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Enabling Depth-driven Visual Attention on the iCub Humanoid Robot: Instructions for Use and New Perspectives
cs.RO
The importance of depth perception in the interactions that humans have within their nearby space is a well established fact. Consequently, it is also well known that the possibility of exploiting good stereo information would ease and, in many cases, enable, a large variety of attentional and interactive behaviors on ...
computer science
39,311
3D Scan Registration using Curvelet Features in Planetary Environments
cs.CV
Topographic mapping in planetary environments relies on accurate 3D scan registration methods. However, most global registration algorithms relying on features such as FPFH and Harris-3D show poor alignment accuracy in these settings due to the poor structure of the Mars-like terrain and variable resolution, occluded, ...
computer science
39,312
On Optimizing Human-Machine Task Assignments
cs.HC
When crowdsourcing systems are used in combination with machine inference systems in the real world, they benefit the most when the machine system is deeply integrated with the crowd workers. However, if researchers wish to integrate the crowd with "off-the-shelf" machine classifiers, this deep integration is not alway...
computer science
39,313
Anomaly Detection in Unstructured Environments using Bayesian Nonparametric Scene Modeling
cs.CV
This paper explores the use of a Bayesian non-parametric topic modeling technique for the purpose of anomaly detection in video data. We present results from two experiments. The first experiment shows that the proposed technique is automatically able characterize the underlying terrain, and detect anomalous flora in i...
computer science
39,314
Transfer Learning from Deep Features for Remote Sensing and Poverty Mapping
cs.CV
The lack of reliable data in developing countries is a major obstacle to sustainable development, food security, and disaster relief. Poverty data, for example, is typically scarce, sparse in coverage, and labor-intensive to obtain. Remote sensing data such as high-resolution satellite imagery, on the other hand, is be...
computer science
39,315
RAID: A Relation-Augmented Image Descriptor
cs.GR
As humans, we regularly interpret images based on the relations between image regions. For example, a person riding object X, or a plank bridging two objects. Current methods provide limited support to search for images based on such relations. We present RAID, a relation-augmented image descriptor that supports querie...
computer science
39,316
Bregman Iteration for Correspondence Problems: A Study of Optical Flow
math.OC
Bregman iterations are known to yield excellent results for denoising, deblurring and compressed sensing tasks, but so far this technique has rarely been used for other image processing problems. In this paper we give a thorough description of the Bregman iteration, unifying thereby results of different authors within ...
computer science
39,317
On the Existence of Epipolar Matrices
cs.CV
This paper considers the foundational question of the existence of a fundamental (resp. essential) matrix given $m$ point correspondences in two views. We present a complete answer for the existence of fundamental matrices for any value of $m$. Using examples we disprove the widely held beliefs that fundamental matrice...
computer science
39,318
Event-based Camera Pose Tracking using a Generative Event Model
cs.CV
Event-based vision sensors mimic the operation of biological retina and they represent a major paradigm shift from traditional cameras. Instead of providing frames of intensity measurements synchronously, at artificially chosen rates, event-based cameras provide information on brightness changes asynchronously, when th...
computer science
39,319
TagBook: A Semantic Video Representation without Supervision for Event Detection
cs.CV
We consider the problem of event detection in video for scenarios where only few, or even zero examples are available for training. For this challenging setting, the prevailing solutions in the literature rely on a semantic video representation obtained from thousands of pre-trained concept detectors. Different from ex...
computer science
39,320
Fast sequential forensic camera identification
cs.CR
Two sequential camera source identification methods are proposed. Sequential tests implement a log-likelihood ratio test in an incremental way, thus enabling a reliable decision with a minimal number of observations. One of our methods adapts Goljan et al.'s to sequential operation. The second, which offers better perf...
computer science
39,321
Variable-state Latent Conditional Random Fields for Facial Expression Recognition and Action Unit Detection
cs.CV
Automated recognition of facial expressions of emotions, and detection of facial action units (AUs), from videos depends critically on modeling of their dynamics. These dynamics are characterized by changes in temporal phases (onset-apex-offset) and intensity of emotion expressions and AUs, the appearance of which may ...
