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Reduced Memory Region Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network Detection
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Accurate pedestrian detection has a primary role in automotive safety: for example, by issuing warnings to the driver or acting actively on car's brakes, it helps decreasing the probability of injuries and human fatalities. In order to achieve very high accuracy, recent pedestrian detectors have been based on Convoluti...
computer science
26,203
Bottom-up Instance Segmentation using Deep Higher-Order CRFs
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Traditional Scene Understanding problems such as Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation have made breakthroughs in recent years due to the adoption of deep learning. However, the former task is not able to localise objects at a pixel level, and the latter task has no notion of different instances of objects of the ...
computer science
26,204
Robust Structure from Motion in the Presence of Outliers and Missing Data
cs.CV
Structure from motion is an import theme in computer vision. Although great progress has been made both in theory and applications, most of the algorithms only work for static scenes and rigid objects. In recent years, structure and motion recovery of non-rigid objects and dynamic scenes have received a lot of attentio...
computer science
26,205
An Interactive Segmentation Tool for Quantifying Fat in Lumbar Muscles using Axial Lumbar-Spine MRI
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In this paper we present an interactive tool that can be used to quantify fat infiltration in lumbar muscles, which is useful in studying fat infiltration and lower back pain (LBP) in adults. Currently, a qualitative assessment by visual grading via a 5-point scale is used to study fat infiltration in lumbar muscles fr...
computer science
26,206
Image and Video Mining through Online Learning
cs.CV
Within the field of image and video recognition, the traditional approach is a dataset split into fixed training and test partitions. However, the labelling of the training set is time-consuming, especially as datasets grow in size and complexity. Furthermore, this approach is not applicable to the home user, who wants...
computer science
26,207
An empirical study on the effects of different types of noise in image classification tasks
cs.CV
Image classification is one of the main research problems in computer vision and machine learning. Since in most real-world image classification applications there is no control over how the images are captured, it is necessary to consider the possibility that these images might be affected by noise (e.g. sensor noise ...
computer science
26,208
Automated detection of smuggled high-risk security threats using Deep Learning
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The security infrastructure is ill-equipped to detect and deter the smuggling of non-explosive devices that enable terror attacks such as those recently perpetrated in western Europe. The detection of so-called "small metallic threats" (SMTs) in cargo containers currently relies on statistical risk analysis, intelligen...
computer science
26,209
Track Facial Points in Unconstrained Videos
cs.CV
Tracking Facial Points in unconstrained videos is challenging due to the non-rigid deformation that changes over time. In this paper, we propose to exploit incremental learning for person-specific alignment in wild conditions. Our approach takes advantage of part-based representation and cascade regression for robust a...
computer science
26,210
Image Denoising Via Collaborative Support-Agnostic Recovery
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In this paper, we propose a novel image denoising algorithm using collaborative support-agnostic sparse reconstruction. An observed image is first divided into patches. Similarly structured patches are grouped together to be utilized for collaborative processing. In the proposed collaborative schemes, similar patches a...
computer science
26,211
The Role of Context Selection in Object Detection
cs.CV
We investigate the reasons why context in object detection has limited utility by isolating and evaluating the predictive power of different context cues under ideal conditions in which context provided by an oracle. Based on this study, we propose a region-based context re-scoring method with dynamic context selection...
computer science
26,212
Rectifier Neural Network with a Dual-Pathway Architecture for Image Denoising
cs.CV
Recently deep neural networks based on tanh activation function have shown their impressive power in image denoising. In this letter, we try to use rectifier function instead of tanh and propose a dual-pathway rectifier neural network by combining two rectifier neurons with reversed input and output weights in the same...
computer science
26,213
Sequential Deep Trajectory Descriptor for Action Recognition with Three-stream CNN
cs.CV
Learning the spatial-temporal representation of motion information is crucial to human action recognition. Nevertheless, most of the existing features or descriptors cannot capture motion information effectively, especially for long-term motion. To address this problem, this paper proposes a long-term motion descriptor...
computer science
26,214
Style-Transfer via Texture-Synthesis
cs.CV
Style-transfer is a process of migrating a style from a given image to the content of another, synthesizing a new image which is an artistic mixture of the two. Recent work on this problem adopting Convolutional Neural-networks (CNN) ignited a renewed interest in this field, due to the very impressive results obtained....
