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Adaptive Correlation Filters with Long-Term and Short-Term Memory for Object Tracking
cs.CV
Object tracking is challenging as target objects often undergo drastic appearance changes over time. Recently, adaptive correlation filters have been successfully applied to object tracking. However, tracking algorithms relying on highly adaptive correlation filters are prone to drift due to noisy updates. Moreover, as...
computer science
28,603
Learning Efficient Image Representation for Person Re-Identification
cs.CV
Color names based image representation is successfully used in person re-identification, due to the advantages of being compact, intuitively understandable as well as being robust to photometric variance. However, there exists the diversity between underlying distribution of color names' RGB values and that of image pi...
computer science
28,604
Fast Stochastic Hierarchical Bayesian MAP for Tomographic Imaging
cs.CV
Any image recovery algorithm attempts to achieve the highest quality reconstruction in a timely manner. The former can be achieved in several ways, among which are by incorporating Bayesian priors that exploit natural image tendencies to cue in on relevant phenomena. The Hierarchical Bayesian MAP (HB-MAP) is one such a...
computer science
28,605
Skeleton-based Action Recognition Using LSTM and CNN
cs.CV
Recent methods based on 3D skeleton data have achieved outstanding performance due to its conciseness, robustness, and view-independent representation. With the development of deep learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)-based learning methods have achieved promising performance ...
computer science
28,606
Effective Approaches to Batch Parallelization for Dynamic Neural Network Architectures
cs.CV
We present a simple dynamic batching approach applicable to a large class of dynamic architectures that consistently yields speedups of over 10x. We provide performance bounds when the architecture is not known a priori and a stronger bound in the special case where the architecture is a predetermined balanced tree. We...
computer science
28,607
Embedding Visual Hierarchy with Deep Networks for Large-Scale Visual Recognition
cs.CV
In this paper, a level-wise mixture model (LMM) is developed by embedding visual hierarchy with deep networks to support large-scale visual recognition (i.e., recognizing thousands or even tens of thousands of object classes), and a Bayesian approach is used to adapt a pre-trained visual hierarchy automatically to the ...
computer science
28,608
Deep Learning for Vanishing Point Detection Using an Inverse Gnomonic Projection
cs.CV
We present a novel approach for vanishing point detection from uncalibrated monocular images. In contrast to state-of-the-art, we make no a priori assumptions about the observed scene. Our method is based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) which does not use natural images, but a Gaussian sphere representation ari...
computer science
28,609
Self Adversarial Training for Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
This paper presents a deep learning based approach to the problem of human pose estimation. We employ generative adversarial networks as our learning paradigm in which we set up two stacked hourglass networks with the same architecture, one as the generator and the other as the discriminator. The generator is used as a...
computer science
28,610
Hyperspectral Image Restoration via Total Variation Regularized Low-rank Tensor Decomposition
cs.CV
Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are often corrupted by a mixture of several types of noise during the acquisition process, e.g., Gaussian noise, impulse noise, dead lines, stripes, and many others. Such complex noise could degrade the quality of the acquired HSIs, limiting the precision of the subsequent processing. In thi...
computer science
28,611
MDNet: A Semantically and Visually Interpretable Medical Image Diagnosis Network
cs.CV
The inability to interpret the model prediction in semantically and visually meaningful ways is a well-known shortcoming of most existing computer-aided diagnosis methods. In this paper, we propose MDNet to establish a direct multimodal mapping between medical images and diagnostic reports that can read images, generat...
computer science
28,612
Visual Analytics of Movement Pattern Based on Time-Spatial Data: A Neural Net Approach
cs.CV
Time-Spatial data plays a crucial role for different fields such as traffic management. These data can be collected via devices such as surveillance sensors or tracking systems. However, how to efficiently an- alyze and visualize these data to capture essential embedded pattern information is becoming a big challenge t...
computer science
28,613
Detection of bimanual gestures everywhere: why it matters, what we need and what is missing
cs.CV
Bimanual gestures are of the utmost importance for the study of motor coordination in humans and in everyday activities. A reliable detection of bimanual gestures in unconstrained environments is fundamental for their clinical study and to assess common activities of daily living. This paper investigates techniques for...
