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3D Morphable Models as Spatial Transformer Networks
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In this paper, we show how a 3D Morphable Model (i.e. a statistical model of the 3D shape of a class of objects such as faces) can be used to spatially transform input data as a module (a 3DMM-STN) within a convolutional neural network. This is an extension of the original spatial transformer network in that we are abl...
computer science
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Recent Advances in the Applications of Convolutional Neural Networks to Medical Image Contour Detection
cs.CV
The fast growing deep learning technologies have become the main solution of many machine learning problems for medical image analysis. Deep convolution neural networks (CNNs), as one of the most important branch of the deep learning family, have been widely investigated for various computer-aided diagnosis tasks inclu...
computer science
29,204
Relaxed Spatio-Temporal Deep Feature Aggregation for Real-Fake Expression Prediction
cs.CV
Frame-level visual features are generally aggregated in time with the techniques such as LSTM, Fisher Vectors, NetVLAD etc. to produce a robust video-level representation. We here introduce a learnable aggregation technique whose primary objective is to retain short-time temporal structure between frame-level features ...
computer science
29,205
Automatic Myocardial Segmentation by Using A Deep Learning Network in Cardiac MRI
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Cardiac function is of paramount importance for both prognosis and treatment of different pathologies such as mitral regurgitation, ischemia, dyssynchrony and myocarditis. Cardiac behavior is determined by structural and functional features. In both cases, the analysis of medical imaging studies requires to detect and ...
computer science
29,206
Review on Computer Vision Techniques in Emergency Situation
cs.CV
In emergency situations, actions that save lives and limit the impact of hazards are crucial. In order to act, situational awareness is needed to decide what to do. Geolocalized photos and video of the situations as they evolve can be crucial in better understanding them and making decisions faster. Cameras are almost ...
computer science
29,207
FacePoseNet: Making a Case for Landmark-Free Face Alignment
cs.CV
We show how a simple convolutional neural network (CNN) can be trained to accurately and robustly regress 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) 3D head pose, directly from image intensities. We further explain how this FacePoseNet (FPN) can be used to align faces in 2D and 3D as an alternative to explicit facial landmark detecti...
computer science
29,208
SPARCNN: SPAtially Related Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
The ability to accurately detect and classify objects at varying pixel sizes in cluttered scenes is crucial to many Navy applications. However, detection performance of existing state-of the-art approaches such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) degrade and suffer when applied to such cluttered and multi-object de...
computer science
29,209
Objective Classes for Micro-Facial Expression Recognition
cs.CV
Micro-expressions are brief spontaneous facial expressions that appear on a face when a person conceals an emotion, making them different to normal facial expressions in subtlety and duration. Currently, emotion classes within the CASME II dataset are based on Action Units and self-reports, creating conflicts during ma...
computer science
29,210
A Robust Indoor Scene Recognition Method based on Sparse Representation
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a robust method for scene recognition, which leverages Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) features and Sparse Coding setting by creating a new representation of indoor scenes. Although CNNs highly benefited the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition, convolutional layers adjust we...
computer science
29,211
Leaf Counting with Deep Convolutional and Deconvolutional Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we investigate the problem of counting rosette leaves from an RGB image, an important task in plant phenotyping. We propose a data-driven approach for this task generalized over different plant species and imaging setups. To accomplish this task, we use state-of-the-art deep learning architectures: a dec...
computer science
29,212
Hierarchical Multi-scale Attention Networks for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been widely used in natural language processing and computer vision. Among them, the Hierarchical Multi-scale RNN (HM-RNN), a kind of multi-scale hierarchical RNN proposed recently, can learn the hierarchical temporal structure from data automatically. In this paper, we extend the ...
computer science
29,213
A wavelet frame coefficient total variational model for image restoration
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a vector total variation (VTV) of feature image model for image restoration. The VTV imposes different smoothing powers on different features (e.g. edges and cartoons) based on choosing various regularization parameters. Thus, the model can simultaneously preserve edges and remove noises. Next...
computer science
29,214
Learning Spatio-Temporal Features with 3D Residual Networks for Action Recognition
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks with spatio-temporal 3D kernels (3D CNNs) have an ability to directly extract spatio-temporal features from videos for action recognition. Although the 3D kernels tend to overfit because of a large number of their parameters, the 3D CNNs are greatly improved by using recent huge video data...
