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Deep Sketch Hashing: Fast Free-hand Sketch-Based Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Free-hand sketch-based image retrieval (SBIR) is a specific cross-view retrieval task, in which queries are abstract and ambiguous sketches while the retrieval database is formed with natural images. Work in this area mainly focuses on extracting representative and shared features for sketches and natural images. Howev...
computer science
27,403
Anisotropic-Scale Junction Detection and Matching for Indoor Images
cs.CV
Junctions play an important role in the characterization of local geometric structures in images, the detection of which is a longstanding and challenging task. Existing junction detectors usually focus on identifying the junction locations and the orientations of the junction branches while ignoring their scales; howe...
computer science
27,404
Segmented and Directional Impact Detection for Parked Vehicles using Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Mutual usage of vehicles as well as car sharing became more and more attractive during the last years. Especially in urban environments with limited parking possibilities and a higher risk for traffic jams, car rentals and sharing services may save time and money. But when renting a vehicle it could already be damaged ...
computer science
27,405
SVDNet for Pedestrian Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper proposes the SVDNet for retrieval problems, with focus on the application of person re-identification (re-ID). We view each weight vector within a fully connected (FC) layer in a convolutional neuron network (CNN) as a projection basis. It is observed that the weight vectors are usually highly correlated. Th...
computer science
27,406
Learning Robust Hash Codes for Multiple Instance Image Retrieval
cs.CV
In this paper, for the first time, we introduce a multiple instance (MI) deep hashing technique for learning discriminative hash codes with weak bag-level supervision suited for large-scale retrieval. We learn such hash codes by aggregating deeply learnt hierarchical representations across bag members through a dedicat...
computer science
27,407
Towards Closing the Energy Gap Between HOG and CNN Features for Embedded Vision
cs.CV
Computer vision enables a wide range of applications in robotics/drones, self-driving cars, smart Internet of Things, and portable/wearable electronics. For many of these applications, local embedded processing is preferred due to privacy and/or latency concerns. Accordingly, energy-efficient embedded vision hardware d...
computer science
27,408
Understanding Traffic Density from Large-Scale Web Camera Data
cs.CV
Understanding traffic density from large-scale web camera (webcam) videos is a challenging problem because such videos have low spatial and temporal resolution, high occlusion and large perspective. To deeply understand traffic density, we explore both deep learning based and optimization based methods. To avoid indivi...
computer science
27,409
DropRegion Training of Inception Font Network for High-Performance Chinese Font Recognition
cs.CV
Chinese font recognition (CFR) has gained significant attention in recent years. However, due to the sparsity of labeled font samples and the structural complexity of Chinese characters, CFR is still a challenging task. In this paper, a DropRegion method is proposed to generate a large number of stochastic variant font...
computer science
27,410
Need for Speed: A Benchmark for Higher Frame Rate Object Tracking
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose the first higher frame rate video dataset (called Need for Speed - NfS) and benchmark for visual object tracking. The dataset consists of 100 videos (380K frames) captured with now commonly available higher frame rate (240 FPS) cameras from real world scenarios. All frames are annotated with a...
computer science
27,411
Computer Aided Detection of Anemia-like Pallor
cs.CV
Paleness or pallor is a manifestation of blood loss or low hemoglobin concentrations in the human blood that can be caused by pathologies such as anemia. This work presents the first automated screening system that utilizes pallor site images, segments, and extracts color and intensity-based features for multi-class cl...
computer science
27,412
Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Deep learning usually requires large amounts of labeled training data, but annotating data is costly and tedious. The framework of semi-supervised learning provides the means to use both labeled data and arbitrary amounts of unlabeled data for training. Recently, semi-supervised deep learning has been intensively studi...
computer science
27,413
Towards Diverse and Natural Image Descriptions via a Conditional GAN
cs.CV
Despite the substantial progress in recent years, the image captioning techniques are still far from being perfect.Sentences produced by existing methods, e.g. those based on RNNs, are often overly rigid and lacking in variability. This issue is related to a learning principle widely used in practice, that is, to maxim...
