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Fast, Simple Calcium Imaging Segmentation with Fully Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
Calcium imaging is a technique for observing neuron activity as a series of images showing indicator fluorescence over time. Manually segmenting neurons is time-consuming, leading to research on automated calcium imaging segmentation (ACIS). We evaluated several deep learning models for ACIS on the Neurofinder competit...
computer science
39,911
DenseNet for Dense Flow
cs.CV
Classical approaches for estimating optical flow have achieved rapid progress in the last decade. However, most of them are too slow to be applied in real-time video analysis. Due to the great success of deep learning, recent work has focused on using CNNs to solve such dense prediction problems. In this paper, we inve...
computer science
39,912
3D Shape Reconstruction from Sketches via Multi-view Convolutional Networks
cs.CV
We propose a method for reconstructing 3D shapes from 2D sketches in the form of line drawings. Our method takes as input a single sketch, or multiple sketches, and outputs a dense point cloud representing a 3D reconstruction of the input sketch(es). The point cloud is then converted into a polygon mesh. At the heart o...
computer science
39,913
leave a trace - A People Tracking System Meets Anomaly Detection
cs.CV
Video surveillance always had a negative connotation, among others because of the loss of privacy and because it may not automatically increase public safety. If it was able to detect atypical (i.e. dangerous) situations in real time, autonomously and anonymously, this could change. A prerequisite for this is a reliabl...
computer science
39,914
Convolutional Sparse Coding: Boundary Handling Revisited
cs.CV
Two different approaches have recently been proposed for boundary handling in convolutional sparse representations, avoiding potential boundary artifacts arising from the circular boundary conditions implied by the use of frequency domain solution methods by introducing a spatial mask into the convolutional sparse codi...
computer science
39,915
Automatic Curation of Golf Highlights using Multimodal Excitement Features
cs.CV
The production of sports highlight packages summarizing a game's most exciting moments is an essential task for broadcast media. Yet, it requires labor-intensive video editing. We propose a novel approach for auto-curating sports highlights, and use it to create a real-world system for the editorial aid of golf highlig...
computer science
39,916
Clinical Patient Tracking in the Presence of Transient and Permanent Occlusions via Geodesic Feature
cs.RO
This paper develops a method to use RGB-D cameras to track the motions of a human spinal cord injury patient undergoing spinal stimulation and physical rehabilitation. Because clinicians must remain close to the patient during training sessions, the patient is usually under permanent and transient occlusions due to the...
computer science
39,917
Single-Shot Clothing Category Recognition in Free-Configurations with Application to Autonomous Clothes Sorting
cs.RO
This paper proposes a single-shot approach for recognising clothing categories from 2.5D features. We propose two visual features, BSP (B-Spline Patch) and TSD (Topology Spatial Distances) for this task. The local BSP features are encoded by LLC (Locality-constrained Linear Coding) and fused with three different global...
computer science
39,918
An Event-based Fast Movement Detection Algorithm for a Positioning Robot Using POWERLINK Communication
cs.RO
This work develops a tracking system based on an event-based camera. A bioinspired filtering algorithm to reduce noise and transmitted data while keeping the main features at the scene is implemented in FPGA which also serves as a network node. POWERLINK IEEE 61158 industrial network is used to communicate the FPGA wit...
computer science
39,919
Inspiring Computer Vision System Solutions
cs.CV
The "digital Michelangelo project" was a seminal computer vision project in the early 2000's that pushed the capabilities of acquisition systems and involved multiple people from diverse fields, many of whom are now leaders in industry and academia. Reviewing this project with modern eyes provides us with the opportuni...
computer science
39,920
Team Applied Robotics: A closer look at our robotic picking system
cs.CV
This paper describes the vision based robotic picking system that was developed by our team, Team Applied Robotics, for the Amazon Picking Challenge 2016. This competition challenged teams to develop a robotic system that is able to pick a large variety of products from a shelve or a tote. We discuss the design conside...
computer science
39,921
A new take on measuring relative nutritional density: The feasibility of using a deep neural network to assess commercially-prepared pureed food concentrations
cs.CV
Dysphagia affects 590 million people worldwide and increases risk for malnutrition. Pureed food may reduce choking, however preparation differences impact nutrient density making quality assurance necessary. This paper is the first study to investigate the feasibility of computational pureed food nutritional density an...
