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Community detection is crucial in data mining. Traditional methods primarily focus on graph structure, often neglecting the significance of attribute features. In contrast, deep learning-based approaches incorporate attribute features and…
The task of classifying videos of natural dynamic scenes into appropriate classes has gained lot of attention in recent years. The problem especially becomes challenging when the camera used to capture the video is dynamic. In this paper,…
Orderless encoding methods have shown to improve Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification in the context of limited availability of data. Additionally, hybrid CNN + Vision Transformers (ViT) models have been recently…
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Conventional remote sensing image retrieval (RSIR) systems usually perform single-label retrieval where each image is annotated by a single label representing the most significant semantic content of the image. This assumption, however,…
Binary change detection in bi-temporal co-registered hyperspectral images is a challenging task due to a large number of spectral bands present in the data. Researchers, therefore, try to handle it by reducing dimensions. The proposed work…
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We propose a new method to create compact convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by exploiting sparse convolutions. Different from previous works that learn sparsity in models, we directly employ hand-crafted kernels with regular sparse…
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Large-scale visual localization systems continue to rely on 3D point clouds built from image collections using structure-from-motion. While the 3D points in these models are represented using local image features, directly matching a query…
Image copy detection is challenging and appealing topic in computer vision and signal processing. Recent advancements in multimedia have made distribution of image across the global easy and fast: that leads to many other issues such as…
Deep learning architectures are showing great promise in various computer vision domains including image classification, object detection, event detection and action recognition. In this study, we investigate various aspects of…
Given a degraded input image, image restoration aims to recover the missing high-quality image content. Numerous applications demand effective image restoration, e.g., computational photography, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and remote…
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In recent years, deep learning has achieved remarkable success in the field of image restoration. However, most convolutional neural network-based methods typically focus on a single scale, neglecting the incorporation of multi-scale…