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Age estimation from a single face image has been an essential task in the field of human-computer interaction and computer vision, which has a wide range of practical application values. Accuracy of age estimation of face images in the wild…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Ke Zhang , Na Liu , Xingfang Yuan , Xinyao Guo , Ce Gao , Zhenbing Zhao , Zhanyu Ma

General image super-resolution techniques have difficulties in recovering detailed face structures when applying to low resolution face images. Recent deep learning based methods tailored for face images have achieved improved performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Chaofeng Chen , Dihong Gong , Hao Wang , Zhifeng Li , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advances in computer vision have made it possible to automatically assess from videos the manipulation skills of humans in performing a task, which breeds many important applications in domains such as health rehabilitation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhenqiang Li , Yifei Huang , Minjie Cai , Yoichi Sato

Human pose estimation is an essential yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the reasons for this difficulty is that there are many redundant regions in the images. In this work, we proposed a convolutional network architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Guanxiong Sun , Chengqin Ye , Kuanquan Wang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image denoising can effectively exploit rich hierarchical features and have achieved great success. However, many deep CNN-based denoising models equally utilize the hierarchical features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Wencong Wu , An Ge , Guannan Lv , Yuelong Xia , Yungang Zhang , Wen Xiong

Video quality assessment is a challenging problem having a critical significance in the context of medical imaging. For instance, in laparoscopic surgery, the acquired video data suffers from different kinds of distortion that not only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Zohaib Amjad Khan , Azeddine Beghdadi , Mounir Kaaniche , Faouzi Alaya Cheikh , Osama Gharbi

Our research focuses on the critical field of early diagnosis of disease by examining retinal blood vessels in fundus images. While automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels holds promise for early detection, accurate analysis remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Fatema Tuj Johora Faria , Mukaffi Bin Moin , Pronay Debnath , Asif Iftekher Fahim , Faisal Muhammad Shah

Previous methods for skeleton-based gesture recognition mostly arrange the skeleton sequence into a pseudo picture or spatial-temporal graph and apply deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) or Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Jianbo Liu , Ying Wang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Estimation of bone age from hand radiographs is essential to determine skeletal age in diagnosing endocrine disorders and depicting the growth status of children. However, existing automatic methods only apply their models to test images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Youshan Zhang , Brian D. Davison

Bone age assessment gives us evidence to analyze the children growth status and the rejuvenation involved chronological and biological ages. All the previous works consider left-hand X-ray image of a child in their works. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Hai-Duong Nguyen , Soo-Hyung Kim

Bone age assessment is an important clinical trial to measure skeletal child maturity and diagnose of growth disorders. Conventional approaches such as the Tanner-Whitehouse (TW) and Greulich and Pyle (GP) may not perform well due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Xiaoman Zhang , Ziyuan Zhao , Cen Chen , Songyou Peng , Min Wu , Zhongyao Cheng , Singee Teo , Le Zhang , Zeng Zeng

Brain lesion volume measured on T2 weighted MRI images is a clinically important disease marker in multiple sclerosis (MS). Manual delineation of MS lesions is a time-consuming and highly operator-dependent task, which is influenced by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Hang Zhang , Jinwei Zhang , Qihao Zhang , Jeremy Kim , Shun Zhang , Susan A. Gauthier , Pascal Spincemaille , Thanh D. Nguyen , Mert R. Sabuncu , Yi Wang

Deep learning (DL) based semantic segmentation methods have been providing state-of-the-art performance in the last few years. More specifically, these techniques have been successfully applied to medical image classification, segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Md Zahangir Alom , Mahmudul Hasan , Chris Yakopcic , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

With the increasing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recent works on face-based age estimation employ these networks as the backbone. However, state-of-the-art CNN-based methods treat each facial region equally, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Haoyi Wang , Victor Sanchez , Chang-Tsun Li

Action recognition is a fundamental problem in computer vision with a lot of potential applications such as video surveillance, human computer interaction, and robot learning. Given pre-segmented videos, the task is to recognize actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Ahsan Iqbal , Alexander Richard , Hilde Kuehne , Juergen Gall

Automatic prediction of age and gender from face images has drawn a lot of attention recently, due it is wide applications in various facial analysis problems. However, due to the large intra-class variation of face images (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Amirali Abdolrashidi , Mehdi Minaei , Elham Azimi , Shervin Minaee

The human gaze is a cost-efficient physiological data that reveals human underlying attentional patterns. The selective attention mechanism helps the cognition system focus on task-relevant visual clues by ignoring the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yifei Huang , Xiaoxiao Li , Lijin Yang , Lin Gu , Yingying Zhu , Hirofumi Seo , Qiuming Meng , Tatsuya Harada , Yoichi Sato

Referring image segmentation segments an image from a language expression. With the aim of producing high-quality masks, existing methods often adopt iterative learning approaches that rely on RNNs or stacked attention layers to refine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zhao Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yansong Tang , Kai Chen , Hengshuang Zhao , Philip H. S. Torr

Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an improved version of ResNets. Our proposed improvements address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Ionut Cosmin Duta , Li Liu , Fan Zhu , Ling Shao

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson