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Learning Deep Representations Using Convolutional Auto-encoders with Symmetric Skip Connections
cs.CV
Unsupervised pre-training was a critical technique for training deep neural networks years ago. With sufficient labeled data and modern training techniques, it is possible to train very deep neural networks from scratch in a purely supervised manner nowadays. However, unlabeled data is easier to obtain and usually of v...
computer science
26,803
Large-Scale Shape Retrieval with Sparse 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper we present results of performance evaluation of S3DCNN - a Sparse 3D Convolutional Neural Network - on a large-scale 3D Shape benchmark ModelNet40, and measure how it is impacted by voxel resolution of input shape. We demonstrate comparable classification and retrieval performance to state-of-the-art mode...
computer science
26,804
Who's that Actor? Automatic Labelling of Actors in TV series starting from IMDB Images
cs.CV
In this work, we aim at automatically labeling actors in a TV series. Rather than relying on transcripts and subtitles, as has been demonstrated in the past, we show how to achieve this goal starting from a set of example images of each of the main actors involved, collected from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). The...
computer science
26,805
Computational Mapping of the Ground Reflectivity with Laser Scanners
cs.CV
In this investigation we focus on the problem of mapping the ground reflectivity with multiple laser scanners mounted on mobile robots/vehicles. The problem originates because regions of the ground become populated with a varying number of reflectivity measurements whose value depends on the observer and its correspond...
computer science
26,806
ECO: Efficient Convolution Operators for Tracking
cs.CV
In recent years, Discriminative Correlation Filter (DCF) based methods have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in tracking. However, in the pursuit of ever increasing tracking performance, their characteristic speed and real-time capability have gradually faded. Further, the increasingly complex models, with m...
computer science
26,807
Gaze Embeddings for Zero-Shot Image Classification
cs.CV
Zero-shot image classification using auxiliary information, such as attributes describing discriminative object properties, requires time-consuming annotation by domain experts. We instead propose a method that relies on human gaze as auxiliary information, exploiting that even non-expert users have a natural ability t...
computer science
26,808
Hierarchical Boundary-Aware Neural Encoder for Video Captioning
cs.CV
The use of Recurrent Neural Networks for video captioning has recently gained a lot of attention, since they can be used both to encode the input video and to generate the corresponding description. In this paper, we present a recurrent video encoding scheme which can discover and leverage the hierarchical structure of...
computer science
26,809
What Is Around The Camera?
cs.CV
How much does a single image reveal about the environment it was taken in? In this paper, we investigate how much of that information can be retrieved from a foreground object, combined with the background (i.e. the visible part of the environment). Assuming it is not perfectly diffuse, the foreground object acts as a ...
computer science
26,810
The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
State-of-the-art approaches for semantic image segmentation are built on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The typical segmentation architecture is composed of (a) a downsampling path responsible for extracting coarse semantic features, followed by (b) an upsampling path trained to recover the input image resolutio...
computer science
26,811
Material Recognition from Local Appearance in Global Context
cs.CV
Recognition of materials has proven to be a challenging problem due to the wide variation in appearance within and between categories. Global image context, such as where the material is or what object it makes up, can be crucial to recognizing the material. Existing methods, however, operate on an implicit fusion of m...
computer science
26,812
Social Behavior Prediction from First Person Videos
cs.CV
This paper presents a method to predict the future movements (location and gaze direction) of basketball players as a whole from their first person videos. The predicted behaviors reflect an individual physical space that affords to take the next actions while conforming to social behaviors by engaging to joint attenti...
computer science
26,813
Inertial-Based Scale Estimation for Structure from Motion on Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Structure from motion algorithms have an inherent limitation that the reconstruction can only be determined up to the unknown scale factor. Modern mobile devices are equipped with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), which can be used for estimating the scale of the reconstruction. We propose a method that recovers the ...
computer science
26,814
Deep Quantization: Encoding Convolutional Activations with Deep Generative Model
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven highly effective for visual recognition, where learning a universal representation from activations of convolutional layer plays a fundamental problem. In this paper, we present Fisher Vector encoding with Variational Auto-Encoder (FV-VAE), a novel deep architecture...
