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Fast Shadow Detection from a Single Image Using a Patched Convolutional Neural Network
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In recent years, various shadow detection methods from a single image have been proposed and used in vision systems; however, most of them are not appropriate for the robotic applications due to the expensive time complexity. This paper introduces a fast shadow detection method using a deep learning framework, with a t...
computer science
29,603
Dynamic Label Graph Matching for Unsupervised Video Re-Identification
cs.CV
Label estimation is an important component in an unsupervised person re-identification (re-ID) system. This paper focuses on cross-camera label estimation, which can be subsequently used in feature learning to learn robust re-ID models. Specifically, we propose to construct a graph for samples in each camera, and then ...
computer science
29,604
Effective Image Retrieval via Multilinear Multi-index Fusion
cs.CV
Multi-index fusion has demonstrated impressive performances in retrieval task by integrating different visual representations in a unified framework. However, previous works mainly consider propagating similarities via neighbor structure, ignoring the high order information among different visual representations. In th...
computer science
29,605
Pseudo-labels for Supervised Learning on Dynamic Vision Sensor Data, Applied to Object Detection under Ego-motion
cs.CV
In recent years, dynamic vision sensors (DVS), also known as event-based cameras or neuromorphic sensors, have seen increased use due to various advantages over conventional frame-based cameras. Using principles inspired by the retina, its high temporal resolution overcomes motion blurring, its high dynamic range overc...
computer science
29,606
Signature Verification Approach using Fusion of Hybrid Texture Features
cs.CV
In this paper, a writer-dependent signature verification method is proposed. Two different types of texture features, namely Wavelet and Local Quantized Patterns (LQP) features, are employed to extract two kinds of transform and statistical based information from signature images. For each writer two separate one-class...
computer science
29,607
Generative Adversarial Networks with Inverse Transformation Unit
cs.CV
In this paper we introduce a new structure to Generative Adversarial Networks by adding an inverse transformation unit behind the generator. We present two theorems to claim the convergence of the model, and two conjectures to nonideal situations when the transformation is not bijection. A general survey on models with...
computer science
29,608
Human Detection for Night Surveillance using Adaptive Background Subtracted Image
cs.CV
Surveillance based on Computer Vision has become a major necessity in current era. Most of the surveillance systems operate on visible light imaging, but performance based on visible light imaging is limited due to some factors like variation in light intensity during the daytime. The matter of concern lies in the need...
computer science
29,609
Light field super resolution through controlled micro-shifts of light field sensor
cs.CV
Light field cameras presents new capabilities, such as post-capture refocusing and aperture control, through capturing directional and spatial distribution of light rays in space. Among different light field camera implementations, micro-lens array based light field cameras is a cost-effective and compact approach to c...
computer science
29,610
Leveraging Weakly Annotated Data for Fashion Image Retrieval and Label Prediction
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a method to learn a visual representation adapted for e-commerce products. Based on weakly supervised learning, our model learns from noisy datasets crawled on e-commerce website catalogs and does not require any manual labeling. We show that our representation can be used for downward classif...
computer science
29,611
FoodNet: Recognizing Foods Using Ensemble of Deep Networks
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In this work we propose a methodology for an automatic food classification system which recognizes the contents of the meal from the images of the food. We developed a multi-layered deep convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that takes advantages of the features from other deep networks and improves the effic...
computer science
29,612
Fast Convolutional Sparse Coding in the Dual Domain
cs.CV
Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) is an important building block of many computer vision applications ranging from image and video compression to deep learning. We present two contributions to the state of the art in CSC. First, we significantly speed up the computation by proposing a new optimization framework that ta...
computer science
29,613
Hierarchical Scene Parsing by Weakly Supervised Learning with Image Descriptions
cs.CV
This paper investigates a fundamental problem of scene understanding: how to parse a scene image into a structured configuration (i.e., a semantic object hierarchy with object interaction relations). We propose a deep architecture consisting of two networks: i) a convolutional neural network (CNN) extracting the image ...
