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Situation Recognition with Graph Neural Networks
cs.CV
We address the problem of recognizing situations in images. Given an image, the task is to predict the most salient verb (action), and fill its semantic roles such as who is performing the action, what is the source and target of the action, etc. Different verbs have different roles (e.g. attacking has weapon), and eac...
computer science
29,103
Image Augmentation using Radial Transform for Training Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Deep learning models have a large number of free parameters that must be estimated by efficient training of the models on a large number of training data samples to increase their generalization performance. In real-world applications, the data available to train these networks is often limited or imbalanced. We propos...
computer science
29,104
Deep Edge-Aware Saliency Detection
cs.CV
There has been profound progress in visual saliency thanks to the deep learning architectures, however, there still exist three major challenges that hinder the detection performance for scenes with complex compositions, multiple salient objects, and salient objects of diverse scales. In particular, output maps of the ...
computer science
29,105
Dockerface: an easy to install and use Faster R-CNN face detector in a Docker container
cs.CV
Face detection is a very important task and a necessary pre-processing step for many applications such as facial landmark detection, pose estimation, sentiment analysis and face recognition. Not only is face detection an important pre-processing step in computer vision applications but also in computational psychology,...
computer science
29,106
Monocular Dense 3D Reconstruction of a Complex Dynamic Scene from Two Perspective Frames
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new approach for monocular dense 3D reconstruction of a complex dynamic scene from two perspective frames. By applying superpixel over-segmentation to the image, we model a generically dynamic (hence non-rigid) scene with a piecewise planar and rigid approximation. In this way, we reduce the dynam...
computer science
29,107
Bringing Background into the Foreground: Making All Classes Equal in Weakly-supervised Video Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Pixel-level annotations are expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Hence, weak supervision using only image tags could have a significant impact in semantic segmentation. Recent years have seen great progress in weakly-supervised semantic segmentation, whether from a single image or from videos. However, most existing...
computer science
29,108
Knock-Knock: Acoustic Object Recognition by using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders
cs.CV
This paper presents a successful application of deep learning for object recognition based on acoustic data. The shortcomings of previously employed approaches where handcrafted features describing the acoustic data are being used, include limiting the capability of the found representation to be widely applicable and ...
computer science
29,109
Learning with Rethinking: Recurrently Improving Convolutional Neural Networks through Feedback
cs.CV
Recent years have witnessed the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) based models in the field of computer vision. CNN is able to learn hierarchically abstracted features from images in an end-to-end training manner. However, most of the existing CNN models only learn features through a feedforward struc...
computer science
29,110
Pathological Pulmonary Lobe Segmentation from CT Images using Progressive Holistically Nested Neural Networks and Random Walker
cs.CV
Automatic pathological pulmonary lobe segmentation(PPLS) enables regional analyses of lung disease, a clinically important capability. Due to often incomplete lobe boundaries, PPLS is difficult even for experts, and most prior art requires inference from contextual information. To address this, we propose a novel PPLS ...
computer science
29,111
DesnowNet: Context-Aware Deep Network for Snow Removal
cs.CV
Existing learning-based atmospheric particle-removal approaches such as those used for rainy and hazy images are designed with strong assumptions regarding spatial frequency, trajectory, and translucency. However, the removal of snow particles is more complicated because it possess the additional attributes of particle...
computer science
29,112
Artistic style transfer for videos and spherical images
cs.CV
Manually re-drawing an image in a certain artistic style takes a professional artist a long time. Doing this for a video sequence single-handedly is beyond imagination. We present two computational approaches that transfer the style from one image (for example, a painting) to a whole video sequence. In our first approa...
computer science
29,113
Improved Regularization of Convolutional Neural Networks with Cutout
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks are capable of learning powerful representational spaces, which are necessary for tackling complex learning tasks. However, due to the model capacity required to capture such representations, they are often susceptible to overfitting and therefore require proper regularization in order to ...
computer science
29,114
Segmentation-Aware Convolutional Networks Using Local Attention Masks
cs.CV
We introduce an approach to integrate segmentation information within a convolutional neural network (CNN). This counter-acts the tendency of CNNs to smooth information across regions and increases their spatial precision. To obtain segmentation information, we set up a CNN to provide an embedding space where region co...
