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Using Deep Convolutional Networks for Gesture Recognition in American Sign Language
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In the realm of multimodal communication, sign language is, and continues to be, one of the most understudied areas. In line with recent advances in the field of deep learning, there are far reaching implications and applications that neural networks can have for sign language interpretation. In this paper, we present ...
computer science
29,803
Material Classification using Neural Networks
cs.CV
The recognition and classification of the diversity of materials that exist in the environment around us are a key visual competence that computer vision systems focus on in recent years. Understanding the identification of materials in distinct images involves a deep process that has made usage of the recent progress ...
computer science
29,804
VisDA: The Visual Domain Adaptation Challenge
cs.CV
We present the 2017 Visual Domain Adaptation (VisDA) dataset and challenge, a large-scale testbed for unsupervised domain adaptation across visual domains. Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to solve the real-world problem of domain shift, where machine learning models trained on one domain must be transferred and ada...
computer science
29,805
Improved Search in Hamming Space using Deep Multi-Index Hashing
cs.CV
Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. There has been considerable research on generating efficient image representation via the deep-network-based hashing methods. However, the issue of efficient searching in the deep representation spac...
computer science
29,806
Generative Adversarial Networks: An Overview
cs.CV
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide a way to learn deep representations without extensively annotated training data. They achieve this through deriving backpropagation signals through a competitive process involving a pair of networks. The representations that can be learned by GANs may be used in a variety ...
computer science
29,807
Emerging from Water: Underwater Image Color Correction Based on Weakly Supervised Color Transfer
cs.CV
Underwater vision suffers from severe effects due to selective attenuation and scattering when light propagates through water. Such degradation not only affects the quality of underwater images but limits the ability of vision tasks. Different from existing methods which either ignore the wavelength dependency of the a...
computer science
29,808
Deep Self-taught Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification
cs.CV
This paper addresses the land cover classification task for remote sensing images by deep self-taught learning. Our self-taught learning approach learns suitable feature representations of the input data using sparse representation and undercomplete dictionary learning. We propose a deep learning framework which extrac...
computer science
29,809
Sea Level Anomaly Prediction using Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
Sea level change, one of the most dire impacts of anthropogenic global warming, will affect a large amount of the world's population. However, sea level change is not uniform in time and space, and the skill of conventional prediction methods is limited due to the ocean's internal variabi-lity on timescales from weeks ...
computer science
29,810
Nonlinear Supervised Dimensionality Reduction via Smooth Regular Embeddings
cs.CV
The recovery of the intrinsic geometric structures of data collections is an important problem in data analysis. Supervised extensions of several manifold learning approaches have been proposed in the recent years. Meanwhile, existing methods primarily focus on the embedding of the training data, and the generalization...
computer science
29,811
Visual Speech Recognition Using PCA Networks and LSTMs in a Tandem GMM-HMM System
cs.CV
Automatic visual speech recognition is an interesting problem in pattern recognition especially when audio data is noisy or not readily available. It is also a very challenging task mainly because of the lower amount of information in the visual articulations compared to the audible utterance. In this work, principle c...
computer science
29,812
Combining Multiple Views for Visual Speech Recognition
cs.CV
Visual speech recognition is a challenging research problem with a particular practical application of aiding audio speech recognition in noisy scenarios. Multiple camera setups can be beneficial for the visual speech recognition systems in terms of improved performance and robustness. In this paper, we explore this as...
computer science
29,813
Block DCT filtering using vector processing
cs.CV
Filtering is an important issue in signals and images processing. Many images and videos are compressed using discrete cosine transform (DCT). For reducing the computation complexity, we are interested in filtering block and images directly in DCT domain. This article proposed an efficient and yet very simple filtering...
computer science
29,814
Dress like a Star: Retrieving Fashion Products from Videos
cs.CV
This work proposes a system for retrieving clothing and fashion products from video content. Although films and television are the perfect showcase for fashion brands to promote their products, spectators are not always aware of where to buy the latest trends they see on screen. Here, a framework for breaking the gap b...
