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A Model of Virtual Carrier Immigration in Digital Images for Region Segmentation
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A novel model for image segmentation is proposed, which is inspired by the carrier immigration mechanism in physical P-N junction. The carrier diffusing and drifting are simulated in the proposed model, which imitates the physical self-balancing mechanism in P-N junction. The effect of virtual carrier immigration in di...
computer science
26,403
The Virtual Electromagnetic Interaction between Digital Images for Image Matching with Shifting Transformation
cs.CV
A novel way of matching two images with shifting transformation is studied. The approach is based on the presentation of the virtual edge current in images, and also the study of virtual electromagnetic interaction between two related images inspired by electromagnetism. The edge current in images is proposed as a disc...
computer science
26,404
Fast Training of Convolutional Neural Networks via Kernel Rescaling
cs.CV
Training deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) is a time consuming task that may take weeks to complete. In this article we propose a novel, theoretically founded method for reducing CNN training time without incurring any loss in accuracy. The basic idea is to begin training with a pre-train network using lower-res...
computer science
26,405
Analyzing the Affect of a Group of People Using Multi-modal Framework
cs.CV
Millions of images on the web enable us to explore images from social events such as a family party, thus it is of interest to understand and model the affect exhibited by a group of people in images. But analysis of the affect expressed by multiple people is challenging due to varied indoor and outdoor settings, and i...
computer science
26,406
Image Based Camera Localization: an Overview
cs.CV
Recently, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, self-driving cars et al attract much attention of industrial community, in which image based camera localization is a key task. It is urgent to give an overview of image based camera localization. In this paper, an overview of image based camera localization is pr...
computer science
26,407
Multi-Task Curriculum Transfer Deep Learning of Clothing Attributes
cs.CV
Recognising detailed clothing characteristics (fine-grained attributes) in unconstrained images of people in-the-wild is a challenging task for computer vision, especially when there is only limited training data from the wild whilst most data available for model learning are captured in well-controlled environments us...
computer science
26,408
Light Field Compression with Disparity Guided Sparse Coding based on Structural Key Views
cs.CV
Recent imaging technologies are rapidly evolving for sampling richer and more immersive representations of the 3D world. And one of the emerging technologies are light field (LF) cameras based on micro-lens arrays. To record the directional information of the light rays, a much larger storage space and transmission ban...
computer science
26,409
Deep disentangled representations for volumetric reconstruction
cs.CV
We introduce a convolutional neural network for inferring a compact disentangled graphical description of objects from 2D images that can be used for volumetric reconstruction. The network comprises an encoder and a twin-tailed decoder. The encoder generates a disentangled graphics code. The first decoder generates a v...
computer science
26,410
Video Depth-From-Defocus
cs.CV
Many compelling video post-processing effects, in particular aesthetic focus editing and refocusing effects, are feasible if per-frame depth information is available. Existing computational methods to capture RGB and depth either purposefully modify the optics (coded aperture, light-field imaging), or employ active RGB...
computer science
26,411
Semi-Coupled Two-Stream Fusion ConvNets for Action Recognition at Extremely Low Resolutions
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been recently shown to attain state-of-the-art performance for action recognition on standard-resolution videos. However, less attention has been paid to recognition performance at extremely low resolutions (eLR) (e.g., 16 x 12 pixels). Reliable action recognition usin...
computer science
26,412
Stroke Sequence-Dependent Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Online Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel model, named Stroke Sequence-dependent Deep Convolutional Neural Network (SSDCNN), using the stroke sequence information and eight-directional features for Online Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition (OLHCCR). On one hand, SSDCNN can learn the representation of Online Handwritten ...
computer science
26,413
Video Fill in the Blank with Merging LSTMs
cs.CV
Given a video and its incomplete textural description with missing words, the Video-Fill-in-the-Blank (ViFitB) task is to automatically find the missing word. The contextual information of the sentences are important to infer the missing words; the visual cues are even more crucial to get a more accurate inference. In ...
computer science
26,414
Automatic View-Point Selection for Inter-Operative Endoscopic Surveillance
cs.CV
Esophageal adenocarcinoma arises from Barrett's esophagus, which is the most serious complication of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Strategies for screening involve periodic surveillance and tissue biopsies. A major challenge in such regular examinations is to record and track the disease evolution and re-localizatio...
