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Bag of Attributes for Video Event Retrieval
cs.IR
In this paper, we present the Bag-of-Attributes (BoA) model for video representation aiming at video event retrieval. The BoA model is based on a semantic feature space for representing videos, resulting in high-level video feature vectors. For creating a semantic space, i.e., the attribute space, we can train a classi...
computer science
39,511
On Differentiating Parameterized Argmin and Argmax Problems with Application to Bi-level Optimization
cs.CV
Some recent works in machine learning and computer vision involve the solution of a bi-level optimization problem. Here the solution of a parameterized lower-level problem binds variables that appear in the objective of an upper-level problem. The lower-level problem typically appears as an argmin or argmax optimizatio...
computer science
39,512
Fast Robust Monocular Depth Estimation for Obstacle Detection with Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.RO
Obstacle Detection is a central problem for any robotic system, and critical for autonomous systems that travel at high speeds in unpredictable environment. This is often achieved through scene depth estimation, by various means. When fast motion is considered, the detection range must be longer enough to allow for saf...
computer science
39,513
Rank Correlation Measure: A Representational Transformation for Biometric Template Protection
cs.CV
Despite a variety of theoretical-sound techniques have been proposed for biometric template protection, there is rarely practical solution that guarantees non-invertibility, cancellability, non-linkability and performance simultaneously. In this paper, a ranking-based representational transformation is proposed for fin...
computer science
39,514
Autonomous Ingress of a UAV through a window using Monocular Vision
cs.CV
The use of autonomous UAVs for surveillance purposes and other reconnaissance tasks is increasingly becoming popular and convenient.These tasks requires the ability to successfully ingress through the rectangular openings or windows of the target structure.In this paper, a method to robustly detect the window in the su...
computer science
39,515
Exploiting Symmetry and/or Manhattan Properties for 3D Object Structure Estimation from Single and Multiple Images
cs.CV
Many man-made objects have intrinsic symmetries and Manhattan structure. By assuming an orthographic projection model, this paper addresses the estimation of 3D structures and camera projection using symmetry and/or Manhattan structure cues, which occur when the input is single- or multiple-image from the same category...
computer science
39,516
Much Ado About Time: Exhaustive Annotation of Temporal Data
cs.HC
Large-scale annotated datasets allow AI systems to learn from and build upon the knowledge of the crowd. Many crowdsourcing techniques have been developed for collecting image annotations. These techniques often implicitly rely on the fact that a new input image takes a negligible amount of time to perceive. In contras...
computer science
39,517
A Multiple Kernel Learning Approach for Human Behavioral Task Classification using STN-LFP Signal
cs.CV
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has gained increasing attention as an effective method to mitigate Parkinsons disease (PD) disorders. Existing DBS systems are open-loop such that the system parameters are not adjusted automatically based on patients behavior. Classification of human behavior is an important step in the de...
computer science
39,518
Spatial probabilistic pulsatility model for enhancing photoplethysmographic imaging systems
cs.CV
Photolethysmographic imaging (PPGI) is a widefield non-contact biophotonic technology able to remotely monitor cardiovascular function over anatomical areas. Though spatial context can provide increased physiological insight, existing PPGI systems rely on coarse spatial averaging with no anatomical priors for assessing...
computer science
39,519
Adaptive foveated single-pixel imaging with dynamic super-sampling
cs.CV
As an alternative to conventional multi-pixel cameras, single-pixel cameras enable images to be recorded using a single detector that measures the correlations between the scene and a set of patterns. However, to fully sample a scene in this way requires at least the same number of correlation measurements as there are...
computer science
39,520
A Nonlocal Denoising Algorithm for Manifold-Valued Images Using Second Order Statistics
cs.CV
Nonlocal patch-based methods, in particular the Bayes' approach of Lebrun, Buades and Morel (2013), are considered as state-of-the-art methods for denoising (color) images corrupted by white Gaussian noise of moderate variance. This paper is the first attempt to generalize this technique to manifold-valued images. Such...
