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Kernel Cross-Correlator
cs.CV
Cross-correlator plays a significant role in many visual perception tasks, such as object detection and tracking. Beyond the linear cross-correlator, this paper proposes a kernel cross-correlator (KCC) that breaks traditional limitations. First, by introducing the kernel trick, the KCC extends the linear cross-correlat...
computer science
29,503
Normal Integration: A Survey
cs.CV
The need for efficient normal integration methods is driven by several computer vision tasks such as shape-from-shading, photometric stereo, deflectometry, etc. In the first part of this survey, we select the most important properties that one may expect from a normal integration method, based on a thorough study of tw...
computer science
29,504
Towards a Crowd Analytic Framework For Crowd Management in Majid-al-Haram
cs.CV
The scared cities of Makkah Al Mukarramah and Madina Al Munawarah host millions of pilgrims every year. During Hajj, the movement of large number of people has a unique spatial and temporal constraints, which makes Hajj one of toughest challenges for crowd management. In this paper, we propose a computer vision based f...
computer science
29,505
Adaptive compressed 3D imaging based on wavelet trees and Hadamard multiplexing with a single photon counting detector
cs.CV
Photon counting 3D imaging allows to obtain 3D images with single-photon sensitivity and sub-ns temporal resolution. However, it is challenging to scale to high spatial resolution. In this work, we demonstrate a photon counting 3D imaging technique with short-pulsed structured illumination and a single-pixel photon cou...
computer science
29,506
Variational Methods for Normal Integration
cs.CV
The need for an efficient method of integration of a dense normal field is inspired by several computer vision tasks, such as shape-from-shading, photometric stereo, deflectometry, etc. Inspired by edge-preserving methods from image processing, we study in this paper several variational approaches for normal integratio...
computer science
29,507
Multi-Person Pose Estimation via Column Generation
cs.CV
We study the problem of multi-person pose estimation in natural images. A pose estimate describes the spatial position and identity (head, foot, knee, etc.) of every non-occluded body part of a person. Pose estimation is difficult due to issues such as deformation and variation in body configurations and occlusion of p...
computer science
29,508
Video Object Segmentation Without Temporal Information
cs.CV
Video Object Segmentation, and video processing in general, has been historically dominated by methods that rely on the temporal consistency and redundancy in consecutive video frames. When the temporal smoothness is suddenly broken, such as when an object is occluded, or some frames are missing in a sequence, the resu...
computer science
29,509
Vehicle Tracking in Wide Area Motion Imagery via Stochastic Progressive Association Across Multiple Frames (SPAAM)
cs.CV
Vehicle tracking in Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI) relies on associating vehicle detections across multiple WAMI frames to form tracks corresponding to individual vehicles. The temporal window length, i.e., the number $M$ of sequential frames, over which associations are collectively estimated poses a trade-off betwee...
computer science
29,510
Target-adaptive CNN-based pansharpening
cs.CV
We recently proposed a convolutional neural network (CNN) for remote sensing image pansharpening obtaining a significant performance gain over the state of the art. In this paper, we explore a number of architectural and training variations to this baseline, achieving further performance gains with a lightweight networ...
computer science
29,511
Rotation Adaptive Visual Object Tracking with Motion Consistency
cs.CV
Visual Object tracking research has undergone significant improvement in the past few years. The emergence of tracking by detection approach in tracking paradigm has been quite successful in many ways. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks have been extensively used in most successful trackers. Yet, the standard...
computer science
29,512
How intelligent are convolutional neural networks?
cs.CV
Motivated by the Gestalt pattern theory, and the Winograd Challenge for language understanding, we design synthetic experiments to investigate a deep learning algorithm's ability to infer simple (at least for human) visual concepts, such as symmetry, from examples. A visual concept is represented by randomly generated,...
computer science
29,513
Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments
cs.CV
Access to large, diverse RGB-D datasets is critical for training RGB-D scene understanding algorithms. However, existing datasets still cover only a limited number of views or a restricted scale of spaces. In this paper, we introduce Matterport3D, a large-scale RGB-D dataset containing 10,800 panoramic views from 194,4...
