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Deep-LK for Efficient Adaptive Object Tracking
cs.CV
In this paper we present a new approach for efficient regression based object tracking which we refer to as Deep- LK. Our approach is closely related to the Generic Object Tracking Using Regression Networks (GOTURN) framework of Held et al. We make the following contributions. First, we demonstrate that there is a theo...
computer science
28,103
A Predictive Account of Cafe Wall Illusions Using a Quantitative Model
cs.CV
This paper explores the tilt illusion effect in the Cafe Wall pattern using a classical Gaussian Receptive Field model. In this illusion, the mortar lines are misperceived as diverging or converging rather than horizontal. We examine the capability of a simple bioplausible filtering model to recognize different degrees...
computer science
28,104
Online Signature Verification using Recurrent Neural Network and Length-normalized Path Signature
cs.CV
Inspired by the great success of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in sequential modeling, we introduce a novel RNN system to improve the performance of online signature verification. The training objective is to directly minimize intra-class variations and to push the distances between skilled forgeries and genuine sam...
computer science
28,105
Prediction of Sea Surface Temperature using Long Short-Term Memory
cs.CV
This letter adopts long short-term memory(LSTM) to predict sea surface temperature(SST), which is the first attempt, to our knowledge, to use recurrent neural network to solve the problem of SST prediction, and to make one week and one month daily prediction. We formulate the SST prediction problem as a time series reg...
computer science
28,106
ADMM-Net: A Deep Learning Approach for Compressive Sensing MRI
cs.CV
Compressive sensing (CS) is an effective approach for fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). It aims at reconstructing MR images from a small number of under-sampled data in k-space, and accelerating the data acquisition in MRI. To improve the current MRI system in reconstruction accuracy and speed, in this paper, we p...
computer science
28,107
Fiber Orientation Estimation Guided by a Deep Network
cs.CV
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is currently the only tool for noninvasively imaging the brain's white matter tracts. The fiber orientation (FO) is a key feature computed from dMRI for fiber tract reconstruction. Because the number of FOs in a voxel is usually small, dictionary-based sparse reconstruction h...
computer science
28,108
Affine-Gradient Based Local Binary Pattern Descriptor for Texture Classiffication
cs.CV
We present a novel Affine-Gradient based Local Binary Pattern (AGLBP) descriptor for texture classification. It is very hard to describe complicated texture using single type information, such as Local Binary Pattern (LBP), which just utilizes the sign information of the difference between the pixel and its local neigh...
computer science
28,109
Local Shape Spectrum Analysis for 3D Facial Expression Recognition
cs.CV
We investigate the problem of facial expression recognition using 3D data. Building from one of the most successful frameworks for facial analysis using exclusively 3D geometry, we extend the analysis from a curve-based representation into a spectral representation, which allows a complete description of the underlying...
computer science
28,110
Hyperspectral Band Selection Using Unsupervised Non-Linear Deep Auto Encoder to Train External Classifiers
cs.CV
Hyperspectral image classification often requires selecting the most informative bands instead of processing the whole data without losing the geometrical representation of the data. Existing dimensionality reduction and band selection methods have the capability to reveal the nonlinear properties exhibited in the data...
computer science
28,111
The Kinetics Human Action Video Dataset
cs.CV
We describe the DeepMind Kinetics human action video dataset. The dataset contains 400 human action classes, with at least 400 video clips for each action. Each clip lasts around 10s and is taken from a different YouTube video. The actions are human focussed and cover a broad range of classes including human-object int...
computer science
28,112
Segmentation of 3D High-frequency Ultrasound Images of Human Lymph Nodes Using Graph Cut with Energy Functional Adapted to Local Intensity Distribution
cs.CV
Previous studies by our group have shown that three-dimensional high-frequency quantitative ultrasound methods have the potential to differentiate metastatic lymph nodes from cancer-free lymph nodes dissected from human cancer patients. To successfully perform these methods inside the lymph node parenchyma, an automati...
computer science
28,113
What are the Receptive, Effective Receptive, and Projective Fields of Neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks?
cs.CV
In this work, we explain in detail how receptive fields, effective receptive fields, and projective fields of neurons in different layers, convolution or pooling, of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are calculated. While our focus here is on CNNs, the same operations, but in the reverse order, can be used to calcul...
