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A Survey of Calibration Methods for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays
cs.HC
Optical see-through head-mounted displays (OST HMDs) are a major output medium for Augmented Reality, which have seen significant growth in popularity and usage among the general public due to the growing release of consumer-oriented models, such as the Microsoft Hololens. Unlike Virtual Reality headsets, OST HMDs inhe...
computer science
40,011
A Tutorial on Deep Learning for Music Information Retrieval
cs.CV
Following their success in Computer Vision and other areas, deep learning techniques have recently become widely adopted in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research. However, the majority of works aim to adopt and assess methods that have been shown to be effective in other domains, while there is still a great need ...
computer science
40,012
Contrast Enhancement of Brightness-Distorted Images by Improved Adaptive Gamma Correction
cs.MM
As an efficient image contrast enhancement (CE) tool, adaptive gamma correction (AGC) was previously proposed by relating gamma parameter with cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the pixel gray levels within an image. ACG deals well with most dimmed images, but fails for globally bright images and the dimmed imag...
computer science
40,013
A Computational Model of Afterimages based on Simultaneous and Successive Contrasts
cs.CV
Negative afterimage appears in our vision when we shift our gaze from an over stimulated original image to a new area with a uniform color. The colors of negative afterimages differ from the old stimulating colors in the original image when the color in the new area is either neutral or chromatic. The interaction betwe...
computer science
40,014
Acceleration of Histogram-Based Contrast Enhancement via Selective Downsampling
cs.MM
In this paper, we propose a general framework to accelerate the universal histogram-based image contrast enhancement (CE) algorithms. Both spatial and gray-level selective down- sampling of digital images are adopted to decrease computational cost, while the visual quality of enhanced images is still preserved and with...
computer science
40,015
Detection of Unauthorized IoT Devices Using Machine Learning Techniques
cs.CR
Security experts have demonstrated numerous risks imposed by Internet of Things (IoT) devices on organizations. Due to the widespread adoption of such devices, their diversity, standardization obstacles, and inherent mobility, organizations require an intelligent mechanism capable of automatically detecting suspicious ...
computer science
40,016
On Coordinate Minimization of Convex Piecewise-Affine Functions
math.OC
A popular class of algorithms to optimize the dual LP relaxation of the discrete energy minimization problem (a.k.a.\ MAP inference in graphical models or valued constraint satisfaction) are convergent message-passing algorithms, such as max-sum diffusion, TRW-S, MPLP and SRMP. These algorithms are successful in practi...
computer science
40,017
General Phase Regularized Reconstruction using Phase Cycling
cs.CV
Purpose: To develop a general phase regularized image reconstruction method, with applications to partial Fourier imaging, water-fat imaging and flow imaging. Theory and Methods: The problem of enforcing phase constraints in reconstruction was studied under a regularized inverse problem framework. A general phase reg...
computer science
40,018
To Go or Not To Go? A Near Unsupervised Learning Approach For Robot Navigation
cs.CV
It is important for robots to be able to decide whether they can go through a space or not, as they navigate through a dynamic environment. This capability can help them avoid injury or serious damage, e.g., as a result of running into people and obstacles, getting stuck, or falling off an edge. To this end, we propose...
computer science
40,019
Automatic Tool Landmark Detection for Stereo Vision in Robot-Assisted Retinal Surgery
cs.CV
Computer vision and robotics are being increasingly applied in medical interventions. Especially in interventions where extreme precision is required they could make a difference. One such application is robot-assisted retinal microsurgery. In recent works, such interventions are conducted under a stereo-microscope, an...
computer science
40,020
Recognizing Objects In-the-wild: Where Do We Stand?
cs.RO
The ability to recognize objects is an essential skill for a robotic system acting in human-populated environments. Despite decades of effort from the robotic and vision research communities, robots are still missing good visual perceptual systems, preventing the use of autonomous agents for real-world applications. Th...
computer science
40,021
Learning a Fully Convolutional Network for Object Recognition using very few Data
cs.CV
In recent years, data-driven methods have shown great success for extracting information about the infrastruc- ture in urban areas. These algorithms are usually trained on large datasets consisting of thousands or millions of labeled training examples. While large datasets have been published regarding cars, for cyclis...