computer science
29,514
A Fast Algorithm Based on a Sylvester-like Equation for LS Regression with GMRF Prior
cs.CV
This paper presents a fast approach for penalized least squares (LS) regression problems using a 2D Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF) prior. More precisely, the computation of the proximity operator of the LS criterion regularized by different GMRF potentials is formulated as solving a Sylvester-like matrix equation....
computer science
29,515
CISRDCNN: Super-resolution of compressed images using deep convolutional neural networks
cs.CV
In recent years, much research has been conducted on image super-resolution (SR). To the best of our knowledge, however, few SR methods were concerned with compressed images. The SR of compressed images is a challenging task due to the complicated compression artifacts, while many images suffer from them in practice. T...
computer science
29,516
Training Better CNNs Requires to Rethink ReLU
cs.CV
With the rapid development of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs), numerous works focus on designing better network architectures (i.e., AlexNet, VGG, Inception, ResNet and DenseNet etc.). Nevertheless, all these networks have the same characteristic: each convolutional layer is followed by an activation layer, ...
computer science
29,517
Look Wider to Match Image Patches with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
When a human matches two images, the viewer has a natural tendency to view the wide area around the target pixel to obtain clues of right correspondence. However, designing a matching cost function that works on a large window in the same way is difficult. The cost function is typically not intelligent enough to discar...
computer science
29,518
Compressing Low Precision Deep Neural Networks Using Sparsity-Induced Regularization in Ternary Networks
cs.CV
A low precision deep neural network training technique for producing sparse, ternary neural networks is presented. The technique incorporates hard- ware implementation costs during training to achieve significant model compression for inference. Training involves three stages: network training using L2 regularization a...
computer science
29,519
Colour Terms: a Categorisation Model Inspired by Visual Cortex Neurons
cs.CV
Although it seems counter-intuitive, categorical colours do not exist as external physical entities but are very much the product of our brains. Our cortical machinery segments the world and associate objects to specific colour terms, which is not only convenient for communication but also increases the efficiency of v...
computer science
29,520
Exploring Human-like Attention Supervision in Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Attention mechanisms have been widely applied in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task, as they help to focus on the area-of-interest of both visual and textual information. To answer the questions correctly, the model needs to selectively target different areas of an image, which suggests that an attention-based mo...
computer science
29,521
Predicting Video Saliency with Object-to-Motion CNN and Two-layer Convolutional LSTM
cs.CV
Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited great success in predicting the saliency of images. However, there are few works that apply DNNs to predict the saliency of generic videos. In this paper, we propose a novel DNN-based video saliency prediction method. Specifically, we establish a large...
computer science
29,522
Fitting Generalized Essential Matrices from Generic 6x6 Matrices and its Applications
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of finding the closest generalized essential matrix from a given 6x6 matrix, with respect to the Frobenius norm. To the best of our knowledge, this nonlinear constrained optimization problem has not been addressed in the literature yet. Although it can be solved directly, it involves a ...
computer science
29,523
3D Reconstruction in Canonical Co-ordinate Space from Arbitrarily Oriented 2D Images
cs.CV
Limited capture range, and the requirement to provide high quality initialization for optimization-based 2D/3D image registration methods, can significantly degrade the performance of 3D image reconstruction and motion compensation pipelines. Challenging clinical imaging scenarios, which contain significant subject mot...
computer science
29,524
An Adaptive Algorithm for Precise Pupil Boundary Detection using Entropy of Contour Gradients
cs.CV
Eye tracking spreads through a vast area of applications from ophthalmology, assistive technologies to gaming and virtual reality. Detection of pupil is the most critical step in many of these tasks hence needs to be performed accurately. Although detection of pupil is a smooth task in clear sight, possible occlusions ...
computer science
29,525
A General Framework for the Recognition of Online Handwritten Graphics
cs.CV
We propose a new framework for the recognition of online handwritten graphics. Three main features of the framework are its ability to treat symbol and structural level information in an integrated way, its flexibility with respect to different families of graphics, and means to control the tradeoff between recognition...
computer science
29,526
Human Action Forecasting by Learning Task Grammars
cs.CV
For effective human-robot interaction, it is important that a robotic assistant can forecast the next action a human will consider in a given task. Unfortunately, real-world tasks are often very long, complex, and repetitive; as a result forecasting is not trivial. In this paper, we propose a novel deep recurrent archi...
computer science
29,527
Automatic Leaf Extraction from Outdoor Images
cs.CV
Automatic plant recognition and disease analysis may be streamlined by an image of a complete, isolated leaf as an initial input. Segmenting leaves from natural images is a hard problem. Cluttered and complex backgrounds: often composed of other leaves are commonplace. Furthermore, their appearance is highly dependent ...
computer science
29,528
Human Activity Recognition Using Robust Adaptive Privileged Probabilistic Learning
cs.CV
In this work, a novel method based on the learning using privileged information (LUPI) paradigm for recognizing complex human activities is proposed that handles missing information during testing. We present a supervised probabilistic approach that integrates LUPI into a hidden conditional random field (HCRF) model. T...
computer science
29,529
3D Reconstruction with Low Resolution, Small Baseline and High Radial Distortion Stereo Images
cs.CV
In this paper we analyze and compare approaches for 3D reconstruction from low-resolution (250x250), high radial distortion stereo images, which are acquired with small baseline (approximately 1mm). These images are acquired with the system NanEye Stereo manufactured by CMOSIS/AWAIBA. These stereo cameras have also sma...
computer science
29,530
Image operator learning coupled with CNN classification and its application to staff line removal
cs.CV
Many image transformations can be modeled by image operators that are characterized by pixel-wise local functions defined on a finite support window. In image operator learning, these functions are estimated from training data using machine learning techniques. Input size is usually a critical issue when using learning...
computer science
29,531
Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Recognizing First Person Interactions
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel deep learning based approach for addressing the problem of interaction recognition from a first person perspective. The proposed approach uses a pair of convolutional neural networks, whose parameters are shared, for extracting frame level features from successive frames of the video. ...
computer science
29,532
SalNet360: Saliency Maps for omni-directional images with CNN
cs.CV
The prediction of Visual Attention data from any kind of media is of valuable use to content creators and used to efficiently drive encoding algorithms. With the current trend in the Virtual Reality (VR) field, adapting known techniques to this new kind of media is starting to gain momentum. In this paper, we present a...
computer science
29,533
Face Retrieval using Frequency Decoded Local Descriptor
cs.CV
The local descriptors have been the backbone of most of the computer vision problems. Most of the existing local descriptors are generated over the raw input images. In order to increase the discriminative power of the local descriptors, some researchers converted the raw image into multiple images with the help some h...
computer science
29,534
A LBP Based Correspondence Identification Scheme for Multi-view Sensing Network
cs.CV
In this paper, we describes a correspondence identification method between two-views of regular RGB camera that can be run in real-time. The basic idea is first applying normalized cross correlation to retrieve a sparse set of matching pairs from image pair. Then loopy belief propagation scheme is applied to the the se...
computer science
29,535
Learning to Detect Violent Videos using Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory
cs.CV
Developing a technique for the automatic analysis of surveillance videos in order to identify the presence of violence is of broad interest. In this work, we propose a deep neural network for the purpose of recognizing violent videos. A convolutional neural network is used to extract frame level features from a video. ...
computer science
29,536
When 3D-Aided 2D Face Recognition Meets Deep Learning: An extended UR2D for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
cs.CV
Most of the face recognition works focus on specific modules or demonstrate a research idea. This paper presents a pose-invariant 3D-aided 2D face recognition system (UR2D) that is robust to pose variations as large as 90? by leveraging deep learning technology. The architecture and the interface of UR2D are described,...
computer science
29,537
Curriculum Learning of Visual Attribute Clusters for Multi-Task Classification
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
29,538
SegFlow: Joint Learning for Video Object Segmentation and Optical Flow
cs.CV
This paper proposes an end-to-end trainable network, SegFlow, for simultaneously predicting pixel-wise object segmentation and optical flow in videos. The proposed SegFlow has two branches where useful information of object segmentation and optical flow is propagated bidirectionally in a unified framework. The segmenta...
computer science
29,539
Latent Embeddings for Collective Activity Recognition
cs.CV
Rather than simply recognizing the action of a person individually, collective activity recognition aims to find out what a group of people is acting in a collective scene. Previ- ous state-of-the-art methods using hand-crafted potentials in conventional graphical model which can only define a limited range of relation...
