Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711555
Mary Fletcher, A. Dornhaus, M. Shin
Motion and behavior analysis of social insects such as ants requires tracking many ants over time. This process is highly labor-intensive and tedious. Automatic tracking is challenging as ants often interact with one another, resulting in frequent occlusions that cause drifts in tracking. In addition, tracking many objects is computationally expensive. In this paper, we present a robust and efficient method for tracking multiple ants. We first prevent drifts by maximizing the coverage of foreground pixels at at global scale. Secondly, we improve speed by reducing markov chain length through dynamically changing the target proposal distribution for perturbed ant selection. Using a real dataset with ground truth, we demonstrate that our algorithm was able to improve the accuracy by 15% (resulting in 98% tracking accuracy) and the speed by 76%.
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Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711512
Raghavender R. Jillela, A. Ross, P. Flynn
The focus of this work is on improving the recognition performance of low-resolution iris video frames acquired under varying illumination. To facilitate this, an image-level fusion scheme with modest computational requirements is proposed. The proposed algorithm uses the evidence of multiple image frames of the same iris to extract discriminatory information via the Principal Components Transform (PCT). Experimental results on a subset of the MBGC NIR iris database demonstrate the utility of this scheme to achieve improved recognition accuracy when low-resolution probe images are compared against high-resolution gallery images.
{"title":"Information fusion in low-resolution iris videos using Principal Components Transform","authors":"Raghavender R. Jillela, A. Ross, P. Flynn","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711512","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this work is on improving the recognition performance of low-resolution iris video frames acquired under varying illumination. To facilitate this, an image-level fusion scheme with modest computational requirements is proposed. The proposed algorithm uses the evidence of multiple image frames of the same iris to extract discriminatory information via the Principal Components Transform (PCT). Experimental results on a subset of the MBGC NIR iris database demonstrate the utility of this scheme to achieve improved recognition accuracy when low-resolution probe images are compared against high-resolution gallery images.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126148836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711517
Hakan Bilen, Vinay P. Namboodiri, L. Gool
We address the problem of recognizing actions in reallife videos. Space-time interest point-based approaches have been widely prevalent towards solving this problem. In contrast, more spatially extended features such as regions have not been so popular. The reason is, any local region based approach requires the motion flow information for a specific region to be collated temporally. This is challenging as the local regions are deformable and not well delineated from the surroundings. In this paper we address this issue by using robust tracking of regions and we show that it is possible to obtain region descriptors for classification of actions. This paper lays the groundwork for further investigation into region based approaches. Through this paper we make the following contributions a) We advocate identification of salient regions based on motion segmentation b) We adopt a state-of-the art tracker for robust tracking of the identified regions rather than using isolated space-time blocks c) We propose optical flow based region descriptors to encode the extracted trajectories in piece-wise blocks. We demonstrate the performance of our system on real-world data sets.
{"title":"Action recognition: A region based approach","authors":"Hakan Bilen, Vinay P. Namboodiri, L. Gool","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711517","url":null,"abstract":"We address the problem of recognizing actions in reallife videos. Space-time interest point-based approaches have been widely prevalent towards solving this problem. In contrast, more spatially extended features such as regions have not been so popular. The reason is, any local region based approach requires the motion flow information for a specific region to be collated temporally. This is challenging as the local regions are deformable and not well delineated from the surroundings. In this paper we address this issue by using robust tracking of regions and we show that it is possible to obtain region descriptors for classification of actions. This paper lays the groundwork for further investigation into region based approaches. Through this paper we make the following contributions a) We advocate identification of salient regions based on motion segmentation b) We adopt a state-of-the art tracker for robust tracking of the identified regions rather than using isolated space-time blocks c) We propose optical flow based region descriptors to encode the extracted trajectories in piece-wise blocks. We demonstrate the performance of our system on real-world data sets.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116278405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711568
L. Schwarz, D. Mateus, Joé Lallemand, Nassir Navab
In this paper, we propose a method for detection and tracking of multiple planes in sequences of Time of Flight (ToF) depth images. Our approach extends the recent J-linkage algorithm for estimation of multiple model instances in noisy data to tracking. Instead of randomly selecting plane hypotheses in every image, we propagate plane hypotheses through the sequence of images, resulting in a significant reduction of computational load in every frame. We also introduce a multi-pass scheme that allows detecting and tracking planes of varying spatial extent along with their boundaries. Our qualitative and quantitative evaluation shows that the proposed method can robustly detect planes and consistently track the hypotheses through sequences of ToF images.
