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Person re-identification is an important technique towards automatic search of a person's presence in a surveillance video. Two fundamental problems are critical for person re-identification:feature representation and metric learning. At present, there are many methods in the study of person re-identification, which has achieved remarkable results. Due to the difference of the data distribution in...
The focus of this paper is on presentation attack detection for the iris biometrics, which measures the pattern within the colored concentric circle of the subjects' eyes, to authenticate an individual to a generic user verification system. Unlike previous deep learning methods that use single convolutional neural network architectures, this paper develops a framework built upon triplet convolutional...
This paper develops a status-aware projection metric learning (SPML) method for facial image-based kinship verification, especially for the parent-child kinship. Kinship verification for parent-child is considered to be an asymmetrical metric process, in that parents and children are associated with different status where the parents are priorly known to be significantly older than the children. Accordingly,...
Fine-grained visual recognition aims to capture discriminative characteristics amongst visually similar categories. The state-of-the-art research work has significantly improved the fine-grained recognition performance by deep metric learning using triplet network. However, the impact of intra-category variance on the performance of recognition and robust feature representation has not been well studied...
The quality of object proposal plays an important role in boosting the performance of many computer vision tasks, such as, object detection and recognition. Due to the absence of manually annotated bounding-box in practice, the quality metric towards blind assessment of object proposal is highly desirable for singling out the optimal proposals. In this paper, we propose a blind proposal quality assessment...
A key challenge of facial expression recognition (FER) is to develop effective representations to balance the complex distribution of intra- and inter- class variations. The latest deep convolutional networks proposed for FER are trained by penalizing the misclassification of images via the softmax loss. In this paper, we show that better FER performance can be achieved by combining the deep metric...
Face recognition methods utilizing Sparse Representation based Classification (SRC) and Collaborative Representation based Classification (CRC) have recently attracted a great deal of attention due to inherent simplicity and efficiency. In this paper, we introduce the Large Margin Nearest Neighbor (LMNN), which learns a Mahalanobis distance metric that is applied, to SRC and CRC as the locality constraint...
In this paper, we present a new benchmark (Menpo benchmark) for facial landmark localisation and summarise the results of the recent competition, so-called Menpo Challenge, run in conjunction to CVPR 2017. The Menpo benchmark, contrary to the previous benchmarks such as 300-W and 300-VW, contains facial images both in (nearly) frontal, as well as in profile pose (annotated with a different markup...
Automated affective computing in the wild is a challenging task in the field of computer vision. This paper presents three neural network-based methods proposed for the task of facial affect estimation submitted to the First Affect-in-the-Wild challenge. These methods are based on Inception-ResNet modules redesigned specifically for the task of facial affect estimation. These methods are: Shallow...
We propose a novel domain adaptation method for deep learning that combines adaptive batch normalization to produce a common feature-space between domains and label transfer with subspace alignment on deep features. The first step of our method automatically conditions the features from the source/target domain to have similar statistical distributions by normalizing the activations in each layer...
High-speed confocal microscopy has shown great promise to yield insights into plant-fungal interactions by allowing for large volumes of leaf tissue to be imaged at high magnification. Currently, segmentation is performed either manually, which is infeasible for large amounts of data, or by developing separate algorithms to extract individual features within the image data. In this work, we propose...
Since the significant intensity variations existed between different modal images, the deformable registration is still very challenging. In this paper, in order to alleviate the variations deficiency and attain robust alignment, we propose a multi-dimensional tensor based modality independent neighbourhood descriptor (tMIND) to measure the similarity between the images. The tMIND compares the neighboring...
Inter-class and within-class grouping has been used extensively to deal with student diversity. This paper presents a method that uses Rasch Modelling and K-means to automatically create ability-based groups or prototypes of students that can be utilized to provide customized lesson plans and advice to teachers. A second-order clustering is used to create groups of teachers to help deliver more effective...
Web services evolve over time to fix bugs or update and add new features. However, the design of the Web service's interface may become more complex when aggregating many unrelated operations in terms of context and functionalities. A possible solution is to refactor the Web services interface into different modules that help the user quickly identifying relevant operations. The most challenging issue...
This paper explores the feasibility of using multiframe analysis to increase the classification performance of machine learning methods for cancer detection in Volumetric Laser Endomicroscopy (VLE). VLE is a novel and promising modality for the detection of neoplasia in patients with Baretts Esophagus (BE). It produces hundreds of high-resolution, cross-sectional images of the esophagus and offers...
As system of systems (SoS) models become increasingly complex and interconnected a new approach is needed to capture the effects of humans within the SoS. Many real-life events have shown the detrimental outcomes of failing to account for humans in the loop. This research introduces a novel and cross-disciplinary methodology for modeling humans interacting with technologies to perform tasks within...
Design defects are symptoms of poor design and implementation solutions adopted by developers during the development of their software systems. While the research community devoted a lot of effort to studying and devising approaches for detecting the traditional design defects in object-oriented (OO) applications, little knowledge and support is available for an emerging category of Web service interface...
Learning vector quantization (LVQ) enjoys a great popularity as efficient and intuitive classification scheme, accompanied by a strong mathematical substantiation of its learning dynamics and generalization ability. However, popular deterministic LVQ variants do not allow an immediate probabilistic interpretation of its output and an according reject option in case of insecure classifications. In...
Nowadays, the challenge of learning from large scale and imbalanced data set have attracted a great deal of attention from both industry and academia, which is also deemed to be an important task for fraud detection in telecommunication, finance, online commerce. In general, it's almost impossible to train a classification model on the complete data set, especially in the era of big data, due to the...
In this contribution we propose a new regularization method for the Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization classifier. In particular we use a nuclear norm in order to prevent oversimplifying/over-fitting and oscillatory behaviour of the small eigenvalues of the positive semi-definite relevance matrix. The proposed method is compared with two other regularization methods in two artificial...
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