computer science
27,414
Hyperspectral Unmixing with Endmember Variability using Semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation
cs.CV
A semi-supervised Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation approach is developed for hyperspectral unmixing and endmember estimation while accounting for spectral variability and spatial information. Partial Membership Latent Dirichlet Allocation is an effective approach for spectral unmixing while representing s...
computer science
27,415
TURN TAP: Temporal Unit Regression Network for Temporal Action Proposals
cs.CV
Temporal Action Proposal (TAP) generation is an important problem, as fast and accurate extraction of semantically important (e.g. human actions) segments from untrimmed videos is an important step for large-scale video analysis. We propose a novel Temporal Unit Regression Network (TURN) model. There are two salient as...
computer science
27,416
Deformable Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently limited to model geometric transformations due to the fixed geometric structures in its building modules. In this work, we introduce two new modules to enhance the transformation modeling capacity of CNNs, namely, deformable convolution and deformable RoI pooling. Bot...
computer science
27,417
Recurrent Models for Situation Recognition
cs.CV
This work proposes Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models to predict structured 'image situations' -- actions and noun entities fulfilling semantic roles related to the action. In contrast to prior work relying on Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), we use a specialized action prediction network followed by an RNN for nou...
computer science
27,418
RoomNet: End-to-End Room Layout Estimation
cs.CV
This paper focuses on the task of room layout estimation from a monocular RGB image. Prior works break the problem into two sub-tasks: semantic segmentation of floor, walls, ceiling to produce layout hypotheses, followed by an iterative optimization step to rank these hypotheses. In contrast, we adopt a more direct for...
computer science
27,419
Towards Context-aware Interaction Recognition
cs.CV
Recognizing how objects interact with each other is a crucial task in visual recognition. If we define the context of the interaction to be the objects involved, then most current methods can be categorized as either: (i) training a single classifier on the combination of the interaction and its context; or (ii) aiming...
computer science
27,420
A Fast HOG Descriptor Using Lookup Table and Integral Image
cs.CV
The histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) is a widely used feature descriptor in computer vision for the purpose of object detection. In the paper, a modified HOG descriptor is described, it uses a lookup table and the method of integral image to speed up the detection performance by a factor of 5~10. By exploiting the...
computer science
27,421
Single image super-resolution using self-optimizing mask via fractional-order gradient interpolation and reconstruction
cs.CV
Image super-resolution using self-optimizing mask via fractional-order gradient interpolation and reconstruction aims to recover detailed information from low-resolution images and reconstruct them into high-resolution images. Due to the limited amount of data and information retrieved from low-resolution images, it is...
computer science
27,422
PatternNet: Visual Pattern Mining with Deep Neural Network
cs.CV
Visual patterns represent the discernible regularity in the visual world. They capture the essential nature of visual objects or scenes. Understanding and modeling visual patterns is a fundamental problem in visual recognition that has wide ranging applications. In this paper, we study the problem of visual pattern min...
computer science
27,423
Weakly-supervised DCNN for RGB-D Object Recognition in Real-World Applications Which Lack Large-scale Annotated Training Data
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of RGBD object recognition in real-world applications, where large amounts of annotated training data are typically unavailable. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel, weakly-supervised learning architecture (DCNN-GPC) which combines parametric models (a pair of Deep Convolutiona...
computer science
27,424
Zero-Shot Learning by Generating Pseudo Feature Representations
cs.CV
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR). Given the dataset of seen classes and side information of unseen classes (e.g. attri...
computer science
27,425
Multilevel Context Representation for Improving Object Recognition
cs.CV
In this work, we propose the combined usage of low- and high-level blocks of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving object recognition. While recent research focused on either propagating the context from all layers, e.g. ResNet, (including the very low-level layers) or having multiple loss layers (e.g. Goo...
computer science
27,426
TAC-GAN - Text Conditioned Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network
cs.CV
In this work, we present the Text Conditioned Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network, (TAC-GAN) a text to image Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for synthesizing images from their text descriptions. Former approaches have tried to condition the generative process on the textual data; but allying it to ...