computer science
29,614
Drought Stress Classification using 3D Plant Models
cs.CV
Quantification of physiological changes in plants can capture different drought mechanisms and assist in selection of tolerant varieties in a high throughput manner. In this context, an accurate 3D model of plant canopy provides a reliable representation for drought stress characterization in contrast to using 2D image...
computer science
29,615
Modeling the Resource Requirements of Convolutional Neural Networks on Mobile Devices
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the research in computer vision, due to their ability to capture complex patterns, resulting in high inference accuracies. However, the increasingly complex nature of these neural networks means that they are particularly suited for server computers with powerful...
computer science
29,616
Local Directional Relation Pattern for Unconstrained and Robust Face Retrieval
cs.CV
Face recognition is still a very demanding area of research. This problem becomes more challenging in unconstrained environment and in the presence of several variations like pose, illumination, expression, etc. Local descriptors are widely used for this task. The existing local descriptors are not able to utilize the ...
computer science
29,617
A New Multifocus Image Fusion Method Using Contourlet Transform
cs.CV
A new multifocus image fusion approach is presented in this paper. First the contourlet transform is used to decompose the source images into different components. Then, some salient features are extracted from components. In order to extract salient features, spatial frequency is used. Subsequently, the best coefficie...
computer science
29,618
Scale Adaptive Clustering of Multiple Structures
cs.CV
We propose the segmentation of noisy datasets into Multiple Inlier Structures with a new Robust Estimator (MISRE). The scale of each individual structure is estimated adaptively from the input data and refined by mean shift, without tuning any parameter in the process, or manually specifying thresholds for different es...
computer science
29,619
ANSAC: Adaptive Non-minimal Sample and Consensus
cs.CV
While RANSAC-based methods are robust to incorrect image correspondences (outliers), their hypothesis generators are not robust to correct image correspondences (inliers) with positional error (noise). This slows down their convergence because hypotheses drawn from a minimal set of noisy inliers can deviate significant...
computer science
29,620
Neural Multi-Atlas Label Fusion: Application to Cardiac MR Images
cs.CV
Multi-atlas segmentation approach is one of the most widely-used image segmentation techniques in biomedical applications. There are two major challenges in this category of methods, i.e., atlas selection and label fusion. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-atlas segmentation method that formulates multi-atlas seg...
computer science
29,621
Combining Real-Valued and Binary Gabor-Radon Features for Classification and Search in Medical Imaging Archives
cs.CV
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of medical images in large datasets to identify similar images when a query image is given can be very useful in improving the diagnostic decision of the clinical experts and as well in educational scenarios. In this paper, we used two stage classification and retrieval approach to ...
computer science
29,622
Improving Dermoscopic Image Segmentation with Enhanced Convolutional-Deconvolutional Networks
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Automatic skin lesion segmentation on dermoscopic images is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis of melanoma. However, this task is challenging due to significant variations of lesion appearances across different patients. This challenge is further exacerbated when dealing with a large amount of image data. In...
computer science
29,623
Photorealistic Style Transfer with Screened Poisson Equation
cs.CV
Recent work has shown impressive success in transferring painterly style to images. These approaches, however, fall short of photorealistic style transfer. Even when both the input and reference images are photographs, the output still exhibits distortions reminiscent of a painting. In this paper we propose an approach...
computer science
29,624
Soft Correspondences in Multimodal Scene Parsing
cs.CV
Exploiting multiple modalities for semantic scene parsing has been shown to improve accuracy over the singlemodality scenario. However multimodal datasets often suffer from problems such as data misalignment and label inconsistencies, where the existing methods assume that corresponding regions in two modalities must h...
computer science
29,625
Recognition of Documents in Braille
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Visually impaired people are integral part of the society and it has been a must to provide them with means and system through which they may communicate with the world. In this work, I would like to address how computers can be made useful to read the scripts in Braille. The importance of this work is to reduce commun...
computer science
29,626
Efficient Convolutional Neural Network For Audio Event Detection
cs.CV
Wireless distributed systems as used in sensor networks, Internet-of-Things and cyber-physical systems, impose high requirements on resource efficiency. Advanced preprocessing and classification of data at the network edge can help to decrease the communication demand and to reduce the amount of data to be processed ce...
