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A Solution for Crime Scene Reconstruction using Time-of-Flight Cameras
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In this work, we propose a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wide crime scene, based on a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approach. We used a Kinect V2 Time-of-Flight (TOF) RGB-D camera to provide colored dense point clouds at a 30 Hz frequency. This device is moved freely (6 degrees of f...
computer science
29,003
Structured Attentions for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Visual attention, which assigns weights to image regions according to their relevance to a question, is considered as an indispensable part by most Visual Question Answering models. Although the questions may involve complex relations among multiple regions, few attention models can effectively encode such cross-region...
computer science
29,004
Learning for Active 3D Mapping
cs.CV
We propose an active 3D mapping method for depth sensors, which allow individual control of depth-measuring rays, such as the newly emerging solid-state lidars. The method simultaneously (i) learns to reconstruct a dense 3D occupancy map from sparse depth measurements, and (ii) optimizes the reactive control of depth-m...
computer science
29,005
Extraction of Airways with Probabilistic State-space Models and Bayesian Smoothing
cs.CV
Segmenting tree structures is common in several image processing applications. In medical image analysis, reliable segmentations of airways, vessels, neurons and other tree structures can enable important clinical applications. We present a framework for tracking tree structures comprising of elongated branches using p...
computer science
29,006
Two-Phase Learning for Weakly Supervised Object Localization
cs.CV
Weakly supervised semantic segmentation and localiza- tion have a problem of focusing only on the most important parts of an image since they use only image-level annota- tions. In this paper, we solve this problem fundamentally via two-phase learning. Our networks are trained in two steps. In the first step, a convent...
computer science
29,007
Learning to segment on tiny datasets: a new shape model
cs.CV
Current object segmentation algorithms are based on the hypothesis that one has access to a very large amount of data. In this paper, we aim to segment objects using only tiny datasets. To this extent, we propose a new automatic part-based object segmentation algorithm for non-deformable and semi-deformable objects in ...
computer science
29,008
Self-supervised Learning of Pose Embeddings from Spatiotemporal Relations in Videos
cs.CV
Human pose analysis is presently dominated by deep convolutional networks trained with extensive manual annotations of joint locations and beyond. To avoid the need for expensive labeling, we exploit spatiotemporal relations in training videos for self-supervised learning of pose embeddings. The key idea is to combine ...
computer science
29,009
MemNet: A Persistent Memory Network for Image Restoration
cs.CV
Recently, very deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been attracting considerable attention in image restoration. However, as the depth grows, the long-term dependency problem is rarely realized for these very deep models, which results in the prior states/layers having little influence on the subsequent ones....
computer science
29,010
Training Deep Networks to be Spatially Sensitive
cs.CV
In many computer vision tasks, for example saliency prediction or semantic segmentation, the desired output is a foreground map that predicts pixels where some criteria is satisfied. Despite the inherently spatial nature of this task commonly used learning objectives do not incorporate the spatial relationships between...
computer science
29,011
Learning a CNN-based End-to-End Controller for a Formula SAE Racecar
cs.CV
We present a set of CNN-based end-to-end models for controls of a Formula SAE racecar, along with various benchmarking and visualization tools to understand model performance. We tackled three main problems in the context of cone-delineated racetrack driving: (1) discretized steering, which translates a first-person fr...
computer science
29,012
Graph Classification with 2D Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Graph learning is currently dominated by graph kernels, which, while powerful, suffer some significant limitations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer a very appealing alternative, but processing graphs with CNNs is not trivial. To address this challenge, many sophisticated extensions of CNNs have recently been...
computer science
29,013
Automatic segmentation of the intracranialvolume in fetal MR images
cs.CV
MR images of the fetus allow non-invasive analysis of the fetal brain. Quantitative analysis of fetal brain development requires automatic brain tissue segmentation that is typically preceded by segmentation of the intracranial volume (ICV). This is challenging because fetal MR images visualize the whole moving fetus a...
computer science
29,014
An Adaptive Cluster-based Wiener Filter for Speckle Reduction of OCT Skin Images
cs.CV
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a favorable device in the dermatology discipline due to its moderate resolution and penetration depth. OCT images, however, contain a grainy pattern, called speckle, due to the use of a broadband source in the configuration of OCT. So far, a variety of filtering techniques ...