computer science
27,427
A Fully-Automated Pipeline for Detection and Segmentation of Liver Lesions and Pathological Lymph Nodes
cs.CV
We propose a fully-automated method for accurate and robust detection and segmentation of potentially cancerous lesions found in the liver and in lymph nodes. The process is performed in three steps, including organ detection, lesion detection and lesion segmentation. Our method applies machine learning techniques such...
computer science
27,428
Detecting Oriented Text in Natural Images by Linking Segments
cs.CV
Most state-of-the-art text detection methods are specific to horizontal Latin text and are not fast enough for real-time applications. We introduce Segment Linking (SegLink), an oriented text detection method. The main idea is to decompose text into two locally detectable elements, namely segments and links. A segment ...
computer science
27,429
Vision-based Real-Time Aerial Object Localization and Tracking for UAV Sensing System
cs.CV
The paper focuses on the problem of vision-based obstacle detection and tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle navigation. A real-time object localization and tracking strategy from monocular image sequences is developed by effectively integrating the object detection and tracking into a dynamic Kalman model. At the dete...
computer science
27,430
Twitter100k: A Real-world Dataset for Weakly Supervised Cross-Media Retrieval
cs.CV
This paper contributes a new large-scale dataset for weakly supervised cross-media retrieval, named Twitter100k. Current datasets, such as Wikipedia, NUS Wide and Flickr30k, have two major limitations. First, these datasets are lacking in content diversity, i.e., only some pre-defined classes are covered. Second, texts...
computer science
27,431
Second-order Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied to many computer vision tasks, such as image classification. By performing linear combinations and element-wise nonlinear operations, these networks can be thought of as extracting solely first-order information from an input image. In the past, howeve...
computer science
27,432
Arbitrary Style Transfer in Real-time with Adaptive Instance Normalization
cs.CV
Gatys et al. recently introduced a neural algorithm that renders a content image in the style of another image, achieving so-called style transfer. However, their framework requires a slow iterative optimization process, which limits its practical application. Fast approximations with feed-forward neural networks have ...
computer science
27,433
Mask R-CNN
cs.CV
We present a conceptually simple, flexible, and general framework for object instance segmentation. Our approach efficiently detects objects in an image while simultaneously generating a high-quality segmentation mask for each instance. The method, called Mask R-CNN, extends Faster R-CNN by adding a branch for predicti...
computer science
27,434
Fast Spectral Ranking for Similarity Search
cs.CV
Despite the success of deep learning on representing images for particular object retrieval, recent studies show that the learned representations still lie on manifolds in a high dimensional space. Therefore, nearest neighbor search cannot be expected to be optimal for this task. Even if a nearest neighbor graph is com...
computer science
27,435
Multi-style Generative Network for Real-time Transfer
cs.CV
Despite the rapid progress in style transfer, existing approaches using feed-forward generative network for multi-style or arbitrary-style transfer are usually compromised of image quality and model flexibility. We find it is fundamentally difficult to achieve comprehensive style modeling using 1-dimensional style embe...
computer science
27,436
SORT: Second-Order Response Transform for Visual Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, we reveal the importance and benefits of introducing second-order operations into deep neural networks. We propose a novel approach named Second-Order Response Transform (SORT), which appends element-wise product transform to the linear sum of a two-branch network module. A direct advantage of SORT is to...
computer science
27,437
Spatio-Temporal Facial Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Conditional Random Fields
cs.CV
Automated Facial Expression Recognition (FER) has been a challenging task for decades. Many of the existing works use hand-crafted features such as LBP, HOG, LPQ, and Histogram of Optical Flow (HOF) combined with classifiers such as Support Vector Machines for expression recognition. These methods often require rigorou...
computer science
27,438
Encouraging LSTMs to Anticipate Actions Very Early
cs.CV
In contrast to the widely studied problem of recognizing an action given a complete sequence, action anticipation aims to identify the action from only partially available videos. As such, it is therefore key to the success of computer vision applications requiring to react as early as possible, such as autonomous navi...