computer science
26,815
Lens Distortion Rectification using Triangulation based Interpolation
cs.CV
Nonlinear lens distortion rectification is a common first step in image processing applications where the assumption of a linear camera model is essential. For rectifying the lens distortion, forward distortion model needs to be known. However, many self-calibration methods estimate the inverse distortion model. In the...
computer science
26,816
Predicting Human Eye Fixations via an LSTM-based Saliency Attentive Model
cs.CV
Data-driven saliency has recently gained a lot of attention thanks to the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for predicting gaze fixations. In this paper we go beyond standard approaches to saliency prediction, in which gaze maps are computed with a feed-forward network, and we present a novel model which can predict...
computer science
26,817
Occlusion-Aware Video Deblurring with a New Layered Blur Model
cs.CV
We present a deblurring method for scenes with occluding objects using a carefully designed layered blur model. Layered blur model is frequently used in the motion deblurring problem to handle locally varying blurs, which is caused by object motions or depth variations in a scene. However, conventional models have a li...
computer science
26,818
Fast Face-swap Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We consider the problem of face swapping in images, where an input identity is transformed into a target identity while preserving pose, facial expression, and lighting. To perform this mapping, we use convolutional neural networks trained to capture the appearance of the target identity from an unstructured collection...
computer science
26,819
A Large-scale Distributed Video Parsing and Evaluation Platform
cs.CV
Visual surveillance systems have become one of the largest data sources of Big Visual Data in real world. However, existing systems for video analysis still lack the ability to handle the problems of scalability, expansibility and error-prone, though great advances have been achieved in a number of visual recognition t...
computer science
26,820
Surveillance Video Parsing with Single Frame Supervision
cs.CV
Surveillance video parsing, which segments the video frames into several labels, e.g., face, pants, left-leg, has wide applications. However,pixel-wisely annotating all frames is tedious and inefficient. In this paper, we develop a Single frame Video Parsing (SVP) method which requires only one labeled frame per video ...
computer science
26,821
Efficient Linear Programming for Dense CRFs
cs.CV
The fully connected conditional random field (CRF) with Gaussian pairwise potentials has proven popular and effective for multi-class semantic segmentation. While the energy of a dense CRF can be minimized accurately using a linear programming (LP) relaxation, the state-of-the-art algorithm is too slow to be useful in ...
computer science
26,822
Computer Aided Detection of Oral Lesions on CT Images
cs.CV
Oral lesions are important findings on computed tomography (CT) images. In this study, a fully automatic method to detect oral lesions in mandibular region from dental CT images is proposed. Two methods were developed to recognize two types of lesions namely (1) Close border (CB) lesions and (2) Open border (OB) lesion...
computer science
26,823
InterpoNet, A brain inspired neural network for optical flow dense interpolation
cs.CV
Sparse-to-dense interpolation for optical flow is a fundamental phase in the pipeline of most of the leading optical flow estimation algorithms. The current state-of-the-art method for interpolation, EpicFlow, is a local average method based on an edge aware geodesic distance. We propose a new data-driven sparse-to-den...
computer science
26,824
3D Ultrasound image segmentation: A Survey
cs.CV
Three-dimensional Ultrasound image segmentation methods are surveyed in this paper. The focus of this report is to investigate applications of these techniques and a review of the original ideas and concepts. Although many two-dimensional image segmentation in the literature have been considered as a three-dimensional ...
computer science
26,825
Monocular 3D Human Pose Estimation In The Wild Using Improved CNN Supervision
cs.CV
We propose a CNN-based approach for 3D human body pose estimation from single RGB images that addresses the issue of limited generalizability of models trained solely on the starkly limited publicly available 3D pose data. Using only the existing 3D pose data and 2D pose data, we show state-of-the-art performance on es...
computer science
26,826
Split-Brain Autoencoders: Unsupervised Learning by Cross-Channel Prediction
cs.CV
We propose split-brain autoencoders, a straightforward modification of the traditional autoencoder architecture, for unsupervised representation learning. The method adds a split to the network, resulting in two disjoint sub-networks. Each sub-network is trained to perform a difficult task -- predicting one subset of t...
