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Investigating information credibility is an important problem in online social networks such as Twitter. Since misleading information can get easily propagated in Twitter, ranking tweets according to their credibility can help to detect rumors and identify misinformation. In this paper, we propose a Petri net model to visualise tweet credibility in Twitter. We consider the uniform resource locator...
This paper proposes a new fusion approach of infrared (IR) and visual (VIS) images based on Undecimated Discrete Wavelet Transform (UDWT) and saliency map analysis. The proposed fusion method is composed of three steps. Firstly, IR and VIS images are decomposed into low-pass sub-band coefficients and high-pass sub-band coefficients by UDWT. Meanwhile, sub-band directional coefficients are extracted...
The H-KWS 2016, organized in the context of the ICFHR 2016 conference aims at setting up an evaluation framework for benchmarking handwritten keyword spotting (KWS) examining both the Query by Example (QbE) and the Query by String (QbS) approaches. Both KWS approaches were hosted into two different tracks, which in turn were split into two distinct challenges, namely, a segmentation-based and a segmentation-free...
This paper presents a new representation for handwritten math formulae: a Line-of-Sight (LOS) graph over handwritten strokes, computed using stroke convex hulls. Experimental results using the CROHME 2012 and 2014 datasets show that LOS graphs capture the visual structure of handwritten formulae better than commonly used graphs such as Time-series, Minimum Spanning Trees, and k-Nearest Neighbor graphs...
This paper presents an image retrieval method for insect identification based on saliency map and distance metric learning. First, the proposed method extracts regions of insects from target images by using saliency map and calculates visual features from the extracted insect regions. Next, in order to realize accurate retrieval of insects based on the calculated features, distance metric learning...
This paper presents a retrieval method of similar inspection records in road structures based on metric learning using experienced inspectors' evaluation. Inspection records of road structures include images and text-based information such as category of distress, damaged parts and degree of damage. The proposed method calculates distances from query inspection records, and rank lists of retrieval...
Workflows are visualized in different ways. In most cases real workflows deviates from hand-made models and they can be plotted as a graphical diagram. Displaying Graphical diagrams with large amounts of data is difficult; because we are limited to two-dimensional computer screens or papers. In some cases it is essential to transform workflows to reduced ones, especially with reducing visualization...
Compound graphs consist of two separate components. On the one hand a graph structure describes which elements are related to each other and to what extent, i.e., inherent edge weights and directions may exist, which we refer to as adjacency edges. On the other hand the graph elements are not only related by adjacencies, but they are also hierarchically organized which might be considered another...
To define queries on domain-specific data-structures, end-users have to be familiar with the underlying data model. This is challenging if the data model evolves continuously and through collaborative model management. While visual languages address this issue by providing strong guidance for non-technical end-users, they suffer from a limited expressiveness due to their focus on usability. Therefore,...
Procedural generation is important to modern game development as both an artistic implement and an engineering tool. However, developing procedural generators and understanding how they work are both difficult tasks, and even more so for novice developers. In this paper we describe Danesh, a tool to help in analysing, changing and exploring procedural content generators. In particular, we describe...
The emergence of UHD video format induces larger screens and involves a wider stimulated visual angle. Therefore, its effect on visual attention can be questioned since it can impact quality assessment, metrics but also the whole chain of video processing and creation. Moreover, changes in visual attention from different viewing conditions challenge visual attention models. In this paper, we present...
In this paper, we propose a novel reduced-reference quality assessment metric for image super-resolution (RRIQA-SR) based on the low-resolution (LR) image information. First, we use the Markov Random Field (MRF) to model the pixel correspondence between LR and high-resolution (HR) images. Based on the pixel correspondence, we predict the perceptual similarity between image patches of LR and HR images...
A compressed video quality assessment dataset based on the just noticeable difference (JND) model, called MCL-JCV, is recently constructed and released. In this work, we explain its design objectives, selected video content and subject test procedures. Then, we conduct statistical analysis on collected JND data. We compute the difference between every two adjacent JND points and propose an outlier...
The goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of choosing a certain halftone screen on image graininess development and to establish the metrics for image graininess in high-end digital printing technologies. With the obtained knowledge, our model helps us choose the optimal periodicity matrices for designing regular or irregular clustered dot halftones. The main advantage of the proposed model...
We present COVERAGE — a novel database containing copy-move forged images and their originals with similar but genuine objects. COVERAGE is designed to highlight and address tamper detection ambiguity of popular methods, caused by self-similarity within natural images. In COVERAGE, forged-original pairs are annotated with (i) the duplicated and forged region masks, and (ii) the tampering factor/similarity...
In this paper, we propose a reduced-reference (RR) objective quality assessment method that quantifies the perceived quality of synthesized textures. The proposed metric is based on measuring the granularity, regularity, and statistical attributes of the texture image. Furthermore, the proposed RR metric exhibits a significantly low overhead as compared to existing RR metrics by only requiring the...
This paper proposes a method that blindly predicts preference order between inpainted images, aiming at selecting the best one from a plurality of results. Image inpainting, which removes unwanted regions and restores them, has attracted recent attention. However, it is known that the inpainting result varies largely with the method used for inpainting and the parameters set. Thus, in a typical use...
We propose in this paper a novel perceptual viewpoint-independent metric for the quality assessment of 3D meshes. This full-reference objective metric relies on the method proposed by Wang et al. [1] that compares the structural informations between an original signal and a distorted one. In order to extract the structural informations of a 3D mesh, we use a multi-scale visual saliency map on which...
Anthropology studies show that genetic features are inherited by children from their parents resulting in visual resemblance between them. This paper presents a novel SIFT flow based genetic Fisher vector feature (SF-GFVF) which enhances the facial genetic features for kinship verification. The proposed SF-GFVF feature is derived by applying a novel similarity enhancement method based on SIFT flow...
Saliency models provide heatmaps highlighting the probability of each pixel to attract human gaze. To define image's important regions, features maps are extracted. The rarity, surprise or contrast are computed leading to conspicuity maps, showing important regions of each feature map. The final saliency map is obtained by merging these maps. The fusion process is usually a linear combination of the...
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