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Pruned non-local means
cs.CV
In Non-Local Means (NLM), each pixel is denoised by performing a weighted averaging of its neighboring pixels, where the weights are computed using image patches. We demonstrate that the denoising performance of NLM can be improved by pruning the neighboring pixels, namely, by rejecting neighboring pixels whose weights...
computer science
27,003
Face Detection using Deep Learning: An Improved Faster RCNN Approach
cs.CV
In this report, we present a new face detection scheme using deep learning and achieve the state-of-the-art detection performance on the well-known FDDB face detetion benchmark evaluation. In particular, we improve the state-of-the-art faster RCNN framework by combining a number of strategies, including feature concate...
computer science
27,004
Treelogy: A Novel Tree Classifier Utilizing Deep and Hand-crafted Representations
cs.CV
We propose a novel tree classification system called Treelogy, that fuses deep representations with hand-crafted features obtained from leaf images to perform leaf-based plant classification. Key to this system are segmentation of the leaf from an untextured background, using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for le...
computer science
27,005
Pooling Facial Segments to Face: The Shallow and Deep Ends
cs.CV
Generic face detection algorithms do not perform very well in the mobile domain due to significant presence of occluded and partially visible faces. One promising technique to handle the challenge of partial faces is to design face detectors based on facial segments. In this paper two such face detectors namely, SegFac...
computer science
27,006
Supervised Deep Sparse Coding Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we describe the deep sparse coding network (SCN), a novel deep network that encodes intermediate representations with nonnegative sparse coding. The SCN is built upon a number of cascading bottleneck modules, where each module consists of two sparse coding layers with relatively wide and slim dictionarie...
computer science
27,007
VINet: Visual-Inertial Odometry as a Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Problem
cs.CV
In this paper we present an on-manifold sequence-to-sequence learning approach to motion estimation using visual and inertial sensors. It is to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end trainable method for visual-inertial odometry which performs fusion of the data at an intermediate feature-representation level. ...
computer science
27,008
MSCM-LiFe: Multi-scale cross modal linear feature for horizon detection in maritime images
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new method for horizon detection called the multi-scale cross modal linear feature. This method integrates three different concepts related to the presence of horizon in maritime images to increase the accuracy of horizon detection. Specifically it uses the persistence of horizon in multi-scale me...
computer science
27,009
The HASYv2 dataset
cs.CV
This paper describes the HASYv2 dataset. HASY is a publicly available, free of charge dataset of single symbols similar to MNIST. It contains 168233 instances of 369 classes. HASY contains two challenges: A classification challenge with 10 pre-defined folds for 10-fold cross-validation and a verification challenge.
computer science
27,010
Faceness-Net: Face Detection through Deep Facial Part Responses
cs.CV
We propose a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for face detection leveraging on facial attributes based supervision. We observe a phenomenon that part detectors emerge within CNN trained to classify attributes from uncropped face images, without any explicit part supervision. The observation motivates a new metho...
computer science
27,011
Re-ranking Person Re-identification with k-reciprocal Encoding
cs.CV
When considering person re-identification (re-ID) as a retrieval process, re-ranking is a critical step to improve its accuracy. Yet in the re-ID community, limited effort has been devoted to re-ranking, especially those fully automatic, unsupervised solutions. In this paper, we propose a k-reciprocal encoding method t...
computer science
27,012
CNN as Guided Multi-layer RECOS Transform
cs.CV
There is a resurging interest in developing a neural-network-based solution to the supervised machine learning problem. The convolutional neural network (CNN) will be studied in this note. To begin with, we introduce a RECOS transform as a basic building block of CNNs. The "RECOS" is an acronym for "REctified-COrrelati...
computer science
27,013
A Survey of Structure from Motion
cs.CV
The structure from motion (SfM) problem in computer vision is the problem of recovering the three-dimensional ($3$D) structure of a stationary scene from a set of projective measurements, represented as a collection of two-dimensional ($2$D) images, via estimation of motion of the cameras corresponding to these images....
computer science
27,014
Language Independent Single Document Image Super-Resolution using CNN for improved recognition
cs.CV
Recognition of document images have important applications in restoring old and classical texts. The problem involves quality improvement before passing it to a properly trained OCR to get accurate recognition of the text. The image enhancement and quality improvement constitute important steps as subsequent recognitio...