computer science
26,415
Embedded real-time stereo estimation via Semi-Global Matching on the GPU
cs.CV
Dense, robust and real-time computation of depth information from stereo-camera systems is a computationally demanding requirement for robotics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. Semi-Global Matching (SGM) is a widely used algorithm that propagates consistency constraints along several ...
computer science
26,416
GPU-accelerated real-time stixel computation
cs.CV
The Stixel World is a medium-level, compact representation of road scenes that abstracts millions of disparity pixels into hundreds or thousands of stixels. The goal of this work is to implement and evaluate a complete multi-stixel estimation pipeline on an embedded, energy-efficient, GPU-accelerated device. This work ...
computer science
26,417
Assessing Threat of Adversarial Examples on Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep neural networks are facing a potential security threat from adversarial examples, inputs that look normal but cause an incorrect classification by the deep neural network. For example, the proposed threat could result in hand-written digits on a scanned check being incorrectly classified but looking normal when hu...
computer science
26,418
Improved phase-unwrapping method using geometric constraints
cs.CV
Conventional dual-frequency fringe projection algorithm often suffers from phase unwrapping failure when the frequency ratio between the high frequency and the low one is too large. Zhang et.al. proposed an enhanced two-frequency phase-shifting method to use geometric constraints of digital fringe projection(DFP) to re...
computer science
26,419
Recurrent 3D Attentional Networks for End-to-End Active Object Recognition in Cluttered Scenes
cs.CV
Active vision is inherently attention-driven: The agent selects views of observation to best approach the vision task while improving its internal representation of the scene being observed. Inspired by the recent success of attention-based models in 2D vision tasks based on single RGB images, we propose to address the...
computer science
26,420
Learning and Fusing Multimodal Features from and for Multi-task Facial Computing
cs.CV
We propose a deep learning-based feature fusion approach for facial computing including face recognition as well as gender, race and age detection. Instead of training a single classifier on face images to classify them based on the features of the person whose face appears in the image, we first train four different c...
computer science
26,421
On Duality Of Multiple Target Tracking and Segmentation
cs.CV
Traditionally, object tracking and segmentation are treated as two separate problems and solved independently. However, in this paper, we argue that tracking and segmentation are actually closely related and solving one should help the other. On one hand, the object track, which is a set of bounding boxes with one boun...
computer science
26,422
Are Accuracy and Robustness Correlated?
cs.CV
Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial example generation approaches with multiple deep convolutional neural networks includ...
computer science
26,423
Comparing Face Detection and Recognition Techniques
cs.CV
This paper implements and compares different techniques for face detection and recognition. One is find where the face is located in the images that is face detection and second is face recognition that is identifying the person. We study three techniques in this paper: Face detection using self organizing map (SOM), F...
computer science
26,424
Deep Learning Ensembles for Melanoma Recognition in Dermoscopy Images
cs.CV
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. While curable with early detection, only highly trained specialists are capable of accurately recognizing the disease. As expertise is in limited supply, automated systems capable of identifying disease could save lives, reduce unnecessary biopsies, and reduce costs. Towar...
computer science
26,425
Road Curb Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Clouds
cs.CV
Automatic extraction of road curbs from uneven, unorganized, noisy and massive 3D point clouds is a challenging task. Existing methods often project 3D point clouds onto 2D planes to extract curbs. However, the projection causes loss of 3D information which degrades the performance of the detection. This paper presents...
computer science
26,426
Incremental One-Class Models for Data Classification
cs.CV
In this paper we outline a PhD research plan. This research contributes to the field of one-class incremental learning and classification in case of non-stationary environments. The goal of this PhD is to define a new classification framework able to deal with very small learning dataset at the beginning of the process...
computer science
26,427
Recovering the Missing Link: Predicting Class-Attribute Associations for Unsupervised Zero-Shot Learning
cs.CV
Collecting training images for all visual categories is not only expensive but also impractical. Zero-shot learning (ZSL), especially using attributes, offers a pragmatic solution to this problem. However, at test time most attribute-based methods require a full description of attribute associations for each unseen cla...
