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Deep Head Pose Estimation from Depth Data for In-car Automotive Applications
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Recently, deep learning approaches have achieved promising results in various fields of computer vision. In this paper, we tackle the problem of head pose estimation through a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Differently from other proposals in the literature, the described system is able to work directly and based ...
computer science
27,303
Mesh-to-raster based non-rigid registration of multi-modal images
cs.CV
Region of interest (ROI) alignment in medical images plays a crucial role in diagnostics, procedure planning, treatment, and follow-up. Frequently, a model is represented as triangulated mesh while the patient data is provided from CAT scanners as pixel or voxel data. Previously, we presented a 2D method for curve-to-p...
computer science
27,304
Incorporating the Knowledge of Dermatologists to Convolutional Neural Networks for the Diagnosis of Skin Lesions
cs.CV
This report describes our submission to the ISIC 2017 Challenge in Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. We have participated in the Part 3: Lesion Classification with a system for automatic diagnosis of nevus, melanoma and seborrheic keratosis. Our approach aims to incorporate the expert knowledge of dermat...
computer science
27,305
Auto-context Convolutional Neural Network (Auto-Net) for Brain Extraction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
cs.CV
Brain extraction or whole brain segmentation is an important first step in many of the neuroimage analysis pipelines. The accuracy and robustness of brain extraction, therefore, is crucial for the accuracy of the entire brain analysis process. With the aim of designing a learning-based, geometry-independent and registr...
computer science
27,306
An optimal hierarchical clustering approach to segmentation of mobile LiDAR point clouds
cs.CV
This paper proposes a hierarchical clustering approach for the segmentation of mobile LiDAR point clouds. We perform the hierarchical clustering on unorganized point clouds based on a proximity matrix. The dissimilarity measure in the proximity matrix is calculated by the Euclidean distances between clusters and the di...
computer science
27,307
Deep View Morphing
cs.CV
Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successfully applied to view synthesis problems. However, such CNN-based methods can suffer from lack of texture details, shape distortions, or high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel CNN architecture for view synthesis called "Deep View M...
computer science
27,308
Sharing Residual Units Through Collective Tensor Factorization in Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Residual units are wildly used for alleviating optimization difficulties when building deep neural networks. However, the performance gain does not well compensate the model size increase, indicating low parameter efficiency in these residual units. In this work, we first revisit the residual function in several variat...
computer science
27,309
Using Deep Learning Method for Classification: A Proposed Algorithm for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge
cs.CV
Skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually by physicians [1]. Classification with an automated method like CNN [2, 3] shows potential for challenging tasks [1]. By now, the deep convolutional neural networks are on par with human dermatologist [1]. This abstract is dedicated on devel...
computer science
27,310
Removal of Salt and Pepper noise from Gray-Scale and Color Images: An Adaptive Approach
cs.CV
An efficient adaptive algorithm for the removal of Salt and Pepper noise from gray scale and color image is presented in this paper. In this proposed method first a 3X3 window is taken and the central pixel of the window is considered as the processing pixel. If the processing pixel is found as uncorrupted, then it is ...
computer science
27,311
Shape DNA: Basic Generating Functions for Geometric Moment Invariants
cs.CV
Geometric moment invariants (GMIs) have been widely used as basic tool in shape analysis and information retrieval. Their structure and characteristics determine efficiency and effectiveness. Two fundamental building blocks or generating functions (GFs) for invariants are discovered, which are dot product and vector pr...
computer science
27,312
SRN: Side-output Residual Network for Object Symmetry Detection in the Wild
cs.CV
In this paper, we establish a baseline for object symmetry detection in complex backgrounds by presenting a new benchmark and an end-to-end deep learning approach, opening up a promising direction for symmetry detection in the wild. The new benchmark, named Sym-PASCAL, spans challenges including object diversity, multi...
computer science
27,313
X-ray Astronomical Point Sources Recognition Using Granular Binary-tree SVM
cs.CV
The study on point sources in astronomical images is of special importance, since most energetic celestial objects in the Universe exhibit a point-like appearance. An approach to recognize the point sources (PS) in the X-ray astronomical images using our newly designed granular binary-tree support vector machine (GBT-S...