computer science
28,614
Local Activity-tuned Image Filtering for Noise Removal and Image Smoothing
cs.CV
In this paper, two local activity-tuned filtering frameworks are proposed for noise removal and image smoothing, where the local activity measurement is given by the clipped and normalized local variance or standard deviation. The first framework is a modified anisotropic diffusion for noise removal of piece-wise smoot...
computer science
28,615
Integration of LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data for Land-cover Classification: A Case Study
cs.CV
In this paper, an approach is proposed to fuse LiDAR and hyperspectral data, which considers both spectral and spatial information in a single framework. Here, an extended self-dual attribute profile (ESDAP) is investigated to extract spatial information from a hyperspectral data set. To extract spectral information, a...
computer science
28,616
A Human and Group Behaviour Simulation Evaluation Framework utilising Composition and Video Analysis
cs.CV
In this work we present the modular Crowd Simulation Evaluation through Composition framework (CSEC) which provides a quantitative comparison between different pedestrian and crowd simulation approaches. Evaluation is made based on the comparison of source footage against synthetic video created through novel compositi...
computer science
28,617
Learning in High-Dimensional Multimedia Data: The State of the Art
cs.CV
During the last decade, the deluge of multimedia data has impacted a wide range of research areas, including multimedia retrieval, 3D tracking, database management, data mining, machine learning, social media analysis, medical imaging, and so on. Machine learning is largely involved in multimedia applications of buildi...
computer science
28,618
Anisotropic Diffusion-based Kernel Matrix Model for Face Liveness Detection
cs.CV
Facial recognition and verification is a widely used biometric technology in security system. Unfortunately, face biometrics is vulnerable to spoofing attacks using photographs or videos. In this paper, we present an anisotropic diffusion-based kernel matrix model (ADKMM) for face liveness detection to prevent face spo...
computer science
28,619
Interleaved Group Convolutions for Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a simple and modularized neural network architecture, named interleaved group convolutional neural networks (IGCNets). The main point lies in a novel building block, a pair of two successive interleaved group convolutions: primary group convolution and secondary group convolution. The two grou...
computer science
28,620
Synthesis-based Robust Low Resolution Face Recognition
cs.CV
Recognition of low resolution face images is a challenging problem in many practical face recognition systems. Methods have been proposed in the face recognition literature for the problem which assume that the probe is low resolution, but a high resolution gallery is available for recognition. These attempts have been...
computer science
28,621
Improving speaker turn embedding by crossmodal transfer learning from face embedding
cs.CV
Learning speaker turn embeddings has shown considerable improvement in situations where conventional speaker modeling approaches fail. However, this improvement is relatively limited when compared to the gain observed in face embedding learning, which has been proven very successful for face verification and clustering...
computer science
28,622
Identity Alignment by Noisy Pixel Removal
cs.CV
Identity alignment models assume precisely annotated images manually. Human labelling is unrealistic on large sized imagery data. Detection models introduce varying amount of noise and hamper identity alignment performance. In this work, we propose to refine images by removing the undesired pixels. This is achieved by ...
computer science
28,623
Scale-Regularized Filter Learning
cs.CV
We start out by demonstrating that an elementary learning task, corresponding to the training of a single linear neuron in a convolutional neural network, can be solved for feature spaces of very high dimensionality. In a second step, acknowledging that such high-dimensional learning tasks typically benefit from some f...
computer science
28,624
Adaptive Binarization for Weakly Supervised Affordance Segmentation
cs.CV
The concept of affordance is important to understand the relevance of object parts for a certain functional interaction. Affordance types generalize across object categories and are not mutually exclusive. This makes the segmentation of affordance regions of objects in images a difficult task. In this work, we build on...
computer science
28,625
An Analysis of Human-centered Geolocation
cs.CV
Online social networks contain a constantly increasing amount of images - most of them focusing on people. Due to cultural and climate factors, fashion trends and physical appearance of individuals differ from city to city. In this paper we investigate to what extent such cues can be exploited in order to infer the geo...
computer science
28,626
Enhanced Deep Residual Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
Recent research on super-resolution has progressed with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN). In particular, residual learning techniques exhibit improved performance. In this paper, we develop an enhanced deep super-resolution network (EDSR) with performance exceeding those of current state-of-...