computer science
26,827
Weakly-supervised Discriminative Patch Learning via CNN for Fine-grained Recognition
cs.CV
Research on fine-grained recognition has recently shifted from multistage frameworks to convolutional neural networks (CNN) that are trained end-to-end. Many previous end-to-end deep approaches typically consist of a recognition network and an auxiliary localization network trained with additional part annotations to d...
computer science
26,828
Efficient Likelihood Bayesian Constrained Local Model
cs.CV
The constrained local model (CLM) proposes a paradigm that the locations of a set of local landmark detectors are constrained to lie in a subspace, spanned by a shape point distribution model (PDM). Fitting the model to an object involves two steps. A response map, which represents the likelihood of the location of a l...
computer science
26,829
Attend in groups: a weakly-supervised deep learning framework for learning from web data
cs.CV
Large-scale datasets have driven the rapid development of deep neural networks for visual recognition. However, annotating a massive dataset is expensive and time-consuming. Web images and their labels are, in comparison, much easier to obtain, but direct training on such automatically harvested images can lead to unsa...
computer science
26,830
Semantic Facial Expression Editing using Autoencoded Flow
cs.CV
High-level manipulation of facial expressions in images --- such as changing a smile to a neutral expression --- is challenging because facial expression changes are highly non-linear, and vary depending on the appearance of the face. We present a fully automatic approach to editing faces that combines the advantages o...
computer science
26,831
Sequential Person Recognition in Photo Albums with a Recurrent Network
cs.CV
Recognizing the identities of people in everyday photos is still a very challenging problem for machine vision, due to non-frontal faces, changes in clothing, location, lighting and similar. Recent studies have shown that rich relational information between people in the same photo can help in recognizing their identit...
computer science
26,832
High-Resolution Image Inpainting using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis
cs.CV
Recent advances in deep learning have shown exciting promise in filling large holes in natural images with semantically plausible and context aware details, impacting fundamental image manipulation tasks such as object removal. While these learning-based methods are significantly more effective in capturing high-level ...
computer science
26,833
Modeling Relationships in Referential Expressions with Compositional Modular Networks
cs.CV
People often refer to entities in an image in terms of their relationships with other entities. For example, "the black cat sitting under the table" refers to both a "black cat" entity and its relationship with another "table" entity. Understanding these relationships is essential for interpreting and grounding such na...
computer science
26,834
Deep Cuboid Detection: Beyond 2D Bounding Boxes
cs.CV
We present a Deep Cuboid Detector which takes a consumer-quality RGB image of a cluttered scene and localizes all 3D cuboids (box-like objects). Contrary to classical approaches which fit a 3D model from low-level cues like corners, edges, and vanishing points, we propose an end-to-end deep learning system to detect cu...
computer science
26,835
Speed/accuracy trade-offs for modern convolutional object detectors
cs.CV
The goal of this paper is to serve as a guide for selecting a detection architecture that achieves the right speed/memory/accuracy balance for a given application and platform. To this end, we investigate various ways to trade accuracy for speed and memory usage in modern convolutional object detection systems. A numbe...
computer science
26,836
Wider or Deeper: Revisiting the ResNet Model for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
The trend towards increasingly deep neural networks has been driven by a general observation that increasing depth increases the performance of a network. Recently, however, evidence has been amassing that simply increasing depth may not be the best way to increase performance, particularly given other limitations. Inv...
computer science
26,837
User Dependent Features in Online Signature Verification
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for verification of on-line signatures based on user dependent feature selection and symbolic representation. Unlike other signature verification methods, which work with same features for all users, the proposed approach introduces the concept of user dependent features. It e...
computer science
26,838
Combining Data-driven and Model-driven Methods for Robust Facial Landmark Detection
cs.CV
Facial landmark detection is an important yet challenging task for real-world computer vision applications. This paper proposes an effective and robust approach for facial landmark detection by combining data- and model-driven methods. Firstly, a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) is trained to compute response maps of ...
computer science
26,839
POSEidon: Face-from-Depth for Driver Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Fast and accurate upper-body and head pose estimation is a key task for automatic monitoring of driver attention, a challenging context characterized by severe illumination changes, occlusions and extreme poses. In this work, we present a new deep learning framework for head localization and pose estimation on depth im...
