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Region segmentation for sparse decompositions: better brain parcellations from rest fMRI
cs.CV
Functional Magnetic Resonance Images acquired during resting-state provide information about the functional organization of the brain through measuring correlations between brain areas. Independent components analysis is the reference approach to estimate spatial components from weakly structured data such as brain sig...
computer science
39,211
High-level numerical simulations of noise in CCD and CMOS photosensors: review and tutorial
cs.CV
In many applications, such as development and testing of image processing algorithms, it is often necessary to simulate images containing realistic noise from solid-state photosensors. A high-level model of CCD and CMOS photosensors based on a literature review is formulated in this paper. The model includes photo-resp...
computer science
39,212
Efficient GPU Implementation for Single Block Orthogonal Dictionary Learning
cs.CV
Dictionary training for sparse representations involves dealing with large chunks of data and complex algorithms that determine time consuming implementations. SBO is an iterative dictionary learning algorithm based on constructing unions of orthonormal bases via singular value decomposition, that represents each data ...
computer science
39,213
Design, Implementation and Simulation of a Cloud Computing System for Enhancing Real-time Video Services by using VANET and Onboard Navigation Systems
cs.NI
In this paper, we propose a design for novel and experimental cloud computing systems. The proposed system aims at enhancing computational, communicational and annalistic capabilities of road navigation services by merging several independent technologies, namely vision-based embedded navigation systems, prominent Clou...
computer science
39,214
Non-parametric PSF estimation from celestial transit solar images using blind deconvolution
cs.CV
Context: Characterization of instrumental effects in astronomical imaging is important in order to extract accurate physical information from the observations. The measured image in a real optical instrument is usually represented by the convolution of an ideal image with a Point Spread Function (PSF). Additionally, th...
computer science
39,215
Py3DFreeHandUS: a library for voxel-array reconstruction using Ultrasonography and attitude sensors
cs.CV
In medical imaging, there is a growing interest to provide real-time images with good quality for large anatomical structures. To cope with this issue, we developed a library that allows to replace, for some specific clinical applications, more robust systems such as Computer Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imag...
computer science
39,216
Symmetry in Image Registration and Deformation Modeling
cs.CV
We survey the role of symmetry in diffeomorphic registration of landmarks, curves, surfaces, images and higher-order data. The infinite dimensional problem of finding correspondences between objects can for a range of concrete data types be reduced resulting in compact representations of shape and spatial structure. Th...
computer science
39,217
Enhancing fractal descriptors on images by combining boundary and interior of Minkowski dilation
cs.CV
This work proposes to obtain novel fractal descriptors from gray-level texture images by combining information from interior and boundary measures of the Minkowski dilation applied to the texture surface. At first, the image is converted into a surface where the height of each point is the gray intensity of the respect...
computer science
39,218
A multistep segmentation algorithm for vessel extraction in medical imaging
cs.CV
The main contribution of this paper is to propose an iterative procedure for tubular structure segmentation of 2D images, which combines tight frame of Curvelet transforms with a SURE technique thresholding which is based on principle obtained by minimizing Stein Unbiased Risk Estimate for denoising. This proposed algo...
computer science
39,219
HSI based colour image equalization using iterative nth root and nth power
cs.CV
In this paper an equalization technique for colour images is introduced. The method is based on nth root and nth power equalization approach but with optimization of the mean of the image in different colour channels such as RGB and HSI. The performance of the proposed method has been measured by the means of peak sign...
computer science
39,220
Non-iterative rigid 2D/3D point-set registration using semidefinite programming
cs.CV
We describe a convex programming framework for pose estimation in 2D/3D point-set registration with unknown point correspondences. We give two mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINP) formulations of the 2D/3D registration problem when there are multiple 2D images, and propose convex relaxations for both of the MINPs to ...
computer science
39,221
Skincure: An Innovative Smart Phone-Based Application To Assist In Melanoma Early Detection And Prevention
cs.CV
Melanoma spreads through metastasis, and therefore it has been proven to be very fatal. Statistical evidence has revealed that the majority of deaths resulting from skin cancer are as a result of melanoma. Further investigations have shown that the survival rates in patients depend on the stage of the infection; early ...