computer science
29,815
FigureQA: An Annotated Figure Dataset for Visual Reasoning
cs.CV
We introduce FigureQA, a visual reasoning corpus of over one million question-answer pairs grounded in over 100,000 images. The images are synthetic, scientific-style figures from five classes: line plots, dot-line plots, vertical and horizontal bar graphs, and pie charts. We formulate our reasoning task by generating ...
computer science
29,816
Interpretable Transformations with Encoder-Decoder Networks
cs.CV
Deep feature spaces have the capacity to encode complex transformations of their input data. However, understanding the relative feature-space relationship between two transformed encoded images is difficult. For instance, what is the relative feature space relationship between two rotated images? What is decoded when ...
computer science
29,817
Be Your Own Prada: Fashion Synthesis with Structural Coherence
cs.CV
We present a novel and effective approach for generating new clothing on a wearer through generative adversarial learning. Given an input image of a person and a sentence describing a different outfit, our model "redresses" the person as desired, while at the same time keeping the wearer and her/his pose unchanged. Gen...
computer science
29,818
Historical Document Image Segmentation with LDA-Initialized Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel approach to perform deep neural networks layer-wise weight initialization using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Typically, the weights of a deep neural network are initialized with: random values, greedy layer-wise pre-training (usually as Deep Belief Network or as auto-encoder) or...
computer science
29,819
SqueezeSeg: Convolutional Neural Nets with Recurrent CRF for Real-Time Road-Object Segmentation from 3D LiDAR Point Cloud
cs.CV
In this paper, we address semantic segmentation of road-objects from 3D LiDAR point clouds. In particular, we wish to detect and categorize instances of interest, such as cars, pedestrians and cyclists. We formulate this problem as a point- wise classification problem, and propose an end-to-end pipeline called SqueezeS...
computer science
29,820
Superpixel Based Segmentation and Classification of Polyps in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy
cs.CV
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) is a relatively new technology to record the entire GI trace, in vivo. The large amounts of frames captured during an examination cause difficulties for physicians to review all these frames. The need for reducing the reviewing time using some intelligent methods has been a challenge. P...
computer science
29,821
Light-weight place recognition and loop detection using road markings
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for robust place recognition and loop detection using camera information only. Our pipeline purely relies on spatial localization and semantic information of road markings. The creation of the database of road markings sequences is performed online, which makes the metho...
computer science
29,822
Generalized Zero-Shot Learning for Action Recognition with Web-Scale Video Data
cs.CV
Action recognition in surveillance video makes our life safer by detecting the criminal events or predicting violent emergencies. However, efficient action recognition is not free of difficulty. First, there are so many action classes in daily life that we cannot pre-define all possible action classes beforehand. Moreo...
computer science
29,823
Anticipating Daily Intention using On-Wrist Motion Triggered Sensing
cs.CV
Anticipating human intention by observing one's actions has many applications. For instance, picking up a cellphone, then a charger (actions) implies that one wants to charge the cellphone (intention). By anticipating the intention, an intelligent system can guide the user to the closest power outlet. We propose an on-...
computer science
29,824
MR to X-Ray Projection Image Synthesis
cs.CV
Hybrid imaging promises large potential in medical imaging applications. To fully utilize the possibilities of corresponding information from different modalities, the information must be transferable between the domains. In radiation therapy, existing methods make use of reconstructed magnetic resonance imaging data t...
computer science
29,825
SEGCloud: Semantic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds
cs.CV
3D semantic scene labeling is fundamental to agents operating in the real world. In particular, labeling raw 3D point sets from sensors provides fine-grained semantics. Recent works leverage the capabilities of Neural Networks (NNs), but are limited to coarse voxel predictions and do not explicitly enforce global consi...
computer science
29,826
Employing Fusion of Learned and Handcrafted Features for Unconstrained Ear Recognition
cs.CV
We present an unconstrained ear recognition framework that outperforms state-of-the-art systems in different publicly available image databases. To this end, we developed CNN-based solutions for ear normalization and description, we used well-known handcrafted descriptors, and we fused learned and handcrafted features ...
computer science
29,827
Generalized linear mixing model accounting for endmember variability
cs.CV
Endmember variability is an important factor for accurately unveiling vital information relating the pure materials and their distribution in hyperspectral images. Recently, the extended linear mixing model (ELMM) has been proposed as a modification of the linear mixing model (LMM) to consider endmember variability eff...