computer science
26,215
Using Spatial Pooler of Hierarchical Temporal Memory to classify noisy videos with predefined complexity
cs.CV
This paper examines the performance of a Spatial Pooler (SP) of a Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) in the task of noisy object recognition. To address this challenge, a dedicated custom-designed system based on the SP, histogram calculation module and SVM classifier was implemented. In addition to implementing their ...
computer science
26,216
Learning Semantic Part-Based Models from Google Images
cs.CV
We propose a technique to train semantic part-based models of object classes from Google Images. Our models encompass the appearance of parts and their spatial arrangement on the object, specific to each viewpoint. We learn these rich models by collecting training instances for both parts and objects, and automatically...
computer science
26,217
Segmentation and Classification of Skin Lesions for Disease Diagnosis
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In this paper, a novel approach for automatic segmentation and classification of skin lesions is proposed. Initially, skin images are filtered to remove unwanted hairs and noise and then the segmentation process is carried out to extract lesion areas. For segmentation, a region growing method is applied by automatic in...
computer science
26,218
Semi-Supervised Sparse Representation Based Classification for Face Recognition with Insufficient Labeled Samples
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of face recognition when there is only few, or even only a single, labeled examples of the face that we wish to recognize. Moreover, these examples are typically corrupted by nuisance variables, both linear (i.e., additive nuisance variables such as bad lighting, wearing of glasses) and...
computer science
26,219
Image denoising via group sparsity residual constraint
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Group sparsity has shown great potential in various low-level vision tasks (e.g, image denoising, deblurring and inpainting). In this paper, we propose a new prior model for image denoising via group sparsity residual constraint (GSRC). To enhance the performance of group sparse-based image denoising, the concept of gr...
computer science
26,220
FALCON: Feature Driven Selective Classification for Energy-Efficient Image Recognition
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Machine-learning algorithms have shown outstanding image recognition or classification performance for computer vision applications. However, the compute and energy requirement for implementing such classifier models for large-scale problems is quite high. In this paper, we propose Feature Driven Selective Classificati...
computer science
26,221
MUG: A Parameterless No-Reference JPEG Quality Evaluator Robust to Block Size and Misalignment
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In this letter, a very simple no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) model for JPEG compressed images is proposed. The proposed metric called median of unique gradients (MUG) is based on the very simple facts of unique gradient magnitudes of JPEG compressed images. MUG is a parameterless metric and does not nee...
computer science
26,222
Hyperspectral Unmixing with Endmember Variability using Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
cs.CV
The application of Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation(PM-LDA) for hyperspectral endmember estimation and spectral unmixing is presented. PM-LDA provides a model for a hyperspectral image analysis that accounts for spectral variability and incorporates spatial information through the use of superpixel-based ...
computer science
26,223
Fully-Trainable Deep Matching
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Deep Matching (DM) is a popular high-quality method for quasi-dense image matching. Despite its name, however, the original DM formulation does not yield a deep neural network that can be trained end-to-end via backpropagation. In this paper, we remove this limitation by rewriting the complete DM algorithm as a convolu...
computer science
26,224
A Multi-Scale Cascade Fully Convolutional Network Face Detector
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Face detection is challenging as faces in images could be present at arbitrary locations and in different scales. We propose a three-stage cascade structure based on fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs). It first proposes the approximate locations where the faces may be, then aims to find the accurate location by...
computer science
26,225
Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold
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Realistic image manipulation is challenging because it requires modifying the image appearance in a user-controlled way, while preserving the realism of the result. Unless the user has considerable artistic skill, it is easy to "fall off" the manifold of natural images while editing. In this paper, we propose to learn ...
computer science
26,226
Detecting Text in Natural Image with Connectionist Text Proposal Network
cs.CV
We propose a novel Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) that accurately localizes text lines in natural image. The CTPN detects a text line in a sequence of fine-scale text proposals directly in convolutional feature maps. We develop a vertical anchor mechanism that jointly predicts location and text/non-text sco...