computer science
39,322
Elasticity-based Matching by Minimizing the Symmetric Difference of Shapes
cs.CV
We consider the problem of matching two shapes assuming these shapes are related by an elastic deformation. Using linearized elasticity theory and the finite element method we seek an elastic deformation that is caused by simple external boundary forces and accounts for the difference between the two shapes. Our main c...
computer science
39,323
Towards Reversible De-Identification in Video Sequences Using 3D Avatars and Steganography
cs.CV
We propose a de-identification pipeline that protects the privacy of humans in video sequences by replacing them with rendered 3D human models, hence concealing their identity while retaining the naturalness of the scene. The original images of humans are steganographically encoded in the carrier image, i.e. the image ...
computer science
39,324
Predicting popularity of online videos using Support Vector Regression
cs.SI
In this work, we propose a regression method to predict the popularity of an online video based on temporal and visual cues. Our method uses Support Vector Regression with Gaussian Radial Basis Functions. We show that modelling popularity patterns with this approach provides higher and more stable prediction results, m...
computer science
39,325
Generic decoding of seen and imagined objects using hierarchical visual features
cs.CV
Object recognition is a key function in both human and machine vision. While recent studies have achieved fMRI decoding of seen and imagined contents, the prediction is limited to training examples. We present a decoding approach for arbitrary objects, using the machine vision principle that an object category is repre...
computer science
39,326
Seam Puckering Objective Evaluation Method for Sewing Process
cs.CV
The paper presents an automated method for the assessment and classification of puckering defects detected during the preproduction control stage of the sewing machine or product inspection. In this respect, we have presented the possible causes and remedies of the wrinkle nonconformities. Subjective factors related to...
computer science
39,327
Pan-Tilt Camera and PIR Sensor Fusion Based Moving Object Detection for Mobile Security Robots
cs.RO
One of fundamental issues for security robots is to detect and track people in the surroundings. The main problems of this task are real-time constraints, a changing background, varying illumination conditions and a non-rigid shape of the person to be tracked. In this paper, we propose a solution for tracking with a pa...
computer science
39,328
Toward Long Distance, Sub-diffraction Imaging Using Coherent Camera Arrays
cs.CV
In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated that one can image beyond the diffraction limit of the objective lens in a micro...
computer science
39,329
Privacy Prediction of Images Shared on Social Media Sites Using Deep Features
cs.CV
Online image sharing in social media sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram can lead to unwanted disclosure and privacy violations, when privacy settings are used inappropriately. With the exponential increase in the number of images that are shared online every day, the development of effective and efficient pr...
computer science
39,330
A Deep Siamese Network for Scene Detection in Broadcast Videos
cs.CV
We present a model that automatically divides broadcast videos into coherent scenes by learning a distance measure between shots. Experiments are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by comparing our algorithm against recent proposals for automatic scene segmentation. We also propose an improved p...
computer science
39,331
Accurate Vision-based Vehicle Localization using Satellite Imagery
cs.RO
We propose a method for accurately localizing ground vehicles with the aid of satellite imagery. Our approach takes a ground image as input, and outputs the location from which it was taken on a georeferenced satellite image. We perform visual localization by estimating the co-occurrence probabilities between the groun...
computer science
39,332
Sketch-based Image Retrieval from Millions of Images under Rotation, Translation and Scale Variations
cs.CV
Proliferation of touch-based devices has made sketch-based image retrieval practical. While many methods exist for sketch-based object detection/image retrieval on small datasets, relatively less work has been done on large (web)-scale image retrieval. In this paper, we present an efficient approach for image retrieval...
computer science
39,333
High-Performance and Tunable Stereo Reconstruction
cs.RO
Traditional stereo algorithms have focused their efforts on reconstruction quality and have largely avoided prioritizing for run time performance. Robots, on the other hand, require quick maneuverability and effective computation to observe its immediate environment and perform tasks within it. In this work, we propose...
computer science
39,334
Next Generation Multicuts for Semi-Planar Graphs
cs.CV
We study the problem of multicut segmentation. We introduce modified versions of the Semi-PlanarCC based on bounding Lagrange multipliers. We apply our work to natural image segmentation.
computer science
39,335
VideoStory Embeddings Recognize Events when Examples are Scarce
cs.CV
This paper aims for event recognition when video examples are scarce or even completely absent. The key in such a challenging setting is a semantic video representation. Rather than building the representation from individual attribute detectors and their annotations, we propose to learn the entire representation from ...
