Instead, we extract features with...
computer science
26,115
Mitosis Detection in Intestinal Crypt Images with Hough Forest and Conditional Random Fields
cs.CV
Intestinal enteroendocrine cells secrete hormones that are vital for the regulation of glucose metabolism but their differentiation from intestinal stem cells is not fully understood. Asymmetric stem cell divisions have been linked to intestinal stem cell homeostasis and secretory fate commitment. We monitored cell div...
computer science
26,116
Spatio-temporal Aware Non-negative Component Representation for Action Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel mid-level representation for action recognition, named spatio-temporal aware non-negative component representation (STANNCR). The proposed STANNCR is based on action component and incorporates the spatial-temporal information. We first introduce a spatial-temporal distribution vector (STDV) ...
computer science
26,117
Multi-Path Feedback Recurrent Neural Network for Scene Parsing
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider the scene parsing problem and propose a novel Multi-Path Feedback recurrent neural network (MPF-RNN) for parsing scene images. MPF-RNN can enhance the capability of RNNs in modeling long-range context information at multiple levels and better distinguish pixels that are easy to confuse. Diffe...
computer science
26,118
3D Object Proposals using Stereo Imagery for Accurate Object Class Detection
cs.CV
The goal of this paper is to perform 3D object detection in the context of autonomous driving. Our method first aims at generating a set of high-quality 3D object proposals by exploiting stereo imagery. We formulate the problem as minimizing an energy function that encodes object size priors, placement of objects on th...
computer science
26,119
Learning Temporal Transformations From Time-Lapse Videos
cs.CV
Based on life-long observations of physical, chemical, and biologic phenomena in the natural world, humans can often easily picture in their minds what an object will look like in the future. But, what about computers? In this paper, we learn computational models of object transformations from time-lapse videos. In par...
computer science
26,120
Cast and Self Shadow Segmentation in Video Sequences using Interval based Eigen Value Representation
cs.CV
Tracking of motion objects in the surveillance videos is useful for the monitoring and analysis. The performance of the surveillance system will deteriorate when shadows are detected as moving objects. Therefore, shadow detection and elimination usually benefits the next stages. To overcome this issue, a method for det...
computer science
26,121
Total variation reconstruction for compressive sensing using nonlocal Lagrangian multiplier
cs.CV
Total variation has proved its effectiveness in solving inverse problems for compressive sensing. Besides, the nonlocal means filter used as regularization preserves texture better for recovered images, but it is quite complex to implement. In this paper, based on existence of both noise and image information in the La...
computer science
26,122
Using k-nearest neighbors to construct cancelable minutiae templates
cs.CV
Fingerprint is widely used in a variety of applications. Security measures have to be taken to protect the privacy of fingerprint data. Cancelable biometrics is proposed as an effective mechanism of using and protecting biometrics. In this paper we propose a new method of constructing cancelable fingerprint template by...
computer science
26,123
Approaching the Computational Color Constancy as a Classification Problem through Deep Learning
cs.CV
Computational color constancy refers to the problem of computing the illuminant color so that the images of a scene under varying illumination can be normalized to an image under the canonical illumination. In this paper, we adopt a deep learning framework for the illumination estimation problem. The proposed method wo...
computer science
26,124
Linking Image and Text with 2-Way Nets
cs.CV
Linking two data sources is a basic building block in numerous computer vision problems. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) achieves this by utilizing a linear optimizer in order to maximize the correlation between the two views. Recent work makes use of non-linear models, including deep learning techniques, that opt...
computer science
26,125
Correspondence Insertion for As-Projective-As-Possible Image Stitching
cs.CV
Spatially varying warps are increasingly popular for image alignment. In particular, as-projective-as-possible (APAP) warps have been proven effective for accurate panoramic stitching, especially in cases with significant depth parallax that defeat standard homographic warps. However, estimating spatially varying warps...
computer science
26,126
PVANET: Deep but Lightweight Neural Networks for Real-time Object Detection
cs.CV
This paper presents how we can achieve the state-of-the-art accuracy in multi-category object detection task while minimizing the computational cost by adapting and combining recent technical innovations. Following the common pipeline of "CNN feature extraction + region proposal + RoI classification", we mainly redesig...
