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Methods for Mapping Forest Disturbance and Degradation from Optical Earth Observation Data: a Review
cs.CV
Purpose of review: This paper presents a review of the current state of the art in remote sensing based monitoring of forest disturbances and forest degradation from optical Earth Observation data. Part one comprises an overview of currently available optical remote sensing sensors, which can be used for forest disturb...
computer science
26,903
Efficient Image Set Classification using Linear Regression based Image Reconstruction
cs.CV
We propose a novel image set classification technique using linear regression models. Downsampled gallery image sets are interpreted as subspaces of a high dimensional space to avoid the computationally expensive training step. We estimate regression models for each test image using the class specific gallery subspaces...
computer science
26,904
SubCMap: Subject and Condition Specific Effect Maps
cs.CV
Most widely used statistical analysis methods for neuroimaging data identify condition related structural alterations in the human brain by detecting group differences. These methods can construct detailed maps showing population-wide changes due to a given condition of interest using the data of an appropriate cohort....
computer science
26,905
Deep Learning for Logo Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a method for logo recognition using deep learning. Our recognition pipeline is composed of a logo region proposal followed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) specifically trained for logo classification, even if they are not precisely localized. Experiments are carried out on the FlickrLog...
computer science
26,906
Midgar: Detection of people through computer vision in the Internet of Things scenarios to improve the security in Smart Cities, Smart Towns, and Smart Homes
cs.CV
Could we use Computer Vision in the Internet of Things for using pictures as sensors? This is the principal hypothesis that we want to resolve. Currently, in order to create safety areas, cities, or homes, people use IP cameras. Nevertheless, this system needs people who watch the camera images, watch the recording aft...
computer science
26,907
ChaLearn Looking at People: A Review of Events and Resources
cs.CV
This paper reviews the historic of ChaLearn Looking at People (LAP) events. We started in 2011 (with the release of the first Kinect device) to run challenges related to human action/activity and gesture recognition. Since then we have regularly organized events in a series of competitions covering all aspects of visua...
computer science
26,908
What are the visual features underlying human versus machine vision?
cs.CV
Although Deep Convolutional Networks (DCNs) are approaching the accuracy of human observers at object recognition, it is unknown whether they leverage similar visual representations to achieve this performance. To address this, we introduce Clicktionary, a web-based game for identifying visual features used by human ob...
computer science
26,909
See the Glass Half Full: Reasoning about Liquid Containers, their Volume and Content
cs.CV
Humans have rich understanding of liquid containers and their contents; for example, we can effortlessly pour water from a pitcher to a cup. Doing so requires estimating the volume of the cup, approximating the amount of water in the pitcher, and predicting the behavior of water when we tilt the pitcher. Very little at...
computer science
26,910
Full-reference image quality assessment-based B-mode ultrasound image similarity measure
cs.CV
During the last decades, the number of new full-reference image quality assessment algorithms has been increasing drastically. Yet, despite of the remarkable progress that has been made, the medical ultrasound image similarity measurement remains largely unsolved due to a high level of speckle noise contamination. Pote...
computer science
26,911
A Unified RGB-T Saliency Detection Benchmark: Dataset, Baselines, Analysis and A Novel Approach
cs.CV
Despite significant progress, image saliency detection still remains a challenging task in complex scenes and environments. Integrating multiple different but complementary cues, like RGB and Thermal (RGB-T), may be an effective way for boosting saliency detection performance. The current research in this direction, ho...
computer science
26,912
Revisiting Deep Intrinsic Image Decompositions
cs.CV
While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional optimization or filtering solutions with strong prior assumptions, deep learning-base...
computer science
26,913
CNN-based Segmentation of Medical Imaging Data
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks have been applied to a wide variety of computer vision tasks. Recent advances in semantic segmentation have enabled their application to medical image segmentation. While most CNNs use two-dimensional kernels, recent CNN-based publications on medical image segmentation featured three-dimen...
computer science
26,914
Guaranteed Parameter Estimation for Discrete Energy Minimization
cs.CV
Structural learning, a method to estimate the parameters for discrete energy minimization, has been proven to be effective in solving computer vision problems, especially in 3D scene parsing. As the complexity of the models increases, structural learning algorithms turn to approximate inference to retain tractability. ...