computer science
40,022
Une véritable approche $\ell_0$ pour l'apprentissage de dictionnaire
cs.CV
Sparse representation learning has recently gained a great success in signal and image processing, thanks to recent advances in dictionary learning. To this end, the $\ell_0$-norm is often used to control the sparsity level. Nevertheless, optimization problems based on the $\ell_0$-norm are non-convex and NP-hard. For ...
computer science
40,023
AJILE Movement Prediction: Multimodal Deep Learning for Natural Human Neural Recordings and Video
cs.CV
Developing useful interfaces between brains and machines is a grand challenge of neuroengineering. An effective interface has the capacity to not only interpret neural signals, but predict the intentions of the human to perform an action in the near future; prediction is made even more challenging outside well-controll...
computer science
40,024
A General Framework for Flexible Multi-Cue Photometric Point Cloud Registration
cs.CV
The ability to build maps is a key functionality for the majority of mobile robots. A central ingredient to most mapping systems is the registration or alignment of the recorded sensor data. In this paper, we present a general methodology for photometric registration that can deal with multiple different cues. We provi...
computer science
40,025
Towards CNN map representation and compression for camera relocalisation
cs.CV
This paper presents a study on the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for camera relocalisation and its application to map compression. We follow state of the art visual relocalisation results and evaluate response to different data inputs -- namely, depth, grayscale, RGB, spatial position and combinations of these. ...
computer science
40,026
LS-VO: Learning Dense Optical Subspace for Robust Visual Odometry Estimation
cs.CV
This work proposes a novel deep network architecture to solve the camera Ego-Motion estimation problem. A motion estimation network generally learns features similar to Optical Flow (OF) fields starting from sequences of images. This OF can be described by a lower dimensional latent space. Previous research has shown h...
computer science
40,027
Fiber-Flux Diffusion Density for White Matter Tracts Analysis: Application to Mild Anomalies Localization in Contact Sports Players
cs.CV
We present the concept of fiber-flux density for locally quantifying white matter (WM) fiber bundles. By combining scalar diffusivity measures (e.g., fractional anisotropy) with fiber-flux measurements, we define new local descriptors called Fiber-Flux Diffusion Density (FFDD) vectors. Applying each descriptor througho...
computer science
40,028
Deep-Learnt Classification of Light Curves
cs.CV
Astronomy light curves are sparse, gappy, and heteroscedastic. As a result standard time series methods regularly used for financial and similar datasets are of little help and astronomers are usually left to their own instruments and techniques to classify light curves. A common approach is to derive statistical featu...
computer science
40,029
Ultimate SLAM? Combining Events, Images, and IMU for Robust Visual SLAM in HDR and High Speed Scenarios
cs.CV
Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide reliable visual information during high speed motions or in scenes characterized b...
computer science
40,030
Transfer learning from synthetic to real images using variational autoencoders for robotic applications
cs.RO
Robotic learning in simulation environments provides a faster, more scalable, and safer training methodology than learning directly with physical robots. Also, synthesizing images in a simulation environment for collecting large-scale image data is easy, whereas capturing camera images in the real world is time consumi...
computer science
40,031
Real-time Semantic Segmentation of Crop and Weed for Precision Agriculture Robots Leveraging Background Knowledge in CNNs
cs.CV
Precision farming robots, which target to reduce the amount of herbicides that need to be brought out in the fields, must have the ability to identify crops and weeds in real time to trigger weeding actions. In this paper, we address the problem of CNN-based semantic segmentation of crop fields separating sugar beet pl...
computer science
40,032
SceneCut: Joint Geometric and Object Segmentation for Indoor Scenes
cs.CV
This paper presents SceneCut, a novel approach to jointly discover previously unseen objects and non-object surfaces using a single RGB-D image. SceneCut's joint reasoning over scene semantics and geometry allows a robot to detect and segment object instances in complex scenes where modern deep learning-based methods e...
computer science
40,033
Neural network identification of people hidden from view with a single-pixel, single-photon detector
cs.CV
Light scattered from multiple surfaces can be used to retrieve information of hidden environments. However, full three-dimensional retrieval of an object hidden from view by a wall has only been achieved with scanning systems and requires intensive computational processing of the retrieved data. Here we use a non-scann...
computer science
40,034
AffordanceNet: An End-to-End Deep Learning Approach for Object Affordance Detection
cs.CV
We propose AffordanceNet, a new deep learning approach to simultaneously detect multiple objects and their affordances from RGB images. Our AffordanceNet has two branches: an object detection branch to localize and classify the object, and an affordance detection branch to assign each pixel in the object to its most pr...
