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Most Cited Computer Vision and Image Understanding Articles
The most cited articles published since 2011, extracted from Scopus.
A survey of vision-based methods for action representation, segmentation and recognitionDaniel Weinland | Remi Ronfard | Edmond Boyer
Volume 115, Issue 2, February 2011, Pages 224-241
Action recognition has become a very important topic in computer vision, with many fundamental applications, in robotics, video surveillance, human-computer interaction, and multimedia retrieval among others and a large variety of approaches have been described. The purpose of this survey is to give an overview and categorization of the approaches used. We concentrate on approaches that aim on classification of full-body motions, such as kicking, punching, and waving, and we categorize them according to how they represent the spatial and temporal structure of actions; how they segment actions from an input stream of visual data; and how they learn a view-invariant representation of actions. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Local binary patterns for multi-view facial expression recognitionS. Moore | R. Bowden
Volume 115, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 541-558
Research into facial expression recognition has predominantly been applied to face images at frontal view only. Some attempts have been made to produce pose invariant facial expression classifiers. However, most of these attempts have only considered yaw variations of up to 45°, where all of the face is visible. Little work has been carried out to investigate the intrinsic potential of different poses for facial expression recognition. This is largely due to the databases available, which typically capture frontal view face images only. Recent databases, BU3DFE and multi-pie, allows empirical investigation of facial expression recognition for different viewing angles. A sequential 2 stage approach is taken for pose classification and view dependent facial expression classification to investigate the effects of yaw variations from frontal to profile views. Local binary patterns (LBPs) and variations of LBPs as texture descriptors are investigated. Such features allow investigation of the influence of orientation and multi-resolution analysis for multi-view facial expression recognition. The influence of pose on different facial expressions is investigated. Others factors are investigated including resolution and construction of global and local feature vectors. An appearance based approach is adopted by dividing images into sub-blocks coarsely aligned over the face. Feature vectors contain concatenated feature histograms built from each sub-block. Multi-class support vector machines are adopted to learn pose and pose dependent facial expression classifiers. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Multiview Hessian discriminative sparse coding for image annotationWeifeng Liu | Dacheng Tao | Jun Cheng | Yuanyan Tang
Volume 118, Issue , January 2014, Pages 50-60
Sparse coding represents a signal sparsely by using an overcomplete dictionary, and obtains promising performance in practical computer vision applications, especially for signal restoration tasks such as image denoising and image inpainting. In recent years, many discriminative sparse coding algorithms have been developed for classification problems, but they cannot naturally handle visual data represented by multiview features. In addition, existing sparse coding algorithms use graph Laplacian to model the local geometry of the data distribution. It has been identified that Laplacian regularization biases the solution towards a constant function which possibly leads to poor extrapolating power. In this paper, we present multiview Hessian discriminative sparse coding (mHDSC) which seamlessly integrates Hessian regularization with discriminative sparse coding for multiview learning problems. In particular, mHDSC exploits Hessian regularization to steer the solution which varies smoothly along geodesics in the manifold, and treats the label information as an additional view of feature for incorporating the discriminative power for image annotation. We conduct extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC'07 dataset and demonstrate the effectiveness of mHDSC for image annotation. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A comprehensive review of background subtraction algorithms evaluated with synthetic and real videosAndrews Sobral | Antoine Vacavant
Volume 122, Issue , May 2014, Pages 4-21
Background subtraction (BS) is a crucial step in many computer vision systems, as it is first applied to detect moving objects within a video stream. Many algorithms have been designed to segment the foreground objects from the background of a sequence. In this article, we propose to use the BMC (Background Models Challenge) dataset, and to compare the 29 methods implemented in the BGSLibrary. From this large set of various BG methods, we have conducted a relevant experimental analysis to evaluate both their robustness and their practical performance in terms of processor/memory requirements. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A survey of video datasets for human action and activity recognitionJose M. Chaquet | Enrique J. Carmona | Antonio Fernández-Caballero
Volume 117, Issue 6, April 2013, Pages 633-659
