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Camera networks have become more predominant in many aspects around our society. Designing active Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) camera networks requires placing the cameras appropriately in the environment according to the designated coverage requirements as well as examining the network's operational resilience to the environment dynamics. This design process is crucial before physically establishing the network...
Structure-from-Motion (SfM) algorithms have recently been employed to reconstruct 3D scenes or environments from large sets of unordered images which were harvested from the web. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the reconstruction is significantly affected by the quality and the amount of editing operated on the processed images. Indeed, 3D modelling can significantly benefit from including forensic...
Person re-identification is an important topic in visual surveillance, which aims at recognizing an individual over disjoint camera views. As a major aspect of person re-identification, distance metric learning has been widely studied to seek a discriminative matching metric. However, most existing distance metric learning methods learn an identical projection matrix for all camera views, while ignoring...
Person re-identification is a critical yet challenging task in video surveillance which intends to match people over non-overlapping cameras. Most metric learning algorithms for person re-identification use symmetric matrix to project feature vectors into the same subspace to compute the similarity while ignoring the discrepancy between views. To solve this problem, we proposed an asymmetric cross-view...
The amplification of video allows sub-pixel movement to be revealed. This has been applied to measure structural vibration using high speed video. A perspective correction has been defined to allow 2D modal analysis to be conducted on a flat plate showing that accurate displacement measurements across the surface can be made. Furthermore, the effect of using various excitation signals including white...
Person re-identification remains a challenging problem due to large variations of poses, occlusions, illumination and camera views. To learn both feature representation and similarity metric simultaneously, deep metric learning methods using triplet convolutional neural network have been applied in person re-identification. In this paper, we propose a body structure based triplet convolutional neural...
The task of person re-identification (re-id) is to match images of people observed in different camera views. Recent researches mainly focus on feature representation and metric learning. Many global metric learning approaches have achieved good performance. Since comparing all of the samples with a single global metric is inappropriate to handle heterogeneous data, some local metric learning approaches...
Appearance based person re-identification in real-world video surveillance systems is a challenging problem for many reasons, including ineptness of existing low level features under significant viewpoint, illumination, or camera characteristic changes to robustly describe a person's appearance. One approach to handle appearance variability is to learn similarity metrics or ranking functions to implicitly...
Radar techniques have been used recently to monitor bats when they are hunting close to wind energy plants. However, the real-time detection of bats is a challenge and activity metrics must be defined that enable a robust bat detection. In this paper we report on FMCW radar measurements at 24 GHz of Seba's short-tailed fruit bats (Carollia perspicillata) in a laboratory flight tunnel. Experiments...
Commodity depth cameras, such as the Microsoft Kinect®, have been widely used for the capture and reconstruction of the 3D structure of room-sized dynamic scenes. Camera placement and coverage during capture significantly impact the quality of the resulting reconstruction. In particular, dynamic occlusions and sensor interference have been shown to result in poor resolution and holes in the reconstruction...
Significant progress has been made in recent years using computer programs recognizing objects in images. Meanwhile, many cameras are embedded in battery-powered systems (such as mobile phones, wearable devices, and drones) and energy efficiency is essential. Even though many research papers have been published on the topics related to low power and image recognition, there does not exist a common...
Based on minimum reconstruction error criterion and the intrinsic sparse property of natural data, sparse representation (SR) has shown promising performance on various image recognition tasks. However, in the field of person re-identification (re-id), the state-of-the-art is still dominated by other methods such as metric learning or CNN. It is because samples in one view may not be representative...
The problem of re-identify persons across single disjoint camera-pairs has received great attention from the community. Despite this, when the re-identification process has to be carried out on a large camera network a different approach has to be considered. In particular, existing approaches have neglected the importance of the network topology (i.e., the structure of the monitored environment)...
Person re-identification, aiming to match a specific person among non-overlapping cameras, has attracted plenty of attention in recent years. It can be regarded as a visual retrieval task, namely given a query person image, ranking all gallery images according to their similarities to the query. Conventionally, this similarity function is learnt by forcing intra-distances to be small while inter-distances...
Face spoofing detection nowadays has attracted attentions regarding the biometrics authentication issue. Inspired by the observation that face spoofing detection is highly relevant with the inherent image quality which also strongly depends on the properties of the capturing devices and conditions, in this paper, we tackle the spoofing detection problem based on a two-stage learning approach. Firstly,...
With the fast development of Geographic Information Systems, visual global localization has gained a lot of attention due to the low price of a camera and the practical implications. In this paper, we leverage Google Street View and a monocular camera to develop a refined and continuous positioning in urban environments: namely a topological visual place recognition and then a 6 DoF pose estimation...
The research community has shown significant improvements in both vision-based detection and tracking of vehicles, working towards a high level understanding of on-road maneuvers. Behaviors of surrounding vehicles in a highway environment is found as an interesting starting point, of why this dataset is introduced along with its challenges and evaluation metrics. A vision-based multi-perspective dataset...
This paper introduces an approach to employ deep features for person re-identification. In contrast to existing works, we focus on using pre-trained deep models and their concept-based output to enhance attribute presentations of person images. There are two main contributions. First, we investigate recent state-of-the-art deep learning models for the task and provide a comprehensive evaluation. Second,...
People re-identification is a difficult problem in non-overlapping video surveillance, because pedestrian images contain variations in view angle, lighting, background clutter and occlusion. This paper presents an approach for person re-identification in surveillance system by taking pedestrian sequence (set) as processing element. The distance metric is learnt from relative and irrelative set-to-set...
Person re-identification aims to match people across non-overlapping camera views. One of the challenges in re-identification is cross view matching, where the gallery and query data belong to different views. This problem is difficult because the person's appearance varies greatly due to significant viewpoint and poses changes. In this paper, we perform Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA)...
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