computer science
29,015
Monocular Depth Estimation with Hierarchical Fusion of Dilated CNNs and Soft-Weighted-Sum Inference
cs.CV
Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task in complex compositions depicting multiple objects of diverse scales. Albeit the recent great progress thanks to the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the state-of-the-art monocular depth estimation methods still fall short to handle such real-world challenging ...
computer science
29,016
Beyond Low-Rank Representations: Orthogonal Clustering Basis Reconstruction with Optimized Graph Structure for Multi-view Spectral Clustering
cs.CV
Low-Rank Representation (LRR) is arguably one of the most powerful paradigms for Multi-view spectral clustering, which elegantly encodes the multi-view local graph/manifold structures into an intrinsic low-rank self-expressive data similarity embedded in high-dimensional space, to yield a better graph partition than th...
computer science
29,017
Unconstrained Face Detection and Open-Set Face Recognition Challenge
cs.CV
Face detection and recognition benchmarks have shifted toward more difficult environments. The challenge presented in this paper addresses the next step in the direction of automatic detection and identification of people from outdoor surveillance cameras. While face detection has shown remarkable success in images col...
computer science
29,018
Temporal Context Network for Activity Localization in Videos
cs.CV
We present a Temporal Context Network (TCN) for precise temporal localization of human activities. Similar to the Faster-RCNN architecture, proposals are placed at equal intervals in a video which span multiple temporal scales. We propose a novel representation for ranking these proposals. Since pooling features only i...
computer science
29,019
Learning a Repression Network for Precise Vehicle Search
cs.CV
The growing explosion in the use of surveillance cameras in public security highlights the importance of vehicle search from large-scale image databases. Precise vehicle search, aiming at finding out all instances for a given query vehicle image, is a challenging task as different vehicles will look very similar to eac...
computer science
29,020
Wasserstein CNN: Learning Invariant Features for NIR-VIS Face Recognition
cs.CV
Heterogeneous face recognition (HFR) aims to match facial images acquired from different sensing modalities with mission-critical applications in forensics, security and commercial sectors. However, HFR is a much more challenging problem than traditional face recognition because of large intra-class variations of heter...
computer science
29,021
FoveaNet: Perspective-aware Urban Scene Parsing
cs.CV
Parsing urban scene images benefits many applications, especially self-driving. Most of the current solutions employ generic image parsing models that treat all scales and locations in the images equally and do not consider the geometry property of car-captured urban scene images. Thus, they suffer from heterogeneous o...
computer science
29,022
Prune the Convolutional Neural Networks with Sparse Shrink
cs.CV
Nowadays, it is still difficult to adapt Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models for deployment on embedded devices. The heavy computation and large memory footprint of CNN models become the main burden in real application. In this paper, we propose a "Sparse Shrink" algorithm to prune an existing CNN model. By...
computer science
29,023
An Effective Feature Selection Method Based on Pair-Wise Feature Proximity for High Dimensional Low Sample Size Data
cs.CV
Feature selection has been studied widely in the literature. However, the efficacy of the selection criteria for low sample size applications is neglected in most cases. Most of the existing feature selection criteria are based on the sample similarity. However, the distance measures become insignificant for high dimen...
computer science
29,024
Weakly Supervised Image Annotation and Segmentation with Objects and Attributes
cs.CV
We propose to model complex visual scenes using a non-parametric Bayesian model learned from weakly labelled images abundant on media sharing sites such as Flickr. Given weak image-level annotations of objects and attributes without locations or associations between them, our model aims to learn the appearance of objec...
computer science
29,025
An Unsupervised Game-Theoretic Approach to Saliency Detection
cs.CV
We propose a novel unsupervised game-theoretic salient object detection algorithm that does not require labeled training data. First, saliency detection problem is formulated as a non-cooperative game, hereinafter referred to as Saliency Game, in which image regions are players who choose to be "background" or "foregro...
computer science
29,026
From Deterministic to Generative: Multi-Modal Stochastic RNNs for Video Captioning
cs.CV
Video captioning in essential is a complex natural process, which is affected by various uncertainties stemming from video content, subjective judgment, etc. In this paper we build on the recent progress in using encoder-decoder framework for video captioning and address what we find to be a critical deficiency of the ...