computer science
27,314
Deep Learning based Large Scale Visual Recommendation and Search for E-Commerce
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a unified end-to-end approach to build a large scale Visual Search and Recommendation system for e-commerce. Previous works have targeted these problems in isolation. We believe a more effective and elegant solution could be obtained by tackling them together. We propose a unified Deep Convolu...
computer science
27,315
Detecting Cancer Metastases on Gigapixel Pathology Images
cs.CV
Each year, the treatment decisions for more than 230,000 breast cancer patients in the U.S. hinge on whether the cancer has metastasized away from the breast. Metastasis detection is currently performed by pathologists reviewing large expanses of biological tissues. This process is labor intensive and error-prone. We p...
computer science
27,316
Object classification in images of Neoclassical furniture using Deep Learning
cs.CV
This short paper outlines research results on object classification in images of Neoclassical furniture. The motivation was to provide an object recognition framework which is able to support the alignment of furniture images with a symbolic level model. A data-driven bottom-up research routine in the Neoclassica resea...
computer science
27,317
Deep Learning for Automated Quality Assessment of Color Fundus Images in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
cs.CV
Purpose To develop a computer based method for the automated assessment of image quality in the context of diabetic retinopathy (DR) to guide the photographer. Methods A deep learning framework was trained to grade the images automatically. A large representative set of 7000 color fundus images were used for the expe...
computer science
27,318
Unsupervised Visual-Linguistic Reference Resolution in Instructional Videos
cs.CV
We propose an unsupervised method for reference resolution in instructional videos, where the goal is to temporally link an entity (e.g., "dressing") to the action (e.g., "mix yogurt") that produced it. The key challenge is the inevitable visual-linguistic ambiguities arising from the changes in both visual appearance ...
computer science
27,319
Optical Flow Fields: Dense Correspondence Fields for Highly Accurate Large Displacement Optical Flow Estimation
cs.CV
Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the major disadvantage of being very outlier-prone as they are not designed to find ...
computer science
27,320
Texture Classification of MR Images of the Brain in ALS using CoHOG
cs.CV
Texture analysis is a well-known research topic in computer vision and image processing and has many applications. Gradient-based texture methods have become popular in classification problems. For the first time we extend a well-known gradient-based method, Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients (CoHOG) to ext...
computer science
27,321
Tree-Structured Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Object Localization
cs.CV
Existing object proposal algorithms usually search for possible object regions over multiple locations and scales separately, which ignore the interdependency among different objects and deviate from the human perception procedure. To incorporate global interdependency between objects into object localization, we propo...
computer science
27,322
A Pursuit of Temporal Accuracy in General Activity Detection
cs.CV
Detecting activities in untrimmed videos is an important but challenging task. The performance of existing methods remains unsatisfactory, e.g., they often meet difficulties in locating the beginning and end of a long complex action. In this paper, we propose a generic framework that can accurately detect a wide variet...
computer science
27,323
Large Kernel Matters -- Improve Semantic Segmentation by Global Convolutional Network
cs.CV
One of recent trends [30, 31, 14] in network architec- ture design is stacking small filters (e.g., 1x1 or 3x3) in the entire network because the stacked small filters is more ef- ficient than a large kernel, given the same computational complexity. However, in the field of semantic segmenta- tion, where we need to per...
computer science
27,324
A Linear Extrinsic Calibration of Kaleidoscopic Imaging System from Single 3D Point
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new extrinsic calibration of kaleidoscopic imaging system by estimating normals and distances of the mirrors. The problem to be solved in this paper is a simultaneous estimation of all mirror parameters consistent throughout multiple reflections. Unlike conventional methods utilizing a pair of dir...
computer science
27,325
Transformation-Grounded Image Generation Network for Novel 3D View Synthesis
cs.CV
We present a transformation-grounded image generation network for novel 3D view synthesis from a single image. Instead of taking a 'blank slate' approach, we first explicitly infer the parts of the geometry visible both in the input and novel views and then re-cast the remaining synthesis problem as image completion. S...