computer science
27,439
Deep generative-contrastive networks for facial expression recognition
cs.CV
As the expressive depth of an emotional face differs with individuals, expressions, or situations, recognizing an expression using a single facial image at a moment is difficult. One of the approaches to alleviate this difficulty is using a video-based method that utilizes multiple frames to extract temporal informatio...
computer science
27,440
Proposal Flow: Semantic Correspondences from Object Proposals
cs.CV
Finding image correspondences remains a challenging problem in the presence of intra-class variations and large changes in scene layout. Semantic flow methods are designed to handle images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We introduce a novel approach to semantic flow, dubbed proposal...
computer science
27,441
GP-GAN: Towards Realistic High-Resolution Image Blending
cs.CV
Recent advances in generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown promising potentials in conditional image generation. However, how to generate high-resolution images remains an open problem. In this paper, we aim at generating high-resolution well-blended images given composited copy-and-paste ones, i.e. realistic...
computer science
27,442
Improving Person Re-identification by Attribute and Identity Learning
cs.CV
Person re-identification (re-ID) and attribute recognition share a common target at the pedestrian description. Their difference consists in the granularity. Attribute recognition focuses on local aspects of a person while person re-ID usually extracts global representations. Considering their similarity and difference...
computer science
27,443
On the use of convolutional neural networks for robust classification of multiple fingerprint captures
cs.CV
Fingerprint classification is one of the most common approaches to accelerate the identification in large databases of fingerprints. Fingerprints are grouped into disjoint classes, so that an input fingerprint is compared only with those belonging to the predicted class, reducing the penetration rate of the search. The...
computer science
27,444
License Plate Detection and Recognition Using Deeply Learned Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This work details Sighthounds fully automated license plate detection and recognition system. The core technology of the system is built using a sequence of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) interlaced with accurate and efficient algorithms. The CNNs are trained and fine-tuned so that they are robust under diff...
computer science
27,445
Simple Online and Realtime Tracking with a Deep Association Metric
cs.CV
Simple Online and Realtime Tracking (SORT) is a pragmatic approach to multiple object tracking with a focus on simple, effective algorithms. In this paper, we integrate appearance information to improve the performance of SORT. Due to this extension we are able to track objects through longer periods of occlusions, eff...
computer science
27,446
IOD-CNN: Integrating Object Detection Networks for Event Recognition
cs.CV
Many previous methods have showed the importance of considering semantically relevant objects for performing event recognition, yet none of the methods have exploited the power of deep convolutional neural networks to directly integrate relevant object information into a unified network. We present a novel unified deep...
computer science
27,447
No Fuss Distance Metric Learning using Proxies
cs.CV
We address the problem of distance metric learning (DML), defined as learning a distance consistent with a notion of semantic similarity. Traditionally, for this problem supervision is expressed in the form of sets of points that follow an ordinal relationship -- an anchor point $x$ is similar to a set of positive poin...
computer science
27,448
PKU-MMD: A Large Scale Benchmark for Continuous Multi-Modal Human Action Understanding
cs.CV
Despite the fact that many 3D human activity benchmarks being proposed, most existing action datasets focus on the action recognition tasks for the segmented videos. There is a lack of standard large-scale benchmarks, especially for current popular data-hungry deep learning based methods. In this paper, we introduce a ...
computer science
27,449
Spatially-Varying Blur Detection Based on Multiscale Fused and Sorted Transform Coefficients of Gradient Magnitudes
cs.CV
The detection of spatially-varying blur without having any information about the blur type is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel effective approach to address the blur detection problem from a single image without requiring any knowledge about the blur type, level, or camera settings. Our approach co...
computer science
27,450
Knowledge Transfer for Melanoma Screening with Deep Learning
cs.CV
Knowledge transfer impacts the performance of deep learning -- the state of the art for image classification tasks, including automated melanoma screening. Deep learning's greed for large amounts of training data poses a challenge for medical tasks, which we can alleviate by recycling knowledge from models trained on d...
computer science
27,451
Deep Photo Style Transfer
cs.CV
This paper introduces a deep-learning approach to photographic style transfer that handles a large variety of image content while faithfully transferring the reference style. Our approach builds upon the recent work on painterly transfer that separates style from the content of an image by considering different layers ...