computer science
26,127
Edge Preserving and Multi-Scale Contextual Neural Network for Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel edge preserving and multi-scale contextual neural network for salient object detection. The proposed framework is aiming to address two limits of the existing CNN based methods. First, region-based CNN methods lack sufficient context to accurately locate salient object since they deal ...
computer science
26,128
Curvature Integration in a 5D Kernel for Extracting Vessel Connections in Retinal Images
cs.CV
Tree-like structures such as retinal images are widely studied in computer-aided diagnosis systems for large-scale screening programs. Despite several segmentation and tracking methods proposed in the literature, there still exist several limitations specifically when two or more curvilinear structures cross or bifurca...
computer science
26,129
Temporal Activity Detection in Untrimmed Videos with Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
This thesis explore different approaches using Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks to classify and temporally localize activities on videos, furthermore an implementation to achieve it has been proposed. As the first step, features have been extracted from video frames using an state of the art 3D Convolutional...
computer science
26,130
ORBSLAM-based Endoscope Tracking and 3D Reconstruction
cs.CV
We aim to track the endoscope location inside the surgical scene and provide 3D reconstruction, in real-time, from the sole input of the image sequence captured by the monocular endoscope. This information offers new possibilities for developing surgical navigation and augmented reality applications. The main benefit o...
computer science
26,131
Tracking Completion
cs.CV
A fundamental component of modern trackers is an online learned tracking model, which is typically modeled either globally or locally. The two kinds of models perform differently in terms of effectiveness and robustness under different challenging situations. This work exploits the advantages of both models. A subspace...
computer science
26,132
Real-Time Visual Tracking: Promoting the Robustness of Correlation Filter Learning
cs.CV
Correlation filtering based tracking model has received lots of attention and achieved great success in real-time tracking, however, the lost function in current correlation filtering paradigm could not reliably response to the appearance changes caused by occlusion and illumination variations. This study intends to pr...
computer science
26,133
Temporal Convolutional Networks: A Unified Approach to Action Segmentation
cs.CV
The dominant paradigm for video-based action segmentation is composed of two steps: first, for each frame, compute low-level features using Dense Trajectories or a Convolutional Neural Network that encode spatiotemporal information locally, and second, input these features into a classifier that captures high-level tem...
computer science
26,134
Construction of Convex Sets on Quadrilateral Ordered Tiles or Graphs with Propagation Neighborhood Operations. Dales, Concavity Structures. Application to Gray Image Analysis of Human-Readable Shapes
cs.CV
An effort has been made to show mathematicians some new ideas applied to image analysis. Gray images are presented as tilings. Based on topological properties of the tiling, a number of gray convex hulls: maximal, minimal, and oriented ones are constructed and some are proved. They are constructed with only one operati...
computer science
26,135
Utilizing Large Scale Vision and Text Datasets for Image Segmentation from Referring Expressions
cs.CV
Image segmentation from referring expressions is a joint vision and language modeling task, where the input is an image and a textual expression describing a particular region in the image; and the goal is to localize and segment the specific image region based on the given expression. One major difficulty to train suc...
computer science
26,136
Egocentric Meets Top-view
cs.CV
Thanks to the availability and increasing popularity of Egocentric cameras such as GoPro cameras, glasses, and etc. we have been provided with a plethora of videos captured from the first person perspective. Surveillance cameras and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(also known as drones) also offer tremendous amount of videos, ...
computer science
26,137
Low-rank Multi-view Clustering in Third-Order Tensor Space
cs.CV
The plenty information from multiple views data as well as the complementary information among different views are usually beneficial to various tasks, e.g., clustering, classification, de-noising. Multi-view subspace clustering is based on the fact that the multi-view data are generated from a latent subspace. To reco...
computer science
26,138
Multi-Class Multi-Object Tracking using Changing Point Detection
cs.CV
This paper presents a robust multi-class multi-object tracking (MCMOT) formulated by a Bayesian filtering framework. Multi-object tracking for unlimited object classes is conducted by combining detection responses and changing point detection (CPD) algorithm. The CPD model is used to observe abrupt or abnormal changes ...
computer science
26,139
New Methods to Improve Large-Scale Microscopy Image Analysis with Prior Knowledge and Uncertainty
cs.CV
Multidimensional imaging techniques provide powerful ways to examine various kinds of scientific questions. The routinely produced datasets in the terabyte-range, however, can hardly be analyzed manually and require an extensive use of automated image analysis. The present thesis introduces a new concept for the estima...