computer science
28,114
MRI-PET Registration with Automated Algorithm in Pre-clinical Studies
cs.CV
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) automatic 3-D registration is implemented and validated for small animal image volumes so that the high-resolution anatomical MRI information can be fused with the low spatial resolution of functional PET information for the localization of lesion ...
computer science
28,115
Bitwise Operations of Cellular Automaton on Gray-scale Images
cs.CV
Cellular Automata (CA) theory is a discrete model that represents the state of each of its cells from a finite set of possible values which evolve in time according to a pre-defined set of transition rules. CA have been applied to a number of image processing tasks such as Convex Hull Detection, Image Denoising etc. bu...
computer science
28,116
CNN-Based Joint Clustering and Representation Learning with Feature Drift Compensation for Large-Scale Image Data
cs.CV
Given a large unlabeled set of images, how to efficiently and effectively group them into clusters based on extracted visual representations remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) to jointly solve clustering and representation learning in an iterative man...
computer science
28,117
Multi-Task Learning Using Uncertainty to Weigh Losses for Scene Geometry and Semantics
cs.CV
Numerous deep learning applications benefit from multi-task learning with multiple regression and classification objectives. In this paper we make the observation that the performance of such systems is strongly dependent on the relative weighting between each task's loss. Tuning these weights by hand is a difficult an...
computer science
28,118
Deep De-Aliasing for Fast Compressive Sensing MRI
cs.CV
Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is highly in demand for many clinical applications in order to reduce the scanning cost and improve the patient experience. This can also potentially increase the image quality by reducing the motion artefacts and contrast washout. However, once an image field of view and the desir...
computer science
28,119
Simultaneous Multiple Surface Segmentation Using Deep Learning
cs.CV
The task of automatically segmenting 3-D surfaces representing boundaries of objects is important for quantitative analysis of volumetric images, and plays a vital role in biomedical image analysis. Recently, graph-based methods with a global optimization property have been developed and optimized for various medical i...
computer science
28,120
A New 3D Segmentation Methodology for Lumbar Vertebral Bodies for the Measurement of BMD and Geometry
cs.CV
In this paper a new technique is presented that extracts the geometry of lumbar vertebral bodies from spiral CT scans. Our new multi-step segmentation approach yields highly accurate and precise measurement of the bone mineral density (BMD) in different volumes of interest which are defined relative to a local anatomic...
computer science
28,121
Sparse Coding on Stereo Video for Object Detection
cs.CV
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) require millions of labeled training examples for image classification and object detection tasks, which restrict these models to domains where such datasets are available. In this paper, we explore the use of unsupervised sparse coding applied to stereo-video data to help alle...
computer science
28,122
A New 3D Method to Segment the Lumbar Vertebral Bodies and to Determine Bone Mineral Density and Geometry
cs.CV
In this paper we present a new 3D segmentation approach for the vertebrae of the lower thoracic and the lumbar spine in spiral computed tomography datasets. We implemented a multi-step procedure. Its main components are deformable models, volume growing, and morphological operations. The performance analysis that inclu...
computer science
28,123
A Lightweight Approach for On-the-Fly Reflectance Estimation
cs.CV
Estimating surface reflectance (BRDF) is one key component for complete 3D scene capture, with wide applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, and human computer interaction. Prior work is either limited to controlled environments (\eg gonioreflectometers, light stages, or multi-camera domes), or requires the ...
computer science
28,124
Multiple-Human Parsing in the Wild
cs.CV
Human parsing is attracting increasing research attention. In this work, we aim to push the frontier of human parsing by introducing the problem of multi-human parsing in the wild. Existing works on human parsing mainly tackle single-person scenarios, which deviates from real-world applications where multiple persons a...
computer science
28,125
Quadruplet Network with One-Shot Learning for Fast Visual Object Tracking
cs.CV
In the same vein of discriminative one-shot learning, Siamese networks allow recognizing an object from a single exemplar with the same class label. However, they do not take advantage of the underlying structure of the data and the relationship among the multitude of samples as they only rely on pairs of instances for...