computer science
28,627
Wavelet-based Reflection Symmetry Detection via Textural and Color Histograms
cs.CV
Symmetry is one of the significant visual properties inside an image plane, to identify the geometrically balanced structures through real-world objects. Existing symmetry detection methods rely on descriptors of the local image features and their neighborhood behavior, resulting incomplete symmetrical axis candidates ...
computer science
28,628
Checkerboard artifact free sub-pixel convolution: A note on sub-pixel convolution, resize convolution and convolution resize
cs.CV
The most prominent problem associated with the deconvolution layer is the presence of checkerboard artifacts in output images and dense labels. To combat this problem, smoothness constraints, post processing and different architecture designs have been proposed. Odena et al. highlight three sources of checkerboard arti...
computer science
28,629
Foot anthropometry device and single object image thresholding
cs.CV
This paper introduces a device, algorithm and graphical user interface to obtain anthropometric measurements of foot. Presented device facilitates obtaining scale of image and image processing by taking one image from side foot and underfoot simultaneously. Introduced image processing algorithm minimizes a noise criter...
computer science
28,630
Rapid focus map surveying for whole slide imaging with continues sample motion
cs.CV
Whole slide imaging (WSI) has recently been cleared for primary diagnosis in the US. A critical challenge of WSI is to perform accurate focusing in high speed. Traditional systems create a focus map prior to scanning. For each focus point on the map, sample needs to be static in the x-y plane and axial scanning is need...
computer science
28,631
Automatic Understanding of Image and Video Advertisements
cs.CV
There is more to images than their objective physical content: for example, advertisements are created to persuade a viewer to take a certain action. We propose the novel problem of automatic advertisement understanding. To enable research on this problem, we create two datasets: an image dataset of 64,832 image ads, a...
computer science
28,632
Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions Recognition System Using Fuzzy Neural Network
cs.CV
The article describes developed information technology for online recognition of handwritten mathematical expressions that based on proposed approaches to handwritten symbols recognition and structural analysis.
computer science
28,633
Adversarial Generation of Training Examples: Applications to Moving Vehicle License Plate Recognition
cs.CV
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have attracted much research attention recently, leading to impressive results for natural image generation. However, to date little success was observed in using GAN generated images for improving classification tasks. Here we attempt to explore, in the context of car license plat...
computer science
28,634
Impulsive noise removal from color images with morphological filtering
cs.CV
This paper deals with impulse noise removal from color images. The proposed noise removal algorithm employs a novel approach with morphological filtering for color image denoising; that is, detection of corrupted pixels and removal of the detected noise by means of morphological filtering. With the help of computer sim...
computer science
28,635
Underwater object classification using scattering transform of sonar signals
cs.CV
In this paper, we apply the scattering transform (ST), a nonlinear map based off of a convolutional neural network (CNN), to classification of underwater objects using sonar signals. The ST formalizes the observation that the filters learned by a CNN have wavelet like structure. We achieve effective binary classificati...
computer science
28,636
Foreground Detection in Camouflaged Scenes
cs.CV
Foreground detection has been widely studied for decades due to its importance in many practical applications. Most of the existing methods assume foreground and background show visually distinct characteristics and thus the foreground can be detected once a good background model is obtained. However, there are many si...
computer science
28,637
Adversarial training and dilated convolutions for brain MRI segmentation
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to various automatic image segmentation tasks in medical image analysis, including brain MRI segmentation. Generative adversarial networks have recently gained popularity because of their power in generating images that are difficult to distinguish from real images...
computer science
28,638
Generalised Dice overlap as a deep learning loss function for highly unbalanced segmentations
cs.CV
Deep-learning has proved in recent years to be a powerful tool for image analysis and is now widely used to segment both 2D and 3D medical images. Deep-learning segmentation frameworks rely not only on the choice of network architecture but also on the choice of loss function. When the segmentation process targets rare...
computer science
28,639
A region-growing approach for automatic outcrop fracture extraction from a three-dimensional point cloud
cs.CV
Conventional manual surveys of rock mass fractures usually require large amounts of time and labor; yet, they provide a relatively small set of data that cannot be considered representative of the study region. Terrestrial laser scanners are increasingly used for fracture surveys because they can efficiently acquire la...