computer science
27,452
Video Frame Interpolation via Adaptive Convolution
cs.CV
Video frame interpolation typically involves two steps: motion estimation and pixel synthesis. Such a two-step approach heavily depends on the quality of motion estimation. This paper presents a robust video frame interpolation method that combines these two steps into a single process. Specifically, our method conside...
computer science
27,453
Joint Intermodal and Intramodal Label Transfers for Extremely Rare or Unseen Classes
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a label transfer model from texts to images for image classification tasks. The problem of image classification is often much more challenging than text classification. On one hand, labeled text data is more widely available than the labeled images for classification tasks. On the other hand, ...
computer science
27,454
Deeply-Supervised CNN for Prostate Segmentation
cs.CV
Prostate segmentation from Magnetic Resonance (MR) images plays an important role in image guided interven- tion. However, the lack of clear boundary specifically at the apex and base, and huge variation of shape and texture between the images from different patients make the task very challenging. To overcome these pr...
computer science
27,455
Deep MANTA: A Coarse-to-fine Many-Task Network for joint 2D and 3D vehicle analysis from monocular image
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel approach, called Deep MANTA (Deep Many-Tasks), for many-task vehicle analysis from a given image. A robust convolutional network is introduced for simultaneous vehicle detection, part localization, visibility characterization and 3D dimension estimation. Its architecture is based on a ...
computer science
27,456
An End-to-End Approach to Natural Language Object Retrieval via Context-Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
We propose an end-to-end approach to the natural language object retrieval task, which localizes an object within an image according to a natural language description, i.e., referring expression. Previous works divide this problem into two independent stages: first, compute region proposals from the image without the e...
computer science
27,457
Can you tell where in India I am from? Comparing humans and computers on fine-grained race face classification
cs.CV
Faces form the basis for a rich variety of judgments in humans, yet the underlying features remain poorly understood. Although fine-grained distinctions within a race might more strongly constrain possible facial features used by humans than in case of coarse categories such as race or gender, such fine grained distinc...
computer science
27,458
Neural Ctrl-F: Segmentation-free Query-by-String Word Spotting in Handwritten Manuscript Collections
cs.CV
In this paper, we approach the problem of segmentation-free query-by-string word spotting for handwritten documents. In other words, we use methods inspired from computer vision and machine learning to search for words in large collections of digitized manuscripts. In particular, we are interested in historical handwri...
computer science
27,459
Classifying Symmetrical Differences and Temporal Change in Mammography Using Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We investigate the addition of symmetry and temporal context information to a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with the purpose of detecting malignant soft tissue lesions in mammography. We employ a simple linear mapping that takes the location of a mass candidate and maps it to either the contra-lateral or prio...
computer science
27,460
R-C3D: Region Convolutional 3D Network for Temporal Activity Detection
cs.CV
We address the problem of activity detection in continuous, untrimmed video streams. This is a difficult task that requires extracting meaningful spatio-temporal features to capture activities, accurately localizing the start and end times of each activity. We introduce a new model, Region Convolutional 3D Network (R-C...
computer science
27,461
Cross-View Image Matching for Geo-localization in Urban Environments
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of cross-view image geo-localization. Specifically, we aim to estimate the GPS location of a query street view image by finding the matching images in a reference database of geo-tagged bird's eye view images, or vice versa. To this end, we present a new framework for cross-view im...
computer science
27,462
Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression
cs.CV
3D face reconstruction is a fundamental Computer Vision problem of extraordinary difficulty. Current systems often assume the availability of multiple facial images (sometimes from the same subject) as input, and must address a number of methodological challenges such as establishing dense correspondences across large ...
computer science
27,463
Bidirectional-Convolutional LSTM Based Spectral-Spatial Feature Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel deep learning framework named bidirectional-convolutional long short term memory (Bi-CLSTM) network to automatically learn the spectral-spatial feature from hyperspectral images (HSIs). In the network, the issue of spectral feature extraction is considered as a sequence learning problem, and...
