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Using convolutional networks and satellite imagery to identify patterns in urban environments at a large scale
cs.CV
Urban planning applications (energy audits, investment, etc.) require an understanding of built infrastructure and its environment, i.e., both low-level, physical features (amount of vegetation, building area and geometry etc.), as well as higher-level concepts such as land use classes (which encode expert understandin...
computer science
27,703
Weakly-Supervised Spatial Context Networks
cs.CV
We explore the power of spatial context as a self-supervisory signal for learning visual representations. In particular, we propose spatial context networks that learn to predict a representation of one image patch from another image patch, within the same image, conditioned on their real-valued relative spatial offset...
computer science
27,704
DRAW: Deep networks for Recognizing styles of Artists Who illustrate children's books
cs.CV
This paper is motivated from a young boy's capability to recognize an illustrator's style in a totally different context. In the book "We are All Born Free" [1], composed of selected rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights interpreted by different illustrators, the boy was surprised to see a picture simil...
computer science
27,705
Action Unit Detection with Region Adaptation, Multi-labeling Learning and Optimal Temporal Fusing
cs.CV
Action Unit (AU) detection becomes essential for facial analysis. Many proposed approaches face challenging problems in dealing with the alignments of different face regions, in the effective fusion of temporal information, and in training a model for multiple AU labels. To better address these problems, we propose a d...
computer science
27,706
Detecting Visual Relationships with Deep Relational Networks
cs.CV
Relationships among objects play a crucial role in image understanding. Despite the great success of deep learning techniques in recognizing individual objects, reasoning about the relationships among objects remains a challenging task. Previous methods often treat this as a classification problem, considering each typ...
computer science
27,707
DOPE: Distributed Optimization for Pairwise Energies
cs.CV
We formulate an Alternating Direction Method of Mul-tipliers (ADMM) that systematically distributes the computations of any technique for optimizing pairwise functions, including non-submodular potentials. Such discrete functions are very useful in segmentation and a breadth of other vision problems. Our method decompo...
computer science
27,708
Improving Pairwise Ranking for Multi-label Image Classification
cs.CV
Learning to rank has recently emerged as an attractive technique to train deep convolutional neural networks for various computer vision tasks. Pairwise ranking, in particular, has been successful in multi-label image classification, achieving state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks. However, most existing appro...
computer science
27,709
Deep Multimodal Representation Learning from Temporal Data
cs.CV
In recent years, Deep Learning has been successfully applied to multimodal learning problems, with the aim of learning useful joint representations in data fusion applications. When the available modalities consist of time series data such as video, audio and sensor signals, it becomes imperative to consider their temp...
computer science
27,710
EAST: An Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector
cs.CV
Previous approaches for scene text detection have already achieved promising performances across various benchmarks. However, they usually fall short when dealing with challenging scenarios, even when equipped with deep neural network models, because the overall performance is determined by the interplay of multiple st...
computer science
27,711
Show, Ask, Attend, and Answer: A Strong Baseline For Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
This paper presents a new baseline for visual question answering task. Given an image and a question in natural language, our model produces accurate answers according to the content of the image. Our model, while being architecturally simple and relatively small in terms of trainable parameters, sets a new state of th...
computer science
27,712
Mining Object Parts from CNNs via Active Question-Answering
cs.CV
Given a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is pre-trained for object classification, this paper proposes to use active question-answering to semanticize neural patterns in conv-layers of the CNN and mine part concepts. For each part concept, we mine neural patterns in the pre-trained CNN, which are related to the ...
computer science
27,713
Pyramidal Gradient Matching for Optical Flow Estimation
cs.CV
Initializing optical flow field by either sparse descriptor matching or dense patch matches has been proved to be particularly useful for capturing large displacements. In this paper, we present a pyramidal gradient matching approach that can provide dense matches for highly accurate and efficient optical flow estimati...
computer science
27,714
Learning Deep CNN Denoiser Prior for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Model-based optimization methods and discriminative learning methods have been the two dominant strategies for solving various inverse problems in low-level vision. Typically, those two kinds of methods have their respective merits and drawbacks, e.g., model-based optimization methods are flexible for handling differen...
