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Lensless Photography with only an image sensor
cs.CV
Photography usually requires optics in conjunction with a recording device (an image sensor). Eliminating the optics could lead to new form factors for cameras. Here, we report a simple demonstration of imaging using a bare CMOS sensor that utilizes computation. The technique relies on the space variant point-spread fu...
computer science
39,711
RenderMap: Exploiting the Link Between Perception and Rendering for Dense Mapping
cs.CV
We introduce an approach for the real-time (2Hz) creation of a dense map and alignment of a moving robotic agent within that map by rendering using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This is done by recasting the scan alignment part of the dense mapping process as a rendering task. Alignment errors are computed from ren...
computer science
39,712
Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial Trajectory Estimation with Event Cameras
cs.RO
In contrast to traditional cameras, which output images at a fixed rate, event cameras have independent pixels that output asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes with microsecond resolution. In this paper, we leverage a continuous-time framework to perform trajectory estimation by fusing visual data from a moving ...
computer science
39,713
WaterGAN: Unsupervised Generative Network to Enable Real-time Color Correction of Monocular Underwater Images
cs.CV
This paper reports on WaterGAN, a generative adversarial network (GAN) for generating realistic underwater images from in-air image and depth pairings in an unsupervised pipeline used for color correction of monocular underwater images. Cameras onboard autonomous and remotely operated vehicles can capture high resoluti...
computer science
39,714
Building Usage Profiles Using Deep Neural Nets
cs.SE
To improve software quality, one needs to build test scenarios resembling the usage of a software product in the field. This task is rendered challenging when a product's customer base is large and diverse. In this scenario, existing profiling approaches, such as operational profiling, are difficult to apply. In this w...
computer science
39,715
Simultaneous Feature and Body-Part Learning for Real-Time Robot Awareness of Human Behaviors
cs.CV
Robot awareness of human actions is an essential research problem in robotics with many important real-world applications, including human-robot collaboration and teaming. Over the past few years, depth sensors have become a standard device widely used by intelligent robots for 3D perception, which can also offer human...
computer science
39,716
Fast and robust curve skeletonization for real-world elongated objects
cs.CV
We consider the problem of extracting curve skeletons of three-dimensional, elongated objects given a noisy surface, which has applications in agricultural contexts such as extracting the branching structure of plants. We describe an efficient and robust method based on breadth-first search that can determine curve ske...
computer science
39,717
Synthesizing Training Data for Object Detection in Indoor Scenes
cs.CV
Detection of objects in cluttered indoor environments is one of the key enabling functionalities for service robots. The best performing object detection approaches in computer vision exploit deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to simultaneously detect and categorize the objects of interest in cluttered scenes. Tr...
computer science
39,718
Learning Deep NBNN Representations for Robust Place Categorization
cs.RO
This paper presents an approach for semantic place categorization using data obtained from RGB cameras. Previous studies on visual place recognition and classification have shown that, by considering features derived from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in combination with part-based classification mod...
computer science
39,719
BARCHAN: Blob Alignment for Robust CHromatographic ANalysis
cs.CV
Comprehensive Two dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) plays a central role into the elucidation of complex samples. The automation of the identification of peak areas is of prime interest to obtain a fast and repeatable analysis of chromatograms. To determine the concentration of compounds or pseudo-compounds, templ...
computer science
39,720
Analyzing Modular CNN Architectures for Joint Depth Prediction and Semantic Segmentation
cs.CV
This paper addresses the task of designing a modular neural network architecture that jointly solves different tasks. As an example we use the tasks of depth estimation and semantic segmentation given a single RGB image. The main focus of this work is to analyze the cross-modality influence between depth and semantic p...
computer science
39,721
Lensless computational imaging through deep learning
cs.CV
Deep learning has been proven to yield reliably generalizable answers to numerous classification and decision tasks. Here, we demonstrate for the first time, to our knowledge, that deep neural networks (DNNs) can be trained to solve inverse problems in computational imaging. We experimentally demonstrate a lens-less im...
computer science
39,722
An Optimization Framework with Flexible Inexact Inner Iterations for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Programming
cs.CV
In recent years, numerous vision and learning tasks have been (re)formulated as nonconvex and nonsmooth programmings(NNPs). Although some algorithms have been proposed for particular problems, designing fast and flexible optimization schemes with theoretical guarantee is a challenging task for general NNPs. It has been...