computer science
26,428
Beyond Spatial Auto-Regressive Models: Predicting Housing Prices with Satellite Imagery
cs.CV
When modeling geo-spatial data, it is critical to capture spatial correlations for achieving high accuracy. Spatial Auto-Regression (SAR) is a common tool used to model such data, where the spatial contiguity matrix (W) encodes the spatial correlations. However, the efficacy of SAR is limited by two factors. First, it ...
computer science
26,429
To Frontalize or Not To Frontalize: A Study of Face Pre-Processing Techniques and Their Impact on Recognition
cs.CV
Face recognition performance has improved remarkably in the last decade. Much of this success can be attributed to the development of deep learning techniques such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While CNNs have pushed the state-of-the-art forward, their training process requires a large amount of clean and co...
computer science
26,430
Location Sensitive Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Segmentation of White Matter Hyperintensities
cs.CV
The anatomical location of imaging features is of crucial importance for accurate diagnosis in many medical tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have had huge successes in computer vision, but they lack the natural ability to incorporate the anatomical location in their decision making process, hindering success ...
computer science
26,431
Real-time Joint Tracking of a Hand Manipulating an Object from RGB-D Input
cs.CV
Real-time simultaneous tracking of hands manipulating and interacting with external objects has many potential applications in augmented reality, tangible computing, and wearable computing. However, due to difficult occlusions, fast motions, and uniform hand appearance, jointly tracking hand and object pose is more cha...
computer science
26,432
What is the Best Way for Extracting Meaningful Attributes from Pictures?
cs.CV
Automatic attribute discovery methods have gained in popularity to extract sets of visual attributes from images or videos for various tasks. Despite their good performance in some classification tasks, it is difficult to evaluate whether the attributes discovered by these methods are meaningful and which methods are t...
computer science
26,433
Spatio-Temporal Attention Models for Grounded Video Captioning
cs.CV
Automatic video captioning is challenging due to the complex interactions in dynamic real scenes. A comprehensive system would ultimately localize and track the objects, actions and interactions present in a video and generate a description that relies on temporal localization in order to ground the visual concepts. Ho...
computer science
26,434
Deep Learning Prototype Domains for Person Re-Identification
cs.CV
Person re-identification (re-id) is the task of matching multiple occurrences of the same person from different cameras, poses, lighting conditions, and a multitude of other factors which alter the visual appearance. Typically, this is achieved by learning either optimal features or matching metrics which are adapted t...
computer science
26,435
Spatio-temporal Co-Occurrence Characterizations for Human Action Classification
cs.CV
The human action classification task is a widely researched topic and is still an open problem. Many state-of-the-arts approaches involve the usage of bag-of-video-words with spatio-temporal local features to construct characterizations for human actions. In order to improve beyond this standard approach, we investigat...
computer science
26,436
Structured Sparse Subspace Clustering: A Joint Affinity Learning and Subspace Clustering Framework
cs.CV
Subspace clustering refers to the problem of segmenting data drawn from a union of subspaces. State-of-the-art approaches for solving this problem follow a two-stage approach. In the first step, an affinity matrix is learned from the data using sparse or low-rank minimization techniques. In the second step, the segment...
computer science
26,437
Rule Extraction Algorithm for Deep Neural Networks: A Review
cs.CV
Despite the highest classification accuracy in wide varieties of application areas, artificial neural network has one disadvantage. The way this Network comes to a decision is not easily comprehensible. The lack of explanation ability reduces the acceptability of neural network in data mining and decision system. This ...
computer science
26,438
Real-time analysis of cataract surgery videos using statistical models
cs.CV
The automatic analysis of the surgical process, from videos recorded during surgeries, could be very useful to surgeons, both for training and for acquiring new techniques. The training process could be optimized by automatically providing some targeted recommendations or warnings, similar to the expert surgeon's guida...
computer science
26,439
M2CAI Workflow Challenge: Convolutional Neural Networks with Time Smoothing and Hidden Markov Model for Video Frames Classification
cs.CV
Our approach is among the three best to tackle the M2CAI Workflow challenge. The latter consists in recognizing the operation phase for each frames of endoscopic videos. In this technical report, we compare several classification models and temporal smoothing methods. Our submitted solution is a fine tuned Residual Net...