computer science
39,222
The Quadrifocal Variety
math.AG
Multi-view Geometry is reviewed from an Algebraic Geometry perspective and multi-focal tensors are constructed as equivariant projections of the Grassmannian. A connection to the principal minor assignment problem is made by considering several flatlander cameras. The ideal of the quadrifocal variety is computed up to ...
computer science
39,223
Texture Retrieval via the Scattering Transform
cs.IR
This work studies the problem of content-based image retrieval, specifically, texture retrieval. It focuses on feature extraction and similarity measure for texture images. Our approach employs a recently developed method, the so-called Scattering transform, for the process of feature extraction in texture retrieval. I...
computer science
39,224
A Modified No Search Algorithm for Fractal Image Compression
cs.CV
Fractal image compression has some desirable properties like high quality at high compression ratio, fast decoding, and resolution independence. Therefore it can be used for many applications such as texture mapping and pattern recognition and image watermarking. But it suffers from long encoding time due to its need t...
computer science
39,225
Higher dimensional homodyne filtering for suppression of incidental phase artifacts in multichannel MRI
cs.CV
The aim of this paper is to introduce procedural steps for extension of the 1D homodyne phase correction for k-space truncation in all gradient encoding directions. Compared to the existing method applied to 2D partial k-space, signal losses introduced by the phase correction filter is observed to be minimal for the ex...
computer science
39,226
Holistic random encoding for imaging through multimode fibers
cs.CV
The input numerical aperture (NA) of multimode fiber (MMF) can be effectively increased by placing turbid media at the input end of the MMF. This provides the potential for high-resolution imaging through the MMF. While the input NA is increased, the number of propagation modes in the MMF and hence the output NA remain...
computer science
39,227
Visual Analytics of Image-Centric Cohort Studies in Epidemiology
cs.CV
Epidemiology characterizes the influence of causes to disease and health conditions of defined populations. Cohort studies are population-based studies involving usually large numbers of randomly selected individuals and comprising numerous attributes, ranging from self-reported interview data to results from various m...
computer science
39,228
On the Performance of ConvNet Features for Place Recognition
cs.RO
After the incredible success of deep learning in the computer vision domain, there has been much interest in applying Convolutional Network (ConvNet) features in robotic fields such as visual navigation and SLAM. Unfortunately, there are fundamental differences and challenges involved. Computer vision datasets are very...
computer science
39,229
DeepHash: Getting Regularization, Depth and Fine-Tuning Right
cs.CV
This work focuses on representing very high-dimensional global image descriptors using very compact 64-1024 bit binary hashes for instance retrieval. We propose DeepHash: a hashing scheme based on deep networks. Key to making DeepHash work at extremely low bitrates are three important considerations -- regularization, ...
computer science
39,230
Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of Hyperspectral Images Using an Eigen-Gap Approach
stat.AP
Linear mixture models are commonly used to represent hyperspectral datacube as a linear combinations of endmember spectra. However, determining of the number of endmembers for images embedded in noise is a crucial task. This paper proposes a fully automatic approach for estimating the number of endmembers in hyperspect...
computer science
39,231
Gibbs-Ringing Artifact Removal Based on Local Subvoxel-shifts
cs.CV
Gibbs-ringing is a well known artifact which manifests itself as spurious oscillations in the vicinity of sharp image transients, e.g. at tissue boundaries. The origin can be seen in the truncation of k-space during MRI data-acquisition. Consequently, correction techniques like Gegenbauer reconstruction or extrapolatio...
computer science
39,232
Convex Denoising using Non-Convex Tight Frame Regularization
cs.CV
This paper considers the problem of signal denoising using a sparse tight-frame analysis prior. The L1 norm has been extensively used as a regularizer to promote sparsity; however, it tends to under-estimate non-zero values of the underlying signal. To more accurately estimate non-zero values, we propose the use of a n...
computer science
39,233
Temporal Localization of Fine-Grained Actions in Videos by Domain Transfer from Web Images
cs.CV
We address the problem of fine-grained action localization from temporally untrimmed web videos. We assume that only weak video-level annotations are available for training. The goal is to use these weak labels to identify temporal segments corresponding to the actions, and learn models that generalize to unconstrained...