computer science
29,215
Gait Recognition from Motion Capture Data
cs.CV
Gait recognition from motion capture data, as a pattern classification discipline, can be improved by the use of machine learning. This paper contributes to the state-of-the-art with a statistical approach for extracting robust gait features directly from raw data by a modification of Linear Discriminant Analysis with ...
computer science
29,216
Evaluation of Deep Learning on an Abstract Image Classification Dataset
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks have become state of the art methods for image classification over the last couple of years. By now they perform better than human subjects on many of the image classification datasets. Most of these datasets are based on the notion of concrete classes (i.e. images are classified by the ty...
computer science
29,217
Integral Curvature Representation and Matching Algorithms for Identification of Dolphins and Whales
cs.CV
We address the problem of identifying individual cetaceans from images showing the trailing edge of their fins. Given the trailing edge from an unknown individual, we produce a ranking of known individuals from a database. The nicks and notches along the trailing edge define an individual's unique signature. We define ...
computer science
29,218
Shape Registration with Directional Data
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We propose several cost functions for registration of shapes encoded with Euclidean and/or non-Euclidean information (unit vectors). Our framework is assessed for estimation of both rigid and non-rigid transformations between the target and model shapes corresponding to 2D contours and 3D surfaces. The experimental res...
computer science
29,219
Accelerated Reconstruction of Perfusion-Weighted MRI Enforcing Jointly Local and Nonlocal Spatio-temporal Constraints
cs.CV
Perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique that allows one to measure tissue perfusion in an organ of interest through the injection of an intravascular paramagnetic contrast agent (CA). Due to a preference for high temporal and spatial resolution in many applications, this modality cou...
computer science
29,220
Semantic Foggy Scene Understanding with Synthetic Data
cs.CV
This work addresses the problem of semantic foggy scene understanding (SFSU). Although extensive research has been performed on image dehazing and on semantic scene understanding with weather-clear images, little attention has been paid to SFSU. Due to the difficulty of collecting and annotating foggy images, we choose...
computer science
29,221
The Parallel Algorithm for the 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform
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The discrete wavelet transform can be found at the heart of many image-processing algorithms. Until now, the transform on general-purpose processors (CPUs) was mostly computed using a separable lifting scheme. As the lifting scheme consists of a small number of operations, it is preferred for processing using single-co...
computer science
29,222
Multi-task Self-Supervised Visual Learning
cs.CV
We investigate methods for combining multiple self-supervised tasks--i.e., supervised tasks where data can be collected without manual labeling--in order to train a single visual representation. First, we provide an apples-to-apples comparison of four different self-supervised tasks using the very deep ResNet-101 archi...
computer science
29,223
Stereo DSO: Large-Scale Direct Sparse Visual Odometry with Stereo Cameras
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We propose Stereo Direct Sparse Odometry (Stereo DSO) as a novel method for highly accurate real-time visual odometry estimation of large-scale environments from stereo cameras. It jointly optimizes for all the model parameters within the active window, including the intrinsic/extrinsic camera parameters of all keyfram...
computer science
29,224
RaspiReader: An Open Source Fingerprint Reader Facilitating Spoof Detection
cs.CV
We present the design and prototype of an open source, optical fingerprint reader, called RaspiReader, using ubiquitous components. RaspiReader, a low-cost and easy to assemble reader, provides the fingerprint research community a seamless and simple method for gaining more control over the sensing component of fingerp...
computer science
29,225
Batch-Based Activity Recognition from Egocentric Photo-Streams
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Activity recognition from long unstructured egocentric photo-streams has several applications in assistive technology such as health monitoring and frailty detection, just to name a few. However, one of its main technical challenges is to deal with the low frame rate of wearable photo-cameras, which causes abrupt appea...
computer science
29,226
Deep Learning for Target Classification from SAR Imagery: Data Augmentation and Translation Invariance
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This report deals with translation invariance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for automatic target recognition (ATR) from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In particular, the translation invariance of CNNs for SAR ATR represents the robustness against misalignment of target chips extracted from SAR images...