computer science
26,440
Master's Thesis : Deep Learning for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
The goal of our research is to develop methods advancing automatic visual recognition. In order to predict the unique or multiple labels associated to an image, we study different kind of Deep Neural Networks architectures and methods for supervised features learning. We first draw up a state-of-the-art review of the C...
computer science
26,441
Deep Identity-aware Transfer of Facial Attributes
cs.CV
This paper presents a Deep convolutional network model for Identity-Aware Transfer (DIAT) of facial attributes. Given the source input image and the reference attribute, DIAT aims to generate a facial image (i.e., target image) that not only owns the reference attribute but also keep the same or similar identity to the...
computer science
26,442
From Traditional to Modern : Domain Adaptation for Action Classification in Short Social Video Clips
cs.CV
Short internet video clips like vines present a significantly wild distribution compared to traditional video datasets. In this paper, we focus on the problem of unsupervised action classification in wild vines using traditional labeled datasets. To this end, we use a data augmentation based simple domain adaptation st...
computer science
26,443
Semantic Decomposition and Recognition of Long and Complex Manipulation Action Sequences
cs.CV
Understanding continuous human actions is a non-trivial but important problem in computer vision. Although there exists a large corpus of work in the recognition of action sequences, most approaches suffer from problems relating to vast variations in motions, action combinations, and scene contexts. In this paper, we i...
computer science
26,444
Lensless Imaging with Compressive Ultrafast Sensing
cs.CV
Lensless imaging is an important and challenging problem. One notable solution to lensless imaging is a single pixel camera which benefits from ideas central to compressive sampling. However, traditional single pixel cameras require many illumination patterns which result in a long acquisition process. Here we present ...
computer science
26,445
Mixed context networks for semantic segmentation
cs.CV
Semantic segmentation is challenging as it requires both object-level information and pixel-level accuracy. Recently, FCN-based systems gained great improvement in this area. Unlike classification networks, combining features of different layers plays an important role in these dense prediction models, as these feature...
computer science
26,446
StuffNet: Using 'Stuff' to Improve Object Detection
cs.CV
We propose a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based algorithm - StuffNet - for object detection. In addition to the standard convolutional features trained for region proposal and object detection [31], StuffNet uses convolutional features trained for segmentation of objects and 'stuff' (amorphous categories such as ...
computer science
26,447
A Robust 3D-2D Interactive Tool for Scene Segmentation and Annotation
cs.CV
Recent advances of 3D acquisition devices have enabled large-scale acquisition of 3D scene data. Such data, if completely and well annotated, can serve as useful ingredients for a wide spectrum of computer vision and graphics works such as data-driven modeling and scene understanding, object detection and recognition. ...
computer science
26,448
An automatic bad band preremoval algorithm for hyperspectral imagery
cs.CV
For most hyperspectral remote sensing applications, removing bad bands, such as water absorption bands, is a required preprocessing step. Currently, the commonly applied method is by visual inspection, which is very time-consuming and it is easy to overlook some noisy bands. In this study, we find an inherent connectio...
computer science
26,449
Learning Robust Video Synchronization without Annotations
cs.CV
Aligning video sequences is a fundamental yet still unsolved component for a broad range of applications in computer graphics and vision. Most classical image processing methods cannot be directly applied to related video problems due to the high amount of underlying data and their limit to small changes in appearance....
computer science
26,450
POI: Multiple Object Tracking with High Performance Detection and Appearance Feature
cs.CV
Detection and learning based appearance feature play the central role in data association based multiple object tracking (MOT), but most recent MOT works usually ignore them and only focus on the hand-crafted feature and association algorithms. In this paper, we explore the high-performance detection and deep learning ...
computer science
26,451
A Reinforcement Learning Approach to the View Planning Problem
cs.CV
We present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) solution to the view planning problem (VPP), which generates a sequence of view points that are capable of sensing all accessible area of a given object represented as a 3D model. In doing so, the goal is to minimize the number of view points, making the VPP a class of set cover...