computer science
40,035
Semantic Segmentation from Limited Training Data
cs.RO
We present our approach for robotic perception in cluttered scenes that led to winning the recent Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) 2017. Next to small objects with shiny and transparent surfaces, the biggest challenge of the 2017 competition was the introduction of unseen categories. In contrast to traditional approache...
computer science
40,036
STAR: Spatio-Temporal Altimeter Waveform Retracking using Sparse Representation and Conditional Random Fields
cs.CV
Satellite radar altimetry is one of the most powerful techniques for measuring sea surface height variations, with applications ranging from operational oceanography to climate research. Over open oceans, altimeter return waveforms generally correspond to the Brown model, and by inversion, estimated shape parameters pr...
computer science
40,037
Real-time 3D Shape Instantiation from Single Fluoroscopy Projection for Fenestrated Stent Graft Deployment
cs.RO
Robot-assisted deployment of fenestrated stent grafts in Fenestrated Endovascular Aortic Repair (FEVAR) requires accurate geometrical alignment. Currently, this process is guided by 2D fluoroscopy, which is uninformative and error prone. In this paper, a real-time framework is proposed to instantiate the 3D shape of a ...
computer science
40,038
Single-pixel imaging with Morlet wavelet correlated random patterns
eess.IV
Single-pixel imaging is an indirect imaging technique which utilizes simplified optical hardware and advanced computational methods. It offers novel solutions for hyper-spectral imaging, polarimetric imaging, three-dimensional imaging, holographic imaging, optical encryption and imaging through scattering media. The ma...
computer science
40,039
Measurement of amplitude of the moiré patterns in digital autostereoscopic 3D display
eess.IV
The article presents the experimental measurements of the amplitude of the moir\'e patterns in a digital autostereoscopic barrier-type 3D display across a wide angular range with a small increment. The period and orientation of the moir\'e patterns were also measured as functions of the angle. Simultaneous branches are...
computer science
40,040
Elliptification of Rectangular Imagery
eess.IV
We present and discuss different algorithms for converting rectangular imagery into elliptical regions. We will focus primarily on methods that use mathematical mappings with explicit and invertible equations. We will also present different post-processing effects that could be applied to enhance the resulting images a...
computer science
40,041
Modeling Image Virality with Pairwise Spatial Transformer Networks
cs.CV
The study of virality and information diffusion online is a topic gaining traction rapidly in the computational social sciences. Computer vision and social network analysis research have also focused on understanding the impact of content and information diffusion in making content viral, with prior approaches not perf...
computer science
40,042
Rapid and Robust Automated Macroscopic Wood Identification System using Smartphone with Macro-lens
cs.CY
Wood Identification has never been more important to serve the purpose of global forest species protection and timber regulation. Macroscopic level wood identification practiced by wood anatomists can identify wood up to genus level. This is sufficient to serve as a frontline identification to fight against illegal woo...
computer science
40,043
3D Textured Model Encryption via 3D Lu Chaotic Mapping
cs.CV
In the coming Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) era, 3D contents will be popularized just as images and videos today. The security and privacy of these 3D contents should be taken into consideration. 3D contents contain surface models and solid models. The surface models include point clouds, meshes and textured models...
computer science
40,044
DeepVO: Towards End-to-End Visual Odometry with Deep Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks
cs.CV
This paper studies monocular visual odometry (VO) problem. Most of existing VO algorithms are developed under a standard pipeline including feature extraction, feature matching, motion estimation, local optimisation, etc. Although some of them have demonstrated superior performance, they usually need to be carefully de...
computer science
40,045
LADAR-Based Mover Detection from Moving Vehicles
cs.RO
Detecting moving vehicles and people is crucial for safe operation of UGVs but is challenging in cluttered, real world environments. We propose a registration technique that enables objects to be robustly matched and tracked, and hence movers to be detected even in high clutter. Range data are acquired using a 2D scann...
computer science
40,046
Dynamic Reconfiguration of Mission Parameters in Underwater Human-Robot Collaboration
cs.RO
This paper presents a real-time programming and parameter reconfiguration method for autonomous underwater robots in human-robot collaborative tasks. Using a set of intuitive and meaningful hand gestures, we develop a syntactically simple framework that is computationally more efficient than a complex, grammar-based ap...