computer science
39,723
Inertial Odometry on Handheld Smartphones
cs.CV
Building a complete inertial navigation system using the limited quality data provided by current smartphones has been regarded challenging, if not impossible. We present a probabilistic approach for orientation and use-case free inertial odometry, which is based on double-integrating rotated accelerations. Our approac...
computer science
39,724
A Simple, Fast and Fully Automated Approach for Midline Shift Measurement on Brain Computed Tomography
cs.CV
Brain CT has become a standard imaging tool for emergent evaluation of brain condition, and measurement of midline shift (MLS) is one of the most important features to address for brain CT assessment. We present a simple method to estimate MLS and propose a new alternative parameter to MLS: the ratio of MLS over the ma...
computer science
39,725
Depth Estimation using Modified Cost Function for Occlusion Handling
cs.MM
The paper presents a novel approach to occlusion handling problem in depth estimation using three views. A solution based on modification of similarity cost function is proposed. During the depth estimation via optimization algorithms like Graph Cut similarity metric is constantly updated so that only non-occluded frag...
computer science
39,726
A Survey on Content-Aware Video Analysis for Sports
cs.CV
Sports data analysis is becoming increasingly large-scale, diversified, and shared, but difficulty persists in rapidly accessing the most crucial information. Previous surveys have focused on the methodologies of sports video analysis from the spatiotemporal viewpoint instead of a content-based viewpoint, and few of th...
computer science
39,727
Perceiving and Reasoning About Liquids Using Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.RO
Liquids are an important part of many common manipulation tasks in human environments. If we wish to have robots that can accomplish these types of tasks, they must be able to interact with liquids in an intelligent manner. In this paper, we investigate ways for robots to perceive and reason about liquids. That is, a r...
computer science
39,728
Reasoning About Liquids via Closed-Loop Simulation
cs.RO
Simulators are powerful tools for reasoning about a robot's interactions with its environment. However, when simulations diverge from reality, that reasoning becomes less useful. In this paper, we show how to close the loop between liquid simulation and real-time perception. We use observations of liquids to correct er...
computer science
39,729
SegICP: Integrated Deep Semantic Segmentation and Pose Estimation
cs.RO
Recent robotic manipulation competitions have highlighted that sophisticated robots still struggle to achieve fast and reliable perception of task-relevant objects in complex, realistic scenarios. To improve these systems' perceptive speed and robustness, we present SegICP, a novel integrated solution to object recogni...
computer science
39,730
Fast Back-Projection for Non-Line of Sight Reconstruction
cs.CV
Recent works have demonstrated non-line of sight (NLOS) reconstruction by using the time-resolved signal frommultiply scattered light. These works combine ultrafast imaging systems with computation, which back-projects the recorded space-time signal to build a probabilistic map of the hidden geometry. Unfortunately, th...
computer science
39,731
Non-line-of-sight tracking of people at long range
cs.CV
A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to range and image objects hidden from the direct line of sight, employing advanced optical...
computer science
39,732
NoScope: Optimizing Neural Network Queries over Video at Scale
cs.DB
Recent advances in computer vision-in the form of deep neural networks-have made it possible to query increasing volumes of video data with high accuracy. However, neural network inference is computationally expensive at scale: applying a state-of-the-art object detector in real time (i.e., 30+ frames per second) to a ...
computer science
39,733
DA-RNN: Semantic Mapping with Data Associated Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.CV
3D scene understanding is important for robots to interact with the 3D world in a meaningful way. Most previous works on 3D scene understanding focus on recognizing geometrical or semantic properties of the scene independently. In this work, we introduce Data Associated Recurrent Neural Networks (DA-RNNs), a novel fram...
computer science
39,734
A Self-supervised Learning System for Object Detection using Physics Simulation and Multi-view Pose Estimation
cs.RO
Progress has been achieved recently in object detection given advancements in deep learning. Nevertheless, such tools typically require a large amount of training data and significant manual effort to label objects. This limits their applicability in robotics, where solutions must scale to a large number of objects and...