computer science
29,828
An efficient deep learning hashing neural network for mobile visual search
cs.CV
Mobile visual search applications are emerging that enable users to sense their surroundings with smart phones. However, because of the particular challenges of mobile visual search, achieving a high recognition bitrate has becomes a consistent target of previous related works. In this paper, we propose a few-parameter...
computer science
29,829
Image Disguise based on Generative Model
cs.CV
To protect image contents, most existing encryption algorithms are designed to transform an original image into a texture-like or noise-like image, which is, however, an obvious visual sign indicating the presence of an encrypted image, results in a significantly large number of attacks. To solve this problem, in this ...
computer science
29,830
Feature-Guided Black-Box Safety Testing of Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
Despite the improved accuracy of deep neural networks, the discovery of adversarial examples has raised serious safety concerns. Most existing approaches for crafting adversarial examples necessitate some knowledge (architecture, parameters, etc.) of the network at hand. In this paper, we focus on image classifiers and...
computer science
29,831
Backtracking Regression Forests for Accurate Camera Relocalization
cs.CV
Camera relocalization plays a vital role in many robotics and computer vision tasks, such as global localization, recovery from tracking failure, and loop closure detection. Recent random forests based methods directly predict 3D world locations for 2D image locations to guide the camera pose optimization. During train...
computer science
29,832
ActivityNet Challenge 2017 Summary
cs.CV
The ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge 2017 Summary: results and challenge participants papers.
computer science
29,833
Deep Cropping via Attention Box Prediction and Aesthetics Assessment
cs.CV
We model the photo cropping problem as a cascade of attention box regression and aesthetic quality classification, based on deep learning. A neural network is designed that has two branches for predicting attention bounding box and analyzing aesthetics, respectively. The predicted attention box is treated as an initial...
computer science
29,834
Feedback-prop: Convolutional Neural Network Inference under Partial Evidence
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose an inference procedure for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) where partial evidence might be available during inference. We introduce a general feedback-based propagation approach (feedback-prop) that allows us to boost the prediction accuracy of an existing CNN model for an arbitrary ...
computer science
29,835
VGGFace2: A dataset for recognising faces across pose and age
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a new large-scale face dataset named VGGFace2. The dataset contains 3.31 million images of 9131 subjects, with an average of 362.6 images for each subject. Images are downloaded from Google Image Search and have large variations in pose, age, illumination, ethnicity and profession (e.g. acto...
computer science
29,836
Accelerating GMM-based patch priors for image restoration: Three ingredients for a 100$\times$ speed-up
cs.CV
Image restoration methods aim to recover the underlying clean image from corrupted observations. The Expected Patch Log-likelihood (EPLL) algorithm is a powerful image restoration method that uses a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) prior on the patches of natural images. Although it is very effective for restoring images, ...
computer science
29,837
An iterative closest point method for measuring the level of similarity of 3d log scans in wood industry
cs.CV
In the Canadian's lumber industry, simulators are used to predict the lumbers resulting from the sawing of a log at a given sawmill. Giving a log or several logs' 3D scans as input, simulators perform a real-time job to predict the lumbers. These simulators, however, tend to be slow at processing large volume of wood. ...
computer science
29,838
An In-field Automatic Wheat Disease Diagnosis System
cs.CV
Crop diseases are responsible for the major production reduction and economic losses in agricultural industry world- wide. Monitoring for health status of crops is critical to control the spread of diseases and implement effective management. This paper presents an in-field automatic wheat disease diagnosis system base...
computer science
29,839
Fully Context-Aware Video Prediction
cs.CV
This paper proposes a new neural network design for unsupervised learning through video prediction. Current video prediction models based on convolutional networks, recurrent networks, and their combinations often result in blurry predictions. Recent work has attempted to address this issue with techniques like separat...
computer science
29,840
The Shape of an Image: A Study of Mapper on Images
cs.CV
We study the topological construction called Mapper in the context of simply connected domains, in particular on images. The Mapper construction can be considered as a generalization for contour, split, and joint trees on simply connected domains. A contour tree on an image domain assumes the height function to be a pi...