computer science
26,140
Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Local Joint-to-Person Associations
cs.CV
Despite of the recent success of neural networks for human pose estimation, current approaches are limited to pose estimation of a single person and cannot handle humans in groups or crowds. In this work, we propose a method that estimates the poses of multiple persons in an image in which a person can be occluded by a...
computer science
26,141
A statistical model of tristimulus measurements within and between OLED displays
cs.CV
We present an empirical model for noises in color measurements from OLED displays. According to measured data the noise is not isotropic in the XYZ space, instead most of the noise is along an axis that is parallel to a vector from origin to measured XYZ vector. The presented empirical model is simple and depends only ...
computer science
26,142
CliqueCNN: Deep Unsupervised Exemplar Learning
cs.CV
Exemplar learning is a powerful paradigm for discovering visual similarities in an unsupervised manner. In this context, however, the recent breakthrough in deep learning could not yet unfold its full potential. With only a single positive sample, a great imbalance between one positive and many negatives, and unreliabl...
computer science
26,143
Spatio-Colour Asplünd 's Metric and Logarithmic Image Processing for Colour Images (LIPC)
cs.CV
Aspl\"und 's metric, which is useful for pattern matching, consists in a double-sided probing, i.e. the over-graph and the sub-graph of a function are probed jointly. This paper extends the Aspl\"und 's metric we previously defined for colour and multivariate images using a marginal approach (i.e. component by componen...
computer science
26,144
Efficient Two-Stream Motion and Appearance 3D CNNs for Video Classification
cs.CV
The video and action classification have extremely evolved by deep neural networks specially with two stream CNN using RGB and optical flow as inputs and they present outstanding performance in terms of video analysis. One of the shortcoming of these methods is handling motion information extraction which is done out s...
computer science
26,145
Facial Surface Analysis using Iso-Geodesic Curves in Three Dimensional Face Recognition System
cs.CV
In this paper, we present an automatic 3D face recognition system. This system is based on the representation of human faces surfaces as collections of Iso-Geodesic Curves (IGC) using 3D Fast Marching algorithm. To compare two facial surfaces, we compute a geodesic distance between a pair of facial curves using a Riema...
computer science
26,146
Measuring the Quality of Exercises
cs.CV
This work explores the problem of exercise quality measurement since it is essential for effective management of diseases like cerebral palsy (CP). This work examines the assessment of quality of large amplitude movement (LAM) exercises designed to treat CP in an automated fashion. Exercise data was collected by traine...
computer science
26,147
Attentional Push: Augmenting Salience with Shared Attention Modeling
cs.CV
We present a novel visual attention tracking technique based on Shared Attention modeling. Our proposed method models the viewer as a participant in the activity occurring in the scene. We go beyond image salience and instead of only computing the power of an image region to pull attention to it, we also consider the s...
computer science
26,148
Image segmentation based on histogram of depth and an application in driver distraction detection
cs.CV
This study proposes an approach to segment human object from a depth image based on histogram of depth values. The region of interest is first extracted based on a predefined threshold for histogram regions. A region growing process is then employed to separate multiple human bodies with the same depth interval. Our co...
computer science
26,149
Grid Loss: Detecting Occluded Faces
cs.CV
Detection of partially occluded objects is a challenging computer vision problem. Standard Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) detectors fail if parts of the detection window are occluded, since not every sub-part of the window is discriminative on its own. To address this issue, we propose a novel loss layer for CNNs, ...
computer science
26,150
Weakly Supervised PatchNets: Describing and Aggregating Local Patches for Scene Recognition
cs.CV
Traditional feature encoding scheme (e.g., Fisher vector) with local descriptors (e.g., SIFT) and recent convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are two classes of successful methods for image recognition. In this paper, we propose a hybrid representation, which leverages the discriminative capacity of CNNs and the simpli...
computer science
26,151
Transferring Object-Scene Convolutional Neural Networks for Event Recognition in Still Images
cs.CV
Event recognition in still images is an intriguing problem and has potential for real applications. This paper addresses the problem of event recognition by proposing a convolutional neural network that exploits knowledge of objects and scenes for event classification (OS2E-CNN). Intuitively, it stands to reason that t...