computer science
39,735
Fast and Robust Detection of Fallen People from a Mobile Robot
cs.RO
This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the floor by means of a mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the proposed algorithm, inspired by semantic segmentation techniques, the 3D scene is over-segmented into small patches. Fallen people are then detected by means of two SVM clas...
computer science
39,736
Position Tracking for Virtual Reality Using Commodity WiFi
cs.CV
Today, experiencing virtual reality (VR) is a cumbersome experience which either requires dedicated infrastructure like infrared cameras to track the headset and hand-motion controllers (e.g., Oculus Rift, HTC Vive), or provides only 3-DoF (Degrees of Freedom) tracking which severely limits the user experience (e.g., S...
computer science
39,737
A 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation Pipeline Using RGB-D Images
cs.RO
3D object detection and pose estimation has been studied extensively in recent decades for its potential applications in robotics. However, there still remains challenges when we aim at detecting multiple objects while retaining low false positive rate in cluttered environments. This paper proposes a robust 3D object d...
computer science
39,738
SurfNet: Generating 3D shape surfaces using deep residual networks
cs.CV
3D shape models are naturally parameterized using vertices and faces, \ie, composed of polygons forming a surface. However, current 3D learning paradigms for predictive and generative tasks using convolutional neural networks focus on a voxelized representation of the object. Lifting convolution operators from the trad...
computer science
39,739
Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter: direct derivation and implementation
cs.CV
We provide a derivation of the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter for multi-target tracking with the standard point target measurements without using probability generating functionals or functional derivatives. We also establish the connection with the \delta-generalised labelled multi-Bernoulli (\delta-GLM...
computer science
39,740
Extrinsic Calibration of 3D Range Finder and Camera without Auxiliary Object or Human Intervention
cs.CV
Fusion of heterogeneous extroceptive sensors is the most effient and effective way to representing the environment precisely, as it overcomes various defects of each homogeneous sensor. The rigid transformation (aka. extrinsic parameters) of heterogeneous sensory systems should be available before precisely fusing the ...
computer science
39,741
Users prefer Guetzli JPEG over same-sized libjpeg
cs.CV
We report on pairwise comparisons by human raters of JPEG images from libjpeg and our new Guetzli encoder. Although both files are size-matched, 75% of ratings are in favor of Guetzli. This implies the Butteraugli psychovisual image similarity metric which guides Guetzli is reasonably close to human perception at high ...
computer science
39,742
Guetzli: Perceptually Guided JPEG Encoder
cs.CV
Guetzli is a new JPEG encoder that aims to produce visually indistinguishable images at a lower bit-rate than other common JPEG encoders. It optimizes both the JPEG global quantization tables and the DCT coefficient values in each JPEG block using a closed-loop optimizer. Guetzli uses Butteraugli, our perceptual distan...
computer science
39,743
A Lagrangian Gauss-Newton-Krylov Solver for Mass- and Intensity-Preserving Diffeomorphic Image Registration
cs.CV
We present an efficient solver for diffeomorphic image registration problems in the framework of Large Deformations Diffeomorphic Metric Mappings (LDDMM). We use an optimal control formulation, in which the velocity field of a hyperbolic PDE needs to be found such that the distance between the final state of the system...
computer science
39,744
Geometry-Based Region Proposals for Real-Time Robot Detection of Tabletop Objects
cs.RO
We present a novel object detection pipeline for localization and recognition in three dimensional environments. Our approach makes use of an RGB-D sensor and combines state-of-the-art techniques from the robotics and computer vision communities to create a robust, real-time detection system. We focus specifically on s...
computer science
39,745
6-DoF Object Pose from Semantic Keypoints
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel approach to estimating the continuous six degree of freedom (6-DoF) pose (3D translation and rotation) of an object from a single RGB image. The approach combines semantic keypoints predicted by a convolutional network (convnet) with a deformable shape model. Unlike prior work, we are agnost...
computer science
39,746
Real-time 3D Human Tracking for Mobile Robots with Multisensors
cs.RO
Acquiring the accurate 3-D position of a target person around a robot provides fundamental and valuable information that is applicable to a wide range of robotic tasks, including home service, navigation and entertainment. This paper presents a real-time robotic 3-D human tracking system which combines a monocular came...