computer science
29,841
Human-level CMR image analysis with deep fully convolutional networks
cs.CV
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is a standard imaging modality for assessing cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of death globally. CMR enables accurate quantification of the cardiac chamber volume, ejection fraction and myocardial mass, providing a wealth of information for sensitive and ...
computer science
29,842
LOOP Descriptor: Local Optimal Oriented Pattern
cs.CV
This letter introduces the LOOP binary descriptor (local optimal oriented pattern) that encodes rotation invariance into the main formulation itself. This makes any post processing stage for rotation invariance redundant and improves on both accuracy and time complexity. We consider fine-grained lepidoptera (moth/butte...
computer science
29,843
Real-Time Automatic Fetal Brain Extraction in Fetal MRI by Deep Learning
cs.CV
Brain segmentation is a fundamental first step in neuroimage analysis. In the case of fetal MRI, it is particularly challenging and important due to the arbitrary orientation of the fetus, organs that surround the fetal head, and intermittent fetal motion. Several promising methods have been proposed but are limited in...
computer science
29,844
High Five: Improving Gesture Recognition by Embracing Uncertainty
cs.CV
Sensors on mobile devices---accelerometers, gyroscopes, pressure meters, and GPS---invite new applications in gesture recognition, gaming, and fitness tracking. However, programming them remains challenging because human gestures captured by sensors are noisy. This paper illustrates that noisy gestures degrade training...
computer science
29,845
Complete 3D Scene Parsing from Single RGBD Image
cs.CV
Inferring the location, shape, and class of each object in a single image is an important task in computer vision. In this paper, we aim to predict the full 3D parse of both visible and occluded portions of the scene from one RGBD image. We parse the scene by modeling objects as detailed CAD models with class labels an...
computer science
29,846
Knowledge Projection for Deep Neural Networks
cs.CV
While deeper and wider neural networks are actively pushing the performance limits of various computer vision and machine learning tasks, they often require large sets of labeled data for effective training and suffer from extremely high computational complexity. In this paper, we will develop a new framework for train...
computer science
29,847
Artifact reduction for separable non-local means
cs.CV
It was recently demonstrated [J. Electron. Imaging, 25(2), 2016] that one can perform fast non-local means (NLM) denoising of one-dimensional signals using a method called lifting. The cost of lifting is independent of the patch length, which dramatically reduces the run-time for large patches. Unfortunately, it is dif...
computer science
29,848
Improved Workflow for Unsupervised Multiphase Image Segmentation
cs.CV
Quantitative image analysis often depends on accurate classification of pixels through a segmentation process. However, imaging artifacts such as the partial volume effect and sensor noise complicate the classification process. These effects increase the pixel intensity variance of each constituent class, causing inten...
computer science
29,849
Class Correlation affects Single Object Localization using Pre-trained ConvNets
cs.CV
The problem of object localization has become one of the mainstream problems of vision. Most of the algorithms proposed involve the design for the model to be specifically for localizing objects. In this paper, we explore whether a pre-trained canonical ConvNet (without fine-tuning) trained purely for object classifica...
computer science
29,850
Deep Spatial Regression Model for Image Crowd Counting
cs.CV
Computer vision techniques have been used to produce accurate and generic crowd count estimators in recent years. Due to severe occlusions, appearance variations, perspective distortions and illumination conditions, crowd counting is a very challenging task. To this end, we propose a deep spatial regression model(DSRM)...
computer science
29,851
Spiking Optical Flow for Event-based Sensors Using IBM's TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System
cs.CV
This paper describes a fully spike-based neural network for optical flow estimation from Dynamic Vision Sensor data. A low power embedded implementation of the method which combines the Asynchronous Time-based Image Sensor with IBM's TrueNorth Neurosynaptic System is presented. The sensor generates spikes with sub-mill...
computer science
29,852
Dynamic Routing Between Capsules
cs.CV
A capsule is a group of neurons whose activity vector represents the instantiation parameters of a specific type of entity such as an object or an object part. We use the length of the activity vector to represent the probability that the entity exists and its orientation to represent the instantiation parameters. Acti...