computer science
28,640
Tensor-based approach to accelerate deformable part models
cs.CV
This article provides next step towards solving speed bottleneck of any system that intensively uses convolutions operations (e.g. CNN). Method described in the article is applied on deformable part models (DPM) algorithm. Method described here is based on multidimensional tensors and provides efficient tradeoff betwee...
computer science
28,641
Hierarchical Deep Recurrent Architecture for Video Understanding
cs.CV
This paper introduces the system we developed for the Youtube-8M Video Understanding Challenge, in which a large-scale benchmark dataset was used for multi-label video classification. The proposed framework contains hierarchical deep architecture, including the frame-level sequence modeling part and the video-level cla...
computer science
28,642
Learning the Latent "Look": Unsupervised Discovery of a Style-Coherent Embedding from Fashion Images
cs.CV
What defines a visual style? Fashion styles emerge organically from how people assemble outfits of clothing, making them difficult to pin down with a computational model. Low-level visual similarity can be too specific to detect stylistically similar images, while manually crafted style categories can be too abstract t...
computer science
28,643
Individual Recognition in Schizophrenia using Deep Learning Methods with Random Forest and Voting Classifiers: Insights from Resting State EEG Streams
cs.CV
Recently, there has been a growing interest in monitoring brain activity for individual recognition system. So far these works are mainly focussing on single channel data or fragment data collected by some advanced brain monitoring modalities. In this study we propose new individual recognition schemes based on spatio-...
computer science
28,644
Recovering Dense Tissue Multispectral Signal from in vivo RGB Images
cs.CV
Hyperspectral/multispectral imaging (HSI/MSI) contains rich information clinical applications, such as 1) narrow band imaging for vascular visualisation; 2) oxygen saturation for intraoperative perfusion monitoring and clinical decision making [1]; 3) tissue classification and identification of pathology [2]. The curre...
computer science
28,645
Place recognition: An Overview of Vision Perspective
cs.CV
Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom accumulated in this field, place recognition still remains an open problem due to the various ways i...
computer science
28,646
Creatism: A deep-learning photographer capable of creating professional work
cs.CV
Machine-learning excels in many areas with well-defined goals. However, a clear goal is usually not available in art forms, such as photography. The success of a photograph is measured by its aesthetic value, a very subjective concept. This adds to the challenge for a machine learning approach. We introduce Creatism,...
computer science
28,647
Aerial Vehicle Tracking by Adaptive Fusion of Hyperspectral Likelihood Maps
cs.CV
Hyperspectral cameras can provide unique spectral signatures for consistently distinguishing materials that can be used to solve surveillance tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time hyperspectral likelihood maps-aided tracking method (HLT) inspired by an adaptive hyperspectral sensor. A moving object trackin...
computer science
28,648
Terahertz Security Image Quality Assessment by No-reference Model Observers
cs.CV
To provide the possibility of developing objective image quality assessment (IQA) algorithms for THz security images, we constructed the THz security image database (THSID) including a total of 181 THz security images with the resolution of 127*380. The main distortion types in THz security images were first analyzed f...
computer science
28,649
Machine Learning for RealisticBall Detection in RoboCup SPL
cs.CV
In this technical report, we describe the use of a machine learning approach for detecting the realistic black and white ball currently in use in the RoboCup Standard Platform League. Our aim is to provide a ready-to-use software module that can be useful for the RoboCup SPL community. To this end, the approach is inte...
computer science
28,650
Structured Sparse Ternary Weight Coding of Deep Neural Networks for Efficient Hardware Implementations
cs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) usually demand a large amount of operations for real-time inference. Especially, fully-connected layers contain a large number of weights, thus they usually need many off-chip memory accesses for inference. We propose a weight compression method for deep neural networks, which allows values ...
computer science
28,651
Deep Fisher Discriminant Learning for Mobile Hand Gesture Recognition
cs.CV
Gesture recognition is a challenging problem in the field of biometrics. In this paper, we integrate Fisher criterion into Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (BLSTM) network and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit (BGRU),thus leading to two new deep models termed as F-BLSTM and F-BGRU. BothFisher discriminative deep m...
computer science
28,652
Contour and Centreline Tracking of Vessels from Angiograms using the Classical Image Processing Techniques
cs.CV
This article deals with the problem of vessel edge and centerline detection using classical image processing techniques due to their simpleness and easiness to be implemented. The method is divided into four steps: the vessel enhancement which implies a non-linear filtering proposed by Frangi, the thresholding using Ot...