computer science
29,627
B-CNN: Branch Convolutional Neural Network for Hierarchical Classification
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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) image classifiers are traditionally designed to have sequential convolutional layers with a single output layer. This is based on the assumption that all target classes should be treated equally and exclusively. However, some classes can be more difficult to distinguish than others, a...
computer science
29,628
HydraPlus-Net: Attentive Deep Features for Pedestrian Analysis
cs.CV
Pedestrian analysis plays a vital role in intelligent video surveillance and is a key component for security-centric computer vision systems. Despite that the convolutional neural networks are remarkable in learning discriminative features from images, the learning of comprehensive features of pedestrians for fine-grai...
computer science
29,629
Recognition of feature curves on 3D shapes using an algebraic approach to Hough transforms
cs.CV
Feature curves are largely adopted to highlight shape features, such as sharp lines, or to divide surfaces into meaningful segments, like convex or concave regions. Extracting these curves is not sufficient to convey prominent and meaningful information about a shape. We have first to separate the curves belonging to f...
computer science
29,630
Possibilistic Fuzzy Local Information C-Means for Sonar Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Side-look synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) can produce very high quality images of the sea-floor. When viewing this imagery, a human observer can often easily identify various sea-floor textures such as sand ripple, hard-packed sand, sea grass and rock. In this paper, we present the Possibilistic Fuzzy Local Information ...
computer science
29,631
Unified Deep Supervised Domain Adaptation and Generalization
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This work provides a unified framework for addressing the problem of visual supervised domain adaptation and generalization with deep models. The main idea is to exploit the Siamese architecture to learn an embedding subspace that is discriminative, and where mapped visual domains are semantically aligned and yet maxim...
computer science
29,632
Fast Barcode Retrieval for Consensus Contouring
cs.CV
Marking tumors and organs is a challenging task suffering from both inter- and intra-observer variability. The literature quantifies observer variability by generating consensus among multiple experts when they mark the same image. Automatically building consensus contours to establish quality assurance for image segme...
computer science
29,633
Light Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks for Accurate Player Detection
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Vision based player detection is important in sports applications. Accuracy, efficiency, and low memory consumption are desirable for real-time tasks such as intelligent broadcasting and automatic event classification. In this paper, we present a cascaded convolutional neural network (CNN) that satisfies all three of t...
computer science
29,634
Deep Competitive Pathway Networks
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In the design of deep neural architectures, recent studies have demonstrated the benefits of grouping subnetworks into a larger network. For examples, the Inception architecture integrates multi-scale subnetworks and the residual network can be regarded that a residual unit combines a residual subnetwork with an identi...
computer science
29,635
A Variational Approach to Shape-from-shading Under Natural Illumination
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A numerical solution to shape-from-shading under natural illumination is presented. It builds upon an augmented Lagrangian approach for solving a generic PDE-based shape-from-shading model which handles directional or spherical harmonic lighting, orthographic or perspective projection, and greylevel or multi-channel im...
computer science
29,636
Optimisation of photometric stereo methods by non-convex variational minimisation
cs.CV
Estimating shape and appearance of a three dimensional object from a given set of images is a classic research topic that is still actively pursued. Among the various techniques available, PS is distinguished by the assumption that the underlying input images are taken from the same point of view but under different li...
computer science
29,637
A Gaussian mixture model representation of endmember variability in hyperspectral unmixing
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Hyperspectral unmixing while considering endmember variability is usually performed by the normal compositional model (NCM), where the endmembers for each pixel are assumed to be sampled from unimodal Gaussian distributions. However, in real applications, the distribution of a material is often not Gaussian. In this pa...
computer science
29,638
Dense RGB-D semantic mapping with Pixel-Voxel neural network
cs.CV
For intelligent robotics applications, extending 3D mapping to 3D semantic mapping enables robots to, not only localize themselves with respect to the scene's geometrical features but also simultaneously understand the higher level meaning of the scene contexts. Most previous methods focus on geometric 3D reconstructio...
computer science
29,639
PCANet-II: When PCANet Meets the Second Order Pooling
cs.CV
PCANet, as one noticeable shallow network, employs the histogram representation for feature pooling. However, there are three main problems about this kind of pooling method. First, the histogram-based pooling method binarizes the feature maps and leads to inevitable discriminative information loss. Second, it is diffi...