computer science
28,126
Recurrent Scene Parsing with Perspective Understanding in the Loop
cs.CV
Objects may appear at arbitrary scales in perspective images of a scene, posing a challenge for recognition systems that process images at a fixed resolution. We propose a depth-aware gating module that adaptively selects the pooling field size in a convolutional network architecture according to the object scale (inve...
computer science
28,127
Non-Linear Phase-Shifting of Haar Wavelets for Run-Time All-Frequency Lighting
cs.CV
This paper focuses on real-time all-frequency image-based rendering using an innovative solution for run-time computation of light transport. The approach is based on new results derived for non-linear phase shifting in the Haar wavelet domain. Although image-based methods for real-time rendering of dynamic glossy obje...
computer science
28,128
Gaze Distribution Analysis and Saliency Prediction Across Age Groups
cs.CV
Knowledge of the human visual system helps to develop better computational models of visual attention. State-of-the-art models have been developed to mimic the visual attention system of young adults that, however, largely ignore the variations that occur with age. In this paper, we investigated how visual scene proces...
computer science
28,129
Forecasting Hands and Objects in Future Frames
cs.CV
This paper presents an approach to forecast future presence and location of human hands and objects. Given an image frame, the goal is to predict what objects will appear in the future frame (e.g., 5 seconds later) and where they will be located at, even when they are not visible in the current frame. The key idea is t...
computer science
28,130
Critical Contours: An Invariant Linking Image Flow with Salient Surface Organization
cs.CV
We exploit a key result from visual psychophysics -- that individuals perceive shape qualitatively -- to develop a geometrical/topological invariant (the Morse-Smale complex) relating image structure with surface structure. Differences across individuals are minimal near certain configurations such as ridges and bounda...
computer science
28,131
Phase-Shifting Separable Haar Wavelets and Applications
cs.CV
This paper presents a new approach for tackling the shift-invariance problem in the discrete Haar domain, without trading off any of its desirable properties, such as compression, separability, orthogonality, and symmetry. The paper presents several key theoretical contributions. First, we derive closed form expression...
computer science
28,132
Structural Compression of Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Greedy Filter Pruning
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have state-of-the-art performance on many problems in machine vision. However, networks with superior performance often have millions of weights so that it is difficult or impossible to use CNNs on computationally limited devices or to humanly interpret them. A myriad of CNN compres...
computer science
28,133
Incorporating Depth into both CNN and CRF for Indoor Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
To improve segmentation performance, a novel neural network architecture (termed DFCN-DCRF) is proposed, which combines an RGB-D fully convolutional neural network (DFCN) with a depth-sensitive fully-connected conditional random field (DCRF). First, a DFCN architecture which fuses depth information into the early layer...
computer science
28,134
Large-Scale Classification of Structured Objects using a CRF with Deep Class Embedding
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel deep learning architecture to classify structured objects in datasets with a large number of visually similar categories. We model sequences of images as linear-chain CRFs, and jointly learn the parameters from both local-visual features and neighboring classes. The visual features are compu...
computer science
28,135
Generative Partition Networks for Multi-Person Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new Generative Partition Network (GPN) to address the challenging multi-person pose estimation problem. Different from existing models that are either completely top-down or bottom-up, the proposed GPN introduces a novel strategy--it generates partitions for multiple persons from their global join...
computer science
28,136
The Do's and Don'ts for CNN-based Face Verification
cs.CV
While the research community appears to have developed a consensus on the methods of acquiring annotated data, design and training of CNNs, many questions still remain to be answered. In this paper, we explore the following questions that are critical to face recognition research: (i) Can we train on still images and e...
computer science
28,137
Image Segmentation by Iterative Inference from Conditional Score Estimation
cs.CV
Inspired by the combination of feedforward and iterative computations in the virtual cortex, and taking advantage of the ability of denoising autoencoders to estimate the score of a joint distribution, we propose a novel approach to iterative inference for capturing and exploiting the complex joint distribution of outp...
computer science
28,138
Classification and Retrieval of Digital Pathology Scans: A New Dataset
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a new dataset, \textbf{Kimia Path24}, for image classification and retrieval in digital pathology. We use the whole scan images of 24 different tissue textures to generate 1,325 test patches of size 1000$\times$1000 (0.5mm$\times$0.5mm). Training data can be generated according to preference...
