In the last decades several cost aggregation methods aimed at improving the robustness of stereo correspondence within local and global algorithms have been proposed. Given the recent developments and the lack of an a...
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In the last decades several cost aggregation methods aimed at improving the robustness of stereo correspondence within local and global algorithms have been proposed. Given the recent developments and the lack of an appropriate comparison, in this paper we survey, classify and compare experimentally on a standard data set the main cost aggregation approaches proposed in literature. the experimental evaluation addresses both accuracy and computational requirements, so as to outline the best performing methods under these two criteria.
We propose a variational bayes approach to the problem of robust estimation of gaussian mixtures from noisy input data. the proposed algorithm explicitly takes into account the uncertainty associated with each data po...
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We propose a variational bayes approach to the problem of robust estimation of gaussian mixtures from noisy input data. the proposed algorithm explicitly takes into account the uncertainty associated with each data point, makes no assumptions about the structure of the covariance matrices and is able to automatically determine the number of the gaussian mixture components. through the use of both synthetic and real world data examples, we show that by incorporating uncertainty information into the clustering algorithm, we get better results at recovering the true distribution of the training data compared to other variational bayesian clustering algorithms.
We present a novel method for automatically geo-tagging photographs of man-made environments via detection and matching of repeated patterns. Highly repetitive environments introduce numerous correspondence ambiguitie...
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We present a novel method for automatically geo-tagging photographs of man-made environments via detection and matching of repeated patterns. Highly repetitive environments introduce numerous correspondence ambiguities and are problematic for traditional wide-baseline matching methods. Our method exploits the highly repetitive nature of urban environments, detecting multiple perspectively distorted periodic 2D patterns in an image and matching them to a 3D database of textured facades by reasoning about the underlying canonical forms of each pattern. Multiple 2D-to-3D pattern correspondences enable robust recovery of camera orientation and location. We demonstrate the success of this method in a large urban environment.
the paper presents a fuzzy chamfer distance and its probabilistic formulation for edge-based visual tracking. First, connections of the chamfer distance and the Hausdorff distance with fuzzy objective functions for cl...
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the paper presents a fuzzy chamfer distance and its probabilistic formulation for edge-based visual tracking. First, connections of the chamfer distance and the Hausdorff distance with fuzzy objective functions for clustering are shown using a reformulation theorem. A fuzzy chamfer distance (FCD) based on fuzzy objective functions and a probabilistic formulation of the fuzzy chamfer distance (PFCD) based on data association methods are then presented for tracking, which can all be regarded as reformulated fuzzy objective functions and minimized with iterative algorithms. Results on challenging sequences demonstrate the performance of the proposed tracking method.
We present a novel method for learning human motion models from unsegmented videos. We propose a unified framework that encodes spatio-temporal relationships between descriptive motion parts and the appearance of indi...
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We present a novel method for learning human motion models from unsegmented videos. We propose a unified framework that encodes spatio-temporal relationships between descriptive motion parts and the appearance of individual poses. Sparse sets of spatial and spatio-temporal features are used. the method automatically learns static pose models and spatio-temporal motion parts. Neither motion cycles nor human figures need to be segmented for learning. We test the model on a publicly available action dataset and demonstrate that our new method performs well on a number of classification tasks. We also show that classification rates are improved by increasing the number of pose models in the framework.
Object detection and tracking has various application areas including intelligent transportation systems. We introduce an object detection and tracking approach that combines the background subtraction algorithm and t...
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Object detection and tracking has various application areas including intelligent transportation systems. We introduce an object detection and tracking approach that combines the background subtraction algorithm and the feature tracking and grouping algorithm. We first present an augmented background subtraction algorithm which uses a low-level feature tracking as a cue. the resulting background subtraction cues are used to improve the feature detection and grouping result. We then present a dynamic multi-level feature grouping approach that can be used in real time applications and also provides high-quality trajectories. Experimental results from video clips of a challenging transportation application are presented.
Given two shapes, the correspondence between distinct visual features is the basis for most alignment processes and shape similarity measures. this paper presents an approach introducing particle filters to establish ...
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Given two shapes, the correspondence between distinct visual features is the basis for most alignment processes and shape similarity measures. this paper presents an approach introducing particle filters to establish perceptually correct correspondences between point sets representing shapes. Local shape feature descriptors are used to establish correspondence probabilities. the global correspondence structure is calculated using additional constraints based on domain knowledge. Domain knowledge is characterized as prior distributions expressing hypotheses about the global relationships between shapes. these hypotheses are generated during the iterative particle filtering process. Experiments using standard alignment techniques, based on the given correspondence relationships, demonstrate the advantages of this approach.
To utilize the augmented reality withthe portable environment, human-computer interaction interface that satisfies the mobility, the convenience, as well as the accuracy is required. In this paper, we propose a visio...
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Learning a robust projection with a small number of training samples is still a challenging problem in face recognition, especially when the unseen faces have extreme variation in pose, illumination, and facial expres...
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Learning a robust projection with a small number of training samples is still a challenging problem in face recognition, especially when the unseen faces have extreme variation in pose, illumination, and facial expression. To address this problem, we propose a framework formulated under statistical learning theory that facilitates robust learning of a discriminative projection. Dimensionality reduction using the projection matrix is combined with a linear classifier in the regularized framework of lasso regression. the projection matrix in conjunction withthe classifier parameters are then found by solving an optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold. the experimental results on standard face databases suggest that the proposed method outperforms some recent regularized techniques when the number of training samples is small.
Layer decomposition from a single image is an under-constrained problem, because there are more unknowns than equations. this paper studies a slightly easier but very useful alternative where only the background layer...
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Layer decomposition from a single image is an under-constrained problem, because there are more unknowns than equations. this paper studies a slightly easier but very useful alternative where only the background layer has substantial image gradients and structures. We propose to solve this useful alternative by an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm that employs the hidden markov model (HMM), which maintains spatial coherency of smooth and overlapping layers, and helps to preserve image details of the textured background layer. We demonstrate that, using a small amount of user input, various seemingly unrelated problems in computational photography can be effectively addressed by solving this alternative using our EM-HMM algorithm.
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