{"title":"Tracking planes with Time of Flight cameras and J-linkage","authors":"L. Schwarz, D. Mateus, Joé Lallemand, Nassir Navab","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711568","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a method for detection and tracking of multiple planes in sequences of Time of Flight (ToF) depth images. Our approach extends the recent J-linkage algorithm for estimation of multiple model instances in noisy data to tracking. Instead of randomly selecting plane hypotheses in every image, we propagate plane hypotheses through the sequence of images, resulting in a significant reduction of computational load in every frame. We also introduce a multi-pass scheme that allows detecting and tracking planes of varying spatial extent along with their boundaries. Our qualitative and quantitative evaluation shows that the proposed method can robustly detect planes and consistently track the hypotheses through sequences of ToF images.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114463324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711536
M. R. Bales, D. Forsthoefel, D. S. Wills, L. Wills
Illumination changes present challenging problems to video surveillance algorithms tasked with identifying and tracking objects. Illumination changes can drastically alter the appearance of a scene, causing truly salient features to be lost amid otherwise stable background. We describe an illumination change compensation method that identifies large, stable, chromatically distinct background features-called BigBackground regions — which are used as calibration anchors for scene correction. The benefits of this method are demonstrated for a computationally low-cost kinematic tracking application as it attempts to track objects during illumination changes. The BigBackground-based method is compared with other compensation techniques, and is found to successfully track 60% to 80% more objects during illumination changes. Video sequences of pedestrian and vehicular traffic are used for evaluation.
{"title":"Illumination change compensation techniques to improve kinematic tracking","authors":"M. R. Bales, D. Forsthoefel, D. S. Wills, L. Wills","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711536","url":null,"abstract":"Illumination changes present challenging problems to video surveillance algorithms tasked with identifying and tracking objects. Illumination changes can drastically alter the appearance of a scene, causing truly salient features to be lost amid otherwise stable background. We describe an illumination change compensation method that identifies large, stable, chromatically distinct background features-called BigBackground regions — which are used as calibration anchors for scene correction. The benefits of this method are demonstrated for a computationally low-cost kinematic tracking application as it attempts to track objects during illumination changes. The BigBackground-based method is compared with other compensation techniques, and is found to successfully track 60% to 80% more objects during illumination changes. Video sequences of pedestrian and vehicular traffic are used for evaluation.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114764053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711526
S. Oldridge, S. Fels, G. Miller
This paper introduces a system that automatically classifies image pairs based on the type of registration required to align them. The system uses support vector machines to classify between panoramas, high-dynamic-range images, focal stacks, super-resolution, and unrelated image pairs. A feature vector was developed to describe the images, and 1100 pairs were used to train and test the system with 5-fold cross validation. The system is able to classify the desired registration application using a 1: Many classifier with an accuracy of 91.18%. Similarly 1:1 classifiers were developed for each class with classification rates as follows: Panorama image pairs are classified at 93.15%, high-dynamic-range pairs at 97.56%, focal stack pairs at 95.68%, super-resolution pairs at 99.25%, and finally unrelated image pairs at 95.79%. An investigation into feature importance outlines the utility of each feature individually. In addition, the invariance of the classification system towards the size of the image used to calculate the feature vector was explored. The classification of our system remains level at ∼91% until the image size is scaled to 10% (150 × 100 pixels), suggesting that our feature vector is image size invariant within this range.