computer science
28,139
Boosting the accuracy of multi-spectral image pan-sharpening by learning a deep residual network
cs.CV
In the field of fusing multi-spectral and panchromatic images (Pan-sharpening), the impressive effectiveness of deep neural networks has been recently employed to overcome the drawbacks of traditional linear models and boost the fusing accuracy. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing research works are mainly ...
computer science
28,140
Learning Robust Object Recognition Using Composed Scenes from Generative Models
cs.CV
Recurrent feedback connections in the mammalian visual system have been hypothesized to play a role in synthesizing input in the theoretical framework of analysis by synthesis. The comparison of internally synthesized representation with that of the input provides a validation mechanism during perceptual inference and ...
computer science
28,141
View-Invariant Recognition of Action Style Self-Dissimilarity
cs.CV
Self-similarity was recently introduced as a measure of inter-class congruence for classification of actions. Herein, we investigate the dual problem of intra-class dissimilarity for classification of action styles. We introduce self-dissimilarity matrices that discriminate between same actions performed by different s...
computer science
28,142
Computer vision-based food calorie estimation: dataset, method, and experiment
cs.CV
Computer vision has been introduced to estimate calories from food images. But current food image data sets don't contain volume and mass records of foods, which leads to an incomplete calorie estimation. In this paper, we present a novel food image data set with volume and mass records of foods, and a deep learning me...
computer science
28,143
Semantic Softmax Loss for Zero-Shot Learning
cs.CV
A typical pipeline for Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) is to integrate the visual features and the class semantic descriptors into a multimodal framework with a linear or bilinear model. However, the visual features and the class semantic descriptors locate in different structural spaces, a linear or bilinear model can not ca...
computer science
28,144
Learning to Associate Words and Images Using a Large-scale Graph
cs.CV
We develop an approach for unsupervised learning of associations between co-occurring perceptual events using a large graph. We applied this approach to successfully solve the image captcha of China's railroad system. The approach is based on the principle of suspicious coincidence. In this particular problem, a user i...
computer science
28,145
Convolutional Networks with MuxOut Layers as Multi-rate Systems for Image Upscaling
cs.CV
We interpret convolutional networks as adaptive filters and combine them with so-called MuxOut layers to efficiently upscale low resolution images. We formalize this interpretation by deriving a linear and space-variant structure of a convolutional network when its activations are fixed. We introduce general purpose al...
computer science
28,146
Robust Localized Multi-view Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
In multi-view clustering, different views may have different confidence levels when learning a consensus representation. Existing methods usually address this by assigning distinctive weights to different views. However, due to noisy nature of real-world applications, the confidence levels of samples in the same view m...
computer science
28,147
TricorNet: A Hybrid Temporal Convolutional and Recurrent Network for Video Action Segmentation
cs.CV
Action segmentation as a milestone towards building automatic systems to understand untrimmed videos has received considerable attention in the recent years. It is typically being modeled as a sequence labeling problem but contains intrinsic and sufficient differences than text parsing or speech processing. In this pap...
computer science
28,148
DepthCut: Improved Depth Edge Estimation Using Multiple Unreliable Channels
cs.CV
In the context of scene understanding, a variety of methods exists to estimate different information channels from mono or stereo images, including disparity, depth, and normals. Although several advances have been reported in the recent years for these tasks, the estimated information is often imprecise particularly n...
computer science
28,149
Facial Expression Recognition Using Enhanced Deep 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown to outperform traditional methods in various visual recognition tasks including Facial Expression Recognition (FER). In spite of efforts made to improve the accuracy of FER systems using DNN, existing methods still are not generalizable enough in practical applications. This paper...
computer science
28,150
Facial Affect Estimation in the Wild Using Deep Residual and Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Automated affective computing in the wild is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. This paper presents three neural network-based methods proposed for the task of facial affect estimation submitted to the First Affect-in-the-Wild challenge. These methods are based on Inception-ResNet modules redesigned sp...
computer science
28,151
Universal 3D Wearable Fingerprint Targets: Advancing Fingerprint Reader Evaluations
cs.CV
We present the design and manufacturing of high fidelity universal 3D fingerprint targets, which can be imaged on a variety of fingerprint sensing technologies, namely capacitive, contact-optical, and contactless-optical. Universal 3D fingerprint targets enable, for the first time, not only a repeatable and controlled ...