computer science
29,115
A Novel data Pre-processing method for multi-dimensional and non-uniform data
cs.CV
We are in the era of data analytics and data science which is on full bloom. There is abundance of all kinds of data for example biometrics based data, satellite images data, chip-seq data, social network data, sensor based data etc. from a variety of sources. This data abundance is the result of the fact that storage ...
computer science
29,116
Convolutional Neural Networks for Non-iterative Reconstruction of Compressively Sensed Images
cs.CV
Traditional algorithms for compressive sensing recovery are computationally expensive and are ineffective at low measurement rates. In this work, we propose a data driven non-iterative algorithm to overcome the shortcomings of earlier iterative algorithms. Our solution, ReconNet, is a deep neural network, whose paramet...
computer science
29,117
Sequence-to-Label Script Identification for Multilingual OCR
cs.CV
We describe a novel line-level script identification method. Previous work repurposed an OCR model generating per-character script codes, counted to obtain line-level script identification. This has two shortcomings. First, as a sequence-to-sequence model it is more complex than necessary for the sequence-to-label prob...
computer science
29,118
Acoustic Feature Learning via Deep Variational Canonical Correlation Analysis
cs.CV
We study the problem of acoustic feature learning in the setting where we have access to another (non-acoustic) modality for feature learning but not at test time. We use deep variational canonical correlation analysis (VCCA), a recently proposed deep generative method for multi-view representation learning. We also ex...
computer science
29,119
DeepRebirth: Accelerating Deep Neural Network Execution on Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is a challenging task. Current model compression methods such as matrix decomposition effectively reduce the deployed model size, but still cannot satisfy real-time processing requirement. This paper first discovers that the major obstacle is the excessive execution time...
computer science
29,120
An Improved Neural Segmentation Method Based on U-NET
cs.CV
Neural segmentation has a great impact on the smooth implementation of local anesthesia surgery. At present, the network for the segmentation includes U-NET [1] and SegNet [2]. U-NET network has short training time and less training parameters, but the depth is not deep enough. SegNet network has deeper structure, but ...
computer science
29,121
Efficiently Tracking Homogeneous Regions in Multichannel Images
cs.CV
We present a method for tracking Maximally Stable Homogeneous Regions (MSHR) in images with an arbitrary number of channels. MSHR are conceptionally very similar to Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) and Maximally Stable Color Regions (MSCR), but can also be applied to hyperspectral and color images while remaini...
computer science
29,122
Language Identification Using Deep Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
Language Identification (LID) systems are used to classify the spoken language from a given audio sample and are typically the first step for many spoken language processing tasks, such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Without automatic language detection, speech utterances cannot be parsed correctly and ...
computer science
29,123
GSLAM: Initialization-robust Monocular Visual SLAM via Global Structure-from-Motion
cs.CV
Many monocular visual SLAM algorithms are derived from incremental structure-from-motion (SfM) methods. This work proposes a novel monocular SLAM method which integrates recent advances made in global SfM. In particular, we present two main contributions to visual SLAM. First, we solve the visual odometry problem by a ...
computer science
29,124
A deep architecture for unified aesthetic prediction
cs.CV
Image aesthetics has become an important criterion for visual content curation on social media sites and media content repositories. Previous work on aesthetic prediction models in the computer vision community has focused on aesthetic score prediction or binary image labeling. However, raw aesthetic annotations are in...
computer science
29,125
Random Erasing Data Augmentation
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce Random Erasing, a new data augmentation method for training the convolutional neural network (CNN). In training, Random Erasing randomly selects a rectangle region in an image and erases its pixels with random values. In this process, training images with various levels of occlusion are gene...
computer science
29,126
Multi-View Stereo with Single-View Semantic Mesh Refinement
cs.CV
While 3D reconstruction is a well-established and widely explored research topic, semantic 3D reconstruction has only recently witnessed an increasing share of attention from the Computer Vision community. Semantic annotations allow in fact to enforce strong class-dependent priors, as planarity for ground and walls, wh...