computer science
27,326
Fast Gesture Recognition with Multiple Stream Discrete HMMs on 3D Skeletons
cs.CV
HMMs are widely used in action and gesture recognition due to their implementation simplicity, low computational requirement, scalability and high parallelism. They have worth performance even with a limited training set. All these characteristics are hard to find together in other even more accurate methods. In this p...
computer science
27,327
QuaSI: Quantile Sparse Image Prior for Spatio-Temporal Denoising of Retinal OCT Data
cs.CV
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution and non-invasive 3D imaging of the human retina but is inherently impaired by speckle noise. This paper introduces a spatio-temporal denoising algorithm for OCT data on a B-scan level using a novel quantile sparse image (QuaSI) prior. To remove speckle noise wh...
computer science
27,328
Image Classification of Melanoma, Nevus and Seborrheic Keratosis by Deep Neural Network Ensemble
cs.CV
This short paper reports the method and the evaluation results of Casio and Shinshu University joint team for the ISBI Challenge 2017 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Part 3: Lesion Classification hosted by ISIC. Our online validation score was 0.958 with melanoma classifier AUC 0.924 and seborrheic ...
computer science
27,329
DeepSD: Generating High Resolution Climate Change Projections through Single Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
The impacts of climate change are felt by most critical systems, such as infrastructure, ecological systems, and power-plants. However, contemporary Earth System Models (ESM) are run at spatial resolutions too coarse for assessing effects this localized. Local scale projections can be obtained using statistical downsca...
computer science
27,330
Segmenting Dermoscopic Images
cs.CV
We propose an automatic algorithm, named SDI, for the segmentation of skin lesions in dermoscopic images, articulated into three main steps: selection of the image ROI, selection of the segmentation band, and segmentation. We present extensive experimental results achieved by the SDI algorithm on the lesion segmentatio...
computer science
27,331
Prior-based Hierarchical Segmentation Highlighting Structures of Interest
cs.CV
Image segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into a set of meaningful regions according to some criteria. Hierarchical segmentation has emerged as a major trend in this regard as it favors the emergence of important regions at different scales. On the other hand, many methods allow us to have prior inform...
computer science
27,332
WebCaricature: a benchmark for caricature face recognition
cs.CV
Caricatures are facial drawings by artists with exaggeration on certain facial parts. The exaggerations are often beyond realism and yet the caricatures are still recognizable by humans. With the advent of deep learning, recognition performances by computers on real-world faces has become comparable to human performanc...
computer science
27,333
End-to-end semantic face segmentation with conditional random fields as convolutional, recurrent and adversarial networks
cs.CV
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of related yet distinct advances in semantic segmentation. Here, we tackle this problem by leveraging the respective strengths of these advances. That is, we formulate a conditional random field over a four-connected graph as end-to-end trainable convolutional and r...
computer science
27,334
UntrimmedNets for Weakly Supervised Action Recognition and Detection
cs.CV
Current action recognition methods heavily rely on trimmed videos for model training. However, it is expensive and time-consuming to acquire a large-scale trimmed video dataset. This paper presents a new weakly supervised architecture, called UntrimmedNet, which is able to directly learn action recognition models from ...
computer science
27,335
A New Representation of Skeleton Sequences for 3D Action Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a new method for 3D action recognition with skeleton sequences (i.e., 3D trajectories of human skeleton joints). The proposed method first transforms each skeleton sequence into three clips each consisting of several frames for spatial temporal feature learning using deep neural networks. Each clip ...
computer science
27,336
A New Evaluation Protocol and Benchmarking Results for Extendable Cross-media Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new evaluation protocol for cross-media retrieval which better fits the real-word applications. Both image-text and text-image retrieval modes are considered. Traditionally, class labels in the training and testing sets are identical. That is, it is usually assumed that the query falls into some p...
computer science
27,337
Multi-frequency image reconstruction for radio-interferometry with self-tuned regularization parameters
cs.CV
As the world's largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will provide radio interferometric data with unprecedented detail. Image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry are challenged to scale well with TeraByte image sizes never seen before. In this work, we investigate one such 3D image re...
computer science
27,338
Fast LIDAR-based Road Detection Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this work, a deep learning approach has been developed to carry out road detection using only LIDAR data. Starting from an unstructured point cloud, top-view images encoding several basic statistics such as mean elevation and density are generated. By considering a top-view representation, road detection is reduced ...