computer science
29,640
Unsupervised Segmentation of Action Segments in Egocentric Videos using Gaze
cs.CV
Unsupervised segmentation of action segments in egocentric videos is a desirable feature in tasks such as activity recognition and content-based video retrieval. Reducing the search space into a finite set of action segments facilitates a faster and less noisy matching. However, there exist a substantial gap in machine...
computer science
29,641
Unsupervised Classification of Intrusive Igneous Rock Thin Section Images using Edge Detection and Colour Analysis
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Classification of rocks is one of the fundamental tasks in a geological study. The process requires a human expert to examine sampled thin section images under a microscope. In this study, we propose a method that uses microscope automation, digital image acquisition, edge detection and colour analysis (histogram). We ...
computer science
29,642
DeepWheat: Estimating Phenotypic Traits from Crop Images with Deep Learning
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In this paper, we investigate estimating emergence and biomass traits from color images and elevation maps of wheat field plots. We employ a state-of-the-art deconvolutional network for segmentation and convolutional architectures, with residual and Inception-like layers, to estimate traits via high dimensional nonline...
computer science
29,643
Image Dehazing using Bilinear Composition Loss Function
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In this paper, we introduce a bilinear composition loss function to address the problem of image dehazing. Previous methods in image dehazing use a two-stage approach which first estimate the transmission map followed by clear image estimation. The drawback of a two-stage method is that it tends to boost local image ar...
computer science
29,644
Pyramidal RoR for Image Classification
cs.CV
The Residual Networks of Residual Networks (RoR) exhibits excellent performance in the image classification task, but sharply increasing the number of feature map channels makes the characteristic information transmission incoherent, which losses a certain of information related to classification prediction, limiting t...
computer science
29,645
Margin Sample Mining Loss: A Deep Learning Based Method for Person Re-identification
cs.CV
Person re-identification (ReID) is an important task in computer vision. Recently, deep learning with a metric learning loss has become a common framework for ReID. In this paper, we also propose a new metric learning loss with hard sample mining called margin smaple mining loss (MSML) which can achieve better accuracy...
computer science
29,646
Depth estimation using structured light flow -- analysis of projected pattern flow on an object's surface --
cs.CV
Shape reconstruction techniques using structured light have been widely researched and developed due to their robustness, high precision, and density. Because the techniques are based on decoding a pattern to find correspondences, it implicitly requires that the projected patterns be clearly captured by an image sensor...
computer science
29,647
Temporal shape super-resolution by intra-frame motion encoding using high-fps structured light
cs.CV
One of the solutions of depth imaging of moving scene is to project a static pattern on the object and use just a single image for reconstruction. However, if the motion of the object is too fast with respect to the exposure time of the image sensor, patterns on the captured image are blurred and reconstruction fails. ...
computer science
29,648
Indirect Match Highlights Detection with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Highlights in a sport video are usually referred as actions that stimulate excitement or attract attention of the audience. A big effort is spent in designing techniques which find automatically highlights, in order to automatize the otherwise manual editing process. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches try to solve...
computer science
29,649
A Study of Cross-domain Generative Models applied to Cartoon Series
cs.CV
We investigate Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to model one particular kind of image: frames from TV cartoons. Cartoons are particularly interesting because their visual appearance emphasizes the important semantic information about a scene while abstracting out the less important details, but each cartoon serie...
computer science
29,650
Neural Color Transfer between Images
cs.CV
We propose a new algorithm for color transfer between images that have perceptually similar semantic structures. We aim to achieve a more accurate color transfer that leverages semantically-meaningful dense correspondence between images. To accomplish this, our algorithm uses neural representations for matching. Additi...
computer science
29,651
Rethinking Feature Discrimination and Polymerization for Large-scale Recognition
cs.CV
Feature matters. How to train a deep network to acquire discriminative features across categories and polymerized features within classes has always been at the core of many computer vision tasks, specially for large-scale recognition systems where test identities are unseen during training and the number of classes co...