computer science
26,227
Reliable Attribute-Based Object Recognition Using High Predictive Value Classifiers
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We consider the problem of object recognition in 3D using an ensemble of attribute-based classifiers. We propose two new concepts to improve classification in practical situations, and show their implementation in an approach implemented for recognition from point-cloud data. First, the viewing conditions can have a st...
computer science
26,228
DeepSkeleton: Learning Multi-task Scale-associated Deep Side Outputs for Object Skeleton Extraction in Natural Images
cs.CV
Object skeletons are useful for object representation and object detection. They are complementary to the object contour, and provide extra information, such as how object scale (thickness) varies among object parts. But object skeleton extraction from natural images is very challenging, because it requires the extract...
computer science
26,229
Lie-X: Depth Image Based Articulated Object Pose Estimation, Tracking, and Action Recognition on Lie Groups
cs.CV
Pose estimation, tracking, and action recognition of articulated objects from depth images are important and challenging problems, which are normally considered separately. In this paper, a unified paradigm based on Lie group theory is proposed, which enables us to collectively address these related problems. Our appro...
computer science
26,230
Towards Deep Compositional Networks
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Hierarchical feature learning based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) has recently shown significant potential in various computer vision tasks. While allowing high-quality discriminative feature learning, the downside of CNNs is the lack of explicit structure in features, which often leads to overfitting, absence...
computer science
26,231
A Unified Gender-Aware Age Estimation
cs.CV
Human age estimation has attracted increasing researches due to its wide applicability in such as security monitoring and advertisement recommendation. Although a variety of methods have been proposed, most of them focus only on the age-specific facial appearance. However, biological researches have shown that not only...
computer science
26,232
Probabilistic Saliency Estimation
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In this paper, we model the salient object detection problem under a probabilistic framework encoding the boundary connectivity saliency cue and smoothness constraints in an optimization problem. We show that this problem has a closed form global optimum which estimates the salient object. We further show that along wi...
computer science
26,233
Image Decomposition Using a Robust Regression Approach
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This paper considers how to separate text and/or graphics from smooth background in screen content and mixed content images and proposes an algorithm to perform this segmentation task. The proposed methods make use of the fact that the background in each block is usually smoothly varying and can be modeled well by a li...
computer science
26,234
VIPLFaceNet: An Open Source Deep Face Recognition SDK
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Robust face representation is imperative to highly accurate face recognition. In this work, we propose an open source face recognition method with deep representation named as VIPLFaceNet, which is a 10-layer deep convolutional neural network with 7 convolutional layers and 3 fully-connected layers. Compared with the w...
computer science
26,235
The CUDA LATCH Binary Descriptor: Because Sometimes Faster Means Better
cs.CV
Accuracy, descriptor size, and the time required for extraction and matching are all important factors when selecting local image descriptors. To optimize over all these requirements, this paper presents a CUDA port for the recent Learned Arrangement of Three Patches (LATCH) binary descriptors to the GPU platform. The ...
computer science
26,236
Single-image RGB Photometric Stereo With Spatially-varying Albedo
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We present a single-shot system to recover surface geometry of objects with spatially-varying albedos, from images captured under a calibrated RGB photometric stereo setup---with three light directions multiplexed across different color channels in the observed RGB image. Since the problem is ill-posed point-wise, we a...
computer science
26,237
Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks with A Mathematical Model
cs.CV
This work attempts to address two fundamental questions about the structure of the convolutional neural networks (CNN): 1) why a non-linear activation function is essential at the filter output of every convolutional layer? 2) what is the advantage of the two-layer cascade system over the one-layer system? A mathematic...
computer science
26,238
Joint Gender Classification and Age Estimation by Nearly Orthogonalizing Their Semantic Spaces
cs.CV
In human face-based biometrics, gender classification and age estimation are two typical learning tasks. Although a variety of approaches have been proposed to handle them, just a few of them are solved jointly, even so, these joint methods do not yet specifically concern the semantic difference between human gender an...
computer science
26,239
ContextLocNet: Context-Aware Deep Network Models for Weakly Supervised Localization
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We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by introducing two types of context-aware guidance models, additive and contrastive model...
