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In this paper we present a robust and accurate method to detect 17 facial landmarks in expressive face images. We introduce a new multi-resolution framework based on the recent multiple kernel algorithm. Low resolution patches carry the global information of the face and give a coarse but robust detection of the desired landmark. High resolution patches, using local details, refine this location....
We introduce a facial expression recognition method, which incorporates a weight to the Local Binary Pattern (LBP), and generates solid expression features. Furthermore, we use Adaboost to select a small set of prominent features, which is used by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) to classify facial expressions efficiently. Experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art...
Supervised Learning (SL) is a machine learning research area which aims at developing techniques able to take advantage from labeled training samples to make decisions over unseen examples. Recently, a lot of tools have been presented in order to perform machine learning in a more straightforward and transparent manner. However, one problem that is increasingly present in most of the SL problems being...
This paper introduces a new supervised Bayesian approach to hyper-spectral image segmentation. The algorithm mainly consists of two steps: (a) learning, for each class label, the posterior probability distributions, based on a multinomial logistic regression model; (b) segmenting the hyperspectral image, based on the posterior probability distribution of the image of class labels built on the learned...
Support vector machines (SVM) is gaining a considerable attention as an approach to improvement performance of the content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Most SVM for CBIR rely on global feature, which length of the feature representation is fixed. However, region-based image retrieval (RBIR) use variable length representation, and common kernel utilize the inner product or lp norm in input space,...
Detecting the boundaries of objects is a key step in separating foreground objects from the background, which is useful for robotics and computer vision applications, such as object detection, recognition, and tracking. We propose a new method for detecting object boundaries using planar laser scanners (LIDARs) and, optionally, co-registered imagery. We formulate boundary detection as a classification...
The goal of semi-supervised image segmentation is to obtain the segmentation from a partially labeled image. By utilizing the image manifold structure in labeled and unlabeled pixels, semi-supervised methods propagate the user labeling to the unlabeled data, thus minimizing the need for user labeling. Several semi-supervised learning methods have been proposed in the literature. Although results have...
This paper presents an algorithm for object localization and segmentation. The algorithm uses machine learning, and statistical and combinatorial optimization tools to build a tracker that is robust to noise and occlusions. The method is based on a novel energy formulation and its dual use for object localization and segmentation. The energy uses kernel principal component analysis to incorporate...
Image expansion by linear filtering is attractive and widely used because of its simplicity and efficiency, and many interpolation methods fall in this category. In this study, we model filtering as linear regression from low- to high-resolution color image patches, and propose a learning-based design method of image expansion filters based on sparse Bayesian estimation. Sparseness is imposed on the...
This paper proposes a new tracking algorithm which combines object and background information, via building object and background appearance models simultaneously by non-parametric kernel density estimation. The major contribution is a novel bidirectional learning framework for discrimination between the object and background. It has the following advantages: 1) it embeds background information, unlike...
The paper proposes an adaptive classification mechanism designed for structured light system to improve quality of reconstructed models. We observed that the conventional albedo-based thresholding fails when the lighting condition is not carefully considered. To address this problem, an adaptive model is proposed. The core idea is to adjust decision boundary during extraction of sequence of binary-coded...
Quantitative techniques for spatial prediction and classification in geological survey are developing rapidly. The recent applications of machine learning techniques confirm possibilities of their application in this field of research. The paper introduces Support Vector Machines, a method derived from recent achievements in the statistical learning theory, in classification of geological units based...
This work proposes a novel classifier-fusion scheme using learning algorithms, i.e. syntactic models, instead of the usual Bayesian or heuristic rules. Moreover, this paper complements the previous comparative studies on DaimlerChrysler Automotive Dataset, offering a set of complementary experiments using feature extractor and classifier combinations. The experimental results provide evidence of the...
In order to improve the accuracy of multi-spectra remote sensing image classification, a terrain classification method based on support vector machine is proposed. A remote sensing image classification method based on SVM algorithm of C-SVC type is introduced and emphasis is put on the study of the improved SMO algorithm. In order to improve efficiency of classification, multiple-spectra remote sensing...
This paper proposes an efficient approach for object classification. This method bases on bag-of-features classification framework and extends the limits of it. It applies modified spatial PACT as local feature descriptor, which can efficiently catch image patch's characteristic. In order to address the speed bottleneck of codebook creation, extremely randomized clustering forest is used to create...
In this paper we study object learning and recognition on a humanoid robot with foveated vision. The developed approach is view-based and can learn viewpoint-independent representations for object recognition. The training data is collected statistically and in an interactive way where a human instructor freely shows the object from a number of different viewpoints. The proposed system was fully implemented...
In the recent years, kernel methods have revealed very powerful tools in many application domains in general and in remote sensing image classification in particular. The special characteristics of remote sensing images (high dimension, few labeled samples and different noise sources) are efficiently dealt with kernel machines. In this paper, we propose the use of structured output learning to improve...
We cast some new insights into solving the digital matting problem by treating it as a semi-supervised learning task in machine learning. A local learning based approach and a global learning based approach are then produced, to fit better the scribble based matting and the trimap based matting, respectively. Our approaches are easy to implement because only some simple matrix operations are needed...
Support vector machines (SVMs) is a statistical learning method with good performance when the sample size is small, due to their excellent performance, SVMs are now used extensively in pattern classification applications and regression estimation, Unfortunately, it is currently considerably slower in test phase caused by number of the support vectors, which has been a serious limitation for some...
Scene classification, the classification of images into semantic categories (e.g., coast, mountains, highways and streets) is a challenging and important problem nowadays. Many different approaches and feature extraction methodologies concerning scene classification have been proposed and applied in the last few years. In real time environments, we prefer a feature extraction method which helps us...
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