computer science
39,234
Separable time-causal and time-recursive spatio-temporal receptive fields
cs.CV
We present an improved model and theory for time-causal and time-recursive spatio-temporal receptive fields, obtained by a combination of Gaussian receptive fields over the spatial domain and first-order integrators or equivalently truncated exponential filters coupled in cascade over the temporal domain. Compared to p...
computer science
39,235
Modeling Spatial-Temporal Clues in a Hybrid Deep Learning Framework for Video Classification
cs.CV
Classifying videos according to content semantics is an important problem with a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose a hybrid deep learning framework for video classification, which is able to model static spatial information, short-term motion, as well as long-term temporal clues in the videos. Speci...
computer science
39,236
An Empirical Evaluation of Deep Learning on Highway Driving
cs.RO
Numerous groups have applied a variety of deep learning techniques to computer vision problems in highway perception scenarios. In this paper, we presented a number of empirical evaluations of recent deep learning advances. Computer vision, combined with deep learning, has the potential to bring about a relatively inex...
computer science
39,237
Connectivity Preserving Multivalued Functions in Digital Topology
cs.CV
We study connectivity preserving multivalued functions between digital images. This notion generalizes that of continuous multivalued functions studied mostly in the setting of the digital plane $Z^2$. We show that connectivity preserving multivalued functions, like continuous multivalued functions, are appropriate mod...
computer science
39,238
A Multiphase Image Segmentation Based on Fuzzy Membership Functions and L1-norm Fidelity
math.OC
In this paper, we propose a variational multiphase image segmentation model based on fuzzy membership functions and L1-norm fidelity. Then we apply the alternating direction method of multipliers to solve an equivalent problem. All the subproblems can be solved efficiently. Specifically, we propose a fast method to cal...
computer science
39,239
Real-time Monocular Object SLAM
cs.RO
We present a real-time object-based SLAM system that leverages the largest object database to date. Our approach comprises two main components: 1) a monocular SLAM algorithm that exploits object rigidity constraints to improve the map and find its real scale, and 2) a novel object recognition algorithm based on bags of...
computer science
39,240
Time-causal and time-recursive spatio-temporal receptive fields
cs.CV
We present an improved model and theory for time-causal and time-recursive spatio-temporal receptive fields, based on a combination of Gaussian receptive fields over the spatial domain and first-order integrators or equivalently truncated exponential filters coupled in cascade over the temporal domain. Compared to pr...
computer science
39,241
Image patch analysis of sunspots and active regions. II. Clustering via matrix factorization
cs.CV
Separating active regions that are quiet from potentially eruptive ones is a key issue in Space Weather applications. Traditional classification schemes such as Mount Wilson and McIntosh have been effective in relating an active region large scale magnetic configuration to its ability to produce eruptive events. Howeve...
computer science
39,242
Building Proteins in a Day: Efficient 3D Molecular Reconstruction
cs.CV
Discovering the 3D atomic structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which attempts to reconstruct 3D structures from 2D images. This paper addresses the c...
computer science
39,243
Comparisons of wavelet functions in QRS signal to noise ratio enhancement and detection accuracy
cs.CV
We compare the capability of wavelet functions used for noise removal in preprocessing step of a QRS detection algorithm in the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The QRS signal to noise ratio enhancement and the detection accuracy of each wavelet function are evaluated using three measures: (1) the ratio of the maximum b...
computer science
39,244
Bio-inspired Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features Leads to Robust Invariant Object Recognition
cs.CV
Retinal image of surrounding objects varies tremendously due to the changes in position, size, pose, illumination condition, background context, occlusion, noise, and nonrigid deformations. But despite these huge variations, our visual system is able to invariantly recognize any object in just a fraction of a second. T...
computer science
39,245
A spectral optical flow method for determining velocities from digital imagery
cs.CV
We present a method for determining surface flows from solar images based upon optical flow techniques. We apply the method to sets of images obtained by a variety of solar imagers to assess its performance. The {\tt opflow3d} procedure is shown to extract accurate velocity estimates when provided perfect test data and...
computer science
39,246
Application of Enhanced-2D-CWT in Topographic Images for Mapping Landslide Risk Areas
cs.CV
There has been lately a number of catastrophic events of landslides and mudslides in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Those were caused by intense rain in localities where there was unplanned occupation of slopes of hills and mountains. Thus, it became imperative creating an inventory of landslide risk...
