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Convolutional Neural Network on Three Orthogonal Planes for Dynamic Texture Classification
Dynamic Textures (DTs) are sequences of images of moving scenes that exhibit
certain stationarity properties in time such as smoke, vegetation and fire. The
analysis of DT is important for recognition, segmentation, synthesis or
retrieval for a range of applications including surveillance, medical imaging
and remote sensing. Deep learning methods have shown impressive results and are
now the new state of the art for a wide range of computer vision tasks
including image and video recognition and segmentation. In particular,
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently proven to be well suited for
texture analysis with a design similar to a filter bank approach. In this
paper, we develop a new approach to DT analysis based on a CNN method applied
on three orthogonal planes x y , xt and y t . We train CNNs on spatial frames
and temporal slices extracted from the DT sequences and combine their outputs
to obtain a competitive DT classifier. Our results on a wide range of commonly
used DT classification benchmark datasets prove the robustness of our approach.
Significant improvement of the state of the art is shown on the larger
datasets.Comment: 19 pages, 10 figure
Going Deeper into Action Recognition: A Survey
Understanding human actions in visual data is tied to advances in
complementary research areas including object recognition, human dynamics,
domain adaptation and semantic segmentation. Over the last decade, human action
analysis evolved from earlier schemes that are often limited to controlled
environments to nowadays advanced solutions that can learn from millions of
videos and apply to almost all daily activities. Given the broad range of
applications from video surveillance to human-computer interaction, scientific
milestones in action recognition are achieved more rapidly, eventually leading
to the demise of what used to be good in a short time. This motivated us to
provide a comprehensive review of the notable steps taken towards recognizing
human actions. To this end, we start our discussion with the pioneering methods
that use handcrafted representations, and then, navigate into the realm of deep
learning based approaches. We aim to remain objective throughout this survey,
touching upon encouraging improvements as well as inevitable fallbacks, in the
hope of raising fresh questions and motivating new research directions for the
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Prescribing Challenges after Bariatric Surgery
Obesity is an increasing problem in the UK, with over half the population being overweight or obese. The use of gastric surgery is increasing, with a 5% increase in 2016/17 compared to 2015/16. However, little is known about ideal drug formulations after bariatric surgery. An exploratory literature search of research databases was carried out to address this. We found that there was a dearth of high-quality primary studies available, with many studies using low numbers of participants. The major finding was of the need for increased vigilance and monitoring of patients after surgery
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