computer science
39,521
A 58.6mW Real-Time Programmable Object Detector with Multi-Scale Multi-Object Support Using Deformable Parts Model on 1920x1080 Video at 30fps
cs.CV
This paper presents a programmable, energy-efficient and real-time object detection accelerator using deformable parts models (DPM), with 2x higher accuracy than traditional rigid body models. With 8 deformable parts detection, three methods are used to address the high computational complexity: classification pruning ...
computer science
39,522
Image Prediction for Limited-angle Tomography via Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Limited angle problem is a challenging issue in x-ray computed tomography (CT) field. Iterative reconstruction methods that utilize the additional prior can suppress artifacts and improve image quality, but unfortunately require increased computation time. An interesting way is to restrain the artifacts in the images r...
computer science
39,523
Complexity of Discrete Energy Minimization Problems
cs.CV
Discrete energy minimization is widely-used in computer vision and machine learning for problems such as MAP inference in graphical models. The problem, in general, is notoriously intractable, and finding the global optimal solution is known to be NP-hard. However, is it possible to approximate this problem with a reas...
computer science
39,524
Exploiting Temporal Information for DCNN-based Fine-Grained Object Classification
cs.CV
Fine-grained classification is a relatively new field that has concentrated on using information from a single image, while ignoring the enormous potential of using video data to improve classification. In this work we present the novel task of video-based fine-grained object classification, propose a corresponding new...
computer science
39,525
Dimensionality reduction based on Distance Preservation to Local Mean (DPLM) for SPD matrices and its application in BCI
cs.NA
In this paper, we propose a nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithm for the manifold of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices that considers the geometry of SPD matrices and provides a low dimensional representation of the manifold with high class discrimination. The proposed algorithm, tries to preserve the ...
computer science
39,526
Towards Learning to Perceive and Reason About Liquids
cs.RO
Recent advances in AI and robotics have claimed many incredible results with deep learning, yet no work to date has applied deep learning to the problem of liquid perception and reasoning. In this paper, we apply fully-convolutional deep neural networks to the tasks of detecting and tracking liquids. We evaluate three ...
computer science
39,527
PicHunt: Social Media Image Retrieval for Improved Law Enforcement
cs.MM
First responders are increasingly using social media to identify and reduce crime for well-being and safety of the society. Images shared on social media hurting religious, political, communal and other sentiments of people, often instigate violence and create law & order situations in society. This results in the need...
computer science
39,528
Fuzzy-based Propagation of Prior Knowledge to Improve Large-Scale Image Analysis Pipelines
cs.CV
Many automatically analyzable scientific questions are well-posed and offer a variety of information about the expected outcome a priori. Although often being neglected, this prior knowledge can be systematically exploited to make automated analysis operations sensitive to a desired phenomenon or to evaluate extracted ...
computer science
39,529
Permutation NMF
cs.CV
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(NMF) is a common used technique in machine learning to extract features out of data such as text documents and images thanks to its natural clustering properties. In particular, it is popular in image processing since it can decompose several pictures and recognize common parts if they'...
computer science
39,530
An efficient iterative thresholding method for image segmentation
cs.CV
We proposed an efficient iterative thresholding method for multi-phase image segmentation. The algorithm is based on minimizing piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional in which the contour length (or perimeter) is approximated by a non-local multi-phase energy. The minimization problem is solved by an iterative meth...
computer science
39,531
Blind Deconvolution of PET Images using Anatomical Priors
cs.CV
Images from positron emission tomography (PET) provide metabolic information about the human body. They present, however, a spatial resolution that is limited by physical and instrumental factors often modeled by a blurring function. Since this function is typically unknown, blind deconvolution (BD) techniques are need...
computer science
39,532
Photometric Bundle Adjustment for Vision-Based SLAM
cs.CV
We propose a novel algorithm for the joint refinement of structure and motion parameters from image data directly without relying on fixed and known correspondences. In contrast to traditional bundle adjustment (BA) where the optimal parameters are determined by minimizing the reprojection error using tracked features,...
computer science
39,533
SANTIAGO: Spine Association for Neuron Topology Improvement and Graph Optimization
cs.CV
Developing automated and semi-automated solutions for reconstructing wiring diagrams of the brain from electron micrographs is important for advancing the field of connectomics. While the ultimate goal is to generate a graph of neuron connectivity, most prior automated methods have focused on volume segmentation rather...