computer science
27,015
3D Shape Retrieval via Irrelevance Filtering and Similarity Ranking (IF/SR)
cs.CV
A novel solution for the content-based 3D shape retrieval problem using an unsupervised clustering approach, which does not need any label information of 3D shapes, is presented in this work. The proposed shape retrieval system consists of two modules in cascade: the irrelevance filtering (IF) module and the similarity...
computer science
27,016
Feature Selection based on PCA and PSO for Multimodal Medical Image Fusion using DTCWT
cs.CV
Multimodal medical image fusion helps to increase efficiency in medical diagnosis. This paper presents multimodal medical image fusion by selecting relevant features using Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Particle Swarm Optimization techniques (PSO). DTCWT is used for decomposition of the images into low and high...
computer science
27,017
Co-segmentation for Space-Time Co-located Collections
cs.CV
We present a co-segmentation technique for space-time co-located image collections. These prevalent collections capture various dynamic events, usually by multiple photographers, and may contain multiple co-occurring objects which are not necessarily part of the intended foreground object, resulting in ambiguities for ...
computer science
27,018
Supervised Learning in Automatic Channel Selection for Epileptic Seizure Detection
cs.CV
Detecting seizure using brain neuroactivations recorded by intracranial electroencephalogram (iEEG) has been widely used for monitoring, diagnosing, and closed-loop therapy of epileptic patients, however, computational efficiency gains are needed if state-of-the-art methods are to be implemented in implanted devices. W...
computer science
27,019
Deep Multitask Architecture for Integrated 2D and 3D Human Sensing
cs.CV
We propose a deep multitask architecture for \emph{fully automatic 2d and 3d human sensing} (DMHS), including \emph{recognition and reconstruction}, in \emph{monocular images}. The system computes the figure-ground segmentation, semantically identifies the human body parts at pixel level, and estimates the 2d and 3d po...
computer science
27,020
A novel method for automatic localization of joint area on knee plain radiographs
cs.CV
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common musculoskeletal condition typically diagnosed from radiographic assessment after clinical examination. However, a visual evaluation made by a practitioner suffers from subjectivity and is highly dependent on the experience. Computer-aided diagnostics (CAD) could improve the objectivity o...
computer science
27,021
A New Method for Removing the Moire' Pattern from Images
cs.CV
During the last decades, denoising methods have attracted much attention of researchers. The conventional method for removing the Moire' pattern from images is using notch filters in the Frequency-domain. In this paper a new method is proposed that can achieve a better performance in comparison with the traditional met...
computer science
27,022
DeepNav: Learning to Navigate Large Cities
cs.CV
We present DeepNav, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based algorithm for navigating large cities using locally visible street-view images. The DeepNav agent learns to reach its destination quickly by making the correct navigation decisions at intersections. We collect a large-scale dataset of street-view images org...
computer science
27,023
Spatial Aggregation of Holistically-Nested Convolutional Neural Networks for Automated Pancreas Localization and Segmentation
cs.CV
Accurate and automatic organ segmentation from 3D radiological scans is an important yet challenging problem for medical image analysis. Specifically, the pancreas demonstrates very high inter-patient anatomical variability in both its shape and volume. In this paper, we present an automated system using 3D computed to...
computer science
27,024
Vertical Landing for Micro Air Vehicles using Event-Based Optical Flow
cs.CV
Small flying robots can perform landing maneuvers using bio-inspired optical flow by maintaining a constant divergence. However, optical flow is typically estimated from frame sequences recorded by standard miniature cameras. This requires processing full images on-board, limiting the update rate of divergence measurem...
computer science
27,025
Denoising Hyperspectral Image with Non-i.i.d. Noise Structure
cs.CV
Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising has been attracting much research attention in remote sensing area due to its importance in improving the HSI qualities. The existing HSI denoising methods mainly focus on specific spectral and spatial prior knowledge in HSIs, and share a common underlying assumption that the embedde...
computer science
27,026
High Order Stochastic Graphlet Embedding for Graph-Based Pattern Recognition
cs.CV
Graph-based methods are known to be successful for pattern description and comparison purpose. However, a lot of mathematical tools are unavailable in graph domain, thus restricting the generic graph-based techniques to be applicable within the machine learning framework. A way to tackle this problem is graph embedding...