computer science
27,339
From Depth Data to Head Pose Estimation: a Siamese approach
cs.CV
The correct estimation of the head pose is a problem of the great importance for many applications. For instance, it is an enabling technology in automotive for driver attention monitoring. In this paper, we tackle the pose estimation problem through a deep learning network working in regression manner. Traditional met...
computer science
27,340
Data-Driven Color Augmentation Techniques for Deep Skin Image Analysis
cs.CV
Dermoscopic skin images are often obtained with different imaging devices, under varying acquisition conditions. In this work, instead of attempting to perform intensity and color normalization, we propose to leverage computational color constancy techniques to build an artificial data augmentation technique suitable f...
computer science
27,341
Development of An Android Application for Object Detection Based on Color, Shape, or Local Features
cs.CV
Object detection and recognition is an important task in many computer vision applications. In this paper an Android application was developed using Eclipse IDE and OpenCV3 Library. This application is able to detect objects in an image that is loaded from the mobile gallery, based on its color, shape, or local feature...
computer science
27,342
Depth from Monocular Images using a Semi-Parallel Deep Neural Network (SPDNN) Hybrid Architecture
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) techniques are applied to the problem of determining the depth from a single camera image (monocular depth). Fully connected CNN topologies preserve all details of the input images, enabling the detection of fine details, but miss larger features; networks that employ 2x2, 4x4 and 8x8...
computer science
27,343
Deep Image Matting
cs.CV
Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior methods 1) only use low-level features and 2) lack high-level context. In this paper,...
computer science
27,344
Viraliency: Pooling Local Virality
cs.CV
In our overly-connected world, the automatic recognition of virality - the quality of an image or video to be rapidly and widely spread in social networks - is of crucial importance, and has recently awaken the interest of the computer vision community. Concurrently, recent progress in deep learning architectures showe...
computer science
27,345
Web-based visualisation of head pose and facial expressions changes: monitoring human activity using depth data
cs.CV
Despite significant recent advances in the field of head pose estimation and facial expression recognition, raising the cognitive level when analysing human activity presents serious challenges to current concepts. Motivated by the need of generating comprehensible visual representations from different sets of data, we...
computer science
27,346
Neural method for Explicit Mapping of Quasi-curvature Locally Linear Embedding in image retrieval
cs.CV
This paper proposed a new explicit nonlinear dimensionality reduction using neural networks for image retrieval tasks. We first proposed a Quasi-curvature Locally Linear Embedding (QLLE) for training set. QLLE guarantees the linear criterion in neighborhood of each sample. Then, a neural method (NM) is proposed for out...
computer science
27,347
Colorization as a Proxy Task for Visual Understanding
cs.CV
We investigate and improve self-supervision as a drop-in replacement for ImageNet pretraining, focusing on automatic colorization as the proxy task. Self-supervised training has been shown to be more promising for utilizing unlabeled data than other, traditional unsupervised learning methods. We build on this success a...
computer science
27,348
Multi-Pose Face Recognition Using Hybrid Face Features Descriptor
cs.CV
This paper presents a multi-pose face recognition approach using hybrid face features descriptors (HFFD). The HFFD is a face descriptor containing of rich discriminant information that is created by fusing some frequency-based features extracted using both wavelet and DCT analysis of several different poses of 2D face ...
computer science
27,349
Local Patch Classification Based Framework for Single Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
Recent learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods often focus on the dictionary learning or network training. In this paper, we detailedly discuss a new SR framework based on local classification instead of traditional dictionary learning. The proposed efficient and extendible SR framework is named as local patch cla...
computer science
27,350
Improving Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks with Semantic Information
cs.CV
Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose and correct potential problems. However, it is challenging to reason about what ...
computer science
27,351
Evaluating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Material Classification
cs.CV
Determining the material category of a surface from an image is a demanding task in perception that is drawing increasing attention. Following the recent remarkable results achieved for image classification and object detection utilising Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), we empirically study material classification...
computer science
27,352
Detection of Human Rights Violations in Images: Can Convolutional Neural Networks help?