computer science
29,227
Robust Stereo Feature Descriptor for Visual Odometry
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In this paper, we propose a simple way to utilize stereo camera data to improve feature descriptors. Computer vision algorithms that use a stereo camera require some calculations of 3D information. We leverage this pre-calculated information to improve feature descriptor algorithms. We use the 3D feature information to...
computer science
29,228
3D Binary Signatures
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In this paper, we propose a novel binary descriptor for 3D point clouds. The proposed descriptor termed as 3D Binary Signature (3DBS) is motivated from the matching efficiency of the binary descriptors for 2D images. 3DBS describes keypoints from point clouds with a binary vector resulting in extremely fast matching. T...
computer science
29,229
Distributed Bundle Adjustment
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Most methods for Bundle Adjustment (BA) in computer vision are either centralized or operate incrementally. This leads to poor scaling and affects the quality of solution as the number of images grows in large scale structure from motion (SfM). Furthermore, they cannot be used in scenarios where image acquisition and p...
computer science
29,230
Maximum A Posteriori Estimation of Distances Between Deep Features in Still-to-Video Face Recognition
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The paper deals with the still-to-video face recognition for the small sample size problem based on computation of distances between high-dimensional deep bottleneck features. We present the novel statistical recognition method, in which the still-to-video recognition task is casted into Maximum A Posteriori estimation...
computer science
29,231
Synthesising Wider Field Images from Narrow-Field Retinal Video Acquired Using a Low-Cost Direct Ophthalmoscope (Arclight) Attached to a Smartphone
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Access to low cost retinal imaging devices in low and middle income countries is limited, compromising progress in preventing needless blindness. The Arclight is a recently developed low-cost solar powered direct ophthalmoscope which can be attached to the camera of a smartphone to acquire retinal images and video. How...
computer science
29,232
Stereo Matching With Color-Weighted Correlation, Hierarchical Belief Propagation And Occlusion Handling
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In this paper, we contrive a stereo matching algorithm with careful handling of disparity, discontinuity and occlusion. This algorithm works a worldwide matching stereo model which is based on minimization of energy. The global energy comprises two terms, firstly the data term and secondly the smoothness term. The data...
computer science
29,233
Facial Expression Recognition using Visual Saliency and Deep Learning
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We have developed a convolutional neural network for the purpose of recognizing facial expressions in human beings. We have fine-tuned the existing convolutional neural network model trained on the visual recognition dataset used in the ILSVRC2012 to two widely used facial expression datasets - CFEE and RaFD, which whe...
computer science
29,234
Cross-view Asymmetric Metric Learning for Unsupervised Person Re-identification
cs.CV
While metric learning is important for Person re-identification (RE-ID), a significant problem in visual surveillance for cross-view pedestrian matching, existing metric models for RE-ID are mostly based on supervised learning that requires quantities of labeled samples in all pairs of camera views for training. Howeve...
computer science
29,235
Part-to-whole Registration of Histology and MRI using Shape Elements
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Image registration between histology and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging task due to differences in structural content and contrast. Too thick and wide specimens cannot be processed all at once and must be cut into smaller pieces. This dramatically increases the complexity of the problem, since each p...
computer science
29,236
One-Shot Concept Learning by Simulating Evolutionary Instinct Development
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Object recognition has become a crucial part of machine learning and computer vision recently. The current approach to object recognition involves Deep Learning and uses Convolutional Neural Networks to learn the pixel patterns of the objects implicitly through backpropagation. However, CNNs require thousands of exampl...
computer science
29,237
ChainerCV: a Library for Deep Learning in Computer Vision
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Despite significant progress of deep learning in the field of computer vision, there has not been a software library that covers these methods in a unifying manner. We introduce ChainerCV, a software library that is intended to fill this gap. ChainerCV supports numerous neural network models as well as software compone...
computer science
29,238
An Optimized Union-Find Algorithm for Connected Components Labeling Using GPUs
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In this paper, we report an optimized union-find (UF) algorithm that can label the connected components on a 2D image efficiently by employing the GPU architecture. The proposed method contains three phases: UF-based local merge, boundary analysis, and link. The coarse labeling in local merge reduces the number atomic ...