computer science
28,653
Pixel-variant Local Homography for Fisheye Stereo Rectification Minimizing Resampling Distortion
cs.CV
Large field-of-view fisheye lens cameras have attracted more and more researchers' attention in the field of robotics. However, there does not exist a convenient off-the-shelf stereo rectification approach which can be applied directly to fisheye stereo rig. One obvious drawback of existing methods is that the resampli...
computer science
28,654
Robust Visual Tracking via Hierarchical Convolutional Features
cs.CV
Visual tracking is challenging as target objects often undergo significant appearance changes caused by deformation, abrupt motion, background clutter and occlusion. In this paper, we propose to exploit the rich hierarchical features of deep convolutional neural networks to improve the accuracy and robustness of visual...
computer science
28,655
Unsupervised Body Part Regression via Spatially Self-ordering Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Automatic body part recognition for CT slices can benefit various medical image applications. Recent deep learning methods demonstrate promising performance, with the requirement of large amounts of labeled images for training. The intrinsic structural or superior-inferior slice ordering information in CT volumes is no...
computer science
28,656
The Surfacing of Multiview 3D Drawings via Lofting and Occlusion Reasoning
cs.CV
The three-dimensional reconstruction of scenes from multiple views has made impressive strides in recent years, chiefly by methods correlating isolated feature points, intensities, or curvilinear structure. In the general setting, i.e., without requiring controlled acquisition, limited number of objects, abundant patte...
computer science
28,657
Towards End-to-end Text Spotting with Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this work, we jointly address the problem of text detection and recognition in natural scene images based on convolutional recurrent neural networks. We propose a unified network that simultaneously localizes and recognizes text with a single forward pass, avoiding intermediate processes like image cropping and feat...
computer science
28,658
Leveraging the Path Signature for Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition
cs.CV
Human action recognition in videos is one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. One important issue is how to design discriminative features for representing spatial context and temporal dynamics. Here, we introduce a path signature feature to encode information from intra-frame and inter-frame contexts. A ...
computer science
28,659
Query-Aware Sparse Coding for Multi-Video Summarization
cs.CV
Given the explosive growth of online videos, it is becoming increasingly important to relieve the tedious work of browsing and managing the video content of interest. Video summarization aims at providing such a technique by transforming one or multiple videos into a compact one. However, conventional multi-video summa...
computer science
28,660
Large-scale Video Classification guided by Batch Normalized LSTM Translator
cs.CV
Youtube-8M dataset enhances the development of large-scale video recognition technology as ImageNet dataset has encouraged image classification, recognition and detection of artificial intelligence fields. For this large video dataset, it is a challenging task to classify a huge amount of multi-labels. By change of per...
computer science
28,661
Discrete Multi-modal Hashing with Canonical Views for Robust Mobile Landmark Search
cs.CV
Mobile landmark search (MLS) recently receives increasing attention for its great practical values. However, it still remains unsolved due to two important challenges. One is high bandwidth consumption of query transmission, and the other is the huge visual variations of query images sent from mobile devices. In this p...
computer science
28,662
Automatic Recognition of Facial Displays of Unfelt Emotions
cs.CV
Humans modify their facial expressions in order to communicate their internal states and sometimes to mislead observers regarding their true emotional states. Evidence in experimental psychology shows that discriminative facial responses are short and subtle. This suggests that such behavior would be easier to distingu...
computer science
28,663
UTS submission to Google YouTube-8M Challenge 2017
cs.CV
In this paper, we present our solution to Google YouTube-8M Video Classification Challenge 2017. We leveraged both video-level and frame-level features in the submission. For video-level classification, we simply used a 200-mixture Mixture of Experts (MoE) layer, which achieves GAP 0.802 on the validation set with a si...
computer science
28,664
Cultivating DNN Diversity for Large Scale Video Labelling
cs.CV
We investigate factors controlling DNN diversity in the context of the Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge. While it is well-known that ensemble methods improve prediction performance, and that combining accurate but diverse predictors helps, there is little knowledge on how to best promote & meas...