computer science
27,715
Simultaneous Stereo Video Deblurring and Scene Flow Estimation
cs.CV
Videos for outdoor scene often show unpleasant blur effects due to the large relative motion between the camera and the dynamic objects and large depth variations. Existing works typically focus monocular video deblurring. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to deblurring from stereo videos. In particular, we ex...
computer science
27,716
Online Video Deblurring via Dynamic Temporal Blending Network
cs.CV
State-of-the-art video deblurring methods are capable of removing non-uniform blur caused by unwanted camera shake and/or object motion in dynamic scenes. However, most existing methods are based on batch processing and thus need access to all recorded frames, rendering them computationally demanding and time consuming...
computer science
27,717
Automatic segmentation of MR brain images with a convolutional neural network
cs.CV
Automatic segmentation in MR brain images is important for quantitative analysis in large-scale studies with images acquired at all ages. This paper presents a method for the automatic segmentation of MR brain images into a number of tissue classes using a convolutional neural network. To ensure that the method obtai...
computer science
27,718
Deep Learning for Multi-Task Medical Image Segmentation in Multiple Modalities
cs.CV
Automatic segmentation of medical images is an important task for many clinical applications. In practice, a wide range of anatomical structures are visualised using different imaging modalities. In this paper, we investigate whether a single convolutional neural network (CNN) can be trained to perform different segmen...
computer science
27,719
A-Fast-RCNN: Hard Positive Generation via Adversary for Object Detection
cs.CV
How do we learn an object detector that is invariant to occlusions and deformations? Our current solution is to use a data-driven strategy -- collect large-scale datasets which have object instances under different conditions. The hope is that the final classifier can use these examples to learn invariances. But is it ...
computer science
27,720
Forecasting Human Dynamics from Static Images
cs.CV
This paper presents the first study on forecasting human dynamics from static images. The problem is to input a single RGB image and generate a sequence of upcoming human body poses in 3D. To address the problem, we propose the 3D Pose Forecasting Network (3D-PFNet). Our 3D-PFNet integrates recent advances on single-im...
computer science
27,721
Learning Two-Branch Neural Networks for Image-Text Matching Tasks
cs.CV
Image-language matching tasks have recently attracted a lot of attention in the computer vision field. These tasks include image-sentence matching, i.e., given an image query, retrieving relevant sentences and vice versa, and region-phrase matching or visual grounding, i.e., matching a phrase to relevant regions. This ...
computer science
27,722
Learning Proximal Operators: Using Denoising Networks for Regularizing Inverse Imaging Problems
cs.CV
While variational methods have been among the most powerful tools for solving linear inverse problems in imaging, deep (convolutional) neural networks have recently taken the lead in many challenging benchmarks. A remaining drawback of deep learning approaches is their requirement for an expensive retraining whenever t...
computer science
27,723
CNN-SLAM: Real-time dense monocular SLAM with learned depth prediction
cs.CV
Given the recent advances in depth prediction from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), this paper investigates how predicted depth maps from a deep neural network can be deployed for accurate and dense monocular reconstruction. We propose a method where CNN-predicted dense depth maps are naturally fused together with...
computer science
27,724
Creativity: Generating Diverse Questions using Variational Autoencoders
cs.CV
Generating diverse questions for given images is an important task for computational education, entertainment and AI assistants. Different from many conventional prediction techniques is the need for algorithms to generate a diverse set of plausible questions, which we refer to as "creativity". In this paper we propose...
computer science
27,725
Learning Detection with Diverse Proposals
cs.CV
To predict a set of diverse and informative proposals with enriched representations, this paper introduces a differentiable Determinantal Point Process (DPP) layer that is able to augment the object detection architectures. Most modern object detection architectures, such as Faster R-CNN, learn to localize objects by m...
computer science
27,726
Attention-based Extraction of Structured Information from Street View Imagery
cs.CV
We present a neural network model - based on CNNs, RNNs and a novel attention mechanism - which achieves 84.2% accuracy on the challenging French Street Name Signs (FSNS) dataset, significantly outperforming the previous state of the art (Smith'16), which achieved 72.46%. Furthermore, our new method is much simpler and...