computer science
29,239
A Probabilistic Quality Representation Approach to Deep Blind Image Quality Prediction
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Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains a very challenging problem due to the unavailability of a reference image. Deep learning based BIQA methods have been attracting increasing attention in recent years, yet it remains a difficult task to train a robust deep BIQA model because of the very limited number of tra...
computer science
29,240
Automatic Dataset Augmentation
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Large scale image dataset and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) are two primary driving forces for the rapid progress made in generic object recognition tasks in recent years. While lots of network architectures have been continuously designed to pursue lower error rates, few efforts are devoted to enlarge exist...
computer science
29,241
A Compromise Principle in Deep Monocular Depth Estimation
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Monocular depth estimation, which plays a key role in understanding 3D scene geometry, is fundamentally an ill-posed problem. Existing methods based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have examined this problem by learning convolutional networks to estimate continuous depth maps from monocular images. Howeve...
computer science
29,242
DeepPrior++: Improving Fast and Accurate 3D Hand Pose Estimation
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DeepPrior is a simple approach based on Deep Learning that predicts the joint 3D locations of a hand given a depth map. Since its publication early 2015, it has been outperformed by several impressive works. Here we show that with simple improvements: adding ResNet layers, data augmentation, and better initial hand loc...
computer science
29,243
Automatic Discovery and Geotagging of Objects from Street View Imagery
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Many applications such as autonomous navigation, urban planning and asset monitoring, rely on the availability of accurate information about objects and their geolocations. In this paper we propose to automatically detect and compute the GPS coordinates of recurring stationary objects of interest using street view imag...
computer science
29,244
Performance Guaranteed Network Acceleration via High-Order Residual Quantization
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Input binarization has shown to be an effective way for network acceleration. However, previous binarization scheme could be regarded as simple pixel-wise thresholding operations (i.e., order-one approximation) and suffers a big accuracy loss. In this paper, we propose a highorder binarization scheme, which achieves mo...
computer science
29,245
Setting an attention region for convolutional neural networks using region selective features, for recognition of materials within glass vessels
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Convolutional neural networks have emerged as the leading method for the classification and segmentation of images. In some cases, it is desirable to focus the attention of the net on a specific region in the image; one such case is the recognition of the contents of transparent vessels, where the vessel region in the ...
computer science
29,246
Curriculum Learning for Multi-Task Classification of Visual Attributes
cs.CV
Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human identification. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to combine the advantages of both...
computer science
29,247
Autoencoder with recurrent neural networks for video forgery detection
cs.CV
Video forgery detection is becoming an important issue in recent years, because modern editing software provide powerful and easy-to-use tools to manipulate videos. In this paper we propose to perform detection by means of deep learning, with an architecture based on autoencoders and recurrent neural networks. A traini...
computer science
29,248
4D Multi-atlas Label Fusion using Longitudinal Images
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Longitudinal reproducibility is an essential concern in automated medical image segmentation, yet has proven to be an elusive objective as manual brain structure tracings have shown more than 10% variability. To improve reproducibility, lon-gitudinal segmentation (4D) approaches have been investigated to reconcile tem-...
computer science
29,249
Semantic Texture for Robust Dense Tracking
cs.CV
We argue that robust dense SLAM systems can make valuable use of the layers of features coming from a standard CNN as a pyramid of `semantic texture' which is suitable for dense alignment while being much more robust to nuisance factors such as lighting than raw RGB values. We use a straightforward Lucas-Kanade formula...
computer science
29,250
Reasoning about Fine-grained Attribute Phrases using Reference Games
cs.CV
We present a framework for learning to describe fine-grained visual differences between instances using attribute phrases. Attribute phrases capture distinguishing aspects of an object (e.g., "propeller on the nose" or "door near the wing" for airplanes) in a compositional manner. Instances within a category can be des...
computer science
29,251
Driving Style Analysis Using Primitive Driving Patterns With Bayesian Nonparametric Approaches
cs.CV
Analysis and recognition of driving styles are profoundly important to intelligent transportation and vehicle calibration. This paper presents a novel driving style analysis framework using the primitive driving patterns learned from naturalistic driving data. In order to achieve this, first, a Bayesian nonparametric l...
