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Author Antonio Hernandez; Stan Sclaroff; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title Contextual rescoring for Human Pose Estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2014 Publication 25th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract A contextual rescoring method is proposed for improving the detection of body joints of a pictorial structure model for human pose estimation. A set of mid-level parts is incorporated in the model, and their detections are used to extract spatial and score-related features relative to other body joint hypotheses. A technique is proposed for the automatic discovery of a compact subset of poselets that covers a set of validation images
while maximizing precision. A rescoring mechanism is defined as a set-based boosting classifier that computes a new score for body joint detections, given its relationship to detections of other body joints and mid-level parts in the image. This new score complements the unary potential of a discriminatively trained pictorial structure model. Experiments on two benchmarks show performance improvements when considering the proposed mid-level image representation and rescoring approach in comparison with other pictorial structure-based approaches.
 
  Address Nottingham; UK; September 2013  
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  Call Number HSE2014 Serial 2525  
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Author Victor Ponce; Hugo Jair Escalante; Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro edit   pdf
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  Title Gesture and Action Recognition by Evolved Dynamic Subgestures Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 26th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 129.1-129.13  
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  Abstract This paper introduces a framework for gesture and action recognition based on the evolution of temporal gesture primitives, or subgestures. Our work is inspired on the principle of producing genetic variations within a population of gesture subsequences, with the goal of obtaining a set of gesture units that enhance the generalization capability of standard gesture recognition approaches. In our context, gesture primitives are evolved over time using dynamic programming and generative models in order to recognize complex actions. In few generations, the proposed subgesture-based representation
of actions and gestures outperforms the state of the art results on the MSRDaily3D and MSRAction3D datasets.
 
  Address Swansea; uk; September 2015  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ PEE2015 Serial 2657  
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Author Huamin Ren; Weifeng Liu; Soren Ingvor Olsen; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund edit   pdf
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  Title Unsupervised Behavior-Specific Dictionary Learning for Abnormal Event Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication 26th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Swansea; uk; September 2015  
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Author Daniel Hernandez; Lukas Schneider; Antonio Espinosa; David Vazquez; Antonio Lopez; Uwe Franke; Marc Pollefeys; Juan C. Moure edit   pdf
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  Title Slanted Stixels: Representing San Francisco's Steepest Streets} Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 28th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract In this work we present a novel compact scene representation based on Stixels that infers geometric and semantic information. Our approach overcomes the previous rather restrictive geometric assumptions for Stixels by introducing a novel depth model to account for non-flat roads and slanted objects. Both semantic and depth cues are used jointly to infer the scene representation in a sound global energy minimization formulation. Furthermore, a novel approximation scheme is introduced that uses an extremely efficient over-segmentation. In doing so, the computational complexity of the Stixel inference algorithm is reduced significantly, achieving real-time computation capabilities with only a slight drop in accuracy. We evaluate the proposed approach in terms of semantic and geometric accuracy as well as run-time on four publicly available benchmark datasets. Our approach maintains accuracy on flat road scene datasets while improving substantially on a novel non-flat road dataset.  
  Address London; uk; September 2017  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.118 Approved no  
  Call Number ADAS @ adas @ HSE2017a Serial 2945  
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Author Vassileios Balntas; Edgar Riba; Daniel Ponsa; Krystian Mikolajczyk edit   pdf
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  Title Learning local feature descriptors with triplets and shallow convolutional neural networks Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication 27th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract It has recently been demonstrated that local feature descriptors based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) can significantly improve the matching performance. Previous work on learning such descriptors has focused on exploiting pairs of positive and negative patches to learn discriminative CNN representations. In this work, we propose to utilize triplets of training samples, together with in-triplet mining of hard negatives.
We show that our method achieves state of the art results, without the computational overhead typically associated with mining of negatives and with lower complexity of the network architecture. We compare our approach to recently introduced convolutional local feature descriptors, and demonstrate the advantages of the proposed methods in terms of performance and speed. We also examine different loss functions associated with triplets.
 