computer science
29,540
UnDeepVO: Monocular Visual Odometry through Unsupervised Deep Learning
cs.CV
We propose a novel monocular visual odometry (VO) system called UnDeepVO in this paper. UnDeepVO is able to estimate the 6-DoF pose of a monocular camera and the depth of its view by using deep neural networks. There are two salient features of the proposed UnDeepVO: one is the unsupervised deep learning scheme, and th...
computer science
29,541
Learning quadrangulated patches for 3D shape parameterization and completion
cs.CV
We propose a novel 3D shape parameterization by surface patches, that are oriented by 3D mesh quadrangulation of the shape. By encoding 3D surface detail on local patches, we learn a patch dictionary that identifies principal surface features of the shape. Unlike previous methods, we are able to encode surface patches ...
computer science
29,542
Multi-camera Multi-Object Tracking
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a pipeline for multi-target visual tracking under multi-camera system. For multi-camera system tracking problem, efficient data association across cameras, and at the same time, across frames becomes more important than single-camera system tracking. However, most of the multi-camera tracking ...
computer science
29,543
Semi-Automated Nasal PAP Mask Sizing using Facial Photographs
cs.CV
We present a semi-automated system for sizing nasal Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) masks based upon a neural network model that was trained with facial photographs of both PAP mask users and non-users. It demonstrated an accuracy of 72% in correctly sizing a mask and 96% accuracy sizing to within 1 mask size group. The...
computer science
29,544
Visual Question Generation as Dual Task of Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Recently visual question answering (VQA) and visual question generation (VQG) are two trending topics in the computer vision, which have been explored separately. In this work, we propose an end-to-end unified framework, the Invertible Question Answering Network (iQAN), to leverage the complementary relations between q...
computer science
29,545
A First Derivative Potts Model for Segmentation and Denoising Using ILP
cs.CV
Unsupervised image segmentation and denoising are two fundamental tasks in image processing. Usually, graph based models such as multicut are used for segmentation and variational models are employed for denoising. Our approach addresses both problems at the same time. We propose a novel ILP formulation of the first de...
computer science
29,546
Human Pose Estimation using Global and Local Normalization
cs.CV
In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the positions of human joints, i.e., articulated pose estimation. Recent state-of-the-art solutions model two key issues, joint detection and spatial configuration refinement, together using convolutional neural networks. Our work mainly focuses on spatial configurati...
computer science
29,547
Playing for Benchmarks
cs.CV
We present a benchmark suite for visual perception. The benchmark is based on more than 250K high-resolution video frames, all annotated with ground-truth data for both low-level and high-level vision tasks, including optical flow, semantic instance segmentation, object detection and tracking, object-level 3D scene lay...
computer science
29,548
H-DenseUNet: Hybrid Densely Connected UNet for Liver and Liver Tumor Segmentation from CT Volumes
cs.CV
Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. To assist doctors in hepatocellular carcinoma diagnosis and treatment planning, an accurate and automatic liver and tumor segmentation method is highly demanded in the clinical practice. Recently, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNs), including 2D and 3D ...
computer science
29,549
Multi-label Pixelwise Classification for Reconstruction of Large-scale Urban Areas
cs.CV
Object classification is one of the many holy grails in computer vision and as such has resulted in a very large number of algorithms being proposed already. Specifically in recent years there has been considerable progress in this area primarily due to the increased efficiency and accessibility of deep learning techni...
computer science
29,550
Urban Land Cover Classification with Missing Data Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Automatic urban land cover classification is a classical problem in remote sensing and good urban land cover maps build the foundation for many tasks, such as e.g. environmental monitoring. It is a particularly challenging problem, as classes generally have high inter-class and low intra-class variance. A common techni...
computer science
29,551
Learned Features are better for Ethnicity Classification
cs.CV
Ethnicity is a key demographic attribute of human beings and it plays a vital role in automatic facial recognition and have extensive real world applications such as Human Computer Interaction (HCI); demographic based classification; biometric based recognition; security and defense to name a few. In this paper we pres...