computer science
27,027
Design, Analysis and Application of A Volumetric Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
The design, analysis and application of a volumetric convolutional neural network (VCNN) are studied in this work. Although many CNNs have been proposed in the literature, their design is empirical. In the design of the VCNN, we propose a feed-forward K-means clustering algorithm to determine the filter number and size...
computer science
27,028
A Kinematic Chain Space for Monocular Motion Capture
cs.CV
This paper deals with motion capture of kinematic chains (e.g. human skeletons) from monocular image sequences taken by uncalibrated cameras. We present a method based on projecting an observation into a kinematic chain space (KCS). An optimization of the nuclear norm is proposed that implicitly enforces structural pro...
computer science
27,029
Evolving Boxes for Fast Vehicle Detection
cs.CV
We perform fast vehicle detection from traffic surveillance cameras. A novel deep learning framework, namely Evolving Boxes, is developed that proposes and refines the object boxes under different feature representations. Specifically, our framework is embedded with a light-weight proposal network to generate initial a...
computer science
27,030
Pixel-wise Ear Detection with Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks
cs.CV
Object detection and segmentation represents the basis for many tasks in computer and machine vision. In biometric recognition systems the detection of the region-of-interest (ROI) is one of the most crucial steps in the overall processing pipeline, significantly impacting the performance of the entire recognition syst...
computer science
27,031
Siamese Network of Deep Fisher-Vector Descriptors for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of large scale image retrieval, with the aim of accurately ranking the similarity of a large number of images to a given query image. To achieve this, we propose a novel Siamese network. This network consists of two computational strands, each comprising of a CNN component followed by a...
computer science
27,032
Visual Saliency Prediction Using a Mixture of Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Visual saliency models have recently begun to incorporate deep learning to achieve predictive capacity much greater than previous unsupervised methods. However, most existing models predict saliency using local mechanisms limited to the receptive field of the network. We propose a model that incorporates global scene s...
computer science
27,033
Understanding trained CNNs by indexing neuron selectivity
cs.CV
The impressive performance and plasticity of convolutional neural networks to solve different vision problems are shadowed by their black-box nature and its consequent lack of full understanding. To reduce this gap we propose to describe the activity of individual neurons by quantifying their inherent selectivity to sp...
computer science
27,034
Product Graph-based Higher Order Contextual Similarities for Inexact Subgraph Matching
cs.CV
Many algorithms formulate graph matching as an optimization of an objective function of pairwise quantification of nodes and edges of two graphs to be matched. Pairwise measurements usually consider local attributes but disregard contextual information involved in graph structures. We address this issue by proposing co...
computer science
27,035
Learning to Compose with Professional Photographs on the Web
cs.CV
Photo composition is an important factor affecting the aesthetics in photography. However, it is a highly challenging task to model the aesthetic properties of good compositions due to the lack of globally applicable rules to the wide variety of photographic styles. Inspired by the thinking process of photo taking, we ...
computer science
27,036
Solving Uncalibrated Photometric Stereo Using Fewer Images by Jointly Optimizing Low-rank Matrix Completion and Integrability
cs.CV
We introduce a new, integrated approach to uncalibrated photometric stereo. We perform 3D reconstruction of Lambertian objects using multiple images produced by unknown, directional light sources. We show how to formulate a single optimization that includes rank and integrability constraints, allowing also for missing ...
computer science
27,037
Automating Image Analysis by Annotating Landmarks with Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Image and video analysis is often a crucial step in the study of animal behavior and kinematics. Often these analyses require that the position of one or more animal landmarks are annotated (marked) in numerous images. The process of annotating landmarks can require a significant amount of time and tedious labor, which...
computer science
27,038
A Fast and Compact Saliency Score Regression Network Based on Fully Convolutional Network
cs.CV
Visual saliency detection aims at identifying the most visually distinctive parts in an image, and serves as a pre-processing step for a variety of computer vision and image processing tasks. To this end, the saliency detection procedure must be as fast and compact as possible and optimally processes input images in a ...