computer science
39,747
End-to-end Binary Representation Learning via Direct Binary Embedding
cs.CV
Learning binary representation is essential to large-scale computer vision tasks. Most existing algorithms require a separate quantization constraint to learn effective hashing functions. In this work, we present Direct Binary Embedding (DBE), a simple yet very effective algorithm to learn binary representation in an e...
computer science
39,748
DeepVel: deep learning for the estimation of horizontal velocities at the solar surface
cs.CV
Many phenomena taking place in the solar photosphere are controlled by plasma motions. Although the line-of-sight component of the velocity can be estimated using the Doppler effect, we do not have direct spectroscopic access to the components that are perpendicular to the line-of-sight. These components are typically ...
computer science
39,749
A clever elimination strategy for efficient minimal solvers
cs.CV
We present a new insight into the systematic generation of minimal solvers in computer vision, which leads to smaller and faster solvers. Many minimal problem formulations are coupled sets of linear and polynomial equations where image measurements enter the linear equations only. We show that it is useful to solve suc...
computer science
39,750
3D Vision Guided Robotic Charging Station for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
cs.RO
Electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) are rapidly gaining popularity on our roads. Besides a comparatively high purchasing price, the main two problems limiting their use are the short driving range and inconvenient charging process. In this paper we address the following by presenting an automati...
computer science
39,751
Refining Image Categorization by Exploiting Web Images and General Corpus
cs.MM
Studies show that refining real-world categories into semantic subcategories contributes to better image modeling and classification. Previous image sub-categorization work relying on labeled images and WordNet's hierarchy is not only labor-intensive, but also restricted to classify images into NOUN subcategories. To t...
computer science
39,752
Cloud Radiative Effect Study Using Sky Camera
cs.CV
The analysis of clouds in the earth's atmosphere is important for a variety of applications, viz. weather reporting, climate forecasting, and solar energy generation. In this paper, we focus our attention on the impact of cloud on the total solar irradiance reaching the earth's surface. We use weather station to record...
computer science
39,753
Color Orchestra: Ordering Color Palettes for Interpolation and Prediction
cs.CV
Color theme or color palette can deeply influence the quality and the feeling of a photograph or a graphical design. Although color palettes may come from different sources such as online crowd-sourcing, photographs and graphical designs, in this paper, we consider color palettes extracted from fine art collections, wh...
computer science
39,754
PSF field learning based on Optimal Transport Distances
cs.CV
Context: in astronomy, observing large fractions of the sky within a reasonable amount of time implies using large field-of-view (fov) optical instruments that typically have a spatially varying Point Spread Function (PSF). Depending on the scientific goals, galaxies images need to be corrected for the PSF whereas no d...
computer science
39,755
Recent Advances in Features Extraction and Description Algorithms: A Comprehensive Survey
cs.CV
Computer vision is one of the most active research fields in information technology today. Giving machines and robots the ability to see and comprehend the surrounding world at the speed of sight creates endless potential applications and opportunities. Feature detection and description algorithms can be indeed conside...
computer science
39,756
Direct Monocular Odometry Using Points and Lines
cs.CV
Most visual odometry algorithm for a monocular camera focuses on points, either by feature matching, or direct alignment of pixel intensity, while ignoring a common but important geometry entity: edges. In this paper, we propose an odometry algorithm that combines points and edges to benefit from the advantages of both...
computer science
39,757
On the Interplay between Strong Regularity and Graph Densification
cs.DS
In this paper we analyze the practical implications of Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma in the preservation of metric information contained in large graphs. To this end, we present a heuristic algorithm to find regular partitions. Our experiments show that this method is quite robust to the natural sparsification of prox...
computer science
39,758
Pop-up SLAM: Semantic Monocular Plane SLAM for Low-texture Environments
cs.CV
Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for motion planning. Though some work utilize plane or scene layout for dense map re...
computer science
39,759
Nonlinear Spectral Image Fusion
cs.CV
In this paper we demonstrate that the framework of nonlinear spectral decompositions based on total variation (TV) regularization is very well suited for image fusion as well as more general image manipulation tasks. The well-localized and edge-preserving spectral TV decomposition allows to select frequencies of a cert...