computer science
39,922
Semantic 3D Occupancy Mapping through Efficient High Order CRFs
cs.CV
Semantic 3D mapping can be used for many applications such as robot navigation and virtual interaction. In recent years, there has been great progress in semantic segmentation and geometric 3D mapping. However, it is still challenging to combine these two tasks for accurate and large-scale semantic mapping from images....
computer science
39,923
Functional connectivity patterns of autism spectrum disorder identified by deep feature learning
cs.CV
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is regarded as a brain disease with globally disrupted neuronal networks. Even though fMRI studies have revealed abnormal functional connectivity in ASD, they have not reached a consensus of the disrupted patterns. Here, a deep learning-based feature extraction method identifies multivari...
computer science
39,924
Line-Circle: A Geometric Filter for Single Camera Edge-Based Object Detection
cs.RO
This paper presents a state-of-the-art approach in object detection for being applied in future SLAM problems. Although, many SLAM methods are proposed to create suitable autonomy for mobile robots namely ground vehicles, they still face overconfidence and large computations during entrance to immense spaces with many ...
computer science
39,925
What You Sketch Is What You Get: 3D Sketching using Multi-View Deep Volumetric Prediction
cs.GR
Sketch-based modeling strives to bring the ease and immediacy of drawing to the 3D world. However, while drawings are easy for humans to create, they are very challenging for computers to interpret due to their sparsity and ambiguity. We propose a data-driven approach that tackles this challenge by learning to reconstr...
computer science
39,926
Maximum entropy based non-negative optoacoustic tomographic image reconstruction
cs.CV
Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomography reconstructs maps of the initial pressure rise induced by the absorption of light pulses in tissue. In practice, due to inaccurate assumptions in the forward model employed, noise and other experimental factors, the images often contain errors, occasionally manifested as negative...
computer science
39,927
Ultra-low-power Wireless Streaming Cameras
cs.ET
Wireless video streaming has traditionally been considered an extremely power-hungry operation. Existing approaches optimize the camera and communication modules individually to minimize their power consumption. However, the joint redesign and optimization of wireless communication as well as the camera is what that pr...
computer science
39,928
Two Hilbert schemes in computer vision
math.AG
We study the multiview moduli problems that arise in computer vision. We show that these moduli spaces are always smooth and irreducible, in both the calibrated and uncalibrated cases, for any number of views. We also show that these moduli spaces always embed in (diagram) Hilbert schemes, and that these embeddings are...
computer science
39,929
LEARN: Learned Experts' Assessment-based Reconstruction Network for Sparse-data CT
cs.CV
Compressive sensing (CS) has proved effective for tomographic reconstruction from sparsely collected data or under-sampled measurements, which are practically important for few-view CT, tomosynthesis, interior tomography, and so on. To perform sparse-data CT, the iterative reconstruction commonly use regularizers in th...
computer science
39,930
Capacity limitations of visual search in deep convolutional neural network
cs.CV
Deep convolutional neural networks follow roughly the architecture of biological visual systems, and have shown a performance comparable to human observers in object recognition tasks. In this study, I test a pre-trained deep neural network in some classic visual search tasks. The results reveal a qualitative differenc...
computer science
39,931
Superposition de calques monochromes d'opacités variables
cs.GR
For a monochrome layer $x$ of opacity $0\le o_x\le1 $ placed on another monochrome layer of opacity 1, the result given by the standard formula is $$\small\Pi\left({\bf C}_\varphi\right)=1+\sum_{n=1}^2\left(2-n-(-1)^no_{\chi(\varphi+1)}\right)\left(\chi(n+\varphi-1)-o_{\chi(n+\varphi-1)}\right),$$ the formula being of ...
computer science
39,932
PROBE-GK: Predictive Robust Estimation using Generalized Kernels
cs.RO
Many algorithms in computer vision and robotics make strong assumptions about uncertainty, and rely on the validity of these assumptions to produce accurate and consistent state estimates. In practice, dynamic environments may degrade sensor performance in predictable ways that cannot be captured with static uncertaint...
computer science
39,933
PROBE: Predictive Robust Estimation for Visual-Inertial Navigation
cs.RO
Navigation in unknown, chaotic environments continues to present a significant challenge for the robotics community. Lighting changes, self-similar textures, motion blur, and moving objects are all considerable stumbling blocks for state-of-the-art vision-based navigation algorithms. In this paper we present a novel te...