computer science
39,336
Poisson Inverse Problems by the Plug-and-Play scheme
cs.CV
The Anscombe transform offers an approximate conversion of a Poisson random variable into a Gaussian one. This transform is important and appealing, as it is easy to compute, and becomes handy in various inverse problems with Poisson noise contamination. Solution to such problems can be done by first applying the Ansco...
computer science
39,337
Bearing fault diagnosis based on spectrum images of vibration signals
cs.CV
Bearing fault diagnosis has been a challenge in the monitoring activities of rotating machinery, and it's receiving more and more attention. The conventional fault diagnosis methods usually extract features from the waveforms or spectrums of vibration signals in order to realize fault classification. In this paper, a n...
computer science
39,338
Parkinson's disease patient rehabilitation using gaming platforms: lessons learnt
cs.CY
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder where motor dysfunction gradually increases as the disease progress. In addition to administering dopaminergic PD-specific drugs, attending neurologists strongly recommend regular exercise combined with physiotherapy. However, because of the ...
computer science
39,339
Experimental robustness of Fourier Ptychography phase retrieval algorithms
cs.CV
Fourier ptychography is a new computational microscopy technique that provides gigapixel-scale intensity and phase images with both wide field-of-view and high resolution. By capturing a stack of low-resolution images under different illumination angles, a nonlinear inverse algorithm can be used to computationally reco...
computer science
39,340
A GMM-Based Stair Quality Model for Human Perceived JPEG Images
cs.MM
Based on the notion of just noticeable differences (JND), a stair quality function (SQF) was recently proposed to model human perception on JPEG images. Furthermore, a k-means clustering algorithm was adopted to aggregate JND data collected from multiple subjects to generate a single SQF. In this work, we propose a new...
computer science
39,341
Separation Surfaces in the Spectral TV Domain for Texture Decomposition
cs.CV
In this paper we introduce a novel notion of separation surfaces for image decomposition. A surface is embedded in the spectral total-variation (TV) three dimensional domain and encodes a spatially-varying separation scale. The method allows good separation of textures with gradually varying pattern-size, pattern-contr...
computer science
39,342
Graph-based denoising for time-varying point clouds
cs.CV
Noisy 3D point clouds arise in many applications. They may be due to errors when constructing a 3D model from images or simply to imprecise depth sensors. Point clouds can be given geometrical structure using graphs created from the similarity information between points. This paper introduces a technique that uses this...
computer science
39,343
Moral Lineage Tracing
cs.CV
Lineage tracing, the tracking of living cells as they move and divide, is a central problem in biological image analysis. Solutions, called lineage forests, are key to understanding how the structure of multicellular organisms emerges. We propose an integer linear program (ILP) whose feasible solutions define a decompo...
computer science
39,344
Dense Human Body Correspondences Using Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
We propose a deep learning approach for finding dense correspondences between 3D scans of people. Our method requires only partial geometric information in the form of two depth maps or partial reconstructed surfaces, works for humans in arbitrary poses and wearing any clothing, does not require the two people to be sc...
computer science
39,345
A Simple Hierarchical Pooling Data Structure for Loop Closure
cs.CV
We propose a data structure obtained by hierarchically averaging bag-of-word descriptors during a sequence of views that achieves average speedups in large-scale loop closure applications ranging from 4 to 20 times on benchmark datasets. Although simple, the method works as well as sophisticated agglomerative schemes a...
computer science
39,346
Acceleration of the PDHGM on strongly convex subspaces
math.OC
We propose several variants of the primal-dual method due to Chambolle and Pock. Without requiring full strong convexity of the objective functions, our methods are accelerated on subspaces with strong convexity. This yields mixed rates, $O(1/N^2)$ with respect to initialisation and $O(1/N)$ with respect to the dual se...
computer science
39,347
Multi-Volume High Resolution RGB-D Mapping with Dynamic Volume Placement
cs.RO
We present a novel RGB-D mapping system for generating 3D maps over spatially extended regions with higher resolution than current methods using multiple, dynamically placed mapping volumes. Our method takes in RGB-D frames and dynamically assigns multiple mapping volumes to the environment, exchanging mapping volumes ...