computer science
29,552
A Multimodal, Full-Surround Vehicular Testbed for Naturalistic Studies and Benchmarking: Design, Calibration and Deployment
cs.CV
Recent progress in autonomous and semi-autonomous driving has been made possible in part through an assortment of sensors that provide the intelligent agent with an enhanced perception of its surroundings. It has been clear for quite some while now that for intelligent vehicles to function effectively in all situations...
computer science
29,553
Virtual Blood Vessels in Complex Background using Stereo X-ray Images
cs.CV
We propose a fully automatic system to reconstruct and visualize 3D blood vessels in Augmented Reality (AR) system from stereo X-ray images with bones and body fat. Currently, typical 3D imaging technologies are expensive and carrying the risk of irradiation exposure. To reduce the potential harm, we only need to take ...
computer science
29,554
Novel Evaluation Metrics for Seam Carving based Image Retargeting
cs.CV
Image retargeting effectively resizes images by preserving the recognizability of important image regions. Most of retargeting methods rely on good importance maps as a cue to retain or remove certain regions in the input image. In addition, the traditional evaluation exhaustively depends on user ratings. There is a le...
computer science
29,555
Smart Mirror: Intelligent Makeup Recommendation and Synthesis
cs.CV
The female facial image beautification usually requires professional editing softwares, which are relatively difficult for common users. In this demo, we introduce a practical system for automatic and personalized facial makeup recommendation and synthesis. First, a model describing the relations among facial features,...
computer science
29,556
Happy Travelers Take Big Pictures: A Psychological Study with Machine Learning and Big Data
cs.CV
In psychology, theory-driven researches are usually conducted with extensive laboratory experiments, yet rarely tested or disproved with big data. In this paper, we make use of 418K travel photos with traveler ratings to test the influential "broaden-and-build" theory, that suggests positive emotions broaden one's visu...
computer science
29,557
Learning to Generate Time-Lapse Videos Using Multi-Stage Dynamic Generative Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
Taking a photo outside, can we predict the immediate future, \textit{e.g.}, how would the cloud move in the sky? We address this problem by presenting a generative adversarial network (GAN) based two-stage approach to generating realistic time-lapse videos of high resolution. Given the first frame, our model learns to ...
computer science
29,558
Demography-based Facial Retouching Detection using Subclass Supervised Sparse Autoencoder
cs.CV
Digital retouching of face images is becoming more widespread due to the introduction of software packages that automate the task. Several researchers have introduced algorithms to detect whether a face image is original or retouched. However, previous work on this topic has not considered whether or how accuracy of re...
computer science
29,559
EraseReLU: A Simple Way to Ease the Training of Deep Convolution Neural Networks
cs.CV
For most state-of-the-art architectures, Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) becomes a standard component accompanied with each layer. Although ReLU can ease the network training to an extent, the character of blocking negative values may suppress the propagation of useful information and leads to the difficulty of optimizing...
computer science
29,560
SwGridNet: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network based on Grid Topology for Image Classification
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve remarkable performance on image classification tasks. Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that generalization abilities are more important than the depth of neural networks for improving performance on image classification tasks. Herein, a new neural network call...
computer science
29,561
Can We Boost the Power of the Viola-Jones Face Detector Using Pre-processing? An Empirical Study
cs.CV
The Viola-Jones face detection algorithm was (and still is) a quite popular face detector. In spite of the numerous face detection techniques that have been recently presented, there are many research works that are still based on the Viola-Jones algorithm because of its simplicity. In this paper, we study the influenc...
computer science
29,562
Tropical Land Use Land Cover Mapping in Pará (Brazil) using Discriminative Markov Random Fields and Multi-temporal TerraSAR-X Data
cs.CV
Remote sensing satellite data offer the unique possibility to map land use land cover transformations by providing spatially explicit information. However, detection of short-term processes and land use patterns of high spatial-temporal variability is a challenging task. We present a novel framework using multi-tempora...
computer science
29,563
On Encoding Temporal Evolution for Real-time Action Prediction
cs.CV
Anticipating future actions is a key component of intelligence, specifically when it applies to real-time systems, such as robots or autonomous cars. While recent works have addressed prediction of raw RGB pixel values, we focus on anticipating the motion evolution in future video frames. To this end, we construct dyna...