computer science
39,247
Convolutional Neural Network-Based Image Representation for Visual Loop Closure Detection
cs.RO
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently been shown in many computer vision and pattern recog- nition applications to outperform by a significant margin state- of-the-art solutions that use traditional hand-crafted features. However, this impressive performance is yet to be fully exploited in robotics. In...
computer science
39,248
Cultural Event Recognition with Visual ConvNets and Temporal Models
cs.CV
This paper presents our contribution to the ChaLearn Challenge 2015 on Cultural Event Classification. The challenge in this task is to automatically classify images from 50 different cultural events. Our solution is based on the combination of visual features extracted from convolutional neural networks with temporal i...
computer science
39,249
Deviation Based Pooling Strategies For Full Reference Image Quality Assessment
cs.MM
The state-of-the-art pooling strategies for perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) are based on the mean and the weighted mean. They are robust pooling strategies which usually provide a moderate to high performance for different IQAs. Recently, standard deviation (SD) pooling was also proposed. Although, this devia...
computer science
39,250
On-Board Vision Processing For Small UAVs: Time to Rethink Strategy
cs.CV
The ultimate research goal for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is to facilitate autonomy of operation. Research in the last decade has highlighted the potential of vision sensing in this regard. Although vital for accomplishment of missions assigned to any type of unmanned aerial vehicles, vision sensing is more critic...
computer science
39,251
A novel variational model for image registration using Gaussian curvature
math.NA
Image registration is one important task in many image processing applications. It aims to align two or more images so that useful information can be extracted through comparison, combination or superposition. This is achieved by constructing an optimal trans- formation which ensures that the template image becomes sim...
computer science
39,252
Probabilistic Depth Image Registration incorporating Nonvisual Information
cs.RO
In this paper, we derive a probabilistic registration algorithm for object modeling and tracking. In many robotics applications, such as manipulation tasks, nonvisual information about the movement of the object is available, which we will combine with the visual information. Furthermore we do not only consider observa...
computer science
39,253
Improved repeatability measures for evaluating performance of feature detectors
cs.CV
The most frequently employed measure for performance characterisation of local feature detectors is repeatability, but it has been observed that this does not necessarily mirror actual performance. Presented are improved repeatability formulations which correlate much better with the true performance of feature detecto...
computer science
39,254
A Three-stage Approach for Segmenting Degraded Color Images: Smoothing, Lifting and Thresholding (SLaT)
cs.CV
In this paper, we propose a SLaT (Smoothing, Lifting and Thresholding) method with three stages for multiphase segmentation of color images corrupted by different degradations: noise, information loss, and blur. At the first stage, a convex variant of the Mumford-Shah model is applied to each channel to obtain a smooth...
computer science
39,255
An Open Source Testing Tool for Evaluating Handwriting Input Methods
cs.HC
This paper presents an open source tool for testing the recognition accuracy of Chinese handwriting input methods. The tool consists of two modules, namely the PC and Android mobile client. The PC client reads handwritten samples in the computer, and transfers them individually to the Android client in accordance with ...
computer science
39,256
Image Retrieval System Base on EMD Similarity Measure and S-Tree
cs.CV
The paper approaches the binary signature for each image based on the percentage of the pixels in each color images, at the same time the paper builds a similar measure between images based on EMD (Earth Mover's Distance). Besides, the paper proceeded to create the S-tree based on the similar measure EMD to store the i...
computer science
39,257
Monocular SLAM Supported Object Recognition
cs.RO
In this work, we develop a monocular SLAM-aware object recognition system that is able to achieve considerably stronger recognition performance, as compared to classical object recognition systems that function on a frame-by-frame basis. By incorporating several key ideas including multi-view object proposals and effic...
computer science
39,258
Automatic tracking of protein vesicles
cs.CV
With the advance of fluorescence imaging technologies, recently cell biologists are able to record the movement of protein vesicles within a living cell. Automatic tracking of the movements of these vesicles become key for qualitative analysis of dynamics of theses vesicles. In this thesis, we formulate such tracking p...
computer science
39,259
Multiscale edge detection and parametric shape modeling for boundary delineation in optoacoustic images
cs.CV
In this article, we present a novel scheme for segmenting the image boundary (with the background) in optoacoustic small animal in vivo imaging systems. The method utilizes a multiscale edge detection algorithm to generate a binary edge map. A scale dependent morphological operation is employed to clean spurious edges....