computer science
26,452
Adaptive Substring Extraction and Modified Local NBNN Scoring for Binary Feature-based Local Mobile Visual Search without False Positives
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a stand-alone mobile visual search system based on binary features and the bag-of-visual words framework. The contribution of this study is three-fold: (1) We propose an adaptive substring extraction method that adaptively extracts informative bits from the original binary vector and stores th...
computer science
26,453
Retrieving challenging vessel connections in retinal images by line co-occurrence statistics
cs.CV
Natural images contain often curvilinear structures, which might be disconnected, or partly occluded. Recovering the missing connection of disconnected structures is an open issue and needs appropriate geometric reasoning. We propose to find line co-occurrence statistics from the centerlines of blood vessels in retinal...
computer science
26,454
An Image Dataset of Text Patches in Everyday Scenes
cs.CV
This paper describes a dataset containing small images of text from everyday scenes. The purpose of the dataset is to support the development of new automated systems that can detect and analyze text. Although much research has been devoted to text detection and recognition in scanned documents, relatively little atten...
computer science
26,455
Short-term prediction of localized cloud motion using ground-based sky imagers
cs.CV
Fine-scale short-term cloud motion prediction is needed for several applications, including solar energy generation and satellite communications. In tropical regions such as Singapore, clouds are mostly formed by convection; they are very localized, and evolve quickly. We capture hemispherical images of the sky at regu...
computer science
26,456
Scalable Pooled Time Series of Big Video Data from the Deep Web
cs.CV
We contribute a scalable implementation of Ryoo et al's Pooled Time Series algorithm from CVPR 2015. The updated algorithm has been evaluated on a large and diverse dataset of approximately 6800 videos collected from a crawl of the deep web related to human trafficking on DARPA's MEMEX effort. We describe the propertie...
computer science
26,457
Multi-view metric learning for multi-instance image classification
cs.CV
It is critical and meaningful to make image classification since it can help human in image retrieval and recognition, object detection, etc. In this paper, three-sides efforts are made to accomplish the task. First, visual features with bag-of-words representation, not single vector, are extracted to characterize the ...
computer science
26,458
Model-based Outdoor Performance Capture
cs.CV
We propose a new model-based method to accurately reconstruct human performances captured outdoors in a multi-camera setup. Starting from a template of the actor model, we introduce a new unified implicit representation for both, articulated skeleton tracking and nonrigid surface shape refinement. Our method fits the t...
computer science
26,459
Fine-grained Recognition in the Noisy Wild: Sensitivity Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks Approaches
cs.CV
In this paper, we study the sensitivity of CNN outputs with respect to image transformations and noise in the area of fine-grained recognition. In particular, we answer the following questions (1) how sensitive are CNNs with respect to image transformations encountered during wild image capture?; (2) how can we predict...
computer science
26,460
Deep Models for Engagement Assessment With Scarce Label Information
cs.CV
Task engagement is defined as loadings on energetic arousal (affect), task motivation, and concentration (cognition). It is usually challenging and expensive to label cognitive state data, and traditional computational models trained with limited label information for engagement assessment do not perform well because o...
computer science
26,461
Exploitation of Semantic Keywords for Malicious Event Classification
cs.CV
Learning an event classifier is challenging when the scenes are semantically different but visually similar. However, as humans, we typically handle such tasks painlessly by adding our background semantic knowledge. Motivated by this observation, we aim to provide an empirical study about how additional information suc...
computer science
26,462
Review of Action Recognition and Detection Methods
cs.CV
In computer vision, action recognition refers to the act of classifying an action that is present in a given video and action detection involves locating actions of interest in space and/or time. Videos, which contain photometric information (e.g. RGB, intensity values) in a lattice structure, contain information that ...
computer science
26,463
Enhanced Object Detection via Fusion With Prior Beliefs from Image Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a novel fusion method that can enhance object detection performance by fusing decisions from two different types of computer vision tasks: object detection and image classification. In the proposed work, the class label of an image obtained from image classification is viewed as prior knowle...
computer science
26,464
Automatic Image De-fencing System
cs.CV
Tourists and Wild-life photographers are often hindered in capturing their cherished images or videos by a fence that limits accessibility to the scene of interest. The situation has been exacerbated by growing concerns of security at public places and a need exists to provide a tool that can be used for post-processin...