computer science
29,853
How far did we get in face spoofing detection?
cs.CV
The growing use of control access systems based on face recognition shed light over the need for even more accurate systems to detect face spoofing attacks. In this paper, an extensive analysis on face spoofing detection works published in the last decade is presented. The analyzed works are categorized by their fundam...
computer science
29,854
Image Compression: Sparse Coding vs. Bottleneck Autoencoders
cs.CV
Bottleneck autoencoders have been actively researched as a solution to image compression tasks. However, we observed that bottleneck autoencoders produce subjectively low quality reconstructed images. In this work, we explore the ability of sparse coding to improve reconstructed image quality for the same degree of com...
computer science
29,855
SEGMENT3D: A Web-based Application for Collaborative Segmentation of 3D images used in the Shoot Apical Meristem
cs.CV
The quantitative analysis of 3D confocal microscopy images of the shoot apical meristem helps understanding the growth process of some plants. Cell segmentation in these images is crucial for computational plant analysis and many automated methods have been proposed. However, variations in signal intensity across the i...
computer science
29,856
PoseTrack: A Benchmark for Human Pose Estimation and Tracking
cs.CV
Human poses and motions are important cues for analysis of videos with people and there is strong evidence that representations based on body pose are highly effective for a variety of tasks such as activity recognition, content retrieval and social signal processing. In this work, we aim to further advance the state o...
computer science
29,857
Deterministic Approximate Methods for Maximum Consensus Robust Fitting
cs.CV
Maximum consensus estimation plays a critically important role in robust fitting problems in computer vision. Currently, the most prevalent algorithms for consensus maximization draw from the class of randomized hypothesize-and-verify algorithms, which are cheap but can usually deliver only rough approximate solutions....
computer science
29,858
SceneFlowFields: Dense Interpolation of Sparse Scene Flow Correspondences
cs.CV
While most scene flow methods use either variational optimization or a strong rigid motion assumption, we show for the first time that scene flow can also be estimated by dense interpolation of sparse matches. To this end, we find sparse matches across two stereo image pairs that are detected without any prior regulari...
computer science
29,859
Image matting with normalized weight and semi-supervised learning
cs.CV
Image matting is an important vision problem. The main stream methods for it combine sampling-based methods and propagation-based methods. In this paper, we deal with the combination with a normalized weighting parameter, which could well control the relative relationship between information from sampling and from prop...
computer science
29,860
High-Quality Facial Photo-Sketch Synthesis Using Multi-Adversarial Networks
cs.CV
Synthesizing face sketches from real photos and its inverse have many applications. However, photo/sketch synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the fact that photo and sketch have different characteristics. In this work, we consider this task as an image-to-image translation problem and explore the recently po...
computer science
29,861
Enhanced Biologically Inspired Model for Image Recognition Based on a Novel Patch Selection Method with Moment
cs.CV
Biologically inspired model (BIM) for image recognition is a robust computational architecture, which has attracted widespread attention. BIM can be described as a four-layer structure based on the mechanisms of the visual cortex. Although the performance of BIM for image recognition is robust, it takes the randomly se...
computer science
29,862
Dual Path Networks for Multi-Person Human Pose Estimation
cs.CV
The task of multi-person human pose estimation in natural scenes is quite challenging. Existing methods include both top-down and bottom-up approaches. The main advantage of bottom-up methods is its excellent tradeoff between estimation accuracy and computational cost. We follow this path and aim to design smaller, fas...
computer science
29,863
Detection and Analysis of Human Emotions through Voice and Speech Pattern Processing
cs.CV
The ability to modulate vocal sounds and generate speech is one of the features which set humans apart from other living beings. The human voice can be characterized by several attributes such as pitch, timbre, loudness, and vocal tone. It has often been observed that humans express their emotions by varying different ...
computer science
29,864
Multi-modal Aggregation for Video Classification
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a solution to Large-Scale Video Classification Challenge (LSVC2017) [1] that ranked the 1st place. We focused on a variety of modalities that cover visual, motion and audio. Also, we visualized the aggregation process to better understand how each modality takes effect. Among the extracted mod...
