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This paper introduces an innovative keypoint detection technique based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to enhance the performance of existing Deep Visual Servoing (DVS) models. To validate the convergence of the Image-Based Visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Niloufar Amiri , Guanghui Wang , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

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

The success of deep learning techniques in the computer vision domain has triggered a range of initial investigations into their utility for visual place recognition, all using generic features from networks that were trained for other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Zetao Chen , Adam Jacobson , Niko Sunderhauf , Ben Upcroft , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid , Michael Milford

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a standard approach for visual recognition due to their capacity to learn hierarchical representations from raw pixels. In practice, practitioners often choose among (i) training a compact custom CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Annoor Sharara Akhand

Viewpoint estimation from 2D rendered images is helpful in understanding how users select viewpoints for volume visualization and guiding users to select better viewpoints based on previous visualizations. In this paper, we propose a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Neng Shi , Yubo Tao

Recent years have witnessed the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) based models in the field of computer vision. CNN is able to learn hierarchically abstracted features from images in an end-to-end training manner. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xin Li , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Changsong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Convolutional neural networks rely on image texture and structure to serve as discriminative features to classify the image content. Image enhancement techniques can be used as preprocessing steps to help improve the overall image quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Vivek Sharma , Ali Diba , Davy Neven , Michael S. Brown , Luc Van Gool , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The recent advances brought by deep learning allowed to improve the performance in image retrieval tasks. Through the many convolutional layers, available in a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), it is possible to obtain a hierarchy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Federico Magliani , Tomaso Fontanini , Andrea Prati

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in image classification, but still show room for improvement in object-detection tasks with many categories, in particular for cluttered scenes and occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Nikolaos Karianakis , Thomas J. Fuchs , Stefano Soatto

Facial expression recognition is a topic of great interest in most fields from artificial intelligence and gaming to marketing and healthcare. The goal of this paper is to classify images of human faces into one of seven basic emotions. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Akash Saravanan , Gurudutt Perichetla , K. S. Gayathri

Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom accumulated in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhiqiang Zeng , Jian Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Yuming Chen , Chaoyang Zhu

We propose a new method for creating computationally efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by using low-rank representations of convolutional filters. Rather than approximating filters in previously-trained networks with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Yani Ioannou , Duncan Robertson , Jamie Shotton , Roberto Cipolla , Antonio Criminisi

This paper presents a study on the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for camera relocalisation and its application to map compression. We follow state of the art visual relocalisation results and evaluate the response to different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Luis Contreras , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

Spatial attention has been introduced to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for improving both their performance and interpretability in visual tasks including image classification. The essence of the spatial attention is to learn a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Linchuan Xu , Jun Huang , Atsushi Nitanda , Ryo Asaoka , Kenji Yamanishi

The rapid evolution of digital image manipulation techniques poses significant challenges for content verification, with models such as stable diffusion and mid-journey producing highly realistic, yet synthetic, images that can deceive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Alejandro Marco Montejano , Angela Sanchez Perez , Javier Barrachina , David Ortiz-Perez , Manuel Benavent-Lledo , Jose Garcia-Rodriguez

Local feature provides compact and invariant image representation for various visual tasks. Current deep learning-based local feature algorithms always utilize convolution neural network (CNN) architecture with limited receptive field.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jinyu Miao , Haosong Yue , Zhong Liu , Xingming Wu , Zaojun Fang , Guilin Yang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) show outstanding performance in many image processing problems, such as image recognition, object detection and image segmentation. Semantic segmentation is a very challenging task that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Fan Jia , Jun Liu , Xue-cheng Tai

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a very powerful approach to extract discriminative local descriptors for effective image search. Recent work adopts fine-tuned strategies to further improve the discriminative power of the descriptors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do , Dang-Khoa Le Tan , Ngai-Man Cheung

The convolutional neural network (CNN) learns the same object in different positions in images, which can improve the recognition accuracy of the model. An implication of this is that CNN may know where the object is. The usefulness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Nan Yang , Laicheng Zhong , Fan Huang , Dong Yuan , Wei Bao