computer science
26,465
Spectral Angle Based Unary Energy Functions for Spatial-Spectral Hyperspectral Classification using Markov Random Fields
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose and compare two spectral angle based approaches for spatial-spectral classification. Our methods use the spectral angle to generate unary energies in a grid-structured Markov random field defined over the pixel labels of a hyperspectral image. The first approach is to use the exponential spect...
computer science
26,466
Multitask Learning of Vegetation Biochemistry from Hyperspectral Data
cs.CV
Statistical models have been successful in accurately estimating the biochemical contents of vegetation from the reflectance spectra. However, their performance deteriorates when there is a scarcity of sizable amount of ground truth data for modeling the complex non-linear relationship occurring between the spectrum an...
computer science
26,467
Optimization on Submanifolds of Convolution Kernels in CNNs
cs.CV
Kernel normalization methods have been employed to improve robustness of optimization methods to reparametrization of convolution kernels, covariate shift, and to accelerate training of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, our understanding of theoretical properties of these methods has lagged behind their su...
computer science
26,468
Deep image mining for diabetic retinopathy screening
cs.CV
Deep learning is quickly becoming the leading methodology for medical image analysis. Given a large medical archive, where each image is associated with a diagnosis, efficient pathology detectors or classifiers can be trained with virtually no expert knowledge about the target pathologies. However, deep learning algori...
computer science
26,469
On Unifying Multi-View Self-Representations for Clustering by Tensor Multi-Rank Minimization
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the multi-view subspace clustering problem. Our method utilizes the circulant algebra for tensor, which is constructed by stacking the subspace representation matrices of different views and then rotating, to capture the low rank tensor subspace so that the refinement of the view-specific subs...
computer science
26,470
Real-time Halfway Domain Reconstruction of Motion and Geometry
cs.CV
We present a novel approach for real-time joint reconstruction of 3D scene motion and geometry from binocular stereo videos. Our approach is based on a novel variational halfway-domain scene flow formulation, which allows us to obtain highly accurate spatiotemporal reconstructions of shape and motion. We solve the unde...
computer science
26,471
3D Hand Pose Tracking and Estimation Using Stereo Matching
cs.CV
3D hand pose tracking/estimation will be very important in the next generation of human-computer interaction. Most of the currently available algorithms rely on low-cost active depth sensors. However, these sensors can be easily interfered by other active sources and require relatively high power consumption. As a resu...
computer science
26,472
SPiKeS: Superpixel-Keypoints Structure for Robust Visual Tracking
cs.CV
In visual tracking, part-based trackers are attractive since they are robust against occlusion and deformation. However, a part represented by a rectangular patch does not account for the shape of the target, while a superpixel does thanks to its boundary evidence. Nevertheless, tracking superpixels is difficult due to...
computer science
26,473
A coarse-to-fine algorithm for registration in 3D street-view cross-source point clouds
cs.CV
With the development of numerous 3D sensing technologies, object registration on cross-source point cloud has aroused researchers' interests. When the point clouds are captured from different kinds of sensors, there are large and different kinds of variations. In this study, we address an even more challenging case in ...
computer science
26,474
MultiCol-SLAM - A Modular Real-Time Multi-Camera SLAM System
cs.CV
The basis for most vision based applications like robotics, self-driving cars and potentially augmented and virtual reality is a robust, continuous estimation of the position and orientation of a camera system w.r.t the observed environment (scene). In recent years many vision based systems that perform simultaneous lo...
computer science
26,475
Theoretical Analysis of Active Contours on Graphs
cs.CV
Active contour models based on partial differential equations have proved successful in image segmentation, yet the study of their geometric formulation on arbitrary geometric graphs is still at an early stage. In this paper, we introduce geometric approximations of gradient and curvature, which are used in the geodesi...
computer science
26,476
Record Counting in Historical Handwritten Documents with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for counting the number of records in historical handwritten documents. With this work we demonstrate that training the networks only with synthetic images allows us to perform a near perfect evaluation of the number of records printed on historical...
computer science
26,477
Deep Multi-scale Location-aware 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Detection of Lacunes of Presumed Vascular Origin
cs.CV
Lacunes of presumed vascular origin (lacunes) are associated with an increased risk of stroke, gait impairment, and dementia and are a primary imaging feature of the small vessel disease. Quantification of lacunes may be of great importance to elucidate the mechanisms behind neuro-degenerative disorders and is recommen...