computer science
39,260
Optical Flow on Evolving Sphere-Like Surfaces
math.OC
In this work we consider optical flow on evolving Riemannian 2-manifolds which can be parametrised from the 2-sphere. Our main motivation is to estimate cell motion in time-lapse volumetric microscopy images depicting fluorescently labelled cells of a live zebrafish embryo. We exploit the fact that the recorded cells f...
computer science
39,261
CloudCV: Large Scale Distributed Computer Vision as a Cloud Service
cs.CV
We are witnessing a proliferation of massive visual data. Unfortunately scaling existing computer vision algorithms to large datasets leaves researchers repeatedly solving the same algorithmic, logistical, and infrastructural problems. Our goal is to democratize computer vision; one should not have to be a computer vis...
computer science
39,262
The Artists who Forged Themselves: Detecting Creativity in Art
cs.CV
Creativity and the understanding of cognitive processes involved in the creative process are relevant to all of human activities. Comprehension of creativity in the arts is of special interest due to the involvement of many scientific and non scientific disciplines. Using digital representation of paintings, we show th...
computer science
39,263
Optimising Spatial and Tonal Data for PDE-based Inpainting
cs.CV
Some recent methods for lossy signal and image compression store only a few selected pixels and fill in the missing structures by inpainting with a partial differential equation (PDE). Suitable operators include the Laplacian, the biharmonic operator, and edge-enhancing anisotropic diffusion (EED). The quality of such ...
computer science
39,264
Image-based Recommendations on Styles and Substitutes
cs.CV
Humans inevitably develop a sense of the relationships between objects, some of which are based on their appearance. Some pairs of objects might be seen as being alternatives to each other (such as two pairs of jeans), while others may be seen as being complementary (such as a pair of jeans and a matching shirt). This ...
computer science
39,265
Post-Reconstruction Deconvolution of PET Images by Total Generalized Variation Regularization
cs.CV
Improving the quality of positron emission tomography (PET) images, affected by low resolution and high level of noise, is a challenging task in nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. This work proposes a restoration method, achieved after tomographic reconstruction of the images and targeting clinical situations where raw...
computer science
39,266
MRF-ZOOM: A Fast Dictionary Searching Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting
cs.DS
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) is a new technique for simultaneously quantifying multiple MR parameters using one temporally resolved MR scan. But its brute-force dictionary generating and searching (DGS) process causes a huge disk space demand and computational burden, prohibiting it from a practical multiple...
computer science
39,267
Point-wise Map Recovery and Refinement from Functional Correspondence
cs.CV
Since their introduction in the shape analysis community, functional maps have met with considerable success due to their ability to compactly represent dense correspondences between deformable shapes, with applications ranging from shape matching and image segmentation, to exploration of large shape collections. Despi...
computer science
39,268
Graph-based compression of dynamic 3D point cloud sequences
cs.CV
This paper addresses the problem of compression of 3D point cloud sequences that are characterized by moving 3D positions and color attributes. As temporally successive point cloud frames are similar, motion estimation is key to effective compression of these sequences. It however remains a challenging problem as the p...
computer science
39,269
Incremental RANSAC for Online Relocation in Large Dynamic Environments
cs.RO
Vehicle relocation is the problem in which a mobile robot has to estimate the self-position with respect to an a priori map of landmarks using the perception and the motion measurements without using any knowledge of the initial self-position. Recently, RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC), a robust multi-hypothesis estima...
computer science
39,270
Degenerate Motions in Multicamera Cluster SLAM with Non-overlapping Fields of View
cs.CV
An analysis of the relative motion and point feature model configurations leading to solution degeneracy is presented, for the case of a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping system using multicamera clusters with non-overlapping fields-of-view. The SLAM optimization system seeks to minimize image space reprojection er...
computer science
39,271
Bag-of-Features Image Indexing and Classification in Microsoft SQL Server Relational Database
cs.DB
This paper presents a novel relational database architecture aimed to visual objects classification and retrieval. The framework is based on the bag-of-features image representation model combined with the Support Vector Machine classification and is integrated in a Microsoft SQL Server database.