computer science
26,915
Looking Beyond Appearances: Synthetic Training Data for Deep CNNs in Re-identification
cs.CV
Re-identification is generally carried out by encoding the appearance of a subject in terms of outfit, suggesting scenarios where people do not change their attire. In this paper we overcome this restriction, by proposing a framework based on a deep convolutional neural network, SOMAnet, that additionally models other ...
computer science
26,916
Light Source Point Cluster Selection Based Atmosphere Light Estimation
cs.CV
Atmosphere light value is a highly critical parameter in defogging algorithms that are based on an atmosphere scattering model. Any error in atmosphere light value will produce a direct impact on the accuracy of scattering computation and thus bring chromatic distortion to restored images. To address this problem, this...
computer science
26,917
Ordered Pooling of Optical Flow Sequences for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Training of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on long video sequences is computationally expensive due to the substantial memory requirements and the massive number of parameters that deep architectures demand. Early fusion of video frames is thus a standard technique, in which several consecutive frames are first a...
computer science
26,918
Probabilistic Diffeomorphic Registration: Representing Uncertainty
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel mathematical framework for representing uncertainty in large deformation diffeomorphic image registration. The Bayesian posterior distribution over the deformations aligning a moving and a fixed image is approximated via a variational formulation. A stochastic differential equation (SDE) mod...
computer science
26,919
Two-view 3D Reconstruction for Food Volume Estimation
cs.CV
The increasing prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases coupled with the ineffectiveness of traditional diet management methods have resulted in a need for novel tools to accurately and automatically assess meals. Recently, computer vision based systems that use meal images to assess their content have been proposed...
computer science
26,920
A Digital Fuzzy Edge Detector for Color Images
cs.CV
Edge detection is a classic problem in the field of image processing, which lays foundations for other tasks such as image segmentation. Conventionally, this operation is performed using gradient operators such as the Roberts or Sobel operator, which can discover local changes in intensity levels. These operators, howe...
computer science
26,921
Joint Dictionary Learning for Example-based Image Super-resolution
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new joint dictionary learning method for example-based image super-resolution (SR), using sparse representation. The low-resolution (LR) dictionary is trained from a set of LR sample image patches. Using the sparse representation coefficients of these LR patches over the LR dictionary, the h...
computer science
26,922
Comprehension-guided referring expressions
cs.CV
We consider generation and comprehension of natural language referring expression for objects in an image. Unlike generic "image captioning" which lacks natural standard evaluation criteria, quality of a referring expression may be measured by the receiver's ability to correctly infer which object is being described. F...
computer science
26,923
Cost-Effective Active Learning for Deep Image Classification
cs.CV
Recent successes in learning-based image classification, however, heavily rely on the large number of annotated training samples, which may require considerable human efforts. In this paper, we propose a novel active learning framework, which is capable of building a competitive classifier with optimal feature represen...
computer science
26,924
Active Self-Paced Learning for Cost-Effective and Progressive Face Identification
cs.CV
This paper aims to develop a novel cost-effective framework for face identification, which progressively maintains a batch of classifiers with the increasing face images of different individuals. By naturally combining two recently rising techniques: active learning (AL) and self-paced learning (SPL), our framework is ...
computer science
26,925
Real-Time Optical flow-based Video Stabilization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
cs.CV
This paper describes the development of a novel algorithm to tackle the problem of real-time video stabilization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). There are two main components in the algorithm: (1) By designing a suitable model for the global motion of UAV, the proposed algorithm avoids the necessity of estimating ...
computer science
26,926
Tumour Ellipsification in Ultrasound Images for Treatment Prediction in Breast Cancer
cs.CV
Recent advances in using quantitative ultrasound (QUS) methods have provided a promising framework to non-invasively and inexpensively monitor or predict the effectiveness of therapeutic cancer responses. One of the earliest steps in using QUS methods is contouring a region of interest (ROI) inside the tumour in ultras...
computer science
26,927
Learning Linear Dynamical Systems with High-Order Tensor Data for Skeleton based Action Recognition
cs.CV
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in developing methods for skeleton-based human action recognition. A skeleton sequence can be naturally represented as a high-order tensor time series. In this paper, we model and analyze tensor time series with Linear Dynamical System (LDS) which is the most common for ...