computer science
27,727
Cutting the Error by Half: Investigation of Very Deep CNN and Advanced Training Strategies for Document Image Classification
cs.CV
We present an exhaustive investigation of recent Deep Learning architectures, algorithms, and strategies for the task of document image classification to finally reduce the error by more than half. Existing approaches, such as the DeepDocClassifier, apply standard Convolutional Network architectures with transfer learn...
computer science
27,728
Reformulating Level Sets as Deep Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Variational Level Set (LS) has been a widely used method in medical segmentation. However, it is limited when dealing with multi-instance objects in the real world. In addition, its segmentation results are quite sensitive to initial settings and highly depend on the number of iterations. To address these issues and bo...
computer science
27,729
Deep Contextual Recurrent Residual Networks for Scene Labeling
cs.CV
Designed as extremely deep architectures, deep residual networks which provide a rich visual representation and offer robust convergence behaviors have recently achieved exceptional performance in numerous computer vision problems. Being directly applied to a scene labeling problem, however, they were limited to captur...
computer science
27,730
Instance-Level Salient Object Segmentation
cs.CV
Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present a salient instance segmentation method that produces a saliency mask with distin...
computer science
27,731
Automatic Discovery, Association Estimation and Learning of Semantic Attributes for a Thousand Categories
cs.CV
Attribute-based recognition models, due to their impressive performance and their ability to generalize well on novel categories, have been widely adopted for many computer vision applications. However, usually both the attribute vocabulary and the class-attribute associations have to be provided manually by domain exp...
computer science
27,732
Predictive-Corrective Networks for Action Detection
cs.CV
While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static images, potentially underutilizing rich video information. In this work, we rethink...
computer science
27,733
Feature Tracking Cardiac Magnetic Resonance via Deep Learning and Spline Optimization
cs.CV
Feature tracking Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has recently emerged as an area of interest for quantification of regional cardiac function from balanced, steady state free precession (SSFP) cine sequences. However, currently available techniques lack full automation, limiting reproducibility. We propose a fully auto...
computer science
27,734
Dilated Convolutional Neural Networks for Cardiovascular MR Segmentation in Congenital Heart Disease
cs.CV
We propose an automatic method using dilated convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for segmentation of the myocardium and blood pool in cardiovascular MR (CMR) of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Ten training and ten test CMR scans cropped to an ROI around the heart were provided in the MICCAI 2016 HVSMR ...
computer science
27,735
Object proposal generation applying the distance dependent Chinese restaurant process
cs.CV
In application domains such as robotics, it is useful to represent the uncertainty related to the robot's belief about the state of its environment. Algorithms that only yield a single "best guess" as a result are not sufficient. In this paper, we propose object proposal generation based on non-parametric Bayesian infe...
computer science
27,736
Unsupervised Construction of Human Body Models Using Principles of Organic Computing
cs.CV
Unsupervised learning of a generalizable model of the visual appearance of humans from video data is of major importance for computing systems interacting naturally with their users and others. We propose a step towards automatic behavior understanding by integrating principles of Organic Computing into the posture est...
computer science
27,737
Ensemble classifier approach in breast cancer detection and malignancy grading- A review
cs.CV
The diagnosed cases of Breast cancer is increasing annually and unfortunately getting converted into a high mortality rate. Cancer, at the early stages, is hard to detect because the malicious cells show similar properties (density) as shown by the non-malicious cells. The mortality ratio could have been minimized if t...
computer science
27,738
Attention-Set based Metric Learning for Video Face Recognition
cs.CV
Face recognition has made great progress with the development of deep learning. However, video face recognition (VFR) is still an ongoing task due to various illumination, low-resolution, pose variations and motion blur. Most existing CNN-based VFR methods only obtain a feature vector from a single image and simply agg...
computer science
27,739
Connecting Look and Feel: Associating the visual and tactile properties of physical materials
cs.CV
For machines to interact with the physical world, they must understand the physical properties of objects and materials they encounter. We use fabrics as an example of a deformable material with a rich set of mechanical properties. A thin flexible fabric, when draped, tends to look different from a heavy stiff fabric. ...