computer science
40,047
Converting Your Thoughts to Texts: Enabling Brain Typing via Deep Feature Learning of EEG Signals
cs.HC
An electroencephalography (EEG) based Brain Computer Interface (BCI) enables people to communicate with the outside world by interpreting the EEG signals of their brains to interact with devices such as wheelchairs and intelligent robots. More specifically, motor imagery EEG (MI-EEG), which reflects a subjects active i...
computer science
40,048
UAV and Service Robot Coordination for Indoor Object Search Tasks
cs.RO
Our CoBot robots have successfully performed a variety of service tasks in our multi-building environment including accompanying people to meetings and delivering objects to offices due to its navigation and localization capabilities. However, they lack the capability to visually search over desks and other confined lo...
computer science
40,049
Learning to Label Affordances from Simulated and Real Data
cs.CV
An autonomous robot should be able to evaluate the affordances that are offered by a given situation. Here we address this problem by designing a system that can densely predict affordances given only a single 2D RGB image. This is achieved with a convolutional neural network (ResNet), which we combine with refinement ...
computer science
40,050
Multi-Person Brain Activity Recognition via Comprehensive EEG Signal Analysis
cs.HC
An electroencephalography (EEG) based brain activity recognition is a fundamental field of study for a number of significant applications such as intention prediction, appliance control, and neurological disease diagnosis in smart home and smart healthcare domains. Existing techniques mostly focus on binary brain activ...
computer science
40,051
Region-Based Image Retrieval Revisited
cs.MM
Region-based image retrieval (RBIR) technique is revisited. In early attempts at RBIR in the late 90s, researchers found many ways to specify region-based queries and spatial relationships; however, the way to characterize the regions, such as by using color histograms, were very poor at that time. Here, we revisit RBI...
computer science
40,052
Globally-Optimal Inlier Set Maximisation for Simultaneous Camera Pose and Feature Correspondence
cs.CV
Estimating the 6-DoF pose of a camera from a single image relative to a pre-computed 3D point-set is an important task for many computer vision applications. Perspective-n-Point (PnP) solvers are routinely used for camera pose estimation, provided that a good quality set of 2D-3D feature correspondences are known befor...
computer science
40,053
Exposure: A White-Box Photo Post-Processing Framework
cs.GR
Retouching can significantly elevate the visual appeal of photos, but many casual photographers lack the expertise to do this well. To address this problem, previous works have proposed automatic retouching systems based on supervised learning from paired training images acquired before and after manual editing. As it ...
computer science
40,054
Exact Camera Location Recovery by Least Unsquared Deviations
cs.CV
We establish exact recovery for the Least Unsquared Deviations (LUD) algorithm of \"{O}zyesil and Singer. More precisely, we show that for sufficiently many cameras with given corrupted pairwise directions, where both camera locations and pairwise directions are generated by a special probabilistic model, the LUD algor...
computer science
40,055
X-View: Graph-Based Semantic Multi-View Localization
cs.RO
Global registration of multi-view robot data is a challenging task. Appearance-based global localization approaches often fail under drastic view-point changes, as representations have limited view-point invariance. This work is based on the idea that human-made environments contain rich semantics which can be used to ...
computer science
40,056
3DOF Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Learned from Long-Term Autonomous Mobile Robot Deployment Data
cs.CV
This paper presents a novel 3DOF pedestrian trajectory prediction approach for autonomous mobile service robots. While most previously reported methods are based on learning of 2D positions in monocular camera images, our approach uses range-finder sensors to learn and predict 3DOF pose trajectories (i.e. 2D position p...
computer science
40,057
Translating Videos to Commands for Robotic Manipulation with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
cs.RO
We present a new method to translate videos to commands for robotic manipulation using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Our framework first extracts deep features from the input video frames with a deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Two RNN layers with an encoder-decoder architecture are then used to encode...
computer science
40,058
Out-of-focus Blur: Image De-blurring
cs.CV
Image de-blurring is important in many cases of imaging a real scene or object by a camera. This project focuses on de-blurring an image distorted by an out-of-focus blur through a simulation study. A pseudo-inverse filter is first explored but it fails because of severe noise amplification. Then Tikhonov regularizatio...