{"title":"Classification of image registration problems using support vector machines","authors":"S. Oldridge, S. Fels, G. Miller","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711526","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a system that automatically classifies image pairs based on the type of registration required to align them. The system uses support vector machines to classify between panoramas, high-dynamic-range images, focal stacks, super-resolution, and unrelated image pairs. A feature vector was developed to describe the images, and 1100 pairs were used to train and test the system with 5-fold cross validation. The system is able to classify the desired registration application using a 1: Many classifier with an accuracy of 91.18%. Similarly 1:1 classifiers were developed for each class with classification rates as follows: Panorama image pairs are classified at 93.15%, high-dynamic-range pairs at 97.56%, focal stack pairs at 95.68%, super-resolution pairs at 99.25%, and finally unrelated image pairs at 95.79%. An investigation into feature importance outlines the utility of each feature individually. In addition, the invariance of the classification system towards the size of the image used to calculate the feature vector was explored. The classification of our system remains level at ∼91% until the image size is scaled to 10% (150 × 100 pixels), suggesting that our feature vector is image size invariant within this range.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130851847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711540
Nicolas Pinto, Youssef Barhomi, David D. Cox, J. DiCarlo
Tolerance (“invariance”) to identity-preserving image variation (e.g. variation in position, scale, pose, illumination) is a fundamental problem that any visual object recognition system, biological or engineered, must solve. While standard natural image database benchmarks are useful for guiding progress in computer vision, they can fail to probe the ability of a recognition system to solve the invariance problem [23, 24, 25]. Thus, to understand which computational approaches are making progress on solving the invariance problem, we compared and contrasted a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations using synthetic recognition tasks designed to systematically probe invari-ance. We successfully re-implemented a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations and confirmed their published performance on a natural image benchmark. We here report that most of these representations perform poorly on invariant recognition, but that one representation [21] shows significant performance gains over two baseline representations. We also show how this approach can more deeply illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of different visual representations and thus guide progress on invariant object recognition.
{"title":"Comparing state-of-the-art visual features on invariant object recognition tasks","authors":"Nicolas Pinto, Youssef Barhomi, David D. Cox, J. DiCarlo","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711540","url":null,"abstract":"Tolerance (“invariance”) to identity-preserving image variation (e.g. variation in position, scale, pose, illumination) is a fundamental problem that any visual object recognition system, biological or engineered, must solve. While standard natural image database benchmarks are useful for guiding progress in computer vision, they can fail to probe the ability of a recognition system to solve the invariance problem [23, 24, 25]. Thus, to understand which computational approaches are making progress on solving the invariance problem, we compared and contrasted a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations using synthetic recognition tasks designed to systematically probe invari-ance. We successfully re-implemented a variety of state-of-the-art visual representations and confirmed their published performance on a natural image benchmark. We here report that most of these representations perform poorly on invariant recognition, but that one representation [21] shows significant performance gains over two baseline representations. We also show how this approach can more deeply illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of different visual representations and thus guide progress on invariant object recognition.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711561
Albert Y. C. Chen, Jason J. Corso
We present the Video Graph-Shifts (VGS) approach for efficiently incorporating temporal consistency into MRF energy minimization for multi-class video object segmentation. In contrast to previous methods, our dynamic temporal links avoid the computational overhead of using a fully connected spatiotemporal MRF, while still being able to deal with the uncertainties of the exact inter-frame pixel correspondence issues. The dynamic temporal links are initialized flexibly for balancing between speed and accuracy, and are automatically revised whenever a label change (shift) occurs during the energy minimization process. We show in the benchmark CamVid database and our own wintry driving dataset that VGS improves the issue of temporally inconsistent segmentation effectively-enhancements of up to 5% to 10% for those semantic classes with high intra-class variance. Furthermore, VGS processes each frame at pixel resolution in about one second, which provides a practical way of modeling complex probabilistic relationships in videos and solving it in near real-time.