computer science
39,348
CNNdroid: GPU-Accelerated Execution of Trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Android
cs.DC
Many mobile applications running on smartphones and wearable devices would potentially benefit from the accuracy and scalability of deep CNN-based machine learning algorithms. However, performance and energy consumption limitations make the execution of such computationally intensive algorithms on mobile devices prohib...
computer science
39,349
Coresets for Kinematic Data: From Theorems to Real-Time Systems
cs.RO
A coreset (or core-set) of a dataset is its semantic compression with respect to a set of queries, such that querying the (small) coreset provably yields an approximate answer to querying the original (full) dataset. In the last decade, coresets provided breakthroughs in theoretical computer science for approximation a...
computer science
39,350
Dynamic Parallel and Distributed Graph Cuts
cs.DS
Graph-cuts are widely used in computer vision. In order to speed up the optimization process and improve the scalability for large graphs, Strandmark and Kahl introduced a splitting method to split a graph into multiple subgraphs for parallel computation in both shared and distributed memory models. However, this paral...
computer science
39,351
Accelerated graph-based nonlinear denoising filters
cs.CV
Denoising filters, such as bilateral, guided, and total variation filters, applied to images on general graphs may require repeated application if noise is not small enough. We formulate two acceleration techniques of the resulted iterations: conjugate gradient method and Nesterov's acceleration. We numerically show ef...
computer science
39,352
Efficient Edge Detection on Low-Cost FPGAs
cs.AR
Improving the efficiency of edge detection in embedded applications, such as UAV control, is critical for reducing system cost and power dissipation. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) are a good platform for making improvements because of their specialised internal structure. However, current FPGA edge detectors do...
computer science
39,353
Continuous and Simultaneous Gesture and Posture Recognition for Commanding a Robotic Wheelchair; Towards Spotting the Signal Patterns
cs.RO
Spotting signal patterns with varying lengths has been still an open problem in the literature. In this study, we describe a signal pattern recognition approach for continuous and simultaneous classification of a tracked hand's posture and gestures and map them to steering commands for control of a robotic wheelchair. ...
computer science
39,354
MMSE Estimation for Poisson Noise Removal in Images
cs.CV
Poisson noise suppression is an important preprocessing step in several applications, such as medical imaging, microscopy, and astronomical imaging. In this work, we propose a novel patch-wise Poisson noise removal strategy, in which the MMSE estimator is utilized in order to produce the denoising result for each image...
computer science
39,355
Hyperspectral Chemical Plume Detection Algorithms Based On Multidimensional Iterative Filtering Decomposition
math.NA
Chemicals released in the air can be extremely dangerous for human beings and the environment. Hyperspectral images can be used to identify chemical plumes, however the task can be extremely challenging. Assuming we know a priori that some chemical plume, with a known frequency spectrum, has been photographed using a h...
computer science
39,356
Sensor Fusion of Camera, GPS and IMU using Fuzzy Adaptive Multiple Motion Models
cs.RO
A tracking system that will be used for Augmented Reality (AR) applications has two main requirements: accuracy and frame rate. The first requirement is related to the performance of the pose estimation algorithm and how accurately the tracking system can find the position and orientation of the user in the environment...
computer science
39,357
Yet Another Statistical Analysis of Bob Ross Paintings
stat.AP
In this paper, we analyze a sample of clippings from paintings by the late artist Bob Ross. Previous work focused on the qualitative themes of his paintings (Hickey, 2014); here, we expand on that line of research by considering the colorspace and luminosity values as our data. Our results demonstrate the subtle aesthe...
computer science
39,358
Watch-Bot: Unsupervised Learning for Reminding Humans of Forgotten Actions
cs.RO
We present a robotic system that watches a human using a Kinect v2 RGB-D sensor, detects what he forgot to do while performing an activity, and if necessary reminds the person using a laser pointer to point out the related object. Our simple setup can be easily deployed on any assistive robot. Our approach is based o...
computer science
39,359
A proposal project for a blind image quality assessment by learning distortions from the full reference image quality assessments
cs.MM
This short paper presents a perspective plan to build a null reference image quality assessment. Its main goal is to deliver both the objective score and the distortion map for a given distorted image without the knowledge of its reference image.