computer science
29,127
Stacked Deconvolutional Network for Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
Recent progress in semantic segmentation has been driven by improving the spatial resolution under Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs). To address this problem, we propose a Stacked Deconvolutional Network (SDN) for semantic segmentation. In SDN, multiple shallow deconvolutional networks, which are called as SDN units,...
computer science
29,128
Free Space Estimation using Occupancy Grids and Dynamic Object Detection
cs.CV
In this paper we present an approach to estimate Free Space from a Stereo image pair using stochastic occupancy grids. We do this in the domain of autonomous driving on the famous benchmark dataset KITTI. Later based on the generated occupancy grid we match 2 image sequences to compute the top view representation of th...
computer science
29,129
Salt-n-pepper noise filtering using Cellular Automata
cs.CV
Cellular Automata (CA) have been considered one of the most pronounced parallel computational tools in the recent era of nature and bio-inspired computing. Taking advantage of their local connectivity, the simplicity of their design and their inherent parallelism, CA can be effectively applied to many image processing ...
computer science
29,130
Deep Neural Network Capacity
cs.CV
In recent years, deep neural network exhibits its powerful superiority on information discrimination in many computer vision applications. However, the capacity of deep neural network architecture is still a mystery to the researchers. Intuitively, larger capacity of neural network can always deposit more information t...
computer science
29,131
ConvNet Architecture Search for Spatiotemporal Feature Learning
cs.CV
Learning image representations with ConvNets by pre-training on ImageNet has proven useful across many visual understanding tasks including object detection, semantic segmentation, and image captioning. Although any image representation can be applied to video frames, a dedicated spatiotemporal representation is still ...
computer science
29,132
Importance of Image Enhancement Techniques in Color Image Segmentation: A Comprehensive and Comparative Study
cs.CV
Color image segmentation is a very emerging research topic in the area of color image analysis and pattern recognition. Many state-of-the-art algorithms have been developed for this purpose. But, often the segmentation results of these algorithms seem to be suffering from miss-classifications and over-segmentation. The...
computer science
29,133
Hyperspectral Unmixing: Ground Truth Labeling, Datasets, Benchmark Performances and Survey
cs.CV
Hyperspectral unmixing (HU) is a very useful and increasingly popular preprocessing step for a wide range of hyperspectral applications. However, the HU research has been constrained a lot by three factors: (a) the number of hyperspectral images (especially the ones with ground truths) are very limited; (b) the ground ...
computer science
29,134
Deep Scene Text Detection with Connected Component Proposals
cs.CV
A growing demand for natural-scene text detection has been witnessed by the computer vision community since text information plays a significant role in scene understanding and image indexing. Deep neural networks are being used due to their strong capabilities of pixel-wise classification or word localization, similar...
computer science
29,135
Pixel-Level Matching for Video Object Segmentation using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We propose a novel video object segmentation algorithm based on pixel-level matching using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our network aims to distinguish the target area from the background on the basis of the pixel-level similarity between two object units. The proposed network represents a target object using f...
computer science
29,136
High Efficient Reconstruction of Single-shot T2 Mapping from OverLapping-Echo Detachment Planar Imaging Based on Deep Residual Network
cs.CV
Purpose: An end-to-end deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based on deep residual network (ResNet) was proposed to efficiently reconstruct reliable T2 mapping from single-shot OverLapping-Echo Detachment (OLED) planar imaging. Methods: The training dataset was obtained from simulations carried out on SPROM software...
computer science
29,137
Energy-based Models for Video Anomaly Detection
cs.CV
Automated detection of abnormalities in data has been studied in research area in recent years because of its diverse applications in practice including video surveillance, industrial damage detection and network intrusion detection. However, building an effective anomaly detection system is a non-trivial task since it...
computer science
29,138
Deep Neural Network with l2-norm Unit for Brain Lesions Detection
cs.CV
Automated brain lesions detection is an important and very challenging clinical diagnostic task because the lesions have different sizes, shapes, contrasts, and locations. Deep Learning recently has shown promising progress in many application fields, which motivates us to apply this technology for such important probl...