computer science
39,934
CT sinogram-consistency learning for metal-induced beam hardening correction
cs.CV
This paper proposes a sinogram consistency learning method to deal with beam-hardening related artifacts in polychromatic computerized tomography (CT). The presence of highly attenuating materials in the scan field causes an inconsistent sinogram, that does not match the range space of the Radon transform. When the mis...
computer science
39,935
Generation of High Dynamic Range Illumination from a Single Image for the Enhancement of Undesirably Illuminated Images
cs.CV
This paper presents an algorithm that enhances undesirably illuminated images by generating and fusing multi-level illuminations from a single image.The input image is first decomposed into illumination and reflectance components by using an edge-preserving smoothing filter. Then the reflectance component is scaled up ...
computer science
39,936
Deep Detection of People and their Mobility Aids for a Hospital Robot
cs.RO
Robots operating in populated environments encounter many different types of people, some of whom might have an advanced need for cautious interaction, because of physical impairments or their advanced age. Robots therefore need to recognize such advanced demands to provide appropriate assistance, guidance or other for...
computer science
39,937
OmniArt: Multi-task Deep Learning for Artistic Data Analysis
cs.MM
Vast amounts of artistic data is scattered on-line from both museums and art applications. Collecting, processing and studying it with respect to all accompanying attributes is an expensive process. With a motivation to speed up and improve the quality of categorical analysis in the artistic domain, in this paper we pr...
computer science
39,938
Combining Keystroke Dynamics and Face Recognition for User Verification
cs.HC
The massive explosion and ubiquity of computing devices and the outreach of the web have been the most defining events of the century so far. As more and more people gain access to the internet, traditional know-something and have-something authentication methods such as PINs and passwords are proving to be insufficien...
computer science
39,939
An Energy Minimization Approach to 3D Non-Rigid Deformable Surface Estimation Using RGBD Data
cs.CV
We propose an algorithm that uses energy mini- mization to estimate the current configuration of a non-rigid object. Our approach utilizes an RGBD image to calculate corresponding SURF features, depth, and boundary informa- tion. We do not use predetermined features, thus enabling our system to operate on unmodified ob...
computer science
39,940
Attention Transfer from Web Images for Video Recognition
cs.CV
Training deep learning based video classifiers for action recognition requires a large amount of labeled videos. The labeling process is labor-intensive and time-consuming. On the other hand, large amount of weakly-labeled images are uploaded to the Internet by users everyday. To harness the rich and highly diverse set...
computer science
39,941
Using the SLEUTH urban growth model to simulate the impacts of future policy scenarios on urban land use in the Tehran metropolitan area in Iran
cs.CV
The SLEUTH model, based on the Cellular Automata (CA), can be applied to city development simulation in metropolitan areas. In this study the SLEUTH model was used to model the urban expansion and predict the future possible behavior of the urban growth in Tehran. The fundamental data were five Landsat TM and ETM image...
computer science
39,942
Phase-error estimation and image reconstruction from digital-holography data using a Bayesian framework
cs.CV
The estimation of phase errors from digital-holography data is critical for applications such as imaging or wave-front sensing. Conventional techniques require multiple i.i.d. data and perform poorly in the presence of high noise or large phase errors. In this paper we propose a method to estimate isoplanatic phase err...
computer science
39,943
Improved Speech Reconstruction from Silent Video
cs.CV
Speechreading is the task of inferring phonetic information from visually observed articulatory facial movements, and is a notoriously difficult task for humans to perform. In this paper we present an end-to-end model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) for generating an intelligible and natural-sounding acou...
computer science
39,944
Semantic Augmented Reality Environment with Material-Aware Physical Interactions
cs.CV
In Augmented Reality (AR) environment, realistic interactions between the virtual and real objects play a crucial role in user experience. Much of recent advances in AR has been largely focused on developing geometry-aware environment, but little has been done in dealing with interactions at the semantic level. High-le...
computer science
39,945
Image reconstruction with imperfect forward models and applications in deblurring
cs.NA
We present and analyse an approach to image reconstruction problems with imperfect forward models based on partially ordered spaces - Banach lattices. In this approach, errors in the data and in the forward models are described using order intervals. The method can be characterised as the lattice analogue of the residu...
computer science
39,946
Flare Prediction Using Photospheric and Coronal Image Data
cs.CV
The precise physical process that triggers solar flares is not currently understood. Here we attempt to capture the signature of this mechanism in solar image data of various wavelengths and use these signatures to predict flaring activity. We do this by developing an algorithm that [1] automatically generates features...