cs.CV
After setting the performance benchmarks for image, video, speech and audio processing, deep convolutional networks have been core to the greatest advances in image recognition tasks in recent times. This raises the question of whether there are any benefit in targeting these remarkable deep architectures with the unat...
computer science
27,353
Combining Residual Networks with LSTMs for Lipreading
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end deep learning architecture for word-level visual speech recognition. The system is a combination of spatiotemporal convolutional, residual and bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory networks. We train and evaluate it on the Lipreading In-The-Wild benchmark, a challenging database of 500-size targ...
computer science
27,354
Co-occurrence Filter
cs.CV
Co-occurrence Filter (CoF) is a boundary preserving filter. It is based on the Bilateral Filter (BF) but instead of using a Gaussian on the range values to preserve edges it relies on a co-occurrence matrix. Pixel values that co-occur frequently in the image (i.e., inside textured regions) will have a high weight in th...
computer science
27,355
Hardware-Driven Nonlinear Activation for Stochastic Computing Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Recently, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have made unprecedented progress, achieving the accuracy close to, or even better than human-level perception in various tasks. There is a timely need to map the latest software DCNNs to application-specific hardware, in order to achieve orders of magnitude improveme...
computer science
27,356
Automatic Skin Lesion Analysis using Large-scale Dermoscopy Images and Deep Residual Networks
cs.CV
Malignant melanoma has one of the most rapidly increasing incidences in the world and has a considerable mortality rate. Early diagnosis is particularly important since melanoma can be cured with prompt excision. Dermoscopy images play an important role in the non-invasive early detection of melanoma [1]. However, mela...
computer science
27,357
GUN: Gradual Upsampling Network for single image super-resolution
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an efficient super-resolution (SR) method based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN), namely gradual upsampling network (GUN). Recent CNN based SR methods either preliminarily magnify the low resolution (LR) input to high resolution (HR) and then reconstruct the HR input, or directly rec...
computer science
27,358
Automatic Skin Lesion Segmentation using Semi-supervised Learning Technique
cs.CV
Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers and each year million cases of skin cancer are treated. Treating and curing skin cancer is easy, if it is diagnosed and treated at an early stage. In this work we propose an automatic technique for skin lesion segmentation in dermoscopic images which helps in classifying th...
computer science
27,359
A Pitfall of Unsupervised Pre-Training
cs.CV
The point of this paper is to question typical assumptions in deep learning and suggest alternatives. A particular contribution is to prove that even if a Stacked Convolutional Auto-Encoder is good at reconstructing pictures, it is not necessarily good at discriminating their classes. When using Auto-Encoders, intuitiv...
computer science
27,360
A Localisation-Segmentation Approach for Multi-label Annotation of Lumbar Vertebrae using Deep Nets
cs.CV
Multi-class segmentation of vertebrae is a non-trivial task mainly due to the high correlation in the appearance of adjacent vertebrae. Hence, such a task calls for the consideration of both global and local context. Based on this motivation, we propose a two-staged approach that, given a computed tomography dataset of...
computer science
27,361
Deep Learning for Skin Lesion Classification
cs.CV
Melanoma, a malignant form of skin cancer is very threatening to life. Diagnosis of melanoma at an earlier stage is highly needed as it has a very high cure rate. Benign and malignant forms of skin cancer can be detected by analyzing the lesions present on the surface of the skin using dermoscopic images. In this work,...
computer science
27,362
Randomized Iterative Reconstruction for Sparse View X-ray Computed Tomography
cs.CV
With the availability of more powerful computers, iterative reconstruction algorithms are the subject of an ongoing work in the design of more efficient reconstruction algorithms for X-ray computed tomography. In this work, we show how two analytical reconstruction algorithms can be improved by correcting the correspon...
computer science
27,363
Zero-Shot Learning - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
cs.CV
Due to the importance of zero-shot learning, the number of proposed approaches has increased steadily recently. We argue that it is time to take a step back and to analyze the status quo of the area. The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, given the fact that there is no agreed upon zero-shot learning benchmark...
computer science
27,364
Improving LBP and its variants using anisotropic diffusion
cs.CV
The main purpose of this paper is to propose a new preprocessing step in order to improve local feature descriptors and texture classification. Preprocessing is implemented by using transformations which help highlight salient features that play a significant role in texture recognition. We evaluate and compare four di...