computer science
40,059
Conditional Chromatic Filtering with Spatial Enhancement for Restoring Pansharpened Images
cs.CV
Pansharpening techniques aim at fusing the structural detail of the panchromatic and the color accuracy of the low-resolution spectral bands provided by Earth observation satellites to produce a high-resolution multispectral image. A large number of methods have been proposed in the literature, most of which were devel...
computer science
40,060
PIRVS: An Advanced Visual-Inertial SLAM System with Flexible Sensor Fusion and Hardware Co-Design
cs.RO
In this paper, we present the PerceptIn Robotics Vision System (PIRVS) system, a visual-inertial computing hardware with embedded simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm. The PIRVS hardware is equipped with a multi-core processor, a global-shutter stereo camera, and an IMU with precise hardware synchroni...
computer science
40,061
Robotic Pick-and-Place of Novel Objects in Clutter with Multi-Affordance Grasping and Cross-Domain Image Matching
cs.RO
This paper presents a robotic pick-and-place system that is capable of grasping and recognizing both known and novel objects in cluttered environments. The key new feature of the system is that it handles a wide range of object categories without needing any task-specific training data for novel objects. To achieve thi...
computer science
40,062
BodyDigitizer: An Open Source Photogrammetry-based 3D Body Scanner
cs.CV
With the rising popularity of Augmented and Virtual Reality, there is a need for representing humans as virtual avatars in various application domains ranging from remote telepresence, games to medical applications. Besides explicitly modelling 3D avatars, sensing approaches that create person-specific avatars are beco...
computer science
40,063
Effective Image Differencing with ConvNets for Real-time Transient Hunting
cs.CV
Large sky surveys are increasingly relying on image subtraction pipelines for real-time (and archival) transient detection. In this process one has to contend with varying PSF, small brightness variations in many sources, as well as artifacts resulting from saturated stars, and, in general, matching errors. Very often ...
computer science
40,064
FPGA based Parallelized Architecture of Efficient Graph based Image Segmentation Algorithm
cs.CV
Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally expensive operation, it is usually done through software imple- mentation using high-per...
computer science
40,065
A Multiscale Patch Based Convolutional Network for Brain Tumor Segmentation
cs.CV
This article presents a multiscale patch based convolutional neural network for the automatic segmentation of brain tumors in multi-modality 3D MR images. We use multiscale deep supervision and inputs to train a convolutional network. We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on the BRATS 2017 segmentation...
computer science
40,066
Visual Servoing of Unmanned Surface Vehicle from Small Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
cs.CV
This paper presents an algorithm and the implementation of a motor schema to aid the visual localization subsystem of the ongoing EMILY project at Texas A and M University. The EMILY project aims to team an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to augment the search and rescue of marine c...
computer science
40,067
Algorithm guided outlining of 105 pancreatic cancer liver metastases in Ultrasound
cs.CV
Manual segmentation of hepatic metastases in ultrasound images acquired from patients suffering from pancreatic cancer is common practice. Semiautomatic measurements promising assistance in this process are often assessed using a small number of lesions performed by examiners who already know the algorithm. In this wor...
computer science
40,068
Deep learning in remote sensing: a review
cs.CV
Standing at the paradigm shift towards data-intensive science, machine learning techniques are becoming increasingly important. In particular, as a major breakthrough in the field, deep learning has proven as an extremely powerful tool in many fields. Shall we embrace deep learning as the key to all? Or, should we resi...
computer science
40,069
A Review of Convolutional Neural Networks for Inverse Problems in Imaging
eess.IV
In this survey paper, we review recent uses of convolution neural networks (CNNs) to solve inverse problems in imaging. It has recently become feasible to train deep CNNs on large databases of images, and they have shown outstanding performance on object classification and segmentation tasks. Motivated by these success...
computer science
40,070
Image retargeting via Beltrami representation
cs.CV
Image retargeting aims to resize an image to one with a prescribed aspect ratio. Simple scaling inevitably introduces unnatural geometric distortions on the important content of the image. In this paper, we propose a simple and yet effective method to resize an image, which preserves the geometry of the important conte...
computer science
40,071
Algebraic Image Processing
eess.IV
We propose an approach to image processing related to algebraic operators acting in the space of images. In view of the interest in the applications in optics and computer science, mathematical aspects of the paper have been simplified as much as possible. Underlying theory, related to rigged Hilbert spaces and Lie alg...