computer science
29,865
Total-Text: A Comprehensive Dataset for Scene Text Detection and Recognition
cs.CV
Text in curve orientation, despite being one of the common text orientations in real world environment, has close to zero existence in well received scene text datasets such as ICDAR2013 and MSRA-TD500. The main motivation of Total-Text is to fill this gap and facilitate a new research direction for the scene text comm...
computer science
29,866
SeeThrough: Finding Chairs in Heavily Occluded Indoor Scene Images
cs.CV
Discovering 3D arrangements of objects from single indoor images is important given its many applications including interior design, content creation, etc. Although heavily researched in the recent years, existing approaches break down under medium or heavy occlusion as the core object detection module starts failing i...
computer science
29,867
Learning to diagnose from scratch by exploiting dependencies among labels
cs.CV
The field of medical diagnostics contains a wealth of challenges which closely resemble classical machine learning problems; practical constraints, however, complicate the translation of these endpoints naively into classical architectures. Many tasks in radiology, for example, are largely problems of multi-label class...
computer science
29,868
Object Recognition by Using Multi-level Feature Point Extraction
cs.CV
In this paper, we present a novel approach for object recognition in real-time by employing multilevel feature analysis and demonstrate the practicality of adapting feature extraction into a Naive Bayesian classification framework that enables simple, efficient, and robust performance. We also show the proposed method ...
computer science
29,869
A Novel Approach to Artistic Textual Visualization via GAN
cs.CV
While the visualization of statistical data tends to a mature technology, the visualization of textual data is still in its infancy, especially for the artistic text. Due to the fact that visualization of artistic text is valuable and attractive in both art and information science, we attempt to realize this tentative ...
computer science
29,870
Synthetic Iris Presentation Attack using iDCGAN
cs.CV
Reliability and accuracy of iris biometric modality has prompted its large-scale deployment for critical applications such as border control and national ID projects. The extensive growth of iris recognition systems has raised apprehensions about susceptibility of these systems to various attacks. In the past, research...
computer science
29,871
Examining CNN Representations with respect to Dataset Bias
cs.CV
Given a pre-trained CNN without any testing samples, this paper proposes a simple yet effective method to diagnose feature representations of the CNN. We aim to discover representation flaws caused by potential dataset bias. More specifically, when the CNN is trained to estimate image attributes, we mine latent relatio...
computer science
29,872
Automatic Knee Osteoarthritis Diagnosis from Plain Radiographs: A Deep Learning-Based Approach
cs.CV
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common musculoskeletal disorder. OA diagnosis is currently conducted by assessing symptoms and evaluating plain radiographs, but this process suffers from subjectivity. In this study, we present a new transparent computer-aided diagnosis method based on the Deep Siamese Convolutiona...
computer science
29,873
A Study on Topological Descriptors for the Analysis of 3D Surface Texture
cs.CV
Methods from computational topology are becoming more and more popular in computer vision and have shown to improve the state-of-the-art in several tasks. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of topological descriptors in the context of 3D surface analysis for the classification of different surface textures...
computer science
29,874
High-Precision Localization Using Ground Texture
cs.CV
Location-aware applications play an increasingly critical role in everyday life. However, the most common global localization technology - GPS - has limited accuracy and can be unusable in dense urban areas and indoors. We introduce an image-based global localization system that is accurate to a few millimeters and per...
computer science
29,875
Multilinear Class-Specific Discriminant Analysis
cs.CV
There has been a great effort to transfer linear discriminant techniques that operate on vector data to high-order data, generally referred to as Multilinear Discriminant Analysis (MDA) techniques. Many existing works focus on maximizing the inter-class variances to intra-class variances defined on tensor data represen...
computer science
29,876
On Pre-Trained Image Features and Synthetic Images for Deep Learning
cs.CV
Deep Learning methods usually require huge amounts of training data to perform at their full potential, and often require expensive manual labeling. Using synthetic images is therefore very attractive to train object detectors, as the labeling comes for free, and several approaches have been proposed to combine synthet...
computer science
29,877
A Saak Transform Approach to Efficient, Scalable and Robust Handwritten Digits Recognition
cs.CV
An efficient, scalable and robust approach to the handwritten digits recognition problem based on the Saak transform is proposed in this work. First, multi-stage Saak transforms are used to extract a family of joint spatial-spectral representations of input images. Then, the Saak coefficients are used as features and f...
computer science
29,878
Can you find a face in a HEVC bitstream?
cs.CV
Finding faces in images is one of the most important tasks in computer vision, with applications in biometrics, surveillance, human-computer interaction, and other areas. In our earlier work, we demonstrated that it is possible to tell whether or not an image contains a face by only examining the HEVC syntax, without f...
computer science
29,879
Cascade Region Proposal and Global Context for Deep Object Detection
cs.CV
Deep region-based object detector consists of a region proposal step and a deep object recognition step. In this paper, we make significant improvements on both of the two steps. For region proposal we propose a novel lightweight cascade structure which can effectively improve RPN proposal quality. For object recogniti...
computer science
29,880
DART: Distribution Aware Retinal Transform for Event-based Cameras
cs.CV
We introduce a new event-based visual descriptor, termed as distribution aware retinal transform (DART), for pattern recognition using silicon retina cameras. The DART descriptor captures the information of the spatio-temporal distribution of events, and forms a rich structural representation. Consequently, the event c...
computer science
29,881
Open Set Logo Detection and Retrieval
cs.CV
Current logo retrieval research focuses on closed set scenarios. We argue that the logo domain is too large for this strategy and requires an open set approach. To foster research in this direction, a large-scale logo dataset, called Logos in the Wild, is collected and released to the public. A typical open set logo re...
computer science
29,882
Grad-CAM++: Generalized Gradient-based Visual Explanations for Deep Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Over the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have been highly successful in solving complex vision based problems. However, deep models are perceived as "black box" methods considering the lack of understanding of their internal functioning. There has been a significant recent interest to develop exp...
computer science
29,883
Continuous Authentication Using One-class Classifiers and their Fusion
cs.CV
While developing continuous authentication systems (CAS), we generally assume that samples from both genuine and impostor classes are readily available. However, the assumption may not be true in certain circumstances. Therefore, we explore the possibility of implementing CAS using only genuine samples. Specifically, w...
computer science
29,884
An Integrated Approach to Crowd Video Analysis: From Tracking to Multi-level Activity Recognition
cs.CV
We present an integrated framework for simultaneous tracking, group detection and multi-level activity recognition in crowd videos. Instead of solving these problems independently and sequentially, we solve them together in a unified framework to utilize the strong correlation that exists among individual motion, group...
computer science
29,885
Automated Tumor Segmentation and Brain Mapping for the Tumor Area
cs.CV
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important diagnostic tool for precise detection of various pathologies. Magnetic Resonance (MR) is more preferred than Computed Tomography (CT) due to the high resolution in MR images which help in better detection of neurological conditions. Graphical user interface (GUI) aided d...
computer science
29,886
Deep word embeddings for visual speech recognition
cs.CV
In this paper we present a deep learning architecture for extracting word embeddings for visual speech recognition. The embeddings summarize the information of the mouth region that is relevant to the problem of word recognition, while suppressing other types of variability such as speaker, pose and illumination. The s...
computer science
29,887
Deep Learning and Conditional Random Fields-based Depth Estimation and Topographical Reconstruction from Conventional Endoscopy
cs.CV
Colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and the second leading cause in the United States. The risk of colorectal cancer can be mitigated by the identification and removal of premalignant lesions through optical colonoscopy. Unfortunately, conventional colonoscopy misses more than 20% o...
computer science
29,888
Tumor Classification and Segmentation of MR Brain Images
cs.CV
The diagnosis and segmentation of tumors using any medical diagnostic tool can be challenging due to the varying nature of this pathology. Magnetic Reso- nance Imaging (MRI) is an established diagnostic tool for various diseases and disorders and plays a major role in clinical neuro-diagnosis. Supplementing this techni...
computer science
29,889
Spatio-temporal interaction model for crowd video analysis
cs.CV
We present an unsupervised approach to analyze crowd at various levels of granularity $-$ individual, group and collective. We also propose a motion model to represent the collective motion of the crowd. The model captures the spatio-temporal interaction pattern of the crowd from the trajectory data captured over a tim...