computer science
29,564
Visual Reference Resolution using Attention Memory for Visual Dialog
cs.CV
Visual dialog is a task of answering a series of inter-dependent questions given an input image, and often requires to resolve visual references among the questions. This problem is different from visual question answering (VQA), which relies on spatial attention (a.k.a. visual grounding) estimated from an image and qu...
computer science
29,565
A semi-automated segmentation method for detection of pulmonary embolism in True-FISP MRI sequences
cs.CV
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a highly mortal disease, currently assessed by pulmonary CT angiography. True-FISP MRI has emerged as an innocuous alternative that does not hold many of the limitations of x-ray imaging. However, True-FISP MRI is very sensitive to turbulent blood flow, generating artifacts that may resemble ...
computer science
29,566
A Generic Regression Framework for Pose Recognition on Color and Depth Images
cs.CV
Cascaded regression method is a fast and accurate method on finding 2D pose of objects in RGB images. It is able to find the accurate pose of objects in an image by a great number of corrections on the good initial guess of the pose of objects. This paper explains the algorithm and shows the result of two experiments c...
computer science
29,567
Compact Environment-Invariant Codes for Robust Visual Place Recognition
cs.CV
Robust visual place recognition (VPR) requires scene representations that are invariant to various environmental challenges such as seasonal changes and variations due to ambient lighting conditions during day and night. Moreover, a practical VPR system necessitates compact representations of environmental features. To...
computer science
29,568
Robust Facial Landmark Detection under Significant Head Poses and Occlusion
cs.CV
There have been tremendous improvements for facial landmark detection on general "in-the-wild" images. However, it is still challenging to detect the facial landmarks on images with severe occlusion and images with large head poses (e.g. profile face). In fact, the existing algorithms usually can only handle one of the...
computer science
29,569
Constrained Deep Transfer Feature Learning and its Applications
cs.CV
Feature learning with deep models has achieved impressive results for both data representation and classification for various vision tasks. Deep feature learning, however, typically requires a large amount of training data, which may not be feasible for some application domains. Transfer learning can be one of the appr...
computer science
29,570
Constrained Joint Cascade Regression Framework for Simultaneous Facial Action Unit Recognition and Facial Landmark Detection
cs.CV
Cascade regression framework has been shown to be effective for facial landmark detection. It starts from an initial face shape and gradually predicts the face shape update from the local appearance features to generate the facial landmark locations in the next iteration until convergence. In this paper, we improve upo...
computer science
29,571
Simultaneous Facial Landmark Detection, Pose and Deformation Estimation under Facial Occlusion
cs.CV
Facial landmark detection, head pose estimation, and facial deformation analysis are typical facial behavior analysis tasks in computer vision. The existing methods usually perform each task independently and sequentially, ignoring their interactions. To tackle this problem, we propose a unified framework for simultane...
computer science
29,572
Domain Adaptation from Synthesis to Reality in Single-model Detector for Video Smoke Detection
cs.CV
This paper proposes a method for video smoke detection using synthetic smoke samples. The virtual data can automatically offer precise and rich annotated samples. However, the learning of smoke representations will be hurt by the appearance gap between real and synthetic smoke samples. The existed researches mainly wor...
computer science
29,573
Comparison of Batch Normalization and Weight Normalization Algorithms for the Large-scale Image Classification
cs.CV
Batch normalization (BN) has become a de facto standard for training deep convolutional networks. However, BN accounts for a significant fraction of training run-time and is difficult to accelerate, since it is a memory-bandwidth bounded operation. Such a drawback of BN motivates us to explore recently proposed weight ...
computer science
29,574
Tensor-Based Classifiers for Hyperspectral Data Analysis
cs.CV
In this work, we present tensor-based linear and nonlinear models for hyperspectral data classification and analysis. By exploiting principles of tensor algebra, we introduce new classification architectures, the weight parameters of which satisfies the {\it rank}-1 canonical decomposition property. Then, we introduce ...
computer science
29,575
Can Image Retrieval help Visual Saliency Detection?
cs.CV
We propose a novel image retrieval framework for visual saliency detection using information about salient objects contained within bounding box annotations for similar images. For each test image, we train a customized SVM from similar example images to predict the saliency values of its object proposals and generate ...