computer science
27,464
Planar Object Tracking in the Wild: A Benchmark
cs.CV
Planar object tracking plays an important role in computer vision and related fields. While several benchmarks have been constructed for evaluating state-of-the-art algorithms, there is a lack of video sequences captured in the wild rather than in constrained laboratory environment. In this paper, we present a carefull...
computer science
27,465
Recurrent Multimodal Interaction for Referring Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper we are interested in the problem of image segmentation given natural language descriptions, i.e. referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by first modeling images and sentences independently and then segment images by combining these two types of representations. We argue that learning wo...
computer science
27,466
Robust SfM with Little Image Overlap
cs.CV
Usual Structure-from-Motion (SfM) techniques require at least trifocal overlaps to calibrate cameras and reconstruct a scene. We consider here scenarios of reduced image sets with little overlap, possibly as low as two images at most seeing the same part of the scene. We propose a new method, based on line coplanarity ...
computer science
27,467
Image-based Localization using Hourglass Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an encoder-decoder convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for estimating camera pose (orientation and location) from a single RGB-image. The architecture has a hourglass shape consisting of a chain of convolution and up-convolution layers followed by a regression part. The up-convolut...
computer science
27,468
Weakly Supervised Object Localization Using Things and Stuff Transfer
cs.CV
We propose to help weakly supervised object localization for classes where location annotations are not available, by transferring things and stuff knowledge from a source set with available annotations. The source and target classes might share similar appearance (e.g. bear fur is similar to cat fur) or appear against...
computer science
27,469
Saliency-guided video classification via adaptively weighted learning
cs.CV
Video classification is productive in many practical applications, and the recent deep learning has greatly improved its accuracy. However, existing works often model video frames indiscriminately, but from the view of motion, video frames can be decomposed into salient and non-salient areas naturally. Salient and non-...
computer science
27,470
Is Second-order Information Helpful for Large-scale Visual Recognition?
cs.CV
By stacking layers of convolution and nonlinearity, convolutional networks (ConvNets) effectively learn from low-level to high-level features and discriminative representations. Since the end goal of large-scale recognition is to delineate complex boundaries of thousands of classes, adequate exploration of feature dist...
computer science
27,471
A Bag-of-Words Equivalent Recurrent Neural Network for Action Recognition
cs.CV
The traditional bag-of-words approach has found a wide range of applications in computer vision. The standard pipeline consists of a generation of a visual vocabulary, a quantization of the features into histograms of visual words, and a classification step for which usually a support vector machine in combination with...
computer science
27,472
Quality Resilient Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
We study deep neural networks for classification of images with quality distortions. We first show that networks fine-tuned on distorted data greatly outperform the original networks when tested on distorted data. However, fine-tuned networks perform poorly on quality distortions that they have not been trained for. We...
computer science
27,473
Weakly Supervised Action Learning with RNN based Fine-to-coarse Modeling
cs.CV
We present an approach for weakly supervised learning of human actions. Given a set of videos and an ordered list of the occurring actions, the goal is to infer start and end frames of the related action classes within the video and to train the respective action classifiers without any need for hand labeled frame boun...
computer science
27,474
Single Image Super-resolution via a Lightweight Residual Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Recent years have witnessed great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) for various problems both in low and high level visions. Especially noteworthy is the residual network which was originally proposed to handle high-level vision problems and enjoys several merits. This paper aims to extend the merits of res...
computer science
27,475
Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Ultrasonic Characterization of Solid Breast Lesions
cs.CV
Characterization of breast lesions is an essential prerequisite to detect breast cancer in an early stage. Automatic segmentation makes this categorization method robust by freeing it from subjectivity and human error. Both spectral and morphometric features are successfully used for differentiating between benign and ...
computer science
27,476
View Adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks for High Performance Human Action Recognition from Skeleton Data
cs.CV
Skeleton-based human action recognition has recently attracted increasing attention due to the popularity of 3D skeleton data. One main challenge lies in the large view variations in captured human actions. We propose a novel view adaptation scheme to automatically regulate observation viewpoints during the occurrence ...
