332 research outputs found
Second-order Temporal Pooling for Action Recognition
Deep learning models for video-based action recognition usually generate
features for short clips (consisting of a few frames); such clip-level features
are aggregated to video-level representations by computing statistics on these
features. Typically zero-th (max) or the first-order (average) statistics are
used. In this paper, we explore the benefits of using second-order statistics.
Specifically, we propose a novel end-to-end learnable feature aggregation
scheme, dubbed temporal correlation pooling that generates an action descriptor
for a video sequence by capturing the similarities between the temporal
evolution of clip-level CNN features computed across the video. Such a
descriptor, while being computationally cheap, also naturally encodes the
co-activations of multiple CNN features, thereby providing a richer
characterization of actions than their first-order counterparts. We also
propose higher-order extensions of this scheme by computing correlations after
embedding the CNN features in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space. We provide
experiments on benchmark datasets such as HMDB-51 and UCF-101, fine-grained
datasets such as MPII Cooking activities and JHMDB, as well as the recent
Kinetics-600. Our results demonstrate the advantages of higher-order pooling
schemes that when combined with hand-crafted features (as is standard practice)
achieves state-of-the-art accuracy.Comment: Accepted in the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV
Deep Motion Features for Visual Tracking
Robust visual tracking is a challenging computer vision problem, with many
real-world applications. Most existing approaches employ hand-crafted
appearance features, such as HOG or Color Names. Recently, deep RGB features
extracted from convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied for
tracking. Despite their success, these features only capture appearance
information. On the other hand, motion cues provide discriminative and
complementary information that can improve tracking performance. Contrary to
visual tracking, deep motion features have been successfully applied for action
recognition and video classification tasks. Typically, the motion features are
learned by training a CNN on optical flow images extracted from large amounts
of labeled videos.
This paper presents an investigation of the impact of deep motion features in
a tracking-by-detection framework. We further show that hand-crafted, deep RGB,
and deep motion features contain complementary information. To the best of our
knowledge, we are the first to propose fusing appearance information with deep
motion features for visual tracking. Comprehensive experiments clearly suggest
that our fusion approach with deep motion features outperforms standard methods
relying on appearance information alone.Comment: ICPR 2016. Best paper award in the "Computer Vision and Robot Vision"
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Utilization and experimental evaluation of occlusion aware kernel correlation filter tracker using RGB-D
Unlike deep-learning which requires large training datasets, correlation filter-based trackers like Kernelized Correlation Filter (KCF) uses implicit properties of tracked images (circulant matrices) for training in real-time. Despite their practical application in tracking, a need for a better understanding of the fundamentals associated with KCF in terms of theoretically, mathematically, and experimentally exists. This thesis first details the workings prototype of the tracker and investigates its effectiveness in real-time applications and supporting visualizations. We further address some of the drawbacks of the tracker in cases of occlusions, scale changes, object rotation, out-of-view and model drift with our novel RGB-D Kernel Correlation tracker. We also study the use of particle filter to improve trackers\u27 accuracy. Our results are experimentally evaluated using a) standard dataset and b) real-time using Microsoft Kinect V2 sensor. We believe this work will set the basis for better understanding the effectiveness of kernel-based correlation filter trackers and to further define some of its possible advantages in tracking
Learning representations in the hyperspectral domain in aerial imagery
We establish two new datasets with baselines and network architectures for the task of hyperspectral image analysis. The first dataset, AeroRIT, is a moving camera static scene captured from a flight and contains per pixel labeling across five categories for the task of semantic segmentation. The second dataset, RooftopHSI, helps design and interpret learnt features on hyperspectral object detection on scenes captured from an university rooftop. This dataset accounts for static camera, moving scene hyperspectral imagery. We further broaden the scope of our understanding of neural networks with the development of two novel algorithms - S4AL and S4AL+. We develop these frameworks on natural (color) imagery, by combining semi-supervised learning and active learning, and display promising results for learning with limited amount of labeled data, which can be extended to hyperspectral imagery. In this dissertation, we curated two new datasets for hyperspectral image analysis, significantly larger than existing datasets and broader in terms of categories for classification. We then adapt existing neural network architectures to function on the increased channel information, in a smart manner, to leverage all hyperspectral information. We also develop novel active learning algorithms on natural (color) imagery, and discuss the hope for expanding their functionality to hyperspectral imagery
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