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Learning to Generate Long-term Future via Hierarchical Prediction
cs.CV
We propose a hierarchical approach for making long-term predictions of future frames. To avoid inherent compounding errors in recursive pixel-level prediction, we propose to first estimate high-level structure in the input frames, then predict how that structure evolves in the future, and finally by observing a single ...
computer science
27,803
Generative Face Completion
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an effective face completion algorithm using a deep generative model. Different from well-studied background completion, the face completion task is more challenging as it often requires to generate semantically new pixels for the missing key components (e.g., eyes and mouths) that contain lar...
computer science
27,804
HPatches: A benchmark and evaluation of handcrafted and learned local descriptors
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel benchmark for evaluating local image descriptors. We demonstrate that the existing datasets and evaluation protocols do not specify unambiguously all aspects of evaluation, leading to ambiguities and inconsistencies in results reported in the literature. Furthermore, these datasets are...
computer science
27,805
Unassisted Quantitative Evaluation Of Despeckling Filters
cs.CV
SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from a granular contamination, speckle, that can be described by a multiplicative mod...
computer science
27,806
BranchConnect: Large-Scale Visual Recognition with Learned Branch Connections
cs.CV
We introduce an architecture for large-scale image categorization that enables the end-to-end learning of separate visual features for the different classes to distinguish. The proposed model consists of a deep CNN shaped like a tree. The stem of the tree includes a sequence of convolutional layers common to all classe...
computer science
27,807
A Fuzzy Brute Force Matching Method for Binary Image Features
cs.CV
Matching of binary image features is an important step in many different computer vision applications. Conventionally, an arbitrary threshold is used to identify a correct match from incorrect matches using Hamming distance which may improve or degrade the matching results for different input images. This is mainly due...
computer science
27,808
Enhancing Person Re-identification in a Self-trained Subspace
cs.CV
Despite the promising progress made in recent years, person re-identification (re-ID) remains a challenging task due to the complex variations in human appearances from different camera views. For this challenging problem, a large variety of algorithms have been developed in the fully-supervised setting, requiring acce...
computer science
27,809
Understanding the Mechanisms of Deep Transfer Learning for Medical Images
cs.CV
The ability to automatically learn task specific feature representations has led to a huge success of deep learning methods. When large training data is scarce, such as in medical imaging problems, transfer learning has been very effective. In this paper, we systematically investigate the process of transferring a Conv...
computer science
27,810
End-to-End Unsupervised Deformable Image Registration with a Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
In this work we propose a deep learning network for deformable image registration (DIRNet). The DIRNet consists of a convolutional neural network (ConvNet) regressor, a spatial transformer, and a resampler. The ConvNet analyzes a pair of fixed and moving images and outputs parameters for the spatial transformer, which ...
computer science
27,811
Exploring epoch-dependent stochastic residual networks
cs.CV
The recently proposed stochastic residual networks selectively activate or bypass the layers during training, based on independent stochastic choices, each of which following a probability distribution that is fixed in advance. In this paper we present a first exploration on the use of an epoch-dependent distribution, ...
computer science
27,812
Training object class detectors with click supervision
cs.CV
Training object class detectors typically requires a large set of images with objects annotated by bounding boxes. However, manually drawing bounding boxes is very time consuming. In this paper we greatly reduce annotation time by proposing center-click annotations: we ask annotators to click on the center of an imagin...
computer science
27,813
A Nuclear-norm Model for Multi-Frame Super-Resolution Reconstruction from Video Clips
cs.CV
We propose a variational approach to obtain super-resolution images from multiple low-resolution frames extracted from video clips. First the displacement between the low-resolution frames and the reference frame are computed by an optical flow algorithm. Then a low-rank model is used to construct the reference frame i...
computer science
27,814
Temporal Action Detection with Structured Segment Networks
cs.CV
Detecting actions in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. In this paper, we present the structured segment network (SSN), a novel framework which models the temporal structure of each action instance via a structured temporal pyramid. On top of the pyramid, we further introduce a decomposed discrimina...
computer science
27,815
Towards Large-Pose Face Frontalization in the Wild
cs.CV
Despite recent advances in face recognition using deep learning, severe accuracy drops are observed for large pose variations in unconstrained environments. Learning pose-invariant features is one solution, but needs expensively labeled large-scale data and carefully designed feature learning algorithms. In this work, ...