computer science
39,360
On Deep Representation Learning from Noisy Web Images
cs.CV
The keep-growing content of Web images may be the next important data source to scale up deep neural networks, which recently obtained a great success in the ImageNet classification challenge and related tasks. This prospect, however, has not been validated on convolutional networks (convnet) -- one of best performing ...
computer science
39,361
Plug-and-Play Priors for Bright Field Electron Tomography and Sparse Interpolation
cs.CV
Many material and biological samples in scientific imaging are characterized by non-local repeating structures. These are studied using scanning electron microscopy and electron tomography. Sparse sampling of individual pixels in a 2D image acquisition geometry, or sparse sampling of projection images with large tilt i...
computer science
39,362
GPU-Based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithm for Image Segmentation
cs.DC
In this paper, a fast and practical GPU-based implementation of Fuzzy C-Means(FCM) clustering algorithm for image segmentation is proposed. First, an extensive analysis is conducted to study the dependency among the image pixels in the algorithm for parallelization. The proposed GPU-based FCM has been tested on digital...
computer science
39,363
How can one sample images with sampling rates close to the theoretical minimum?
cs.CV
A problem is addressed of minimization of the number of measurements needed for digital image acquisition and reconstruction with a given accuracy. A sampling theory based method of image sampling and reconstruction is suggested that allows to draw near the minimal rate of image sampling defined by the sampling theory....
computer science
39,364
Shape Animation with Combined Captured and Simulated Dynamics
cs.GR
We present a novel volumetric animation generation framework to create new types of animations from raw 3D surface or point cloud sequence of captured real performances. The framework considers as input time incoherent 3D observations of a moving shape, and is thus particularly suitable for the output of performance ca...
computer science
39,365
Learning to Remove Multipath Distortions in Time-of-Flight Range Images for a Robotic Arm Setup
cs.CV
Range images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are corrupted with multipath distortions due to interaction between modulated light signals and scenes. The interaction is often complicated, which makes a model-based solution elusive. We propose a learning-based approach for removing the multipath distortions for ...
computer science
39,366
Group Invariant Deep Representations for Image Instance Retrieval
cs.CV
Most image instance retrieval pipelines are based on comparison of vectors known as global image descriptors between a query image and the database images. Due to their success in large scale image classification, representations extracted from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are quickly gaining ground on Fisher Ve...
computer science
39,367
Joint Object-Material Category Segmentation from Audio-Visual Cues
cs.CV
It is not always possible to recognise objects and infer material properties for a scene from visual cues alone, since objects can look visually similar whilst being made of very different materials. In this paper, we therefore present an approach that augments the available dense visual cues with sparse auditory cues ...
computer science
39,368
Parallel Stroked Multi Line: a model-based method for compressing large fingerprint databases
cs.CV
With increasing usage of fingerprints as an important biometric data, the need to compress the large fingerprint databases has become essential. The most recommended compression algorithm, even by standards, is JPEG2K. But at high compression rates, this algorithm is ineffective. In this paper, a model is proposed whic...
computer science
39,369
3D Gaze Estimation from 2D Pupil Positions on Monocular Head-Mounted Eye Trackers
cs.HC
3D gaze information is important for scene-centric attention analysis but accurate estimation and analysis of 3D gaze in real-world environments remains challenging. We present a novel 3D gaze estimation method for monocular head-mounted eye trackers. In contrast to previous work, our method does not aim to infer 3D ey...
computer science
39,370
Learning Subclass Representations for Visually-varied Image Classification
cs.MM
In this paper, we present a subclass-representation approach that predicts the probability of a social image belonging to one particular class. We explore the co-occurrence of user-contributed tags to find subclasses with a strong connection to the top level class. We then project each image on to the resulting subclas...
computer science
39,371
Deep Neural Networks predict Hierarchical Spatio-temporal Cortical Dynamics of Human Visual Object Recognition
cs.CV
The complex multi-stage architecture of cortical visual pathways provides the neural basis for efficient visual object recognition in humans. However, the stage-wise computations therein remain poorly understood. Here, we compared temporal (magnetoencephalography) and spatial (functional MRI) visual brain representatio...