computer science
29,252
Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
cs.CV
This report describes my research activities in the Hasso Plattner Institute and summarizes my Ph.D. plan and several novels, end-to-end trainable approaches for analyzing medical images using deep learning algorithm. In this report, as an example, we explore different novel methods based on deep learning for brain abn...
computer science
29,253
A simple expression for the map of Asplund's distances with the multiplicative Logarithmic Image Processing (LIP) law
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We introduce a simple expression for the map of Asplund's distances with the multiplicative Logarithmic Image Processing (LIP) law. It is a difference between a morphological dilation and a morphological erosion with an additive structuring function which corresponds to a morphological gradient.
computer science
29,254
Learning a 3D descriptor for cross-source point cloud registration from synthetic data
cs.CV
As the development of 3D sensors, registration of 3D data (e.g. point cloud) coming from different kind of sensor is dispensable and shows great demanding. However, point cloud registration between different sensors is challenging because of the variant of density, missing data, different viewpoint, noise and outliers,...
computer science
29,255
Deep Structure for end-to-end inverse rendering
cs.CV
Inverse rendering in a 3D format denoted to recovering the 3D properties of a scene given 2D input image(s) and is typically done using 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) based methods from single view images. These models formulate each face as a weighted combination of some basis vectors extracted from the training data. In t...
computer science
29,256
A Machine Learning Approach For Identifying Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Diffusion MRI Modeling
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While diffusion MRI has been extremely promising in the study of MTBI, identifying patients with recent MTBI remains a challenge. The literature is mixed with regard to localizing injury in these patients, however, gray matter such as the thalamus and white matter including the corpus callosum and frontal deep white ma...
computer science
29,257
Pix2face: Direct 3D Face Model Estimation
cs.CV
An efficient, fully automatic method for 3D face shape and pose estimation in unconstrained 2D imagery is presented. The proposed method jointly estimates a dense set of 3D landmarks and facial geometry using a single pass of a modified version of the popular "U-Net" neural network architecture. Additionally, we propos...
computer science
29,258
Adaptive SVM+: Learning with Privileged Information for Domain Adaptation
cs.CV
Incorporating additional knowledge in the learning process can be beneficial for several computer vision and machine learning tasks. Whether privileged information originates from a source domain that is adapted to a target domain, or as additional features available at training time only, using such privileged (i.e., ...
computer science
29,259
Simultaneously Color-Depth Super-Resolution with Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
cs.CV
Recently, Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has been found wide applications in style transfer, image-to-image translation and image super-resolution. In this paper, a color-depth conditional GAN is proposed to concurrently resolve the problems of depth super-resolution and color super-resolution in 3D videos. First...
computer science
29,260
Photorealistic Facial Expression Synthesis by the Conditional Difference Adversarial Autoencoder
cs.CV
Photorealistic facial expression synthesis from single face image can be widely applied to face recognition, data augmentation for emotion recognition or entertainment. This problem is challenging, in part due to a paucity of labeled facial expression data, making it difficult for algorithms to disambiguate changes due...
computer science
29,261
A Greedy Part Assignment Algorithm for Real-time Multi-person 2D Pose Estimation
cs.CV
Human pose-estimation in a multi-person image involves detection of various body parts and grouping them into individual person clusters. While the former task is challenging due to mutual occlusions, the combinatorial complexity of the latter task is very high. We propose a greedy part assignment algorithm that exploi...
computer science
29,262
Joint Maximum Purity Forest with Application to Image Super-Resolution
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a novel random-forest scheme, namely Joint Maximum Purity Forest (JMPF), for classification, clustering, and regression tasks. In the JMPF scheme, the original feature space is transformed into a compactly pre-clustered feature space, via a trained rotation matrix. The rotation matrix is obtai...
computer science
29,263
Cascade Residual Learning: A Two-stage Convolutional Neural Network for Stereo Matching
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Leveraging on the recent developments in convolutional neural networks (CNNs), matching dense correspondence from a stereo pair has been cast as a learning problem, with performance exceeding traditional approaches. However, it remains challenging to generate high-quality disparities for the inherently ill-posed region...
computer science
29,264
ScatterNet Hybrid Deep Learning (SHDL) Network For Object Classification
cs.CV
The paper proposes the ScatterNet Hybrid Deep Learning (SHDL) network that extracts invariant and discriminative image representations for object recognition. SHDL framework is constructed with a multi-layer ScatterNet front-end, an unsupervised learning middle, and a supervised learning back-end module. Each layer of ...