computer science
27,816
Multi-view Supervision for Single-view Reconstruction via Differentiable Ray Consistency
cs.CV
We study the notion of consistency between a 3D shape and a 2D observation and propose a differentiable formulation which allows computing gradients of the 3D shape given an observation from an arbitrary view. We do so by reformulating view consistency using a differentiable ray consistency (DRC) term. We show that thi...
computer science
27,817
Deep LDA-Pruned Nets for Efficient Facial Gender Classification
cs.CV
Many real-time tasks, such as human-computer interaction, require fast and efficient facial gender classification. Although deep CNN nets have been very effective for a multitude of classification tasks, their high space and time demands make them impractical for personal computers and mobile devices without a powerful...
computer science
27,818
Good Features to Correlate for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
During the recent years, correlation filters have shown dominant and spectacular results for visual object tracking. The types of the features that are employed in these family of trackers significantly affect the performance of visual tracking. The ultimate goal is to utilize robust features invariant to any kind of a...
computer science
27,819
Identifying First-person Camera Wearers in Third-person Videos
cs.CV
We consider scenarios in which we wish to perform joint scene understanding, object tracking, activity recognition, and other tasks in environments in which multiple people are wearing body-worn cameras while a third-person static camera also captures the scene. To do this, we need to establish person-level corresponde...
computer science
27,820
NormFace: L2 Hypersphere Embedding for Face Verification
cs.CV
Thanks to the recent developments of Convolutional Neural Networks, the performance of face verification methods has increased rapidly. In a typical face verification method, feature normalization is a critical step for boosting performance. This motivates us to introduce and study the effect of normalization during tr...
computer science
27,821
Robust Multi-view Pedestrian Tracking Using Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a real-time robust multi-view pedestrian detection and tracking system for video surveillance using neural networks which can be used in dynamic environments. The proposed system consists of two phases: multi-view pedestrian detection and tracking. First, pedestrian detection utilizes backgrou...
computer science
27,822
A data set for evaluating the performance of multi-class multi-object video tracking
cs.CV
One of the challenges in evaluating multi-object video detection, tracking and classification systems is having publically available data sets with which to compare different systems. However, the measures of performance for tracking and classification are different. Data sets that are suitable for evaluating tracking ...
computer science
27,823
Hierarchical 3D fully convolutional networks for multi-organ segmentation
cs.CV
Recent advances in 3D fully convolutional networks (FCN) have made it feasible to produce dense voxel-wise predictions of full volumetric images. In this work, we show that a multi-class 3D FCN trained on manually labeled CT scans of seven abdominal structures (artery, vein, liver, spleen, stomach, gallbladder, and pan...
computer science
27,824
Multiple Reflection Symmetry Detection via Linear-Directional Kernel Density Estimation
cs.CV
Symmetry is an important composition feature by investigating similar sides inside an image plane. It has a crucial effect to recognize man-made or nature objects within the universe. Recent symmetry detection approaches used a smoothing kernel over different voting maps in the polar coordinate system to detect symmetr...
computer science
27,825
Solar Power Plant Detection on Multi-Spectral Satellite Imagery using Weakly-Supervised CNN with Feedback Features and m-PCNN Fusion
cs.CV
Most of the traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) implements bottom-up approach (feed-forward) for image classifications. However, many scientific studies demonstrate that visual perception in primates rely on both bottom-up and top-down connections. Therefore, in this work, we propose a CNN network with fee...
computer science
27,826
Robust and Fast Decoding of High-Capacity Color QR Codes for Mobile Applications
cs.CV
The use of color in QR codes brings extra data capacity, but also inflicts tremendous challenges on the decoding process due to chromatic distortion, cross-channel color interference and illumination variation. Particularly, we further discover a new type of chromatic distortion in high-density color QR codes, cross-mo...
computer science
27,827
A Domain Based Approach to Social Relation Recognition
cs.CV
Social relations are the foundation of human daily life. Developing techniques to analyze such relations from visual data bears great potential to build machines that better understand us and are capable of interacting with us at a social level. Previous investigations have remained partial due to the overwhelming dive...