computer science
27,740
Optimal Threshold Design for Quanta Image Sensor
cs.CV
Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a binary imaging device envisioned to be the next generation image sensor after CCD and CMOS. Equipped with a massive number of single photon detectors, the sensor has a threshold $q$ above which the number of arriving photons will trigger a binary response "1", or "0" otherwise. Existing m...
computer science
27,741
What's in a Question: Using Visual Questions as a Form of Supervision
cs.CV
Collecting fully annotated image datasets is challenging and expensive. Many types of weak supervision have been explored: weak manual annotations, web search results, temporal continuity, ambient sound and others. We focus on one particular unexplored mode: visual questions that are asked about images. The key observa...
computer science
27,742
Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks for Fast and Accurate Super-Resolution
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks have recently demonstrated high-quality reconstruction for single-image super-resolution. In this paper, we propose the Laplacian Pyramid Super-Resolution Network (LapSRN) to progressively reconstruct the sub-band residuals of high-resolution images. At each pyramid level, our model takes ...
computer science
27,743
Asymmetric Feature Maps with Application to Sketch Based Retrieval
cs.CV
We propose a novel concept of asymmetric feature maps (AFM), which allows to evaluate multiple kernels between a query and database entries without increasing the memory requirements. To demonstrate the advantages of the AFM method, we derive a short vector image representation that, due to asymmetric feature maps, sup...
computer science
27,744
Efficient Sparse Subspace Clustering by Nearest Neighbour Filtering
cs.CV
Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) has been used extensively for subspace identification tasks due to its theoretical guarantees and relative ease of implementation. However SSC has quadratic computation and memory requirements with respect to the number of input data points. This burden has prohibited SSCs use for all b...
computer science
27,745
Tractable Clustering of Data on the Curve Manifold
cs.CV
In machine learning it is common to interpret each data point as a vector in Euclidean space. However the data may actually be functional i.e.\ each data point is a function of some variable such as time and the function is discretely sampled. The naive treatment of functional data as traditional multivariate data can ...
computer science
27,746
Collaborative Low-Rank Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
In this paper we present Collaborative Low-Rank Subspace Clustering. Given multiple observations of a phenomenon we learn a unified representation matrix. This unified matrix incorporates the features from all the observations, thus increasing the discriminative power compared with learning the representation matrix on...
computer science
27,747
2D-3D Pose Consistency-based Conditional Random Fields for 3D Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This study considers the 3D human pose estimation problem in a single RGB image by proposing a conditional random field (CRF) model over 2D poses, in which the 3D pose is obtained as a byproduct of the inference process. The unary term of the proposed CRF model is defined based on a powerful heat-map regression network...
computer science
27,748
Interspecies Knowledge Transfer for Facial Keypoint Detection
cs.CV
We present a method for localizing facial keypoints on animals by transferring knowledge gained from human faces. Instead of directly finetuning a network trained to detect keypoints on human faces to animal faces (which is sub-optimal since human and animal faces can look quite different), we propose to first adapt th...
computer science
27,749
Zero-order Reverse Filtering
cs.CV
In this paper, we study an unconventional but practically meaningful reversibility problem of commonly used image filters. We broadly define filters as operations to smooth images or to produce layers via global or local algorithms. And we raise the intriguingly problem if they are reservable to the status before filte...
computer science
27,750
Saliency-guided Adaptive Seeding for Supervoxel Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose a new saliency-guided method for generating supervoxels in 3D space. Rather than using an evenly distributed spatial seeding procedure, our method uses visual saliency to guide the process of supervoxel generation. This results in densely distributed, small, and precise supervoxels in salient regions which o...
computer science
27,751
DCFNet: Discriminant Correlation Filters Network for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Discriminant Correlation Filters (DCF) based methods now become a kind of dominant approach to online object tracking. The features used in these methods, however, are either based on hand-crafted features like HoGs, or convolutional features trained independently from other tasks like image classification. In this wor...
computer science
27,752
Learning to Estimate Pose by Watching Videos
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a technique for obtaining coarse pose estimation of humans in an image that does not require any manual supervision. While a general unsupervised technique would fail to estimate human pose, we suggest that sufficient information about coarse pose can be obtained by observing human motion in mu...