computer science
26,928
Density-Wise Two Stage Mammogram Classification using Texture Exploiting Descriptors
cs.CV
Breast cancer is becoming pervasive with each passing day. Hence, its early detection is a big step in saving the life of any patient. Mammography is a common tool in breast cancer diagnosis. The most important step here is classification of mammogram patches as normal-abnormal and benign-malignant. Texture of a brea...
computer science
26,929
Boosting Dictionary Learning with Error Codes
cs.CV
In conventional sparse representations based dictionary learning algorithms, initial dictionaries are generally assumed to be proper representatives of the system at hand. However, this may not be the case, especially in some systems restricted to random initializations. Therefore, a supposedly optimal state-update bas...
computer science
26,930
Iterative Block Tensor Singular Value Thresholding for Extraction of Low Rank Component of Image Data
cs.CV
Tensor principal component analysis (TPCA) is a multi-linear extension of principal component analysis which converts a set of correlated measurements into several principal components. In this paper, we propose a new robust TPCA method to extract the princi- pal components of the multi-way data based on tensor singula...
computer science
26,931
Embedding Watermarks into Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep neural networks have recently achieved significant progress. Sharing trained models of these deep neural networks is very important in the rapid progress of researching or developing deep neural network systems. At the same time, it is necessary to protect the rights of shared trained models. To this end, we propo...
computer science
26,932
Light Source Estimation with Analytical Path-tracing
cs.CV
We present a novel algorithm for light source estimation in scenes reconstructed with a RGB-D camera based on an analytically-derived formulation of path-tracing. Our algorithm traces the reconstructed scene with a custom path-tracer and computes the analytical derivatives of the light transport equation from principle...
computer science
26,933
Bandwidth limited object recognition in high resolution imagery
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel method to optimize bandwidth usage for object detection in critical communication scenarios. We develop two operating models of active information seeking. The first model identifies promising regions in low resolution imagery and progressively requests higher resolution regions on which to ...
computer science
26,934
Auxiliary Multimodal LSTM for Audio-visual Speech Recognition and Lipreading
cs.CV
The Aduio-visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) which employs both the video and audio information to do Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is one of the application of multimodal leaning making ASR system more robust and accuracy. The traditional models usually treated AVSR as inference or projection but strict prior limit...
computer science
26,935
Automatic Spatial Context-Sensitive Cloud/Cloud-Shadow Detection in Multi-Source Multi-Spectral Earth Observation Images: AutoCloud+
cs.CV
The proposed Earth observation (EO) based value adding system (EO VAS), hereafter identified as AutoCloud+, consists of an innovative EO image understanding system (EO IUS) design and implementation capable of automatic spatial context sensitive cloud/cloud shadow detection in multi source multi spectral (MS) EO imager...
computer science
26,936
Systematic study of color spaces and components for the segmentation of sky/cloud images
cs.CV
Sky/cloud imaging using ground-based Whole Sky Imagers (WSI) is a cost-effective means to understanding cloud cover and weather patterns. The accurate segmentation of clouds in these images is a challenging task, as clouds do not possess any clear structure. Several algorithms using different color models have been pro...
computer science
26,937
Fusing Deep Learned and Hand-Crafted Features of Appearance, Shape, and Dynamics for Automatic Pain Estimation
cs.CV
Automatic continuous time, continuous value assessment of a patient's pain from face video is highly sought after by the medical profession. Despite the recent advances in deep learning that attain impressive results in many domains, pain estimation risks not being able to benefit from this due to the difficulty in obt...
computer science
26,938
Image Generation and Editing with Variational Info Generative AdversarialNetworks
cs.CV
Recently there has been an enormous interest in generative models for images in deep learning. In pursuit of this, Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have surfaced as two most prominent and popular models. While VAEs tend to produce excellent reconstructions but blurry samples, GAN...
computer science
26,939
Convolutional Oriented Boundaries: From Image Segmentation to High-Level Tasks
cs.CV
We present Convolutional Oriented Boundaries (COB), which produces multiscale oriented contours and region hierarchies starting from generic image classification Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). COB is computationally efficient, because it requires a single CNN forward pass for multi-scale contour detection and it...