computer science
39,947
A Framework for Visually Realistic Multi-robot Simulation in Natural Environment
cs.RO
This paper presents a generalized framework for the simulation of multiple robots and drones in highly realistic models of natural environments. The proposed simulation architecture uses the Unreal Engine4 for generating both optical and depth sensor outputs from any position and orientation within the environment and ...
computer science
39,948
MonoPerfCap: Human Performance Capture from Monocular Video
cs.CV
We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid surface deformations in general scenes. Human performance capture is a challenging...
computer science
39,949
Real-Time Visual Localisation in a Tagged Environment
cs.CV
In a robotised warehouse a major issue is the safety of human operators in case of intervention in the work area of the robots. The current solution is to shut down every robot but it causes a loss of productivity, especially for large robotised warehouses. In order to avoid this loss we need to ensure the operator's s...
computer science
39,950
What Makes a Place? Building Bespoke Place Dependent Object Detectors for Robotics
cs.RO
This paper is about enabling robots to improve their perceptual performance through repeated use in their operating environment, creating local expert detectors fitted to the places through which a robot moves. We leverage the concept of 'experiences' in visual perception for robotics, accounting for bias in the data a...
computer science
39,951
Fast Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving
cs.CV
Most approaches for instance-aware semantic labeling traditionally focus on accuracy. Other aspects like runtime and memory footprint are arguably as important for real-time applications such as autonomous driving. Motivated by this observation and inspired by recent works that tackle multiple tasks with a single integ...
computer science
39,952
Semantic Instance Segmentation with a Discriminative Loss Function
cs.CV
Semantic instance segmentation remains a challenging task. In this work we propose to tackle the problem with a discriminative loss function, operating at the pixel level, that encourages a convolutional network to produce a representation of the image that can easily be clustered into instances with a simple post-proc...
computer science
39,953
Learning Visual Importance for Graphic Designs and Data Visualizations
cs.HC
Knowing where people look and click on visual designs can provide clues about how the designs are perceived, and where the most important or relevant content lies. The most important content of a visual design can be used for effective summarization or to facilitate retrieval from a database. We present automated model...
computer science
39,954
Human Skin Detection Using RGB, HSV and YCbCr Color Models
cs.CV
Human Skin detection deals with the recognition of skin-colored pixels and regions in a given image. Skin color is often used in human skin detection because it is invariant to orientation and size and is fast to process. A new human skin detection algorithm is proposed in this paper. The three main parameters for reco...
computer science
39,955
SPLODE: Semi-Probabilistic Point and Line Odometry with Depth Estimation from RGB-D Camera Motion
cs.RO
Active depth cameras suffer from several limitations, which cause incomplete and noisy depth maps, and may consequently affect the performance of RGB-D Odometry. To address this issue, this paper presents a visual odometry method based on point and line features that leverages both measurements from a depth sensor and ...
computer science
39,956
Privacy Preserving Face Retrieval in the Cloud for Mobile Users
cs.CV
Recently, cloud storage and processing have been widely adopted. Mobile users in one family or one team may automatically backup their photos to the same shared cloud storage space. The powerful face detector trained and provided by a 3rd party may be used to retrieve the photo collection which contains a specific grou...
computer science
39,957
An evaluation of large-scale methods for image instance and class discovery
cs.CV
This paper aims at discovering meaningful subsets of related images from large image collections without annotations. We search groups of images related at different levels of semantic, i.e., either instances or visual classes. While k-means is usually considered as the gold standard for this task, we evaluate and show...
computer science
39,958
Personalized Cinemagraphs using Semantic Understanding and Collaborative Learning
cs.CV
Cinemagraphs are a compelling way to convey dynamic aspects of a scene. In these media, dynamic and still elements are juxtaposed to create an artistic and narrative experience. Creating a high-quality, aesthetically pleasing cinemagraph requires isolating objects in a semantically meaningful way and then selecting goo...
computer science
39,959
Learning to Synthesize a 4D RGBD Light Field from a Single Image
cs.CV
We present a machine learning algorithm that takes as input a 2D RGB image and synthesizes a 4D RGBD light field (color and depth of the scene in each ray direction). For training, we introduce the largest public light field dataset, consisting of over 3300 plenoptic camera light fields of scenes containing flowers and...