Vision-based human action and activity recognition has an increasing importance among the computer vision community with applications to visual surveillance, video retrieval and human-computer interaction. In recent years, more and more datasets dedicated to human action and activity recognition have been created. The use of these datasets allows us to compare different recognition systems with the same input data. The survey introduced in this paper tries to cover the lack of a complete description of the most important public datasets for video-based human activity and action recognition and to guide researchers in the election of the most suitable dataset for benchmarking their algorithms. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Symmetry-driven accumulation of local features for human characterization and re-identificationLoris Bazzani | Marco Cristani | Vittorio Murino
Volume 117, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 130-144
This work proposes a method to characterize the appearance of individuals exploiting body visual cues. The method is based on a symmetry-driven appearance-based descriptor and a matching policy that allows to recognize an individual. The descriptor encodes three complementary visual characteristics of the human appearance: the overall chromatic content, the spatial arrangement of colors into stable regions, and the presence of recurrent local motifs with high entropy. The characteristics are extracted by following symmetry and asymmetry perceptual principles, that allow to segregate meaningful body parts and to focus on the human body only, pruning out the background clutter. The descriptor exploits the case where we have a single image of the individual, as so as the eventuality that multiple pictures of the same identity are available, as in a tracking scenario. The descriptor is dubbed Symmetry-Driven Accumulation of Local Features (SDALFs). Our approach is applied to two different scenarios: re-identification and multi-target tracking. In the former, we show the capabilities of SDALF in encoding peculiar aspects of an individual, focusing on its robustness properties across dramatic low resolution images, in presence of occlusions and pose changes, and variations of viewpoints and scene illumination. SDALF has been tested on various benchmark datasets, obtaining in general convincing performances, and setting the state of the art in some cases. The latter scenario shows the benefits of using SDALF as observation model for different trackers, boosting their performances under different respects on the CAVIAR dataset. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Visual object-action recognition: Inferring object affordances from human demonstrationHedvig Kjellström | Javier Romero | Danica Kragić
Volume 115, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 81-90
This paper investigates object categorization according to function, i.e., learning the affordances of objects from human demonstration. Object affordances (functionality) are inferred from observations of humans using the objects in different types of actions. The intended application is learning from demonstration, in which a robot learns to employ objects in household tasks, from observing a human performing the same tasks with the objects. We present a method for categorizing manipulated objects and human manipulation actions in context of each other. The method is able to simultaneously segment and classify human hand actions, and detect and classify the objects involved in the action. This can serve as an initial step in a learning from demonstration method. Experiments show that the contextual information improves the classification of both objects and actions. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Inc.
50 Years of object recognition: Directions forwardAlexander Andreopoulos | John K. Tsotsos
Volume 117, Issue 8, May 2013, Pages 827-891
Object recognition systems constitute a deeply entrenched and omnipresent component of modern intelligent systems. Research on object recognition algorithms has led to advances in factory and office automation through the creation of optical character recognition systems, assembly-line industrial inspection systems, as well as chip defect identification systems. It has also led to significant advances in medical imaging, defence and biometrics. In this paper we discuss the evolution of computer-based object recognition systems over the last fifty years, and overview the successes and failures of proposed solutions to the problem. We survey the breadth of approaches adopted over the years in attempting to solve the problem, and highlight the important role that active and attentive approaches must play in any solution that bridges the semantic gap in the proposed object representations, while simultaneously leading to efficient learning and inference algorithms. From the earliest systems which dealt with the character recognition problem, to modern visually-guided agents that can purposively search entire rooms for objects, we argue that a common thread of all such systems is their fragility and their inability to generalize as well as the human visual system can. At the same time, however, we demonstrate that the performance of such systems in strictly controlled environments often vastly outperforms the capabilities of the human visual system. We conclude our survey by arguing that the next step in the evolution of object recognition algorithms will require radical and bold steps forward in terms of the object representations, as well as the learning and inference algorithms used. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Selective spatio-temporal interest pointsBhaskar Chakraborty | Michael B. Holte | Thomas B. Moeslund | Jordi Gonzàlez
Volume 116, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 396-410