computer science
28,152
GP-Unet: Lesion Detection from Weak Labels with a 3D Regression Network
cs.CV
We propose a novel convolutional neural network for lesion detection from weak labels. Only a single, global label per image - the lesion count - is needed for training. We train a regression network with a fully convolutional architecture combined with a global pooling layer to aggregate the 3D output into a scalar in...
computer science
28,153
Training with Confusion for Fine-Grained Visual Classification
cs.CV
Research in Fine-Grained Visual Classification has focused on tackling the variations in pose, lighting, and viewpoint using sophisticated localization and segmentation techniques, and the usage of robust texture features to improve performance. In this work, we look at the fundamental optimization of neural network tr...
computer science
28,154
Unrolled Optimization with Deep Priors
cs.CV
A broad class of problems at the core of computational imaging, sensing, and low-level computer vision reduces to the inverse problem of extracting latent images that follow a prior distribution, from measurements taken under a known physical image formation model. Traditionally, hand-crafted priors along with iterativ...
computer science
28,155
Multiple Images Recovery Using a Single Affine Transformation
cs.CV
In many real-world applications, image data often come with noises, corruptions or large errors. One approach to deal with noise image data is to use data recovery techniques which aim to recover the true uncorrupted signals from the observed noise images. In this paper, we first introduce a novel corruption recovery t...
computer science
28,156
Patchnet: Interpretable Neural Networks for Image Classification
cs.CV
The ability to visually understand and interpret learned features from complex predictive models is crucial for their acceptance in sensitive areas such as health care. To move closer to this goal of truly interpretable complex models, we present PatchNet, a network that restricts global context for image classificatio...
computer science
28,157
Universal Style Transfer via Feature Transforms
cs.CV
Universal style transfer aims to transfer arbitrary visual styles to content images. Existing feed-forward based methods, while enjoying the inference efficiency, are mainly limited by inability of generalizing to unseen styles or compromised visual quality. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective method that ...
computer science
28,158
Towards seamless multi-view scene analysis from satellite to street-level
cs.CV
In this paper, we discuss and review how combined multi-view imagery from satellite to street-level can benefit scene analysis. Numerous works exist that merge information from remote sensing and images acquired from the ground for tasks like land cover mapping, object detection, or scene understanding. What makes the ...
computer science
28,159
Two-Stream 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Skeleton-Based Action Recognition
cs.CV
It remains a challenge to efficiently extract spatialtemporal information from skeleton sequences for 3D human action recognition. Although most recent action recognition methods are based on Recurrent Neural Networks which present outstanding performance, one of the shortcomings of these methods is the tendency to ove...
computer science
28,160
A Multi-Armed Bandit to Smartly Select a Training Set from Big Medical Data
cs.CV
With the availability of big medical image data, the selection of an adequate training set is becoming more important to address the heterogeneity of different datasets. Simply including all the data does not only incur high processing costs but can even harm the prediction. We formulate the smart and efficient selecti...
computer science
28,161
Correlation Alignment by Riemannian Metric for Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Domain adaptation techniques address the problem of reducing the sensitivity of machine learning methods to the so-called domain shift, namely the difference between source (training) and target (test) data distributions. In particular, unsupervised domain adaptation assumes no labels are available in the target domain...
computer science
28,162
Unmasking the abnormal events in video
cs.CV
We propose a novel framework for abnormal event detection in video that requires no training sequences. Our framework is based on unmasking, a technique previously used for authorship verification in text documents, which we adapt to our task. We iteratively train a binary classifier to distinguish between two consecut...
computer science
28,163
Salient Object Detection with Semantic Priors
cs.CV
Salient object detection has increasingly become a popular topic in cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision and artificial intelligence research. In this paper, we propose integrating \textit{semantic priors} into the salient object detection process. Our algorithm consists of three basic steps....
computer science
28,164
On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful images
cs.CV
In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty that can be found in a simple visual pattern and can be appreciated universally. The proposed model suggest that there is a link between beautiful pattern and a deeper optimisation process between randomness and regularity. Then we show that beautiful patterns ne...