computer science
26,940
Computing Egomotion with Local Loop Closures for Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
Finding the camera pose is an important step in many egocentric video applications. It has been widely reported that, state of the art SLAM algorithms fail on egocentric videos. In this paper, we propose a robust method for camera pose estimation, designed specifically for egocentric videos. In an egocentric video, the...
computer science
26,941
3D Reconstruction of Simple Objects from A Single View Silhouette Image
cs.CV
While recent deep neural networks have achieved promising results for 3D reconstruction from a single-view image, these rely on the availability of RGB textures in images and extra information as supervision. In this work, we propose novel stacked hierarchical networks and an end to end training strategy to tackle a mo...
computer science
26,942
Complex Event Recognition from Images with Few Training Examples
cs.CV
We propose to leverage concept-level representations for complex event recognition in photographs given limited training examples. We introduce a novel framework to discover event concept attributes from the web and use that to extract semantic features from images and classify them into social event categories with fe...
computer science
26,943
Compression of Deep Neural Networks for Image Instance Retrieval
cs.CV
Image instance retrieval is the problem of retrieving images from a database which contain the same object. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based descriptors are becoming the dominant approach for generating {\it global image descriptors} for the instance retrieval problem. One major drawback of CNN-based {\it globa...
computer science
26,944
Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim
cs.CV
Neural Style Transfer is a striking, recently-developed technique that uses neural networks to artistically redraw an image in the style of a source style image. This paper explores the use of this technique in a production setting, applying Neural Style Transfer to redraw key scenes in 'Come Swim' in the style of the ...
computer science
26,945
Effective Multi-Query Expansions: Collaborative Deep Networks for Robust Landmark Retrieval
cs.CV
Given a query photo issued by a user (q-user), the landmark retrieval is to return a set of photos with their landmarks similar to those of the query, while the existing studies on the landmark retrieval focus on exploiting geometries of landmarks for similarity matches between candidate photos and a query photo. We ob...
computer science
26,946
Transfer learning for multi-center classification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
cs.CV
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease which can be quantified using chest computed tomography (CT) scans. Recent studies have shown that COPD can be automatically diagnosed using weakly supervised learning of intensity and texture distributions. However, up till now such classifiers have only b...
computer science
26,947
A Novel Architecture for Computing Approximate Radon Transform
cs.CV
Radon transform is a type of transform which is used in image processing to transfer the image into intercept-slope coordinate. Its diagonal properties made it appropriate for some applications which need processes in different degrees. Radon transform computation needs a lot of arithmetic operations which makes it a c...
computer science
26,948
Temporal scale selection in time-causal scale space
cs.CV
When designing and developing scale selection mechanisms for generating hypotheses about characteristic scales in signals, it is essential that the selected scale levels reflect the extent of the underlying structures in the signal. This paper presents a theory and in-depth theoretical analysis about the scale select...
computer science
26,949
Accurate Motion Estimation through Random Sample Aggregated Consensus
cs.CV
We reconsider the classic problem of estimating accurately a 2D transformation from point matches between images containing outliers. RANSAC discriminates outliers by randomly generating minimalistic sampled hypotheses and verifying their consensus over the input data. Its response is based on the single hypothesis tha...
computer science
26,950
Pixel Objectness
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end learning framework for generating foreground object segmentations. Given a single novel image, our approach produces pixel-level masks for all "object-like" regions---even for object categories never seen during training. We formulate the task as a structured prediction problem of assigning for...
computer science
26,951
3D Face Morphable Models "In-the-Wild"
cs.CV
3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) are powerful statistical models of 3D facial shape and texture, and among the state-of-the-art methods for reconstructing facial shape from single images. With the advent of new 3D sensors, many 3D facial datasets have been collected containing both neutral as well as expressive faces. Howev...
computer science
26,952
FusionSeg: Learning to combine motion and appearance for fully automatic segmention of generic objects in videos
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end learning framework for segmenting generic objects in videos. Our method learns to combine appearance and motion information to produce pixel level segmentation masks for all prominent objects in videos. We formulate this task as a structured prediction problem and design a two-stream fully conv...