computer science
39,272
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization applied to reordered pixels of single images based on patches to achieve structured nonnegative dictionaries
cs.CV
Recent improvements in computing allow for the processing and analysis of very large datasets in a variety of fields. Often the analysis requires the creation of low-rank approximations to the datasets leading to efficient storage. This article presents and analyzes a novel approach for creating nonnegative, structured...
computer science
39,273
Detecting Table Region in PDF Documents Using Distant Supervision
cs.CV
Superior to state-of-the-art approaches which compete in table recognition with 67 annotated government reports in PDF format released by {\it ICDAR 2013 Table Competition}, this paper contributes a novel paradigm leveraging large-scale unlabeled PDF documents to open-domain table detection. We integrate the paradigm i...
computer science
39,274
Lens Factory: Automatic Lens Generation Using Off-the-shelf Components
cs.GR
Custom optics is a necessity for many imaging applications. Unfortunately, custom lens design is costly (thousands to tens of thousands of dollars), time consuming (10-12 weeks typical lead time), and requires specialized optics design expertise. By using only inexpensive, off-the-shelf lens components the Lens Factory...
computer science
39,275
Aging display's effect on interpretation of digital pathology slides
cs.CV
It is our conjecture that the variability of colors in a pathology image effects the interpretation of pathology cases, whether it is diagnostic accuracy, diagnostic confidence, or workflow efficiency. In this paper, digital pathology images are analyzed to quantify the perceived difference in color that occurs due to ...
computer science
39,276
On anthropomorphic decision making in a model observer
cs.CV
By analyzing human readers' performance in detecting small round lesions in simulated digital breast tomosynthesis background in a location known exactly scenario, we have developed a model observer that is a better predictor of human performance with different levels of background complexity (i.e., anatomical and quan...
computer science
39,277
Distributed image reconstruction for very large arrays in radio astronomy
cs.CV
Current and future radio interferometric arrays such as LOFAR and SKA are characterized by a paradox. Their large number of receptors (up to millions) allow theoretically unprecedented high imaging resolution. In the same time, the ultra massive amounts of samples makes the data transfer and computational loads (correl...
computer science
39,278
TV News Commercials Detection using Success based Locally Weighted Kernel Combination
cs.CV
Commercial detection in news broadcast videos involves judicious selection of meaningful audio-visual feature combinations and efficient classifiers. And, this problem becomes much simpler if these combinations can be learned from the data. To this end, we propose an Multiple Kernel Learning based method for boosting s...
computer science
39,279
Sparsity assisted solution to the twin image problem in phase retrieval
cs.CV
The iterative phase retrieval problem for complex-valued objects from Fourier transform magnitude data is known to suffer from the twin image problem. In particular, when the object support is centro-symmetric, the iterative solution often stagnates such that the resultant complex image contains the features of both th...
computer science
39,280
SynapCountJ --- a Tool for Analyzing Synaptic Densities in Neurons
cs.CV
The quantification of synapses is instrumental to measure the evolution of synaptic densities of neurons under the effect of some physiological conditions, neuronal diseases or even drug treatments. However, the manual quantification of synapses is a tedious, error-prone, time-consuming and subjective task; therefore, ...
computer science
39,281
Agglomerative clustering and collectiveness measure via exponent generating function
cs.CV
The key in agglomerative clustering is to define the affinity measure between two sets. A novel agglomerative clustering method is proposed by utilizing the path integral to define the affinity measure. Firstly, the path integral descriptor of an edge, a node and a set is computed by path integral and exponent generati...
computer science
39,282
Mobile Multi-View Object Image Search
cs.MM
High user interaction capability of mobile devices can help improve the accuracy of mobile visual search systems. At query time, it is possible to capture multiple views of an object from different viewing angles and at different scales with the mobile device camera to obtain richer information about the object compare...
computer science
39,283
SnowWatch: Snow Monitoring through Acquisition and Analysis of User-Generated Content
cs.CV
We present a system for complementing snow phenomena monitoring with virtual measurements extracted from public visual content. The proposed system integrates an automatic acquisition and analysis of photographs and webcam images depicting Alpine mountains. In particular, the technical demonstration consists in a web p...
computer science
39,284
Identifying Emotion from Natural Walking
cs.CV
Emotion identification from gait aims to automatically determine persons affective state, it has attracted a great deal of interests and offered immense potential value in action tendency, health care, psychological detection and human-computer(robot) interaction.In this paper, we propose a new method of identifying em...