computer science
27,828
A 3D fully convolutional neural network and a random walker to segment the esophagus in CT
cs.CV
Precise delineation of organs at risk (OAR) is a crucial task in radiotherapy treatment planning, which aims at delivering high dose to the tumour while sparing healthy tissues. In recent years algorithms showed high performance and the possibility to automate this task for many OAR. However, for some OAR precise delin...
computer science
27,829
PQTable: Non-exhaustive Fast Search for Product-quantized Codes using Hash Tables
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a product quantization table (PQTable); a fast search method for product-quantized codes via hash-tables. An identifier of each database vector is associated with the slot of a hash table by using its PQ-code as a key. For querying, an input vector is PQ-encoded and hashed, and the items assoc...
computer science
27,830
Panorama to panorama matching for location recognition
cs.CV
Location recognition is commonly treated as visual instance retrieval on "street view" imagery. The dataset items and queries are panoramic views, i.e. groups of images taken at a single location. This work introduces a novel panorama-to-panorama matching process, either by aggregating features of individual images in ...
computer science
27,831
Context-based Object Viewpoint Estimation: A 2D Relational Approach
cs.CV
The task of object viewpoint estimation has been a challenge since the early days of computer vision. To estimate the viewpoint (or pose) of an object, people have mostly looked at object intrinsic features, such as shape or appearance. Surprisingly, informative features provided by other, extrinsic elements in the sce...
computer science
27,832
SREFI: Synthesis of Realistic Example Face Images
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel face synthesis approach that can generate an arbitrarily large number of synthetic images of both real and synthetic identities. Thus a face image dataset can be expanded in terms of the number of identities represented and the number of images per identity using this approach, without...
computer science
27,833
On Face Segmentation, Face Swapping, and Face Perception
cs.CV
We show that even when face images are unconstrained and arbitrarily paired, face swapping between them is actually quite simple. To this end, we make the following contributions. (a) Instead of tailoring systems for face segmentation, as others previously proposed, we show that a standard fully convolutional network (...
computer science
27,834
ScaleNet: Guiding Object Proposal Generation in Supermarkets and Beyond
cs.CV
Motivated by product detection in supermarkets, this paper studies the problem of object proposal generation in supermarket images and other natural images. We argue that estimation of object scales in images is helpful for generating object proposals, especially for supermarket images where object scales are usually w...
computer science
27,835
Convolutional Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition
cs.CV
We have developed convolutional neural networks (CNN) for a facial expression recognition task. The goal is to classify each facial image into one of the seven facial emotion categories considered in this study. We trained CNN models with different depth using gray-scale images. We developed our models in Torch and exp...
computer science
27,836
Content-Based Video-Music Retrieval Using Soft Intra-Modal Structure Constraint
cs.CV
Up to now, only limited research has been conducted on cross-modal retrieval of suitable music for a specified video or vice versa. Moreover, much of the existing research relies on metadata such as keywords, tags, or associated description that must be individually produced and attached posterior. This paper introduce...
computer science
27,837
Deep Learning based Isolated Arabic Scene Character Recognition
cs.CV
The technological advancement and sophistication in cameras and gadgets prompt researchers to have focus on image analysis and text understanding. The deep learning techniques demonstrated well to assess the potential for classifying text from natural scene images as reported in recent years. There are variety of deep ...
computer science
27,838
Deep Learning for Medical Image Processing: Overview, Challenges and Future
cs.CV
Healthcare sector is totally different from other industry. It is on high priority sector and people expect highest level of care and services regardless of cost. It did not achieve social expectation even though it consume huge percentage of budget. Mostly the interpretations of medical data is being done by medical e...
computer science
27,839
On the Two-View Geometry of Unsynchronized Cameras
cs.CV
We present new methods for simultaneously estimating camera geometry and time shift from video sequences from multiple unsynchronized cameras. Algorithms for simultaneous computation of a fundamental matrix or a homography with unknown time shift between images are developed. Our methods use minimal correspondence sets...