computer science
29,652
Classification of Time-Series Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has achieved a great success in image recognition task by automatically learning a hierarchical feature representation from raw data. While the majority of Time-Series Classification (TSC) literature is focused on 1D signals, this paper uses Recurrence Plots (RP) to transform time-se...
computer science
29,653
End-to-end Learning for 3D Facial Animation from Raw Waveforms of Speech
cs.CV
We present a deep learning framework for real-time speech-driven 3D facial animation from just raw waveforms. Our deep neural network directly maps an input sequence of speech audio to a series of micro facial action unit activations and head rotations to drive a 3D blendshape face model. In particular, our deep model ...
computer science
29,654
Fine-Grained Head Pose Estimation Without Keypoints
cs.CV
Estimating the head pose of a person is a crucial problem that has a large amount of applications such as aiding in gaze estimation, modeling attention, fitting 3D models to video and performing face alignment. Traditionally head pose is computed by estimating some keypoints from the target face and solving the 2D to 3...
computer science
29,655
Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a method to modify traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into interpretable CNNs, in order to clarify knowledge representations in high conv-layers of CNNs. In an interpretable CNN, each filter in a high conv-layer represents a certain object part. We do not need any annotations of object...
computer science
29,656
VIDOSAT: High-dimensional Sparsifying Transform Learning for Online Video Denoising
cs.CV
Techniques exploiting the sparsity of images in a transform domain have been effective for various applications in image and video processing. Transform learning methods involve cheap computations and have been demonstrated to perform well in applications such as image denoising and medical image reconstruction. Recent...
computer science
29,657
GP-GAN: Gender Preserving GAN for Synthesizing Faces from Landmarks
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Facial landmarks constitute the most compressed representation of faces and are known to preserve information such as pose, gender and facial structure present in the faces. Several works exist that attempt to perform high-level face-related analysis tasks based on landmarks. In contrast, in this work, an attempt is ma...
computer science
29,658
A concatenating framework of shortcut convolutional neural networks
cs.CV
It is well accepted that convolutional neural networks play an important role in learning excellent features for image classification and recognition. However, in tradition they only allow adjacent layers connected, limiting integration of multi-scale information. To further improve their performance, we present a conc...
computer science
29,659
Joint Person Re-identification and Camera Network Topology Inference in Multiple Cameras
cs.CV
Person re-identification is the task of recognizing or identifying a person across multiple views in multi-camera networks. Although there has been much progress in person re-identification, person re-identification in large-scale multi-camera networks still remains a challenging task because of the large spatio-tempor...
computer science
29,660
Resolution limits on visual speech recognition
cs.CV
Visual-only speech recognition is dependent upon a number of factors that can be difficult to control, such as: lighting; identity; motion; emotion and expression. But some factors, such as video resolution are controllable, so it is surprising that there is not yet a systematic study of the effect of resolution on lip...
computer science
29,661
Some observations on computer lip-reading: moving from the dream to the reality
cs.CV
In the quest for greater computer lip-reading performance there are a number of tacit assumptions which are either present in the datasets (high resolution for example) or in the methods (recognition of spoken visual units called visemes for example). Here we review these and other assumptions and show the surprising r...
computer science
29,662
Isotropic and Steerable Wavelets in N Dimensions. A multiresolution analysis framework for ITK
cs.CV
This document describes the implementation of the external module ITKIsotropicWavelets, a multiresolution (MRA) analysis framework using isotropic and steerable wavelets in the frequency domain. This framework provides the backbone for state of the art filters for denoising, feature detection or phase analysis in N-dim...
computer science
29,663
Detection of Inferior Myocardial Infarction using Shallow Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Myocardial Infarction is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. This paper presents a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture which takes raw Electrocardiography (ECG) signal from lead II, III and AVF and differentiates between inferior myocardial infarction (IMI) and healthy signals. The performance of ...
computer science
29,664
Speaker-independent machine lip-reading with speaker-dependent viseme classifiers
cs.CV
In machine lip-reading, which is identification of speech from visual-only information, there is evidence to show that visual speech is highly dependent upon the speaker [1]. Here, we use a phoneme-clustering method to form new phoneme-to-viseme maps for both individual and multiple speakers. We use these maps to exami...