computer science
40,072
Solutions of Quadratic First-Order ODEs applied to Computer Vision Problems
cs.NA
The article proves the existence of a maximum of two possible solutions to the initial value problem composed by the planar-perspective equation and an initial condition. This initial value problem has a geometric interpretation. Solutions are curves than pass trough the initial condition which is a point of the plane.
computer science
40,073
Fast, Accurate and Fully Parallelizable Digital Image Correlation
cs.CV
Digital image correlation (DIC) is a widely used optical metrology for surface deformation measurements. DIC relies on nonlinear optimization method. Thus an initial guess is quite important due to its influence on the converge characteristics of the algorithm. In order to obtain a reliable, accurate initial guess, a r...
computer science
40,074
Real time ridge orientation estimation for fingerprint images
cs.CV
Fingerprint verification is an important bio-metric technique for personal identification. Most of the automatic verification systems are based on matching of fingerprint minutiae. Extraction of minutiae is an essential process which requires estimation of orientation of the lines in an image. Most of the existing meth...
computer science
40,075
A multi-branch convolutional neural network for detecting double JPEG compression
cs.CV
Detection of double JPEG compression is important to forensics analysis. A few methods were proposed based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These methods only accept inputs from pre-processed data, such as histogram features and/or decompressed images. In this paper, we present a CNN solution by using raw DCT (...
computer science
40,076
What is (missing or wrong) in the scene? A Hybrid Deep Boltzmann Machine For Contextualized Scene Modeling
cs.CV
Scene models allow robots to reason about what is in the scene, what else should be in it, and what should not be in it. In this paper, we propose a hybrid Boltzmann Machine (BM) for scene modeling where relations between objects are integrated. To be able to do that, we extend BM to include tri-way edges between visib...
computer science
40,077
Generating Reflectance Curves from sRGB Triplets
cs.CV
The color sensation evoked by an object depends on both the spectral power distribution of the illumination and the reflectance properties of the object being illuminated. The color sensation can be characterized by three color-space values, such as XYZ, RGB, HSV, L*a*b*, etc. It is straightforward to compute the three...
computer science
40,078
Hardware design for binarization and thinning of fingerprint images
cs.CV
Two critical steps in fingerprint recognition are binarization and thinning of the image. The need for real time processing motivates us to select local adaptive thresholding approach for the binarization step. We introduce a new hardware for this purpose based on pipeline architecture. We propose a formula for selecti...
computer science
40,079
Compressed Sensing, ASBSR-method of image sampling and reconstruction and the problem of digital image acquisition with the lowest possible sampling rate
cs.CV
The problem of minimization of the number of measurements needed for digital image acquisition and reconstruction with a given accuracy is addressed. Basics of the sampling theory are outlined to show that the lower bound of signal sampling rate sufficient for signal reconstruction with a given accuracy is equal to the...
computer science
40,080
A New Coherence-Penalized Minimal Path Model with Application to Retinal Vessel Centerline Delineation
cs.CG
In this paper, we propose a new minimal path model for minimally interactive retinal vessel centerline extraction. The main contribution lies at the construction of a novel coherence-penalized Riemannian metric in a lifted space, dependently of the local geometry of tubularity and an external scalar-valued reference fe...
computer science
40,081
Projective reconstruction in algebraic vision
math.AG
We discuss the geometry of rational maps from a projective space of an arbitrary dimension to the product of projective spaces of lower dimensions induced by linear projections. In particular, we give a purely algebro-geometric proof of the projective reconstruction theorem by Hartley and Schaffalitzky [HS09].
computer science
40,082
Fusion of LiDAR and Camera Sensor Data for Environment Sensing in Driverless Vehicles
cs.CV
Driverless vehicles operate by sensing and perceiving its surrounding environment to make the accurate driving decisions. A combination of several different sensors such as LiDAR, radar, ultrasound sensors and cameras are utilized to sense the surrounding environment of driverless vehicles. The heterogeneous sensors si...
computer science
40,083
3D Object Discovery and Modeling Using Single RGB-D Images Containing Multiple Object Instances
cs.CV
Unsupervised object modeling is important in robotics, especially for handling a large set of objects. We present a method for unsupervised 3D object discovery, reconstruction, and localization that exploits multiple instances of an identical object contained in a single RGB-D image. The proposed method does not rely o...