computer science
39,960
Calipso: Physics-based Image and Video Editing through CAD Model Proxies
cs.GR
We present Calipso, an interactive method for editing images and videos in a physically-coherent manner. Our main idea is to realize physics-based manipulations by running a full physics simulation on proxy geometries given by non-rigidly aligned CAD models. Running these simulations allows us to apply new, unseen forc...
computer science
39,961
DeformNet: Free-Form Deformation Network for 3D Shape Reconstruction from a Single Image
cs.CV
3D reconstruction from a single image is a key problem in multiple applications ranging from robotic manipulation to augmented reality. Prior methods have tackled this problem through generative models which predict 3D reconstructions as voxels or point clouds. However, these methods can be computationally expensive an...
computer science
39,962
Deep Learning for Passive Synthetic Aperture Radar
cs.CV
We introduce a deep learning (DL) framework for inverse problems in imaging, and demonstrate the advantages and applicability of this approach in passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction. We interpret image recon- struction as a machine learning task and utilize deep networks as forward and inverse s...
computer science
39,963
Colorimetric Calibration of a Digital Camera
cs.CV
In this paper, we introduce a novel - physico-chemical - approach for calibration of a digital camera chip. This approach utilizes results of measurement of incident light spectra of calibration films of different levels of gray for construction of calibration curve (number of incident photons vs. image pixel intensity...
computer science
39,964
A Generalised Directional Laplacian Distribution: Estimation, Mixture Models and Audio Source Separation
cs.SD
Directional or Circular statistics are pertaining to the analysis and interpretation of directions or rotations. In this work, a novel probability distribution is proposed to model multidimensional sparse directional data. The Generalised Directional Laplacian Distribution (DLD) is a hybrid between the Laplacian distri...
computer science
39,965
Interstitial Content Detection
cs.CY
Interstitial content is online content which grays out, or otherwise obscures the main page content. In this technical report, we discuss exploratory research into detecting the presence of interstitial content in web pages. We discuss the use of computer vision techniques to detect interstitials, and the potential use...
computer science
39,966
Deep Binary Reconstruction for Cross-modal Hashing
cs.CV
With the increasing demand of massive multimodal data storage and organization, cross-modal retrieval based on hashing technique has drawn much attention nowadays. It takes the binary codes of one modality as the query to retrieve the relevant hashing codes of another modality. However, the existing binary constraint m...
computer science
39,967
Brain Abnormality Detection by Deep Convolutional Neural Network
cs.CV
In this paper, we describe our method for classification of brain magnetic resonance (MR) images into different abnormalities and healthy classes based on the deep neural network. We propose our method to detect high and low-grade glioma, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer diseases as well as healthy cases. Our network ...
computer science
39,968
Reflectance Intensity Assisted Automatic and Accurate Extrinsic Calibration of 3D LiDAR and Panoramic Camera Using a Printed Chessboard
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel method for fully automatic and convenient extrinsic calibration of a 3D LiDAR and a panoramic camera with a normally printed chessboard. The proposed method is based on the 3D corner estimation of the chessboard from the sparse point cloud generated by one frame scan of the LiDAR. To estimat...
computer science
39,969
Word Searching in Scene Image and Video Frame in Multi-Script Scenario using Dynamic Shape Coding
cs.CV
Retrieval of text information from natural scene images and video frames is a challenging task due to its inherent problems like complex character shapes, low resolution, background noise, etc. Available OCR systems often fail to retrieve such information in scene/video frames. Keyword spotting, an alternative way to r...
computer science
39,970
Towards Automatic Construction of Diverse, High-quality Image Dataset
cs.CV
The availability of labeled image datasets has been shown critical for high-level image understanding, which continuously drives the progress of feature designing and models developing. However, constructing labeled image datasets is laborious and monotonous. To eliminate manual annotation, in this work, we propose a n...
computer science
39,971
Automatic detection and decoding of honey bee waggle dances
cs.CV
The waggle dance is one of the most popular examples of animal communication. Forager bees direct their nestmates to profitable resources via a complex motor display. Essentially, the dance encodes the polar coordinates to the resource in the field. Unemployed foragers follow the dancer's movements and then search for ...
computer science
39,972
Tags2Parts: Discovering Semantic Regions from Shape Tags
cs.CV
We propose a novel method for discovering shape regions that strongly correlate with user-prescribed tags. For example, given a collection of chairs tagged as either "has armrest" or "lacks armrest", our system correctly highlights the armrest regions as the main distinctive parts between the two chair types. To obtain...
