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This paper provides an extensive study on the availability of image representations based on convolutional networks (ConvNets) for the task of visual instance retrieval. Besides the choice of convolutional layers, we present an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ali Sharif Razavian , Josephine Sullivan , Stefan Carlsson , Atsuto Maki

The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in domains like computer vision, mostly reduced the need for handcrafted features due to its ability to learn the problem-specific features from the raw input data. However, the selection of…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently achieved remarkable successes in various image classification and understanding tasks. The deep features obtained at the top fully-connected layer of the CNN (FC-features) exhibit rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sheng Guo , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Face recognition (FR) methods report significant performance by adopting the convolutional neural network (CNN) based learning methods. Although CNNs are mostly trained by optimizing the softmax loss, the recent trend shows an improvement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Abul Hasnat , Julien Bohné , Jonathan Milgram , Stéphane Gentric , Liming Chen

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in image classification, but still show room for improvement in object-detection tasks with many categories, in particular for cluttered scenes and occlusion.…

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Image instance retrieval is the problem of retrieving images from a database which contain the same object. Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based descriptors are becoming the dominant approach for generating {\it global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Vijay Chandrasekhar , Jie Lin , Qianli Liao , Olivier Morère , Antoine Veillard , Lingyu Duan , Tomaso Poggio

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have had considerable success in classifying and predicting sequences. We demonstrate that RNNs can be effectively used in order to encode sequences and provide effective representations. The methodology we…

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We propose a local modelling approach using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine-grained image classification. Recently, deep CNNs trained from large datasets have considerably improved the performance of object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

This paper presents a new state-of-the-art for document image classification and retrieval, using features learned by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In object and scene analysis, deep neural nets are capable of learning a…

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Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

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The fast growing deep learning technologies have become the main solution of many machine learning problems for medical image analysis. Deep convolution neural networks (CNNs), as one of the most important branch of the deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Zizhao Zhang , Fuyong Xing , Hai Su , Xiaoshuang Shi , Lin Yang

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

Fisher vector (FV) has become a popular image representation. One notable underlying assumption of the FV framework is that local descriptors are well decorrelated within each cluster so that the covariance matrix for each Gaussian can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Xiaopeng Hong , Xianbiao Qi , Guoying Zhao , Matti Pietikäinen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many visual recognition tasks. However, current CNN models still exhibit a poor ability to be invariant to spatial transformations of images. Intuitively, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xu Shen , Xinmei Tian , Anfeng He , Shaoyan Sun , Dacheng Tao

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful computer vision systems to solve object recognition. Furthermore, CNNs have major applications in understanding the nature of visual representations in the human brain. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Amr Farahat , Felix Effenberger , Martin Vinck

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a very powerful approach to extract discriminative local descriptors for effective image search. Recent work adopts fine-tuned strategies to further improve the discriminative power of the descriptors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do , Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Ngai-Man Cheung

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) has been widely used for image recognition with great success. However, there are a number of limitations of the current CNN based image recognition paradigm. First, the receptive field of CNN is generally…

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