computer science
27,365
Detailed, accurate, human shape estimation from clothed 3D scan sequences
cs.CV
We address the problem of estimating human pose and body shape from 3D scans over time. Reliable estimation of 3D body shape is necessary for many applications including virtual try-on, health monitoring, and avatar creation for virtual reality. Scanning bodies in minimal clothing, however, presents a practical barrier...
computer science
27,366
Fully Convolutional Networks to Detect Clinical Dermoscopic Features
cs.CV
We use a pretrained fully convolutional neural network to detect clinical dermoscopic features from dermoscopy skin lesion images. We reformulate the superpixel classification task as an image segmentation problem, and extend a neural network architecture originally designed for image classification to detect dermoscop...
computer science
27,367
Learning Background-Aware Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Correlation Filters (CFs) have recently demonstrated excellent performance in terms of rapidly tracking objects under challenging photometric and geometric variations. The strength of the approach comes from its ability to efficiently learn - "on the fly" - how the object is changing over time. A fundamental drawback t...
computer science
27,368
Subspace Learning in The Presence of Sparse Structured Outliers and Noise
cs.CV
Subspace learning is an important problem, which has many applications in image and video processing. It can be used to find a low-dimensional representation of signals and images. But in many applications, the desired signal is heavily distorted by outliers and noise, which negatively affect the learned subspace. In t...
computer science
27,369
Recasting Residual-based Local Descriptors as Convolutional Neural Networks: an Application to Image Forgery Detection
cs.CV
Local descriptors based on the image noise residual have proven extremely effective for a number of forensic applications, like forgery detection and localization. Nonetheless, motivated by promising results in computer vision, the focus of the research community is now shifting on deep learning. In this paper we show ...
computer science
27,370
A PatchMatch-based Dense-field Algorithm for Video Copy-Move Detection and Localization
cs.CV
We propose a new algorithm for the reliable detection and localization of video copy-move forgeries. Discovering well crafted video copy-moves may be very difficult, especially when some uniform background is copied to occlude foreground objects. To reliably detect both additive and occlusive copy-moves we use a dense-...
computer science
27,371
A Framework for Dynamic Image Sampling Based on Supervised Learning (SLADS)
cs.CV
Sparse sampling schemes have the potential to dramatically reduce image acquisition time while simultaneously reducing radiation damage to samples. However, for a sparse sampling scheme to be useful it is important that we are able to reconstruct the underlying object with sufficient clarity using the sparse measuremen...
computer science
27,372
A fully end-to-end deep learning approach for real-time simultaneous 3D reconstruction and material recognition
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous 3D reconstruction and material recognition and segmentation. Enabling robots to recognise different materials (concrete, metal etc.) in a scene is important for many tasks, e.g. robotic interventions in nuclear decommissioning. Previous work on 3D semantic reconstruction...
computer science
27,373
Tracking Gaze and Visual Focus of Attention of People Involved in Social Interaction
cs.CV
The visual focus of attention (VFOA) has been recognized as a prominent conversational cue. We are interested in estimating and tracking the VFOAs associated with multi-party social interactions. We note that in this type of situations the participants either look at each other or at an object of interest; therefore th...
computer science
27,374
RECOD Titans at ISIC Challenge 2017
cs.CV
This extended abstract describes the participation of RECOD Titans in parts 1 and 3 of the ISIC Challenge 2017 "Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection" (ISBI 2017). Although our team has a long experience with melanoma classification, the ISIC Challenge 2017 was the very first time we worked on skin-lesion seg...
computer science
27,375
In Search of a Dataset for Handwritten Optical Music Recognition: Introducing MUSCIMA++
cs.CV
Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has long been without an adequate dataset and ground truth for evaluating OMR systems, which has been a major problem for establishing a state of the art in the field. Furthermore, machine learning methods require training data. We analyze how the OMR processing pipeline can be expressed...
computer science
27,376
A Proximity-Aware Hierarchical Clustering of Faces
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised face clustering algorithm called "Proximity-Aware Hierarchical Clustering" (PAHC) that exploits the local structure of deep representations. In the proposed method, a similarity measure between deep features is computed by evaluating linear SVM margins. SVMs are trained using n...