{"title":"Temporally consistent multi-class video-object segmentation with the Video Graph-Shifts algorithm","authors":"Albert Y. C. Chen, Jason J. Corso","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711561","url":null,"abstract":"We present the Video Graph-Shifts (VGS) approach for efficiently incorporating temporal consistency into MRF energy minimization for multi-class video object segmentation. In contrast to previous methods, our dynamic temporal links avoid the computational overhead of using a fully connected spatiotemporal MRF, while still being able to deal with the uncertainties of the exact inter-frame pixel correspondence issues. The dynamic temporal links are initialized flexibly for balancing between speed and accuracy, and are automatically revised whenever a label change (shift) occurs during the energy minimization process. We show in the benchmark CamVid database and our own wintry driving dataset that VGS improves the issue of temporally inconsistent segmentation effectively-enhancements of up to 5% to 10% for those semantic classes with high intra-class variance. Furthermore, VGS processes each frame at pixel resolution in about one second, which provides a practical way of modeling complex probabilistic relationships in videos and solving it in near real-time.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129026218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711500
Geoffrey Oxholm, K. Nishino
We introduce a novel method for matching and aligning 3D surfaces that do not have any overlapping surface information. When two matching surfaces do not overlap, all that remains in common between them is a thin strip along their borders. Aligning such fragments is challenging but crucial for various applications, such as reassembly of thin-shell ceramics from their broken pieces. Past work approach this problem by heavily relying on simplistic assumptions about the shape of the object, or its texture. Our method makes no such assumptions; instead, we leverage the geometric and photometric similarity of the matching surfaces along the break-line. We first encode the shape and color of the boundary contour of each fragment at various scales in a novel 2D representation. Reformulating contour matching as 2D image registration based on these scale-space images enables efficient and accurate break-line matching. We then align the fragments by estimating the rotation around the break-line through maximizing the geometric continuity across it with a least-squares minimization. We evaluate our method on real-word colonial artifacts recently excavated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our system dramatically increases the ease and efficiency at which users reassemble artifacts as we demonstrate on three different vessels.
{"title":"Aligning surfaces without aligning surfaces","authors":"Geoffrey Oxholm, K. Nishino","doi":"10.1109/WACV.2011.5711500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV.2011.5711500","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce a novel method for matching and aligning 3D surfaces that do not have any overlapping surface information. When two matching surfaces do not overlap, all that remains in common between them is a thin strip along their borders. Aligning such fragments is challenging but crucial for various applications, such as reassembly of thin-shell ceramics from their broken pieces. Past work approach this problem by heavily relying on simplistic assumptions about the shape of the object, or its texture. Our method makes no such assumptions; instead, we leverage the geometric and photometric similarity of the matching surfaces along the break-line. We first encode the shape and color of the boundary contour of each fragment at various scales in a novel 2D representation. Reformulating contour matching as 2D image registration based on these scale-space images enables efficient and accurate break-line matching. We then align the fragments by estimating the rotation around the break-line through maximizing the geometric continuity across it with a least-squares minimization. We evaluate our method on real-word colonial artifacts recently excavated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our system dramatically increases the ease and efficiency at which users reassemble artifacts as we demonstrate on three different vessels.","PeriodicalId":424724,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124507570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-01-05DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2011.5711505
R. Abiantun, Utsav Prabhu, Keshav Seshadri, J. Heo, M. Savvides
Traditional approaches to face recognition have utilized aligned facial images containing both shape and texture information. This paper analyzes the contributions of the individual facial shape and texture components to face recognition. These two components are evaluated independently and we investigate methods to combine the information gained from each of them to enhance face recognition performance. The contributions of this paper are the following: (1) to the best of our knowledge, it is the first large-scale study of how face recognition is influenced by shape and texture as all of our results are benchmarked against traditional approaches on the challenging NIST FRGC ver2.0 experiment 4 dataset, (2) we empirically show that shape information is reasonably discriminative, (3) we demonstrate significant improvement in performance by registering texture with dense shape information, and finally (4) show that fusing shape and texture information consistently boosts recognition results across different subspace-based algorithms.
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