computer science
27,477
Deep Direct Regression for Multi-Oriented Scene Text Detection
cs.CV
In this paper, we first provide a new perspective to divide existing high performance object detection methods into direct and indirect regressions. Direct regression performs boundary regression by predicting the offsets from a given point, while indirect regression predicts the offsets from some bounding box proposal...
computer science
27,478
Improving Classification by Improving Labelling: Introducing Probabilistic Multi-Label Object Interaction Recognition
cs.CV
This work deviates from easy-to-define class boundaries for object interactions. For the task of object interaction recognition, often captured using an egocentric view, we show that semantic ambiguities in verbs and recognising sub-interactions along with concurrent interactions result in legitimate class overlaps (Fi...
computer science
27,479
Scalable Person Re-identification on Supervised Smoothed Manifold
cs.CV
Most existing person re-identification algorithms either extract robust visual features or learn discriminative metrics for person images. However, the underlying manifold which those images reside on is rarely investigated. That raises a problem that the learned metric is not smooth with respect to the local geometry ...
computer science
27,480
A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Texture Analysis
cs.CV
Texture classification is a problem that has various applications such as remote sensing and forest species recognition. Solutions tend to be custom fit to the dataset used but fails to generalize. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in combination with Support Vector Machine (SVM) form a robust selection between po...
computer science
27,481
DeepVisage: Making face recognition simple yet with powerful generalization skills
cs.CV
Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement of accuracy with different strategies, such as task-specific CNN learning with di...
computer science
27,482
Object Region Mining with Adversarial Erasing: A Simple Classification to Semantic Segmentation Approach
cs.CV
We investigate a principle way to progressively mine discriminative object regions using classification networks to address the weakly-supervised semantic segmentation problems. Classification networks are only responsive to small and sparse discriminative regions from the object of interest, which deviates from the re...
computer science
27,483
Medical Image Retrieval using Deep Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
With a widespread use of digital imaging data in hospitals, the size of medical image repositories is increasing rapidly. This causes difficulty in managing and querying these large databases leading to the need of content based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) systems. A major challenge in CBMIR systems is the semantic...
computer science
27,484
Content-Based Image Retrieval Based on Late Fusion of Binary and Local Descriptors
cs.CV
One of the challenges in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is to reduce the semantic gaps between low-level features and high-level semantic concepts. In CBIR, the images are represented in the feature space and the performance of CBIR depends on the type of selected feature representation. Late fusion also known as...
computer science
27,485
Multi-stage Multi-recursive-input Fully Convolutional Networks for Neuronal Boundary Detection
cs.CV
In the field of connectomics, neuroscientists seek to identify cortical connectivity comprehensively. Neuronal boundary detection from the Electron Microscopy (EM) images is often done to assist the automatic reconstruction of neuronal circuit. But the segmentation of EM images is a challenging problem, as it requires ...
computer science
27,486
Local Deep Neural Networks for Age and Gender Classification
cs.CV
Local deep neural networks have been recently introduced for gender recognition. Although, they achieve very good performance they are very computationally expensive to train. In this work, we introduce a simplified version of local deep neural networks which significantly reduces the training time. Instead of using hu...
computer science
27,487
Radiomics strategies for risk assessment of tumour failure in head-and-neck cancer
cs.CV
Quantitative extraction of high-dimensional mineable data from medical images is a process known as radiomics. Radiomics is foreseen as an essential prognostic tool for cancer risk assessment and the quantification of intratumoural heterogeneity. In this work, 1615 radiomic features (quantifying tumour image intensity,...
computer science
27,488
Deep Residual Learning for Instrument Segmentation in Robotic Surgery
cs.CV
Detection, tracking, and pose estimation of surgical instruments are crucial tasks for computer assistance during minimally invasive robotic surgery. In the majority of cases, the first step is the automatic segmentation of surgical tools. Prior work has focused on binary segmentation, where the objective is to label e...
computer science
27,489
Adversarial Examples for Semantic Segmentation and Object Detection
cs.CV
It has been well demonstrated that adversarial examples, i.e., natural images with visually imperceptible perturbations added, generally exist for deep networks to fail on image classification. In this paper, we extend adversarial examples to semantic segmentation and object detection which are much more difficult. Our...