computer science
28,665
Discriminative Optimization: Theory and Applications to Computer Vision Problems
cs.CV
Many computer vision problems are formulated as the optimization of a cost function. This approach faces two main challenges: (i) designing a cost function with a local optimum at an acceptable solution, and (ii) developing an efficient numerical method to search for one (or multiple) of these local optima. While desig...
computer science
28,666
Inner-Scene Similarities as a Contextual Cue for Object Detection
cs.CV
Using image context is an effective approach for improving object detection. Previously proposed methods used contextual cues that rely on semantic or spatial information. In this work, we explore a different kind of contextual information: inner-scene similarity. We present the CISS (Context by Inner Scene Similarity)...
computer science
28,667
Temporal Modeling Approaches for Large-scale Youtube-8M Video Understanding
cs.CV
This paper describes our solution for the video recognition task of the Google Cloud and YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge that ranked the 3rd place. Because the challenge provides pre-extracted visual and audio features instead of the raw videos, we mainly investigate various temporal modeling approaches to agg...
computer science
28,668
Knowledge-Guided Recurrent Neural Network Learning for Task-Oriented Action Prediction
cs.CV
This paper aims at task-oriented action prediction, i.e., predicting a sequence of actions towards accomplishing a specific task under a certain scene, which is a new problem in computer vision research. The main challenges lie in how to model task-specific knowledge and integrate it in the learning procedure. In this ...
computer science
28,669
Rethinking Reprojection: Closing the Loop for Pose-aware ShapeReconstruction from a Single Image
cs.CV
An emerging problem in computer vision is the reconstruction of 3D shape and pose of an object from a single image. Hitherto, the problem has been addressed through the application of canonical deep learning methods to regress from the image directly to the 3D shape and pose labels. These approaches, however, are probl...
computer science
28,670
Binarized Convolutional Neural Networks with Separable Filters for Efficient Hardware Acceleration
cs.CV
State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks are enormously costly in both compute and memory, demanding massively parallel GPUs for execution. Such networks strain the computational capabilities and energy available to embedded and mobile processing platforms, restricting their use in many important applications. In...
computer science
28,671
Original Loop-closure Detection Algorithm for Monocular vSLAM
cs.CV
Vision-based simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) is a well-established problem in mobile robotics and monocular vSLAM is one of the most challenging variations of that problem nowadays. In this work we study one of the core post-processing optimization mechanisms in vSLAM, e.g. loop-closure detection. We anal...
computer science
28,672
Modified Alpha-Rooting Color Image Enhancement Method On The Two-Side 2-D Quaternion Discrete Fourier Transform And The 2-D Discrete Fourier Transform
cs.CV
Color in an image is resolved into 3 or 4 color components and 2-Dimages of these components are stored in separate channels. Most of the color image enhancement algorithms are applied channel-by-channel on each image. But such a system of color image processing is not processing the original color. When a color image ...
computer science
28,673
RED: Reinforced Encoder-Decoder Networks for Action Anticipation
cs.CV
Action anticipation aims to detect an action before it happens. Many real world applications in robotics and surveillance are related to this predictive capability. Current methods address this problem by first anticipating visual representations of future frames and then categorizing the anticipated representations to...
computer science
28,674
Generative Adversarial Network based on Resnet for Conditional Image Restoration
cs.CV
The GANs promote an adversarive game to approximate complex and jointed example probability. The networks driven by noise generate fake examples to approximate realistic data distributions. Later the conditional GAN merges prior-conditions as input in order to transfer attribute vectors to the corresponding data. Howev...
computer science
28,675
Chinese Typography Transfer
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a new network architecture for Chinese typography transformation based on deep learning. The architecture consists of two sub-networks: (1)a fully convolutional network(FCN) aiming at transferring specified typography style to another in condition of preserving structure information; (2)an adv...
computer science
28,676
Expected exponential loss for gaze-based video and volume ground truth annotation
cs.CV
Many recent machine learning approaches used in medical imaging are highly reliant on large amounts of image and ground truth data. In the context of object segmentation, pixel-wise annotations are extremely expensive to collect, especially in video and 3D volumes. To reduce this annotation burden, we propose a novel f...