computer science
26,478
Feature Sensitive Label Fusion with Random Walker for Atlas-based Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel label fusion method is proposed for brain magnetic resonance image segmentation. This label fusion method is formulated on a graph, which embraces both label priors from atlases and anatomical priors from target image. To represent a pixel in a comprehensive way, three kinds of feature vectors ar...
computer science
26,479
Laplacian regularized low rank subspace clustering
cs.CV
The problem of fitting a union of subspaces to a collection of data points drawn from multiple subspaces is considered in this paper. In the traditional low rank representation model, the dictionary used to represent the data points is chosen as the data points themselves and thus the dictionary is corrupted with noise...
computer science
26,480
Automated OCT Segmentation for Images with DME
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel automated system that segments six sub-retinal layers from optical coherence tomography (OCT) image stacks of healthy patients and patients with diabetic macular edema (DME). First, each image in the OCT stack is denoised using a Wiener deconvolution algorithm that estimates the additive spe...
computer science
26,481
A data augmentation methodology for training machine/deep learning gait recognition algorithms
cs.CV
There are several confounding factors that can reduce the accuracy of gait recognition systems. These factors can reduce the distinctiveness, or alter the features used to characterise gait, they include variations in clothing, lighting, pose and environment, such as the walking surface. Full invariance to all confound...
computer science
26,482
Camera Fingerprint: A New Perspective for Identifying User's Identity
cs.CV
Identifying user's identity is a key problem in many data mining applications, such as product recommendation, customized content delivery and criminal identification. Given a set of accounts from the same or different social network platforms, user identification attempts to identify all accounts belonging to the same...
computer science
26,483
mdBrief - A Fast Online Adaptable, Distorted Binary Descriptor for Real-Time Applications Using Calibrated Wide-Angle Or Fisheye Cameras
cs.CV
Fast binary descriptors build the core for many vision based applications with real-time demands like object detection, Visual Odometry or SLAM. Commonly it is assumed, that the acquired images and thus the patches extracted around keypoints originate from a perspective projection ignoring image distortion or completel...
computer science
26,484
Maxmin convolutional neural networks for image classification
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are widely used in computer vision, especially in image classification. However, the way in which information and invariance properties are encoded through in deep CNN architectures is still an open question. In this paper, we propose to modify the standard convo- lutional block of C...
computer science
26,485
Anatomically Constrained Video-CT Registration via the V-IMLOP Algorithm
cs.CV
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a surgical procedure used to treat acute cases of sinusitis and other sinus diseases. FESS is fast becoming the preferred choice of treatment due to its minimally invasive nature. However, due to the limited field of view of the endoscope, surgeons rely on navigation system...
computer science
26,486
PATH: Person Authentication using Trace Histories
cs.CV
In this paper, a solution to the problem of Active Authentication using trace histories is addressed. Specifically, the task is to perform user verification on mobile devices using historical location traces of the user as a function of time. Considering the movement of a human as a Markovian motion, a modified Hidden ...
computer science
26,487
End-to-end Learning of Deep Visual Representations for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
While deep learning has become a key ingredient in the top performing methods for many computer vision tasks, it has failed so far to bring similar improvements to instance-level image retrieval. In this article, we argue that reasons for the underwhelming results of deep methods on image retrieval are threefold: i) no...
computer science
26,488
Spatial Relationship Based Features for Indian Sign Language Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, the task of recognizing signs made by hearing impaired people at sentence level has been addressed. A novel method of extracting spatial features to capture hand movements of a signer has been proposed. Frames of a given video of a sign are preprocessed to extract face and hand components of a signer. Th...
computer science
26,489
Predicting First Impressions with Deep Learning
cs.CV
Describable visual facial attributes are now commonplace in human biometrics and affective computing, with existing algorithms even reaching a sufficient point of maturity for placement into commercial products. These algorithms model objective facets of facial appearance, such as hair and eye color, expression, and as...