computer science
27,490
Temporal Non-Volume Preserving Approach to Facial Age-Progression and Age-Invariant Face Recognition
cs.CV
Modeling the long-term facial aging process is extremely challenging due to the presence of large and non-linear variations during the face development stages. In order to efficiently address the problem, this work first decomposes the aging process into multiple short-term stages. Then, a novel generative probabilisti...
computer science
27,491
AMAT: Medial Axis Transform for Natural Images
cs.CV
We introduce Appearance-MAT (AMAT), a generalization of the medial axis transform for natural images, that is framed as a weighted geometric set cover problem. We make the following contributions: i) we extend previous medial point detection methods for color images, by associating each medial point with a local scale;...
computer science
27,492
More is Less: A More Complicated Network with Less Inference Complexity
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel and general network structure towards accelerating the inference process of convolutional neural networks, which is more complicated in network structure yet with less inference complexity. The core idea is to equip each original convolutional layer with another low-cost collaborative ...
computer science
27,493
Gaussian Processes with Context-Supported Priors for Active Object Localization
cs.CV
We devise an algorithm using a Bayesian optimization framework in conjunction with contextual visual data for the efficient localization of objects in still images. Recent research has demonstrated substantial progress in object localization and related tasks for computer vision. However, many current state-of-the-art ...
computer science
27,494
Improving the Accuracy of the CogniLearn System for Cognitive Behavior Assessment
cs.CV
HTKS is a game-like cognitive assessment method, designed for children between four and eight years of age. During the HTKS assessment, a child responds to a sequence of requests, such as "touch your head" or "touch your toes". The cognitive challenge stems from the fact that the children are instructed to interpret th...
computer science
27,495
Sketch-based Face Editing in Video Using Identity Deformation Transfer
cs.CV
We address the problem of using hand-drawn sketch to edit facial identity, such as enlarging the shape or modifying the position of eyes or mouth, in the whole video. This task is formulated as a 3D face model reconstruction and deformation problem. We first introduce a two-stage real-time 3D face model fitting schema ...
computer science
27,496
Structured Learning of Tree Potentials in CRF for Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose a new approach to image segmentation, which exploits the advantages of both conditional random fields (CRFs) and decision trees. In the literature, the potential functions of CRFs are mostly defined as a linear combination of some pre-defined parametric models, and then methods like structured support vector...
computer science
27,497
SCAN: Structure Correcting Adversarial Network for Organ Segmentation in Chest X-rays
cs.CV
Chest X-ray (CXR) is one of the most commonly prescribed medical imaging procedures, often with over 2-10x more scans than other imaging modalities such as MRI, CT scan, and PET scans. These voluminous CXR scans place significant workloads on radiologists and medical practitioners. Organ segmentation is a crucial step ...
computer science
27,498
Person Re-Identification by Camera Correlation Aware Feature Augmentation
cs.CV
The challenge of person re-identification (re-id) is to match individual images of the same person captured by different non-overlapping camera views against significant and unknown cross-view feature distortion. While a large number of distance metric/subspace learning models have been developed for re-id, the cross-v...
computer science
27,499
Multi-View Deep Learning for Consistent Semantic Mapping with RGB-D Cameras
cs.CV
Visual scene understanding is an important capability that enables robots to purposefully act in their environment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to object-class segmentation from multiple RGB-D views using deep learning. We train a deep neural network to predict object-class semantics that is consistent f...
computer science
27,500
Transductive Zero-Shot Learning with a Self-training dictionary approach
cs.CV
As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims at automatically recognizing the instances from unseen object classes without training data. To address this problem, ZSL is usually carried out in the following two aspects: 1) capturing the domain distribution connections betwee...
computer science
27,501
Transductive Zero-Shot Learning with Adaptive Structural Embedding
cs.CV
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) endows the computer vision system with the inferential capability to recognize instances of a new category that has never seen before. Two fundamental challenges in it are visual-semantic embedding and domain adaptation in cross-modality learning and unseen class prediction steps, respectively....
computer science