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Vision is one of our most important senses, a vast amount of information is perceived through our eyes. Neuroscientists have performed many studies using vision as input to their experiments. Computational neuroscientists have typically used a brightness-to-rate encoding to use images as spike-based visual sources for its natural mapping. Recently, neuromorphic Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVSs) were developed...
Several conventional methods have been implemented in pattern recognition, but few of them have biological plausibility. This paper mimics the hierarchical visual system and uses the precise-spike-driven (PSD) synaptic plasticity rule to learn. The well-known HMAX model imitates the visual cortex and uses Gabor filter and max pooling to extract features. Compared with the traditional HMAX model, our...
Distributed dataflow systems like Spark and Flink allow to analyze large datasets using clusters of computers. These frameworks provide automatic program parallelization and manage distributed workers, including worker failures. Moreover, they provide high-level programming abstractions and execute programs efficiently. Yet, the programming abstractions remain textual while the dataflow model is essentially...
The emerging high efficient video coding (HEVC) standard adopts quad-tree structure to partition the coding unit (CU) which is flexible and efficient. However, it causes enormous computational complexity. In this paper, a fast CU partitioning algorithm in the inter prediction of HEVC is proposed. Firstly, based on the visual saliency map detection, a fast CU partitioning depth prediction algorithm...
In this paper, a saliency aware fast intra coding algorithm for HEVC is proposed consists of perceptual intra coding and fast intra prediction mode decision algorithm. Firstly, based on the visual saliency detection, an adaptive CU splitting method is proposed to reduce intra encoding complexity. Furthermore, quantization parameter is adaptively adjusted at the CU level according to the relative importance...
Bag of visual words (BoVW) remains a very competitive representation in the domain of scene classification. In this framework, extracting SIFT descriptors on a dense grid of pixels has shown to lead to a better performance. However, due to the nature of SIFT as an edge-based descriptor, computing SIFT on homogeneous regions might result in non-stable region descriptors. The suggested solution in the...
To most learners, programming language is not simple. In particular, when a large number of errors occur, teaching progress of courses will be affected, which leads to poor learning effectiveness. This study developed a web-based programming language teaching platform to solve this issue.
Recognizing the same person across multiple potentially non-overlapping cameras, known as Person re-identification, is a fundamental challenging task in Computer Vision. This is due to the important challenges that it proposes, like large view angle, pose, background clutter and occlusion and low resolution. Most of existing approaches rely on brute-force matching between pedestrian local descriptors...
We introduce a visualization technique called color bands for showing the time-varying eye movement behavior of eye-tracked people. Our contribution is the clutter-free representation of time-varying x- and y-positions of gaze data. We map these coordinates to vertical positions from left to right as in traditional line plots. On top, we display the differences between the x- and y-coordinates by...
This work in progress continues an ongoing project to understand and document engineering students' innovation identities. Prior studies have reported on how students separate their engineering and creative identities, on demographic differences in students' ideation processes, and on students' description of barriers that prevent them from practicing engineering more innovatively. Using process maps...
Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) allows physicians to examine the entire digestive system without any surgical operation. Although it provides a noninvasive imaging approach to access the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, the biggest drawback of this technology is the large numbers of images need to be diagnosed. In this paper, a global and local saliency coding (GLSAC) method is proposed to detect polyps...
Sketches and other forms of graphical communication are central to both the practice and learning of engineering. Visual representations play a critical role in helping students learn engineering concepts, socialize them into the engineering discipline, and facilitate or hinder the design process. Despite the importance of graphical communication and visual representations, our understanding of how...
With the recent success of visual features from deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) in visual robot self-localization, it has become important and practical to address more general self-localization scenarios. In this paper, we address the scenario of self-localization from images with small overlap. We explicitly introduce a localization difficulty index as a decreasing function of view overlap...
Sparse Coding is a widely used method to represent an image. However, sparse coding and its improved algorithms have the problem of complex computation and long running time and so on. For these problems, we propose an image classification method based on hash codes and space pyramid, which encodes local feature points with hash codes instead of sparse coding. Firstly, extract the local feature points...
A novel proposed approach, collaborative representation-based classification, has been developed for face recognition and recently used in image classification task owing to its simplicity and effectiveness. The major drawback of this method is the neglect of the spatial structure among the image representations. Inspired by the success of this technique and motivated by the power of spatial information...
Often, videos are composed of multiple concepts or even genres. For instance, news videos may contain sports, action, nature, etc. Therefore, encoding the distribution of such concepts/genres in a compact and effective representation is a challenging task. In this sense, we propose the Bag of Genres representation, which is based on a visual dictionary defined by a genre classifier. Each visual word...
In the last few years, deep convolutional neural networks have become ubiquitous in computer vision, achieving state-of-the-art results on problems like object detection, semantic segmentation, and image captioning. However, they have not yet been widely investigated in the document analysis community. In this paper, we present a word spotting system based on convolutional neural networks. We train...
The design of programming tools is slow and costly. To ease this process, we developed a design pattern catalog aimed at providing guidance for tool designers. This catalog is grounded in Information Foraging Theory (IFT), which empirical studies have shown to be useful for understanding how developers look for information during development tasks. New design patterns, authored by members of the research...
While statistical redundancy removal has been extensively studied as a core technology of traditional video encoders, visual attention can be further exploited to improve coding efficiency. In this paper, we present an optimization strategy of video coding based on visual-attention area extraction. The proposed algorithm is a three-step method. First, a visual-attention map is generated with a spatio-temporal...
Computational Thinking has recently returned into the limelight as an essential skill to have for both the general public and disciplines outside Computer Science. It encapsulates those thinking skills integral to solving complex problems using a computer, thus widely applicable in our technological society. Several public initiatives such as the Hour of Code successfully introduced it to millions...
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