computer science
28,165
Distributed Algorithms for Feature Extraction Off-loading in Multi-Camera Visual Sensor Networks
cs.CV
Real-time visual analysis tasks, like tracking and recognition, require swift execution of computationally intensive algorithms. Visual sensor networks can be enabled to perform such tasks by augmenting the sensor network with processing nodes and distributing the computational burden in a way that the cameras contend ...
computer science
28,166
Isomorphism between Differential and Moment Invariants under Affine Transform
cs.CV
The invariant is one of central topics in science, technology and engineering. The differential invariant is essential in understanding or describing some important phenomena or procedures in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology or computer science etc. The derivation of differential invariants is usually difficult...
computer science
28,167
A New 3D Segmentation Technique for QCT Scans of the Lumbar Spine to Determine BMD and Vertebral Geometry
cs.CV
Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a standard method to determine bone mineral density (BMD) in the spine. Traditionally single 8 - 10 mm thick slices have been analyzed only. Current spiral CT scanners provide true 3D acquisition schemes allowing for a more differential BMD analysis and an assessment of geometr...
computer science
28,168
How hard can it be? Estimating the difficulty of visual search in an image
cs.CV
We address the problem of estimating image difficulty defined as the human response time for solving a visual search task. We collect human annotations of image difficulty for the PASCAL VOC 2012 data set through a crowd-sourcing platform. We then analyze what human interpretable image properties can have an impact on ...
computer science
28,169
An Invariant Model of the Significance of Different Body Parts in Recognizing Different Actions
cs.CV
In this paper, we show that different body parts do not play equally important roles in recognizing a human action in video data. We investigate to what extent a body part plays a role in recognition of different actions and hence propose a generic method of assigning weights to different body points. The approach is i...
computer science
28,170
Anatomically Constrained Neural Networks (ACNN): Application to Cardiac Image Enhancement and Segmentation
cs.CV
Incorporation of prior knowledge about organ shape and location is key to improve performance of image analysis approaches. In particular, priors can be useful in cases where images are corrupted and contain artefacts due to limitations in image acquisition. The highly constrained nature of anatomical objects can be we...
computer science
28,171
A Novel Multi-Detector Fusion Framework for Multi-Object Tracking
cs.CV
In order to track all persons in a scene, the tracking-by-detection paradigm has proven to be a very effective approach. Yet, relying solely on a single detector is also a major limitation, as useful image information might be ignored. This work demonstrates how to incorporate several detectors into a tracking system, ...
computer science
28,172
Classification of Aerial Photogrammetric 3D Point Clouds
cs.CV
We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike previous point cloud classification methods that rely exclusively on geometric ...
computer science
28,173
AVA: A Video Dataset of Spatio-temporally Localized Atomic Visual Actions
cs.CV
This paper introduces a video dataset of spatio-temporally localized Atomic Visual Actions (AVA). The AVA dataset densely annotates 80 atomic visual actions in 192 15-minute video clips, where actions are localized in space and time, resulting in 740k action labels with multiple labels per person occurring frequently. ...
computer science
28,174
Input Fast-Forwarding for Better Deep Learning
cs.CV
This paper introduces a new architectural framework, known as input fast-forwarding, that can enhance the performance of deep networks. The main idea is to incorporate a parallel path that sends representations of input values forward to deeper network layers. This scheme is substantially different from "deep supervisi...
computer science
28,175
Sequence Summarization Using Order-constrained Kernelized Feature Subspaces
cs.CV
Representations that can compactly and effectively capture temporal evolution of semantic content are important to machine learning algorithms that operate on multi-variate time-series data. We investigate such representations motivated by the task of human action recognition. Here each data instance is encoded by a mu...
computer science
28,176
Generative Model with Coordinate Metric Learning for Object Recognition Based on 3D Models
cs.CV
Given large amount of real photos for training, Convolutional neural network shows excellent performance on object recognition tasks. However, the process of collecting data is so tedious and the background are also limited which makes it hard to establish a perfect database. In this paper, our generative model trained...