computer science
39,760
Sparse Inertial Poser: Automatic 3D Human Pose Estimation from Sparse IMUs
cs.CV
We address the problem of making human motion capture in the wild more practical by using a small set of inertial sensors attached to the body. Since the problem is heavily under-constrained, previous methods either use a large number of sensors, which is intrusive, or they require additional video input. We take a dif...
computer science
39,761
A Dynamic Programming Solution to Bounded Dejittering Problems
math.OC
We propose a dynamic programming solution to image dejittering problems with bounded displacements and obtain efficient algorithms for the removal of line jitter, line pixel jitter, and pixel jitter.
computer science
39,762
Locality preserving projection on SPD matrix Lie group: algorithm and analysis
cs.CV
Symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices used as feature descriptors in image recognition are usually high dimensional. Traditional manifold learning is only applicable for reducing the dimension of high-dimensional vector-form data. For high-dimensional SPD matrices, directly using manifold learning algorithms to re...
computer science
39,763
Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
cs.CV
The OpenITI team has achieved Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy rates for classical Arabic-script texts in the high nineties. These numbers are based on our tests of seven different Arabic-script texts of varying quality and typefaces, totaling over 7,000 lines. These accuracy rates not only represent a dist...
computer science
39,764
Feature Analysis and Selection for Training an End-to-End Autonomous Vehicle Controller Using the Deep Learning Approach
cs.CV
Deep learning-based approaches have been widely used for training controllers for autonomous vehicles due to their powerful ability to approximate nonlinear functions or policies. However, the training process usually requires large labeled data sets and takes a lot of time. In this paper, we analyze the influences of ...
computer science
39,765
Image Restoration using Autoencoding Priors
cs.CV
We propose to leverage denoising autoencoder networks as priors to address image restoration problems. We build on the key observation that the output of an optimal denoising autoencoder is a local mean of the true data density, and the autoencoder error (the difference between the output and input of the trained autoe...
computer science
39,766
Object categorization in finer levels requires higher spatial frequencies, and therefore takes longer
cs.CV
The human visual system contains a hierarchical sequence of modules that take part in visual perception at different levels of abstraction, i.e., superordinate, basic, and subordinate levels. One important question is to identify the "entry" level at which the visual representation is commenced in the process of object...
computer science
39,767
A Paradigm Shift: Detecting Human Rights Violations Through Web Images
cs.CV
The growing presence of devices carrying digital cameras, such as mobile phones and tablets, combined with ever improving internet networks have enabled ordinary citizens, victims of human rights abuse, and participants in armed conflicts, protests, and disaster situations to capture and share via social media networks...
computer science
39,768
Restoration of Images with Wavefront Aberrations
cs.CV
This contribution deals with image restoration in optical systems with coherent illumination, which is an important topic in astronomy, coherent microscopy and radar imaging. Such optical systems suffer from wavefront distortions, which are caused by imperfect imaging components and conditions. Known image restoration ...
computer science
39,769
Online deforestation detection
stat.AP
Deforestation detection using satellite images can make an important contribution to forest management. Current approaches can be broadly divided into those that compare two images taken at similar periods of the year and those that monitor changes by using multiple images taken during the growing season. The CMFDA alg...
computer science
39,770
A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Checkerboard Extraction in Camera-Laser Calibration
cs.RO
We address the problem of camera-to-laser-scanner calibration using a checkerboard and multiple image-laser scan pairs. Distinguishing which laser points measure the checkerboard and which lie on the background is essential to any such system. We formulate the checkerboard extraction as a combinatorial optimization pro...
computer science
39,771
sWSI: A Low-cost and Commercial-quality Whole Slide Imaging System on Android and iOS Smartphones
cs.CV
In this paper, scalable Whole Slide Imaging (sWSI), a novel high-throughput, cost-effective and robust whole slide imaging system on both Android and iOS platforms is introduced and analyzed. With sWSI, most mainstream smartphone connected to a optical eyepiece of any manually controlled microscope can be automatically...
computer science
39,772
A Unified Multi-Faceted Video Summarization System
cs.CV
This paper addresses automatic summarization and search in visual data comprising of videos, live streams and image collections in a unified manner. In particular, we propose a framework for multi-faceted summarization which extracts key-frames (image summaries), skims (video summaries) and entity summaries (summarizat...