Recent progress in the field of human action recognition points towards the use of Spatio-Temporal Interest Points (STIPs) for local descriptor-based recognition strategies. In this paper, we present a novel approach for robust and selective STIP detection, by applying surround suppression combined with local and temporal constraints. This new method is significantly different from existing STIP detection techniques and improves the performance by detecting more repeatable, stable and distinctive STIPs for human actors, while suppressing unwanted background STIPs. For action representation we use a bag-of-video words (BoV) model of local N-jet features to build a vocabulary of visual-words. To this end, we introduce a novel vocabulary building strategy by combining spatial pyramid and vocabulary compression techniques, resulting in improved performance and efficiency. Action class specific Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers are trained for categorization of human actions. A comprehensive set of experiments on popular benchmark datasets (KTH and Weizmann), more challenging datasets of complex scenes with background clutter and camera motion (CVC and CMU), movie and YouTube video clips (Hollywood 2 and YouTube), and complex scenes with multiple actors (MSR I and Multi-KTH), validates our approach and show state-of-the-art performance. Due to the unavailability of ground truth action annotation data for the Multi-KTH dataset, we introduce an actor specific spatio-temporal clustering of STIPs to address the problem of automatic action annotation of multiple simultaneous actors. Additionally, we perform cross-data action recognition by training on source datasets (KTH and Weizmann) and testing on completely different and more challenging target datasets (CVC, CMU, MSR I and Multi-KTH). This documents the robustness of our proposed approach in the realistic scenario, using separate training and test datasets, which in general has been a shortcoming in the performance evaluation of human action recognition techniques. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Robust PCA via Principal Component Pursuit: A review for a comparative evaluation in video surveillanceThierry Bouwmans | El Hadi Zahzah
Volume 122, Issue , May 2014, Pages 22-34
Foreground detection is the first step in video surveillance system to detect moving objects. Recent research on subspace estimation by sparse representation and rank minimization represents a nice framework to separate moving objects from the background. Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) solved via Principal Component Pursuit decomposes a data matrix A in two components such that A=L+S, where L is a low-rank matrix and S is a sparse noise matrix. The background sequence is then modeled by a low-rank subspace that can gradually change over time, while the moving foreground objects constitute the correlated sparse outliers. To date, many efforts have been made to develop Principal Component Pursuit (PCP) methods with reduced computational cost that perform visually well in foreground detection. However, no current algorithm seems to emerge and to be able to simultaneously address all the key challenges that accompany real-world videos. This is due, in part, to the absence of a rigorous quantitative evaluation with synthetic and realistic large-scale dataset with accurate ground truth providing a balanced coverage of the range of challenges present in the real world. In this context, this work aims to initiate a rigorous and comprehensive review of RPCA-PCP based methods for testing and ranking existing algorithms for foreground detection. For this, we first review the recent developments in the field of RPCA solved via Principal Component Pursuit. Furthermore, we investigate how these methods are solved and if incremental algorithms and real-time implementations can be achieved for foreground detection. Finally, experimental results on the Background Models Challenge (BMC) dataset which contains different synthetic and real datasets show the comparative performance of these recent methods. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Anomalous video event detection using spatiotemporal contextFan Jiang | Junsong Yuan | Sotirios A. Tsaftaris | Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Volume 115, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 323-333
Compared to other anomalous video event detection approaches that analyze object trajectories only, we propose a context-aware method to detect anomalies. By tracking all moving objects in the video, three different levels of spatiotemporal contexts are considered, i.e., point anomaly of a video object, sequential anomaly of an object trajectory, and co-occurrence anomaly of multiple video objects. A hierarchical data mining approach is proposed. At each level, frequency-based analysis is performed to automatically discover regular rules of normal events. Events deviating from these rules are identified as anomalies. The proposed method is computationally efficient and can infer complex rules. Experiments on real traffic video validate that the detected video anomalies are hazardous or illegal according to traffic regulations. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Summarizing tourist destinations by mining user-generated travelogues and photosYanwei Pang | Qiang Hao | Yuan Yuan | Tanji Hu | Rui Cai | Lei Zhang
Volume 115, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 352-363