computer science
27,039
Side Information in Robust Principal Component Analysis: Algorithms and Applications
cs.CV
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) aims at recovering a low-rank subspace from grossly corrupted high-dimensional (often visual) data and is a cornerstone in many machine learning and computer vision applications. Even though RPCA has been shown to be very successful in solving many rank minimisation problems, ...
computer science
27,040
Learning a time-dependent master saliency map from eye-tracking data in videos
cs.CV
To predict the most salient regions of complex natural scenes, saliency models commonly compute several feature maps (contrast, orientation, motion...) and linearly combine them into a master saliency map. Since feature maps have different spatial distribution and amplitude dynamic ranges, determining their contributio...
computer science
27,041
Handwritten Recognition Using SVM, KNN and Neural Network
cs.CV
Handwritten recognition (HWR) is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from source such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices. In this paper we will using three (3) classification t o re cognize the handwritten which is SVM, KNN and Neural Network.
computer science
27,042
Maritime situational awareness using adaptive multi-sensor management under hazy conditions
cs.CV
This paper presents a multi-sensor architecture with an adaptive multi-sensor management system suitable for control and navigation of autonomous maritime vessels in hazy and poor-visibility conditions. This architecture resides in the autonomous maritime vessels. It augments the data from on-board imaging sensors and ...
computer science
27,043
YouTube-BoundingBoxes: A Large High-Precision Human-Annotated Data Set for Object Detection in Video
cs.CV
We introduce a new large-scale data set of video URLs with densely-sampled object bounding box annotations called YouTube-BoundingBoxes (YT-BB). The data set consists of approximately 380,000 video segments about 19s long, automatically selected to feature objects in natural settings without editing or post-processing,...
computer science
27,044
Video Salient Object Detection via Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a deep learning model to efficiently detect salient regions in videos. It addresses two important issues: (1) deep video saliency model training with the absence of sufficiently large and pixel-wise annotated video data, and (2) fast video saliency training and detection. The proposed deep video sal...
computer science
27,045
Seeded Laplaican: An Eigenfunction Solution for Scribble Based Interactive Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we cast the scribble-based interactive image segmentation as a semi-supervised learning problem. Our novel approach alleviates the need to solve an expensive generalized eigenvector problem by approximating the eigenvectors using efficiently computed eigenfunctions. The smoothness operator defined on fea...
computer science
27,046
FCSS: Fully Convolutional Self-Similarity for Dense Semantic Correspondence
cs.CV
We present a descriptor, called fully convolutional self-similarity (FCSS), for dense semantic correspondence. To robustly match points among different instances within the same object class, we formulate FCSS using local self-similarity (LSS) within a fully convolutional network. In contrast to existing CNN-based desc...
computer science
27,047
A method of limiting performance loss of CNNs in noisy environments
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) recognition rates drop in the presence of noise. We demonstrate a novel method of counteracting this drop in recognition rate by adjusting the biases of the neurons in the convolutional layers according to the noise conditions encountered at runtime. We compare our technique to traini...
computer science
27,048
An Analysis of 1-to-First Matching in Iris Recognition
cs.CV
Iris recognition systems are a mature technology that is widely used throughout the world. In identification (as opposed to verification) mode, an iris to be recognized is typically matched against all N enrolled irises. This is the classic "1-to-N search". In order to improve the speed of large-scale identification, a...
computer science
27,049
Large-scale Image Geo-Localization Using Dominant Sets
cs.CV
This paper presents a new approach for the challenging problem of geo-locating an image using image matching in a structured database of city-wide reference images with known GPS coordinates. We cast the geo-localization as a clustering problem on local image features. Akin to existing approaches on the problem, our fr...
computer science
27,050
Wide-Residual-Inception Networks for Real-time Object Detection
cs.CV
Since convolutional neural network(CNN)models emerged,several tasks in computer vision have actively deployed CNN models for feature extraction. However,the conventional CNN models have a high computational cost and require high memory capacity, which is impractical and unaffordable for commercial applications such as ...
computer science
27,051
Towards Unsupervised Weed Scouting for Agricultural Robotics
cs.CV
Weed scouting is an important part of modern integrated weed management but can be time consuming and sparse when performed manually. Automated weed scouting and weed destruction has typically been performed using classification systems able to classify a set group of species known a priori. This greatly limits deploya...