computer science
40,084
Analysis of feature detector and descriptor combinations with a localization experiment for various performance metrics
cs.CV
The purpose of this study is to provide a detailed performance comparison of feature detector/descriptor methods, particularly when their various combinations are used for image-matching. The localization experiments of a mobile robot in an indoor environment are presented as a case study. In these experiments, 3090 qu...
computer science
40,085
Real-time marker-less multi-person 3D pose estimation in RGB-Depth camera networks
cs.CV
This paper proposes a novel system to estimate and track the 3D poses of multiple persons in calibrated RGB-Depth camera networks. The multi-view 3D pose of each person is computed by a central node which receives the single-view outcomes from each camera of the network. Each single-view outcome is computed by using a ...
computer science
40,086
Deep Spectral Descriptors: Learning the point-wise correspondence metric via Siamese deep neural networks
cs.CG
A robust and informative local shape descriptor plays an important role in mesh registration. In this regard, spectral descriptors that are based on the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator have gained a spotlight among the researchers for the last decade due to their desirable properties, such as isometry invaria...
computer science
40,087
A Line-Point Unified Solution to Relative Camera Pose Estimation
cs.RO
In this work we present a unified method of relative camera pose estimation from points and lines correspondences. Given a set of 2D points and lines correspondences in three views, of which two are known, a method has been developed for estimating the camera pose of the third view. Novelty of this algorithm is to comb...
computer science
40,088
Sistema de Navegação Autônomo Baseado em Visão Computacional
cs.RO
Autonomous robots are used as the tool to solve many kinds of problems, such as environmental mapping and monitoring. Either for adverse conditions related to the human presence or even for the need to reduce costs, it is certain that many efforts have been made to develop robots with an increasingly high level of auto...
computer science
40,089
Image Restoration by Iterative Denoising and Backward Projections
cs.CV
Inverse problems appear in many applications such as image deblurring and inpainting. The common approach to address them is to design a specific algorithm for each problem. The Plug-and-Play (P&P) framework, which has been recently introduced, allows solving general inverse problems by leveraging the impressive capabi...
computer science
40,090
Unsupervised Object Discovery and Segmentation of RGBD-images
cs.RO
In this paper we introduce a system for unsupervised object discovery and segmentation of RGBD-images. The system models the sensor noise directly from data, allowing accurate segmentation without sensor specific hand tuning of measurement noise models making use of the recently introduced Statistical Inlier Estimation...
computer science
40,091
Real-time Convolutional Neural Networks for Emotion and Gender Classification
cs.CV
In this paper we propose an implement a general convolutional neural network (CNN) building framework for designing real-time CNNs. We validate our models by creating a real-time vision system which accomplishes the tasks of face detection, gender classification and emotion classification simultaneously in one blended ...
computer science
40,092
Image Segmentation and Classification for Sickle Cell Disease using Deformable U-Net
cs.CV
Reliable cell segmentation and classification from biomedical images is a crucial step for both scientific research and clinical practice. A major challenge for more robust segmentation and classification methods is the large variations in the size, shape and viewpoint of the cells, combining with the low image quality...
computer science
40,093
Computational ghost imaging using deep learning
cs.CV
Computational ghost imaging (CGI) is a single-pixel imaging technique that exploits the correlation between known random patterns and the measured intensity of light transmitted (or reflected) by an object. Although CGI can obtain two- or three- dimensional images with a single or a few bucket detectors, the quality of...
computer science
40,094
Improving 6D Pose Estimation of Objects in Clutter via Physics-aware Monte Carlo Tree Search
cs.RO
This work proposes a process for efficiently searching over combinations of individual object 6D pose hypotheses in cluttered scenes, especially in cases involving occlusions and objects resting on each other. The initial set of candidate object poses is generated from state-of-the-art object detection and global point...
computer science
40,095
Crop Planning using Stochastic Visual Optimization
cs.CV
As the world population increases and arable land decreases, it becomes vital to improve the productivity of the agricultural land available. Given the weather and soil properties, farmers need to take critical decisions such as which seed variety to plant and in what proportion, in order to maximize productivity. Thes...
computer science
40,096
Compressive Online Robust Principal Component Analysis with Optical Flow for Video Foreground-Background Separation
cs.CV
In the context of online Robust Principle Component Analysis (RPCA) for the video foreground-background separation, we propose a compressive online RPCA with optical flow that separates recursively a sequence of frames into sparse (foreground) and low-rank (background) components. Our method considers a small set of me...