computer science
26,840
End-to-End Training of Hybrid CNN-CRF Models for Stereo
cs.CV
We propose a novel and principled hybrid CNN+CRF model for stereo estimation. Our model allows to exploit the advantages of both, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and conditional random fields (CRFs) in an unified approach. The CNNs compute expressive features for matching and distinctive color edges, which in turn...
computer science
26,841
Sync-DRAW: Automatic Video Generation using Deep Recurrent Attentive Architectures
cs.CV
This paper introduces a novel approach for generating videos called Synchronized Deep Recurrent Attentive Writer (Sync-DRAW). Sync-DRAW can also perform text-to-video generation which, to the best of our knowledge, makes it the first approach of its kind. It combines a Variational Autoencoder~(VAE) with a Recurrent Att...
computer science
26,842
An Artificial Agent for Robust Image Registration
cs.CV
3-D image registration, which involves aligning two or more images, is a critical step in a variety of medical applications from diagnosis to therapy. Image registration is commonly performed by optimizing an image matching metric as a cost function. However, this task is challenging due to the non-convex nature of the...
computer science
26,843
Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Electrical Impedance Tomography Images
cs.CV
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) systems are becoming popular because they present several advantages over competing systems. However, EIT leads to images with very low resolution. Moreover, the nonuniform sampling characteristic of EIT precludes the straightforward application of traditional image ruper-resolutio...
computer science
26,844
p-DLA: A Predictive System Model for Onshore Oil and Gas Pipeline Dataset Classification and Monitoring - Part 1
cs.CV
With the rise in militant activity and rogue behaviour in oil and gas regions around the world, oil pipeline disturbances is on the increase leading to huge losses to multinational operators and the countries where such facilities exist. However, this situation can be averted if adequate predictive monitoring schemes a...
computer science
26,845
EgoCap: Egocentric Marker-less Motion Capture with Two Fisheye Cameras (Extended Abstract)
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
26,846
Improved Stereo Matching with Constant Highway Networks and Reflective Confidence Learning
cs.CV
We present an improved three-step pipeline for the stereo matching problem and introduce multiple novelties at each stage. We propose a new highway network architecture for computing the matching cost at each possible disparity, based on multilevel weighted residual shortcuts, trained with a hybrid loss that supports m...
computer science
26,847
Video-based Person Re-identification with Accumulative Motion Context
cs.CV
Video based person re-identification plays a central role in realistic security and video surveillance. In this paper we propose a novel Accumulative Motion Context (AMOC) network for addressing this important problem, which effectively exploits the long-range motion context for robustly identifying the same person und...
computer science
26,848
Lifting from the Deep: Convolutional 3D Pose Estimation from a Single Image
cs.CV
We propose a unified formulation for the problem of 3D human pose estimation from a single raw RGB image that reasons jointly about 2D joint estimation and 3D pose reconstruction to improve both tasks. We take an integrated approach that fuses probabilistic knowledge of 3D human pose with a multi-stage CNN architecture...
computer science
26,849
Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation using Web-Crawled Videos
cs.CV
We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the entire object area. Our goal is to overcome this limitation with no additional ...
computer science
26,850
Adversarially Tuned Scene Generation
cs.CV
Generalization performance of trained computer vision systems that use computer graphics (CG) generated data is not yet effective due to the concept of 'domain-shift' between virtual and real data. Although simulated data augmented with a few real world samples has been shown to mitigate domain shift and improve transf...
computer science
26,851
Retrieving Similar X-Ray Images from Big Image Data Using Radon Barcodes with Single Projections
cs.CV
The idea of Radon barcodes (RBC) has been introduced recently. In this paper, we propose a content-based image retrieval approach for big datasets based on Radon barcodes. Our method (Single Projection Radon Barcode, or SP-RBC) uses only a few Radon single projections for each image as global features that can serve as...
computer science
26,852
Robust and Real-time Deep Tracking Via Multi-Scale Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Visual tracking is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recently, some deep-learning-based tracking algorithms have been achieving record-breaking performances. However, due to the high complexity of deep learning, most deep trackers suffer from low tracking speed, and thus are impractical in many real-world appli...