computer science
27,840
Residual Attention Network for Image Classification
cs.CV
In this work, we propose "Residual Attention Network", a convolutional neural network using attention mechanism which can incorporate with state-of-art feed forward network architecture in an end-to-end training fashion. Our Residual Attention Network is built by stacking Attention Modules which generate attention-awar...
computer science
27,841
Second-order Temporal Pooling for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Most successful deep learning models for action recognition generate predictions for short video clips, which are later aggregated into a longer time-frame action descriptor by computing a statistic over these predictions. Zeroth (max) or first order (average) statistic are commonly used. In this paper, we explore the ...
computer science
27,842
Proxy Templates for Inverse Compositional Photometric Bundle Adjustment
cs.CV
Recent advances in 3D vision have demonstrated the strengths of photometric bundle adjustment. By directly minimizing reprojected pixel errors, instead of geometric reprojection errors, such methods can achieve sub-pixel alignment accuracy in both high and low textured regions. Typically, these problems are solved usin...
computer science
27,843
Skeleton Key: Image Captioning by Skeleton-Attribute Decomposition
cs.CV
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in automatically generating descriptions for an image. Most existing language-model based approaches for this task learn to generate an image description word by word in its original word order. However, for humans, it is more natural to locate the objects and their relationsh...
computer science
27,844
Model-based Iterative Restoration for Binary Document Image Compression with Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
The inherent noise in the observed (e.g., scanned) binary document image degrades the image quality and harms the compression ratio through breaking the pattern repentance and adding entropy to the document images. In this paper, we design a cost function in Bayesian framework with dictionary learning. Minimizing our c...
computer science
27,845
Group-based Sparse Representation for Image Compressive Sensing Reconstruction with Non-Convex Regularization
cs.CV
Patch-based sparse representation modeling has shown great potential in image compressive sensing (CS) reconstruction. However, this model usually suffers from some limits, such as dictionary learning with great computational complexity, neglecting the relationship among similar patches. In this paper, a group-based sp...
computer science
27,846
Non-Convex Weighted Lp Nuclear Norm based ADMM Framework for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Since the matrix formed by nonlocal similar patches in a natural image is of low rank, the nuclear norm minimization (NNM) has been widely used in various image processing studies. Nonetheless, nuclear norm based convex surrogate of the rank function usually over-shrinks the rank components and makes different componen...
computer science
27,847
A Dual Sparse Decomposition Method for Image Denoising
cs.CV
This article addresses the image denoising problem in the situations of strong noise. We propose a dual sparse decomposition method. This method makes a sub-dictionary decomposition on the over-complete dictionary in the sparse decomposition. The sub-dictionary decomposition makes use of a novel criterion based on the ...
computer science
27,848
Camera Pose Filtering with Local Regression Geodesics on the Riemannian Manifold of Dual Quaternions
cs.CV
Time-varying, smooth trajectory estimation is of great interest to the vision community for accurate and well behaving 3D systems. In this paper, we propose a novel principal component local regression filter acting directly on the Riemannian manifold of unit dual quaternions $\mathbb{D} \mathbb{H}_1$. We use a numeric...
computer science
27,849
Exploiting Multi-layer Graph Factorization for Multi-attributed Graph Matching
cs.CV
Multi-attributed graph matching is a problem of finding correspondences between two sets of data while considering their complex properties described in multiple attributes. However, the information of multiple attributes is likely to be oversimplified during a process that makes an integrated attribute, and this degra...
computer science
27,850
Target Oriented High Resolution SAR Image Formation via Semantic Information Guided Regularizations
cs.CV
Sparsity-regularized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging framework has shown its remarkable performance to generate a feature enhanced high resolution image, in which a sparsity-inducing regularizer is involved by exploiting the sparsity priors of some visual features in the underlying image. However, since the simp...
computer science
27,851
Unified Framework for Automated Person Re-identification and Camera Network Topology Inference in Camera Networks
cs.CV
Person re-identification in large-scale multi-camera networks is a challenging task because of the spatio-temporal uncertainty and high complexity due to large numbers of cameras and people. To handle these difficulties, additional information such as camera network topology should be provided, which is also difficult ...