computer science
29,027
An Error Detection and Correction Framework for Connectomics
cs.CV
We define and study error detection and correction tasks that are useful for 3D reconstruction of neurons from electron microscopic imagery, and for image segmentation more generally. Both tasks take as input the raw image and a binary mask representing a candidate object. For the error detection task, the desired outp...
computer science
29,028
A discriminative view of MRF pre-processing algorithms
cs.CV
While Markov Random Fields (MRFs) are widely used in computer vision, they present a quite challenging inference problem. MRF inference can be accelerated by pre-processing techniques like Dead End Elimination (DEE) or QPBO-based approaches which compute the optimal labeling of a subset of variables. These techniques a...
computer science
29,029
Generative Adversarial Network-based Synthesis of Visible Faces from Polarimetric Thermal Faces
cs.CV
The large domain discrepancy between faces captured in polarimetric (or conventional) thermal and visible domain makes cross-domain face recognition quite a challenging problem for both human-examiners and computer vision algorithms. Previous approaches utilize a two-step procedure (visible feature estimation and visib...
computer science
29,030
Statistics of Deep Generated Images
cs.CV
Here, we explore the low-level statistics of images generated by state-of-the-art deep generative models. First, Wasserstein generative adversarial network (WGAN) and deep convolutional generative adversarial network (DCGAN) are trained on the ImageNet dataset and a large set of cartoon frames from animations. Then, fo...
computer science
29,031
What Actions are Needed for Understanding Human Actions in Videos?
cs.CV
What is the right way to reason about human activities? What directions forward are most promising? In this work, we analyze the current state of human activity understanding in videos. The goal of this paper is to examine datasets, evaluation metrics, algorithms, and potential future directions. We look at the qualita...
computer science
29,032
Sequential Dual Deep Learning with Shape and Texture Features for Sketch Recognition
cs.CV
Recognizing freehand sketches with high arbitrariness is greatly challenging. Most existing methods either ignore the geometric characteristics or treat sketches as handwritten characters with fixed structural ordering. Consequently, they can hardly yield high recognition performance even though sophisticated learning ...
computer science
29,033
Deep Face Feature for Face Alignment
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a deep learning based image feature extraction method designed specifically for face images. To train the feature extraction model, we construct a large scale photo-realistic face image dataset with ground-truth correspondence between multi-view face images, which are synthesized from real pho...
computer science
29,034
Weakly- and Self-Supervised Learning for Content-Aware Deep Image Retargeting
cs.CV
This paper proposes a weakly- and self-supervised deep convolutional neural network (WSSDCNN) for content-aware image retargeting. Our network takes a source image and a target aspect ratio, and then directly outputs a retargeted image. Retargeting is performed through a shift map, which is a pixel-wise mapping from th...
computer science
29,035
Probabilistic Neural Network with Complex Exponential Activation Functions in Image Recognition using Deep Learning Framework
cs.CV
If the training dataset is not very large, image recognition is usually implemented with the transfer learning methods. In these methods the features are extracted using a deep convolutional neural network, which was preliminarily trained with an external very-large dataset. In this paper we consider the nonparametric ...
computer science
29,036
Joint Face Alignment and 3D Face Reconstruction with Application to Face Recognition
cs.CV
Face alignment and 3D face reconstruction are traditionally accomplished as separated tasks. By exploring the strong correlation between 2D landmarks and 3D shapes, in contrast, we propose a joint face alignment and 3D face reconstruction method to simultaneously solve these two problems for 2D face images of arbitrary...
computer science
29,037
Extreme clicking for efficient object annotation
cs.CV
Manually annotating object bounding boxes is central to building computer vision datasets, and it is very time consuming (annotating ILSVRC [53] took 35s for one high-quality box [62]). It involves clicking on imaginary corners of a tight box around the object. This is difficult as these corners are often outside the a...
computer science
29,038
Isointense infant brain MRI segmentation with a dilated convolutional neural network
cs.CV
Quantitative analysis of brain MRI at the age of 6 months is difficult because of the limited contrast between white matter and gray matter. In this study, we use a dilated triplanar convolutional neural network in combination with a non-dilated 3D convolutional neural network for the segmentation of white matter, gray...
