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The increasing pace of population aging calls for better care and support systems. Falling is a frequent and critical problem for elderly people causing serious long-term health issues. Fall detection from video streams is not an attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sania Zahan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

The capability of autonomous exploration in complex, unknown environments is important in many robotic applications. While recent research on autonomous exploration have achieved much progress, there are still limitations, e.g., existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haochen Niu , Xingwu Ji , Lantao Zhang , Fei Wen , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu

In this paper, we propose a skeleton matching based approach which aids in text localization in scene images. The input image is preprocessed and segmented into blocks using connected component analysis. We obtain the skeleton of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-23 B. H. Shekar , Smitha M. L

Skeleton-based action recognition has attracted research attentions in recent years. One common drawback in currently popular skeleton-based human action recognition methods is that the sparse skeleton information alone is not sufficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jinmiao Cai , Nianjuan Jiang , Xiaoguang Han , Kui Jia , Jiangbo Lu

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) aim at extending deep learning to arbitrary irregular domains, namely graphs. Their success is highly dependent on how the topology of input graphs is defined and most of the existing GCN architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hichem Sahbi

The choice of the representations is essential for deep gait recognition methods. The binary silhouettes and skeletal coordinates are two dominant representations in recent literature, achieving remarkable advances in many scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chao Fan , Jingzhe Ma , Dongyang Jin , Chuanfu Shen , Shiqi Yu

The existing methods for video anomaly detection mostly utilize videos containing identifiable facial and appearance-based features. The use of videos with identifiable faces raises privacy concerns, especially when used in a hospital or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Pratik K. Mishra , Alex Mihailidis , Shehroz S. Khan

Object skeleton is a useful cue for object detection, complementary to the object contour, as it provides a structural representation to describe the relationship among object parts. While object skeleton extraction in natural images is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Wei Shen , Kai Zhao , Yuan Jiang , Yan Wang , Zhijiang Zhang , Xiang Bai

Recently, lane detection has made great progress with the rapid development of deep neural networks and autonomous driving. However, there exist three mainly problems including characterizing lanes, modeling the structural relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Jinming Su , Chao Chen , Ke Zhang , Junfeng Luo , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaolin Wei

Accurately segmenting thin tubular structures, such as vessels, nerves, roads or concrete cracks, is a crucial task in computer vision. Standard deep learning-based segmentation loss functions, such as Dice or Cross-Entropy, focus on…

Object Skeletonization is the process of extracting skeletal, line-like representations of shapes. It provides a very useful tool for geometric shape understanding and minimal shape representation. It also has a wide variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mohamed A. Ghanem , Alaa A. Anani

Human skeleton information is important in skeleton-based action recognition, which provides a simple and efficient way to describe human pose. However, existing skeleton-based methods focus more on the skeleton, ignoring the objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hao Wen , Ziqian Lu , Fengli Shen , Zhe-Ming Lu , Jialin Cui

Vertebral body compression fractures are reliable early signs of osteoporosis. Though these fractures are visible on Computed Tomography (CT) images, they are frequently missed by radiologists in clinical settings. Prior research on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Maxim Pisov , Vladimir Kondratenko , Alexey Zakharov , Alexey Petraikin , Victor Gombolevskiy , Sergey Morozov , Mikhail Belyaev

Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging technique has been applied for scoliosis assessment, but current assessment method only uses coronal projection image and cannot illustrate the 3D deformity and vertebra rotation. The vertebra…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Hongye Zeng , kang Zhou , Songhan Ge , Yuchong Gao , Jianhao Zhao , Shenghua Gao , Rui Zheng

Crack detection is of great significance for monitoring the integrity and well-being of the infrastructure such as bridges and underground pipelines, which are harsh environments for people to access. In recent years, computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Jiaqi Jiang , Guanqun Cao , Daniel Fernandes Gomes , Shan Luo

This paper presents the novel approach towards table structure recognition by leveraging the guided anchors. The concept differs from current state-of-the-art approaches for table structure recognition that naively apply object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Didier Stricker , Marcus Liwicki , Muhammad Noman Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Skeleton-based human action recognition has received widespread attention in recent years due to its diverse range of application scenarios. Due to the different sources of human skeletons, skeleton data naturally exhibit heterogeneity. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Hongsong Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Jidong Kuang , Jie Gui

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have long defined the state-of-the-art in skeleton-based action recognition, leveraging their ability to unravel the complex dynamics of human joint topology through the graph's adjacency matrix. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuxuan Zhou , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Jun-Yan He , Bin Luo , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Rockfall detection is a crucial procedure in the field of geology, which helps to reduce the associated risks. Currently, geologists identify rockfall events almost manually utilizing point cloud and imagery data obtained from different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Thanasis Zoumpekas , Anna Puig , Maria Salamó , David García-Sellés , Laura Blanco Nuñez , Marta Guinau

Object skeletons offer a concise representation of structural information, capturing essential aspects of posture and orientation that are crucial for autonomous driving applications. However, a unified architecture that simultaneously…

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