computer science
39,534
A Factorization Approach to Inertial Affine Structure from Motion
cs.CV
We consider the problem of reconstructing a 3-D scene from a moving camera with high frame rate using the affine projection model. This problem is traditionally known as Affine Structure from Motion (Affine SfM), and can be solved using an elegant low-rank factorization formulation. In this paper, we assume that an acc...
computer science
39,535
Steerable Principal Components for Space-Frequency Localized Images
cs.CV
This paper describes a fast and accurate method for obtaining steerable principal components from a large dataset of images, assuming the images are well localized in space and frequency. The obtained steerable principal components are optimal for expanding the images in the dataset and all of their rotations. The meth...
computer science
39,536
Multi-View Product Image Search Using Deep ConvNets Representations
cs.CV
Multi-view product image queries can improve retrieval performance over single view queries significantly. In this paper, we investigated the performance of deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) on multi-view product image search. First, we trained a VGG-like network to learn deep ConvNets representations of pr...
computer science
39,537
Speech Signal Analysis for the Estimation of Heart Rates Under Different Emotional States
cs.SD
A non-invasive method for the monitoring of heart activity can help to reduce the deaths caused by heart disorders such as stroke, arrhythmia and heart attack. The human voice can be considered as a biometric data that can be used for estimation of heart rate. In this paper, we propose a method for estimating the heart...
computer science
39,538
Scout-It: Interior tomography using modified scout acquisition
cs.CV
Global scout views have been previously used to reduce interior reconstruction artifacts in high-resolution micro-CT and C-arm systems. However these methods cannot be directly used in the all-important domain of clinical CT. This is because when the CT scan is truncated, the scout views are also truncated. However man...
computer science
39,539
Detecting Dominant Vanishing Points in Natural Scenes with Application to Composition-Sensitive Image Retrieval
cs.CV
Linear perspective is widely used in landscape photography to create the impression of depth on a 2D photo. Automated understanding of linear perspective in landscape photography has several real-world applications, including aesthetics assessment, image retrieval, and on-site feedback for photo composition, yet adequa...
computer science
39,540
Automated Selection of Uniform Regions for CT Image Quality Detection
cs.CV
CT images are widely used in pathology detection and follow-up treatment procedures. Accurate identification of pathological features requires diagnostic quality CT images with minimal noise and artifact variation. In this work, a novel Fourier-transform based metric for image quality (IQ) estimation is presented that ...
computer science
39,541
Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Neural Networks
cs.CR
Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input $x$ and any target classification $t$, it is possible to find a new input $x'$ that is similar to $x$ but classified as $t$. This makes it difficult to ...
computer science
39,542
Globally Variance-Constrained Sparse Representation for Image Set Compression
cs.CV
Sparse representation presents an efficient approach to approximately recover a signal by the linear composition of a few bases from a learnt dictionary, based on which various successful applications have been observed. However, in the scenario of data compression, its efficiency and popularity are hindered due to the...
computer science
39,543
Fundamental principles of cortical computation: unsupervised learning with prediction, compression and feedback
cs.CV
There has been great progress in understanding of anatomical and functional microcircuitry of the primate cortex. However, the fundamental principles of cortical computation - the principles that allow the visual cortex to bind retinal spikes into representations of objects, scenes and scenarios - have so far remained ...
computer science
39,544
Computerized Tomography with Total Variation and with Shearlets
cs.CV
To reduce the x-ray dose in computerized tomography (CT), many constrained optimization approaches have been proposed aiming at minimizing a regularizing function that measures lack of consistency with some prior knowledge about the object that is being imaged, subject to a (predetermined) level of consistency with the...
computer science
39,545
Automatic Synchronization of Multi-User Photo Galleries
cs.MM
In this paper we address the issue of photo galleries synchronization, where pictures related to the same event are collected by different users. Existing solutions to address the problem are usually based on unrealistic assumptions, like time consistency across photo galleries, and often heavily rely on heuristics, li...
computer science
39,546
A Fast Ellipse Detector Using Projective Invariant Pruning
cs.CV
Detecting elliptical objects from an image is a central task in robot navigation and industrial diagnosis where the detection time is always a critical issue. Existing methods are hardly applicable to these real-time scenarios of limited hardware resource due to the huge number of fragment candidates (edges or arcs) fo...