Automatically summarizing tourist destinations with both textual and visual descriptions is highly desired for online services such as travel planning, to facilitate users to understand the local characteristics of tourist destinations. Travelers are contributing a great deal of user-generated travelogues and photos on the Web, which contain abundant travel-related information and cover various aspects (e.g., landmarks, styles, activities) of most locations in the world. To leverage the collective knowledge of travelers for destination summarization, in this paper we propose a framework which discovers location-representative tags from travelogues and then select relevant and representative photos to visualize these tags. The learnt tags and selected photos are finally organized appropriately to provide an informative summary which describes a given destination both textually and visually. Experimental results based on a large collection of travelogues and photos show promising results on destination summarization. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Markov Random Field modeling, inference & learning in computer vision & image understanding: A surveyChaohui Wang | Nikos Komodakis | Nikos Paragios
Volume 117, Issue 11, August 2013, Pages 1610-1627
In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of Markov Random Fields (MRFs) in computer vision and image understanding, with respect to the modeling, the inference and the learning. While MRFs were introduced into the computer vision field about two decades ago, they started to become a ubiquitous tool for solving visual perception problems around the turn of the millennium following the emergence of efficient inference methods. During the past decade, a variety of MRF models as well as inference and learning methods have been developed for addressing numerous low, mid and high-level vision problems. While most of the literature concerns pairwise MRFs, in recent years we have also witnessed significant progress in higher-order MRFs, which substantially enhances the expressiveness of graph-based models and expands the domain of solvable problems. This survey provides a compact and informative summary of the major literature in this research topic. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Kernel feature selection to fuse multi-spectral MRI images for brain tumor segmentationNan Zhang | Su Ruan | Stéphane Lebonvallet | Qingmin Liao | Yuemin Zhu
Volume 115, Issue 2, February 2011, Pages 256-269
This paper presents a framework of a medical image analysis system for the brain tumor segmentation and the brain tumor following-up over time using multi-spectral MRI images. Brain tumors have a large diversity in shape and appearance with intensities. Multi-spectral images have the advantage in providing complementary information to resolve some ambiguities. However, they may also bring along a lot of redundant information, increasing the data processing time and segmentation errors. The challenge is how to make use of the multi-spectral images effectively. Our idea of fusing these data is to extract the most useful features to obtain the best segmentation with the least cost in time. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification integrated with a selection of the features in a kernel space is proposed. The selection criteria are defined by the kernel class separability. Based on this SVM classification a framework to follow up the brain tumor evolution is proposed, which consists of the following steps: (1) to learn the brain tumor and select the features from the first MRI examination of the patients; (2) to automatically segment the tumor in new data using SVM; (3) to refine the tumor contour by a region growing technique. The system has been tested on real patient images with satisfying results. The quantitative evaluations by comparing with experts' manual traces and with other approaches demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Combining algorithms for automatic detection of optic disc and macula in fundus imagesRashid Jalal Qureshi | Laszlo Kovacs | Balazs Harangi | Brigitta Nagy | Tunde Peto | Andras Hajdu
Volume 116, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 138-145
This paper proposes an efficient combination of algorithms for the automated localization of the optic disc and macula in retinal fundus images. There is in fact no reason to assume that a single algorithm would be optimal. An ensemble of algorithms based on different principles can be more accurate than any of its individual members if the individual algorithms are doing better than random guessing. We aim to obtain an improved optic disc and macula detector by combining the prediction of multiple algorithms, benefiting from their strength and compensating their weaknesses. The location with maximum number of detectors' outputs is formally the hotspot and is used to find the optic disc or macula center. An assessment of the performance of integrated system and detectors working separately is also presented. Our proposed combination of detectors achieved overall highest performance in detecting optic disc and fovea closest to the manually center chosen by the retinal specialist. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A performance evaluation of gradient field HOG descriptor for sketch based image retrievalRui Hu | John Collornosse
Volume 117, Issue 7, April 2013, Pages 790-806
We present an image retrieval system for the interactive search of photo collections using free-hand sketches depicting shape. We describe Gradient Field HOG (GF-HOG); an adapted form of the HOG descriptor suitable for Sketch Based Image Retrieval (SBIR). We incorporate GF-HOG into a Bag of Visual Words (B0VW) retrieval framework, and demonstrate how this combination may be harnessed both for robust SBIR, and for localizing sketched objects within an image. We evaluate over a large Flickr sourced dataset comprising 33 shape categories, using queries from 10 non-expert sketchers. We compare GFHOG against state-of-the-art descriptors with common distance measures and language models for image retrieval, and explore how affine deformation of the sketch impacts search performance. GFHOG is shown to consistently outperform retrieval versus SIFT, multi-resolution HOG, Self Similarity, Shape Context and Structure Tensor. Further, we incorporate semantic keywords into our GF-HOG system to enable the use of annotated sketches for image search. A novel graph-based measure of semantic similarity is proposed and two applications explored: semantic sketch based image retrieval and a semantic photo montage. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hough-based tracking of non-rigid objectsM. Godec | P. M. Roth | H. Bischof