computer science
29,890
Image Patch Matching Using Convolutional Descriptors with Euclidean Distance
cs.CV
In this work we propose a neural network based image descriptor suitable for image patch matching, which is an important task in many computer vision applications. Our approach is influenced by recent success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in object detection and classification tasks. We develop a model w...
computer science
29,891
A Computer Vision System to Localize and Classify Wastes on the Streets
cs.CV
Littering quantification is an important step for improving cleanliness of cities. When human interpretation is too cumbersome or in some cases impossible, an objective index of cleanliness could reduce the littering by awareness actions. In this paper, we present a fully automated computer vision application for litte...
computer science
29,892
Deep Hashing with Triplet Quantization Loss
cs.CV
With the explosive growth of image databases, deep hashing, which learns compact binary descriptors for images, has become critical for fast image retrieval. Many existing deep hashing methods leverage quantization loss, defined as distance between the features before and after quantization, to reduce the error from bi...
computer science
29,893
Clothing Retrieval with Visual Attention Model
cs.CV
Clothing retrieval is a challenging problem in computer vision. With the advance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), the accuracy of clothing retrieval has been significantly improved. FashionNet[1], a recent study, proposes to employ a set of artificial features in the form of landmarks for clothing retrieval, wh...
computer science
29,894
Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for Hyperspectral Target Characterization and Sub-pixel Target Detection
cs.CV
The Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for discriminative target characterization from imprecisely labeled hyperspectral data is presented. In many hyperspectral target detection problems, acquiring accurately labeled training data is difficult. Furthermore, each pixel containing target is likely to be a mixture of bot...
computer science
29,895
Common Representation Learning Using Step-based Correlation Multi-Modal CNN
cs.CV
Deep learning techniques have been successfully used in learning a common representation for multi-view data, wherein the different modalities are projected onto a common subspace. In a broader perspective, the techniques used to investigate common representation learning falls under the categories of canonical correla...
computer science
29,896
Semantic Image Retrieval via Active Grounding of Visual Situations
cs.CV
We describe a novel architecture for semantic image retrieval---in particular, retrieval of instances of visual situations. Visual situations are concepts such as "a boxing match," "walking the dog," "a crowd waiting for a bus," or "a game of ping-pong," whose instantiations in images are linked more by their common sp...
computer science
29,897
Multi-Task Learning by Deep Collaboration and Application in Facial Landmark Detection
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the most successful approach in many vision-related domains. However, they are limited to domains where data is abundant. Recent works have looked at multi-task learning (MTL) to mitigate data scarcity by leveraging domain-specific information from related tasks. In this...
computer science
29,898
PupilNet v2.0: Convolutional Neural Networks for CPU based real time Robust Pupil Detection
cs.CV
Real-time, accurate, and robust pupil detection is an essential prerequisite for pervasive video-based eye-tracking. However, automated pupil detection in realworld scenarios has proven to be an intricate challenge due to fast illumination changes, pupil occlusion, non-centered and off-axis eye recording, as well as ph...
computer science
29,899
Countering Adversarial Images using Input Transformations
cs.CV
This paper investigates strategies that defend against adversarial-example attacks on image-classification systems by transforming the inputs before feeding them to the system. Specifically, we study applying image transformations such as bit-depth reduction, JPEG compression, total variance minimization, and image qui...
computer science
29,900
Segmentation-by-Detection: A Cascade Network for Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation
cs.CV
We propose an attention mechanism for 3D medical image segmentation. The method, named segmentation-by-detection, is a cascade of a detection module followed by a segmentation module. The detection module enables a region of interest to come to attention and produces a set of object region candidates which are further ...
computer science
29,901
Improving Object Localization with Fitness NMS and Bounded IoU Loss
cs.CV
We demonstrate that many detection methods are designed to identify only a sufficently accurate bounding box, rather than the best available one. To address this issue we propose a simple and fast modification to the existing methods called Fitness NMS. This method is tested with the DeNet model and obtains a significa...
computer science