computer science
26,240
Combining Texture and Shape Cues for Object Recognition With Minimal Supervision
cs.CV
We present a novel approach to object classification and detection which requires minimal supervision and which combines visual texture cues and shape information learned from freely available unlabeled web search results. The explosion of visual data on the web can potentially make visual examples of almost any object...
computer science
26,241
Warped Convolutions: Efficient Invariance to Spatial Transformations
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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are extremely efficient, since they exploit the inherent translation-invariance of natural images. However, translation is just one of a myriad of useful spatial transformations. Can the same efficiency be attained when considering other spatial invariances? Such generalized convolu...
computer science
26,242
3D Face Reconstruction by Learning from Synthetic Data
cs.CV
Fast and robust three-dimensional reconstruction of facial geometric structure from a single image is a challenging task with numerous applications. Here, we introduce a learning-based approach for reconstructing a three-dimensional face from a single image. Recent face recovery methods rely on accurate localization of...
computer science
26,243
Learning Robust Features for Gait Recognition by Maximum Margin Criterion
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In the field of gait recognition from motion capture data, designing human-interpretable gait features is a common practice of many fellow researchers. To refrain from ad-hoc schemes and to find maximally discriminative features we may need to explore beyond the limits of human interpretability. This paper contributes ...
computer science
26,244
Perceptual Quality Prediction on Authentically Distorted Images Using a Bag of Features Approach
cs.CV
Current top-performing blind perceptual image quality prediction models are generally trained on legacy databases of human quality opinion scores on synthetically distorted images. Therefore they learn image features that effectively predict human visual quality judgments of inauthentic, and usually isolated (single) d...
computer science
26,245
Transport-based analysis, modeling, and learning from signal and data distributions
cs.CV
Transport-based techniques for signal and data analysis have received increased attention recently. Given their abilities to provide accurate generative models for signal intensities and other data distributions, they have been used in a variety of applications including content-based retrieval, cancer detection, image...
computer science
26,246
Visible Light-Based Human Visual System Conceptual Model
cs.CV
There is a widely held belief in the digital image and video processing community, which is as follows: the Human Visual System (HVS) is more sensitive to luminance (often confused with brightness) than photon energies (often confused with chromaticity and chrominance). Passages similar to the following occur with high...
computer science
26,247
Stamp processing with examplar features
cs.CV
Document digitization is becoming increasingly crucial. In this work, we propose a shape based approach for automatic stamp verification/detection in document images using an unsupervised feature learning. Given a small set of training images, our algorithm learns an appropriate shape representation using an unsupervis...
computer science
26,248
Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval Using Autoencoded Radon Transform
cs.CV
Using content-based binary codes to tag digital images has emerged as a promising retrieval technology. Recently, Radon barcodes (RBCs) have been introduced as a new binary descriptor for image search. RBCs are generated by binarization of Radon projections and by assembling them into a vector, namely the barcode. A si...
computer science
26,249
Dense Wide-Baseline Scene Flow From Two Handheld Video Cameras
cs.CV
We propose a new technique for computing dense scene flow from two handheld videos with wide camera baselines and different photometric properties due to different sensors or camera settings like exposure and white balance. Our technique innovates in two ways over existing methods: (1) it supports independently moving ...
computer science
26,250
Radon-Gabor Barcodes for Medical Image Retrieval
cs.CV
In recent years, with the explosion of digital images on the Web, content-based retrieval has emerged as a significant research area. Shapes, textures, edges and segments may play a key role in describing the content of an image. Radon and Gabor transforms are both powerful techniques that have been widely studied to e...
computer science
26,251
Deep Impression: Audiovisual Deep Residual Networks for Multimodal Apparent Personality Trait Recognition
cs.CV
Here, we develop an audiovisual deep residual network for multimodal apparent personality trait recognition. The network is trained end-to-end for predicting the Big Five personality traits of people from their videos. That is, the network does not require any feature engineering or visual analysis such as face detecti...
computer science
26,252
SemanticFusion: Dense 3D Semantic Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Ever more robust, accurate and detailed mapping using visual sensing has proven to be an enabling factor for mobile robots across a wide variety of applications. For the next level of robot intelligence and intuitive user interaction, maps need extend beyond geometry and appearence - they need to contain semantics. We ...