computer science
26,490
Incremental Nonparametric Weighted Feature Extraction for OnlineSubspace Pattern Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, a new online method based on nonparametric weighted feature extraction (NWFE) is proposed. NWFE was introduced to enjoy optimum characteristics of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and nonparametric discriminant analysis (NDA) while rectifying their drawbacks. It emphasizes the points near decision boun...
computer science
26,491
Video Analysis of "YouTube Funnies" to Aid the Study of Human Gait and Falls - Preliminary Results and Proof of Concept
cs.CV
Because falls are funny, YouTube and other video sharing sites contain a large repository of real-life falls. We propose extracting gait and balance information from these videos to help us better understand some of the factors that contribute to falls. Proof-of-concept is explored in a single video containing multiple...
computer science
26,492
Estimating the concentration of gold nanoparticles incorporated on Natural Rubber membranes using Multi-Level Starlet Optimal Segmentation
cs.CV
This study consolidates Multi-Level Starlet Segmentation (MLSS) and Multi-Level Starlet Optimal Segmentation (MLSOS), techniques for photomicrograph segmentation that use starlet wavelet detail levels to separate areas of interest in an input image. Several segmentation levels can be obtained using Multi-Level Starlet ...
computer science
26,493
Mask-off: Synthesizing Face Images in the Presence of Head-mounted Displays
cs.CV
A head-mounted display (HMD) could be an important component of augmented reality system. However, as the upper face region is seriously occluded by the device, the user experience could be affected in applications such as telecommunication and multi-player video games. In this paper, we first present a novel experimen...
computer science
26,494
Iterative Inversion of Deformation Vector Fields with Feedback Control
cs.CV
Purpose: This study aims at improving both accuracy with respect to inverse consistency and efficiency for numerical DVF inversion, by the development of a fixed-point iteration method with feedback control. Method: We introduce an iterative method with active feedback control for DVF inversion, its analysis and adapta...
computer science
26,495
Joint Detection and Tracking for Multipath Targets: A Variational Bayesian Approach
cs.CV
Different from traditional point target tracking systems assuming that a target generates at most one single measurement per scan, there exists a class of multipath target tracking systems where each measurement may originate from the interested target via one of multiple propagation paths or from clutter, while the co...
computer science
26,496
Exploiting Structure Sparsity for Covariance-based Visual Representation
cs.CV
The past few years have witnessed increasing research interest on covariance-based feature representation. A variety of methods have been proposed to boost its efficacy, with some recent ones resorting to nonlinear kernel technique. Noting that the essence of this feature representation is to characterise the underlyin...
computer science
26,497
Automated Management of Pothole related Disasters Using Image Processing and Geotagging
cs.CV
Potholes though seem inconsequential, may cause accidents resulting in loss of human life. In this paper, we present an automated system to efficiently manage the potholes in a ward by deploying geotagging and image processing techniques that overcomes the drawbacks associated with the existing survey-oriented systems....
computer science
26,498
Single- and Multi-Task Architectures for Surgical Workflow Challenge at M2CAI 2016
cs.CV
The surgical workflow challenge at M2CAI 2016 consists of identifying 8 surgical phases in cholecystectomy procedures. Here, we propose to use deep architectures that are based on our previous work where we presented several architectures to perform multiple recognition tasks on laparoscopic videos. In this technical r...
computer science
26,499
Single- and Multi-Task Architectures for Tool Presence Detection Challenge at M2CAI 2016
cs.CV
The tool presence detection challenge at M2CAI 2016 consists of identifying the presence/absence of seven surgical tools in the images of cholecystectomy videos. Here, we propose to use deep architectures that are based on our previous work where we presented several architectures to perform multiple recognition tasks ...
computer science
26,500
Tool and Phase recognition using contextual CNN features
cs.CV
A transfer learning method for generating features suitable for surgical tools and phase recognition from the ImageNet classification features [1] is proposed here. In addition, methods are developed for generating contextual features and combining them with time series analysis for final classification using multi-cla...
computer science
26,501
Detecting People in Artwork with CNNs
cs.CV
CNNs have massively improved performance in object detection in photographs. However research into object detection in artwork remains limited. We show state-of-the-art performance on a challenging dataset, People-Art, which contains people from photos, cartoons and 41 different artwork movements. We achieve this high ...
computer science