computer science
29,039
Learning to Disambiguate by Asking Discriminative Questions
cs.CV
The ability to ask questions is a powerful tool to gather information in order to learn about the world and resolve ambiguities. In this paper, we explore a novel problem of generating discriminative questions to help disambiguate visual instances. Our work can be seen as a complement and new extension to the rich rese...
computer science
29,040
Multi-dimensional Gated Recurrent Units for Automated Anatomical Landmark Localization
cs.CV
We present an automated method for localizing an anatomical landmark in three-dimensional medical images. The method combines two recurrent neural networks in a coarse-to-fine approach: The first network determines a candidate neighborhood by analyzing the complete given image volume. The second network localizes the a...
computer science
29,041
BlitzNet: A Real-Time Deep Network for Scene Understanding
cs.CV
Real-time scene understanding has become crucial in many applications such as autonomous driving. In this paper, we propose a deep architecture, called BlitzNet, that jointly performs object detection and semantic segmentation in one forward pass, allowing real-time computations. Besides the computational gain of havin...
computer science
29,042
Anveshak - A Groundtruth Generation Tool for Foreground Regions of Document Images
cs.CV
We propose a graphical user interface based groundtruth generation tool in this paper. Here, annotation of an input document image is done based on the foreground pixels. Foreground pixels are grouped together with user interaction to form labeling units. These units are then labeled by the user with the user defined l...
computer science
29,043
Online Multi-Object Tracking Using CNN-based Single Object Tracker with Spatial-Temporal Attention Mechanism
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a CNN-based framework for online MOT. This framework utilizes the merits of single object trackers in adapting appearance models and searching for target in the next frame. Simply applying single object tracker for MOT will encounter the problem in computational efficiency and drifted results ...
computer science
29,044
WebVision Database: Visual Learning and Understanding from Web Data
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a study on learning visual recognition models from large scale noisy web data. We build a new database called WebVision, which contains more than $2.4$ million web images crawled from the Internet by using queries generated from the 1,000 semantic concepts of the benchmark ILSVRC 2012 dataset....
computer science
29,045
CoupleNet: Coupling Global Structure with Local Parts for Object Detection
cs.CV
The region-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) detectors such as Faster R-CNN or R-FCN have already shown promising results for object detection by combining the region proposal subnetwork and the classification subnetwork together. Although R-FCN has achieved higher detection speed while keeping the detection per...
computer science
29,046
Transitive Invariance for Self-supervised Visual Representation Learning
cs.CV
Learning visual representations with self-supervised learning has become popular in computer vision. The idea is to design auxiliary tasks where labels are free to obtain. Most of these tasks end up providing data to learn specific kinds of invariance useful for recognition. In this paper, we propose to exploit differe...
computer science
29,047
SUBIC: A supervised, structured binary code for image search
cs.CV
For large-scale visual search, highly compressed yet meaningful representations of images are essential. Structured vector quantizers based on product quantization and its variants are usually employed to achieve such compression while minimizing the loss of accuracy. Yet, unlike binary hashing schemes, these unsupervi...
computer science
29,048
Learning Policies for Adaptive Tracking with Deep Feature Cascades
cs.CV
Visual object tracking is a fundamental and time-critical vision task. Recent years have seen many shallow tracking methods based on real-time pixel-based correlation filters, as well as deep methods that have top performance but need a high-end GPU. In this paper, we learn to improve the speed of deep trackers without...
computer science
29,049
Random Binary Trees for Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search in Binary Space
cs.CV
Approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) search is one of the most important problems in computer science fields such as data mining or computer vision. In this paper, we focus on ANN for high-dimensional binary vectors and we propose a simple yet powerful search method that uses Random Binary Search Trees (RBST). We apply ...
computer science
29,050
ChromaTag: A Colored Marker and Fast Detection Algorithm
cs.CV
Current fiducial marker detection algorithms rely on marker IDs for false positive rejection. Time is wasted on potential detections that will eventually be rejected as false positives. We introduce ChromaTag, a fiducial marker and detection algorithm designed to use opponent colors to limit and quickly reject initial ...