computer science
39,547
MindX: Denoising Mixed Impulse Poisson-Gaussian Noise Using Proximal Algorithms
cs.CV
We present a novel algorithm for blind denoising of images corrupted by mixed impulse, Poisson, and Gaussian noises. The algorithm starts by applying the Anscombe variance-stabilizing transformation to convert the Poisson into white Gaussian noise. Then it applies a combinatorial optimization technique to denoise the m...
computer science
39,548
Human Action Recognition without Human
cs.CV
The objective of this paper is to evaluate "human action recognition without human". Motion representation is frequently discussed in human action recognition. We have examined several sophisticated options, such as dense trajectories (DT) and the two-stream convolutional neural network (CNN). However, some features fr...
computer science
39,549
Vehicle Detection from 3D Lidar Using Fully Convolutional Network
cs.CV
Convolutional network techniques have recently achieved great success in vision based detection tasks. This paper introduces the recent development of our research on transplanting the fully convolutional network technique to the detection tasks on 3D range scan data. Specifically, the scenario is set as the vehicle de...
computer science
39,550
Constraint matrix factorization for space variant PSFs field restoration
cs.CV
Context: in large-scale spatial surveys, the Point Spread Function (PSF) varies across the instrument field of view (FOV). Local measurements of the PSFs are given by the isolated stars images. Yet, these estimates may not be directly usable for post-processings because of the observational noise and potentially the al...
computer science
39,551
Where is my Phone ? Personal Object Retrieval from Egocentric Images
cs.IR
This work presents a retrieval pipeline and evaluation scheme for the problem of finding the last appearance of personal objects in a large dataset of images captured from a wearable camera. Each personal object is modelled by a small set of images that define a query for a visual search engine.The retrieved results ar...
computer science
39,552
Motion Representation with Acceleration Images
cs.CV
Information of time differentiation is extremely important cue for a motion representation. We have applied first-order differential velocity from a positional information, moreover we believe that second-order differential acceleration is also a significant feature in a motion representation. However, an acceleration ...
computer science
39,553
Engagement Detection in Meetings
cs.CV
Group meetings are frequent business events aimed to develop and conduct project work, such as Big Room design and construction project meetings. To be effective in these meetings, participants need to have an engaged mental state. The mental state of participants however, is hidden from other participants, and thereby...
computer science
39,554
Radiation Search Operations using Scene Understanding with Autonomous UAV and UGV
cs.RO
Autonomously searching for hazardous radiation sources requires the ability of the aerial and ground systems to understand the scene they are scouting. In this paper, we present systems, algorithms, and experiments to perform radiation search using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) by em...
computer science
39,555
Semantic Image Based Geolocation Given a Map
cs.CV
The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the views of the same location. The quality of the results is often affected by the ...
computer science
39,556
Defeating Image Obfuscation with Deep Learning
cs.CR
We demonstrate that modern image recognition methods based on artificial neural networks can recover hidden information from images protected by various forms of obfuscation. The obfuscation techniques considered in this paper are mosaicing (also known as pixelation), blurring (as used by YouTube), and P3, a recently p...
computer science
39,557
Statistical Meta-Analysis of Presentation Attacks for Secure Multibiometric Systems
cs.CV
Prior work has shown that multibiometric systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks, assuming that their matching score distribution is identical to that of genuine users, without fabricating any fake trait. We have recently shown that this assumption is not representative of current fingerprint and face presentati...
computer science
39,558
Depth Estimation Through a Generative Model of Light Field Synthesis
cs.CV
Light field photography captures rich structural information that may facilitate a number of traditional image processing and computer vision tasks. A crucial ingredient in such endeavors is accurate depth recovery. We present a novel framework that allows the recovery of a high quality continuous depth map from light ...
computer science
39,559
Component-Based Distributed Framework for Coherent and Real-Time Video Dehazing
cs.DC
Traditional dehazing techniques, as a well studied topic in image processing, are now widely used to eliminate the haze effects from individual images. However, even the state-of-the-art dehazing algorithms may not provide sufficient support to video analytics, as a crucial pre-processing step for video-based decision ...