computer science
29,139
Conditional Adversarial Network for Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumor
cs.CV
Automated medical image analysis has a significant value in diagnosis and treatment of lesions. Brain tumors segmentation has a special importance and difficulty due to the difference in appearances and shapes of the different tumor regions in magnetic resonance images. Additionally, the data sets are heterogeneous and...
computer science
29,140
FaceBoxes: A CPU Real-time Face Detector with High Accuracy
cs.CV
Although tremendous strides have been made in face detection, one of the remaining open challenges is to achieve real-time speed on the CPU as well as maintain high performance, since effective models for face detection tend to be computationally prohibitive. To address this challenge, we propose a novel face detector,...
computer science
29,141
S$^3$FD: Single Shot Scale-invariant Face Detector
cs.CV
This paper presents a real-time face detector, named Single Shot Scale-invariant Face Detector (S$^3$FD), which performs superiorly on various scales of faces with a single deep neural network, especially for small faces. Specifically, we try to solve the common problem that anchor-based detectors deteriorate dramatica...
computer science
29,142
Robust Registration and Geometry Estimation from Unstructured Facial Scans
cs.CV
Commercial off the shelf (COTS) 3D scanners are capable of generating point clouds covering visible portions of a face with sub-millimeter accuracy at close range, but lack the coverage and specialized anatomic registration provided by more expensive 3D facial scanners. We demonstrate an effective pipeline for joint al...
computer science
29,143
MirrorFlow: Exploiting Symmetries in Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation
cs.CV
Optical flow estimation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet recent benchmark datasets continue to reveal problem areas of today's approaches. Occlusions have remained one of the key challenges. In this paper, we propose a symmetric optical flow method to address the well-known chicken-and-egg re...
computer science
29,144
Learning a Multi-View Stereo Machine
cs.CV
We present a learnt system for multi-view stereopsis. In contrast to recent learning based methods for 3D reconstruction, we leverage the underlying 3D geometry of the problem through feature projection and unprojection along viewing rays. By formulating these operations in a differentiable manner, we are able to learn...
computer science
29,145
Deformable Modeling for Human Body Acquired from Depth Sensors
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach to reconstruct complete 3D deformable models over time by a single depth camera. These are the steps employed for deforming objects from single depth camera. The partial surfaces reconstructed from various times of capture are assembled together to form a complete 3D surface. A mesh...
computer science
29,146
Simultaneous Detection and Quantification of Retinal Fluid with Deep Learning
cs.CV
We propose a new deep learning approach for automatic detection and segmentation of fluid within retinal OCT images. The proposed framework utilizes both ResNet and Encoder-Decoder neural network architectures. When training the network, we apply a novel data augmentation method called myopic warping together with stan...
computer science
29,147
Eigen Evolution Pooling for Human Action Recognition
cs.CV
We introduce Eigen Evolution Pooling, an efficient method to aggregate a sequence of feature vectors. Eigen evolution pooling is designed to produce compact feature representations for a sequence of feature vectors, while maximally preserving as much information about the sequence as possible, especially the temporal e...
computer science
29,148
Dilated Deep Residual Network for Image Denoising
cs.CV
Variations of deep neural networks such as convolutional neural network (CNN) have been successfully applied to image denoising. The goal is to automatically learn a mapping from a noisy image to a clean image given training data consisting of pairs of noisy and clean images. Most existing CNN models for image denoisin...
computer science
29,149
Towards Interpretable Deep Neural Networks by Leveraging Adversarial Examples
cs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide array of tasks, but they are usually considered opaque since internal structure and learned parameters are not interpretable. In this paper, we re-examine the internal representations of DNNs using adversarial images, which are generated by ...
computer science
29,150
Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
Automatic generation of facial images has been well studied after the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) came out. There exists some attempts applying the GAN model to the problem of generating facial images of anime characters, but none of the existing work gives a promising result. In this work, we explore the trai...