  Address York; UK; September 2016  
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  Notes ADAS; 600.086 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ BRP2016 Serial 2818  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically plausible boundary detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication 27th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on two benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.  
  Address York; UK; September 2016  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016a Serial 2867  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; Raquel Gil Rodriguez; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Colour Constancy: Biologically-inspired Contrast Variant Pooling Mechanism Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 28th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Pooling is a ubiquitous operation in image processing algorithms that allows for higher-level processes to collect relevant low-level features from a region of interest. Currently, max-pooling is one of the most commonly used operators in the computational literature. However, it can lack robustness to outliers due to the fact that it relies merely on the peak of a function. Pooling mechanisms are also present in the primate visual cortex where neurons of higher cortical areas pool signals from lower ones. The receptive fields of these neurons have been shown to vary according to the contrast by aggregating signals over a larger region in the presence of low contrast stimuli. We hypothesise that this contrast-variant-pooling mechanism can address some of the shortcomings of maxpooling. We modelled this contrast variation through a histogram clipping in which the percentage of pooled signal is inversely proportional to the local contrast of an image. We tested our hypothesis by applying it to the phenomenon of colour constancy where a number of popular algorithms utilise a max-pooling step (e.g. White-Patch, Grey-Edge and Double-Opponency). For each of these methods, we investigated the consequences of replacing their original max-pooling by the proposed contrast-variant-pooling. Our experiments on three colour constancy benchmark datasets suggest that previous results can significantly improve by adopting a contrast-variant-pooling mechanism.  
  Address London; September 2017  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AGP2017 Serial 2992  
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Author Rada Deeb; Damien Muselet; Mathieu Hebert; Alain Tremeau; Joost Van de Weijer edit   pdf
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  Title 3D color charts for camera spectral sensitivity estimation Type Conference Article
  Year 2017 Publication 28th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Estimating spectral data such as camera sensor responses or illuminant spectral power distribution from raw RGB camera outputs is crucial in many computer vision applications.
Usually, 2D color charts with various patches of known spectral reflectance are
used as reference for such purpose. Deducing n-D spectral data (n»3) from 3D RGB inputs is an ill-posed problem that requires a high number of inputs. Unfortunately, most of the natural color surfaces have spectral reflectances that are well described by low-dimensional linear models, i.e. each spectral reflectance can be approximated by a weighted sum of the others. It has been shown that adding patches to color charts does not help in practice, because the information they add is redundant with the information provided by the first set of patches. In this paper, we propose to use spectral data of
higher dimensionality by using 3D color charts that create inter-reflections between the surfaces. These inter-reflections produce multiplications between natural spectral curves and so provide non-linear spectral curves. We show that such data provide enough information for accurate spectral data estimation.
 
  Address London; September 2017  
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  Notes LAMP; 600.109; 600.120 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DMH2017b Serial 3037  
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Author Marc Masana; Idoia Ruiz; Joan Serrat; Joost Van de Weijer; Antonio Lopez edit   pdf
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  Title Metric Learning for Novelty and Anomaly Detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 29th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract When neural networks process images which do not resemble the distribution seen during training, so called out-of-distribution images, they often make wrong predictions, and do so too confidently. The capability to detect out-of-distribution images is therefore crucial for many real-world applications. We divide out-of-distribution detection between novelty detection ---images of classes which are not in the training set but are related to those---, and anomaly detection ---images with classes which are unrelated to the training set. By related we mean they contain the same type of objects, like digits in MNIST and SVHN. Most existing work has focused on anomaly detection, and has addressed this problem considering networks trained with the cross-entropy loss. Differently from them, we propose to use metric learning which does not have the drawback of the softmax layer (inherent to cross-entropy methods), which forces the network to divide its prediction power over the learned classes. We perform extensive experiments and evaluate both novelty and anomaly detection, even in a relevant application such as traffic sign recognition, obtaining comparable or better results than previous works.  
  Address Newcastle; uk; September 2018  
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  Notes LAMP; ADAS; 601.305; 600.124; 600.106; 602.200; 600.120; 600.118 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ MRS2018 Serial 3156  
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Author Cristina Palmero; Javier Selva; Mohammad Ali Bagueri; Sergio Escalera edit   pdf
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  Title Recurrent CNN for 3D Gaze Estimation using Appearance and Shape Cues Type Conference Article
  Year 2018 Publication 29th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Gaze behavior is an important non-verbal cue in social signal processing and humancomputer interaction. In this paper, we tackle the problem of person- and head poseindependent 3D gaze estimation from remote cameras, using a multi-modal recurrent convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose to combine face, eyes region, and face landmarks as individual streams in a CNN to estimate gaze in still images. Then, we exploit the dynamic nature of gaze by feeding the learned features of all the frames in a sequence to a many-to-one recurrent module that predicts the 3D gaze vector of the last frame. Our multi-modal static solution is evaluated on a wide range of head poses and gaze directions, achieving a significant improvement of 14.6% over the state of the art on
EYEDIAP dataset, further improved by 4% when the temporal modality is included.
 