computer science
39,560
Tracking Algorithm for Microscopic Flow Data Collection
cs.CV
Various methods to automate traffic data collection have recently been developed by many researchers. A macroscopic data collection through image processing has been proposed. For microscopic traffic flow data, such as individual speed and time or distance headway, tracking of individual movement is needed. The trackin...
computer science
39,561
Ashwin: Plug-and-Play System for Machine-Human Image Annotation
cs.CV
We present an end-to-end machine-human image annotation system where each component can be attached in a plug-and-play fashion. These components include Feature Extraction, Machine Classifier, Task Sampling and Crowd Consensus.
computer science
39,562
Learning-Based View Synthesis for Light Field Cameras
cs.CV
With the introduction of consumer light field cameras, light field imaging has recently become widespread. However, there is an inherent trade-off between the angular and spatial resolution, and thus, these cameras often sparsely sample in either spatial or angular domain. In this paper, we use machine learning to miti...
computer science
39,563
Simultaneous independent image display technique on multiple 3D objects
cs.CV
We propose a new system to visualize depth-dependent patterns and images on solid objects with complex geometry using multiple projectors. The system, despite consisting of conventional passive LCD projectors, is able to project different images and patterns depending on the spatial location of the object. The techniqu...
computer science
39,564
Active Canny: Edge Detection and Recovery with Open Active Contour Models
cs.CV
We introduce an edge detection and recovery framework based on open active contour models (snakelets). This is motivated by the noisy or broken edges output by standard edge detection algorithms, like Canny. The idea is to utilize the local continuity and smoothness cues provided by strong edges and grow them to recove...
computer science
39,565
Examining Representational Similarity in ConvNets and the Primate Visual Cortex
cs.CV
We compare several ConvNets with different depth and regularization techniques with multi-unit macaque IT cortex recordings and assess the impact of the same on representational similarity with the primate visual cortex. We find that with increasing depth and validation performance, ConvNet features are closer to corti...
computer science
39,566
Dilemma First Search for Effortless Optimization of NP-Hard Problems
cs.DS
To tackle the exponentiality associated with NP-hard problems, two paradigms have been proposed. First, Branch & Bound, like Dynamic Programming, achieve efficient exact inference but requires extensive information and analysis about the problem at hand. Second, meta-heuristics are easier to implement but comparatively...
computer science
39,567
Associating Grasp Configurations with Hierarchical Features in Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
In this work, we provide a solution for posturing the anthropomorphic Robonaut-2 hand and arm for grasping based on visual information. A mapping from visual features extracted from a convolutional neural network (CNN) to grasp points is learned. We demonstrate that a CNN pre-trained for image classification can be app...
computer science
39,568
Method to Assess the Temporal Persistence of Potential Biometric Features: Application to Oculomotor, and Gait-Related Databases
cs.CV
Although temporal persistence, or permanence, is a well understood requirement for optimal biometric features, there is no general agreement on how to assess temporal persistence. We suggest that the best way to assess temporal persistence is to perform a test-retest study, and assess test-retest reliability. For ratio...
computer science
39,569
Lost and Found: Detecting Small Road Hazards for Self-Driving Vehicles
cs.CV
Detecting small obstacles on the road ahead is a critical part of the driving task which has to be mastered by fully autonomous cars. In this paper, we present a method based on stereo vision to reliably detect such obstacles from a moving vehicle. The proposed algorithm performs statistical hypothesis tests in dispari...
computer science
39,570
Improving the Accuracy of Stereo Visual Odometry Using Visual Illumination Estimation
cs.RO
In the absence of reliable and accurate GPS, visual odometry (VO) has emerged as an effective means of estimating the egomotion of robotic vehicles. Like any dead-reckoning technique, VO suffers from unbounded accumulation of drift error over time, but this accumulation can be limited by incorporating absolute orientat...
computer science
39,571
A Glimpse Far into the Future: Understanding Long-term Crowd Worker Quality
cs.HC
Microtask crowdsourcing is increasingly critical to the creation of extremely large datasets. As a result, crowd workers spend weeks or months repeating the exact same tasks, making it necessary to understand their behavior over these long periods of time. We utilize three large, longitudinal datasets of nine million a...
computer science
39,572
Visual Stability Prediction and Its Application to Manipulation
cs.CV
Understanding physical phenomena is a key competence that enables humans and animals to act and interact under uncertain perception in previously unseen environments containing novel objects and their configurations. Developmental psychology has shown that such skills are acquired by infants from observations at a very...
computer science
39,573
Consistent Discretization and Minimization of the L1 Norm on Manifolds
cs.NA
The L1 norm has been tremendously popular in signal and image processing in the past two decades due to its sparsity-promoting properties. More recently, its generalization to non-Euclidean domains has been found useful in shape analysis applications. For example, in conjunction with the minimization of the Dirichlet e...
computer science
39,574
Random Forests versus Neural Networks - What's Best for Camera Localization?
cs.CV
This work addresses the task of camera localization in a known 3D scene given a single input RGB image. State-of-the-art approaches accomplish this in two steps: firstly, regressing for every pixel in the image its 3D scene coordinate and subsequently, using these coordinates to estimate the final 6D camera pose via RA...
computer science
39,575
On Support Relations and Semantic Scene Graphs
cs.CV
Scene understanding is a popular and challenging topic in both computer vision and photogrammetry. Scene graph provides rich information for such scene understanding. This paper presents a novel approach to infer such relations and then to construct the scene graph. Support relations are estimated by considering import...
computer science
39,576
Reducing Drift in Visual Odometry by Inferring Sun Direction Using a Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network
cs.RO
We present a method to incorporate global orientation information from the sun into a visual odometry pipeline using only the existing image stream, where the sun is typically not visible. We leverage recent advances in Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks to train and implement a sun detection model that infers a th...
computer science
39,577
Deep CTR Prediction in Display Advertising
cs.CV
Click through rate (CTR) prediction of image ads is the core task of online display advertising systems, and logistic regression (LR) has been frequently applied as the prediction model. However, LR model lacks the ability of extracting complex and intrinsic nonlinear features from handcrafted high-dimensional image fe...
computer science
39,578
Detecting Changes Between Optical Images of Different Spatial and Spectral Resolutions: a Fusion-Based Approach
cs.CV
Change detection is one of the most challenging issues when analyzing remotely sensed images. Comparing several multi-date images acquired through the same kind of sensor is the most common scenario. Conversely, designing robust, flexible and scalable algorithms for change detection becomes even more challenging when t...
computer science
39,579
Production-Level Facial Performance Capture Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
We present a real-time deep learning framework for video-based facial performance capture -- the dense 3D tracking of an actor's face given a monocular video. Our pipeline begins with accurately capturing a subject using a high-end production facial capture pipeline based on multi-view stereo tracking and artist-enhanc...
computer science
39,580
Revealing Structure in Large Graphs: Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma and its Use in Pattern Recognition
cs.CV
Introduced in the mid-1970's as an intermediate step in proving a long-standing conjecture on arithmetic progressions, Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma has emerged over time as a fundamental tool in different branches of graph theory, combinatorics and theoretical computer science. Roughly, it states that every graph can...
computer science
39,581
Improving analytical tomographic reconstructions through consistency conditions
cs.CV
This work introduces and characterizes a fast parameterless filter based on the Helgason-Ludwig consistency conditions, used to improve the accuracy of analytical reconstructions of tomographic undersampled datasets. The filter, acting in the Radon domain, extrapolates intermediate projections between those existing. T...
computer science
39,582
Deep Learning for Video Classification and Captioning
cs.CV
Accelerated by the tremendous increase in Internet bandwidth and storage space, video data has been generated, published and spread explosively, becoming an indispensable part of today's big data. In this paper, we focus on reviewing two lines of research aiming to stimulate the comprehension of videos with deep learni...
computer science
39,583
Symmetric Non-Rigid Structure from Motion for Category-Specific Object Structure Estimation
cs.CV
Many objects, especially these made by humans, are symmetric, e.g. cars and aeroplanes. This paper addresses the estimation of 3D structures of symmetric objects from multiple images of the same object category, e.g. different cars, seen from various viewpoints. We assume that the deformation between different instance...