computer science
27,052
Using Complex Wavelet Transform and Bilateral Filtering for Image Denoising
cs.CV
The bilateral filter is a useful nonlinear filter which without smoothing edges, it does spatial averaging. In the literature, the effectiveness of this method for image denoising is shown. In this paper, an extension of this method is proposed which is based on complex wavelet transform. In fact, the bilateral filteri...
computer science
27,053
Gender-From-Iris or Gender-From-Mascara?
cs.CV
Predicting a person's gender based on the iris texture has been explored by several researchers. This paper considers several dimensions of experimental work on this problem, including person-disjoint train and test, and the effect of cosmetics on eyelash occlusion and imperfect segmentation. We also consider the use o...
computer science
27,054
Fast and easy blind deblurring using an inverse filter and PROBE
cs.CV
PROBE (Progressive Removal of Blur Residual) is a recursive framework for blind deblurring. Using the elementary modified inverse filter at its core, PROBE's experimental performance meets or exceeds the state of the art, both visually and quantitatively. Remarkably, PROBE lends itself to analysis that reveals its conv...
computer science
27,055
An Experimental Study of Deep Convolutional Features For Iris Recognition
cs.CV
Iris is one of the popular biometrics that is widely used for identity authentication. Different features have been used to perform iris recognition in the past. Most of them are based on hand-crafted features designed by biometrics experts. Due to tremendous success of deep learning in computer vision problems, there ...
computer science
27,056
Entropy-guided Retinex anisotropic diffusion algorithm based on partial differential equations (PDE) for illumination correction
cs.CV
This report describes the experimental results obtained using a proposed variational Retinex algorithm for controlled illumination correction. Two colour restoration and enhancement schemes of the algorithm are presented for drastically improved results. The algorithm modifies the reflectance image using global and loc...
computer science
27,057
Relative Camera Pose Estimation Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper presents a convolutional neural network based approach for estimating the relative pose between two cameras. The proposed network takes RGB images from both cameras as input and directly produces the relative rotation and translation as output. The system is trained in an end-to-end manner utilising transfer...
computer science
27,058
Robust features for facial action recognition
cs.CV
Automatic recognition of facial gestures is becoming increasingly important as real world AI agents become a reality. In this paper, we present an automated system that recognizes facial gestures by capturing local changes and encoding the motion into a histogram of frequencies. We evaluate the proposed method by demon...
computer science
27,059
Printed Arabic Text Recognition using Linear and Nonlinear Regression
cs.CV
Arabic language is one of the most popular languages in the world. Hundreds of millions of people in many countries around the world speak Arabic as their native speaking. However, due to complexity of Arabic language, recognition of printed and handwritten Arabic text remained untouched for a very long time compared w...
computer science
27,060
Attentional Network for Visual Object Detection
cs.CV
We propose augmenting deep neural networks with an attention mechanism for the visual object detection task. As perceiving a scene, humans have the capability of multiple fixation points, each attended to scene content at different locations and scales. However, such a mechanism is missing in the current state-of-the-a...
computer science
27,061
Detailed Surface Geometry and Albedo Recovery from RGB-D Video Under Natural Illumination
cs.CV
In this paper we present a novel approach for depth map enhancement from an RGB-D video sequence. The basic idea is to exploit the shading information in the color image. Instead of making assumption about surface albedo or controlled object motion and lighting, we use the lighting variations introduced by casual objec...
computer science
27,062
Designing Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Continuous Object Orientation Estimation
cs.CV
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) have been proven to be effective for various computer vision problems. In this work, we demonstrate its effectiveness on a continuous object orientation estimation task, which requires prediction of 0 to 360 degrees orientation of the objects. We do so by proposing and comparin...
computer science
27,063
Challenge of Multi-Camera Tracking
cs.CV
Multi-camera tracking is quite different from single camera tracking, and it faces new technology and system architecture challenges. By analyzing the corresponding characteristics and disadvantages of the existing algorithms, problems in multi-camera tracking are summarized and some new directions for future work are ...
computer science
27,064
Slice-to-volume medical image registration: a survey
cs.CV
During the last decades, the research community of medical imaging has witnessed continuous advances in image registration methods, which pushed the limits of the state-of-the-art and enabled the development of novel medical procedures. A particular type of image registration problem, known as slice-to-volume registrat...