computer science
26,953
Block-wise Lensless Compressive Camera
cs.CV
The existing lensless compressive camera ($\text{L}^2\text{C}^2$)~\cite{Huang13ICIP} suffers from low capture rates, resulting in low resolution images when acquired over a short time. In this work, we propose a new regime to mitigate these drawbacks. We replace the global-based compressive sensing used in the existing...
computer science
26,954
Moving to VideoKifu: the last steps toward a fully automatic record-keeping of a Go game
cs.CV
In a previous paper [ arXiv:1508.03269 ] we described the techniques we successfully employed for automatically reconstructing the whole move sequence of a Go game by means of a set of pictures. Now we describe how it is possible to reconstruct the move sequence by means of a video stream (which may be provided by an u...
computer science
26,955
Higher-order Pooling of CNN Features via Kernel Linearization for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Most successful deep learning algorithms for action recognition extend models designed for image-based tasks such as object recognition to video. Such extensions are typically trained for actions on single video frames or very short clips, and then their predictions from sliding-windows over the video sequence are pool...
computer science
26,956
Synthetic to Real Adaptation with Generative Correlation Alignment Networks
cs.CV
Synthetic images rendered from 3D CAD models are useful for augmenting training data for object recognition algorithms. However, the generated images are non-photorealistic and do not match real image statistics. This leads to a large domain discrepancy, causing models trained on synthetic data to perform poorly on rea...
computer science
26,957
High Performance Novel Skin Segmentation Algorithm for Images With Complex Background
cs.CV
Skin Segmentation is widely used in biometric applications such as face detection, face recognition, face tracking, and hand gesture recognition. However, several challenges such as nonlinear illumination, equipment effects, personal interferences, ethnicity variations, etc., are involved in detection process that resu...
computer science
26,958
Fast and Efficient Skin Detection for Facial Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, an efficient skin detection system is proposed. The algorithm is based on a very fast efficient pre-processing step utilizing the concept of ternary conversion in order to identify candidate windows and subsequently, a novel local two-stage diffusion method which has F-score accuracy of 0.5978 on SDD dat...
computer science
26,959
Holistic Interstitial Lung Disease Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: Multi-label Learning and Unordered Pooling
cs.CV
Accurately predicting and detecting interstitial lung disease (ILD) patterns given any computed tomography (CT) slice without any pre-processing prerequisites, such as manually delineated regions of interest (ROIs), is a clinically desirable, yet challenging goal. The majority of existing work relies on manually-provid...
computer science
26,960
Dual Recovery Network with Online Compensation for Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
The image super-resolution (SR) methods will essentially lead to a loss of some high-frequency (HF) information when predicting high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) images without using external references. To address that, we additionally utilize online retrieved data to facilitate image SR in a unifie...
computer science
26,961
Efficient Feature Matching by Progressive Candidate Search
cs.CV
We present a novel feature matching algorithm that systematically utilizes the geometric properties of features such as position, scale, and orientation, in addition to the conventional descriptor vectors. In challenging scenes with the presence of repetitive patterns or with a large viewpoint change, it is hard to fin...
computer science
26,962
Automatic Generation of Typographic Font from a Small Font Subset
cs.CV
This paper addresses the automatic generation of a typographic font from a subset of characters. Specifically, we use a subset of a typographic font to extrapolate additional characters. Consequently, we obtain a complete font containing a number of characters sufficient for daily use. The automated generation of Japan...
computer science
26,963
A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Similar Trademark Retrieval
cs.CV
Trademark retrieval (TR) has become an important yet challenging problem due to an ever increasing trend in trademark applications and infringement incidents. There have been many promising attempts for the TR problem, which, however, fell impracticable since they were evaluated with limited and mostly trivial datasets...
computer science
26,964
Image De-raining Using a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
cs.CV
Severe weather conditions such as rain and snow adversely affect the visual quality of images captured under such conditions thus rendering them useless for further usage and sharing. In addition, such degraded images drastically affect performance of vision systems. Hence, it is important to solve the problem of singl...
computer science
26,965
Multimodal Fusion via a Series of Transfers for Noise Removal
cs.CV
Near-infrared imaging has been considered as a solution to provide high quality photographs in dim lighting conditions. This imaging system captures two types of multimodal images: one is near-infrared gray image (NGI) and the other is the visible color image (VCI). NGI is noise-free but it is grayscale, whereas the VC...