computer science
39,584
Customized Facial Constant Positive Air Pressure (CPAP) Masks
cs.GR
Sleep apnea is a syndrome that is characterized by sudden breathing halts while sleeping. One of the common treatments involves wearing a mask that delivers continuous air flow into the nostrils so as to maintain a steady air pressure. These masks are designed for an average facial model and are often difficult to adju...
computer science
39,585
Deep Quality: A Deep No-reference Quality Assessment System
cs.MM
Image quality assessment (IQA) continues to garner great interest in the research community, particularly given the tremendous rise in consumer video capture and streaming. Despite significant research effort in IQA in the past few decades, the area of no-reference image quality assessment remains a great challenge and...
computer science
39,586
Multiview RGB-D Dataset for Object Instance Detection
cs.CV
This paper presents a new multi-view RGB-D dataset of nine kitchen scenes, each containing several objects in realistic cluttered environments including a subset of objects from the BigBird dataset. The viewpoints of the scenes are densely sampled and objects in the scenes are annotated with bounding boxes and in the 3...
computer science
39,587
From Monocular SLAM to Autonomous Drone Exploration
cs.RO
Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are strongly limited in their payload and power capacity. In order to implement autonomous navigation, algorithms are therefore desirable that use sensory equipment that is as small, low-weight, and low-power consuming as possible. In this paper, we propose a method for autonomous MAV navig...
computer science
39,588
Flows Generating Nonlinear Eigenfunctions
cs.CV
Nonlinear variational methods have become very powerful tools for many image processing tasks. Recently a new line of research has emerged, dealing with nonlinear eigenfunctions induced by convex functionals. This has provided new insights and better theoretical understanding of convex regularization and introduced new...
computer science
39,589
Robust Moving Objects Detection in Lidar Data Exploiting Visual Cues
cs.RO
Detecting moving objects in dynamic scenes from sequences of lidar scans is an important task in object tracking, mapping, localization, and navigation. Many works focus on changes detection in previously observed scenes, while a very limited amount of literature addresses moving objects detection. The state-of-the-art...
computer science
39,590
Comprehensive Evaluation of OpenCL-based Convolutional Neural Network Accelerators in Xilinx and Altera FPGAs
cs.CV
Deep learning has significantly advanced the state of the art in artificial intelligence, gaining wide popularity from both industry and academia. Special interest is around Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which take inspiration from the hierarchical structure of the visual cortex, to form deep layers of convoluti...
computer science
39,591
Reconstructing Vechicles from a Single Image: Shape Priors for Road Scene Understanding
cs.CV
We present an approach for reconstructing vehicles from a single (RGB) image, in the context of autonomous driving. Though the problem appears to be ill-posed, we demonstrate that prior knowledge about how 3D shapes of vehicles project to an image can be used to reason about the reverse process, i.e., how shapes (back-...
computer science
39,592
Digitizing Municipal Street Inspections Using Computer Vision
cs.CY
"People want an authority to tell them how to value things. But they chose this authority not based on facts or results. They chose it because it seems authoritative and familiar." - The Big Short The pavement condition index is one such a familiar measure used by many US cities to measure street quality and justify ...
computer science
39,593
Caffeinated FPGAs: FPGA Framework For Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained significant traction in the field of machine learning, particularly due to their high accuracy in visual recognition. Recent works have pushed the performance of GPU implementations of CNNs to significantly improve their classification and training times. With these impr...
computer science
39,594
Low-dose CT denoising with convolutional neural network
cs.CV
To reduce the potential radiation risk, low-dose CT has attracted much attention. However, simply lowering the radiation dose will lead to significant deterioration of the image quality. In this paper, we propose a noise reduction method for low-dose CT via deep neural network without accessing original projection data...
computer science
39,595
Real-Time RGB-D based Template Matching Pedestrian Detection
cs.CV
Pedestrian detection is one of the most popular topics in computer vision and robotics. Considering challenging issues in multiple pedestrian detection, we present a real-time depth-based template matching people detector. In this paper, we propose different approaches for training the depth-based template. We train mu...
computer science
39,596
Cardea: Context-Aware Visual Privacy Protection from Pervasive Cameras
cs.CR
The growing popularity of mobile and wearable devices with built-in cameras, the bright prospect of camera related applications such as augmented reality and life-logging system, the increased ease of taking and sharing photos, and advances in computer vision techniques have greatly facilitated people's lives in many a...