  Address Newcastle; UK; September 2018  
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  Notes HUPBA; no proj Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ PSB2018 Serial 3208  
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Author Bojana Gajic; Ariel Amato; Ramon Baldrich; Carlo Gatta edit   pdf
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  Title Bag of Negatives for Siamese Architectures Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication 30th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Training a Siamese architecture for re-identification with a large number of identities is a challenging task due to the difficulty of finding relevant negative samples efficiently. In this work we present Bag of Negatives (BoN), a method for accelerated and improved training of Siamese networks that scales well on datasets with a very large number of identities. BoN is an efficient and loss-independent method, able to select a bag of high quality negatives, based on a novel online hashing strategy.  
  Address Cardiff; United Kingdom; September 2019  
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  Notes CIC; 600.140; 600.118 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ GAB2019b Serial 3263  
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Author Sagnik Das; Hassan Ahmed Sial; Ke Ma; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Dimitris Samaras edit   pdf
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  Title Intrinsic Decomposition of Document Images In-the-Wild Type Conference Article
  Year 2020 Publication 31st British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape
of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised
methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data needed. Hence, the
current state of the art deep learning models are trained on fully or partially synthetic images. However, document shadow or shading removal results still suffer because: (a) prior methods rely on uniformity of local color statistics, which limit their application on real-scenarios with complex document shapes and textures and; (b) synthetic or hybrid datasets with non-realistic, simulated lighting conditions are used to train the models. In this paper we tackle these problems with our two main contributions. First, a physically constrained learning-based method that directly estimates document reflectance based on intrinsic image formation which generalizes to challenging illumination conditions. Second, a new dataset that clearly improves previous synthetic ones, by adding a large range of realistic shading and diverse multi-illuminant conditions, uniquely customized to deal with documents in-the-wild. The proposed architecture works in two steps. First, a white balancing module neutralizes the color of the illumination on the input image. Based on the proposed multi-illuminant dataset we achieve a good white-balancing in really difficult conditions. Second, the shading separation module accurately disentangles the shading and paper material in a self-supervised manner where only the synthetic texture is used as a weak training signal (obviating the need for very costly ground truth with disentangled versions of shading and reflectance). The proposed approach leads to significant generalization of document reflectance estimation in real scenes with challenging illumination. We extensively evaluate on the real benchmark datasets available for intrinsic image decomposition and document shadow removal tasks. Our reflectance estimation scheme, when used as a pre-processing step of an OCR pipeline, shows a 21% improvement of character error rate (CER), thus, proving the practical applicability. The data and code will be available at: https://github.com/cvlab-stonybrook/DocIIW.
 
  Address Virtual; September 2020  
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  Notes CIC; 600.087; 600.140; 600.118 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ DSM2020 Serial 3461  
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Author Kai Wang; Fei Yang; Joost Van de Weijer edit   pdf
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  Title Attention Distillation: self-supervised vision transformer students need more guidance Type Conference Article
  Year 2022 Publication 33rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Self-supervised learning has been widely applied to train high-quality vision transformers. Unleashing their excellent performance on memory and compute constraint devices is therefore an important research topic. However, how to distill knowledge from one self-supervised ViT to another has not yet been explored. Moreover, the existing self-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) methods focus on ConvNet based architectures are suboptimal for ViT knowledge distillation. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation of self-supervised vision transformers (ViT-SSKD). We show that directly distilling information from the crucial attention mechanism from teacher to student can significantly narrow the performance gap between both. In experiments on ImageNet-Subset and ImageNet-1K, we show that our method AttnDistill outperforms existing self-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) methods and achieves state-of-the-art k-NN accuracy compared with self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learning from scratch (with the ViT-S model). We are also the first to apply the tiny ViT-T model on self-supervised learning. Moreover, AttnDistill is independent of self-supervised learning algorithms, it can be adapted to ViT based SSL methods to improve the performance in future research.  
  Address London; UK; November 2022  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ WYW2022 Serial 3793  
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Author Kai Wang; Chenshen Wu; Andrew Bagdanov; Xialei Liu; Shiqi Yang; Shangling Jui; Joost Van de Weijer edit  openurl
  Title Positive Pair Distillation Considered Harmful: Continual Meta Metric Learning for Lifelong Object Re-Identification Type Conference Article
  Year 2022 Publication 33rd British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Lifelong object re-identification incrementally learns from a stream of re-identification tasks. The objective is to learn a representation that can be applied to all tasks and that generalizes to previously unseen re-identification tasks. The main challenge is that at inference time the representation must generalize to previously unseen identities. To address this problem, we apply continual meta metric learning to lifelong object re-identification. To prevent forgetting of previous tasks, we use knowledge distillation and explore the roles of positive and negative pairs. Based on our observation that the distillation and metric losses are antagonistic, we propose to remove positive pairs from distillation to robustify model updates. Our method, called Distillation without Positive Pairs (DwoPP), is evaluated on extensive intra-domain experiments on person and vehicle re-identification datasets, as well as inter-domain experiments on the LReID benchmark. Our experiments demonstrate that DwoPP significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art.  
  Address London; UK; November 2022  
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Author Marçal Rusiñol; Lluis Gomez; A. Landman; M. Silva Constenla; Dimosthenis Karatzas edit   pdf
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  Title Automatic Structured Text Reading for License Plates and Utility Meters Type Conference Article
  Year 2019 Publication BMVC Workshop on Visual Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Reading text in images has attracted interest from computer vision researchers for
many years. Our technology focuses on the extraction of structured text – such as serial
numbers, machine readings, product codes, etc. – so that it is able to center its attention just on the relevant textual elements. It is conceived to work in an end-to-end fashion, bypassing any explicit text segmentation stage. In this paper we present two different industrial use cases where we have applied our automatic structured text reading technology. In the first one, we demonstrate an outstanding performance when reading license plates compared to the current state of the art. In the second one, we present results on our solution for reading utility meters. The technology is commercialized by a recently created spin-off company, and both solutions are at different stages of integration with final clients.
 
  Address Cardiff; UK; September 2019  
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  Notes DAG; 600.129 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ RGL2019 Serial 3283  
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