computer science
27,852
Dense 3D Facial Reconstruction from a Single Depth Image in Unconstrained Environment
cs.CV
With the increasing demands of applications in virtual reality such as 3D films, virtual Human-Machine Interactions and virtual agents, the analysis of 3D human face analysis is considered to be more and more important as a fundamental step for those virtual reality tasks. Due to information provided by an additional d...
computer science
27,853
Body Joint guided 3D Deep Convolutional Descriptors for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Three dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs) have been established as a powerful tool to simultaneously learn features from both spatial and temporal dimensions, which is suitable to be applied to video-based action recognition. In this work, we propose not to directly use the activations of fully-connecte...
computer science
27,854
Monocular Visual Odometry with a Rolling Shutter Camera
cs.CV
Rolling Shutter (RS) cameras have become popularized because of low-cost imaging capability. However, the RS cameras suffer from undesirable artifacts when the camera or the subject is moving, or illumination condition changes. For that reason, Monocular Visual Odometry (MVO) with RS cameras produces inaccurate ego-mot...
computer science
27,855
Automatic Liver Lesion Segmentation Using A Deep Convolutional Neural Network Method
cs.CV
Liver lesion segmentation is an important step for liver cancer diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation. LiTS (Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge) provides a common testbed for comparing different automatic liver lesion segmentation methods. We participate in this challenge by developing a deep convoluti...
computer science
27,856
Supervised Adversarial Networks for Image Saliency Detection
cs.CV
In the past few years, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) became a prevalent research topic. By defining two convolutional neural networks (G-Network and D-Network) and introducing an adversarial procedure between them during the training process, GAN has ability to generate good quality images that look like natural...
computer science
27,857
Fast PET reconstruction using Multi-scale Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Reconstruction of PET images is an ill-posed inverse problem and often requires iterative algorithms to achieve good image quality for reliable clinical use in practice, at huge computational costs. In this paper, we consider the PET reconstruction a dense prediction problem where the large scale contextual information...
computer science
27,858
Measuring the Accuracy of Object Detectors and Trackers
cs.CV
The accuracy of object detectors and trackers is most commonly evaluated by the Intersection over Union (IoU) criterion. To date, most approaches are restricted to axis-aligned or oriented boxes and, as a consequence, many datasets are only labeled with boxes. Nevertheless, axis-aligned or oriented boxes cannot accurat...
computer science
27,859
A Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition and Human-Computer Interaction System
cs.CV
In this project, we design a real-time human-computer interaction system based on hand gesture. The whole system consists of three components: hand detection, gesture recognition and human-computer interaction (HCI) based on recognition; and realizes the robust control of mouse and keyboard events with a higher accurac...
computer science
27,860
Detection, Recognition and Tracking of Moving Objects from Real-time Video via SP Theory of Intelligence and Species Inspired PSO
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the basic problem of recognizing moving objects in video images using SP Theory of Intelligence. The concept of SP Theory of Intelligence which is a framework of artificial intelligence, was first introduced by Gerard J Wolff, where S stands for Simplicity and P stands for Power. Using the con...
computer science
27,861
Accurate Optical Flow via Direct Cost Volume Processing
cs.CV
We present an optical flow estimation approach that operates on the full four-dimensional cost volume. This direct approach shares the structural benefits of leading stereo matching pipelines, which are known to yield high accuracy. To this day, such approaches have been considered impractical due to the size of the co...
computer science
27,862
Detecting and Recognizing Human-Object Interactions
cs.CV
To understand the visual world, a machine must not only recognize individual object instances but also how they interact. Humans are often at the center of such interactions and detecting human-object interactions is an important practical and scientific problem. In this paper, we address the task of detecting <human, ...
computer science
27,863
A Context Aware and Video-Based Risk Descriptor for Cyclists
cs.CV
Aiming to reduce pollutant emissions, bicycles are regaining popularity specially in urban areas. However, the number of cyclists' fatalities is not showing the same decreasing trend as the other traffic groups. Hence, monitoring cyclists' data appears as a keystone to foster urban cyclists' safety by helping urban pla...
computer science
27,864
A Labeling-Free Approach to Supervising Deep Neural Networks for Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation
cs.CV
Segmenting blood vessels in fundus imaging plays an important role in medical diagnosis. Many algorithms have been proposed. While deep Neural Networks have been attracting enormous attention from computer vision community recent years and several novel works have been done in terms of its application in retinal blood ...