computer science
29,151
Mesh-based 3D Textured Urban Mapping
cs.CV
In the era of autonomous driving, urban mapping represents a core step to let vehicles interact with the urban context. Successful mapping algorithms have been proposed in the last decade building the map leveraging on data from a single sensor. The focus of the system presented in this paper is twofold: the joint esti...
computer science
29,152
Spotting Separator Points at Line Terminals in Compressed Document Images for Text-line Segmentation
cs.CV
Line separators are used to segregate text-lines from one another in document image analysis. Finding the separator points at every line terminal in a document image would enable text-line segmentation. In particular, identifying the separators in handwritten text could be a thrilling exercise. Obviously it would be ch...
computer science
29,153
Self-explanatory Deep Salient Object Detection
cs.CV
Salient object detection has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the first self-explanatory saliency detection network that explicitly exploits low-...
computer science
29,154
Winqi: A System for 6D Localization and SLAM Augmentation Using Wideangle Optics and Coded Light Beacons
cs.CV
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems use commodity visible/near visible digital sensors coupled with processing units that detect, recognize and track image points in a camera stream. These systems are cheap, fast and make use of readily available camera technologies. However, SLAM systems suffer from i...
computer science
29,155
3D Pose Regression using Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
3D pose estimation is a key component of many important computer vision tasks such as autonomous navigation and 3D scene understanding. Most state-of-the-art approaches to 3D pose estimation solve this problem as a pose-classification problem in which the pose space is discretized into bins and a CNN classifier is used...
computer science
29,156
Discovery of Visual Semantics by Unsupervised and Self-Supervised Representation Learning
cs.CV
The success of deep learning in computer vision is rooted in the ability of deep networks to scale up model complexity as demanded by challenging visual tasks. As complexity is increased, so is the need for large amounts of labeled data to train the model. This is associated with a costly human annotation effort. To ad...
computer science
29,157
Visual Forecasting by Imitating Dynamics in Natural Sequences
cs.CV
We introduce a general framework for visual forecasting, which directly imitates visual sequences without additional supervision. As a result, our model can be applied at several semantic levels and does not require any domain knowledge or handcrafted features. We achieve this by formulating visual forecasting as an in...
computer science
29,158
High Voltage Insulator Surface Evaluation Using Image Processing
cs.CV
High voltage insulators are widely deployed in power systems to isolate the live- and dead-part of overhead lines as well as to support the power line conductors mechanically. Permanent, secure and safe operation of power transmission lines require that the high voltage insulators are inspected and monitor, regularly. ...
computer science
29,159
UE4Sim: A Photo-Realistic Simulator for Computer Vision Applications
cs.CV
We present a photo-realistic training and evaluation simulator (UE4Sim) with extensive applications across various fields of computer vision. Built on top of the Unreal Engine, the simulator integrates full featured physics based cars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and animated human actors in diverse urban and subu...
computer science
29,160
Teaching UAVs to Race Using UE4Sim
cs.CV
Automating the navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in diverse scenarios has gained much attention in the recent years. However, teaching UAVs to fly in challenging environments remains an unsolved problem, mainly due to the lack of data for training. In this paper, we develop a photo-realistic simulator that ...
computer science
29,161
Computer-aided diagnosis of lung nodule using gradient tree boosting and Bayesian optimization
cs.CV
We aimed to evaluate computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system for lung nodule classification focusing on (i) usefulness of gradient tree boosting (XGBoost) and (ii) effectiveness of parameter optimization using Bayesian optimization (Tree Parzen Estimator, TPE) and random search. 99 lung nodules (62 lung cancers and 37 b...
computer science
29,162
Incremental Import Vector Machines for Classifying Hyperspectral Data
cs.CV
In this paper we propose an incremental learning strategy for import vector machines (IVM), which is a sparse kernel logistic regression approach. We use the procedure for the concept of self-training for sequential classification of hyperspectral data. The strategy comprises the inclusion of new training samples to in...
computer science
29,163
Applying Data Augmentation to Handwritten Arabic Numeral Recognition Using Deep Learning Neural Networks
cs.CV
Handwritten character recognition has been the center of research and a benchmark problem in the sector of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and it continues to be a challenging research topic. Due to its enormous application many works have been done in this field focusing on different languages. Arabic...