computer science
26,966
Perception-based energy functions in seam-cutting
cs.CV
Image stitching is challenging in consumer-level photography, due to alignment difficulties in unconstrained shooting environment. Recent studies show that seam-cutting approaches can effectively relieve artifacts generated by local misalignment. Normally, seam-cutting is described in terms of energy minimization, howe...
computer science
26,967
Greedy Compositional Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Compositional Models
cs.CV
This paper proposes to integrate a feature pursuit learning process into a greedy bottom-up learning scheme. The algorithm combines the benefits of bottom-up and top-down approaches for learning hierarchical models: It allows to induce the hierarchical structure of objects in an unsupervised manner, while avoiding a ha...
computer science
26,968
Image Compression with SVD : A New Quality Metric Based On Energy Ratio
cs.CV
Digital image compression is a technique that allows to reduce the size of an image in order to increase the capacity storage devices and to optimize the use of network bandwidth. The quality of compressed images with the techniques based on the discrete cosine transform or the wavelet transform is generally measured w...
computer science
26,969
A New Convolutional Network-in-Network Structure and Its Applications in Skin Detection, Semantic Segmentation, and Artifact Reduction
cs.CV
The inception network has been shown to provide good performance on image classification problems, but there are not much evidences that it is also effective for the image restoration or pixel-wise labeling problems. For image restoration problems, the pooling is generally not used because the decimated features are no...
computer science
26,970
Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Networks on Lipschitz Densities
cs.CV
In this paper, we present the Lipschitz regularization theory and algorithms for a novel Loss-Sensitive Generative Adversarial Network (LS-GAN). Specifically, it trains a loss function to distinguish between real and fake samples by designated margins, while learning a generator alternately to produce realistic samples...
computer science
26,971
Person Re-Identification via Recurrent Feature Aggregation
cs.CV
We address the person re-identification problem by effectively exploiting a globally discriminative feature representation from a sequence of tracked human regions/patches. This is in contrast to previous person re-id works, which rely on either single frame based person to person patch matching, or graph based sequenc...
computer science
26,972
Nonsmooth Analysis and Subgradient Methods for Averaging in Dynamic Time Warping Spaces
cs.CV
Time series averaging in dynamic time warping (DTW) spaces has been successfully applied to improve pattern recognition systems. This article proposes and analyzes subgradient methods for the problem of finding a sample mean in DTW spaces. The class of subgradient methods generalizes existing sample mean algorithms suc...
computer science
26,973
Segmentation-free Vehicle License Plate Recognition using ConvNet-RNN
cs.CV
While vehicle license plate recognition (VLPR) is usually done with a sliding window approach, it can have limited performance on datasets with characters that are of variable width. This can be solved by hand-crafting algorithms to prescale the characters. While this approach can work fairly well, the recognizer is on...
computer science
26,974
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Count Palm Trees in Satellite Images
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a supervised learning system for counting and localizing palm trees in high-resolution, panchromatic satellite imagery (40cm/pixel to 1.5m/pixel). A convolutional neural network classifier trained on a set of palm and no-palm images is applied across a satellite image scene in a sliding window ...
computer science
26,975
Dirty Pixels: Optimizing Image Classification Architectures for Raw Sensor Data
cs.CV
Real-world sensors suffer from noise, blur, and other imperfections that make high-level computer vision tasks like scene segmentation, tracking, and scene understanding difficult. Making high-level computer vision networks robust is imperative for real-world applications like autonomous driving, robotics, and surveill...
computer science
26,976
Unsupervised Joint Mining of Deep Features and Image Labels for Large-scale Radiology Image Categorization and Scene Recognition
cs.CV
The recent rapid and tremendous success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on many challenging computer vision tasks largely derives from the accessibility of the well-annotated ImageNet and PASCAL VOC datasets. Nevertheless, unsupervised image categorization (i.e., without the ground-truth labeling) is much l...
computer science
26,977
Residual and Plain Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Brain MRI Classification
cs.CV
In the recent years there have been a number of studies that applied deep learning algorithms to neuroimaging data. Pipelines used in those studies mostly require multiple processing steps for feature extraction, although modern advancements in deep learning for image classification can provide a powerful framework for...