computer science
27,865
Towards a quality metric for dense light fields
cs.CV
Light fields become a popular representation of three dimensional scenes, and there is interest in their processing, resampling, and compression. As those operations often result in loss of quality, there is a need to quantify it. In this work, we collect a new dataset of dense reference and distorted light fields as w...
computer science
27,866
Skeleton-based Action Recognition with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Current state-of-the-art approaches to skeleton-based action recognition are mostly based on recurrent neural networks (RNN). In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural networks (CNN) based framework for both action classification and detection. Raw skeleton coordinates as well as skeleton motion are fed di...
computer science
27,867
Joint Layout Estimation and Global Multi-View Registration for Indoor Reconstruction
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel method to jointly solve scene layout estimation and global registration problems for accurate indoor 3D reconstruction. Given a sequence of range data, we first build a set of scene fragments using KinectFusion and register them through pose graph optimization. Afterwards, we alternate...
computer science
27,868
Perivascular Spaces Segmentation in Brain MRI Using Optimal 3D Filtering
cs.CV
Perivascular Spaces (PVS) are a recently recognised feature of Small Vessel Disease (SVD), also indicating neuroinflammation, and are an important part of the brain's circulation and glymphatic drainage system. Quantitative analysis of PVS on Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) is important for understanding their relation...
computer science
27,869
Inception Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Object Recognition
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are an influential tool for solving various problems in the machine learning and computer vision fields. In this paper, we introduce a new deep learning model called an Inception- Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (IRCNN), which utilizes the power of an inception network ...
computer science
27,870
Masked Signal Decomposition Using Subspace Representation and Its Applications
cs.CV
Signal decomposition is a classical problem in signal processing, which aims to separate an observed signal into two or more components each with its own property. Usually each component is described by its own subspace or dictionary. Extensive research has been done for the case where the components are additive, but ...
computer science
27,871
Speeding up Convolutional Neural Networks By Exploiting the Sparsity of Rectifier Units
cs.CV
Rectifier neuron units (ReLUs) have been widely used in deep convolutional networks. An ReLU converts negative values to zeros, and does not change positive values, which leads to a high sparsity of neurons. In this work, we first examine the sparsity of the outputs of ReLUs in some popular deep convolutional architect...
computer science
27,872
Joint Sequence Learning and Cross-Modality Convolution for 3D Biomedical Segmentation
cs.CV
Deep learning models such as convolutional neural net- work have been widely used in 3D biomedical segmentation and achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them often adapt a single modality or stack multiple modalities as different input channels. To better leverage the multi- modalities, we propose a d...
computer science
27,873
Arabidopsis roots segmentation based on morphological operations and CRFs
cs.CV
Arabidopsis thaliana is a plant species widely utilized by scientists to estimate the impact of genetic differences in root morphological features. For this purpose, images of this plant after genetic modifications are taken to study differences in the root architecture. This task requires manual segmentations of radic...
computer science
27,874
SfM-Net: Learning of Structure and Motion from Video
cs.CV
We propose SfM-Net, a geometry-aware neural network for motion estimation in videos that decomposes frame-to-frame pixel motion in terms of scene and object depth, camera motion and 3D object rotations and translations. Given a sequence of frames, SfM-Net predicts depth, segmentation, camera and rigid object motions, c...
computer science
27,875
Hand Keypoint Detection in Single Images using Multiview Bootstrapping
cs.CV
We present an approach that uses a multi-camera system to train fine-grained detectors for keypoints that are prone to occlusion, such as the joints of a hand. We call this procedure multiview bootstrapping: first, an initial keypoint detector is used to produce noisy labels in multiple views of the hand. The noisy det...
computer science
27,876
Unsupervised Learning of Depth and Ego-Motion from Video
cs.CV
We present an unsupervised learning framework for the task of monocular depth and camera motion estimation from unstructured video sequences. We achieve this by simultaneously training depth and camera pose estimation networks using the task of view synthesis as the supervisory signal. The networks are thus coupled via...
