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Being capable of estimating the pose of uncooperative objects in space has been proposed as a key asset for enabling safe close-proximity operations such as space rendezvous, in-orbit servicing and active debris removal. Usual approaches…
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Facial landmark localization plays an important role in face recognition and analysis applications. In this paper, we give a brief introduction to a coarse-to-fine pipeline with neural networks and sequential regression. First, a global…
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In this paper, we propose a learned scalable/progressive image compression scheme based on deep neural networks (DNN), named Bidirectional Context Disentanglement Network (BCD-Net). For learning hierarchical representations, we first adopt…