computer science
26,978
DSSD : Deconvolutional Single Shot Detector
cs.CV
The main contribution of this paper is an approach for introducing additional context into state-of-the-art general object detection. To achieve this we first combine a state-of-the-art classifier (Residual-101[14]) with a fast detection framework (SSD[18]). We then augment SSD+Residual-101 with deconvolution layers to...
computer science
26,979
Speech Map: A Statistical Multimodal Atlas of 4D Tongue Motion During Speech from Tagged and Cine MR Images
cs.CV
Quantitative measurement of functional and anatomical traits of 4D tongue motion in the course of speech or other lingual behaviors remains a major challenge in scientific research and clinical applications. Here, we introduce a statistical multimodal atlas of 4D tongue motion using healthy subjects that enables a comb...
computer science
26,980
A graph cut approach to 3D tree delineation, using integrated airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery
cs.CV
Recognising individual trees within remotely sensed imagery has important applications in forest ecology and management. Several algorithms for tree delineation have been suggested, mostly based on locating local maxima or inverted basins in raster canopy height models (CHMs) derived from Light Detection And Ranging (L...
computer science
26,981
Training Group Orthogonal Neural Networks with Privileged Information
cs.CV
Learning rich and diverse representations is critical for the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we consider how to use privileged information to promote inherent diversity of a single CNN model such that the model can learn better representations and offer stronger generalization ...
computer science
26,982
A Projected Gradient Descent Method for CRF Inference allowing End-To-End Training of Arbitrary Pairwise Potentials
cs.CV
Are we using the right potential functions in the Conditional Random Field models that are popular in the Vision community? Semantic segmentation and other pixel-level labelling tasks have made significant progress recently due to the deep learning paradigm. However, most state-of-the-art structured prediction methods ...
computer science
26,983
Improved Descriptors for Patch Matching and Reconstruction
cs.CV
We propose a convolutional neural network (ConvNet) based approach for learning local image descriptors which can be used for significantly improved patch matching and 3D reconstructions. A multi-resolution ConvNet is used for learning keypoint descriptors. We also propose a new dataset consisting of an order of magnit...
computer science
26,984
Motion Segmentation via Global and Local Sparse Subspace Optimization
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new framework for segmenting feature-based moving objects under affine subspace model. Since the feature trajectories in practice are high-dimensional and contain a lot of noise, we firstly apply the sparse PCA to represent the original trajectories with a low-dimensional global subspace, wh...
computer science
26,985
Large Scale Novel Object Discovery in 3D
cs.CV
We present a method for discovering never-seen-before objects in 3D point clouds obtained from sensors like Microsoft Kinect. We generate supervoxels directly from the point cloud data and use them with a Siamese network, built on a recently proposed 3D convolutional neural network architecture. We use known objects to...
computer science
26,986
Learning Multi-level Region Consistency with Dense Multi-label Networks for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Semantic image segmentation is a fundamental task in image understanding. Per-pixel semantic labelling of an image benefits greatly from the ability to consider region consistency both locally and globally. However, many Fully Convolutional Network based methods do not impose such consistency, which may give rise to no...
computer science
26,987
Towards End-to-End Face Recognition through Alignment Learning
cs.CV
Plenty of effective methods have been proposed for face recognition during the past decade. Although these methods differ essentially in many aspects, a common practice of them is to specifically align the facial area based on the prior knowledge of human face structure before feature extraction. In most systems, the f...
computer science
26,988
Deep Local Video Feature for Action Recognition
cs.CV
We investigate the problem of representing an entire video using CNN features for human action recognition. Currently, limited by GPU memory, we have not been able to feed a whole video into CNN/RNNs for end-to-end learning. A common practice is to use sampled frames as inputs and video labels as supervision. One major...
computer science
26,989
A Multi-view RGB-D Approach for Human Pose Estimation in Operating Rooms
cs.CV
Many approaches have been proposed for human pose estimation in single and multi-view RGB images. However, some environments, such as the operating room, are still very challenging for state-of-the-art RGB methods. In this paper, we propose an approach for multi-view 3D human pose estimation from RGB-D images and demon...
