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Counting the number of people inside a building, from outside and without entering the building, is crucial for many applications. In this paper, we are interested in counting the total number of people walking inside a building (or in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-17 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

Action recognition is a fundamental ability for social species. Yet, its underlying computations are not well understood. Classical psychophysical studies using simplified stimuli have shown that humans can perceive body motion even under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prerana Kumar , Martin A. Giese

Most of computer vision focuses on what is in an image. We propose to train a standalone object-centric context representation to perform the opposite task: seeing what is not there. Given an image, our context model can predict where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Jin Sun , David W. Jacobs

The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Matteo Caligiuri , Adriano Simonetto , Pietro Zanuttigh

We develop an unsupervised, nonparametric, and scalable statistical learning method for detection of unknown objects in noisy images. The method uses results from percolation theory and random graph theory. We present an algorithm that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-16 Mikhail A. Langovoy , Olaf Wittich , Patrick Laurie Davies

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

We present a novel approach to weakly supervised object detection. Instead of annotated images, our method only requires two short videos to learn to detect a new object: 1) a video of a moving object and 2) one or more "negative" videos of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Rico Jonschkowski , Austin Stone

Face recognition from a single image per person is a challenging problem because the training sample is extremely small. We consider a variation of this problem. In our problem, we recognize only one person, and there are no labeled data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Branislav Kveton , Michal Valko

We present a method for predicting dense depth in scenarios where both a monocular camera and people in the scene are freely moving. Existing methods for recovering depth for dynamic, non-rigid objects from monocular video impose strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Zhengqi Li , Tali Dekel , Forrester Cole , Richard Tucker , Noah Snavely , Ce Liu , William T. Freeman

Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging relies on collecting light that is rendered incoherent from the multiple scattering events and is then post-processed to provide an estimate of the hidden scene. Here we employ coherent phase control of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ilya Starshynov , Omair Ghafur , James Fitches , Daniele Faccio

Deep learning has enabled remarkable advances in scene understanding, particularly in semantic segmentation tasks. Yet, current state of the art approaches are limited to a closed set of classes, and fail when facing novel elements, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Nicolas Marchal , Charlotte Moraldo , Roland Siegwart , Hermann Blum , Cesar Cadena , Abel Gawel

We develop novel methods for device-free localization (DFL) using transceivers in motion. Such localization technologies are useful in various cross-layer applications/protocols including those that are related to security situations where…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Peter Hillyard , Dustin Maas , Sriram Premnath , Neal Patwari , Sneha Kasera

We present a new end-to-end learning framework to obtain detailed and spatially coherent reconstructions of multiple people from a single image. Existing multi-person methods suffer from two main drawbacks: they are often model-based and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Armin Mustafa , Akin Caliskan , Lourdes Agapito , Adrian Hilton

When interacting with highly dynamic environments, scene flow allows autonomous systems to reason about the non-rigid motion of multiple independent objects. This is of particular interest in the field of autonomous driving, in which many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Himangi Mittal , Brian Okorn , David Held

Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Subhabrata Choudhury , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

This work proposes a novel method for estimating the influence that unknown static objects might have over mobile agents. Since the motion of agents can be affected by the presence of fixed objects, it is possible use the information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Damian Campo , Vahid Bastani , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can be used for automatically switching off the light, air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fabio Chiarani , Philipp H. Kindt , Graziano Pravadelli

Light scattered from multiple surfaces can be used to retrieve information of hidden environments. However, full three-dimensional retrieval of an object hidden from view by a wall has only been achieved with scanning systems and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Piergiorgio Caramazza , Alessandro Boccolini , Daniel Buschek , Matthias Hullin , Catherine Higham , Robert Henderson , Roderick Murray-Smith , Daniele Faccio