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We propose a novel image based localization system using graph neural networks (GNN). The pretrained ResNet50 convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is used to extract the important features for each image. Following, the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy

In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain without using hand-crafted features that are employed by most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Simone Bianco , Claudio Cusano , Raimondo Schettini

This paper presents an approach for semantic place categorization using data obtained from RGB cameras. Previous studies on visual place recognition and classification have shown that, by considering features derived from pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Bulò , Elisa Ricci , Barbara Caputo

This paper proposes a new image-based localization framework that explicitly localizes the camera/robot by fusing Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and sequential images' geometric constraints. The camera is localized using a single or few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Jingwei Song , Mitesh Patel , Maani Ghaffari

Indoor positioning and navigation inside an area with no GPS-data availability is a challenging problem. There are applications such as augmented reality, autonomous driving, navigation of drones inside tunnels, in which indoor positioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Ali Ghofrani , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi , Sayed Mojtaba Tabatabaie

We propose a new deep learning based approach for camera relocalization. Our approach localizes a given query image by using a convolutional neural network (CNN) for first retrieving similar database images and then predicting the relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Zakaria Laskar , Iaroslav Melekhov , Surya Kalia , Juho Kannala

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

Object localization has a vital role in any object detector, and therefore, has been the focus of attention by many researchers. In this article, a special training approach is proposed for a light convolutional neural network (CNN) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Faraz Lotfi , Farnoosh Faraji , Hamid D. Taghirad

Localization in topological maps is essential for image-based navigation using an RGB camera. Localization using only one camera can be challenging in medium-to-large-sized environments because similar-looking images are often observed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Takahiro Niwa , Shun Taguchi , Noriaki Hirose

The goal of this work is to replace objects in an RGB-D scene with corresponding 3D models from a library. We approach this problem by first detecting and segmenting object instances in the scene using the approach from Gupta et al. [13].…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Saurabh Gupta , Pablo Arbeláez , Ross Girshick , Jitendra Malik

This paper presents a convolutional neural network based approach for estimating the relative pose between two cameras. The proposed network takes RGB images from both cameras as input and directly produces the relative rotation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Iaroslav Melekhov , Juha Ylioinas , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is the state-of-the-art for image classification task. Here we have briefly discussed different components of CNN. In this paper, We have explained different CNN architectures for image classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Farhana Sultana , A. Sufian , Paramartha Dutta

In this work, we introduce a Denser Feature Network (DenserNet) for visual localization. Our work provides three principal contributions. First, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture which aggregates feature maps at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dongfang Liu , Yiming Cui , Liqi Yan , Christos Mousas , Baijian Yang , Yingjie Chen

Object classification is a significant task in computer vision. It has become an effective research area as an important aspect of image processing and the building block of image localization, detection, and scene parsing. Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Md. Mohsin Kabir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , Md. Saifur Rahman , M. F. Mridha

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

In this paper, we propose a novel graph convolutional network architecture, Graph Stacked Hourglass Networks, for 2D-to-3D human pose estimation tasks. The proposed architecture consists of repeated encoder-decoder, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Tianhan Xu , Wataru Takano

This paper presents a novel approach to increase the performance bounds of image steganography under the criteria of minimizing distortion. The proposed approach utilizes a steganalysis convolutional neural network (CNN) framework to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Mehdi Sharifzadeh , Chirag Agarwal , Mohammed Aloraini , Dan Schonfeld

We propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture for image classification based on subband decomposition of the image using wavelets. The proposed architecture decomposes the input image spectra into multiple critically sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Pavel Sinha , Ioannis Psaromiligkos , Zeljko Zilic

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture considering both local and global features for image enhancement. Most conventional image enhancement methods, including Retinex-based methods, cannot restore…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-09 Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

In this paper, we propose a novel approach that learns to sequentially attend to different Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) layers (i.e., ``what'' feature abstraction to attend to) and different spatial locations of the selected feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Tony Joseph , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Faisal Z. Qureshi
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