computer science
39,372
Digital Image Forensics vs. Image Composition: An Indirect Arms Race
cs.CV
The field of image composition is constantly trying to improve the ways in which an image can be altered and enhanced. While this is usually done in the name of aesthetics and practicality, it also provides tools that can be used to maliciously alter images. In this sense, the field of digital image forensics has to be...
computer science
39,373
Adaptive Image Denoising by Mixture Adaptation
cs.CV
We propose an adaptive learning procedure to learn patch-based image priors for image denoising. The new algorithm, called the Expectation-Maximization (EM) adaptation, takes a generic prior learned from a generic external database and adapts it to the noisy image to generate a specific prior. Different from existing m...
computer science
39,374
Generalized optimal sub-pattern assignment metric
cs.SY
This paper presents the generalized optimal sub-pattern assignment (GOSPA) metric on the space of finite sets of targets. Compared to the well-established optimal sub-pattern assignment (OSPA) metric, GOSPA is unnormalized as a function of the cardinality and it penalizes cardinality errors differently, which enables u...
computer science
39,375
B-spline Shape from Motion & Shading: An Automatic Free-form Surface Modeling for Face Reconstruction
cs.CV
Recently, many methods have been proposed for face reconstruction from multiple images, most of which involve fundamental principles of Shape from Shading and Structure from motion. However, a majority of the methods just generate discrete surface model of face. In this paper, B-spline Shape from Motion and Shading (Bs...
computer science
39,376
Geometric-Algebra LMS Adaptive Filter and its Application to Rotation Estimation
cs.CV
This paper exploits Geometric (Clifford) Algebra (GA) theory in order to devise and introduce a new adaptive filtering strategy. From a least-squares cost function, the gradient is calculated following results from Geometric Calculus (GC), the extension of GA to handle differential and integral calculus. The novel GA l...
computer science
39,377
Egocentric Activity Recognition with Multimodal Fisher Vector
cs.MM
With the increasing availability of wearable devices, research on egocentric activity recognition has received much attention recently. In this paper, we build a Multimodal Egocentric Activity dataset which includes egocentric videos and sensor data of 20 fine-grained and diverse activity categories. We present a novel...
computer science
39,378
Virtual Rephotography: Novel View Prediction Error for 3D Reconstruction
cs.CV
The ultimate goal of many image-based modeling systems is to render photo-realistic novel views of a scene without visible artifacts. Existing evaluation metrics and benchmarks focus mainly on the geometric accuracy of the reconstructed model, which is, however, a poor predictor of visual accuracy. Furthermore, using o...
computer science
39,379
Fast Integral Image Estimation at 1% measurement rate
cs.CV
We propose a framework called ReFInE to directly obtain integral image estimates from a very small number of spatially multiplexed measurements of the scene without iterative reconstruction of any auxiliary image, and demonstrate their practical utility in visual object tracking. Specifically, we design measurement mat...
computer science
39,380
Osteoporotic and Neoplastic Compression Fracture Classification on Longitudinal CT
cs.CV
Classification of vertebral compression fractures (VCF) having osteoporotic or neoplastic origin is fundamental to the planning of treatment. We developed a fracture classification system by acquiring quantitative morphologic and bone density determinants of fracture progression through the use of automated measurement...
computer science
39,381
Geo-distinctive Visual Element Matching for Location Estimation of Images
cs.MM
We propose an image representation and matching approach that substantially improves visual-based location estimation for images. The main novelty of the approach, called distinctive visual element matching (DVEM), is its use of representations that are specific to the query image whose location is being predicted. The...
computer science
39,382
Spectrally Grouped Total Variation Reconstruction for Scatter Imaging Using ADMM
math.NA
We consider X-ray coherent scatter imaging, where the goal is to reconstruct momentum transfer profiles (spectral distributions) at each spatial location from multiplexed measurements of scatter. Each material is characterized by a unique momentum transfer profile (MTP) which can be used to discriminate between differe...
computer science
39,383
What Can I Do Around Here? Deep Functional Scene Understanding for Cognitive Robots
cs.RO
For robots that have the capability to interact with the physical environment through their end effectors, understanding the surrounding scenes is not merely a task of image classification or object recognition. To perform actual tasks, it is critical for the robot to have a functional understanding of the visual scene...