computer science
29,665
Fast Fine-grained Image Classification via Weakly Supervised Discriminative Localization
cs.CV
Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories in each basic-level category. Existing methods employ discriminative localization to find the key distinctions among subcategories. However, they generally have two limitations: (1) Discriminative localization relies on region proposal methods ...
computer science
29,666
Decoding visemes: improving machine lipreading
cs.CV
To undertake machine lip-reading, we try to recognise speech from a visual signal. Current work often uses viseme classification supported by language models with varying degrees of success. A few recent works suggest phoneme classification, in the right circumstances, can outperform viseme classification. In this work...
computer science
29,667
Person Re-Identification with Vision and Language
cs.CV
In this paper we propose a new approach to person re-identification using images and natural language descriptions. We propose a joint vision and language model based on CCA and CNN architectures to match across the two modalities as well as to enrich visual examples for which there are no language descriptions. We als...
computer science
29,668
Calligraphic Stylisation Learning with a Physiologically Plausible Model of Movement and Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
We propose a computational framework to learn stylisation patterns from example drawings or writings, and then generate new trajectories that possess similar stylistic qualities. We particularly focus on the generation and stylisation of trajectories that are similar to the ones that can be seen in calligraphy and graf...
computer science
29,669
The Cafe Wall Illusion: Local and Global Perception from multiple scale to multiscale
cs.CV
Geometrical illusions are a subclass of optical illusions in which the geometrical characteristics of patterns such as orientations and angles are distorted and misperceived as the result of low- to high-level retinal/cortical processing. Modelling the detection of tilt in these illusions and their strengths as they ar...
computer science
29,670
Group Affect Prediction Using Multimodal Distributions
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We describe our approach towards building an efficient predictive model to detect emotions for a group of people in an image. We have proposed that training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model on the emotion heatmaps extracted from the image, outperforms a CNN model trained entirely on the raw images. The compar...
computer science
29,671
Wide and deep volumetric residual networks for volumetric image classification
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3D shape models that directly classify objects from 3D information have become more widely implementable. Current state of the art models rely on deep convolutional and inception models that are resource intensive. Residual neural networks have been demonstrated to be easier to optimize and do not suffer from vanishing...
computer science
29,672
Reducing Complexity of HEVC: A Deep Learning Approach
cs.CV
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) significantly reduces bit-rates over the proceeding H.264 standard but at the expense of extremely high encoding complexity. In HEVC, the quad-tree partition of coding unit (CU) consumes a large proportion of the HEVC encoding complexity, due to the bruteforce search for rate-distort...
computer science
29,673
Adaptive Measurement Network for CS Image Reconstruction
cs.CV
Conventional compressive sensing (CS) reconstruction is very slow for its characteristic of solving an optimization problem. Convolu- tional neural network can realize fast processing while achieving compa- rable results. While CS image recovery with high quality not only de- pends on good reconstruction algorithms, bu...
computer science
29,674
Robust non-local means filter for ultrasound image denoising
cs.CV
This paper introduces a new approach to non-local means image denoising. Instead of using all pixels located in the search window for estimating the value of a pixel, we identify the highly corrupted pixels and assign less weight to these pixels. This method is called robust non-local means. Numerical and subjective ev...
computer science
29,675
Learning Autoencoded Radon Projections
cs.CV
Autoencoders have been recently used for encoding medical images. In this study, we design and validate a new framework for retrieving medical images by classifying Radon projections, compressed in the deepest layer of an autoencoder. As the autoencoder reduces the dimensionality, a multilayer perceptron (MLP) can be e...
computer science
29,676
Skin Lesion Segmentation: U-Nets versus Clustering
cs.CV
Many automatic skin lesion diagnosis systems use segmentation as a preprocessing step to diagnose skin conditions because skin lesion shape, border irregularity, and size can influence the likelihood of malignancy. This paper presents, examines and compares two different approaches to skin lesion segmentation. The firs...
