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Traffic sign identification using camera images from vehicles plays a critical role in autonomous driving and path planning. However, the front camera images can be distorted due to blurriness, lighting variations and vandalism which can…

While existing face recognition systems based on local features are robust to issues such as misalignment, they can exhibit accuracy degradation when comparing images of differing resolutions. This is common in surveillance environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Yongkang Wong , Conrad Sanderson , Sandra Mau , Brian C. Lovell

Edge detection as a pre-processing stage is a fundamental and important aspect of the number plate extraction system. This is due to the fact that the identification of a particular vehicle is achievable using the number plate because each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Bashir Olaniyi Sadiq

Lane detection plays a crucial role in autonomous driving by providing vital data to ensure safe navigation. Modern algorithms rely on anchor-based detectors, which are then followed by a label-assignment process to categorize training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Sapir Kontente , Roy Orfaig , Ben-Zion Bobrovsky

Text-based person retrieval (TPR) has gained significant attention as a fine-grained and challenging task that closely aligns with practical applications. Tailoring CLIP to person domain is now a emerging research topic due to the abundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yating Liu , Zimo Liu , Xiangyuan Lan , Wenming Yang , Yaowei Li , Qingmin Liao

Accurate online map matching is fundamental to vehicle navigation and the activation of intelligent driving functions. Current online map matching methods are prone to errors in complex road networks, especially in multilevel road area. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xin Bi , Zhichao Li , Yuxuan Xia , Panpan Tong , Lijuan Zhang , Yang Chen , Junsheng Fu

Visual place recognition (VPR) capabilities enable autonomous robots to navigate complex environments by discovering the environment's topology based on visual input. Most research efforts focus on enhancing the accuracy and robustness of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yiming Li , Zonglin Lyu , Mingxuan Lu , Chao Chen , Michael Milford , Chen Feng

The variation of pose, illumination and expression makes face recognition still a challenging problem. As a pre-processing in holistic approaches, faces are usually aligned by eyes. The proposed method tries to perform a pixel alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Hoda Mohammadzade , Amirhossein Sayyafan , Benyamin Ghojogh

Vehicle detection in aerial videos often requires post-processing to eliminate false detections. This paper presents a spatio-temporal processing scheme to improve automatic vehicle detection performance by replacing the thresholding step…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Xin Gao , Jeno Szep , Pratik Satam , Salim Hariri , Sundaresh Ram , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

LoFTR arXiv:2104.00680 is an efficient deep learning method for finding appropriate local feature matches on image pairs. This paper reports on the optimization of this method to work on devices with low computational performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Kyrylo Kolodiazhnyi

We present an enhanced YOLOv8 real time vehicle detection and classification framework, for estimating carbon emissions in urban environments. The system enhances YOLOv8 architecture to detect, segment, and track vehicles from live traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ammar K Al Mhdawi , Nonso Nnamoko , Safanah Mudheher Raafat , M. K. S. Al-Mhdawi , Amjad J Humaidi

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years. However, these evaluations are performed for ground-based mobile platforms and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Kostas Alexis , Klaus McDonald-Maier

How to improve discriminative feature learning is central in classification. Existing works address this problem by explicitly increasing inter-class separability and intra-class similarity, whether by constructing positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Qingsong Zhao , Yi Wang , Shuguang Dou , Chen Gong , Yin Wang , Cairong Zhao

Human observers engage in selective information uptake when classifying visual patterns. The same is true of deep neural networks, which currently constitute the best performing artificial vision systems. Our goal is to examine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Chetan Ralekar , Shubham Choudhary , Tapan Kumar Gandhi , Santanu Chaudhury

Path-Guiding algorithms for sampling scattering directions can drastically decrease the variance of Monte Carlo estimators of Light Transport Equation, but their usage was limited to offline rendering because of memory and computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mikhail Derevyannykh

Computer vision coupled with Deep Learning (DL) techniques bring out a substantial prospect in the field of traffic control, monitoring and law enforcing activities. This paper presents a YOLOv4 object detection model in which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Md. Saif Hassan Onim , Muhaiminul Islam Akash , Mahmudul Haque , Raiyan Ibne Hafiz

Due to the rising concern of data privacy, it's reasonable to assume the local client data can't be transferred to a centralized server, nor their associated identity label is provided. To support continuous learning and fill the last-mile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wenbin Zhu , Chien-Yi Wang , Kuan-Lun Tseng , Shang-Hong Lai , Baoyuan Wang

Rendering for light field displays (LFDs) requires rendering of dozens or hundreds of views, which must then be combined into a single image on the display, making real-time LFD rendering extremely difficult. We introduce light field…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ajinkya Gavane , Benjamin Watson

With ever increasing number of vehicles, vehicular tracking is one of the major challenges faced by urban areas. In this paper we try to develop a model that can locate a particular vehicle that the user is looking for depending on two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Aashna Ahuja , Arindam Chaudhuri

A main goal in developing video-compression algorithms is to enhance human-perceived visual quality while maintaining file size. But modern video-analysis efforts such as detection and recognition, which are integral to video surveillance…

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