computer science
27,753
Beyond Face Rotation: Global and Local Perception GAN for Photorealistic and Identity Preserving Frontal View Synthesis
cs.CV
Photorealistic frontal view synthesis from a single face image has a wide range of applications in the field of face recognition. Although data-driven deep learning methods have been proposed to address this problem by seeking solutions from ample face data, this problem is still challenging because it is intrinsically...
computer science
27,754
Recognizing Activities of Daily Living from Egocentric Images
cs.CV
Recognizing Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) has a large number of health applications, such as characterize lifestyle for habit improvement, nursing and rehabilitation services. Wearable cameras can daily gather large amounts of image data that provide rich visual information about ADLs than using other wearable sens...
computer science
27,755
Single Image Super-Resolution based on Wiener Filter in Similarity Domain
cs.CV
Single image super resolution (SISR) is an ill-posed problem aiming at estimating a plausible high resolution (HR) image from a single low resolution (LR) image. Current state-of-the-art SISR methods are patch-based. They use either external data or internal self-similarity to learn a prior for a HR image. External dat...
computer science
27,756
Neural Face Editing with Intrinsic Image Disentangling
cs.CV
Traditional face editing methods often require a number of sophisticated and task specific algorithms to be applied one after the other --- a process that is tedious, fragile, and computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end generative adversarial network that infers a face-specific disentangled r...
computer science
27,757
A Procedural Texture Generation Framework Based on Semantic Descriptions
cs.CV
Procedural textures are normally generated from mathematical models with parameters carefully selected by experienced users. However, for naive users, the intuitive way to obtain a desired texture is to provide semantic descriptions such as "regular," "lacelike," and "repetitive" and then a procedural model with proper...
computer science
27,758
Video Acceleration Magnification
cs.CV
The ability to amplify or reduce subtle image changes over time is useful in contexts such as video editing, medical video analysis, product quality control and sports. In these contexts there is often large motion present which severely distorts current video amplification methods that magnify change linearly. In this...
computer science
27,759
Spatial Memory for Context Reasoning in Object Detection
cs.CV
Modeling instance-level context and object-object relationships is extremely challenging. It requires reasoning about bounding boxes of different classes, locations \etc. Above all, instance-level spatial reasoning inherently requires modeling conditional distributions on previous detections. Unfortunately, our current...
computer science
27,760
Hide-and-Seek: Forcing a Network to be Meticulous for Weakly-supervised Object and Action Localization
cs.CV
We propose `Hide-and-Seek', a weakly-supervised framework that aims to improve object localization in images and action localization in videos. Most existing weakly-supervised methods localize only the most discriminative parts of an object rather than all relevant parts, which leads to suboptimal performance. Our key ...
computer science
27,761
Visual Recognition of Paper Analytical Device Images for Detection of Falsified Pharmaceuticals
cs.CV
Falsification of medicines is a big problem in many developing countries, where technological infrastructure is inadequate to detect these harmful products. We have developed a set of inexpensive paper cards, called Paper Analytical Devices (PADs), which can efficiently classify drugs based on their chemical compositio...
computer science
27,762
FastVentricle: Cardiac Segmentation with ENet
cs.CV
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is commonly used to assess cardiac structure and function. One disadvantage of CMR is that post-processing of exams is tedious. Without automation, precise assessment of cardiac function via CMR typically requires an annotator to spend tens of minutes per case manually contourin...
computer science
27,763
Dataset Augmentation for Pose and Lighting Invariant Face Recognition
cs.CV
The performance of modern face recognition systems is a function of the dataset on which they are trained. Most datasets are largely biased toward "near-frontal" views with benign lighting conditions, negatively effecting recognition performance on images that do not meet these criteria. The proposed approach demonstra...
computer science
27,764
Camera Calibration by Global Constraints on the Motion of Silhouettes
cs.CV
We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that improves by two orders of magnitude the performance over state-of-the-art methods, by ...
