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Expanded Parts Model for Semantic Description of Humans in Still Images
We introduce an Expanded Parts Model (EPM) for recognizing human attributes
(e.g. young, short hair, wearing suit) and actions (e.g. running, jumping) in
still images. An EPM is a collection of part templates which are learnt
discriminatively to explain specific scale-space regions in the images (in
human centric coordinates). This is in contrast to current models which consist
of a relatively few (i.e. a mixture of) 'average' templates. EPM uses only a
subset of the parts to score an image and scores the image sparsely in space,
i.e. it ignores redundant and random background in an image. To learn our
model, we propose an algorithm which automatically mines parts and learns
corresponding discriminative templates together with their respective locations
from a large number of candidate parts. We validate our method on three recent
challenging datasets of human attributes and actions. We obtain convincing
qualitative and state-of-the-art quantitative results on the three datasets.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (TPAMI
Automatic Discovery, Association Estimation and Learning of Semantic Attributes for a Thousand Categories
Attribute-based recognition models, due to their impressive performance and
their ability to generalize well on novel categories, have been widely adopted
for many computer vision applications. However, usually both the attribute
vocabulary and the class-attribute associations have to be provided manually by
domain experts or large number of annotators. This is very costly and not
necessarily optimal regarding recognition performance, and most importantly, it
limits the applicability of attribute-based models to large scale data sets. To
tackle this problem, we propose an end-to-end unsupervised attribute learning
approach. We utilize online text corpora to automatically discover a salient
and discriminative vocabulary that correlates well with the human concept of
semantic attributes. Moreover, we propose a deep convolutional model to
optimize class-attribute associations with a linguistic prior that accounts for
noise and missing data in text. In a thorough evaluation on ImageNet, we
demonstrate that our model is able to efficiently discover and learn semantic
attributes at a large scale. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our model
outperforms the state-of-the-art in zero-shot learning on three data sets:
ImageNet, Animals with Attributes and aPascal/aYahoo. Finally, we enable
attribute-based learning on ImageNet and will share the attributes and
associations for future research.Comment: Accepted as a conference paper at CVPR 201
Recent Advances in Transfer Learning for Cross-Dataset Visual Recognition: A Problem-Oriented Perspective
This paper takes a problem-oriented perspective and presents a comprehensive
review of transfer learning methods, both shallow and deep, for cross-dataset
visual recognition. Specifically, it categorises the cross-dataset recognition
into seventeen problems based on a set of carefully chosen data and label
attributes. Such a problem-oriented taxonomy has allowed us to examine how
different transfer learning approaches tackle each problem and how well each
problem has been researched to date. The comprehensive problem-oriented review
of the advances in transfer learning with respect to the problem has not only
revealed the challenges in transfer learning for visual recognition, but also
the problems (e.g. eight of the seventeen problems) that have been scarcely
studied. This survey not only presents an up-to-date technical review for
researchers, but also a systematic approach and a reference for a machine
learning practitioner to categorise a real problem and to look up for a
possible solution accordingly
Learning Structured Inference Neural Networks with Label Relations
Images of scenes have various objects as well as abundant attributes, and
diverse levels of visual categorization are possible. A natural image could be
assigned with fine-grained labels that describe major components,
coarse-grained labels that depict high level abstraction or a set of labels
that reveal attributes. Such categorization at different concept layers can be
modeled with label graphs encoding label information. In this paper, we exploit
this rich information with a state-of-art deep learning framework, and propose
a generic structured model that leverages diverse label relations to improve
image classification performance. Our approach employs a novel stacked label
prediction neural network, capturing both inter-level and intra-level label
semantics. We evaluate our method on benchmark image datasets, and empirical
results illustrate the efficacy of our model.Comment: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR) 201
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