computer science
26,853
Product Manifold Filter: Non-Rigid Shape Correspondence via Kernel Density Estimation in the Product Space
cs.CV
Many algorithms for the computation of correspondences between deformable shapes rely on some variant of nearest neighbor matching in a descriptor space. Such are, for example, various point-wise correspondence recovery algorithms used as a post-processing stage in the functional correspondence framework. Such frequent...
computer science
26,854
Image denoising using group sparsity residual and external nonlocal self-similarity prior
cs.CV
Nonlocal image representation has been successfully used in many image-related inverse problems including denoising, deblurring and deblocking. However, a majority of reconstruction methods only exploit the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) prior of the degraded observation image, it is very challenging to reconstruct the...
computer science
26,855
Constrained Deep Weak Supervision for Histopathology Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we develop a new weakly-supervised learning algorithm to learn to segment cancerous regions in histopathology images. Our work is under a multiple instance learning framework (MIL) with a new formulation, deep weak supervision (DWS); we also propose an effective way to introduce constraints to our neural...
computer science
26,856
Semi-Supervised Endmember Identification In Nonlinear Spectral Mixtures Via Semantic Representation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new hyperspectral unmixing method for nonlinearly mixed hyperspectral data using a semantic representation in a semi-supervised fashion, assuming the availability of a spectral reference library. Existing semi-supervised unmixing algorithms select members from an endmember library that are present...
computer science
26,857
Learning a Mixture of Deep Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
Single image super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed problem which aims to recover high-resolution (HR) images from their low-resolution (LR) observations. The crux of this problem lies in learning the complex mapping between low-resolution patches and the corresponding high-resolution patches. Prior arts have used eithe...
computer science
26,858
A Hierarchical Image Matting Model for Blood Vessel Segmentation in Fundus images
cs.CV
In this paper, a hierarchical image matting model is proposed to extract blood vessels from fundus images. More specifically, a hierarchical strategy utilizing the continuity and extendibility of retinal blood vessels is integrated into the image matting model for blood vessel segmentation. Normally the matting models ...
computer science
26,859
A Concave Optimization Algorithm for Matching Partially Overlapping Point Sets
cs.CV
Point matching refers to the process of finding spatial transformation and correspondences between two sets of points. In this paper, we focus on the case that there is only partial overlap between two point sets. Following the approach of the robust point matching method, we model point matching as a mixed linear assi...
computer science
26,860
An Evaluation Framework and Database for MoCap-Based Gait Recognition Methods
cs.CV
As a contribution to reproducible research, this paper presents a framework and a database to improve the development, evaluation and comparison of methods for gait recognition from motion capture (MoCap) data. The evaluation framework provides implementation details and source codes of state-of-the-art human-interpret...
computer science
26,861
Path-following based Point Matching using Similarity Transformation
cs.CV
To address the problem of 3D point matching where the poses of two point sets are unknown, we adapt a recently proposed path following based method to use similarity transformation instead of the original affine transformation. The reduced number of transformation parameters leads to more constrained and desirable matc...
computer science
26,862
Transforming Sensor Data to the Image Domain for Deep Learning - an Application to Footstep Detection
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state-of-the-art in various computer vision tasks, but they are still premature for most sensor data, especially in pervasive and wearable computing. A major reason for this is the limited amount of annotated training data. In this paper, we propose the idea of lever...
computer science
26,863
SalGAN: Visual Saliency Prediction with Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
We introduce SalGAN, a deep convolutional neural network for visual saliency prediction trained with adversarial examples. The first stage of the network consists of a generator model whose weights are learned by back-propagation computed from a binary cross entropy (BCE) loss over downsampled versions of the saliency ...
computer science
26,864
The Dem@Care Experiments and Datasets: a Technical Report
cs.CV
The objective of Dem@Care is the development of a complete system providing personal health services to people with dementia, as well as medical professionals and caregivers, by using a multitude of sensors, for context-aware, multi-parametric monitoring of lifestyle, ambient environment, and health parameters. Multi-s...
computer science
26,865
Learning from Synthetic Humans
cs.CV
Estimating human pose, shape, and motion from images and videos are fundamental challenges with many applications. Recent advances in 2D human pose estimation use large amounts of manually-labeled training data for learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Such data is time consuming to acquire and difficult to ex...