computer science
27,765
DESIRE: Distant Future Prediction in Dynamic Scenes with Interacting Agents
cs.CV
We introduce a Deep Stochastic IOC RNN Encoderdecoder framework, DESIRE, for the task of future predictions of multiple interacting agents in dynamic scenes. DESIRE effectively predicts future locations of objects in multiple scenes by 1) accounting for the multi-modal nature of the future prediction (i.e., given the s...
computer science
27,766
Deep Structured Learning for Facial Action Unit Intensity Estimation
cs.CV
We consider the task of automated estimation of facial expression intensity. This involves estimation of multiple output variables (facial action units --- AUs) that are structurally dependent. Their structure arises from statistically induced co-occurrence patterns of AU intensity levels. Modeling this structure is cr...
computer science
27,767
TGIF-QA: Toward Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Vision and language understanding has emerged as a subject undergoing intense study in Artificial Intelligence. Among many tasks in this line of research, visual question answering (VQA) has been one of the most successful ones, where the goal is to learn a model that understands visual content at region-level details ...
computer science
27,768
Soft-NMS -- Improving Object Detection With One Line of Code
cs.CV
Non-maximum suppression is an integral part of the object detection pipeline. First, it sorts all detection boxes on the basis of their scores. The detection box M with the maximum score is selected and all other detection boxes with a significant overlap (using a pre-defined threshold) with M are suppressed. This proc...
computer science
27,769
Recovery of damped exponentials using structured low rank matrix completion
cs.CV
We introduce a structured low rank matrix completion algorithm to recover a series of images from their under-sampled measurements, where the signal along the parameter dimension at every pixel is described by a linear combination of exponentials. We exploit the exponential behavior of the signal at every pixel, along ...
computer science
27,770
Interpretable 3D Human Action Analysis with Temporal Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
The discriminative power of modern deep learning models for 3D human action recognition is growing ever so potent. In conjunction with the recent resurgence of 3D human action representation with 3D skeletons, the quality and the pace of recent progress have been significant. However, the inner workings of state-of-the...
computer science
27,771
Integrating Scene Text and Visual Appearance for Fine-Grained Image Classification
cs.CV
Text in natural images contains rich semantics that are often highly relevant to objects or scene. In this paper, we focus on the problem of fully exploiting scene text for visual understanding. The main idea is combining word representations and deep visual features into a globally trainable deep convolutional neural ...
computer science
27,772
Temporal Action Localization by Structured Maximal Sums
cs.CV
We address the problem of temporal action localization in videos. We pose action localization as a structured prediction over arbitrary-length temporal windows, where each window is scored as the sum of frame-wise classification scores. Additionally, our model classifies the start, middle, and end of each action as sep...
computer science
27,773
Video Fill In the Blank using LR/RL LSTMs with Spatial-Temporal Attentions
cs.CV
Given a video and a description sentence with one missing word (we call it the "source sentence"), Video-Fill-In-the-Blank (VFIB) problem is to find the missing word automatically. The contextual information of the sentence, as well as visual cues from the video, are important to infer the missing word accurately. Sinc...
computer science
27,774
AnchorNet: A Weakly Supervised Network to Learn Geometry-sensitive Features For Semantic Matching
cs.CV
Despite significant progress of deep learning in recent years, state-of-the-art semantic matching methods still rely on legacy features such as SIFT or HoG. We argue that the strong invariance properties that are key to the success of recent deep architectures on the classification task make them unfit for dense corres...
computer science
27,775
Harvesting Multiple Views for Marker-less 3D Human Pose Annotations
cs.CV
Recent advances with Convolutional Networks (ConvNets) have shifted the bottleneck for many computer vision tasks to annotated data collection. In this paper, we present a geometry-driven approach to automatically collect annotations for human pose prediction tasks. Starting from a generic ConvNet for 2D human pose, an...
computer science
27,776
Replicator Equation: Applications Revisited
cs.CV
The replicator equation is a simple model of evolution that leads to stable form of Nash Equilibrium, Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS). It has been studied in connection with Evolutionary Game Theory and was originally developed for symmetric games. Beyond its first emphasis in biological use, evolutionary game theor...
computer science
27,777
MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications
cs.CV
We present a class of efficient models called MobileNets for mobile and embedded vision applications. MobileNets are based on a streamlined architecture that uses depth-wise separable convolutions to build light weight deep neural networks. We introduce two simple global hyper-parameters that efficiently trade off betw...