computer science
27,065
Concurrent Activity Recognition with Multimodal CNN-LSTM Structure
cs.CV
We introduce a system that recognizes concurrent activities from real-world data captured by multiple sensors of different types. The recognition is achieved in two steps. First, we extract spatial and temporal features from the multimodal data. We feed each datatype into a convolutional neural network that extracts sp...
computer science
27,066
A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Background Subtraction
cs.CV
In this work, we present a novel background subtraction system that uses a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to perform the segmentation. With this approach, feature engineering and parameter tuning become unnecessary since the network parameters can be learned from data by training a single CNN that can handle v...
computer science
27,067
A New Point-set Registration Algorithm for Fingerprint Matching
cs.CV
A novel minutia-based fingerprint matching algorithm is proposed that employs iterative global alignment on two minutia sets. The matcher considers all possible minutia pairings and iteratively aligns the two sets until the number of minutia pairs does not exceed the maximum number of allowable one-to-one pairings. The...
computer science
27,068
Hashing in the Zero Shot Framework with Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Techniques to learn hash codes which can store and retrieve large dimensional multimedia data efficiently have attracted broad research interests in the recent years. With rapid explosion of newly emerged concepts and online data, existing supervised hashing algorithms suffer from the problem of scarcity of ground trut...
computer science
27,069
Image Reconstruction using Matched Wavelet Estimated from Data Sensed Compressively using Partial Canonical Identity Matrix
cs.CV
This paper proposes a joint framework wherein lifting-based, separable, image-matched wavelets are estimated from compressively sensed (CS) images and used for the reconstruction of the same. Matched wavelet can be easily designed if full image is available. Also matched wavelet may provide better reconstruction result...
computer science
27,070
Face Aging With Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
It has been recently shown that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can produce synthetic images of exceptional visual fidelity. In this work, we propose the GAN-based method for automatic face aging. Contrary to previous works employing GANs for altering of facial attributes, we make a particular emphasize on prese...
computer science
27,071
Tracking using Numerous Anchor points
cs.CV
In this paper, an online adaptive model-free tracker is proposed to track single objects in video sequences to deal with real-world tracking challenges like low-resolution, object deformation, occlusion and motion blur. The novelty lies in the construction of a strong appearance model that captures features from the in...
computer science
27,072
An Implementation of Faster RCNN with Study for Region Sampling
cs.CV
We adapted the join-training scheme of Faster RCNN framework from Caffe to TensorFlow as a baseline implementation for object detection. Our code is made publicly available. This report documents the simplifications made to the original pipeline, with justifications from ablation analysis on both PASCAL VOC 2007 and CO...
computer science
27,073
Keyframe-Based Visual-Inertial Online SLAM with Relocalization
cs.CV
Complementing images with inertial measurements has become one of the most popular approaches to achieve highly accurate and robust real-time camera pose tracking. In this paper, we present a keyframe-based approach to visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for monocular and stereo cameras. Our vi...
computer science
27,074
Automated Low-cost Terrestrial Laser Scanner for Measuring Diameters at Breast Height and Heights of Forest Trees
cs.CV
Terrestrial laser scanner is a kind of fast, high-precision data acquisition device, which had been more and more applied to the research areas of forest inventory. In this study, a kind of automated low-cost terrestrial laser scanner was designed and implemented based on a two-dimensional laser radar sensor SICK LMS-5...
computer science
27,075
Guided Optical Flow Learning
cs.CV
We study the unsupervised learning of CNNs for optical flow estimation using proxy ground truth data. Supervised CNNs, due to their immense learning capacity, have shown superior performance on a range of computer vision problems including optical flow prediction. They however require the ground truth flow which is usu...
computer science
27,076
Multi-scale Convolutional Neural Networks for Crowd Counting
cs.CV
Crowd counting on static images is a challenging problem due to scale variations. Recently deep neural networks have been shown to be effective in this task. However, existing neural-networks-based methods often use the multi-column or multi-network model to extract the scale-relevant features, which is more complicate...