computer science
26,866
Quantitative Analysis of Automatic Image Cropping Algorithms: A Dataset and Comparative Study
cs.CV
Automatic photo cropping is an important tool for improving visual quality of digital photos without resorting to tedious manual selection. Traditionally, photo cropping is accomplished by determining the best proposal window through visual quality assessment or saliency detection. In essence, the performance of an ima...
computer science
26,867
Motion Deblurring in the Wild
cs.CV
The task of image deblurring is a very ill-posed problem as both the image and the blur are unknown. Moreover, when pictures are taken in the wild, this task becomes even more challenging due to the blur varying spatially and the occlusions between the object. Due to the complexity of the general image model we propose...
computer science
26,868
Abnormal Event Detection in Videos using Spatiotemporal Autoencoder
cs.CV
We present an efficient method for detecting anomalies in videos. Recent applications of convolutional neural networks have shown promises of convolutional layers for object detection and recognition, especially in images. However, convolutional neural networks are supervised and require labels as learning signals. We ...
computer science
26,869
Distinguishing Posed and Spontaneous Smiles by Facial Dynamics
cs.CV
Smile is one of the key elements in identifying emotions and present state of mind of an individual. In this work, we propose a cluster of approaches to classify posed and spontaneous smiles using deep convolutional neural network (CNN) face features, local phase quantization (LPQ), dense optical flow and histogram of ...
computer science
26,870
Learning From Noisy Large-Scale Datasets With Minimal Supervision
cs.CV
We present an approach to effectively use millions of images with noisy annotations in conjunction with a small subset of cleanly-annotated images to learn powerful image representations. One common approach to combine clean and noisy data is to first pre-train a network using the large noisy dataset and then fine-tune...
computer science
26,871
Deep Convolutional Denoising of Low-Light Images
cs.CV
Poisson distribution is used for modeling noise in photon-limited imaging. While canonical examples include relatively exotic types of sensing like spectral imaging or astronomy, the problem is relevant to regular photography now more than ever due to the booming market for mobile cameras. Restricted form factor limits...
computer science
26,872
To Boost or Not to Boost? On the Limits of Boosted Trees for Object Detection
cs.CV
We aim to study the modeling limitations of the commonly employed boosted decision trees classifier. Inspired by the success of large, data-hungry visual recognition models (e.g. deep convolutional neural networks), this paper focuses on the relationship between modeling capacity of the weak learners, dataset size, and...
computer science
26,873
Deep Class Aware Denoising
cs.CV
The increasing demand for high image quality in mobile devices brings forth the need for better computational enhancement techniques, and image denoising in particular. At the same time, the images captured by these devices can be categorized into a small set of semantic classes. However simple, this observation has no...
computer science
26,874
Map-guided Hyperspectral Image Superpixel Segmentation Using Proportion Maps
cs.CV
A map-guided superpixel segmentation method for hyperspectral imagery is developed and introduced. The proposed approach develops a hyperspectral-appropriate version of the SLIC superpixel segmentation algorithm, leverages map information to guide segmentation, and incorporates the semi-supervised Partial Membership La...
computer science
26,875
Towards Accurate Multi-person Pose Estimation in the Wild
cs.CV
We propose a method for multi-person detection and 2-D pose estimation that achieves state-of-art results on the challenging COCO keypoints task. It is a simple, yet powerful, top-down approach consisting of two stages. In the first stage, we predict the location and scale of boxes which are likely to contain people;...
computer science
26,876
Large-scale Isolated Gesture Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes three simple, compact yet effective representations of depth sequences, referred to respectively as Dynamic Depth Images (DDI), Dynamic Depth Normal Images (DDNI) and Dynamic Depth Motion Normal Images (DDMNI). These dynamic images are constructed from a sequence of depth maps using bidirectional ra...
computer science
26,877
Unsupervised Learning of Long-Term Motion Dynamics for Videos
cs.CV
We present an unsupervised representation learning approach that compactly encodes the motion dependencies in videos. Given a pair of images from a video clip, our framework learns to predict the long-term 3D motions. To reduce the complexity of the learning framework, we propose to describe the motion as a sequence of...