computer science
29,164
Shapelet-based Sparse Representation for Landcover Classification of Hyperspectral Images
cs.CV
This paper presents a sparse representation-based classification approach with a novel dictionary construction procedure. By using the constructed dictionary sophisticated prior knowledge about the spatial nature of the image can be integrated. The approach is based on the assumption that each image patch can be factor...
computer science
29,165
An Efficient Single Chord-based Accumulation Technique (SCA) to Detect More Reliable Corners
cs.CV
Corner detection is a vital operation in numerous computer vision applications. The Chord-to-Point Distance Accumulation (CPDA) detector is recognized as the contour-based corner detector producing the lowest localization error while localizing corners in an image. However, in our experiment part, we demonstrate that C...
computer science
29,166
Attentive Semantic Video Generation using Captions
cs.CV
This paper proposes a network architecture to perform variable length semantic video generation using captions. We adopt a new perspective towards video generation where we allow the captions to be combined with the long-term and short-term dependencies between video frames and thus generate a video in an incremental m...
computer science
29,167
Joint Multi-view Face Alignment in the Wild
cs.CV
The de facto algorithm for facial landmark estimation involves running a face detector with a subsequent deformable model fitting on the bounding box. This encompasses two basic problems: i) the detection and deformable fitting steps are performed independently, while the detector might not provide best-suited initiali...
computer science
29,168
Distantly Supervised Road Segmentation
cs.CV
We present an approach for road segmentation that only requires image-level annotations at training time. We leverage distant supervision, which allows us to train our model using images that are different from the target domain. Using large publicly available image databases as distant supervisors, we develop a simple...
computer science
29,169
e-Counterfeit: a mobile-server platform for document counterfeit detection
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel application to detect counterfeit identity documents forged by a scan-printing operation. Texture analysis approaches are proposed to extract validation features from security background that is usually printed in documents as IDs or banknotes. The main contribution of this work is the end-t...
computer science
29,170
Revisiting knowledge transfer for training object class detectors
cs.CV
We propose to revisit knowledge transfer for training object detectors on target classes from weakly supervised training images, helped by a set of source classes with bounding-box annotations. We present a unified knowledge transfer framework based on training a single neural network multi-class object detector over a...
computer science
29,171
Segmentation of retinal cysts from Optical Coherence Tomography volumes via selective enhancement
cs.CV
Automated and accurate segmentation of cystoid structures in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is of interest in the early detection of retinal diseases. It is, however, a challenging task. We propose a novel method for localizing cysts in 3D OCT volumes. The proposed work is biologically inspired and based on selecti...
computer science
29,172
Recognizing Involuntary Actions from 3D Skeleton Data Using Body States
cs.CV
Human action recognition has been one of the most active fields of research in computer vision for last years. Two dimensional action recognition methods are facing serious challenges such as occlusion and missing the third dimension of data. Development of depth sensors has made it feasible to track positions of human...
computer science
29,173
Employing Weak Annotations for Medical Image Analysis Problems
cs.CV
To efficiently establish training databases for machine learning methods, collaborative and crowdsourcing platforms have been investigated to collectively tackle the annotation effort. However, when this concept is ported to the medical imaging domain, reading expertise will have a direct impact on the annotation accur...
computer science
29,174
Learning Spread-out Local Feature Descriptors
cs.CV
We propose a simple, yet powerful regularization technique that can be used to significantly improve both the pairwise and triplet losses in learning local feature descriptors. The idea is that in order to fully utilize the expressive power of the descriptor space, good local feature descriptors should be sufficiently ...
computer science
29,175
STNet: Selective Tuning of Convolutional Networks for Object Localization
cs.CV
Visual attention modeling has recently gained momentum in developing visual hierarchies provided by Convolutional Neural Networks. Despite recent successes of feedforward processing on the abstraction of concepts form raw images, the inherent nature of feedback processing has remained computationally controversial. Ins...