computer science
27,077
An Adversarial Regularisation for Semi-Supervised Training of Structured Output Neural Networks
cs.CV
We propose a method for semi-supervised training of structured-output neural networks. Inspired by the framework of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), we train a discriminator network to capture the notion of a quality of network output. To this end, we leverage the qualitative difference between outputs obtained o...
computer science
27,078
Scene-adapted plug-and-play algorithm with convergence guarantees
cs.CV
Recent frameworks, such as the so-called plug-and-play, allow us to leverage the developments in image denoising to tackle other, and more involved, problems in image processing. As the name suggests, state-of-the-art denoisers are plugged into an iterative algorithm that alternates between a denoising step and the inv...
computer science
27,079
Region Ensemble Network: Improving Convolutional Network for Hand Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Hand pose estimation from monocular depth images is an important and challenging problem for human-computer interaction. Recently deep convolutional networks (ConvNet) with sophisticated design have been employed to address it, but the improvement over traditional methods is not so apparent. To promote the performance ...
computer science
27,080
Computational Techniques in Multispectral Image Processing: Application to the Syriac Galen Palimpsest
cs.CV
Multispectral and hyperspectral image analysis has experienced much development in the last decade. The application of these methods to palimpsests has produced significant results, enabling researchers to recover texts that would be otherwise lost under the visible overtext, by improving the contrast between the under...
computer science
27,081
Semi-Dense Visual Odometry for RGB-D Cameras Using Approximate Nearest Neighbour Fields
cs.CV
This paper presents a robust and efficient semi-dense visual odometry solution for RGB-D cameras. The core of our method is a 2D-3D ICP pipeline which estimates the pose of the sensor by registering the projection of a 3D semi-dense map of the reference frame with the 2D semi-dense region extracted in the current frame...
computer science
27,082
Soft Biometrics: Gender Recognition from Unconstrained Face Images using Local Feature Descriptor
cs.CV
Gender recognition from unconstrained face images is a challenging task due to the high degree of misalignment, pose, expression, and illumination variation. In previous works, the recognition of gender from unconstrained face images is approached by utilizing image alignment, exploiting multiple samples per individual...
computer science
27,083
Backpropagation Training for Fisher Vectors within Neural Networks
cs.CV
Fisher-Vectors (FV) encode higher-order statistics of a set of multiple local descriptors like SIFT features. They already show good performance in combination with shallow learning architectures on visual recognitions tasks. Current methods using FV as a feature descriptor in deep architectures assume that all origina...
computer science
27,084
Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Monocular Depth Map Prediction
cs.CV
Supervised deep learning often suffers from the lack of sufficient training data. Specifically in the context of monocular depth map prediction, it is barely possible to determine dense ground truth depth images in realistic dynamic outdoor environments. When using LiDAR sensors, for instance, noise is present in the d...
computer science
27,085
Predicting Privileged Information for Height Estimation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel regression-based method for employing privileged information to estimate the height using human metrology. The actual values of the anthropometric measurements are difficult to estimate accurately using state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms. Hence, we use ratios of anthropometric...
computer science
27,086
Effective face landmark localization via single deep network
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel face alignment method using single deep network (SDN) on existing limited training data. Rather than using a max-pooling layer followed one convolutional layer in typical convolutional neural networks (CNN), SDN adopts a stack of 3 layer groups instead. Each group layer contains two co...
computer science
27,087
L1-regularized Reconstruction Error as Alpha Matte
cs.CV
Sampling-based alpha matting methods have traditionally followed the compositing equation to estimate the alpha value at a pixel from a pair of foreground (F) and background (B) samples. The (F,B) pair that produces the least reconstruction error is selected, followed by alpha estimation. The significance of that resid...
computer science
27,088
On-the-Fly Adaptation of Regression Forests for Online Camera Relocalisation
cs.CV
Camera relocalisation is an important problem in computer vision, with applications in simultaneous localisation and mapping, virtual/augmented reality and navigation. Common techniques either match the current image against keyframes with known poses coming from a tracker, or establish 2D-to-3D correspondences between...
computer science
27,089
Attribute-controlled face photo synthesis from simple line drawing
cs.CV
Face photo synthesis from simple line drawing is a one-to-many task as simple line drawing merely contains the contour of human face. Previous exemplar-based methods are over-dependent on the datasets and are hard to generalize to complicated natural scenes. Recently, several works utilize deep neural networks to incre...