computer science
29,265
Interpretation of Mammogram and Chest X-Ray Reports Using Deep Neural Networks - Preliminary Results
cs.CV
Radiology reports are an important means of communication between radiologists and other physicians. These reports express a radiologist's interpretation of a medical imaging examination and are critical in establishing a diagnosis and formulating a treatment plan. In this paper, we propose a Bi-directional convolution...
computer science
29,266
Two-stream Flow-guided Convolutional Attention Networks for Action Recognition
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This paper proposes a two-stream flow-guided convolutional attention networks for action recognition in videos. The central idea is that optical flows, when properly compensated for the camera motion, can be used to guide attention to the human foreground. We thus develop cross-link layers from the temporal network (tr...
computer science
29,267
Texture and Structure Incorporated ScatterNet Hybrid Deep Learning Network (TS-SHDL) For Brain Matter Segmentation
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Automation of brain matter segmentation from MR images is a challenging task due to the irregular boundaries between the grey and white matter regions. In addition, the presence of intensity inhomogeneity in the MR images further complicates the problem. In this paper, we propose a texture and vesselness incorporated v...
computer science
29,268
Disguised Face Identification (DFI) with Facial KeyPoints using Spatial Fusion Convolutional Network
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Disguised face identification (DFI) is an extremely challenging problem due to the numerous variations that can be introduced using different disguises. This paper introduces a deep learning framework to first detect 14 facial key-points which are then utilized to perform disguised face identification. Since the traini...
computer science
29,269
Adversarial nets with perceptual losses for text-to-image synthesis
cs.CV
Recent approaches in generative adversarial networks (GANs) can automatically synthesize realistic images from descriptive text. Despite the overall fair quality, the generated images often expose visible flaws that lack structural definition for an object of interest. In this paper, we aim to extend state of the art f...
computer science
29,270
Learning Invariant Riemannian Geometric Representations Using Deep Nets
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Non-Euclidean constraints are inherent in many kinds of data in computer vision and machine learning, typically as a result of specific invariance requirements that need to be respected during high-level inference. Often, these geometric constraints can be expressed in the language of Riemannian geometry, where convent...
computer science
29,271
Action Classification and Highlighting in Videos
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Inspired by recent advances in neural machine translation, that jointly align and translate using encoder-decoder networks equipped with attention, we propose an attentionbased LSTM model for human activity recognition. Our model jointly learns to classify actions and highlight frames associated with the action, by att...
computer science
29,272
Learning a Generative Adversarial Network for High Resolution Artwork Synthesis
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Artwork is a mode of creative expression and this paper is particularly interested in investigating if machine can learn and synthetically create artwork that are usually non- figurative and structured abstract. To this end, we propose an extension to the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), namely as the ArtGAN to sy...
computer science
29,273
Video Summarization with Attention-Based Encoder-Decoder Networks
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This paper addresses the problem of supervised video summarization by formulating it as a sequence-to-sequence learning problem, where the input is a sequence of original video frames, the output is a keyshot sequence. Our key idea is to learn a deep summarization network with attention mechanism to mimic the way of se...
computer science
29,274
Fast Landmark Localization with 3D Component Reconstruction and CNN for Cross-Pose Recognition
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Two approaches are proposed for cross-pose face recognition, one is based on the 3D reconstruction of facial components and the other is based on the deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike most 3D approaches that consider holistic faces, the proposed approach considers 3D facial components. It segments a 2D ga...
computer science
29,275
ICDAR2017 Competition on Reading Chinese Text in the Wild (RCTW-17)
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Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Algorithms that read Chinese text in natural images facilitate applications of various kinds. Despite the large potential value, datasets and competitions in the past primarily focus on English, which bares very different characteristics than Chinese. This report i...