computer science
26,253
Target-driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes using Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
Two less addressed issues of deep reinforcement learning are (1) lack of generalization capability to new target goals, and (2) data inefficiency i.e., the model requires several (and often costly) episodes of trial and error to converge, which makes it impractical to be applied to real-world scenarios. In this paper, ...
computer science
26,254
A convolutional approach to reflection symmetry
cs.CV
We present a convolutional approach to reflection symmetry detection in 2D. Our model, built on the products of complex-valued wavelet convolutions, simplifies previous edge-based pairwise methods. Being parameter-centered, as opposed to feature-centered, it has certain computational advantages when the object sizes ar...
computer science
26,255
GeThR-Net: A Generalized Temporally Hybrid Recurrent Neural Network for Multimodal Information Fusion
cs.CV
Data generated from real world events are usually temporal and contain multimodal information such as audio, visual, depth, sensor etc. which are required to be intelligently combined for classification tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel generalized deep neural network architecture where temporal streams from mul...
computer science
26,256
Development of a Fuzzy Expert System based Liveliness Detection Scheme for Biometric Authentication
cs.CV
Liveliness detection acts as a safe guard against spoofing attacks. Most of the researchers used vision based techniques to detect liveliness of the user, but they are highly sensitive to illumination effects. Therefore it is very hard to design a system, which will work robustly under all circumstances. Literature sho...
computer science
26,257
Deep Kinematic Pose Regression
cs.CV
Learning articulated object pose is inherently difficult because the pose is high dimensional but has many structural constraints. Most existing work do not model such constraints and does not guarantee the geometric validity of their pose estimation, therefore requiring a post-processing to recover the correct geometr...
computer science
26,258
Pose from Action: Unsupervised Learning of Pose Features based on Motion
cs.CV
Human actions are comprised of a sequence of poses. This makes videos of humans a rich and dense source of human poses. We propose an unsupervised method to learn pose features from videos that exploits a signal which is complementary to appearance and can be used as supervision: motion. The key idea is that humans go ...
computer science
26,259
Learning camera viewpoint using CNN to improve 3D body pose estimation
cs.CV
The objective of this work is to estimate 3D human pose from a single RGB image. Extracting image representations which incorporate both spatial relation of body parts and their relative depth plays an essential role in accurate3D pose reconstruction. In this paper, for the first time, we show that camera viewpoint in ...
computer science
26,260
Color: A Crucial Factor for Aesthetic Quality Assessment in a Subjective Dataset of Paintings
cs.CV
Computational aesthetics is an emerging field of research which has attracted different research groups in the last few years. In this field, one of the main approaches to evaluate the aesthetic quality of paintings and photographs is a feature-based approach. Among the different features proposed to reach this goal, c...
computer science
26,261
Fast Single Shot Detection and Pose Estimation
cs.CV
For applications in navigation and robotics, estimating the 3D pose of objects is as important as detection. Many approaches to pose estimation rely on detecting or tracking parts or keypoints [11, 21]. In this paper we build on a recent state-of-the-art convolutional network for slidingwindow detection [10] to provide...
computer science
26,262
Coarse-to-fine Surgical Instrument Detection for Cataract Surgery Monitoring
cs.CV
The amount of surgical data, recorded during video-monitored surgeries, has extremely increased. This paper aims at improving existing solutions for the automated analysis of cataract surgeries in real time. Through the analysis of a video recording the operating table, it is possible to know which instruments exit or ...
computer science
26,263
Multi-Residual Networks: Improving the Speed and Accuracy of Residual Networks
cs.CV
In this article, we take one step toward understanding the learning behavior of deep residual networks, and supporting the observation that deep residual networks behave like ensembles. We propose a new convolutional neural network architecture which builds upon the success of residual networks by explicitly exploiting...
computer science
26,264
A scalable convolutional neural network for task-specified scenarios via knowledge distillation
cs.CV
In this paper, we explore the redundancy in convolutional neural network, which scales with the complexity of vision tasks. Considering that many front-end visual systems are interested in only a limited range of visual targets, the removing of task-specified network redundancy can promote a wide range of potential app...