Volume 117, Issue 10, January 2013, Pages 1245-1256
Online learning has shown to be successful in tracking-by-detection of previously unknown objects. However, most approaches are limited to a bounding-box representation with fixed aspect ratio and cannot handle highly non-rigid and articulated objects. Moreover, they provide only a limited foreground/ background separation, which in turn, increases the amount of noise introduced during online self-training. To overcome the limitations of a rigid bounding box, we present a novel tracking-by-detection approach based on the generalized Hough-transform. We extend the idea of Hough Forests to the online domain and couple the voting-based detection and back-projection with a rough GrabCut segmentation. Because of the increased granularity of the object description the amount of noisy training samples during online learning is reduced significantly which prevents drifting of the tracker. To show the benefits of our approach, we demonstrate it for a variety of previously unknown objects even under heavy non-rigid transformations, partial occlusions, scale changes, and rotations. Moreover, we compare our tracker to state-of-the-art methods (bounding-box-based as well as part-based) and show robust and accurate tracking results on various challenging sequences. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Robust pose invariant face recognition using coupled latent space discriminant analysisAbhishek Sharma | Murad Al Haj | Jonghyun Choi | Larry S. Davis | David W. Jacobs
Volume 116, Issue 11, November 2012, Pages 1095-1110
We propose a novel pose-invariant face recognition approach which we call Discriminant Multiple Coupled Latent Subspace framework. It finds the sets of projection directions for different poses such that the projected images of the same subject in different poses are maximally correlated in the latent space. Discriminant analysis with artificially simulated pose errors in the latent space makes it robust to small pose errors caused due to a subject's incorrect pose estimation. We do a comparative analysis of three popular latent space learning approaches: Partial Least Squares (PLSs), Bilinear Model (BLM) and Canonical Correlational Analysis (CCA) in the proposed coupled latent subspace framework. We experimentally demonstrate that using more than two poses simultaneously with CCA results in better performance. We report state-of-the-art results for pose-invariant face recognition on CMU PIE and FERET and comparable results on MultiPIE when using only four fiducial points for alignment and intensity features. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All Right Reserved.
Loveparade 2010: Automatic video analysis of a crowd disasterBarbara Krausz | Christian Bauckhage
Volume 116, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 307-319
On July 24, 2010, 21 people died and more than 500 were injured in a stampede at the Loveparade, a music festival, in Duisburg, Germany. Although this tragic incident is but one among many terrible crowd disasters that occur during pilgrimage, sports events, or other mass gatherings, it stands out for it has been well documented: there were a total of seven security cameras monitoring the Loveparade and the chain of events that led to disaster was meticulously reconstructed. In this paper, we present an automatic, video-based analysis of the events in Duisburg. While physical models and simulations of human crowd behavior have been reported before, to the best of our knowledge, automatic vision systems that detect congestions and dangerous crowd turbulences in real world settings were not reported yet. Derived from lessons learned from the video footage of the Loveparade, our system is able to detect motion patterns that characterize crowd behavior in stampedes. Based on our analysis, we propose methods for the detection and early warning of dangerous situations during mass events. Since our approach mainly relies on optical flow computations, it runs in real-time and preserves privacy of the people being monitored. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Composite splitting algorithms for convex optimizationJunzhou Huang | Shaoting Zhang | Hongsheng Li | Dimitris Metaxas
Volume 115, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 1610-1622
We consider the minimization of a smooth convex function regularized by the composite prior models. This problem is generally difficult to solve even if each subproblem regularized by one prior model is convex and simple. In this paper, we present two algorithms to effectively solve it. First, the original problem is decomposed into multiple simpler subproblems. Then, these subproblems are efficiently solved by existing techniques in parallel. Finally, the result of the original problem is obtained by averaging solutions of subproblems in an iterative framework. The proposed composite splitting algorithms are applied to the compressed MR image reconstruction and low-rank tensor completion. Numerous experiments demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed algorithms in terms of both accuracy and computation complexity. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Text extraction from scene images by character appearance and structure modelingChucai Yi | Yingli Tian
Volume 117, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 182-194
