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Kernel descriptors have been proven to outperform existing histogram based local descriptors as such descriptors are extracted from the match kernels which measure similarities between image patches using different pixel attributes (gradient, colour or LBP pattern). The extraction of kernel descriptors does not require coarse quantization of pixel attributes. Instead, each pixel equally participates...
Tamura features are based on human visual perception and have huge potential in image representation. Conventional Tamura features only work on homogeneous texture images and perform poor on generic images. Therefore, many researchers attempt to improve Tamura features and most of the improvements are based on histogram based representation. Kernel descriptors have been shown to outperform existing...
While recent advances in deep learning pushed the state-of-the-art in object detection and semantic segmentation, it often comes at the cost of a considerable annotation effort. Thus, weakly supervised learning became of increasing interest. In this paper a novel approach to the challenging task of weakly supervised segmentation and object localization will be presented. The problem is tackled from...
Image smoothing is a fundamental technology which aims to preserve image structure and remove insignificant texture. Balancing the trade-off between preserving structure and suppressing texture, however, is not a trivial task. This is because existing methods rely on only one guidance to infer structure or texture and assume the other is dependent. However, in many cases, textures are composed of...
Being one of the most effective video technologies, wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers the physicians to diagnose the gastrointestinal (GI) diseases like ulcer non-invasively. Physicians, while analyzing the WCE videos, find it tedious to detect ulcer because of the huge amount of image frames present in WCE videos. This tedious reviewing process at times leads to inaccuracy in diagnosing ulcer...
Most state-of-the-art graph kernels only take local graph properties into account, i.e., the kernel is computed with regard to properties of the neighborhood of vertices or other small substructures. On the other hand, kernels that do take global graph properties into account may not scale well to large graph databases. Here we propose to start exploring the spacebetween local and global graph kernels,...
In this paper, we describe the application TaRDIS, a visual analytics system for spatial and temporal data designed for the needs of archaeo-related disciplines that supports domain experts in analyzing their data. The temporal data is visualized in form of an interactive Harris Matrix that illustrates the temporal position of the layers. The 2D and 3D visualization sketches the spatial position of...
We present two artistically-relevant algorithms to aid in the quantification of artistic style, the Discrete Tonal Measure (DTM) and Discrete Variational Measure (DVM). These quantitative features can provide clues to the artistic elements that enable art scholars to categorize works as belonging to different artistic styles. We also introduce two new datasets for analysis of artistic style: one based...
The quality of life of people is increasing together with the developing technologies. One of the most important factors affecting daily life is smart cities. The quality of life of people is positively affected by emerging this concept in recent years. Autonomous vehicles confront with the term of the smart city and have become even more popular in recent years. In this study, a system of traffic...
In the paper, we propose an effective long-term real-time tracking method to address the problem of robustness and tracking failure in visual tracking with UAVs. Most existing trackers only consider short-term tracking, therefore are unable to cope with partial and complete occlusion, which finally leads to object drifting or loss. Our method still follows the tracking-by-detection framework. However,...
Image aberrations can cause severe degradation in image quality for consumer-level cameras, especially under the current tendency to reduce the complexity of lens designs in order to shrink the overall size of modules. In simplified optical designs, chromatic aberration can be one of the most significant causes for degraded image quality, and it can be quite difficult to remove in post-processing,...
Markov Random Fields are widely used to model lightfield stereo matching problems. However, most previous approaches used fixed parameters and did not adapt to lightfield statistics. Instead, they explored explicit vision cues to provide local adaptability and thus enhanced depth quality. But such additional assumptions could end up confining their applicability, e.g. algorithms designed for dense...
A manual census of trees over a large geographic area can be very costly. Therefore, remote sensing is a powerful tool for the task. In this regard, this research focuses on the Google Earth image-based detection and counting of Palmyra trees in the northern part of Sri Lanka. Freely accessible Google Earth images are for the first time used here for the detection of specific tree type. Color information...
AbstractłIn order to enhance the robustness of kernel correlation filters(KCF) in complex background environment, this paper proposes a mean shift method with adaptive local object tracking algorithm. KCF algorithm has speed advantage by using the single template, we introduce the confidence map in the process of the tracking to determine the result of the current frame. If the result of confidence...
Accurate and efficient assessment of barley quality is crucial for brewery industry. Currently, such the assessment is performed by a qualified expert, is expensive, time-consuming and may yield unreproducible results. We introduce a barley ontology (BO) to formalize the expert's knowledge and to involve information from industry standards. The BO specifies quality classes of malting barley, their...
An image can be basically defined as an object that represents visual observation, which can be created and stored in the electronic form, produced from an optical device. When we take a photograph, there can be many problems associated with that particular image. Among them, one of the main issue is the blur of the image. Blur can be defined as something which will become vague or less distinct....
Camera motion introduces motion blur, affecting many computer vision tasks. Dark Channel Prior (DCP) helps the blind deblurring on scenes including natural, face, text, and low-illumination images. However, it has limitations and is less likely to support the kernel estimation while bright pixels dominate the input image. We observe that the bright pixels in the clear images are not likely to be bright...
Video frame interpolation typically involves two steps: motion estimation and pixel synthesis. Such a two-step approach heavily depends on the quality of motion estimation. This paper presents a robust video frame interpolation method that combines these two steps into a single process. Specifically, our method considers pixel synthesis for the interpolated frame as local convolution over two input...
Person Re-identification (ReID) is to identify the same person across different cameras. It is a challenging task due to the large variations in person pose, occlusion, background clutter, etc. How to extract powerful features is a fundamental problem in ReID and is still an open problem today. In this paper, we design a Multi-Scale Context-Aware Network (MSCAN) to learn powerful features over full...
In this paper, a new face detection method is proposed based on skin color and an image feature called Locally Adaptive Regression Kernels (LARK). A novel preprocessing is applied in this method, which includes skin segmentation and the estimation of the scale and rotation. To segment the skins from the background, a compound color space called H-CgCr is proposed based on both HSV and YCgCr color...
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