computer science
26,878
Oriented Response Networks
cs.CV
Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNNs) are capable of learning unprecedentedly effective image representations. However, their ability in handling significant local and global image rotations remains limited. In this paper, we propose Active Rotating Filters (ARFs) that actively rotate during convolution and produce ...
computer science
26,879
Sign Language Recognition Using Temporal Classification
cs.CV
Devices like the Myo armband available in the market today enable us to collect data about the position of a user's hands and fingers over time. We can use these technologies for sign language translation since each sign is roughly a combination of gestures across time. In this work, we utilize a dataset collected by a...
computer science
26,880
DeepFace: Face Generation using Deep Learning
cs.CV
We use CNNs to build a system that both classifies images of faces based on a variety of different facial attributes and generates new faces given a set of desired facial characteristics. After introducing the problem and providing context in the first section, we discuss recent work related to image generation in Sect...
computer science
26,881
Greedy Search for Descriptive Spatial Face Features
cs.CV
Facial expression recognition methods use a combination of geometric and appearance-based features. Spatial features are derived from displacements of facial landmarks, and carry geometric information. These features are either selected based on prior knowledge, or dimension-reduced from a large pool. In this study, we...
computer science
26,882
Group Visual Sentiment Analysis
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a framework for classifying images according to high-level sentiment. We subdivide the task into three primary problems: emotion classification on faces, human pose estimation, and 3D estimation and clustering of groups of people. We introduce novel algorithms for matching body parts to a co...
computer science
26,883
Urban Scene Segmentation with Laser-Constrained CRFs
cs.CV
Robots typically possess sensors of different modalities, such as colour cameras, inertial measurement units, and 3D laser scanners. Often, solving a particular problem becomes easier when more than one modality is used. However, while there are undeniable benefits to combine sensors of different modalities the process...
computer science
26,884
Tracking The Untrackable: Learning To Track Multiple Cues with Long-Term Dependencies
cs.CV
The majority of existing solutions to the Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) problem do not combine cues in a coherent end-to-end fashion over a long period of time. However, we present an online method that encodes long-term temporal dependencies across multiple cues. One key challenge of tracking methods is to accurately tr...
computer science
26,885
Random Sampling for Fast Face Sketch Synthesis
cs.CV
Exemplar-based face sketch synthesis plays an important role in both digital entertainment and law enforcement. It generally consists of two parts: neighbor selection and reconstruction weight representation. The most time-consuming or main computation complexity for exemplar-based face sketch synthesis methods lies in...
computer science
26,886
On Classification of Distorted Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Image blur and image noise are common distortions during image acquisition. In this paper, we systematically study the effect of image distortions on the deep neural network (DNN) image classifiers. First, we examine the DNN classifier performance under four types of distortions. Second, we propose two approaches to al...
computer science
26,887
Stage 4 validation of the Satellite Image Automatic Mapper lightweight computer program for Earth observation Level 2 product generation, Part 1 Theory
cs.CV
The European Space Agency (ESA) defines an Earth Observation (EO) Level 2 product as a multispectral (MS) image corrected for geometric, atmospheric, adjacency and topographic effects, stacked with its scene classification map (SCM), whose legend includes quality layers such as cloud and cloud-shadow. No ESA EO Level 2...
computer science
26,888
Stage 4 validation of the Satellite Image Automatic Mapper lightweight computer program for Earth observation Level 2 product generation, Part 2 Validation
cs.CV
The European Space Agency (ESA) defines an Earth Observation (EO) Level 2 product as a multispectral (MS) image corrected for geometric, atmospheric, adjacency and topographic effects, stacked with its scene classification map (SCM) whose legend includes quality layers such as cloud and cloud-shadow. No ESA EO Level 2 ...
computer science
26,889
Automated Linear-Time Detection and Quality Assessment of Superpixels in Uncalibrated True- or False-Color RGB Images
cs.CV
Capable of automated near real time superpixel detection and quality assessment in an uncalibrated monitor typical red green blue (RGB) image, depicted in either true or false colors, an original low level computer vision (CV) lightweight computer program, called RGB Image Automatic Mapper (RGBIAM), is designed and imp...