computer science
28,177
Deep Learning Improves Template Matching by Normalized Cross Correlation
cs.CV
Template matching by normalized cross correlation (NCC) is widely used for finding image correspondences. We improve the robustness of this algorithm by preprocessing images with "siamese" convolutional networks trained to maximize the contrast between NCC values of true and false matches. The improvement is quantified...
computer science
28,178
Robust Data Geometric Structure Aligned Close yet Discriminative Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Domain adaptation (DA) is transfer learning which aims to leverage labeled data in a related source domain to achieve informed knowledge transfer and help the classification of unlabeled data in a target domain. In this paper, we propose a novel DA method, namely Robust Data Geometric Structure Aligned, Close yet Discr...
computer science
28,179
Deep Rotation Equivariant Network
cs.CV
Recently, learning equivariant representations has attracted considerable research attention. Dieleman et al. introduce four operations which can be inserted into convolutional neural network to learn deep representations equivariant to rotation. However, feature maps should be copied and rotated four times in each lay...
computer science
28,180
VANETs Meet Autonomous Vehicles: A Multimodal 3D Environment Learning Approach
cs.CV
In this paper, we design a multimodal framework for object detection, recognition and mapping based on the fusion of stereo camera frames, point cloud Velodyne Lidar scans, and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Basic Safety Messages (BSMs) exchanged using Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC). We merge the key features of ...
computer science
28,181
Self-supervised learning of visual features through embedding images into text topic spaces
cs.CV
End-to-end training from scratch of current deep architectures for new computer vision problems would require Imagenet-scale datasets, and this is not always possible. In this paper we present a method that is able to take advantage of freely available multi-modal content to train computer vision algorithms without hum...
computer science
28,182
Bidirectional Beam Search: Forward-Backward Inference in Neural Sequence Models for Fill-in-the-Blank Image Captioning
cs.CV
We develop the first approximate inference algorithm for 1-Best (and M-Best) decoding in bidirectional neural sequence models by extending Beam Search (BS) to reason about both forward and backward time dependencies. Beam Search (BS) is a widely used approximate inference algorithm for decoding sequences from unidirect...
computer science
28,183
Adaptive Detrending to Accelerate Convolutional Gated Recurrent Unit Training for Contextual Video Recognition
cs.CV
Based on the progress of image recognition, video recognition has been extensively studied recently. However, most of the existing methods are focused on short-term but not long-term video recognition, called contextual video recognition. To address contextual video recognition, we use convolutional recurrent neural ne...
computer science
28,184
Optimization of the Jaccard index for image segmentation with the Lovász hinge
cs.CV
The Jaccard loss, commonly referred to as the intersection-over-union loss, is commonly employed in the evaluation of segmentation quality due to its better perceptual quality and scale invariance, which lends appropriate relevance to small objects compared with per-pixel losses. We present a method for direct optimiza...
computer science
28,185
From source to target and back: symmetric bi-directional adaptive GAN
cs.CV
The effectiveness of generative adversarial approaches in producing images according to a specific style or visual domain has recently opened new directions to solve the unsupervised domain adaptation problem. It has been shown that source labeled images can be modified to mimic target samples making it possible to tra...
computer science
28,186
Attention-based Natural Language Person Retrieval
cs.CV
Following the recent progress in image classification and captioning using deep learning, we develop a novel natural language person retrieval system based on an attention mechanism. More specifically, given the description of a person, the goal is to localize the person in an image. To this end, we first construct a b...
computer science
28,187
GridNet with automatic shape prior registration for automatic MRI cardiac segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a fully automatic MRI cardiac segmentation method based on a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) designed for the 2017 ACDC MICCAI challenge. The novelty of our network comes with its embedded shape prior and its loss function tailored to the cardiac anatomy. Our model includes a car...
computer science
28,188
Extraction and Classification of Diving Clips from Continuous Video Footage
cs.CV
Due to recent advances in technology, the recording and analysis of video data has become an increasingly common component of athlete training programmes. Today it is incredibly easy and affordable to set up a fixed camera and record athletes in a wide range of sports, such as diving, gymnastics, golf, tennis, etc. How...
computer science
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Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation Based on Web Image Co-segmentation
cs.CV
Training a Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) for semantic segmentation requires a large number of masks with pixel level labelling, which involves a large amount of human labour and time for annotation. In contrast, web images and their image-level labels are much easier and cheaper to obtain. In this work, we propose ...