In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to detect text information from natural scene images. Scene text classification and detection are still open research topics. Our proposed algorithm is able to model both character appearance and structure to generate representative and discriminative text descriptors. The contributions of this paper include three aspects: (1) a new character appearance model by a structure correlation algorithm which extracts discriminative appearance features from detected interest points of character samples; (2) a new text descriptor based on structons and correlatons, which model character structure by structure differences among character samples and structure component co-occurrence; and (3) a new text region localization method by combining color decomposition, character contour refinement, and string line alignment to localize character candidates and refine detected text regions. We perform three groups of experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm, including text classification, text detection, and character identification. The evaluation results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our algorithm achieves the state-of-the-art performance on scene text classification and detection, and significantly outperforms the existing algorithms for character identification. © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
MeshSIFT: Local surface features for 3D face recognition under expression variations and partial dataDirk Smeets | Johannes Keustermans | Dirk Vandermeulen | Paul Suetens
Volume 117, Issue 2, January 2013, Pages 158-169
Matching 3D faces for recognition is a challenging task caused by the presence of expression variations, missing data, and outliers. In this paper the meshSIFT algorithm and its use for 3D face recognition is presented. This algorithm consists of four major components. First, salient points on the 3D facial surface are detected as mean curvature extrema in scale space. Second, orientations are assigned to each of these salient points. Third, the neighbourhood of each salient point is described in a feature vector consisting of concatenated histograms of shape indices and slant angles. Fourth, the feature vectors of two 3D facial surfaces are reliably matched by comparing the angles in feature space. This results in an algorithm which is robust to expression variations, missing data and outliers. As a first contribution, we demonstrate that the number of matching meshSIFT features is a reliable measure for expression-invariant face recognition, as shown by the rank 1 recognition rate of 93.7% and 89.6% for the Bosphorus and FRGC v2 database, respectively. Next, we demonstrate that symmetrising the feature descriptors allows comparing two 3D facial surfaces with limited or no overlap. Validation on the data of the "SHREC'11: Face Scans" contest, containing many partial scans, resulted in a recognition rate of 98.6%, clearly outperforming all other participants in the challenge. Finally, we also demonstrate the use of meshSIFT for two other problems related with 3D face recognition: pose normalisation and symmetry plane estimation. For both problems, applying meshSIFT in combination with RANSAC resulted in a correct solution for ±90% of all Bosphorus database meshes (except ±90° and ±45° rotations). © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Multi-view human movement recognition based on fuzzy distances and linear discriminant analysisAlexandros Iosifidis | Anastasios Tefas | Nikolaos Nikolaidis | Ioannis Pitas
Volume 116, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 347-360
In this paper, a novel multi-view human movement recognition method is presented. A novel representation of multi-view human movement videos is proposed that is based on learning basic multi-view human movement primitives, called multi-view dynemes. The movement video is represented in a new feature space (called dyneme space) using these multi-view dynemes, thus producing a time invariant multi-view movement representation. Fuzzy distances from the multi-view dynemes are used to represent the human body postures in the dyneme space. Three variants of Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) are evaluated to achieve a discriminant movement representation in a low dimensionality space. The view identification problem is solved either by using a circular block shift procedure followed by the evaluation of the minimum Euclidean distance from any dyneme, or by exploiting the circular shift invariance property of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The discriminant movement representation combined with camera viewpoint identification and a nearest centroid classification step leads to a high human movement classification accuracy. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Silhouette-based gesture and action recognition via modeling trajectories on Riemannian shape manifoldsMohamed F. Abdelkader | Wael Abd-Almageed | Anuj Srivastava | Rama Chellappa
Volume 115, Issue 3, March 2011, Pages 439-455