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A Comparative Study of CNN, BoVW and LBP for Classification of Histopathological Images
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Despite the progress made in the field of medical imaging, it remains a large area of open research, especially due to the variety of imaging modalities and disease-specific characteristics. This paper is a comparative study describing the potential of using local binary patterns (LBP), deep features and the bag-of-vis...
computer science
29,678
Variational Grid Setting Network
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We propose a new neural network architecture for automatic generation of missing characters in a Chinese font set. We call the neural network architecture the Variational Grid Setting Network which is based on the variational autoencoder (VAE) with some tweaks. The neural network model is able to generate missing chara...
computer science
29,679
Deep learning for source camera identification on mobile devices
cs.CV
In the present paper, we propose a source camera identification method for mobile devices based on deep learning. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown a remarkable performance on several tasks such as image recognition, video analysis or natural language processing. A CNN consists on a set of layer...
computer science
29,680
Gaussian Three-Dimensional kernel SVM for Edge Detection Applications
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This paper presents a novel and uniform algorithm for edge detection based on SVM (support vector machine) with Three-dimensional Gaussian radial basis function with kernel. Because of disadvantages in traditional edge detection such as inaccurate edge location, rough edge and careless on detect soft edge. The experime...
computer science
29,681
Spinal cord gray matter segmentation using deep dilated convolutions
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Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological disorders and was also recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The ability to automatically segment the GM is, therefore, an important task for modern studies of the spinal cord. In thi...
computer science
29,682
Decoding visemes: improving machine lipreading (PhD thesis)
cs.CV
Machine lipreading (MLR) is speech recognition from visual cues and a niche research problem in speech processing & computer vision. Current challenges fall into two groups: the content of the video, such as rate of speech or; the parameters of the video recording e.g, video resolution. We show that HD video is not nee...
computer science
29,683
Visual speech recognition: aligning terminologies for better understanding
cs.CV
We are at an exciting time for machine lipreading. Traditional research stemmed from the adaptation of audio recognition systems. But now, the computer vision community is also participating. This joining of two previously disparate areas with different perspectives on computer lipreading is creating opportunities for ...
computer science
29,684
Visual gesture variability between talkers in continuous visual speech
cs.CV
Recent adoption of deep learning methods to the field of machine lipreading research gives us two options to pursue to improve system performance. Either, we develop end-to-end systems holistically or, we experiment to further our understanding of the visual speech signal. The latter option is more difficult but this k...
computer science
29,685
Understanding the visual speech signal
cs.CV
For machines to lipread, or understand speech from lip movement, they decode lip-motions (known as visemes) into the spoken sounds. We investigate the visual speech channel to further our understanding of visemes. This has applications beyond machine lipreading; speech therapists, animators, and psychologists can benef...
computer science
29,686
Visual Tracking via Learning Dynamic Patch-based Graph Representation
cs.CV
Existing visual tracking methods usually localize a target object with a bounding box, in which the performance of the foreground object trackers or detectors is often affected by the inclusion of background clutter. To handle this problem, we learn a patch-based graph representation for visual tracking. The tracked ob...
computer science
29,687
Content-Adaptive Sketch Portrait Generation by Decompositional Representation Learning
cs.CV
Sketch portrait generation benefits a wide range of applications such as digital entertainment and law enforcement. Although plenty of efforts have been dedicated to this task, several issues still remain unsolved for generating vivid and detail-preserving personal sketch portraits. For example, quite a few artifacts m...
computer science
29,688
Learning to Segment Human by Watching YouTube
cs.CV
An intuition on human segmentation is that when a human is moving in a video, the video-context (e.g., appearance and motion clues) may potentially infer reasonable mask information for the whole human body. Inspired by this, based on popular deep convolutional neural networks (CNN), we explore a very-weakly supervised...
computer science
29,689
Secrets in Computing Optical Flow by Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used over many areas in compute vision. Especially in classification. Recently, FlowNet and several works on opti- cal estimation using CNNs shows the potential ability of CNNs in doing per-pixel regression. We proposed several CNNs network architectures that can es...
