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Gait is one of the key biometric features that has been widely applied for human identification. Appearance-based features and motion-based features are the two mainly used presentations in the gait recognition. However, appearance-based features are sensitive to the body shape changes and silhouette extraction from real-world images and videos also remains a challenge. As for motion features, due...
In 3D object recognition, local feature-based recognition is known to be robust against occlusion and clutter. Local feature estimation requires feature correspondences, including feature extraction and matching. Feature extraction is normally a two-stage process that estimates keypoints and keypoint descriptors, and existing studies show repeatability to be a good indicator of keypoint feature detector...
This paper deals with the development of a robust gait recognition techniques that handle covariates using robust statistical estimator. The classification is performed using sparse discriminative classifier. The proposed method analyzes the effect of covariate factors on different elliptical parameters of gait sequences. The main challenging factors are the variation in feature set due to clothing,...
Consider a face image data set from clients of a company and the problem of building a face recognition system from it. Video cameras can be used to acquire several images per client in order to maximize the robustness of the system. However, as the data set grows huge, the accuracy of the system might be seriously compromised since the number of negative samples for each user is increasing. We propose...
Mobile phones equipped with a monocular camera and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) are ideal platforms for augmented reality (AR) applications, but the lack of direct metric distance measurement and the existence of aggressive motions pose significant challenges on the localization of the AR device. In this work, we propose a tightly-coupled, optimization-based, monocular visual-inertial state...
The visual and automatic classification of vehicles plays an important role in the Transport Area. Besides of security issues, the monitoring of the type of traffic in streets and highways, as well the traffic dynamics over time, allows the optimization of use and of resources related to such public infrastructure. In this work we propose a novel method, called 2D-DBM, for robust and efficient automatic...
Digital images have become very important in our daily lives and some other important areas such as medicine, journalism and it can be also used as forensic evidence. However, the simplicity of using digital images with freely available software tools makes the authenticity of images questionable. The most common image forgery type is copy move forgery because it can be done easily but the detection...
Different types of traffic signs has different colors and shapes located in uncontrolled traffic environments. The detection of different types of traffic signs is a difficult problem in pattern recognition and computer vision. In our study, a region of interest (ROI) extraction method is proposed to extract ROI using color contrast in local regions. We utilize the high contrast in local regions to...
Object detection in Very High Resolution (VHR) optical remote sensing images is a challenged work for objects are usually dense and tiny. With random orientation, various backgrounds as well as unpredictable noise make traditional image processing methods perform badly. In this paper, we propose using state-of-art Region-based fully convolutional networks to solve object detection tasks in aerial...
In this paper, we propose a scale-invariant framework based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The network exhibits robustness to scale and resolution variations in data. Previous efforts in achieving scale invariance were made on either integrating several variant-specific CNNs or data augmentation. However, these methods did not solve the fundamental problem that CNNs develop different feature...
Target discrimination in wireless sensor networks remains challenging when sensors have structured electronic noise and deployment settings have variable in-situ clutter. Datadriven learning of discrimination functions is especially hard when deployment sites are remote or hazardous, necessitating reliance on surrogate environments for data collection. The challenge is exacerbated if sensors are resource...
Sign language is important since it permits insight into the deaf culture and allows more opportunities to communicate with those who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this paper, we show that Wi-Fi signals can be used to recognize sign language with sparsely labeled training dataset. The key intuition is that sign language introduces different multi-path distortions in Wi-Fi signals and generates different...
New and unseen network attacks pose a great threat to the signature-based detection systems. Consequently, machine learning-based approaches are designed to detect attacks, which rely on features extracted from network data. The problem is caused by different distribution of features in the training and testing datasets, which affects the performance of the learned models. Moreover, generating labeled...
In this paper we present a robust and simple method for the detection of anomalies in surveillance scenarios. We use a “bottom-up” approach that avoids any object tracking, making the system suitable for anomaly detection in crowds. A robust optical flow method is used for the extraction of accurate spatio-temporal motion information, which allows to get simple but discriminative descriptors that...
Representation of data is very important in case of machine learning. Better the representation, the classifiers will give better results. Contractive autoencoders are used to learn the representation of data which are robust to small changes in the input. This paper uses contractive autoencoder and SVM classifier for handwritten Devanagari numerals recognition. The accuracy obtained using CAE+SVM...
Unprecedented growth in media content generation, communication and consumption has taken over the vast majority of storage spaces in devices, network caches, and clouds. How to identify duplications from network caches is an important issue for fast and efficient content delivery network (CDN) communication and storage. In this work, we developed a novel hash scheme which is scalable and robust to...
Biometrie systems have become a vital part of our present day automated systems. Every individual has its unique biometrie features in terms of Face, Iris and periocular regions. Identification/Recognition of a person by using these biometrie features is significantly studied over the last decade to build robust systems. The periocular region has become the powerful alternative for unconstrained biometrics...
In this paper, a temporally iterative Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) of Dynamic Texture (DT) for target detection using a moving PTZ camera, is proposed. Camera movement in a PTZ sensor causes motion-based target detection techniques to fail for the periods affected by the scene change. This is because the whole scene is considered a representation of the target motion. When the camera is in motion,...
To successfully increase athletes' or exercisers' fitness and endurance, the factors of physiological signal, emotion, or the level of fatigue should be considered during the training program. Many clinical decision support systems can assist to monitor the exercisers by some wearable devices. And, the questionnaire should also be taken into account to produce a report. Such process is cumbersome,...
In this paper, we propose a robust visual tracking method which exploits the relationships of targets in adjacent frames using patchwise joint sparse representation. Two sets of overlapping patches with different sizes are extracted from target candidates to construct two dictionaries with consideration of joint sparse representation. By applying this representation into structural sparse appearance...
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