This paper addresses the problem of recognizing human gestures from videos using models that are built from the Riemannian geometry of shape spaces. We represent a human gesture as a temporal sequence of human poses, each characterized by a contour of the associated human silhouette. The shape of a contour is viewed as a point on the shape space of closed curves and, hence, each gesture is characterized and modeled as a trajectory on this shape space. We propose two approaches for modeling these trajectories. In the first template-based approach, we use dynamic time warping (DTW) to align the different trajectories using elastic geodesic distances on the shape space. The gesture templates are then calculated by averaging the aligned trajectories. In the second approach, we use a graphical model approach similar to an exemplar-based hidden Markov model, where we cluster the gesture shapes on the shape space, and build non-parametric statistical models to capture the variations within each cluster. We model each gesture as a Markov model of transitions between these clusters. To evaluate the proposed approaches, an extensive set of experiments was performed using two different data sets representing gesture and action recognition applications. The proposed approaches not only are successfully able to represent the shape and dynamics of the different classes for recognition, but are also robust against some errors resulting from segmentation and background subtraction. © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Color texture image segmentation based on neutrosophic set and wavelet transformationAbdulkadir Sengur | Yanhui Guo
Volume 115, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 1134-1144
Efficient and effective image segmentation is an important task in computer vision and pattern recognition. Since fully automatic image segmentation is usually very hard for natural images, interactive schemes with a few simple user inputs are good solutions. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic new approach for color texture image segmentation based on neutrosophic set (NS) and multiresolution wavelet transformation. It aims to segment the natural scene images, in which the color and texture of each region does not have uniform statistical characteristics. The proposed approach combines color information with the texture information on NS and wavelet domain for segmentation. At first, it transforms each color channel and the texture information of the input image into the NS domain independently. The entropy is defined and employed to evaluate the indeterminacy of the image in NS domain. Two operations, α-mean and β-enhancement operations are proposed to reduce the indeterminacy. Finally, the proposed method is employed to perform image segmentation using a γ-K-means clustering. The determination of the cluster number K is carried out with cluster validity analysis. Two different segmentation evaluation criterions were used to determine the segmentations quality. Experiments are conducted on a variety of images, and the results are compared with those new existing segmentation algorithm. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach can segment the color images automatically and effectively. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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AT&T's family tracking service
Your Big Brother will know exactly where you are -- if Mom and Dad give him access to a new tool announced by AT&T today that lets families track members' mobile phones via the Web.
The service, called AT&T FamilyMap, lets users see their targets on a map with various landmarks, including schools, parks and custom-labeled frequently visited places. You can toggle between satellite and interactive street views, and the maps can be customize using names and photos for each device tied to the account. Phones can only be tracked if they are on the same billing account, AT&T says.
Special alerts can also be set up for certain times so, for example, parents can get automatic text or e-mail messages assuring them their children are home after school -- or that their husband or wife is actually at the office working late...
That said, FamilyMap includes tools giving the primary account holder control in managing different privacy preferences, AT&T says in a statement. For example, the person in charge gets a notification every time a phone is added to the locator list, and they can decide to deny the request. All users on the account get a text message when their phones first become accessible through the tracking service. They also get periodic text messages reminding them that their phones can be tracked, and FamilyMap can be configured so phones get pinged every time they are electronically located. AT&T offers a video showing the service in action.
Interested? Subscribers can track up to two phones on an account for $9.99 a month, or up to five phones for $14.99 a month -- the first 30 days are free.
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CAPTAIN JACK "THE POET SCOUT" CRAWFORD - AUTOGRAPH POEM SIGNED 03/07/1914 CAPTAIN JACK "THE POET SCOUT" CRAWFORD He pens this poem dated in 1914, adding his signature Autograph Poem Signed: "J.W. Crawford/'(Capt Jack)'", 1p, 5x7½. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1914 March 7. Headed: "Greeting:". In full: "To Pittsfield friends and true I fling/this little crude bouquet/Wee pansy birds sound scent on ducks/corald (sic, corralled) along life's way./In memory of a day of Joy,/Of Love, Sunshine and laughs/when I too felt just like a boy/And heres (sic) my autograph." John W. Crawford (1847-1917), known as "Captain Jack, The Poet Scout", began writing verse and reciting his rhymes in the late 1870s and became a popular lecturer. His first volume of verse, The Poet Scout, was published in 1879. "Captain Jack" had a colorful career in the Old West, beginning when he is said to have been one of the first seven men to enter the Black Hills region after the ill-fated Custer expedition. There, he served as Chief of Scouts for the Black Hills Rangers. During the Sioux Wars of 1876, "Captain Jack" was a scout in New Mexico and also a special agent of the Indian Bureau near San Marcial on the Rio Grande River. Crawford, who also wrote three plays and over 100 short stories, had not learned to read and write until during the Civil War, when he wounded at Spotsylvania and sent to a hospital. Slightly shaded, touching writing. Irregular upper edge. Otherwise, fine condition.