computer science
39,773
Enhance Feature Discrimination for Unsupervised Hashing
cs.CV
We introduce a novel approach to improve unsupervised hashing. Specifically, we propose a very efficient embedding method: Gaussian Mixture Model embedding (Gemb). The proposed method, using Gaussian Mixture Model, embeds feature vector into a low-dimensional vector and, simultaneously, enhances the discriminative prop...
computer science
39,774
Privacy-Preserving Visual Learning Using Doubly Permuted Homomorphic Encryption
cs.CV
We propose a privacy-preserving framework for learning visual classifiers by leveraging distributed private image data. This framework is designed to aggregate multiple classifiers updated locally using private data and to ensure that no private information about the data is exposed during and after its learning proced...
computer science
39,775
Quaternion Based Camera Pose Estimation From Matched Feature Points
cs.CV
We present a novel solution to the camera pose estimation problem, where rotation and translation of a camera between two views are estimated from matched feature points in the images. The camera pose estimation problem is traditionally solved via algorithms that are based on the essential matrix or the Euclidean homog...
computer science
39,776
Reconstruction of~3-D Rigid Smooth Curves Moving Free when Two Traceable Points Only are Available
cs.CV
This paper extends previous research in that sense that for orthogonal projections of rigid smooth (true-3D) curves moving totally free it reduces the number of required traceable points to two only (the best results known so far to the author are 3 points from free motion and 2 for motion restricted to rotation around...
computer science
39,777
Solving the L1 regularized least square problem via a box-constrained smooth minimization
math.OC
In this paper, an equivalent smooth minimization for the L1 regularized least square problem is proposed. The proposed problem is a convex box-constrained smooth minimization which allows applying fast optimization methods to find its solution. Further, it is investigated that the property "the dual of dual is primal" ...
computer science
39,778
UC Merced Submission to the ActivityNet Challenge 2016
cs.CV
This notebook paper describes our system for the untrimmed classification task in the ActivityNet challenge 2016. We investigate multiple state-of-the-art approaches for action recognition in long, untrimmed videos. We exploit hand-crafted motion boundary histogram features as well feature activations from deep network...
computer science
39,779
Toward a new approach for massive LiDAR data processing
cs.DC
Laser scanning (also known as Light Detection And Ranging) has been widely applied in various application. As part of that, aerial laser scanning (ALS) has been used to collect topographic data points for a large area, which triggers to million points to be acquired. Furthermore, today, with integrating full wareform (...
computer science
39,780
Feature Selection Parallel Technique for Remotely Sensed Imagery Classification
cs.DC
Remote sensing research focusing on feature selection has long attracted the attention of the remote sensing community because feature selection is a prerequisite for image processing and various applications. Different feature selection methods have been proposed to improve the classification accuracy. They vary from ...
computer science
39,781
Unsupervised part learning for visual recognition
cs.CV
Part-based image classification aims at representing categories by small sets of learned discriminative parts, upon which an image representation is built. Considered as a promising avenue a decade ago, this direction has been neglected since the advent of deep neural networks. In this context, this paper brings two co...
computer science
39,782
Applying High-Resolution Visible Imagery to Satellite Melt Pond Fraction Retrieval: A Neural Network Approach
cs.CV
During summer, melt ponds have a significant influence on Arctic sea-ice albedo. The melt pond fraction (MPF) also has the ability to forecast the Arctic sea-ice in a certain period. It is important to retrieve accurate melt pond fraction (MPF) from satellite data for Arctic research. This paper proposes a satellite MP...
computer science
39,783
Parallel Multi Channel Convolution using General Matrix Multiplication
cs.CV
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as one of the most successful machine learning technologies for image and video processing. The most computationally intensive parts of CNNs are the convolutional layers, which convolve multi-channel images with multiple kernels. A common approach to implementing convol...
computer science
39,784
3D seismic data denoising using two-dimensional sparse coding scheme
cs.CV
Seismic data denoising is vital to geophysical applications and the transform-based function method is one of the most widely used techniques. However, it is challenging to design a suit- able sparse representation to express a transform-based func- tion group due to the complexity of seismic data. In this paper, we ap...