computer science
27,377
Skin lesion segmentation based on preprocessing, thresholding and neural networks
cs.CV
This abstract describes the segmentation system used to participate in the challenge ISIC 2017: Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection. Several preprocessing techniques have been tested for three color representations (RGB, YCbCr and HSV) of 392 images. Results have been used to choose the better preprocessing...
computer science
27,378
Face Recognition using Multi-Modal Low-Rank Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
Face recognition has been widely studied due to its importance in different applications; however, most of the proposed methods fail when face images are occluded or captured under illumination and pose variations. Recently several low-rank dictionary learning methods have been proposed and achieved promising results f...
computer science
27,379
Source Camera Identification Based On Content-Adaptive Fusion Network
cs.CV
Source camera identification is still a hard task in forensics community, especially for the case of the small query image size. In this paper, we propose a solution to identify the source camera of the small-size images: content-adaptive fusion network. In order to learn better feature representation from the input da...
computer science
27,380
Comparison of the Deep-Learning-Based Automated Segmentation Methods for the Head Sectioned Images of the Virtual Korean Human Project
cs.CV
This paper presents an end-to-end pixelwise fully automated segmentation of the head sectioned images of the Visible Korean Human (VKH) project based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). By converting classification networks into Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs), a coarse prediction map, with smaller size ...
computer science
27,381
What Uncertainties Do We Need in Bayesian Deep Learning for Computer Vision?
cs.CV
There are two major types of uncertainty one can model. Aleatoric uncertainty captures noise inherent in the observations. On the other hand, epistemic uncertainty accounts for uncertainty in the model -- uncertainty which can be explained away given enough data. Traditionally it has been difficult to model epistemic u...
computer science
27,382
Zero-Shot Recognition using Dual Visual-Semantic Mapping Paths
cs.CV
Zero-shot recognition aims to accurately recognize objects of unseen classes by using a shared visual-semantic mapping between the image feature space and the semantic embedding space. This mapping is learned on training data of seen classes and is expected to have transfer ability to unseen classes. In this paper, we ...
computer science
27,383
Large Margin Object Tracking with Circulant Feature Maps
cs.CV
Structured output support vector machine (SVM) based tracking algorithms have shown favorable performance recently. Nonetheless, the time-consuming candidate sampling and complex optimization limit their real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a novel large margin object tracking method which absorbs the stro...
computer science
27,384
Learning Rank Reduced Interpolation with Principal Component Analysis
cs.CV
In computer vision most iterative optimization algorithms, both sparse and dense, rely on a coarse and reliable dense initialization to bootstrap their optimization procedure. For example, dense optical flow algorithms profit massively in speed and robustness if they are initialized well in the basin of convergence of ...
computer science
27,385
Joint Epipolar Tracking (JET): Simultaneous optimization of epipolar geometry and feature correspondences
cs.CV
Traditionally, pose estimation is considered as a two step problem. First, feature correspondences are determined by direct comparison of image patches, or by associating feature descriptors. In a second step, the relative pose and the coordinates of corresponding points are estimated, most often by minimizing the repr...
computer science
27,386
A Data Driven Approach for Compound Figure Separation Using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
A key problem in automatic analysis and understanding of scientific papers is to extract semantic information from non-textual paper components like figures, diagrams, tables, etc. Much of this work requires a very first preprocessing step: decomposing compound multi-part figures into individual subfigures. Previous wo...
computer science
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Block Compressive Sensing of Image and Video with Nonlocal Lagrangian Multiplier and Patch-based Sparse Representation
cs.CV
Although block compressive sensing (BCS) makes it tractable to sense large-sized images and video, its recovery performance has yet to be significantly improved because its recovered images or video usually suffer from blurred edges, loss of details, and high-frequency oscillatory artifacts, especially at a low subrate...
computer science
27,388
Random Forests and VGG-NET: An Algorithm for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge
cs.CV
This manuscript briefly describes an algorithm developed for the ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Competition. In this task, participants are asked to complete two independent binary image classification tasks that involve three unique diagnoses of skin lesions (melanoma, nevus, and seborrheic keratosis). In the fi...