computer science
39,973
Seeing Through Noise: Visually Driven Speaker Separation and Enhancement
cs.CV
Isolating the voice of a specific person while filtering out other voices or background noises is challenging when video is shot in noisy environments. We propose audio-visual methods to isolate the voice of a single speaker and eliminate unrelated sounds. First, face motions captured in the video are used to estimate ...
computer science
39,974
Application of a Convolutional Neural Network for image classification to the analysis of collisions in High Energy Physics
cs.CV
The application of deep learning techniques using convolutional neural networks to the classification of particle collisions in High Energy Physics is explored. An intuitive approach to transform physical variables, like momenta of particles and jets, into a single image that captures the relevant information, is propo...
computer science
39,975
Gradient-based Camera Exposure Control for Outdoor Mobile Platforms
cs.CV
We introduce a novel method to automatically adjust camera exposure for image processing and computer vision applications of mobile robot platforms. Since most image processing algorithms heavily rely on low-level image features, which are largely based on local gradient information, we consider a gradient quantity to ...
computer science
39,976
An IoT Real-Time Biometric Authentication System Based on ECG Fiducial Extracted Features Using Discrete Cosine Transform
cs.CV
The conventional authentication technologies, like RFID tags and authentication cards/badges, suffer from different weaknesses, therefore a prompt replacement to use biometric method of authentication should be applied instead. Biometrics, such as fingerprints, voices, and ECG signals, are unique human characters that ...
computer science
39,977
Cross-Age LFW: A Database for Studying Cross-Age Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments
cs.CV
Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) database has been widely utilized as the benchmark of unconstrained face verification and due to big data driven machine learning methods, the performance on the database approaches nearly 100%. However, we argue that this accuracy may be too optimistic because of some limiting factors. ...
computer science
39,978
Digital image splicing detection based on Markov features in QDCT and QWT domain
cs.CV
Image splicing detection is of fundamental importance in digital forensics and therefore has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, a color image splicing detection approach is proposed based on Markov transition probability of quaternion component separation in quaternion discrete cosine transform (QD...
computer science
39,979
Study of Clear Sky Models for Singapore
cs.CV
The estimation of total solar irradiance falling on the earth's surface is important in the field of solar energy generation and forecasting. Several clear-sky solar radiation models have been developed over the last few decades. Most of these models are based on empirical distribution of various geographical parameter...
computer science
39,980
Dual-fisheye lens stitching for 360-degree imaging
cs.CV
Dual-fisheye lens cameras have been increasingly used for 360-degree immersive imaging. However, the limited overlapping field of views and misalignment between the two lenses give rise to visible discontinuities in the stitching boundaries. This paper introduces a novel method for dual-fisheye camera stitching that ad...
computer science
39,981
Analyzing Cloud Optical Properties Using Sky Cameras
cs.CV
Clouds play a significant role in the fluctuation of solar radiation received by the earth's surface. It is important to study the various cloud properties, as it impacts the total solar irradiance falling on the earth's surface. One of such important optical properties of the cloud is the Cloud Optical Thickness (COT)...
computer science
39,982
NODDI-SH: a computational efficient NODDI extension for fODF estimation in diffusion MRI
cs.CV
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DMRI) is the only non-invasive imaging technique which is able to detect the principal directions of water diffusion as well as neurites density in the human brain. Exploiting the ability of Spherical Harmonics (SH) to model spherical functions, we propose a new reconstruction mode...
computer science
39,983
Real-Time 6DOF Pose Relocalization for Event Cameras with Stacked Spatial LSTM Networks
cs.CV
We present a new method to relocalize the 6DOF pose of an event camera solely based on the event stream. Our method first creates the event image from a list of events that occurs in a very short time interval, then a Stacked Spatial LSTM Network (SP-LSTM) is used to learn the camera pose. Our SP-LSTM is composed of a ...
computer science
39,984
Convolutional Sparse Coding with Overlapping Group Norms
cs.CV
The most widely used form of convolutional sparse coding uses an $\ell_1$ regularization term. While this approach has been successful in a variety of applications, a limitation of the $\ell_1$ penalty is that it is homogeneous across the spatial and filter index dimensions of the sparse representation array, so that s...