computer science
26,265
Poisson Noise Reduction with Higher-order Natural Image Prior Model
cs.CV
Poisson denoising is an essential issue for various imaging applications, such as night vision, medical imaging and microscopy. State-of-the-art approaches are clearly dominated by patch-based non-local methods in recent years. In this paper, we aim to propose a local Poisson denoising model with both structure simplic...
computer science
26,266
Deep Neural Ensemble for Retinal Vessel Segmentation in Fundus Images towards Achieving Label-free Angiography
cs.CV
Automated segmentation of retinal blood vessels in label-free fundus images entails a pivotal role in computed aided diagnosis of ophthalmic pathologies, viz., diabetic retinopathy, hypertensive disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The challenge remains active in medical image analysis research due to varied distribu...
computer science
26,267
Contextual Relationship-based Activity Segmentation on an Event Stream in the IoT Environment with Multi-user Activities
cs.CV
The human activity recognition in the IoT environment plays the central role in the ambient assisted living, where the human activities can be represented as a concatenated event stream generated from various smart objects. From the concatenated event stream, each activity should be distinguished separately for the hum...
computer science
26,268
Adaptive Decontamination of the Training Set: A Unified Formulation for Discriminative Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Tracking-by-detection methods have demonstrated competitive performance in recent years. In these approaches, the tracking model heavily relies on the quality of the training set. Due to the limited amount of labeled training data, additional samples need to be extracted and labeled by the tracker itself. This often le...
computer science
26,269
Discriminative Scale Space Tracking
cs.CV
Accurate scale estimation of a target is a challenging research problem in visual object tracking. Most state-of-the-art methods employ an exhaustive scale search to estimate the target size. The exhaustive search strategy is computationally expensive and struggles when encountered with large scale variations. This pap...
computer science
26,270
Transfer Learning for Material Classification using Convolutional Networks
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Material classification in natural settings is a challenge due to complex interplay of geometry, reflectance properties, and illumination. Previous work on material classification relies strongly on hand-engineered features of visual samples. In this work we use a Convolutional Neural Network (convnet) that learns desc...
computer science
26,271
Hands-Free Segmentation of Medical Volumes via Binary Inputs
cs.CV
We propose a novel hands-free method to interactively segment 3D medical volumes. In our scenario, a human user progressively segments an organ by answering a series of questions of the form "Is this voxel inside the object to segment?". At each iteration, the chosen question is defined as the one halving a set of cand...
computer science
26,272
GAdaBoost: Accelerating Adaboost Feature Selection with Genetic Algorithms
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Boosted cascade of simple features, by Viola and Jones, is one of the most famous object detection frameworks. However, it suffers from a lengthy training process. This is due to the vast features space and the exhaustive search nature of Adaboost. In this paper we propose GAdaboost: a Genetic Algorithm to accelerate t...
computer science
26,273
Automated Visual Fin Identification of Individual Great White Sharks
cs.CV
This paper discusses the automated visual identification of individual great white sharks from dorsal fin imagery. We propose a computer vision photo ID system and report recognition results over a database of thousands of unconstrained fin images. To the best of our knowledge this line of work establishes the first fu...
computer science
26,274
Markov Random Field Model-Based Salt and Pepper Noise Removal
cs.CV
Problem of impulse noise reduction is a very well studied problem in image processing community and many different approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem. In the current work, the problem of fixed value impulse noise (salt and pepper) removal from images is investigated by use of a Markov Random Field (MR...
computer science
26,275
Robust Estimation of Multiple Inlier Structures
cs.CV
The robust estimator presented in this paper processes each structure independently. The scales of the structures are estimated adaptively and no threshold is involved in spite of different objective functions. The user has to specify only the number of elemental subsets for random sampling. After classifying all the i...
computer science
26,276
Matrix Variate RBM Model with Gaussian Distributions
cs.CV
Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) is a particular type of random neural network models modeling vector data based on the assumption of Bernoulli distribution. For multi-dimensional and non-binary data, it is necessary to vectorize and discretize the information in order to apply the conventional RBM. It is well-known ...
computer science
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From Facial Expression Recognition to Interpersonal Relation Prediction
cs.CV
Interpersonal relation defines the association, e.g., warm, friendliness, and dominance, between two or more people. Motivated by psychological studies, we investigate if such fine-grained and high-level relation traits can be characterized and quantified from face images in the wild. We address this challenging proble...