computer science
28,677
Improving Deep Pancreas Segmentation in CT and MRI Images via Recurrent Neural Contextual Learning and Direct Loss Function
cs.CV
Deep neural networks have demonstrated very promising performance on accurate segmentation of challenging organs (e.g., pancreas) in abdominal CT and MRI scans. The current deep learning approaches conduct pancreas segmentation by processing sequences of 2D image slices independently through deep, dense per-pixel maski...
computer science
28,678
Pathological OCT Retinal Layer Segmentation using Branch Residual U-shape Networks
cs.CV
The automatic segmentation of retinal layer structures enables clinically-relevant quantification and monitoring of eye disorders over time in OCT imaging. Eyes with late-stage diseases are particularly challenging to segment, as their shape is highly warped due to pathological biomarkers. In this context, we propose a...
computer science
28,679
Query-Focused Video Summarization: Dataset, Evaluation, and A Memory Network Based Approach
cs.CV
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in video summarization. However, one of the main obstacles to the research on video summarization is the user subjectivity - users have various preferences over the summaries. The subjectiveness causes at least two problems. First, no single video summarizer fits all...
computer science
28,680
Non-Linear Subspace Clustering with Learned Low-Rank Kernels
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a kernel subspace clustering method that can handle non-linear models. In contrast to recent kernel subspace clustering methods which use predefined kernels, we propose to learn a low-rank kernel matrix, with which mapped data in feature space are not only low-rank but also self-expressive. In...
computer science
28,681
Tracking as Online Decision-Making: Learning a Policy from Streaming Videos with Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
We formulate tracking as an online decision-making process, where a tracking agent must follow an object despite ambiguous image frames and a limited computational budget. Crucially, the agent must decide where to look in the upcoming frames, when to reinitialize because it believes the target has been lost, and when t...
computer science
28,682
MoCoGAN: Decomposing Motion and Content for Video Generation
cs.CV
Visual signals in a video can be divided into content and motion. While content specifies which objects are in the video, motion describes their dynamics. Based on this prior, we propose the Motion and Content decomposed Generative Adversarial Network (MoCoGAN) framework for video generation. The proposed framework gen...
computer science
28,683
"Maximizing rigidity" revisited: a convex programming approach for generic 3D shape reconstruction from multiple perspective views
cs.CV
Rigid structure-from-motion (RSfM) and non-rigid structure-from-motion (NRSfM) have long been treated in the literature as separate (different) problems. Inspired by a previous work which solved directly for 3D scene structure by factoring the relative camera poses out, we revisit the principle of "maximizing rigidity"...
computer science
28,684
Residual Features and Unified Prediction Network for Single Stage Detection
cs.CV
Recently, a lot of single stage detectors using multi-scale features have been actively proposed. They are much faster than two stage detectors that use region proposal networks (RPN) without much degradation in the detection performances. However, the feature maps in the lower layers close to the input which are respo...
computer science
28,685
Designing Effective Inter-Pixel Information Flow for Natural Image Matting
cs.CV
We present a novel, purely affinity-based natural image matting algorithm. Our method relies on carefully defined pixel-to-pixel connections that enable effective use of information available in the image. We control the information flow from the known-opacity regions into the unknown region, as well as within the unkn...
computer science
28,686
Fully Automatic and Real-Time Catheter Segmentation in X-Ray Fluoroscopy
cs.CV
Augmenting X-ray imaging with 3D roadmap to improve guidance is a common strategy. Such approaches benefit from automated analysis of the X-ray images, such as the automatic detection and tracking of instruments. In this paper, we propose a real-time method to segment the catheter and guidewire in 2D X-ray fluoroscopic...
computer science
28,687
Aesthetic-Driven Image Enhancement by Adversarial Learning
cs.CV
We introduce EnhanceGAN, an adversarial learning based model that performs automatic image enhancement. Traditional image enhancement frameworks involve training separate models for automatic cropping or color enhancement in a fully-supervised manner, which requires expensive annotations in the form of image pairs. In ...
computer science
28,688
Dominant Sets for "Constrained" Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Image segmentation has come a long way since the early days of computer vision, and still remains a challenging task. Modern variations of the classical (purely bottom-up) approach, involve, e.g., some form of user assistance (interactive segmentation) or ask for the simultaneous segmentation of two or more images (co-...