computer science
29,051
A Unified Model for Near and Remote Sensing
cs.CV
We propose a novel convolutional neural network architecture for estimating geospatial functions such as population density, land cover, or land use. In our approach, we combine overhead and ground-level images in an end-to-end trainable neural network, which uses kernel regression and density estimation to convert fea...
computer science
29,052
TandemNet: Distilling Knowledge from Medical Images Using Diagnostic Reports as Optional Semantic References
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce the semantic knowledge of medical images from their diagnostic reports to provide an inspirational network training and an interpretable prediction mechanism with our proposed novel multimodal neural network, namely TandemNet. Inside TandemNet, a language model is used to represent report te...
computer science
29,053
Semantic Video CNNs through Representation Warping
cs.CV
In this work, we propose a technique to convert CNN models for semantic segmentation of static images into CNNs for video data. We describe a warping method that can be used to augment existing architectures with very little extra computational cost. This module is called NetWarp and we demonstrate its use for a range ...
computer science
29,054
Modality-bridge Transfer Learning for Medical Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper presents a new approach of transfer learning-based medical image classification to mitigate insufficient labeled data problem in medical domain. Instead of direct transfer learning from source to small number of labeled target data, we propose a modality-bridge transfer learning which employs the bridge data...
computer science
29,055
Attention-Aware Face Hallucination via Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
Face hallucination is a domain-specific super-resolution problem with the goal to generate high-resolution (HR) faces from low-resolution (LR) input images. In contrast to existing methods that often learn a single patch-to-patch mapping from LR to HR images and are regardless of the contextual interdependency between ...
computer science
29,056
Analysis of Convolutional Neural Networks for Document Image Classification
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are state-of-the-art models for document image classification tasks. However, many of these approaches rely on parameters and architectures designed for classifying natural images, which differ from document images. We question whether this is appropriate and conduct a large empiric...
computer science
29,057
Incremental 3D Line Segments Extraction from Semi-dense SLAM
cs.CV
Despite much interest in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), there is a lack of efficient methods for representing and processing their large scale point clouds. In this paper, we propose to simplify the point clouds generated by the semi-dense SLAM using three-dimensional (3D) line segments. Specifically, we...
computer science
29,058
Document Image Binarization with Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Binarization of degraded historical manuscript images is an important pre-processing step for many document processing tasks. We formulate binarization as a pixel classification learning task and apply a novel Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) architecture that operates at multiple image scales, including full resoluti...
computer science
29,059
Motion Feature Augmented Recurrent Neural Network for Skeleton-based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition
cs.CV
Dynamic hand gesture recognition has attracted increasing interests because of its importance for human computer interaction. In this paper, we propose a new motion feature augmented recurrent neural network for skeleton-based dynamic hand gesture recognition. Finger motion features are extracted to describe finger mov...
computer science
29,060
Exploring Temporal Preservation Networks for Precise Temporal Action Localization
cs.CV
Temporal action localization is an important task of computer vision. Though a variety of methods have been proposed, it still remains an open question how to predict the temporal boundaries of action segments precisely. Most works use segment-level classifiers to select video segments pre-determined by action proposal...
computer science
29,061
Cell Detection in Microscopy Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Compressed Sensing
cs.CV
The ability to automatically detect certain types of cells or cellular subunits in microscopy images is of significant interest to a wide range of biomedical research and clinical practices. Cell detection methods have evolved from employing hand-crafted features to deep learning-based techniques. The essential idea of...
computer science
29,062
Writer Identification and Verification from Intra-variable Individual Handwriting
cs.CV
The handwriting of an individual may vary excessively with many factors such as mood, time, space, writing speed, writing medium, utensils etc. Therefore, it becomes more challenging to perform automated writer verification/ identification on a particular set of handwritten patterns (e.g. speedy handwriting) of a perso...
computer science
29,063
Joint Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Semantic Part Segmentation
cs.CV
Human pose estimation and semantic part segmentation are two complementary tasks in computer vision. In this paper, we propose to solve the two tasks jointly for natural multi-person images, in which the estimated pose provides object-level shape prior to regularize part segments while the part-level segments constrain...