computer science
39,785
A learning-based approach for automatic image and video colorization
cs.GR
In this paper, we present a color transfer algorithm to colorize a broad range of gray images without any user intervention. The algorithm uses a machine learning-based approach to automatically colorize grayscale images. The algorithm uses the superpixel representation of the reference color images to learn the relati...
computer science
39,786
CT Image Reconstruction in a Low Dimensional Manifold
cs.CV
Regularization methods are commonly used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. Different regularization methods reflect the characterization of different prior knowledge of images. In a recent work, a new regularization method called a low-dimensional manifold model (LDMM) is investigated to characterize the low-dimensiona...
computer science
39,787
Multi-View Image Generation from a Single-View
cs.CV
This paper addresses a challenging problem -- how to generate multi-view cloth images from only a single view input. To generate realistic-looking images with different views from the input, we propose a new image generation model termed VariGANs that combines the strengths of the variational inference and the Generati...
computer science
39,788
Interactive Outlining of Pancreatic Cancer Liver Metastases in Ultrasound Images
cs.CV
Ultrasound (US) is the most commonly used liver imaging modality worldwide. Due to its low cost, it is increasingly used in the follow-up of cancer patients with metastases localized in the liver. In this contribution, we present the results of an interactive segmentation approach for liver metastases in US acquisition...
computer science
39,789
Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles: Problems, Datasets and State-of-the-Art
cs.CV
Recent years have witnessed amazing progress in AI related fields such as computer vision, machine learning and autonomous vehicles. As with any rapidly growing field, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay up-to-date or enter the field as a beginner. While several topic specific survey papers have been wri...
computer science
39,790
Automatic Segmentation of the Left Ventricle in Cardiac CT Angiography Using Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
Accurate delineation of the left ventricle (LV) is an important step in evaluation of cardiac function. In this paper, we present an automatic method for segmentation of the LV in cardiac CT angiography (CCTA) scans. Segmentation is performed in two stages. First, a bounding box around the LV is detected using a combin...
computer science
39,791
Derivation of the Asymptotic Eigenvalue Distribution for Causal 2D-AR Models under Upscaling
cs.CR
This technical report describes the derivation of the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution for causal 2D-AR models under an upscaling scenario. Specifically, it tackles the analytical derivation of the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution of the sample autocorrelation matrix corresponding to genuine and upscaled images. It...
computer science
39,792
SkiMap: An Efficient Mapping Framework for Robot Navigation
cs.CV
We present a novel mapping framework for robot navigation which features a multi-level querying system capable to obtain rapidly representations as diverse as a 3D voxel grid, a 2.5D height map and a 2D occupancy grid. These are inherently embedded into a memory and time efficient core data structure organized as a Tre...
computer science
39,793
SLAM with Objects using a Nonparametric Pose Graph
cs.CV
Mapping and self-localization in unknown environments are fundamental capabilities in many robotic applications. These tasks typically involve the identification of objects as unique features or landmarks, which requires the objects both to be detected and then assigned a unique identifier that can be maintained when v...
computer science
39,794
Time-Contrastive Networks: Self-Supervised Learning from Video
cs.CV
We propose a self-supervised approach for learning representations and robotic behaviors entirely from unlabeled videos recorded from multiple viewpoints, and study how this representation can be used in two robotic imitation settings: imitating object interactions from videos of humans, and imitating human poses. Imit...
computer science
39,795
Adaptive Cost Function for Pointcloud Registration
cs.RO
In this paper we introduce an adaptive cost function for pointcloud registration. The algorithm automatically estimates the sensor noise, which is important for generalization across different sensors and environments. Through experiments on real and synthetic data, we show significant improvements in accuracy and robu...
computer science
39,796
Saliency Benchmarking: Separating Models, Maps and Metrics
cs.CV
The field of fixation prediction is heavily model-driven, with dozens of new models published every year. However, progress in the field can be difficult to judge because models are compared using a variety of inconsistent metrics. As soon as a saliency map is optimized for a certain metric, it is penalized by other me...
computer science
39,797
Obstacle Avoidance through Deep Networks based Intermediate Perception
cs.RO
Obstacle avoidance from monocular images is a challenging problem for robots. Though multi-view structure-from-motion could build 3D maps, it is not robust in textureless environments. Some learning based methods exploit human demonstration to predict a steering command directly from a single image. However, this metho...