computer science
26,152
Segmentation Free Object Discovery in Video
cs.CV
In this paper we present a simple yet effective approach to extend without supervision any object proposal from static images to videos. Unlike previous methods, these spatio-temporal proposals, to which we refer as tracks, are generated relying on little or no visual content by only exploiting bounding boxes spatial c...
computer science
26,153
Deep Learning Human Mind for Automated Visual Classification
cs.CV
What if we could effectively read the mind and transfer human visual capabilities to computer vision methods? In this paper, we aim at addressing this question by developing the first visual object classifier driven by human brain signals. In particular, we employ EEG data evoked by visual object stimuli combined with ...
computer science
26,154
Autonomous driving challenge: To Infer the property of a dynamic object based on its motion pattern using recurrent neural network
cs.CV
In autonomous driving applications a critical challenge is to identify action to take to avoid an obstacle on collision course. For example, when a heavy object is suddenly encountered it is critical to stop the vehicle or change the lane even if it causes other traffic disruptions. However,there are situations when it...
computer science
26,155
Built-in Foreground/Background Prior for Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Pixel-level annotations are expensive and time consuming to obtain. Hence, weak supervision using only image tags could have a significant impact in semantic segmentation. Recently, CNN-based methods have proposed to fine-tune pre-trained networks using image tags. Without additional information, this leads to poor loc...
computer science
26,156
Label distribution based facial attractiveness computation by deep residual learning
cs.CV
Two challenges lie in the facial attractiveness computation research: the lack of true attractiveness labels (scores), and the lack of an accurate face representation. In order to address the first challenge, this paper recasts facial attractiveness computation as a label distribution learning (LDL) problem rather than...
computer science
26,157
Stochastic Learning of Multi-Instance Dictionary for Earth Mover's Distance based Histogram Comparison
cs.CV
Dictionary plays an important role in multi-instance data representation. It maps bags of instances to histograms. Earth mover's distance (EMD) is the most effective histogram distance metric for the application of multi-instance retrieval. However, up to now, there is no existing multi-instance dictionary learning met...
computer science
26,158
Towards Segmenting Consumer Stereo Videos: Benchmark, Baselines and Ensembles
cs.CV
Are we ready to segment consumer stereo videos? The amount of this data type is rapidly increasing and encompasses rich information of appearance, motion and depth cues. However, the segmentation of such data is still largely unexplored. First, we propose therefore a new benchmark: videos, annotations and metrics to me...
computer science
26,159
Deep-Anomaly: Fully Convolutional Neural Network for Fast Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes
cs.CV
The detection of abnormal behaviours in crowded scenes has to deal with many challenges. This paper presents an efficient method for detection and localization of anomalies in videos. Using fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs) and temporal data, a pre-trained supervised FCN is transferred into an unsupervised FCN...
computer science
26,160
Vanishing point detection with convolutional neural networks
cs.CV
Inspired by the finding that vanishing point (road tangent) guides driver's gaze, in our previous work we showed that vanishing point attracts gaze during free viewing of natural scenes as well as in visual search (Borji et al., Journal of Vision 2016). We have also introduced improved saliency models using vanishing p...
computer science
26,161
Combining Fully Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Segmentation of 3D images is a fundamental problem in biomedical image analysis. Deep learning (DL) approaches have achieved state-of-the-art segmentation perfor- mance. To exploit the 3D contexts using neural networks, known DL segmentation methods, including 3D convolution, 2D convolution on planes orthogonal to 2D i...
computer science
26,162
A Deep Multi-Level Network for Saliency Prediction
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel deep architecture for saliency prediction. Current state of the art models for saliency prediction employ Fully Convolutional networks that perform a non-linear combination of features extracted from the last convolutional layer to predict saliency maps. We propose an architecture which, ins...
computer science
26,163
Deep Retinal Image Understanding
cs.CV
This paper presents Deep Retinal Image Understanding (DRIU), a unified framework of retinal image analysis that provides both retinal vessel and optic disc segmentation. We make use of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which have proven revolutionary in other fields of computer vision such as object detection ...