computer science
39,285
Estimating snow cover from publicly available images
cs.MM
In this paper we study the problem of estimating snow cover in mountainous regions, that is, the spatial extent of the earth surface covered by snow. We argue that publicly available visual content, in the form of user generated photographs and image feeds from outdoor webcams, can both be leveraged as additional measu...
computer science
39,286
Simulation of optical flow and fuzzy based obstacle avoidance system for mobile robots
cs.CV
Honey bees use optical flow to avoid obstacles effectively. In this research work similar methodology was tested on a simulated mobile robot. Simulation framework was based on VRML and Simulink in a 3D world. Optical flow vectors were calculated from a video scene captured by a virtual camera which was used as inputs t...
computer science
39,287
A Practical Guide to CNNs and Fisher Vectors for Image Instance Retrieval
cs.CV
With deep learning becoming the dominant approach in computer vision, the use of representations extracted from Convolutional Neural Nets (CNNs) is quickly gaining ground on Fisher Vectors (FVs) as favoured state-of-the-art global image descriptors for image instance retrieval. While the good performance of CNNs for im...
computer science
39,288
Mountain Peak Detection in Online Social Media
cs.CV
We present a system for the classification of mountain panoramas from user-generated photographs followed by identification and extraction of mountain peaks from those panoramas. We have developed an automatic technique that, given as input a geo-tagged photograph, estimates its FOV (Field Of View) and the direction of...
computer science
39,289
Light-field Microscopy with a Consumer Light-field Camera
cs.GR
We explore the use of inexpensive consumer light- field camera technology for the purpose of light-field mi- croscopy. Our experiments are based on the Lytro (first gen- eration) camera. Unfortunately, the optical systems of the Lytro and those of microscopes are not compatible, lead- ing to a loss of light-field infor...
computer science
39,290
Deep Networks Can Resemble Human Feed-forward Vision in Invariant Object Recognition
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have attracted much attention recently, and have shown to be able to recognize thousands of object categories in natural image databases. Their architecture is somewhat similar to that of the human visual system: both use restricted receptive fields, and a hierarchy of layers ...
computer science
39,291
Who are the Devils Wearing Prada in New York City?
cs.CV
Fashion is a perpetual topic in human social life, and the mass has the penchant to emulate what large city residents and celebrities wear. Undeniably, New York City is such a bellwether large city with all kinds of fashion leadership. Consequently, to study what the fashion trends are during this year, it is very help...
computer science
39,292
Diving Deep into Sentiment: Understanding Fine-tuned CNNs for Visual Sentiment Prediction
cs.MM
Visual media are powerful means of expressing emotions and sentiments. The constant generation of new content in social networks highlights the need of automated visual sentiment analysis tools. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have established a new state-of-the-art in several vision problems, their applicat...
computer science
39,293
Validation of neural spike sorting algorithms without ground-truth information
cs.CV
We describe a suite of validation metrics that assess the credibility of a given automatic spike sorting algorithm applied to a given electrophysiological recording, when ground-truth is unavailable. By rerunning the spike sorter two or more times, the metrics measure stability under various perturbations consistent wi...
computer science
39,294
Bilevel parameter learning for higher-order total variation regularisation models
math.OC
We consider a bilevel optimisation approach for parameter learning in higher-order total variation image reconstruction models. Apart from the least squares cost functional, naturally used in bilevel learning, we propose and analyse an alternative cost, based on a Huber regularised TV-seminorm. Differentiability proper...
computer science
39,295
Maximum Persistency via Iterative Relaxed Inference with Graphical Models
cs.CV
We consider the NP-hard problem of MAP-inference for undirected discrete graphical models. We propose a polynomial time and practically efficient algorithm for finding a part of its optimal solution. Specifically, our algorithm marks some labels of the considered graphical model either as (i) optimal, meaning that they...
computer science
39,296
Light Efficient Flutter Shutter
cs.GR
Flutter shutter is a technique in which the exposure is chopped into segments and light is only integrated part of the time. By carefully selecting the chopping sequence it is possible to better condition the data for reconstruction problems such as motion deblurring, focal sweeping, and compressed sensing. The partial...