computer science
28,190
SLAM based Quasi Dense Reconstruction For Minimally Invasive Surgery Scenes
cs.CV
Recovering surgical scene structure in laparoscope surgery is crucial step for surgical guidance and augmented reality applications. In this paper, a quasi dense reconstruction algorithm of surgical scene is proposed. This is based on a state-of-the-art SLAM system, and is exploiting the initial exploration phase that ...
computer science
28,191
Deep image representations using caption generators
cs.CV
Deep learning exploits large volumes of labeled data to learn powerful models. When the target dataset is small, it is a common practice to perform transfer learning using pre-trained models to learn new task specific representations. However, pre-trained CNNs for image recognition are provided with limited information...
computer science
28,192
Direct Multitype Cardiac Indices Estimation via Joint Representation and Regression Learning
cs.CV
Cardiac indices estimation is of great importance during identification and diagnosis of cardiac disease in clinical routine. However, estimation of multitype cardiac indices with consistently reliable and high accuracy is still a great challenge due to the high variability of cardiac structures and complexity of tempo...
computer science
28,193
Plan3D: Viewpoint and Trajectory Optimization for Aerial Multi-View Stereo Reconstruction
cs.CV
We introduce a new method that efficiently computes a set of rich viewpoints and trajectories for high-quality 3D reconstructions in outdoor environments. The input images of the reconstruction are taken with a commodity RGB camera which is mounted on an autonomously navigated quadcopter, and the obtained recordings ar...
computer science
28,194
Pose Guided Person Image Generation
cs.CV
This paper proposes the novel Pose Guided Person Generation Network (PG$^2$) that allows to synthesize person images in arbitrary poses, based on an image of that person and a novel pose. Our generation framework PG$^2$ utilizes the pose information explicitly and consists of two key stages: pose integration and image ...
computer science
28,195
Unsupervised Feature Learning for Writer Identification and Writer Retrieval
cs.CV
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown great success in supervised classification tasks such as character classification or dating. Deep learning methods typically need a lot of annotated training data, which is not available in many scenarios. In these cases, traditional methods are often better than or e...
computer science
28,196
Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, a novel method using 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D-CNN) architecture has been proposed for speaker verification in the text-independent setting. At the development phase, a CNN is trained to classify speakers at the utterance-level. In the enrollment stage, the trained network is utilized to direct...
computer science
28,197
Hierarchical Cellular Automata for Visual Saliency
cs.CV
Saliency detection, finding the most important parts of an image, has become increasingly popular in computer vision. In this paper, we introduce Hierarchical Cellular Automata (HCA) -- a temporally evolving model to intelligently detect salient objects. HCA consists of two main components: Single-layer Cellular Automa...
computer science
28,198
Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Detection: Tackling the Kaggle Data Science Bowl 2017 Challenge
cs.CV
We present a deep learning framework for computer-aided lung cancer diagnosis. Our multi-stage framework detects nodules in 3D lung CAT scans, determines if each nodule is malignant, and finally assigns a cancer probability based on these results. We discuss the challenges and advantages of our framework. In the Kaggle...
computer science
28,199
Effective Sampling: Fast Segmentation Using Robust Geometric Model Fitting
cs.CV
Identifying the underlying models in a set of data points contaminated by noise and outliers, leads to a highly complex multi-model fitting problem. This problem can be posed as a clustering problem by the projection of higher order affinities between data points into a graph, which can then be clustered using spectral...
computer science
28,200
Algorithmic clothing: hybrid recommendation, from street-style-to-shop
cs.CV
In this paper we detail Cortexica's (https://www.cortexica.com) recommendation framework -- particularly, we describe how a hybrid visual recommender system can be created by combining conditional random fields for segmentation and deep neural networks for object localisation and feature representation. The recommendat...
computer science
28,201
Predicting Human Interaction via Relative Attention Model
cs.CV
Predicting human interaction is challenging as the on-going activity has to be inferred based on a partially observed video. Essentially, a good algorithm should effectively model the mutual influence between the two interacting subjects. Also, only a small region in the scene is discriminative for identifying the on-g...
computer science