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ALCN: Meta-Learning for Contrast Normalization Applied to Robust 3D Pose Estimation
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To be robust to illumination changes when detecting objects in images, the current trend is to train a Deep Network with training images captured under many different lighting conditions. Unfortunately, creating such a training set is very cumbersome, or sometimes even impossible, for some applications such as 3D pose ...
computer science
29,277
Automatic Semantic Style Transfer using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Soft Masks
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This paper presents an automatic image synthesis method to transfer the style of an example image to a content image. When standard neural style transfer approaches are used, the textures and colours in different semantic regions of the style image are often applied inappropriately to the content image, ignoring its se...
computer science
29,278
Neural Class-Specific Regression for face verification
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Face verification is a problem approached in the literature mainly using nonlinear class-specific subspace learning techniques. While it has been shown that kernel-based Class-Specific Discriminant Analysis is able to provide excellent performance in small- and medium-scale face verification problems, its application i...
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29,279
On Boosting, Tug of War, and Lexicographic Programming
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Despite the large amount of research effort dedicated to adapting boosting for imbalanced classification, boosting methods are yet to be satisfactorily immune to class imbalance, especially for multi-class problems, due to the long-standing reliance on expensive cost set tuning. We show that the assignment of weights t...
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29,280
Quantifying Facial Age by Posterior of Age Comparisons
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We introduce a novel approach for annotating large quantity of in-the-wild facial images with high-quality posterior age distribution as labels. Each posterior provides a probability distribution of estimated ages for a face. Our approach is motivated by observations that it is easier to distinguish who is the older of...
computer science
29,281
Sparse-then-Dense Alignment based 3D Map Reconstruction Method for Endoscopic Capsule Robots
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Since the development of capsule endoscopcy technology, substantial progress were made in converting passive capsule endoscopes to robotic active capsule endoscopes which can be controlled by the doctor. However, robotic capsule endoscopy still has some challenges. In particular, the use of such devices to generate a p...
computer science
29,282
Inferring Human Activities Using Robust Privileged Probabilistic Learning
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Classification models may often suffer from "structure imbalance" between training and testing data that may occur due to the deficient data collection process. This imbalance can be represented by the learning using privileged information (LUPI) paradigm. In this paper, we present a supervised probabilistic classifica...
computer science
29,283
3D Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars using a Multi-Camera System: Calibration, Mapping, Localization, and Obstacle Detection
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Cameras are a crucial exteroceptive sensor for self-driving cars as they are low-cost and small, provide appearance information about the environment, and work in various weather conditions. They can be used for multiple purposes such as visual navigation and obstacle detection. We can use a surround multi-camera syste...
computer science
29,284
Predicting Cardiovascular Risk Factors from Retinal Fundus Photographs using Deep Learning
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Traditionally, medical discoveries are made by observing associations and then designing experiments to test these hypotheses. However, observing and quantifying associations in images can be difficult because of the wide variety of features, patterns, colors, values, shapes in real data. In this paper, we use deep lea...
computer science
29,285
Multi-task Dictionary Learning based Convolutional Neural Network for Computer aided Diagnosis with Longitudinal Images
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Algorithmic image-based diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases on longitudinal data has drawn great interest from computer vision researchers. The current state-of-the-art models for many image classification tasks are based on the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). However, a key challenge in applying...
computer science
29,286
Learning Inference Models for Computer Vision
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Computer vision can be understood as the ability to perform inference on image data. Breakthroughs in computer vision technology are often marked by advances in inference techniques. This thesis proposes novel inference schemes and demonstrates applications in computer vision. We propose inference techniques for both g...
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Exact Blur Measure Outperforms Conventional Learned Features for Depth Finding
cs.CV
Image analysis methods that are based on exact blur values are faced with the computational complexities due to blur measurement error. This atmosphere encourages scholars to look for handcrafted and learned features for finding depth from a single image. This paper introduces a novel exact realization for blur measure...
computer science
29,288
Single Shot Text Detector with Regional Attention
cs.CV
We present a novel single-shot text detector that directly outputs word-level bounding boxes in a natural image. We propose an attention mechanism which roughly identifies text regions via an automatically learned attentional map. This substantially suppresses background interference in the convolutional features, whic...
computer science
29,289
Context Based Visual Content Verification
cs.CV
In this paper the intermediary visual content verification method based on multi-level co-occurrences is studied. The co-occurrence statistics are in general used to determine relational properties between objects based on information collected from data. As such these measures are heavily subject to relative number of...