computer science
29,576
Performance Characterization of Image Feature Detectors in Relation to the Scene Content Utilizing a Large Image Database
cs.CV
Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research. Although the literature offers a variety of comparison works focusing on performance evaluation of image feature detectors under several ty...
computer science
29,577
Survey of Recent Advances in Visual Question Answering
cs.CV
Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge as it requires the ability to understand and encode the multi-modal inputs - in terms of image processing and natural language processing. The algorithm further needs to learn how to perform reasoning over this multi-modal representation so it can answer the q...
computer science
29,578
3D Camouflaging Object using RGB-D Sensors
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new optical camouflage system that uses RGB-D cameras, for acquiring point cloud of background scene, and tracking observers eyes. This system enables a user to conceal an object located behind a display that surrounded by 3D objects. If we considered here the tracked point of observer s eyes is a...
computer science
29,579
Fine-grained Discriminative Localization via Saliency-guided Faster R-CNN
cs.CV
Discriminative localization is essential for fine-grained image classification task, which devotes to recognizing hundreds of subcategories in the same basic-level category. Reflecting on discriminative regions of objects, key differences among different subcategories are subtle and local. Existing methods generally ad...
computer science
29,580
Pose-driven Deep Convolutional Model for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Feature extraction and matching are two crucial components in person Re-Identification (ReID). The large pose deformations and the complex view variations exhibited by the captured person images significantly increase the difficulty of learning and matching of the features from person images. To overcome these difficul...
computer science
29,581
Realizing Half-Diminished Reality from Video Stream of Manipulating Objects
cs.CV
When we watch a video, in which human hands manipulate objects, these hands may obscure some parts of those objects. We are willing to make clear how the objects are manipulated by making the image of hands semi-transparent, and showing the complete images of the hands and the object. By carefully choosing a Half-Dimin...
computer science
29,582
An Evolutionary Computing Enriched RS Attack Resilient Medical Image Steganography Model for Telemedicine Applications
cs.CV
The recent advancement in computing technologies and resulting vision based applications have gives rise to a novel practice called telemedicine that requires patient diagnosis images or allied information to recommend or even perform diagnosis practices being located remotely. However, to ensure accurate and optimal t...
computer science
29,583
Deep Sparse Subspace Clustering
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a deep extension of Sparse Subspace Clustering, termed Deep Sparse Subspace Clustering (DSSC). Regularized by the unit sphere distribution assumption for the learned deep features, DSSC can infer a new data affinity matrix by simultaneously satisfying the sparsity principle of SSC and the nonl...
computer science
29,584
Variational Reflectance Estimation from Multi-view Images
cs.CV
We tackle the problem of reflectance estimation from a set of multi-view images, assuming known geometry. The approach we put forward turns the input images into reflectance maps, through a robust variational method. The variational model comprises an image-driven fidelity term and a term which enforces consistency of ...
computer science
29,585
Multi-view Registration Based on Weighted Low Rank and Sparse Matrix Decomposition of Motions
cs.CV
Recently, the low rank and sparse (LRS) matrix decomposition has been introduced as an effective mean to solve the multi-view registration. However, this method presents two notable disadvantages: the registration result is quite sensitive to the sparsity of the LRS matrix; besides, the decomposition process treats eac...
computer science
29,586
Morphable Face Models - An Open Framework
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel open-source pipeline for face registration based on Gaussian processes as well as an application to face image analysis. Non-rigid registration of faces is significant for many applications in computer vision, such as the construction of 3D Morphable face models (3DMMs). Gaussian Proce...
computer science
29,587
Summarization of User-Generated Sports Video by Using Deep Action Recognition Features
cs.CV
Automatically generating a summary of sports video poses the challenge of detecting interesting moments, or highlights, of a game. Traditional sports video summarization methods leverage editing conventions of broadcast sports video that facilitate the extraction of high-level semantics. However, user-generated videos ...
computer science
29,588
Multi-view pose estimation with mixtures-of-parts and adaptive viewpoint selection
cs.CV
We propose a new method for human pose estimation which leverages information from multiple views to impose a strong prior on articulated pose. The novelty of the method concerns the types of coherence modelled. Consistency is maximised over the different views through different terms modelling classical geometric info...