computer science
26,990
Recovering 3D Planar Arrangements from Videos
cs.CV
Acquiring 3D geometry of real world objects has various applications in 3D digitization, such as navigation and content generation in virtual environments. Image remains one of the most popular media for such visual tasks due to its simplicity of acquisition. Traditional image-based 3D reconstruction approaches heavily...
computer science
26,991
Case Study of a highly automated Layout Analysis and OCR of an incunabulum: 'Der Heiligen Leben' (1488)
cs.CV
This paper provides the first thorough documentation of a high quality digitization process applied to an early printed book from the incunabulum period (1450-1500). The entire OCR related workflow including preprocessing, layout analysis and text recognition is illustrated in detail using the example of 'Der Heiligen ...
computer science
26,992
Super-resolution Using Constrained Deep Texture Synthesis
cs.CV
Hallucinating high frequency image details in single image super-resolution is a challenging task. Traditional super-resolution methods tend to produce oversmoothed output images due to the ambiguity in mapping between low and high resolution patches. We build on recent success in deep learning based texture synthesis ...
computer science
26,993
Unlabeled Samples Generated by GAN Improve the Person Re-identification Baseline in vitro
cs.CV
The main contribution of this paper is a simple semi-supervised pipeline that only uses the original training set without collecting extra data. It is challenging in 1) how to obtain more training data only from the training set and 2) how to use the newly generated data. In this work, the generative adversarial networ...
computer science
26,994
Pose Invariant Embedding for Deep Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Pedestrian misalignment, which mainly arises from detector errors and pose variations, is a critical problem for a robust person re-identification (re-ID) system. With bad alignment, the background noise will significantly compromise the feature learning and matching process. To address this problem, this paper introdu...
computer science
26,995
Deep Region Hashing for Efficient Large-scale Instance Search from Images
cs.CV
Instance Search (INS) is a fundamental problem for many applications, while it is more challenging comparing to traditional image search since the relevancy is defined at the instance level. Existing works have demonstrated the success of many complex ensemble systems that are typically conducted by firstly generatin...
computer science
26,996
Quasi-homography warps in image stitching
cs.CV
The naturalness of warps is gaining extensive attentions in image stitching. Recent warps such as SPHP and AANAP, use global similarity warps to mitigate projective distortion (which enlarges regions), however, they necessarily bring in perspective distortion (which generates inconsistencies). In this paper, we propose...
computer science
26,997
UmUTracker: A versatile MATLAB program for automated particle tracking of 2D light microscopy or 3D digital holography data
cs.CV
We present a versatile and fast MATLAB program (UmUTracker) that automatically detects and tracks particles by analyzing video sequences acquired by either light microscopy or digital in-line holographic microscopy. Our program detects the 2D lateral positions of particles with an algorithm based on the isosceles trian...
computer science
26,998
Camera-trap images segmentation using multi-layer robust principal component analysis
cs.CV
The segmentation of animals from camera-trap images is a difficult task. To illustrate, there are various challenges due to environmental conditions and hardware limitation in these images. We proposed a multi-layer robust principal component analysis (multi-layer RPCA) approach for background subtraction. Our method c...
computer science
26,999
An Efficient Algebraic Solution to the Perspective-Three-Point Problem
cs.CV
In this work, we present an algebraic solution to the classical perspective-3-point (P3P) problem for determining the position and attitude of a camera from observations of three known reference points. In contrast to previous approaches, we first directly determine the camera's attitude by employing the corresponding ...
computer science
27,000
Detection of Face using Viola Jones and Recognition using Back Propagation Neural Network
cs.CV
Detection and recognition of the facial images of people is an intricate problem which has garnered much attention during recent years due to its ever increasing applications in numerous fields. It continues to pose a challenge in finding a robust solution to it. Its scope extends to catering the security, commercial a...
computer science
27,001
Exploiting saliency for object segmentation from image level labels
cs.CV
There have been remarkable improvements in the semantic labelling task in the recent years. However, the state of the art methods rely on large-scale pixel-level annotations. This paper studies the problem of training a pixel-wise semantic labeller network from image-level annotations of the present object classes. Rec...
computer science