computer science
39,798
A new image compression by gradient Haar wavelet
cs.CV
With the development of human communications the usage of Visual Communications has also increased. The advancement of image compression methods is one of the main reasons for the enhancement. This paper first presents main modes of image compression methods such as JPEG and JPEG2000 without mathematical details. Also,...
computer science
39,799
Scalable Surface Reconstruction from Point Clouds with Extreme Scale and Density Diversity
cs.CV
In this paper we present a scalable approach for robustly computing a 3D surface mesh from multi-scale multi-view stereo point clouds that can handle extreme jumps of point density (in our experiments three orders of magnitude). The backbone of our approach is a combination of octree data partitioning, local Delaunay t...
computer science
39,800
Out-of-focus: Learning Depth from Image Bokeh for Robotic Perception
cs.CV
In this project, we propose a novel approach for estimating depth from RGB images. Traditionally, most work uses a single RGB image to estimate depth, which is inherently difficult and generally results in poor performance, even with thousands of data examples. In this work, we alternatively use multiple RGB images tha...
computer science
39,801
Shading Annotations in the Wild
cs.CV
Understanding shading effects in images is critical for a variety of vision and graphics problems, including intrinsic image decomposition, shadow removal, image relighting, and inverse rendering. As is the case with other vision tasks, machine learning is a promising approach to understanding shading - but there is li...
computer science
39,802
VNect: Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation with a Single RGB Camera
cs.CV
We present the first real-time method to capture the full global 3D skeletal pose of a human in a stable, temporally consistent manner using a single RGB camera. Our method combines a new convolutional neural network (CNN) based pose regressor with kinematic skeleton fitting. Our novel fully-convolutional pose formulat...
computer science
39,803
Streaming Algorithm for Euler Characteristic Curves of Multidimensional Images
cs.CV
We present an efficient algorithm to compute Euler characteristic curves of gray scale images of arbitrary dimension. In various applications the Euler characteristic curve is used as a descriptor of an image. Our algorithm is the first streaming algorithm for Euler characteristic curves. The usage of streaming remov...
computer science
39,804
GRASS: Generative Recursive Autoencoders for Shape Structures
cs.GR
We introduce a novel neural network architecture for encoding and synthesis of 3D shapes, particularly their structures. Our key insight is that 3D shapes are effectively characterized by their hierarchical organization of parts, which reflects fundamental intra-shape relationships such as adjacency and symmetry. We de...
computer science
39,805
Phase Congruency Parameter Optimization for Enhanced Detection of Image Features for both Natural and Medical Applications
math.OC
Following the presentation and proof of the hypothesis that image features are particularly perceived at points where the Fourier components are maximally in phase, the concept of phase congruency (PC) is introduced. Subsequently, a two-dimensional multi-scale phase congruency (2D-MSPC) is developed, which has been an ...
computer science
39,806
Keeping the Bad Guys Out: Protecting and Vaccinating Deep Learning with JPEG Compression
cs.CV
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in solving a variety of machine learning (ML) problems, especially in the domain of image recognition. However, recent research showed that DNNs can be highly vulnerable to adversarially generated instances, which look seemingly normal to human observers, but comp...
computer science
39,807
Konzept für Bildanalysen in Hochdurchsatz-Systemen am Beispiel des Zebrabärblings
cs.CV
With image-based high-throughput experiments, new challenges arise in both, the design of experiments and the automated analysis. To be able to handle the massive number of single experiments and the corresponding amount of data, a comprehensive concept for the design of experiments and a new evaluation method is neede...
computer science
39,808
Light Field Video Capture Using a Learning-Based Hybrid Imaging System
cs.CV
Light field cameras have many advantages over traditional cameras, as they allow the user to change various camera settings after capture. However, capturing light fields requires a huge bandwidth to record the data: a modern light field camera can only take three images per second. This prevents current consumer light...
computer science
39,809
Real-Time User-Guided Image Colorization with Learned Deep Priors
cs.CV
We propose a deep learning approach for user-guided image colorization. The system directly maps a grayscale image, along with sparse, local user "hints" to an output colorization with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Rather than using hand-defined rules, the network propagates user edits by fusing low-level cues ...
computer science