computer science
39,384
Novel Views of Objects from a Single Image
cs.CV
Taking an image of an object is at its core a lossy process. The rich information about the three-dimensional structure of the world is flattened to an image plane and decisions such as viewpoint and camera parameters are final and not easily revertible. As a consequence, possibilities of changing viewpoint are limited...
computer science
39,385
Mental State Recognition via Wearable EEG
cs.CV
The increasing quality and affordability of consumer electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets make them attractive for situations where medical grade devices are impractical. Predicting and tracking cognitive states is possible for tasks that were previously not conducive to EEG monitoring. For instance, monitoring operator...
computer science
39,386
Development of an Ideal Observer that Incorporates Nuisance Parameters and Processes List-Mode Data
cs.CV
Observer models were developed to process data in list-mode format in order to perform binary discrimination tasks for use in an arms-control-treaty context. Data used in this study was generated using GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations for photons using custom models of plutonium inspection objects and a radiation imaging...
computer science
39,387
EIE: Efficient Inference Engine on Compressed Deep Neural Network
cs.CV
State-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) have hundreds of millions of connections and are both computationally and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources and power budgets. While custom hardware helps the computation, fetching weights from DRAM is two o...
computer science
39,388
Appearance Based Robot and Human Activity Recognition System
cs.RO
In this work, we present an appearance based human activity recognition system. It uses background modeling to segment the foreground object and extracts useful discriminative features for representing activities performed by humans and robots. Subspace based method like principal component analysis is used to extract ...
computer science
39,389
Search Tracker: Human-derived object tracking in-the-wild through large-scale search and retrieval
cs.CV
Humans use context and scene knowledge to easily localize moving objects in conditions of complex illumination changes, scene clutter and occlusions. In this paper, we present a method to leverage human knowledge in the form of annotated video libraries in a novel search and retrieval based setting to track objects in ...
computer science
39,390
Efficient Multi-view Performance Capture of Fine-Scale Surface Detail
cs.CV
We present a new effective way for performance capture of deforming meshes with fine-scale time-varying surface detail from multi-view video. Our method builds up on coarse 4D surface reconstructions, as obtained with commonly used template-based methods. As they only capture models of coarse-to-medium scale detail, fi...
computer science
39,391
A Large Dataset of Object Scans
cs.CV
We have created a dataset of more than ten thousand 3D scans of real objects. To create the dataset, we recruited 70 operators, equipped them with consumer-grade mobile 3D scanning setups, and paid them to scan objects in their environments. The operators scanned objects of their choosing, outside the laboratory and wi...
computer science
39,392
Automatic Face Reenactment
cs.CV
We propose an image-based, facial reenactment system that replaces the face of an actor in an existing target video with the face of a user from a source video, while preserving the original target performance. Our system is fully automatic and does not require a database of source expressions. Instead, it is able to p...
computer science
39,393
Segmental Spatiotemporal CNNs for Fine-grained Action Segmentation
cs.CV
Joint segmentation and classification of fine-grained actions is important for applications of human-robot interaction, video surveillance, and human skill evaluation. However, despite substantial recent progress in large-scale action classification, the performance of state-of-the-art fine-grained action recognition a...
computer science
39,394
Image encryption with dynamic chaotic Look-Up Table
cs.CR
In this paper we propose a novel image encryption scheme. The proposed method is based on the chaos theory. Our cryptosystem uses the chaos theory to define a dynamic chaotic Look-Up Table (LUT) to compute the new value of the current pixel to cipher. Applying this process on each pixel of the plain image, we generate ...
computer science
39,395
Design of false color palettes for grayscale reproduction
cs.GR
Design of false color palette is quite easy but some effort has to be done to achieve good dynamic range, contrast and overall appearance of the palette. Such palettes, for instance, are commonly used in scientific papers for presenting the data. However, to lower the cost of the paper most scientists decide to let the...
computer science
39,396
HMM and DTW for evaluation of therapeutical gestures using kinect
cs.HC
Automatic recognition of the quality of movement in human beings is a challenging task, given the difficulty both in defining the constraints that make a movement correct, and the difficulty in using noisy data to determine if these constraints were satisfied. This paper presents a method for the detection of deviation...