computer science
27,778
Least square ellipsoid fitting using iterative orthogonal transformations
cs.CV
We describe a generalised method for ellipsoid fitting against a minimum set of data points. The proposed method is numerically stable and applies to a wide range of ellipsoidal shapes, including highly elongated and arbitrarily oriented ellipsoids. This new method also provides for the retrieval of rotational angle an...
computer science
27,779
AMTnet: Action-Micro-Tube Regression by End-to-end Trainable Deep Architecture
cs.CV
Dominant approaches to action detection can only provide sub-optimal solutions to the problem, as they rely on seeking frame-level detections, to later compose them into "action tubes" in a post-processing step. With this paper we radically depart from current practice, and take a first step towards the design and impl...
computer science
27,780
End-to-end 3D face reconstruction with deep neural networks
cs.CV
Monocular 3D facial shape reconstruction from a single 2D facial image has been an active research area due to its wide applications. Inspired by the success of deep neural networks (DNN), we propose a DNN-based approach for End-to-End 3D FAce Reconstruction (UH-E2FAR) from a single 2D image. Different from recent work...
computer science
27,781
A Gabor Filter Texture Analysis Approach for Histopathological Brain Tumor Subtype Discrimination
cs.CV
Meningioma brain tumour discrimination is challenging as many histological patterns are mixed between the different subtypes. In clinical practice, dominant patterns are investigated for signs of specific meningioma pathology; however the simple observation could result in inter- and intra-observer variation due to the...
computer science
27,782
Video Object Segmentation using Supervoxel-Based Gerrymandering
cs.CV
Pixels operate locally. Superpixels have some potential to collect information across many pixels; supervoxels have more potential by implicitly operating across time. In this paper, we explore this well established notion thoroughly analyzing how supervoxels can be used in place of and in conjunction with other means ...
computer science
27,783
Deep Self-Taught Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
cs.CV
Most existing weakly supervised localization (WSL) approaches learn detectors by finding positive bounding boxes based on features learned with image-level supervision. However, those features do not contain spatial location related information and usually provide poor-quality positive samples for training a detector. ...
computer science
27,784
Fast 2-D Complex Gabor Filter with Kernel Decomposition
cs.CV
2-D complex Gabor filtering has found numerous applications in the fields of computer vision and image processing. Especially, in some applications, it is often needed to compute 2-D complex Gabor filter bank consisting of the 2-D complex Gabor filtering outputs at multiple orientations and frequencies. Although severa...
computer science
27,785
Robust Optical Flow Estimation in Rainy Scenes
cs.CV
Optical flow estimation in the rainy scenes is challenging due to background degradation introduced by rain streaks and rain accumulation effects in the scene. Rain accumulation effect refers to poor visibility of remote objects due to the intense rainfall. Most existing optical flow methods are erroneous when applied ...
computer science
27,786
A Comment on "Analysis of Video Image Sequences Using Point and Line Correspondences"
cs.CV
In this paper we would like to deny the results of Wang et al. raising two fundamental claims: * A line does not contribute anything to recognition of motion parameters from two images * Four traceable points are not sufficient to recover motion parameters from two perspective To be constructive, however, we show...
computer science
27,787
Light Field Blind Motion Deblurring
cs.CV
We study the problem of deblurring light fields of general 3D scenes captured under 3D camera motion and present both theoretical and practical contributions. By analyzing the motion-blurred light field in the primal and Fourier domains, we develop intuition into the effects of camera motion on the light field, show th...
computer science
27,788
Learning to Reason: End-to-End Module Networks for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Natural language questions are inherently compositional, and many are most easily answered by reasoning about their decomposition into modular sub-problems. For example, to answer "is there an equal number of balls and boxes?" we can look for balls, look for boxes, count them, and compare the results. The recently prop...
computer science
27,789
Annotating Object Instances with a Polygon-RNN
cs.CV
We propose an approach for semi-automatic annotation of object instances. While most current methods treat object segmentation as a pixel-labeling problem, we here cast it as a polygon prediction task, mimicking how most current datasets have been annotated. In particular, our approach takes as input an image crop and ...