computer science
29,176
PiCANet: Learning Pixel-wise Contextual Attention in ConvNets and Its Application in Saliency Detection
cs.CV
Context plays an important role in many computer vision tasks. Previous models usually construct contextual information from the whole context region. However, not all context locations are helpful and some of them may be detrimental to the final task. To solve this problem, we propose a novel pixel-wise contextual att...
computer science
29,177
Sharpness-aware Low dose CT denoising using conditional generative adversarial network
cs.CV
Low Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) has offered tremendous benefits in radiation restricted applications, but the quantum noise as resulted by the insufficient number of photons could potentially harm the diagnostic performance. Current image-based denoising methods tend to produce a blur effect on the final reconstruc...
computer science
29,178
Sparsity Invariant CNNs
cs.CV
In this paper, we consider convolutional neural networks operating on sparse inputs with an application to depth upsampling from sparse laser scan data. First, we show that traditional convolutional networks perform poorly when applied to sparse data even when the location of missing data is provided to the network. To...
computer science
29,179
ProbFlow: Joint Optical Flow and Uncertainty Estimation
cs.CV
Optical flow estimation remains challenging due to untextured areas, motion boundaries, occlusions, and more. Thus, the estimated flow is not equally reliable across the image. To that end, post-hoc confidence measures have been introduced to assess the per-pixel reliability of the flow. We overcome the artificial sepa...
computer science
29,180
Color and Gradient Features for Text Segmentation from Video Frames
cs.CV
Text segmentation in a video is drawing attention of researchers in the field of image processing, pattern recognition and document image analysis because it helps in annotating and labeling video events accurately. We propose a novel idea of generating an enhanced frame from the R, G, and B channels of an input frame ...
computer science
29,181
Contrast and visual saliency similarity induced index for image quality assessment
cs.CV
Perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) defines/utilizes a computational model to assess the image quality in consistent with human opinions. A good IQA model should consider both the effectiveness and efficiency, while most previous IQA models are hard to reach simultaneously. So we attempt to make another effort to...
computer science
29,182
Activity Recognition based on a Magnitude-Orientation Stream Network
cs.CV
The temporal component of videos provides an important clue for activity recognition, as a number of activities can be reliably recognized based on the motion information. In view of that, this work proposes a novel temporal stream for two-stream convolutional networks based on images computed from the optical flow mag...
computer science
29,183
On Image Classification: Correlation v.s. Causality
cs.CV
Image classification is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision. Owing to the availability of large image datasets like ImageNet and YFCC100M, a plethora of research has been conducted to do high precision image classification and many remarkable achievements have been made. The success of most existing meth...
computer science
29,184
CNN Fixations: An unraveling approach to visualize the discriminative image regions
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have revolutionized various fields of vision research and have seen unprecedented adoption for multiple tasks such as classification, detection, captioning, etc. However, they offer little transparency into their inner workings and are often treated as black boxes that deliver e...
computer science
29,185
A Spatiotemporal Oriented Energy Network for Dynamic Texture Recognition
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel hierarchical spatiotemporal orientation representation for spacetime image analysis. It is designed to combine the benefits of the multilayer architecture of ConvNets and a more controlled approach to spacetime analysis. A distinguishing aspect of the approach is that unlike most contemporar...
computer science
29,186
What does 2D geometric information really tell us about 3D face shape?
cs.CV
A face image contains geometric cues in the form of configurational information and contours that can be used to estimate 3D face shape. While it is clear that 3D reconstruction from 2D points is highly ambiguous if no further constraints are enforced, one might expect that the face-space constraint solves this problem...
computer science
29,187
WordSup: Exploiting Word Annotations for Character based Text Detection
cs.CV
Imagery texts are usually organized as a hierarchy of several visual elements, i.e. characters, words, text lines and text blocks. Among these elements, character is the most basic one for various languages such as Western, Chinese, Japanese, mathematical expression and etc. It is natural and convenient to construct a ...
computer science
29,188
Representation Learning by Learning to Count
cs.CV
We introduce a novel method for representation learning that uses an artificial supervision signal based on counting visual primitives. This supervision signal is obtained from an equivariance relation, which does not require any manual annotation. We relate transformations of images to transformations of the represent...