computer science
40,097
Biometrics-as-a-Service: A Framework to Promote Innovative Biometric Recognition in the Cloud
cs.DC
Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, is the use of biological attributes such as face, fingerprints or iris in order to recognize an individual in an automated manner. A key application of biometrics is authentication; i.e., using said biological attributes to provide access by verifying the claimed identity of...
computer science
40,098
A Generative Model for Volume Rendering
cs.GR
We present a technique to synthesize and analyze volume-rendered images using generative models. We use the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework to compute a model from a large collection of volume renderings, conditioned on (1) viewpoint and (2) transfer functions for opacity and color. Our approach facilita...
computer science
40,099
Fine-grained Pattern Matching Over Streaming Time Series
cs.CV
Pattern matching of streaming time series with lower latency under limited computing resource comes to a critical problem, especially as the growth of Industry 4.0 and Industry Internet of Things. However, against traditional single pattern matching problem, a pattern may contain multiple segments representing differen...
computer science
40,100
Using the quantization error from Self-Organized Map (SOM) output for detecting critical variability in large bodies of image time series in less than a minute
cs.CY
The quantization error (QE) from SOM applied on time series of spatial contrast images with variable relative amount of white and dark pixel contents, as in monochromatic medical images or satellite images, is proven a reliable indicator of potentially critical changes in image homogeneity. The QE is shown to increase ...
computer science
40,101
On the Taut String Interpretation of the One-dimensional Rudin-Osher-Fatemi Model: A New Proof, a Fundamental Estimate and Some Applications
eess.IV
A new proof of the equivalence of the Taut String Algorithm and the one-dimensional Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model is presented. Based on duality and the projection theorem in Hilbert space, the proof is strictly elementary. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to both denoising models follow as by-products. The standard co...
computer science
40,102
High efficiency compression for object detection
eess.IV
Image and video compression has traditionally been tailored to human vision. However, modern applications such as visual analytics and surveillance rely on computers seeing and analyzing the images before (or instead of) humans. For these applications, it is important to adjust compression to computer vision. In this p...
computer science
40,103
Stochastic Variational Video Prediction
cs.CV
Predicting the future in real-world settings, particularly from raw sensory observations such as images, is exceptionally challenging. Real-world events can be stochastic and unpredictable, and the high dimensionality and complexity of natural images requires the predictive model to build an intricate understanding of ...
computer science
40,104
Optimal Resource Allocation in Distributed Broadband Wireless Communication Systems
cs.NI
This paper is concerned with optimization of distributed broadband wireless communication (BWC) systems. BWC systems contain a distributed antenna system (DAS) connected to a base station with optical fiber. Distributed BWC systems have been proposed as a solution to the power constraint problem in traditional cellular...
computer science
40,105
PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes
cs.CV
Estimating the 6D pose of known objects is important for robots to interact with the real world. The problem is challenging due to the variety of objects as well as the complexity of a scene caused by clutter and occlusions between objects. In this work, we introduce PoseCNN, a new Convolutional Neural Network for 6D o...
computer science
40,106
Learning deep features for source color laser printer identification based on cascaded learning
cs.CV
Color laser printers have fast printing speed and high resolution, and forgeries using color laser printers can cause significant harm to society. A source printer identification technique can be employed as a countermeasure to those forgeries. This paper presents a color laser printer identification method based on ca...
computer science
40,107
Query-free Clothing Retrieval via Implicit Relevance Feedback
cs.CV
Image-based clothing retrieval is receiving increasing interest with the growth of online shopping. In practice, users may often have a desired piece of clothing in mind (e.g., either having seen it before on the street or requiring certain specific clothing attributes) but may be unable to supply an image as a query. ...
computer science
40,108
Intelligent Parameter Tuning in Optimization-based Iterative CT Reconstruction via Deep Reinforcement Learning
cs.CV
A number of image-processing problems can be formulated as optimization problems. The objective function typically contains several terms specifically designed for different purposes. Parameters in front of these terms are used to control the relative weights among them. It is of critical importance to tune these param...
computer science
40,109
Recognizing Textures with Mobile Cameras for Pedestrian Safety Applications
cs.CV
As smartphone rooted distractions become commonplace, the lack of compelling safety measures has led to a rise in the number of injuries to distracted walkers. Various solutions address this problem by sensing a pedestrian's walking environment. Existing camera-based approaches have been largely limited to obstacle det...
computer science