computer science
39,297
A Dataset for Improved RGBD-based Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Warehouse Pick-and-Place
cs.CV
An important logistics application of robotics involves manipulators that pick-and-place objects placed in warehouse shelves. A critical aspect of this task corre- sponds to detecting the pose of a known object in the shelf using visual data. Solving this problem can be assisted by the use of an RGB-D sensor, which als...
computer science
39,298
Diffusion tensor imaging with deterministic error bounds
cs.CV
Errors in the data and the forward operator of an inverse problem can be handily modelled using partial order in Banach lattices. We present some existing results of the theory of regularisation in this novel framework, where errors are represented as bounds by means of the appropriate partial order. We apply the the...
computer science
39,299
Learning Social Relation Traits from Face Images
cs.CV
Social relation defines the association, e.g, warm, friendliness, and dominance, between two or more people. Motivated by psychological studies, we investigate if such fine-grained and high-level relation traits can be characterised and quantified from face images in the wild. To address this challenging problem we pro...
computer science
39,300
A Total Fractional-Order Variation Model for Image Restoration with Non-homogeneous Boundary Conditions and its Numerical Solution
cs.CV
To overcome the weakness of a total variation based model for image restoration, various high order (typically second order) regularization models have been proposed and studied recently. In this paper we analyze and test a fractional-order derivative based total $\alpha$-order variation model, which can outperform the...
computer science
39,301
Neuron detection in stack images: a persistent homology interpretation
cs.CV
Automation and reliability are the two main requirements when computers are applied in Life Sciences. In this paper we report on an application to neuron recognition, an important step in our long-term project of providing software systems to the study of neural morphology and functionality from biomedical images. Our ...
computer science
39,302
Comparative Design Space Exploration of Dense and Semi-Dense SLAM
cs.RO
SLAM has matured significantly over the past few years, and is beginning to appear in serious commercial products. While new SLAM systems are being proposed at every conference, evaluation is often restricted to qualitative visualizations or accuracy estimation against a ground truth. This is due to the lack of benchma...
computer science
39,303
Fast Template Matching by Subsampled Circulant Matrix
cs.DS
Template matching is widely used for many applications in image and signal processing and usually is time-critical. Traditional methods usually focus on how to reduce the search locations by coarse-to-fine strategy or full search combined with pruning strategy. However, the computation cost of those methods is easily d...
computer science
39,304
MAGMA: Multi-level accelerated gradient mirror descent algorithm for large-scale convex composite minimization
math.OC
Composite convex optimization models arise in several applications, and are especially prevalent in inverse problems with a sparsity inducing norm and in general convex optimization with simple constraints. The most widely used algorithms for convex composite models are accelerated first order methods, however they can...
computer science
39,305
Modelling Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Camera Relocalization
cs.CV
We present a robust and real-time monocular six degree of freedom visual relocalization system. We use a Bayesian convolutional neural network to regress the 6-DOF camera pose from a single RGB image. It is trained in an end-to-end manner with no need of additional engineering or graph optimisation. The algorithm can o...
computer science
39,306
Fusing Multi-Stream Deep Networks for Video Classification
cs.CV
This paper studies deep network architectures to address the problem of video classification. A multi-stream framework is proposed to fully utilize the rich multimodal information in videos. Specifically, we first train three Convolutional Neural Networks to model spatial, short-term motion and audio clues respectively...
computer science
39,307
Vision System and Depth Processing for DRC-HUBO+
cs.CV
This paper presents a vision system and a depth processing algorithm for DRC-HUBO+, the winner of the DRC finals 2015. Our system is designed to reliably capture 3D information of a scene and objects robust to challenging environment conditions. We also propose a depth-map upsampling method that produces an outliers-fr...
computer science
39,308
Homotopy relations for digital images
math.GN
We introduce three generalizations of homotopy equivalence in digital images, to allow us to express whether a finite and an infinite digital image are similar with respect to homotopy. We show that these three generalizations are not equivalent to ordinary homotopy equivalence, and give several examples. We show tha...
computer science
39,309
Invariants of objects and their images under surjective maps
math.DG
We examine the relationships between the differential invariants of objects and of their images under a surjective map. We analyze both the case when the underlying transformation group is projectable and hence induces an action on the image, and the case when only a proper subgroup of the entire group acts projectably...
computer science