computer science
39,985
Abnormal Event Detection in Videos using Generative Adversarial Nets
cs.CV
In this paper we address the abnormality detection problem in crowded scenes. We propose to use Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs), which are trained using normal frames and corresponding optical-flow images in order to learn an internal representation of the scene normality. Since our GANs are trained with only normal...
computer science
39,986
Lensless-camera based machine learning for image classification
cs.CV
Machine learning (ML) has been widely applied to image classification. Here, we extend this application to data generated by a camera comprised of only a standard CMOS image sensor with no lens. We first created a database of lensless images of handwritten digits. Then, we trained a ML algorithm on this dataset. Finall...
computer science
39,987
Extrinsic Parameter Calibration for Line Scanning Cameras on Ground Vehicles with Navigation Systems Using a Calibration Pattern
cs.RO
Line scanning cameras, which capture only a single line of pixels, have been increasingly used in ground based mobile or robotic platforms. In applications where it is advantageous to directly georeference the camera data to world coordinates, an accurate estimate of the camera's 6D pose is required. This paper focuses...
computer science
39,988
CSSTag: Optical Nanoscale Radar and Particle Tracking for In-Body and Microfluidic Systems with Vibrating Graphene and Resonance Energy Transfer
cs.CV
Single particle tracking systems monitor cellular processes with great accuracy in nano-biological systems. The emissions of the fluorescent molecules are detected with cameras or photodetectors. However, state-of-the-art imaging systems have challenges in the detection capability, collection and analysis of imaging da...
computer science
39,989
Feasibility of Corneal Imaging for Handheld Augmented Reality
cs.HC
Smartphones are a popular device class for mobile Augmented Reality but suffer from a limited input space. Around-device interaction techniques aim at extending this input space using various sensing modalities. In this paper we present our work towards extending the input area of mobile devices using front-facing devi...
computer science
39,990
Towards Around-Device Interaction using Corneal Imaging
cs.HC
Around-device interaction techniques aim at extending the input space using various sensing modalities on mobile and wearable devices. In this paper, we present our work towards extending the input area of mobile devices using front-facing device-centered cameras that capture reflections in the human eye. As current ge...
computer science
39,991
Photometric stereo for strong specular highlights
cs.CV
Photometric stereo (PS) is a fundamental technique in computer vision known to produce 3-D shape with high accuracy. The setting of PS is defined by using several input images of a static scene taken from one and the same camera position but under varying illumination. The vast majority of studies in this 3-D reconstru...
computer science
39,992
SeDAR - Semantic Detection and Ranging: Humans can localise without LiDAR, can robots?
cs.RO
How does a person work out their location using a floorplan? It is probably safe to say that we do not explicitly measure depths to every visible surface and try to match them against different pose estimates in the floorplan. And yet, this is exactly how most robotic scan-matching algorithms operate. Similarly, we do ...
computer science
39,993
Automatic Document Image Binarization using Bayesian Optimization
cs.IR
Document image binarization is often a challenging task due to various forms of degradation. Although there exist several binarization techniques in literature, the binarized image is typically sensitive to control parameter settings of the employed technique. This paper presents an automatic document image binarizatio...
computer science
39,994
Radial Line Fourier Descriptor for Historical Handwritten Text Representation
cs.CV
Automatic recognition of historical handwritten manuscripts is a daunting task due to paper degradation over time. Recognition-free retrieval or word spotting is popularly used for information retrieval and digitization of the historical handwritten documents. However, the performance of word spotting algorithms depend...
computer science
39,995
Distributed Deep Neural Networks over the Cloud, the Edge and End Devices
cs.CV
We propose distributed deep neural networks (DDNNs) over distributed computing hierarchies, consisting of the cloud, the edge (fog) and end devices. While being able to accommodate inference of a deep neural network (DNN) in the cloud, a DDNN also allows fast and localized inference using shallow portions of the neural...
computer science
39,996
Improving Sonar Image Patch Matching via Deep Learning
cs.CV
Matching sonar images with high accuracy has been a problem for a long time, as sonar images are inherently hard to model due to reflections, noise and viewpoint dependence. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require good sonar image matching capabilities for tasks such as tracking, simultaneous localization and mapping (S...
computer science
39,997
Real-time convolutional networks for sonar image classification in low-power embedded systems
cs.CV
Deep Neural Networks have impressive classification performance, but this comes at the expense of significant computational resources at inference time. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles use low-power embedded systems for sonar image perception, and cannot execute large neural networks in real-time. We propose the use of ...