computer science
26,278
Partial Least Squares Regression on Riemannian Manifolds and Its Application in Classifications
cs.CV
Partial least squares regression (PLSR) has been a popular technique to explore the linear relationship between two datasets. However, most of algorithm implementations of PLSR may only achieve a suboptimal solution through an optimization on the Euclidean space. In this paper, we propose several novel PLSR models on R...
computer science
26,279
Detecting facial landmarks in the video based on a hybrid framework
cs.CV
To dynamically detect the facial landmarks in the video, we propose a novel hybrid framework termed as detection-tracking-detection (DTD). First, the face bounding box is achieved from the first frame of the video sequence based on a traditional face detection method. Then, a landmark detector detects the facial landma...
computer science
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Multi-View Constraint Propagation with Consensus Prior Knowledge
cs.CV
In many applications, the pairwise constraint is a kind of weaker supervisory information which can be collected easily. The constraint propagation has been proved to be a success of exploiting such side-information. In recent years, some methods of multi-view constraint propagation have been proposed. However, the pro...
computer science
26,281
Image Denoising via Multi-scale Nonlinear Diffusion Models
cs.CV
Image denoising is a fundamental operation in image processing and holds considerable practical importance for various real-world applications. Arguably several thousands of papers are dedicated to image denoising. In the past decade, sate-of-the-art denoising algorithm have been clearly dominated by non-local patch-ba...
computer science
26,282
FaceNet2ExpNet: Regularizing a Deep Face Recognition Net for Expression Recognition
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Relatively small data sets available for expression recognition research make the training of deep networks for expression recognition very challenging. Although fine-tuning can partially alleviate the issue, the performance is still below acceptable levels as the deep features probably contain redun- dant information ...
computer science
26,283
Show and Tell: Lessons learned from the 2015 MSCOCO Image Captioning Challenge
cs.CV
Automatically describing the content of an image is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence that connects computer vision and natural language processing. In this paper, we present a generative model based on a deep recurrent architecture that combines recent advances in computer vision and machine translation...
computer science
26,284
Characterization of Lung Nodule Malignancy using Hybrid Shape and Appearance Features
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Computed tomography imaging is a standard modality for detecting and assessing lung cancer. In order to evaluate the malignancy of lung nodules, clinical practice often involves expert qualitative ratings on several criteria describing a nodule's appearance and shape. Translating these features for computer-aided diagn...
computer science
26,285
Fast and reliable stereopsis measurement at multiple distances with iPad
cs.CV
Purpose: To present a new fast and reliable application for iPad (ST) for screening stereopsis at multiple distances. Methods: A new iPad application (app) based on a random dot stereogram was designed for screening stereopsis at multiple distances. Sixty-five subjects with no ocular diseases and wearing their habitu...
computer science
26,286
How should we evaluate supervised hashing?
cs.CV
Hashing produces compact representations for documents, to perform tasks like classification or retrieval based on these short codes. When hashing is supervised, the codes are trained using labels on the training data. This paper first shows that the evaluation protocols used in the literature for supervised hashing ar...
computer science
26,287
How Useful is Region-based Classification of Remote Sensing Images in a Deep Learning Framework?
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of segmentation algorithms as a preprocessing step for classification of remote sensing images in a deep learning framework. Especially, we address the issue of segmenting the image into regions to be classified using pre-trained deep neural networks as feature extractors for an...
computer science
26,288
Distributed Training of Deep Neural Networks: Theoretical and Practical Limits of Parallel Scalability
cs.CV
This paper presents a theoretical analysis and practical evaluation of the main bottlenecks towards a scalable distributed solution for the training of Deep Neuronal Networks (DNNs). The presented results show, that the current state of the art approach, using data-parallelized Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), is qui...
computer science
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Realtime Hierarchical Clustering based on Boundary and Surface Statistics
cs.CV
Visual grouping is a key mechanism in human scene perception. There, it belongs to the subconscious, early processing and is key prerequisite for other high level tasks such as recognition. In this paper, we introduce an efficient, realtime capable algorithm which likewise agglomerates a valuable hierarchical clusterin...