computer science
29,064
Pose Guided Structured Region Ensemble Network for Cascaded Hand Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Hand pose estimation from a single depth image is an essential topic in computer vision and human computer interaction. Despite recent advancements in this area promoted by convolutional neural network, accurate hand pose estimation is still a challenging problem. In this paper we propose a Pose guided structured Regio...
computer science
29,065
Video Deblurring via Semantic Segmentation and Pixel-Wise Non-Linear Kernel
cs.CV
Video deblurring is a challenging problem as the blur is complex and usually caused by the combination of camera shakes, object motions, and depth variations. Optical flow can be used for kernel estimation since it predicts motion trajectories. However, the estimates are often inaccurate in complex scenes at object bou...
computer science
29,066
Iterative Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Network for Medical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel medical image segmentation using iterative deep learning framework. We have combined an iterative learning approach and an encoder-decoder network to improve segmentation results, which enables to precisely localize the regions of interest (ROIs) including complex shapes or detailed te...
computer science
29,067
A Generic Deep Architecture for Single Image Reflection Removal and Image Smoothing
cs.CV
This paper proposes a deep neural network structure that exploits edge information in addressing representative low-level vision tasks such as layer separation and image filtering. Unlike most other deep learning strategies applied in this context, our approach tackles these challenging problems by estimating edges and...
computer science
29,068
Unsupervised Incremental Learning of Deep Descriptors From Video Streams
cs.CV
We present a novel unsupervised method for face identity learning from video sequences. The method exploits the ResNet deep network for face detection and VGGface fc7 face descriptors together with a smart learning mechanism that exploits the temporal coherence of visual data in video streams. We present a novel featur...
computer science
29,069
Beyond Bilinear: Generalized Multi-modal Factorized High-order Pooling for Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging because it requires a simultaneous understanding of both visual content of images and textual content of questions. To support the VQA task, we need to find good solutions for the following three issues: 1) fine-grained feature representations for both the image and the qu...
computer science
29,070
Convolutional Neural Networks for Font Classification
cs.CV
Classifying pages or text lines into font categories aids transcription because single font Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is generally more accurate than omni-font OCR. We present a simple framework based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), where a CNN is trained to classify small patches of text into predef...
computer science
29,071
Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for mapping winter vegetation quality coverage via multi-temporal SAR Sentinel-1
cs.CV
Mapping winter vegetation quality coverage is a challenge problem of remote sensing. This is due to the cloud coverage in winter period, leading to use radar rather than optical images. The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the capabilities of radar Sentinel-1 and deep learning concerning ...
computer science
29,072
Learning Rotation for Kernel Correlation Filter
cs.CV
Kernel Correlation Filters have shown a very promising scheme for visual tracking in terms of speed and accuracy on several benchmarks. However it suffers from problems that affect its performance like occlusion, rotation and scale change. This paper tries to tackle the problem of rotation by reformulating the optimiza...
computer science
29,073
Exploiting Semantic Contextualization for Interpretation of Human Activity in Videos
cs.CV
We use large-scale commonsense knowledge bases, e.g. ConceptNet, to provide context cues to establish semantic relationships among entities directly hypothesized from video signal, such as putative object and actions labels, and infer a deeper interpretation of events than what is directly sensed. One approach is to le...
computer science
29,074
Face Parsing via a Fully-Convolutional Continuous CRF Neural Network
cs.CV
In this work, we address the face parsing task with a Fully-Convolutional continuous CRF Neural Network (FC-CNN) architecture. In contrast to previous face parsing methods that apply region-based subnetwork hundreds of times, our FC-CNN is fully convolutional with high segmentation accuracy. To achieve this goal, FC-CN...
computer science
29,075
Flower Categorization using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We have developed a deep learning network for classification of different flowers. For this, we have used Visual Geometry Group's 102 category flower dataset having 8189 images of 102 different flowers from University of Oxford. The method is basically divided into two parts; Image segmentation and classification. We h...
computer science
29,076
Noisy Softmax: Improving the Generalization Ability of DCNN via Postponing the Early Softmax Saturation
cs.CV
Over the past few years, softmax and SGD have become a commonly used component and the default training strategy in CNN frameworks, respectively. However, when optimizing CNNs with SGD, the saturation behavior behind softmax always gives us an illusion of training well and then is omitted. In this paper, we first empha...