computer science
29,290
Reasoning with shapes: profiting cognitive susceptibilities to infer linear mapping transformations between shapes
cs.CV
Visual information plays an indispensable role in our daily interactions with environment. Such information is manipulated for a wide range of purposes spanning from basic object and material perception to complex gesture interpretations. There have been novel studies in cognitive science for in-depth understanding of ...
computer science
29,291
Effective Use of Dilated Convolutions for Segmenting Small Object Instances in Remote Sensing Imagery
cs.CV
Thanks to recent advances in CNNs, solid improvements have been made in semantic segmentation of high resolution remote sensing imagery. However, most of the previous works have not fully taken into account the specific difficulties that exist in remote sensing tasks. One of such difficulties is that objects are small ...
computer science
29,292
Weighted Low-rank Tensor Recovery for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
cs.CV
Hyperspectral imaging, providing abundant spatial and spectral information simultaneously, has attracted a lot of interest in recent years. Unfortunately, due to the hardware limitations, the hyperspectral image (HSI) is vulnerable to various degradations, such noises (random noise, HSI denoising), blurs (Gaussian and ...
computer science
29,293
DeepUNet: A Deep Fully Convolutional Network for Pixel-level Sea-Land Segmentation
cs.CV
Semantic segmentation is a fundamental research in remote sensing image processing. Because of the complex maritime environment, the sea-land segmentation is a challenging task. Although the neural network has achieved excellent performance in semantic segmentation in the last years, there are a few of works using CNN ...
computer science
29,294
Too Far to See? Not Really! --- Pedestrian Detection with Scale-aware Localization Policy
cs.CV
A major bottleneck of pedestrian detection lies on the sharp performance deterioration in the presence of small-size pedestrians that are relatively far from the camera. Motivated by the observation that pedestrians of disparate spatial scales exhibit distinct visual appearances, we propose in this paper an active pede...
computer science
29,295
Adversarial Networks for Spatial Context-Aware Spectral Image Reconstruction from RGB
cs.CV
Hyperspectral signal reconstruction aims at recovering the original spectral input that produced a certain trichromatic (RGB) response from a capturing device or observer. Given the heavily underconstrained, non-linear nature of the problem, traditional techniques leverage different statistical properties of the spectr...
computer science
29,296
A Comprehensive Survey of Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Theories, Tools and Challenges for the Community
cs.CV
In recent years, deep learning (DL), a re-branding of neural networks (NNs), has risen to the top in numerous areas, namely computer vision (CV), speech recognition, natural language processing, etc. Whereas remote sensing (RS) possesses a number of unique challenges, primarily related to sensors and applications, inev...
computer science
29,297
Visual-textual Attention Driven Fine-grained Representation Learning
cs.CV
Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, which is a highly challenging task due to the quite subtle visual distinctions among similar subcategories. Most existing methods generally learn part detectors to discover discriminative regions for ...
computer science
29,298
Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation using Cascaded Anisotropic Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
A cascade of fully convolutional neural networks is proposed to segment multi-modal Magnetic Resonance (MR) images with brain tumor into background and three hierarchical regions: whole tumor, tumor core and enhancing tumor core. The cascade is designed to decompose the multi-class segmentation problem into a sequence ...
computer science
29,299
End-to-End Multi-View Lipreading
cs.CV
Non-frontal lip views contain useful information which can be used to enhance the performance of frontal view lipreading. However, the vast majority of recent lipreading works, including the deep learning approaches which significantly outperform traditional approaches, have focused on frontal mouth images. As a conseq...
computer science
29,300
Unsupervised learning through one-shot image-based shape reconstruction
cs.CV
Objects are three-dimensional entities, but visual observations are largely 2D. Inferring 3D properties from individual 2D views is thus a generically useful skill that is critical to object perception. We ask the question: can we learn useful image representations by explicitly training a system to infer 3D shape from...
computer science
29,301
Learning to Look Around: Intelligently Exploring Unseen Environments for Unknown Tasks
cs.CV
It is common to implicitly assume access to intelligently captured inputs (e.g., photos from a human photographer), yet autonomously capturing good observations is itself a major challenge. We address the problem of learning to look around: if a visual agent has the ability to voluntarily acquire new views to observe i...
computer science