computer science
26,164
Towards Automated Melanoma Screening: Exploring Transfer Learning Schemes
cs.CV
Deep learning is the current bet for image classification. Its greed for huge amounts of annotated data limits its usage in medical imaging context. In this scenario transfer learning appears as a prominent solution. In this report we aim to clarify how transfer learning schemes may influence classification results. We...
computer science
26,165
UnrealCV: Connecting Computer Vision to Unreal Engine
cs.CV
Computer graphics can not only generate synthetic images and ground truth but it also offers the possibility of constructing virtual worlds in which: (i) an agent can perceive, navigate, and take actions guided by AI algorithms, (ii) properties of the worlds can be modified (e.g., material and reflectance), (iii) physi...
computer science
26,166
Depth Reconstruction and Computer-Aided Polyp Detection in Optical Colonoscopy Video Frames
cs.CV
We present a computer-aided detection algorithm for polyps in optical colonoscopy images. Polyps are the precursors to colon cancer. In the US alone, more than 14 million optical colonoscopies are performed every year, mostly to screen for polyps. Optical colonoscopy has been shown to have an approximately 25% polyp mi...
computer science
26,167
Vision-based Engagement Detection in Virtual Reality
cs.CV
User engagement modeling for manipulating actions in vision-based interfaces is one of the most important case studies of user mental state detection. In a Virtual Reality environment that employs camera sensors to recognize human activities, we have to know when user intends to perform an action and when not. Without ...
computer science
26,168
Efficient Volumetric Fusion of Airborne and Street-Side Data for Urban Reconstruction
cs.CV
Airborne acquisition and on-road mobile mapping provide complementary 3D information of an urban landscape: the former acquires roof structures, ground, and vegetation at a large scale, but lacks the facade and street-side details, while the latter is incomplete for higher floors and often totally misses out on pedestr...
computer science
26,169
Object Specific Deep Learning Feature and Its Application to Face Detection
cs.CV
We present a method for discovering and exploiting object specific deep learning features and use face detection as a case study. Motivated by the observation that certain convolutional channels of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) exhibit object specific responses, we seek to discover and exploit the convolutional ...
computer science
26,170
Reconstructing Articulated Rigged Models from RGB-D Videos
cs.CV
Although commercial and open-source software exist to reconstruct a static object from a sequence recorded with an RGB-D sensor, there is a lack of tools that build rigged models of articulated objects that deform realistically and can be used for tracking or animation. In this work, we fill this gap and propose a meth...
computer science
26,171
An Adaptive Parameter Estimation for Guided Filter based Image Deconvolution
cs.CV
Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and approach theoretical limits, they are becoming more complex, making analysis, and ...
computer science
26,172
Features Fusion for Classification of Logos
cs.CV
In this paper, a logo classification system based on the appearance of logo images is proposed. The proposed classification system makes use of global characteristics of logo images for classification. Color, texture, and shape of a logo wholly describe the global characteristics of logo images. The various combination...
computer science
26,173
Multi-instance Dynamic Ordinal Random Fields for Weakly-Supervised Pain Intensity Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the Multi-Instance-Learning (MIL) problem when bag labels are naturally represented as ordinal variables (Multi--Instance--Ordinal Regression). Moreover, we consider the case where bags are temporal sequences of ordinal instances. To model this, we propose the novel Multi-Instance Dynamic Ordi...
computer science
26,174
Joint Alignment of Multiple Point Sets with Batch and Incremental Expectation-Maximization
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of registering multiple point sets. Solutions to this problem are often approximated by repeatedly solving for pairwise registration, which results in an uneven treatment of the sets forming a pair: a model set and a data set. The main drawback of this strategy is that the model set may...
computer science
26,175
Confidence-aware Levenberg-Marquardt optimization for joint motion estimation and super-resolution
cs.CV
Motion estimation across low-resolution frames and the reconstruction of high-resolution images are two coupled subproblems of multi-frame super-resolution. This paper introduces a new joint optimization approach for motion estimation and image reconstruction to address this interdependence. Our method is formulated vi...
computer science
26,176
Best-Buddies Similarity - Robust Template Matching using Mutual Nearest Neighbors
cs.CV
We propose a novel method for template matching in unconstrained environments. Its essence is the Best-Buddies Similarity (BBS), a useful, robust, and parameter-free similarity measure between two sets of points. BBS is based on counting the number of Best-Buddies Pairs (BBPs)--pairs of points in source and target sets...