computer science
27,389
Real-Time Panoramic Tracking for Event Cameras
cs.CV
Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick movements of objects in the scene or of the camera itself. In this work we propose a no...
computer science
27,390
Automatic skin lesion segmentation with fully convolutional-deconvolutional networks
cs.CV
This paper summarizes our method and validation results for the ISBI Challenge 2017 - Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection - Part I: Lesion Segmentation
computer science
27,391
Learning to Discover Cross-Domain Relations with Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
While humans easily recognize relations between data from different domains without any supervision, learning to automatically discover them is in general very challenging and needs many ground-truth pairs that illustrate the relations. To avoid costly pairing, we address the task of discovering cross-domain relations ...
computer science
27,392
Texture segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
In the last decade, deep learning has contributed to advances in a wide range computer vision tasks including texture analysis. This paper explores a new approach for texture segmentation using deep convolutional neural networks, sharing important ideas with classic filter bank based texture segmentation methods. Sever...
computer science
27,393
Transfer Learning for Melanoma Detection: Participation in ISIC 2017 Skin Lesion Classification Challenge
cs.CV
This manuscript describes our participation in the International Skin Imaging Collaboration's 2017 Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection competition. We participated in Part 3: Lesion Classification. The two stated goals of this binary image classification challenge were to distinguish between (a) melanoma an...
computer science
27,394
A Hybrid Supervised-unsupervised Method on Image Topic Visualization with Convolutional Neural Network and LDA
cs.CV
Given the progress in image recognition with recent data driven paradigms, it's still expensive to manually label a large training data to fit a convolutional neural network (CNN) model. This paper proposes a hybrid supervised-unsupervised method combining a pre-trained AlexNet with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to...
computer science
27,395
Illuminant Estimation using Ensembles of Multivariate Regression Trees
cs.CV
White balancing is a fundamental step in the image processing pipeline. The process involves estimating the chromaticity of the illuminant or light source and using the estimate to correct the image to remove any color cast. Given the importance of the problem, there has been much previous work on illuminant estimation...
computer science
27,396
Convolutional Low-Resolution Fine-Grained Classification
cs.CV
Successful fine-grained image classification methods learn subtle details between visually similar (sub-)classes, but the problem becomes significantly more challenging if the details are missing due to low resolution. Encouraged by the recent success of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures in image classif...
computer science
27,397
Ranking Based Locality Sensitive Hashing Enabled Cancelable Biometrics: Index-of-Max Hashing
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a ranking based locality sensitive hashing inspired two-factor cancelable biometrics, dubbed "Index-of-Max" (IoM) hashing for biometric template protection. With externally generated random parameters, IoM hashing transforms a real-valued biometric feature vector into discrete index (max ranke...
computer science
27,398
Using Human Brain Activity to Guide Machine Learning
cs.CV
Machine learning is a field of computer science that builds algorithms that learn. In many cases, machine learning algorithms are used to recreate a human ability like adding a caption to a photo, driving a car, or playing a game. While the human brain has long served as a source of inspiration for machine learning, li...
computer science
27,399
Global and Local Information Based Deep Network for Skin Lesion Segmentation
cs.CV
With a large influx of dermoscopy images and a growing shortage of dermatologists, automatic dermoscopic image analysis plays an essential role in skin cancer diagnosis. In this paper, a new deep fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) is proposed to automatically segment melanoma out of skin images by end-to-end lea...
computer science
27,400
Convolutional Neural Network on Three Orthogonal Planes for Dynamic Texture Classification
cs.CV
Dynamic Textures (DTs) are sequences of images of moving scenes that exhibit certain stationarity properties in time such as smoke, vegetation and fire. The analysis of DT is important for recognition, segmentation, synthesis or retrieval for a range of applications including surveillance, medical imaging and remote se...
computer science
27,401
From visual words to a visual grammar: using language modelling for image classification
cs.CV
The Bag--of--Visual--Words (BoVW) is a visual description technique that aims at shortening the semantic gap by partitioning a low--level feature space into regions of the feature space that potentially correspond to visual concepts and by giving more value to this space. In this paper we present a conceptual analysis ...
computer science