computer science
28,689
Show and Recall: Learning What Makes Videos Memorable
cs.CV
With the explosion of video content on the Internet, there is a need for research on methods for video analysis which take human cognition into account. One such cognitive measure is memorability, or the ability to recall visual content after watching it. Prior research has looked into image memorability and shown that...
computer science
28,690
Make Your Bone Great Again : A study on Osteoporosis Classification
cs.CV
Osteoporosis can be identified by looking at 2D x-ray images of the bone. The high degree of similarity between images of a healthy bone and a diseased one makes classification a challenge. A good bone texture characterization technique is essential for identifying osteoporosis cases. Standard texture feature extractio...
computer science
28,691
Benchmarking and Error Diagnosis in Multi-Instance Pose Estimation
cs.CV
We propose a new method to analyze the impact of errors in algorithms for multi-instance pose estimation and a principled benchmark that can be used to compare them. We define and characterize three classes of errors - localization, scoring, and background - study how they are influenced by instance attributes and thei...
computer science
28,692
Incremental Boosting Convolutional Neural Network for Facial Action Unit Recognition
cs.CV
Recognizing facial action units (AUs) from spontaneous facial expressions is still a challenging problem. Most recently, CNNs have shown promise on facial AU recognition. However, the learned CNNs are often overfitted and do not generalize well to unseen subjects due to limited AU-coded training images. We proposed a n...
computer science
28,693
Slanted Stixels: Representing San Francisco's Steepest Streets
cs.CV
In this work we present a novel compact scene representation based on Stixels that infers geometric and semantic information. Our approach overcomes the previous rather restrictive geometric assumptions for Stixels by introducing a novel depth model to account for non-flat roads and slanted objects. Both semantic and d...
computer science
28,694
Wide Inference Network for Image Denoising via Learning Pixel-distribution Prior
cs.CV
We explore an innovative strategy for image denoising by using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn similar pixel-distribution features from noisy images. Many types of image noise follow a certain pixel-distribution in common, such as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). By increasing CNN's width with larger ...
computer science
28,695
Fast and Accurate Image Super Resolution by Deep CNN with Skip Connection and Network in Network
cs.CV
We propose a highly efficient and faster Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) model with Deep Convolutional neural networks (Deep CNN). Deep CNN have recently shown that they have a significant reconstruction performance on single-image super-resolution. Current trend is using deeper CNN layers to improve performance. ...
computer science
28,696
Visually Aligned Word Embeddings for Improving Zero-shot Learning
cs.CV
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) highly depends on a good semantic embedding to connect the seen and unseen classes. Recently, distributed word embeddings (DWE) pre-trained from large text corpus have become a popular choice to draw such a connection. Compared with human defined attributes, DWEs are more scalable and easier to...
computer science
28,697
Discriminative Transformation Learning for Fuzzy Sparse Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
This paper develops a novel iterative framework for subspace clustering in a learned discriminative feature domain. This framework consists of two modules of fuzzy sparse subspace clustering and discriminative transformation learning. In the first module, fuzzy latent labels containing discriminative information and la...
computer science
28,698
Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Instance Retrieval
cs.CV
In this work, we focus on the problem of image instance retrieval with deep descriptors extracted from pruned Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The objective is to heavily prune convolutional edges while maintaining retrieval performance. To this end, we introduce both data-independent and data-dependent heuristics ...
computer science
28,699
DCTM: Discrete-Continuous Transformation Matching for Semantic Flow
cs.CV
Techniques for dense semantic correspondence have provided limited ability to deal with the geometric variations that commonly exist between semantically similar images. While variations due to scale and rotation have been examined, there lack practical solutions for more complex deformations such as affine transformat...
computer science
28,700
APE-GAN: Adversarial Perturbation Elimination with GAN
cs.CV
Although neural networks could achieve state-of-the-art performance while recongnizing images, they often suffer a tremendous defeat from adversarial examples--inputs generated by utilizing imperceptible but intentional perturbation to clean samples from the datasets. How to defense against adversarial examples is an i...
computer science
28,701
Order-Free RNN with Visual Attention for Multi-Label Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose the joint learning attention and recurrent neural network (RNN) models for multi-label classification. While approaches based on the use of either model exist (e.g., for the task of image captioning), training such existing network architectures typically require pre-defined label sequences. F...
computer science