computer science
29,077
Kill Two Birds With One Stone: Boosting Both Object Detection Accuracy and Speed With adaptive Patch-of-Interest Composition
cs.CV
Object detection is an important yet challenging task in video understanding & analysis, where one major challenge lies in the proper balance between two contradictive factors: detection accuracy and detection speed. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive patch-of-interest composition approach for boosting both the a...
computer science
29,078
Deep Steering: Learning End-to-End Driving Model from Spatial and Temporal Visual Cues
cs.CV
In recent years, autonomous driving algorithms using low-cost vehicle-mounted cameras have attracted increasing endeavors from both academia and industry. There are multiple fronts to these endeavors, including object detection on roads, 3-D reconstruction etc., but in this work we focus on a vision-based model that di...
computer science
29,079
Revisiting the Effectiveness of Off-the-shelf Temporal Modeling Approaches for Large-scale Video Classification
cs.CV
This paper describes our solution for the video recognition task of ActivityNet Kinetics challenge that ranked the 1st place. Most of existing state-of-the-art video recognition approaches are in favor of an end-to-end pipeline. One exception is the framework of DevNet. The merit of DevNet is that they first use the vi...
computer science
29,080
Mass Displacement Networks
cs.CV
Despite the large improvements in performance attained by using deep learning in computer vision, one can often further improve results with some additional post-processing that exploits the geometric nature of the underlying task. This commonly involves displacing the posterior distribution of a CNN in a way that make...
computer science
29,081
Automated Pulmonary Nodule Detection via 3D ConvNets with Online Sample Filtering and Hybrid-Loss Residual Learning
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel framework with 3D convolutional networks (ConvNets) for automated detection of pulmonary nodules from low-dose CT scans, which is a challenging yet crucial task for lung cancer early diagnosis and treatment. Different from previous standard ConvNets, we try to tackle the severe hard/ea...
computer science
29,082
Recurrent Filter Learning for Visual Tracking
cs.CV
Recently using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has gained popularity in visual tracking, due to its robust feature representation of images. Recent methods perform online tracking by fine-tuning a pre-trained CNN model to the specific target object using stochastic gradient descent (SGD) back-propagation, which is...
computer science
29,083
Large Batch Training of Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
A common way to speed up training of large convolutional networks is to add computational units. Training is then performed using data-parallel synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) with mini-batch divided between computational units. With an increase in the number of nodes, the batch size grows. But training w...
computer science
29,084
An Extremely Efficient Chess-board Detection for Non-trivial Photos
cs.CV
We present a set of algorithms that can be used to locate and crop the chess-board/chess-pieces from the picture, including every rectangular grid with any pattern. Our method is non-parametric, and thus does not require the prior knowledge from computer vision and machine learning, which is instead inferred from data....
computer science
29,085
A Cost-Sensitive Visual Question-Answer Framework for Mining a Deep And-OR Object Semantics from Web Images
cs.CV
This paper presents a cost-sensitive Question-Answering (QA) framework for learning a nine-layer And-Or graph (AoG) from web images, which explicitly represents object categories, poses, parts, and detailed structures within the parts in a compositional hierarchy. The QA framework is designed to minimize an overall ris...
computer science
29,086
Learning Deep Neural Networks for Vehicle Re-ID with Visual-spatio-temporal Path Proposals
cs.CV
Vehicle re-identification is an important problem and has many applications in video surveillance and intelligent transportation. It gains increasing attention because of the recent advances of person re-identification techniques. However, unlike person re-identification, the visual differences between pairs of vehicle...
computer science
29,087
Visual Graph Mining
cs.CV
In this study, we formulate the concept of "mining maximal-size frequent subgraphs" in the challenging domain of visual data (images and videos). In general, visual knowledge can usually be modeled as attributed relational graphs (ARGs) with local attributes representing local parts and pairwise attributes describing t...
computer science
29,088
Lattice Long Short-Term Memory for Human Action Recognition
cs.CV
Human actions captured in video sequences are three-dimensional signals characterizing visual appearance and motion dynamics. To learn action patterns, existing methods adopt Convolutional and/or Recurrent Neural Networks (CNNs and RNNs). CNN based methods are effective in learning spatial appearances, but are limited ...