computer science
26,177
Review of the Fingerprint Liveness Detection (LivDet) competition series: 2009 to 2015
cs.CV
A spoof attack, a subset of presentation attacks, is the use of an artificial replica of a biometric in an attempt to circumvent a biometric sensor. Liveness detection, or presentation attack detection, distinguishes between live and fake biometric traits and is based on the principle that additional information can be...
computer science
26,178
Improving Color Constancy by Discounting the Variation of Camera Spectral Sensitivity
cs.CV
It is an ill-posed problem to recover the true scene colors from a color biased image by discounting the effects of scene illuminant and camera spectral sensitivity (CSS) at the same time. Most color constancy (CC) models have been designed to first estimate the illuminant color, which is then removed from the color bi...
computer science
26,179
Making a Case for Learning Motion Representations with Phase
cs.CV
This work advocates Eulerian motion representation learning over the current standard Lagrangian optical flow model. Eulerian motion is well captured by using phase, as obtained by decomposing the image through a complex-steerable pyramid. We discuss the gain of Eulerian motion in a set of practical use cases: (i) acti...
computer science
26,180
Human pose estimation via Convolutional Part Heatmap Regression
cs.CV
This paper is on human pose estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks. Our main contribution is a CNN cascaded architecture specifically designed for learning part relationships and spatial context, and robustly inferring pose even for the case of severe part occlusions. To this end, we propose a detection-followe...
computer science
26,181
Performance Measures and a Data Set for Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking
cs.CV
To help accelerate progress in multi-target, multi-camera tracking systems, we present (i) a new pair of precision-recall measures of performance that treats errors of all types uniformly and emphasizes correct identification over sources of error; (ii) the largest fully-annotated and calibrated data set to date with m...
computer science
26,182
A Boosting Method to Face Image Super-resolution
cs.CV
Recently sparse representation has gained great success in face image super-resolution. The conventional sparsity-based methods enforce sparse coding on face image patches and the representation fidelity is measured by $\ell_{2}$-norm. Such a sparse coding model regularizes all facial patches equally, which however ign...
computer science
26,183
Delaunay Triangulation on Skeleton of Flowers for Classification
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a Triangle based approach to classify flower images. Initially, flowers are segmented using whorl based region merging segmentation. Skeleton of a flower is obtained from the segmented flower using a skeleton pruning method. The Delaunay triangulation is obtained from the endpoints and junction...
computer science
26,184
Animal Classification System: A Block Based Approach
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a method for the classification of animal in images. Initially, a graph cut based method is used to perform segmentation in order to eliminate the background from the given image. The segmented animal images are partitioned in to number of blocks and then the color texture moments are extracted...
computer science
26,185
Guided Filter based Edge-preserving Image Non-blind Deconvolution
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a new approach for efficient edge-preserving image deconvolution. Our algorithm is based on a novel type of explicit image filter - guided filter. The guided filter can be used as an edge-preserving smoothing operator like the popular bilateral filter, but has better behaviors near edges. We pr...
computer science
26,186
Automatic Visual Theme Discovery from Joint Image and Text Corpora
cs.CV
A popular approach to semantic image understanding is to manually tag images with keywords and then learn a mapping from vi- sual features to keywords. Manually tagging images is a subjective pro- cess and the same or very similar visual contents are often tagged with different keywords. Furthermore, not all tags have ...
computer science
26,187
Polysemous codes
cs.CV
This paper considers the problem of approximate nearest neighbor search in the compressed domain. We introduce polysemous codes, which offer both the distance estimation quality of product quantization and the efficient comparison of binary codes with Hamming distance. Their design is inspired by algorithms introduced ...
computer science
26,188
Polyp Detection and Segmentation from Video Capsule Endoscopy: A Review
cs.CV
Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) is used widely nowadays for visualizing the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Capsule endoscopy exams are prescribed usually as an additional monitoring mechanism and can help in identifying polyps, bleeding, etc. To analyze the large scale video data produced by VCE exams automatic image proce...