computer science
27,090
EAC-Net: A Region-based Deep Enhancing and Cropping Approach for Facial Action Unit Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a deep learning based approach for facial action unit detection by enhancing and cropping the regions of interest. The approach is implemented by adding two novel nets (layers): the enhancing layers and the cropping layers, to a pretrained CNN model. For the enhancing layers, we designed an at...
computer science
27,091
A large comparison of feature-based approaches for buried target classification in forward-looking ground-penetrating radar
cs.CV
Forward-looking ground-penetrating radar (FLGPR) has recently been investigated as a remote sensing modality for buried target detection (e.g., landmines). In this context, raw FLGPR data is beamformed into images and then computerized algorithms are applied to automatically detect subsurface buried targets. Most exist...
computer science
27,092
A New Rank Constraint on Multi-view Fundamental Matrices, and its Application to Camera Location Recovery
cs.CV
Accurate estimation of camera matrices is an important step in structure from motion algorithms. In this paper we introduce a novel rank constraint on collections of fundamental matrices in multi-view settings. We show that in general, with the selection of proper scale factors, a matrix formed by stacking fundamental ...
computer science
27,093
Reconstruction-Based Disentanglement for Pose-invariant Face Recognition
cs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on large-scale datasets have recently achieved impressive improvements in face recognition. But a persistent challenge remains to develop methods capable of handling large pose variations that are relatively underrepresented in training data. This paper presents a method for learning...
computer science
27,094
Graph Fourier Transform with Negative Edges for Depth Image Coding
cs.CV
Recent advent in graph signal processing (GSP) has led to the development of new graph-based transforms and wavelets for image / video coding, where the underlying graph describes inter-pixel correlations. In this paper, we develop a new transform called signed graph Fourier transform (SGFT), where the underlying graph...
computer science
27,095
Texture Characterization by Using Shape Co-occurrence Patterns
cs.CV
Texture characterization is a key problem in image understanding and pattern recognition. In this paper, we present a flexible shape-based texture representation using shape co-occurrence patterns. More precisely, texture images are first represented by tree of shapes, each of which is associated with several geometric...
computer science
27,096
A clustering approach to heterogeneous change detection
cs.CV
Change detection in heterogeneous multitemporal satellite images is a challenging and still not much studied topic in remote sensing and earth observation. This paper focuses on comparison of image pairs covering the same geographical area and acquired by two different sensors, one optical radiometer and one synthetic ...
computer science
27,097
Dual-Tree Wavelet Scattering Network with Parametric Log Transformation for Object Classification
cs.CV
We introduce a ScatterNet that uses a parametric log transformation with Dual-Tree complex wavelets to extract translation invariant representations from a multi-resolution image. The parametric transformation aids the OLS pruning algorithm by converting the skewed distributions into relatively mean-symmetric distribut...
computer science
27,098
Multi-Resolution Dual-Tree Wavelet Scattering Network for Signal Classification
cs.CV
This paper introduces a Deep Scattering network that utilizes Dual-Tree complex wavelets to extract translation invariant representations from an input signal. The computationally efficient Dual-Tree wavelets decompose the input signal into densely spaced representations over scales. Translation invariance is introduce...
computer science
27,099
Enhanced Local Binary Patterns for Automatic Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel automatic face recognition approach based on local binary patterns (LBP). LBP descriptor considers a local neighbourhood of a pixel to compute the features. This method is not very robust to handle image noise, variances and different illumination conditions. In this paper, we address these ...
computer science
27,100
Reverse Classification Accuracy: Predicting Segmentation Performance in the Absence of Ground Truth
cs.CV
When integrating computational tools such as automatic segmentation into clinical practice, it is of utmost importance to be able to assess the level of accuracy on new data, and in particular, to detect when an automatic method fails. However, this is difficult to achieve due to absence of ground truth. Segmentation a...
computer science
27,101
ArtGAN: Artwork Synthesis with Conditional Categorical GANs
cs.CV
This paper proposes an extension to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), namely as ARTGAN to synthetically generate more challenging and complex images such as artwork that have abstract characteristics. This is in contrast to most of the current solutions that focused on generating natural images such as room i...
computer science