computer science
39,397
Embracing Error to Enable Rapid Crowdsourcing
cs.HC
Microtask crowdsourcing has enabled dataset advances in social science and machine learning, but existing crowdsourcing schemes are too expensive to scale up with the expanding volume of data. To scale and widen the applicability of crowdsourcing, we present a technique that produces extremely rapid judgments for binar...
computer science
39,398
Fast, Robust, Continuous Monocular Egomotion Computation
cs.CV
We propose robust methods for estimating camera egomotion in noisy, real-world monocular image sequences in the general case of unknown observer rotation and translation with two views and a small baseline. This is a difficult problem because of the nonconvex cost function of the perspective camera motion equation and ...
computer science
39,399
Optimizing Gaze Direction in a Visual Navigation Task
cs.RO
Navigation in an unknown environment consists of multiple separable subtasks, such as collecting information about the surroundings and navigating to the current goal. In the case of pure visual navigation, all these subtasks need to utilize the same vision system, and therefore a way to optimally control the direction...
computer science
39,400
2D SEM images turn into 3D object models
cs.CV
The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is probably one the most fascinating examination approach that has been used since more than two decades to detailed inspection of micro scale objects. Most of the scanning electron microscopes could only produce 2D images that could not assist operational analysis of microscopic ...
computer science
39,401
Image Restoration: A General Wavelet Frame Based Model and Its Asymptotic Analysis
math.FA
Image restoration is one of the most important areas in imaging science. Mathematical tools have been widely used in image restoration, where wavelet frame based approach is one of the successful examples. In this paper, we introduce a generic wavelet frame based image restoration model, called the "general model", whi...
computer science
39,402
Plücker Correction Problem: Analysis and Improvements in Efficiency
cs.CV
A given six dimensional vector represents a 3D straight line in Plucker coordinates if its coordinates satisfy the Klein quadric constraint. In many problems aiming to find the Plucker coordinates of lines, noise in the data and other type of errors contribute for obtaining 6D vectors that do not correspond to lines,...
computer science
39,403
Depth-Based Object Tracking Using a Robust Gaussian Filter
cs.RO
We consider the problem of model-based 3D-tracking of objects given dense depth images as input. Two difficulties preclude the application of a standard Gaussian filter to this problem. First of all, depth sensors are characterized by fat-tailed measurement noise. To address this issue, we show how a recently published...
computer science
39,404
Creating Simplified 3D Models with High Quality Textures
cs.GR
This paper presents an extension to the KinectFusion algorithm which allows creating simplified 3D models with high quality RGB textures. This is achieved through (i) creating model textures using images from an HD RGB camera that is calibrated with Kinect depth camera, (ii) using a modified scheme to update model text...
computer science
39,405
Learning Shapes by Convex Composition
cs.CV
We present a mathematical and algorithmic scheme for learning the principal geometric elements in an image or 3D object. We build on recent work that convexifies the basic problem of finding a combination of a small number shapes that overlap and occlude one another in such a way that they "match" a given scene as clos...
computer science
39,406
Adaptive Frequency Cepstral Coefficients for Word Mispronunciation Detection
cs.SD
Systems based on automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology can provide important functionality in computer assisted language learning applications. This is a young but growing area of research motivated by the large number of students studying foreign languages. Here we propose a Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based met...
computer science
39,407
Autonomous navigation for low-altitude UAVs in urban areas
cs.RO
In recent years, consumer Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have become very popular, everyone can buy and fly a drone without previous experience, which raises concern in regards to regulations and public safety. In this paper, we present a novel approach towards enabling safe operation of such vehicles in urban areas. Our met...
computer science
39,408
Graph clustering, variational image segmentation methods and Hough transform scale detection for object measurement in images
math.AP
We consider the problem of scale detection in images where a region of interest is present together with a measurement tool (e.g. a ruler). For the segmentation part, we focus on the graph based method by Flenner and Bertozzi which reinterprets classical continuous Ginzburg-Landau minimisation models in a totally discr...
computer science
39,409
Content-based Video Indexing and Retrieval Using Corr-LDA
cs.IR
Existing video indexing and retrieval methods on popular web-based multimedia sharing websites are based on user-provided sparse tagging. This paper proposes a very specific way of searching for video clips, based on the content of the video. We present our work on Content-based Video Indexing and Retrieval using the C...
computer science