computer science
27,790
Illuminant Spectra-based Source Separation Using Flash Photography
cs.CV
Real-world lighting often consists of multiple illuminants with different spectra. Separating and manipulating these illuminants in post-process is a challenging problem that requires either significant manual input or calibrated scene geometry and lighting. In this work, we leverage a flash/no-flash image pair to anal...
computer science
27,791
FSITM: A Feature Similarity Index For Tone-Mapped Images
cs.CV
In this work, based on the local phase information of images, an objective index, called the feature similarity index for tone-mapped images (FSITM), is proposed. To evaluate a tone mapping operator (TMO), the proposed index compares the locally weighted mean phase angle map of an original high dynamic range (HDR) to t...
computer science
27,792
ConvNet-Based Localization of Anatomical Structures in 3D Medical Images
cs.CV
Localization of anatomical structures is a prerequisite for many tasks in medical image analysis. We propose a method for automatic localization of one or more anatomical structures in 3D medical images through detection of their presence in 2D image slices using a convolutional neural network (ConvNet). A single Con...
computer science
27,793
Skeleton Boxes: Solving skeleton based action detection with a single deep convolutional neural network
cs.CV
Action recognition from well-segmented 3D skeleton video has been intensively studied. However, due to the difficulty in representing the 3D skeleton video and the lack of training data, action detection from streaming 3D skeleton video still lags far behind its recognition counterpart and image based object detection....
computer science
27,794
Skeleton based action recognition using translation-scale invariant image mapping and multi-scale deep cnn
cs.CV
This paper presents an image classification based approach for skeleton-based video action recognition problem. Firstly, A dataset independent translation-scale invariant image mapping method is proposed, which transformes the skeleton videos to colour images, named skeleton-images. Secondly, A multi-scale deep convolu...
computer science
27,795
Unsupervised object segmentation in video by efficient selection of highly probable positive features
cs.CV
We address an essential problem in computer vision, that of unsupervised object segmentation in video, where a main object of interest in a video sequence should be automatically separated from its background. An efficient solution to this task would enable large-scale video interpretation at a high semantic level in t...
computer science
27,796
Design of low-cost, compact and weather-proof whole sky imagers for high-dynamic-range captures
cs.CV
Ground-based whole sky imagers are popular for monitoring cloud formations, which is necessary for various applications. We present two new Wide Angle High-Resolution Sky Imaging System (WAHRSIS) models, which were designed especially to withstand the hot and humid climate of Singapore. The first uses a fully sealed ca...
computer science
27,797
Learning Video Object Segmentation with Visual Memory
cs.CV
This paper addresses the task of segmenting moving objects in unconstrained videos. We introduce a novel two-stream neural network with an explicit memory module to achieve this. The two streams of the network encode spatial and temporal features in a video sequence respectively, while the memory module captures the ev...
computer science
27,798
A location-aware embedding technique for accurate landmark recognition
cs.CV
The current state of the research in landmark recognition highlights the good accuracy which can be achieved by embedding techniques, such as Fisher vector and VLAD. All these techniques do not exploit spatial information, i.e. consider all the features and the corresponding descriptors without embedding their location...
computer science
27,799
Deep Occlusion Reasoning for Multi-Camera Multi-Target Detection
cs.CV
People detection in single 2D images has improved greatly in recent years. However, comparatively little of this progress has percolated into multi-camera multi-people tracking algorithms, whose performance still degrades severely when scenes become very crowded. In this work, we introduce a new architecture that combi...
computer science
27,800
Accurate Single Stage Detector Using Recurrent Rolling Convolution
cs.CV
Most of the recent successful methods in accurate object detection and localization used some variants of R-CNN style two stage Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) where plausible regions were proposed in the first stage then followed by a second stage for decision refinement. Despite the simplicity of training and the...
computer science
27,801
Learn to Model Motion from Blurry Footages
cs.CV
It is difficult to recover the motion field from a real-world footage given a mixture of camera shake and other photometric effects. In this paper we propose a hybrid framework by interleaving a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a traditional optical flow energy. We first conduct a CNN architecture using a novel l...
computer science