computer science
29,589
Attribute Recognition by Joint Recurrent Learning of Context and Correlation
cs.CV
Recognising semantic pedestrian attributes in surveillance images is a challenging task for computer vision, particularly when the imaging quality is poor with complex background clutter and uncontrolled viewing conditions, and the number of labelled training data is small. In this work, we formulate a Joint Recurrent ...
computer science
29,590
Dense scale selection over space, time and space-time
cs.CV
Scale selection methods based on local extrema over scale of scale-normalized derivatives have been primarily developed to be applied sparsely --- at image points where the magnitude of a scale-normalized differential expression additionally assumes local extrema over the domain where the data are defined. This paper p...
computer science
29,591
Fast Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery
cs.CV
In recent years, several real-time or near real-time object detectors have been developed. However these object detectors are typically designed for first-person view images where the subject is large in the image and do not directly apply well to detecting vehicles in aerial imagery. Though some detectors have been de...
computer science
29,592
Multimodal Image Super-resolution via Joint Sparse Representations induced by Coupled Dictionaries
cs.CV
Real-world data processing problems often involve various image modalities associated with a certain scene, including RGB images, infrared images or multi-spectral images. The fact that different image modalities often share certain attributes, such as certain edges, textures and other structure primitives, represents ...
computer science
29,593
Camera-Aware Multi-Resolution Analysis (CAMRA) for Raw Sensor Data Compression
cs.CV
We propose a novel lossless and lossy compression scheme for color filter array~(CFA) sampled images based on the wavelet transform of them. Our analysis suggests that the wavelet coefficients of HL and LH subbands are highly correlated. Hence, we decorrelate Mallat wavelet packet decomposition to further sparsify the ...
computer science
29,594
Image similarity using Deep CNN and Curriculum Learning
cs.CV
Image similarity involves fetching similar looking images given a reference image. Our solution called SimNet, is a deep siamese network which is trained on pairs of positive and negative images using a novel online pair mining strategy inspired by Curriculum learning. We also created a multi-scale CNN, where the final...
computer science
29,595
Towards End-to-End Car License Plates Detection and Recognition with Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this work, we tackle the problem of car license plate detection and recognition in natural scene images. We propose a unified deep neural network which can localize license plates and recognize the letters simultaneously in a single forward pass. The whole network can be trained end-to-end. In contrast to existing a...
computer science
29,596
Learning to Inpaint for Image Compression
cs.CV
We study the design of deep architectures for lossy image compression. We present two architectural recipes in the context of multi-stage progressive encoders and empirically demonstrate their importance on compression performance. Specifically, we show that: (a) predicting the original image data from residuals in a m...
computer science
29,597
UBSegNet: Unified Biometric Region of Interest Segmentation Network
cs.CV
Digital human identity management, can now be seen as a social necessity, as it is essentially required in almost every public sector such as, financial inclusions, security, banking, social networking e.t.c. Hence, in today's rampantly emerging world with so many adversarial entities, relying on a single biometric tra...
computer science
29,598
Multi-layer Visualization for Medical Mixed Reality
cs.CV
Medical Mixed Reality helps surgeons to contextualize intraoperative data with video of the surgical scene. Nonetheless, the surgical scene and anatomical target are often occluded by surgical instruments and surgeon hands. In this paper and to our knowledge, we propose a multi-layer visualization in Medical Mixed Real...
computer science
29,599
Automated sub-cortical brain structure segmentation combining spatial and deep convolutional features
cs.CV
Sub-cortical brain structure segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) has attracted the interest of the research community for a long time because morphological changes in these structures are related to different neurodegenerative disorders. However, manual segmentation of these structures can be tedious and pr...
computer science
29,600
Joint Detection and Recounting of Abnormal Events by Learning Deep Generic Knowledge
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of joint detection and recounting of abnormal events in videos. Recounting of abnormal events, i.e., explaining why they are judged to be abnormal, is an unexplored but critical task in video surveillance, because it helps human observers quickly judge if they are false alarms or not. T...
computer science
29,601
Understanding Infographics through Textual and Visual Tag Prediction
cs.CV
We introduce the problem of visual hashtag discovery for infographics: extracting visual elements from an infographic that are diagnostic of its topic. Given an infographic as input, our computational approach automatically outputs textual and visual elements predicted to be representative of the infographic content. C...
computer science