computer science
29,089
SSH: Single Stage Headless Face Detector
cs.CV
We introduce the Single Stage Headless (SSH) face detector. Unlike two stage proposal-classification detectors, SSH detects faces in a single stage directly from the early convolutional layers in a classification network. SSH is headless. That is, it is able to achieve state-of-the-art results while removing the "head"...
computer science
29,090
AffectNet: A Database for Facial Expression, Valence, and Arousal Computing in the Wild
cs.CV
Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There are very limited annotated facial databases for affective computing in the continu...
computer science
29,091
Fast, Accurate Thin-Structure Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Mobile Robots
cs.CV
Safety is paramount for mobile robotic platforms such as self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles. This work is devoted to a task that is indispensable for safety yet was largely overlooked in the past -- detecting obstacles that are of very thin structures, such as wires, cables and tree branches. This is a chal...
computer science
29,092
Style2Vec: Representation Learning for Fashion Items from Style Sets
cs.CV
With the rapid growth of online fashion market, demand for effective fashion recommendation systems has never been greater. In fashion recommendation, the ability to find items that goes well with a few other items based on style is more important than picking a single item based on the user's entire purchase history. ...
computer science
29,093
Kinship Verification from Videos using Spatio-Temporal Texture Features and Deep Learning
cs.CV
Automatic kinship verification using facial images is a relatively new and challenging research problem in computer vision. It consists in automatically predicting whether two persons have a biological kin relation by examining their facial attributes. While most of the existing works extract shallow handcrafted featur...
computer science
29,094
Context-based Normalization of Histological Stains using Deep Convolutional Features
cs.CV
While human observers are able to cope with variations in color and appearance of histological stains, digital pathology algorithms commonly require a well-normalized setting to achieve peak performance, especially when a limited amount of labeled data is available. This work provides a fully automated, end-to-end lear...
computer science
29,095
Towards Semantic Fast-Forward and Stabilized Egocentric Videos
cs.CV
The emergence of low-cost personal mobiles devices and wearable cameras and the increasing storage capacity of video-sharing websites have pushed forward a growing interest towards first-person videos. Since most of the recorded videos compose long-running streams with unedited content, they are tedious and unpleasant ...
computer science
29,096
Binary Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Retrieval
cs.CV
The most striking successes in image retrieval using deep hashing have mostly involved discriminative models, which require labels. In this paper, we use binary generative adversarial networks (BGAN) to embed images to binary codes in an unsupervised way. By restricting the input noise variable of generative adversaria...
computer science
29,097
Fast-Forward Video Based on Semantic Extraction
cs.CV
Thanks to the low operational cost and large storage capacity of smartphones and wearable devices, people are recording many hours of daily activities, sport actions and home videos. These videos, also known as egocentric videos, are generally long-running streams with unedited content, which make them boring and visua...
computer science
29,098
Divide and Fuse: A Re-ranking Approach for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
As re-ranking is a necessary procedure to boost person re-identification (re-ID) performance on large-scale datasets, the diversity of feature becomes crucial to person reID for its importance both on designing pedestrian descriptions and re-ranking based on feature fusion. However, in many circumstances, only one type...
computer science
29,099
Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Tensors via Convex Optimization
cs.CV
This paper studies the Tensor Robust Principal Component (TRPCA) problem which extends the known Robust PCA (Cand${\`e}$s et al. 2011) to the tensor case. Our model is based on a new tensor Singular Value Decomposition (t-SVD) (Kilmer and Martin 2011) and its induced tensor tubal rank and tensor nuclear norm. Consider ...
computer science
29,100
Learning Blind Motion Deblurring
cs.CV
As handheld video cameras are now commonplace and available in every smartphone, images and videos can be recorded almost everywhere at anytime. However, taking a quick shot frequently yields a blurry result due to unwanted camera shake during recording or moving objects in the scene. Removing these artifacts from the ...
computer science
29,101
An ELU Network with Total Variation for Image Denoising
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) for image denoising, which uses exponential linear unit (ELU) as the activation function. We investigate the suitability by analyzing ELU's connection with trainable nonlinear reaction diffusion model (TNRD) and residual denoising. On the other hand, ...
computer science