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I'm going to sixflags great adventure in juli, I will be there half an hour afther opening. I want to get a flash pass gold: do I need to reserve one?
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Posted June 27, 2007 at 9:55 AM
I'm going to sixflags great adventure in juli, I will be there half an hour afther opening.
I want to get a flash pass gold: do I need to reserve one?
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Dave Chariot
Posted June 27, 2007 at 6:06 PM
No, believe is your willing to drop 90 bucks for virtually nothing to them i am sure they will jvae one. They ran out once on independence day i believe at like 5-6 though
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Well I know on the q-bot website, there are forms to fill out, might save time in that respect if you haft fill them out at the q-bot desk at the park. Some say you can reserve but when I tried for SFOT, it said I had to get one at the park, no reserve. You may just wanna try to reserve one or just go straight to the booth as soon as you get in.
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I reserved ours online but you could just as easily get one that day, provided they don't run out. I would think it's rare they run out. There was NO line on July 25th in the Flash office. Mine was already paid for, I just had to retrieve it. Well worth the money.
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Nope, I doubt it. I went in May and there was no lines for it even at all, and when I went in October the line was like an hour. I know you can fill out the forum online, but I think it's a very low chance that they do run out. Not many people buy them cause they're kinda expensive, don't know how to use them, or don't know they exist. I think you'll be fine.
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Fake Exorcists From Broward Arrested
St. Francis Borgia was full of it, too.
Our benighted federal prosecutors are in for a bumpy ride.
As of yesterday, a few of these unlucky do-gooders have been charged with the task of punishing three women arrested for performing expensive fake exorcisms. The women, who hail from Broward, are 36-year-old Polly Evans; her 22-year-old daughter, Olivia Evans; and Polly's 32-year-old sister, Bridgitte Evans. The exorcisms were performed via mail order, in the style of the latter-day Peter Popoff. A prospective mark received a letter saying something to the effect of: "Beware! You are under spiritual assault! Send money immediately!" Some folks did.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Evanses' exorcisms were fake. There is also no doubt in my mind that every other exorcism ever performed in the history of the species was equally fake. It is unclear what separates the Evanses' exorcisms from those performed by, say, certain atavistic priests, except that the Evanses are a little more gauche. (According to the Washington Post, one mark was told that her demons couldn't be exorcised until she ponied up a Rolex watch.)
Perhaps the difference has to do with an error in the Evanses' sales pitch. To wit: They apparently told their marks that their money would be returned the moment the exorcism was successfully completed. Nobody got any money back. (Surprised?) If this is the source of the prosecutors' ire, presumably some poor lawyer will be forced to present evidence that either the exorcisms were successful or that no exorcisms were needed in the first place. Good luck on that one.
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[U.S. UNDER-17 BOYS]The U.S. under-17 national team tuned up for next month's Nike International Friendlies with a pair of split-squad wins over Canada's U-17s, 3-0 and 2-0.
In the first friendly, Haji Wright, Pierre Da Silva and Joe Gallardo, who is in Mexican club Monterrey's youth program, combined to score three goals in a six-minute span in the second half.
The next day a new team of starters won on goals by Sean Teixeira and Devin Vega in the first half.
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USA 2 Canada 0.Goals: Teixeira 32, Vega 37.
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Skip to comments.Robot plays table tennis against world champion Timo Boll and you'll never guess who wins
Posted on 03/15/2014 9:51:52 PM PDT by Daffynition
The world table tennis champ pings his pong against the world's niftiest robot - watch the amazing video
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Furriest robot I've ever seen. ;^)
Stole it and proceding to make it viral on the internet. ;-)
Is there an echo in here?
Forget robots. I wanna play against the kitteh!
I don't get it, did Ceiling Cat steal the ball?
Much more amusing game, I suspect.
Oh boy!! Wait until this hits!!!
OK, that's funny!
So ten years from now, when the robots are playing basketball, volleyball, and soccer, will transgendered robots be placed on the girls' or the boys' teams?
Tesla assembly line
Same robots.
Great stuff! Thanks.
Depends on what the robot unions negotiate into the contracts. ;(
They are used at the BMW plant in SC...I imagine the VW plant has them too.
Well, that settles it. If they can dream up this thing....... there has GOTTA be a no spittin' BJ chick 'bot in the works.
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