computer science
26,189
A three-dimensional approach to Visual Speech Recognition using Discrete Cosine Transforms
cs.CV
Visual speech recognition aims to identify the sequence of phonemes from continuous speech. Unlike the traditional approach of using 2D image feature extraction methods to derive features of each video frame separately, this paper proposes a new approach using a 3D (spatio-temporal) Discrete Cosine Transform to extract...
computer science
26,190
Object Tracking via Dynamic Feature Selection Processes
cs.CV
DFST proposes an optimized visual tracking algorithm based on the real-time selection of locally and temporally discriminative features. A feature selection mechanism is embedded in the Adaptive colour Names (CN) tracking system that adaptively selects the top-ranked discriminative features for tracking. DFST provides ...
computer science
26,191
Dense Motion Estimation for Smoke
cs.CV
Motion estimation for highly dynamic phenomena such as smoke is an open challenge for Computer Vision. Traditional dense motion estimation algorithms have difficulties with non-rigid and large motions, both of which are frequently observed in smoke motion. We propose an algorithm for dense motion estimation of smoke. O...
computer science
26,192
Visual Saliency Detection Based on Multiscale Deep CNN Features
cs.CV
Visual saliency is a fundamental problem in both cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision. In this paper, we discover that a high-quality visual saliency model can be learned from multiscale features extracted using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have had many successes in visua...
computer science
26,193
Clearing the Skies: A deep network architecture for single-image rain removal
cs.CV
We introduce a deep network architecture called DerainNet for removing rain streaks from an image. Based on the deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we directly learn the mapping relationship between rainy and clean image detail layers from data. Because we do not possess the ground truth corresponding to real-worl...
computer science
26,194
Optimizing Codes for Source Separation in Color Image Demosaicing and Compressive Video Recovery
cs.CV
There exist several applications in image processing (eg: video compressed sensing [Hitomi, Y. et al, "Video from a single coded exposure photograph using a learned overcomplete dictionary"] and color image demosaicing [Moghadam, A. A. et al, "Compressive Framework for Demosaicing of Natural Images"]) which require sep...
computer science
26,195
Automated Segmentation of Retinal Layers from Optical Coherent Tomography Images Using Geodesic Distance
cs.CV
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique that can produce images of the eye at the microscopic level. OCT image segmentation to localise retinal layer boundaries is a fundamental procedure for diagnosing and monitoring the progression of retinal and optical nerve disorders. In this paper, ...
computer science
26,196
Learning Action Concept Trees and Semantic Alignment Networks from Image-Description Data
cs.CV
Action classification in still images has been a popular research topic in computer vision. Labelling large scale datasets for action classification requires tremendous manual work, which is hard to scale up. Besides, the action categories in such datasets are pre-defined and vocabularies are fixed. However humans may ...
computer science
26,197
Adaptive Regularization in Convex Composite Optimization for Variational Imaging Problems
cs.CV
We propose an adaptive regularization scheme in a variational framework where a convex composite energy functional is optimized. We consider a number of imaging problems including denoising, segmentation and motion estimation, which are considered as optimal solutions of the energy functionals that mainly consist of da...
computer science
26,198
Ear-to-ear Capture of Facial Intrinsics
cs.CV
We present a practical approach to capturing ear-to-ear face models comprising both 3D meshes and intrinsic textures (i.e. diffuse and specular albedo). Our approach is a hybrid of geometric and photometric methods and requires no geometric calibration. Photometric measurements made in a lightstage are used to estimate...
computer science
26,199
Extraction of Skin Lesions from Non-Dermoscopic Images Using Deep Learning
cs.CV
Melanoma is amongst most aggressive types of cancer. However, it is highly curable if detected in its early stages. Prescreening of suspicious moles and lesions for malignancy is of great importance. Detection can be done by images captured by standard cameras, which are more preferable due to low cost and availability...
computer science
26,200
End-to-End Eye Movement Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Common computational methods for automated eye movement detection - i.e. the task of detecting different types of eye movement in a continuous stream of gaze data - are limited in that they either involve thresholding on hand-crafted signal features, require individual detectors each only detecting a single movement, o...
computer science
26,201
Quantifying Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis Severity using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new approach to automatically quantify the severity of knee osteoarthritis (OA) from radiographs using deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). Clinically, knee OA severity is assessed using Kellgren \& Lawrence (KL) grades, a five point scale. Previous work on automatically predicting KL grades ...
computer science