computer science
27,877
Multi-View Dynamic Facial Action Unit Detection
cs.CV
We propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture to address the fine-grained recognition problem of multi-view dynamic facial action unit detection. We leverage recent gains in large-scale object recognition by formulating the task of predicting the presence or absence of a specific action unit in a still i...
computer science
27,878
Spatio-temporal Person Retrieval via Natural Language Queries
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of spatio-temporal person retrieval from multiple videos using a natural language query, in which we output a tube (i.e., a sequence of bounding boxes) which encloses the person described by the query. For this problem, we introduce a novel dataset consisting of videos containing p...
computer science
27,879
Nonlinear Unsupervised Clustering of Hyperspectral Images with Applications to Anomaly Detection and Active Learning
cs.CV
The problem of unsupervised learning and segmentation of hyperspectral images is a significant challenge in remote sensing. The high dimensionality of hyperspectral data, presence of substantial noise, and overlap of classes all contribute to the difficulty of automatically clustering and segmenting hyperspectral image...
computer science
27,880
Towards Estimating the Upper Bound of Visual-Speech Recognition: The Visual Lip-Reading Feasibility Database
cs.CV
Speech is the most used communication method between humans and it involves the perception of auditory and visual channels. Automatic speech recognition focuses on interpreting the audio signals, although the video can provide information that is complementary to the audio. Exploiting the visual information, however, h...
computer science
27,881
Airway segmentation from 3D chest CT volumes based on volume of interest using gradient vector flow
cs.CV
Some lung diseases are related to bronchial airway structures and morphology. Although airway segmentation from chest CT volumes is an important task in the computer-aided diagnosis and surgery assistance systems for the chest, complete 3-D airway structure segmentation is a quite challenging task due to its complex tr...
computer science
27,882
Automatic Viseme Vocabulary Construction to Enhance Continuous Lip-reading
cs.CV
Speech is the most common communication method between humans and involves the perception of both auditory and visual channels. Automatic speech recognition focuses on interpreting the audio signals, but it has been demonstrated that video can provide information that is complementary to the audio. Thus, the study of a...
computer science
27,883
SphereFace: Deep Hypersphere Embedding for Face Recognition
cs.CV
This paper addresses deep face recognition (FR) problem under open-set protocol, where ideal face features are expected to have smaller maximal intra-class distance than minimal inter-class distance under a suitably chosen metric space. However, few existing algorithms can effectively achieve this criterion. To this en...
computer science
27,884
AutoDIAL: Automatic DomaIn Alignment Layers
cs.CV
Classifiers trained on given databases perform poorly when tested on data acquired in different settings. This is explained in domain adaptation through a shift among distributions of the source and target domains. Attempts to align them have traditionally resulted in works reducing the domain shift by introducing appr...
computer science
27,885
A Faster Patch Ordering Method for Image Denoising
cs.CV
Among the patch-based image denoising processing methods, smooth ordering of local patches (patch ordering) has been shown to give state-of-art results. For image denoising the patch ordering method forms two large TSPs (Traveling Salesman Problem) comprised of nodes in N-dimensional space. Ten approximate solutions of...
computer science
27,886
Misdirected Registration Uncertainty
cs.CV
Being a task of establishing spatial correspondences, medical image registration is often formalized as finding the optimal transformation that best aligns two images. Since the transformation is such an essential component of registration, most existing researches conventionally quantify the registration uncertainty, ...
computer science
27,887
Compact Descriptors for Video Analysis: the Emerging MPEG Standard
cs.CV
This paper provides an overview of the on-going compact descriptors for video analysis standard (CDVA) from the ISO/IEC moving pictures experts group (MPEG). MPEG-CDVA targets at defining a standardized bitstream syntax to enable interoperability in the context of video analysis applications. During the developments of...
computer science
27,888
New region force for variational models in image segmentation and high dimensional data clustering
cs.CV
We propose an effective framework for multi-phase image segmentation and semi-supervised data clustering by introducing a novel region force term into the Potts model. Assume the probability that a pixel or a data point belongs to each class is known a priori. We show that the corresponding indicator function obeys the...
computer science
27,889
Face Identification and Clustering
cs.CV
In this thesis, we study two problems based on clustering algorithms. In the first problem, we study the role of visual attributes using an agglomerative clustering algorithm to whittle down the search area where the number of classes is high to improve the performance of clustering. We observe that as we add more attr...