computer science
39,597
Mobility Map Computations for Autonomous Navigation using an RGBD Sensor
cs.RO
In recent years, the numbers of life-size humanoids as well as their mobile capabilities have steadily grown. Stable walking motion and control for humanoid robots are active fields of research. In this scenario an open question is how to model and analyse the scene so that a motion planning algorithm can generate an a...
computer science
39,598
Reliability of PET/CT shape and heterogeneity features in functional and morphological components of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer tumors: a repeatability analysis in a prospective multi-center cohort
cs.CV
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of shape and heterogeneity features in both Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) components of PET/CT. A secondary objective was to investigate the impact of image quantization.Material and methods: A Health Insura...
computer science
39,599
Convex Histogram-Based Joint Image Segmentation with Regularized Optimal Transport Cost
cs.CV
We investigate in this work a versatile convex framework for multiple image segmentation, relying on the regularized optimal mass transport theory. In this setting, several transport cost functions are considered and used to match statistical distributions of features. In practice, global multidimensional histograms ar...
computer science
39,600
Markov Chain Modeling and Simulation of Breathing Patterns
stat.AP
The lack of large video databases obtained from real patients with respiratory disorders makes the design and optimization of video-based monitoring systems quite critical. The purpose of this study is the development of suitable models and simulators of breathing behaviors and disorders, such as respiratory pauses and...
computer science
39,601
Template shape estimation: correcting an asymptotic bias
cs.CV
We use tools from geometric statistics to analyze the usual estimation procedure of a template shape. This applies to shapes from landmarks, curves, surfaces, images etc. We demonstrate the asymptotic bias of the template shape estimation using the stratified geometry of the shape space. We give a Taylor expansion of t...
computer science
39,602
PCA-aided Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Multi-channel fMRI
cs.CV
Semantic segmentation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) makes great sense for pathology diagnosis and decision system of medical robots. The multi-channel fMRI provides more information of the pathological features. But the increased amount of data causes complexity in feature detections. This paper propo...
computer science
39,603
Compressive Imaging with Iterative Forward Models
cs.CV
We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon, which makes the method preferable in applications where linear measurement mode...
computer science
39,604
Distortion Varieties
math.AG
The distortion varieties of a given projective variety are parametrized by duplicating coordinates and multiplying them with monomials. We study their degrees and defining equations. Exact formulas are obtained for the case of one-parameter distortions. These are based on Chow polytopes and Gr\"obner bases. Multi-param...
computer science
39,605
Driving in the Matrix: Can Virtual Worlds Replace Human-Generated Annotations for Real World Tasks?
cs.CV
Deep learning has rapidly transformed the state of the art algorithms used to address a variety of problems in computer vision and robotics. These breakthroughs have relied upon massive amounts of human annotated training data. This time consuming process has begun impeding the progress of these deep learning efforts. ...
computer science
39,606
Efficient Deep Aesthetic Image Classification using Connected Local and Global Features
cs.CV
In this paper we investigate the aesthetic image classification problem, also known as automatically classifying an image into low or high aesthetic quality, which is quite a challenging problem. Considering both the local and global information of images is quite important for image aesthetic quality assessment. Curre...
computer science
39,607
4D Crop Monitoring: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction for Agriculture
cs.RO
Autonomous crop monitoring at high spatial and temporal resolution is a critical problem in precision agriculture. While Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo algorithms can finely reconstruct the 3D structure of a field with low-cost image sensors, these algorithms fail to capture the dynamic nature of continuou...
computer science
39,608
Visual Closed-Loop Control for Pouring Liquids
cs.RO
Pouring a specific amount of liquid is a challenging task. In this paper we develop methods for robots to use visual feedback to perform closed-loop control for pouring liquids. We propose both a model-based and a model-free method utilizing deep learning for estimating the volume of liquid in a container. Our results ...
computer science
39,609
Tangled Splines
cs.CV
Extracting shape information from object bound- aries is a well studied problem in vision, and has found tremen- dous use in applications like object recognition. Conversely, studying the space of shapes represented by curves satisfying certain constraints is also intriguing. In this paper, we model and analyze the spa...
computer science