computer science
39,998
Gravitational Clustering: A Simple, Robust and Adaptive Approach for Distributed Networks
cs.DC
Distributed signal processing for wireless sensor networks enables that different devices cooperate to solve different signal processing tasks. A crucial first step is to answer the question: who observes what? Recently, several distributed algorithms have been proposed, which frame the signal/object labelling problem ...
computer science
39,999
Scalable Annotation of Fine-Grained Categories Without Experts
cs.HC
We present a crowdsourcing workflow to collect image annotations for visually similar synthetic categories without requiring experts. In animals, there is a direct link between taxonomy and visual similarity: e.g. a collie (type of dog) looks more similar to other collies (e.g. smooth collie) than a greyhound (another ...
computer science
40,000
Objectness Scoring and Detection Proposals in Forward-Looking Sonar Images with Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
Forward-looking sonar can capture high resolution images of underwater scenes, but their interpretation is complex. Generic object detection in such images has not been solved, specially in cases of small and unknown objects. In comparison, detection proposal algorithms have produced top performing object detectors in ...
computer science
40,001
Completion of High Order Tensor Data with Missing Entries via Tensor-train Decomposition
cs.NA
In this paper, we aim at the completion problem of high order tensor data with missing entries. The existing tensor factorization and completion methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality when the order of tensor N>>3. To overcome this problem, we propose an efficient algorithm called TT-WOPT (Tensor-train Weighte...
computer science
40,002
Identifying Mirror Symmetry Density with Delay in Spiking Neural Networks
cs.CV
The ability to rapidly identify symmetry and anti-symmetry is an essential attribute of intelligence. Symmetry perception is a central process in human vision and may be key to human 3D visualization. While previous work in understanding neuron symmetry perception has concentrated on the neuron as an integrator, here w...
computer science
40,003
Image Processing Operations Identification via Convolutional Neural Network
cs.MM
In recent years, image forensics has attracted more and more attention, and many forensic methods have been proposed for identifying image processing operations. Up to now, most existing methods are based on hand crafted features, and just one specific operation is considered in their methods. In many forensic scenario...
computer science
40,004
Urban morphology meets deep learning: Exploring urban forms in one million cities, town and villages across the planet
cs.CV
Study of urban form is an important area of research in urban planning/design that contributes to our understanding of how cities function and evolve. However, classical approaches are based on very limited observations and inconsistent methods. As an alternative, availability of massive urban data collections such as ...
computer science
40,005
How to Train a CAT: Learning Canonical Appearance Transformations for Direct Visual Localization Under Illumination Change
cs.RO
Direct visual localization has recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity with the increasing availability of cheap mobile computing power. The competitive accuracy and robustness of these algorithms compared to state-of-the-art feature-based methods, as well as their natural ability to yield dense maps, makes them an...
computer science
40,006
Convolutional Neural Networks: Ensemble Modeling, Fine-Tuning and Unsupervised Semantic Localization for Intraoperative CLE Images
cs.CV
Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is an advanced optical fluorescence technology undergoing assessment for applications in brain tumor surgery. Despite its promising potential, interpreting the unfamiliar gray tone images of fluorescent stains can be difficult. Many of the CLE images can be distorted by motion, extre...
computer science
40,007
weedNet: Dense Semantic Weed Classification Using Multispectral Images and MAV for Smart Farming
cs.CV
Selective weed treatment is a critical step in autonomous crop management as related to crop health and yield. However, a key challenge is reliable, and accurate weed detection to minimize damage to surrounding plants. In this paper, we present an approach for dense semantic weed classification with multispectral image...
computer science
40,008
PQk-means: Billion-scale Clustering for Product-quantized Codes
cs.CV
Data clustering is a fundamental operation in data analysis. For handling large-scale data, the standard k-means clustering method is not only slow, but also memory-inefficient. We propose an efficient clustering method for billion-scale feature vectors, called PQk-means. By first compressing input vectors into short p...
computer science
40,009
A low cost non-wearable gaze detection system based on infrared image processing
cs.HC
Human eye gaze detection plays an important role in various fields, including human-computer interaction, virtual reality and cognitive science. Although different relatively accurate systems of eye tracking and gaze detection exist, they are usually either too expensive to be bought for low cost applications or too co...
computer science