178 research outputs found
Place recognition: An Overview of Vision Perspective
Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision
and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently
recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom
accumulated in this field, place recognition still remains an open problem due
to the various ways in which the appearance of real-world places may differ.
This paper presents an overview of the place recognition literature. Since
condition invariant and viewpoint invariant features are essential factors to
long-term robust visual place recognition system, We start with traditional
image description methodology developed in the past, which exploit techniques
from image retrieval field. Recently, the rapid advances of related fields such
as object detection and image classification have inspired a new technique to
improve visual place recognition system, i.e., convolutional neural networks
(CNNs). Thus we then introduce recent progress of visual place recognition
system based on CNNs to automatically learn better image representations for
places. Eventually, we close with discussions and future work of place
recognition.Comment: Applied Sciences (2018
Evolino for recurrent support vector machines
Traditional Support Vector Machines (SVMs) need pre-wired finite time windows
to predict and classify time series. They do not have an internal state
necessary to deal with sequences involving arbitrary long-term dependencies.
Here we introduce a new class of recurrent, truly sequential SVM-like devices
with internal adaptive states, trained by a novel method called EVOlution of
systems with KErnel-based outputs (Evoke), an instance of the recent Evolino
class of methods. Evoke evolves recurrent neural networks to detect and
represent temporal dependencies while using quadratic programming/support
vector regression to produce precise outputs. Evoke is the first SVM-based
mechanism learning to classify a context-sensitive language. It also
outperforms recent state-of-the-art gradient-based recurrent neural networks
(RNNs) on various time series prediction tasks.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figure
Exponential Family Hybrid Semi-Supervised Learning
We present an approach to semi-supervised learning based on an exponential
family characterization. Our approach generalizes previous work on coupled
priors for hybrid generative/discriminative models. Our model is more flexible
and natural than previous approaches. Experimental results on several data sets
show that our approach also performs better in practice.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Pyramidal Fisher Motion for Multiview Gait Recognition
The goal of this paper is to identify individuals by analyzing their gait.
Instead of using binary silhouettes as input data (as done in many previous
works) we propose and evaluate the use of motion descriptors based on densely
sampled short-term trajectories. We take advantage of state-of-the-art people
detectors to define custom spatial configurations of the descriptors around the
target person. Thus, obtaining a pyramidal representation of the gait motion.
The local motion features (described by the Divergence-Curl-Shear descriptor)
extracted on the different spatial areas of the person are combined into a
single high-level gait descriptor by using the Fisher Vector encoding. The
proposed approach, coined Pyramidal Fisher Motion, is experimentally validated
on the recent `AVA Multiview Gait' dataset. The results show that this new
approach achieves promising results in the problem of gait recognition.Comment: Submitted to International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR,
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