computer science
27,890
Joint Semantic and Motion Segmentation for dynamic scenes using Deep Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Dynamic scene understanding is a challenging problem and motion segmentation plays a crucial role in solving it. Incorporating semantics and motion enhances the overall perception of the dynamic scene. For applications of outdoor robotic navigation, joint learning methods have not been extensively used for extracting s...
computer science
27,891
Semantic Autoencoder for Zero-Shot Learning
cs.CV
Existing zero-shot learning (ZSL) models typically learn a projection function from a feature space to a semantic embedding space (e.g.~attribute space). However, such a projection function is only concerned with predicting the training seen class semantic representation (e.g.~attribute prediction) or classification. W...
computer science
27,892
(Quasi)Periodicity Quantification in Video Data, Using Topology
cs.CV
This work introduces a novel framework for quantifying the presence and strength of recurrent dynamics in video data. Specifically, we provide continuous measures of periodicity (perfect repetition) and quasiperiodicity (superposition of periodic modes with non-commensurate periods), in a way which does not require seg...
computer science
27,893
Locality Preserving Projections for Grassmann manifold
cs.CV
Learning on Grassmann manifold has become popular in many computer vision tasks, with the strong capability to extract discriminative information for imagesets and videos. However, such learning algorithms particularly on high-dimensional Grassmann manifold always involve with significantly high computational cost, whi...
computer science
27,894
ICNet for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation on High-Resolution Images
cs.CV
We focus on the challenging task of realtime semantic segmentation in this paper. It finds many practical applications and yet is with fundamental difficulty of reducing a large portion of computation for pixel-wise label inference. We propose an compressed-PSPNet-based image cascade network (ICNet) that incorporates m...
computer science
27,895
BAM! The Behance Artistic Media Dataset for Recognition Beyond Photography
cs.CV
Computer vision systems are designed to work well within the context of everyday photography. However, artists often render the world around them in ways that do not resemble photographs. Artwork produced by people is not constrained to mimic the physical world, making it more challenging for machines to recognize. T...
computer science
27,896
Full-Page Text Recognition: Learning Where to Start and When to Stop
cs.CV
Text line detection and localization is a crucial step for full page document analysis, but still suffers from heterogeneity of real life documents. In this paper, we present a new approach for full page text recognition. Localization of the text lines is based on regressions with Fully Convolutional Neural Networks an...
computer science
27,897
Sparse Hierachical Extrapolated Parametric Methods for Cortical Data Analysis
cs.CV
Many neuroimaging studies focus on the cortex, in order to benefit from better signal to noise ratios and reduced computational burden. Cortical data are usually projected onto a reference mesh, where subsequent analyses are carried out. Several multiscale approaches have been proposed for analyzing these surface data,...
computer science
27,898
Deep Functional Maps: Structured Prediction for Dense Shape Correspondence
cs.CV
We introduce a new framework for learning dense correspondence between deformable 3D shapes. Existing learning based approaches model shape correspondence as a labelling problem, where each point of a query shape receives a label identifying a point on some reference domain; the correspondence is then constructed a pos...
computer science
27,899
Action Understanding with Multiple Classes of Actors
cs.CV
Despite the rapid progress, existing works on action understanding focus strictly on one type of action agent, which we call actor---a human adult, ignoring the diversity of actions performed by other actors. To overcome this narrow viewpoint, our paper marks the first effort in the computer vision community to jointly...
computer science
27,900
Improving Facial Attribute Prediction using Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Attributes are semantically meaningful characteristics whose applicability widely crosses category boundaries. They are particularly important in describing and recognizing concepts where no explicit training example is given, \textit{e.g., zero-shot learning}. Additionally, since attributes are human describable, they...
computer science
27,901
GazeDirector: Fully Articulated Eye Gaze Redirection in Video
cs.CV
We present GazeDirector, a new approach for eye gaze redirection that uses model-fitting. Our method first tracks the eyes by fitting a multi-part eye region model to video frames using analysis-by-synthesis, thereby recovering eye region shape, texture, pose, and gaze simultaneously. It then redirects gaze by 1) warpi...
computer science