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Monitoring tool usage in cataract surgery videos using boosted convolutional and recurrent neural networks
cs.CV
With an estimated 19 million operations performed annually, cataract surgery is the most common surgical procedure. This paper investigates the automatic monitoring of tool usage during a cataract surgery, with potential applications in report generation, surgical training and real-time decision support. In this study,...
computer science
29,691
GraphMatch: Efficient Large-Scale Graph Construction for Structure from Motion
cs.CV
We present GraphMatch, an approximate yet efficient method for building the matching graph for large-scale structure-from-motion (SfM) pipelines. Unlike modern SfM pipelines that use vocabulary (Voc.) trees to quickly build the matching graph and avoid a costly brute-force search of matching image pairs, GraphMatch doe...
computer science
29,692
Grader variability and the importance of reference standards for evaluating machine learning models for diabetic retinopathy
cs.CV
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema are common complications of diabetes which can lead to vision loss. The grading of DR is a fairly complex process that requires the detection of fine features such as microaneurysms, intraretinal hemorrhages, and intraretinal microvascular abnormalities. Because of t...
computer science
29,693
Semantic 3D Reconstruction with Finite Element Bases
cs.CV
We propose a novel framework for the discretisation of multi-label problems on arbitrary, continuous domains. Our work bridges the gap between general FEM discretisations, and labeling problems that arise in a variety of computer vision tasks, including for instance those derived from the generalised Potts model. Start...
computer science
29,694
Accelerating CS in Parallel Imaging Reconstructions Using an Efficient and Effective Circulant Preconditioner
cs.CV
Purpose: Design of a preconditioner for fast and efficient parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions. Theory: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions become time consuming when the problem size or the number of coils is large, due to the large linear system of equations that has to be solv...
computer science
29,695
DeepLesion: Automated Deep Mining, Categorization and Detection of Significant Radiology Image Findings using Large-Scale Clinical Lesion Annotations
cs.CV
Extracting, harvesting and building large-scale annotated radiological image datasets is a greatly important yet challenging problem. It is also the bottleneck to designing more effective data-hungry computing paradigms (e.g., deep learning) for medical image analysis. Yet, vast amounts of clinical annotations (usually...
computer science
29,696
Energy-Based Spherical Sparse Coding
cs.CV
In this paper, we explore an efficient variant of convolutional sparse coding with unit norm code vectors where reconstruction quality is evaluated using an inner product (cosine distance). To use these codes for discriminative classification, we describe a model we term Energy-Based Spherical Sparse Coding (EB-SSC) in...
computer science
29,697
Plane-extraction from depth-data using a Gaussian mixture regression model
cs.CV
We propose a novel algorithm for unsupervised extraction of piecewise planar models from depth-data. Among other applications, such models are a good way of enabling autonomous agents (robots, cars, drones, etc.) to effectively perceive their surroundings and to navigate in three dimensions. We propose to do this by fi...
computer science
29,698
Fast and Accurate Image Super-Resolution with Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks have recently demonstrated high-quality reconstruction for single image super-resolution. However, existing methods often require a large number of network parameters and entail heavy computational loads at runtime for generating high-accuracy super-resolution results. In this paper, we pr...
computer science
29,699
Integrating Boundary and Center Correlation Filters for Visual Tracking with Aspect Ratio Variation
cs.CV
The aspect ratio variation frequently appears in visual tracking and has a severe influence on performance. Although many correlation filter (CF)-based trackers have also been suggested for scale adaptive tracking, few studies have been given to handle the aspect ratio variation for CF trackers. In this paper, we make ...
computer science
29,700
Online Photometric Calibration for Auto Exposure Video for Realtime Visual Odometry and SLAM
cs.CV
Recent direct visual odometry and SLAM algorithms have demonstrated impressive levels of precision. However, they require a photometric camera calibration in order to achieve competitive results. Hence, the respective algorithm cannot be directly applied to an off-the-shelf-camera or to a video sequence acquired with a...
computer science
29,701
Multiframe Scene Flow with Piecewise Rigid Motion
cs.CV
We introduce a novel multiframe scene flow approach that jointly optimizes the consistency of the patch appearances and their local rigid motions from RGB-D image sequences. In contrast to the competing methods, we take advantage of an oversegmentation of the reference frame and robust optimization techniques. We formu...
computer science