computer science
29,189
Reflection Separation and Deblurring of Plenoptic Images
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of reflection removal and deblurring from a single image captured by a plenoptic camera. We develop a two-stage approach to recover the scene depth and high resolution textures of the reflected and transmitted layers. For depth estimation in the presence of reflections, we train a ...
computer science
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Deep EndoVO: A Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) based Visual Odometry Approach for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
cs.CV
Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Medical device companies and many research groups have recently made substantial progresses in converting passive capsule endoscopes to ...
computer science
29,191
Multiple-Kernel Based Vehicle Tracking Using 3D Deformable Model and Camera Self-Calibration
cs.CV
Tracking of multiple objects is an important application in AI City geared towards solving salient problems related to safety and congestion in an urban environment. Frequent occlusion in traffic surveillance has been a major problem in this research field. In this challenge, we propose a model-based vehicle localizati...
computer science
29,192
Pose Estimation using Local Structure-Specific Shape and Appearance Context
cs.CV
We address the problem of estimating the alignment pose between two models using structure-specific local descriptors. Our descriptors are generated using a combination of 2D image data and 3D contextual shape data, resulting in a set of semi-local descriptors containing rich appearance and shape information for both e...
computer science
29,193
In search of inliers: 3d correspondence by local and global voting
cs.CV
We present a method for finding correspondence between 3D models. From an initial set of feature correspondences, our method uses a fast voting scheme to separate the inliers from the outliers. The novelty of our method lies in the use of a combination of local and global constraints to determine if a vote should be ca...
computer science
29,194
Exploiting Convolution Filter Patterns for Transfer Learning
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a new regularization technique for transfer learning. The aim of the proposed approach is to capture statistical relationships among convolution filters learned from a well-trained network and transfer this knowledge to another network. Since convolution filters of the prevalent deep Convolu...
computer science
29,195
Incremental Learning of Object Detectors without Catastrophic Forgetting
cs.CV
Despite their success for object detection, convolutional neural networks are ill-equipped for incremental learning, i.e., adapting the original model trained on a set of classes to additionally detect objects of new classes, in the absence of the initial training data. They suffer from "catastrophic forgetting" - an a...
computer science
29,196
The Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge
cs.CV
In this paper we present the results of the Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge (UERC), a group benchmarking effort centered around the problem of person recognition from ear images captured in uncontrolled conditions. The goal of the challenge was to assess the performance of existing ear recognition techniques on...
computer science
29,197
Statistical Selection of CNN-Based Audiovisual Features for Instantaneous Estimation of Human Emotional States
cs.CV
Automatic prediction of continuous-level emotional state requires selection of suitable affective features to develop a regression system based on supervised machine learning. This paper investigates the performance of features statistically learned using convolutional neural networks for instantaneously predicting the...
computer science
29,198
CNN-Based Prediction of Frame-Level Shot Importance for Video Summarization
cs.CV
In the Internet, ubiquitous presence of redundant, unedited, raw videos has made video summarization an important problem. Traditional methods of video summarization employ a heuristic set of hand-crafted features, which in many cases fail to capture subtle abstraction of a scene. This paper presents a deep learning me...
computer science
29,199
Fast single image super-resolution based on sigmoid transformation
cs.CV
Single image super-resolution aims to generate a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution image, which is of great significance in extensive applications. As an ill-posed problem, numerous methods have been proposed to reconstruct the missing image details based on exemplars or priors. In this paper, we propo...
computer science
29,200
Single Reference Image based Scene Relighting via Material Guided Filtering
cs.CV
Image relighting is to change the illumination of an image to a target illumination effect without known the original scene geometry, material information and illumination condition. We propose a novel outdoor scene relighting method, which needs only a single reference image and is based on material constrained layer ...
computer science
29,201
Predicting Aesthetic Score Distribution through Cumulative Jensen-Shannon Divergence
cs.CV
Aesthetic quality prediction is a challenging task in the computer vision community because of the complex interplay with semantic contents and photographic technologies. Recent studies on the powerful deep learning based aesthetic quality assessment usually use a binary high-low label or a numerical score to represent...
computer science