computer science
26,290
A quantitative analysis of tilt in the Café Wall illusion: a bioplausible model for foveal and peripheral vision
cs.CV
The biological characteristics of human visual processing can be investigated through the study of optical illusions and their perception, giving rise to intuitions that may improve computer vision to match human performance. Geometric illusions are a specific subfamily in which orientations and angles are misperceived...
computer science
26,291
Walker-Independent Features for Gait Recognition from Motion Capture Data
cs.CV
MoCap-based human identification, as a pattern recognition discipline, can be optimized using a machine learning approach. Yet in some applications such as video surveillance new identities can appear on the fly and labeled data for all encountered people may not always be available. This work introduces the concept of...
computer science
26,292
Is the deconvolution layer the same as a convolutional layer?
cs.CV
In this note, we want to focus on aspects related to two questions most people asked us at CVPR about the network we presented. Firstly, What is the relationship between our proposed layer and the deconvolution layer? And secondly, why are convolutions in low-resolution (LR) space a better choice? These are key questio...
computer science
26,293
EFANNA : An Extremely Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm Based on kNN Graph
cs.CV
Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a fundamental problem in many areas of data mining, machine learning and computer vision. The performance of traditional hierarchical structure (tree) based methods decreases as the dimensionality of data grows, while hashing based methods usually lack efficiency in practice...
computer science
26,294
Funnel-Structured Cascade for Multi-View Face Detection with Alignment-Awareness
cs.CV
Multi-view face detection in open environment is a challenging task due to diverse variations of face appearances and shapes. Most multi-view face detectors depend on multiple models and organize them in parallel, pyramid or tree structure, which compromise between the accuracy and time-cost. Aiming at a more favorable...
computer science
26,295
EgoCap: Egocentric Marker-less Motion Capture with Two Fisheye Cameras
cs.CV
Marker-based and marker-less optical skeletal motion-capture methods use an outside-in arrangement of cameras placed around a scene, with viewpoints converging on the center. They often create discomfort by possibly needed marker suits, and their recording volume is severely restricted and often constrained to indoor s...
computer science
26,296
Example-Based Image Synthesis via Randomized Patch-Matching
cs.CV
Image and texture synthesis is a challenging task that has long been drawing attention in the fields of image processing, graphics, and machine learning. This problem consists of modelling the desired type of images, either through training examples or via a parametric modeling, and then generating images that belong t...
computer science
26,297
The face-space duality hypothesis: a computational model
cs.CV
Valentine's face-space suggests that faces are represented in a psychological multidimensional space according to their perceived properties. However, the proposed framework was initially designed as an account of invariant facial features only, and explanations for dynamic features representation were neglected. In th...
computer science
26,298
Real-time Human Pose Estimation from Video with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a method for real-time multi-person human pose estimation from video by utilizing convolutional neural networks. Our method is aimed for use case specific applications, where good accuracy is essential and variation of the background and poses is limited. This enables us to use a generic netwo...
computer science
26,299
DimensionApp : android app to estimate object dimensions
cs.CV
In this project, we develop an android app that uses on computer vision techniques to estimate an object dimension present in field of view. The app while having compact size, is accurate upto +/- 5 mm and robust towards touch inputs. We use single-view metrology to compute accurate measurement. Unlike previous approac...
computer science
26,300
Three Tiers Neighborhood Graph and Multi-graph Fusion Ranking for Multi-feature Image Retrieval: A Manifold Aspect
cs.CV
Single feature is inefficient to describe content of an image, which is a shortcoming in traditional image retrieval task. We know that one image can be described by different features. Multi-feature fusion ranking can be utilized to improve the ranking list of query. In this paper, we first analyze graph structure and...
computer science
26,301
Perceptual uniform descriptor and Ranking on manifold: A bridge between image representation and ranking for image retrieval
cs.CV
Incompatibility of image descriptor and ranking is always neglected in image retrieval. In this paper, manifold learning and Gestalt psychology theory are involved to solve the incompatibility problem. A new holistic descriptor called Perceptual Uniform Descriptor (PUD) based on Gestalt psychology is proposed, which co...
computer science