computer science
26,890
Multi-Objective Software Suite of Two-Dimensional Shape Descriptors for Object-Based Image Analysis
cs.CV
In recent years two sets of planar (2D) shape attributes, provided with an intuitive physical meaning, were proposed to the remote sensing community by, respectively, Nagao & Matsuyama and Shackelford & Davis in their seminal works on the increasingly popular geographic object based image analysis (GEOBIA) paradigm. Th...
computer science
26,891
Multi-spectral Image Panchromatic Sharpening, Outcome and Process Quality Assessment Protocol
cs.CV
Multispectral (MS) image panchromatic (PAN) sharpening algorithms proposed to the remote sensing community are ever increasing in number and variety. Their aim is to sharpen a coarse spatial resolution MS image with a fine spatial resolution PAN image acquired simultaneously by a spaceborne or airborne Earth observatio...
computer science
26,892
MS and PAN image fusion by combining Brovey and wavelet methods
cs.CV
Among the existing fusion algorithms, the wavelet fusion method is the most frequently discussed one in recent publications because the wavelet approach preserves the spectral characteristics of the multispectral image better than other methods. The Brovey is also a popular fusion method used for its ability in preserv...
computer science
26,893
Improved Texture Networks: Maximizing Quality and Diversity in Feed-forward Stylization and Texture Synthesis
cs.CV
The recent work of Gatys et al., who characterized the style of an image by the statistics of convolutional neural network filters, ignited a renewed interest in the texture generation and image stylization problems. While their image generation technique uses a slow optimization process, recently several authors have ...
computer science
26,894
Discrete approximations of the affine Gaussian derivative model for visual receptive fields
cs.CV
The affine Gaussian derivative model can in several respects be regarded as a canonical model for receptive fields over a spatial image domain: (i) it can be derived by necessity from scale-space axioms that reflect structural properties of the world, (ii) it constitutes an excellent model for the receptive fields of s...
computer science
26,895
A Learning-based Variable Size Part Extraction Architecture for 6D Object Pose Recovery in Depth
cs.CV
State-of-the-art techniques for 6D object pose recovery depend on occlusion-free point clouds to accurately register objects in 3D space. To deal with this shortcoming, we introduce a novel architecture called Iterative Hough Forest with Histogram of Control Points that is capable of estimating the 6D pose of occluded ...
computer science
26,896
Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for Learning Target Signatures
cs.CV
Signature-based detectors for hyperspectral target detection rely on knowing the specific target signature in advance. However, target signature are often difficult or impossible to obtain. Furthermore, common methods for obtaining target signatures, such as from laboratory measurements or manual selection from an imag...
computer science
26,897
Visual Multiple-Object Tracking for Unknown Clutter Rate
cs.CV
In multi-object tracking applications, model parameter tuning is a prerequisite for reliable performance. In particular, it is difficult to know statistics of false measurements due to various sensing conditions and changes in the field of views. In this paper we are interested in designing a multi-object tracking algo...
computer science
26,898
MonoCap: Monocular Human Motion Capture using a CNN Coupled with a Geometric Prior
cs.CV
Recovering 3D full-body human pose is a challenging problem with many applications. It has been successfully addressed by motion capture systems with body worn markers and multiple cameras. In this paper, we address the more challenging case of not only using a single camera but also not leveraging markers: going direc...
computer science
26,899
Visualizing Residual Networks
cs.CV
Residual networks are the current state of the art on ImageNet. Similar work in the direction of utilizing shortcut connections has been done extremely recently with derivatives of residual networks and with highway networks. This work potentially challenges our understanding that CNNs learn layers of local features th...
computer science
26,900
Scene Graph Generation by Iterative Message Passing
cs.CV
Understanding a visual scene goes beyond recognizing individual objects in isolation. Relationships between objects also constitute rich semantic information about the scene. In this work, we explicitly model the objects and their relationships using scene graphs, a visually-grounded graphical structure of an image. We...
computer science
26,901
Unite the People: Closing the Loop Between 3D and 2D Human Representations
cs.CV
3D models provide a common ground for different representations of human bodies. In turn, robust 2D estimation has proven to be a powerful tool to obtain 3D fits "in-the- wild". However, depending on the level of detail, it can be hard to impossible to acquire labeled data for training 2D estimators on large scale. We ...
computer science