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Most image matching methods perform poorly when encountering large scale changes in images. To solve this problem, firstly, we propose a scale-difference-aware image matching method (SDAIM) that reduces image scale differences before local…
In recent years, representation learning approaches have disrupted many multimedia computing tasks. Among those approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have notably reached human level expertise on some constrained image…
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This paper presents a comparative study of a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture against widely used pretrained and transfer learning CNN models across five real-world image datasets. The datasets span binary…
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In natural images, the scales (thickness) of object skeletons may dramatically vary among objects and object parts, making object skeleton detection a challenging problem. We present a new convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture by…
In this paper, we explore the idea of weight sharing over multiple scales in convolutional networks. Inspired by traditional computer vision approaches, we share the weights of convolution kernels over different scales in the same layers of…