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Learning from demonstration is a proven technique to teach robots new skills. Data quality and quantity play a critical role in the performance of models trained using data collected from human demonstrations. In this paper we enhance an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Catie Cuan , Allison Okamura , Mohi Khansari

The task of hot-refresh model upgrades of image retrieval systems plays an essential role in the industry but has never been investigated in academia before. Conventional cold-refresh model upgrades can only deploy new models after the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Binjie Zhang , Yixiao Ge , Yantao Shen , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Xuyuan Xu , Yexin Wang , Ying Shan

Automatic and accurate detection of anatomical landmarks is an essential operation in medical image analysis with a multitude of applications. Recent deep learning methods have improved results by directly encoding the appearance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Guang-Quan Zhou , Juzheng Miao , Xin Yang , Rui Li , En-Ze Huo , Wenlong Shi , Yuhao Huang , Jikuan Qian , Chaoyu Chen , Dong Ni

Estimating homography from a single image remains a challenging yet practically valuable task, particularly in domains like retail, where only one viewpoint is typically available for shelf monitoring and product alignment. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Onur Berk Tore , Ibrahim Samil Yalciner , Server Calap

Recently, some hypergraph-based methods have been proposed to deal with the problem of model fitting in computer vision, mainly due to the superior capability of hypergraph to represent the complex relationship between data points. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Shuyuan Lin , Guobao Xiao , Yan Yan , David Suter , Hanzi Wang

Extensive research has been conducted, over recent years, on various ways of enhancing heuristic search for combinatorial optimization problems with machine learning algorithms. In this study, we investigate the use of predictions from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Ítalo Santana , Andrea Lodi , Thibaut Vidal

Visual navigation using only a single camera and a topological map has recently become an appealing alternative to methods that require additional sensors and 3D maps. This is typically achieved through an "image-relative" approach to…

Although heatmap regression is considered a state-of-the-art method to locate facial landmarks, it suffers from huge spatial complexity and is prone to quantization error. To address this, we propose a novel attentive one-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Shi Yin , Shangfei Wang , Xiaoping Chen , Enhong Chen

Inspired by the recently remarkable successes of Sparse Representation (SR), Collaborative Representation (CR) and sparse graph, we present a novel hypergraph model named Regression-based Hypergraph (RH) which utilizes the regression models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Sheng Huang , Dan Yang , Bo Liu , Xiaohong Zhang

Radar-based wellness monitoring is becoming an effective measurement to provide accurate vital signs in a contactless manner, but data scarcity retards the related research on deep-learning-based methods. Data augmentation is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Yuanyuan Zhang , Sijie Xiong , Rui Yang , EngGee Lim , Yutao Yue

Autonomous driving datasets are often skewed and in particular, lack training data for objects at farther distances from the ego vehicle. The imbalance of data causes a performance degradation as the distance of the detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

In this paper, we explore the problem of training one-look regression models for counting objects in datasets comprising a small number of high-resolution, variable-shaped images. We illustrate that conventional global average pooling (GAP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Shubhra Aich , Ian Stavness

Object detection aims to identify instances of semantic objects of a certain class in images or videos. The success of state-of-the-art approaches is attributed to the significant progress of object proposal and convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Feng Gao , Yihang Lou , Yan Bai , Shiqi Wang , Tiejun Huang , Ling-Yu Duan

Object counting aims to estimate the number of objects in images. The leading counting approaches focus on the single category counting task and achieve impressive performance. Note that there are multiple categories of objects in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Wei Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yixiao Zheng , Zhanyu Ma

We have created a large diverse set of cars from overhead images, which are useful for training a deep learner to binary classify, detect and count them. The dataset and all related material will be made publically available. The set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-16 T. Nathan Mundhenk , Goran Konjevod , Wesam A. Sakla , Kofi Boakye

Current methods for low- and few-shot object detection have primarily focused on enhancing model performance for detecting objects. One common approach to achieve this is by combining model finetuning with data augmentation strategies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Vladislav Li , Georgios Tsoumplekas , Ilias Siniosoglou , Vasileios Argyriou , Anastasios Lytos , Eleftherios Fountoukidis , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis

Tracking-by-detection has become the de facto standard approach to people tracking. To increase robustness, some approaches incorporate re-identification using appearance models and regressing motion offset, which requires costly identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Martin Engilberge , F. Wilke Grosche , Pascal Fua

The counting task, which plays a fundamental role in numerous applications (e.g., crowd counting, traffic statistics), aims to predict the number of objects with various densities. Existing object counting tasks are designed for a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shengqin Jiang , Qing Wang , Fengna Cheng , Yuankai Qi , Qingshan Liu

Advances in high dynamic range (HDR) lighting estimation from a single image have opened new possibilities for augmented reality (AR) applications. Predicting complex lighting environments from a single input image allows for the realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zitian Zhang , Joshua Urban Davis , Jeanne Phuong Anh Vu , Jiangtao Kuang , Jean-François Lalonde

In the realm of artificial intelligence, where a vast majority of data is unstructured, obtaining substantial amounts of labeled data to train supervised machine learning models poses a significant challenge. To address this, we delve into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Natan Vidra , Thomas Clifford , Katherine Jijo , Eden Chung , Liang Zhang