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Deep Shape Matching
We cast shape matching as metric learning with convolutional networks. We
break the end-to-end process of image representation into two parts. Firstly,
well established efficient methods are chosen to turn the images into edge
maps. Secondly, the network is trained with edge maps of landmark images, which
are automatically obtained by a structure-from-motion pipeline. The learned
representation is evaluated on a range of different tasks, providing
improvements on challenging cases of domain generalization, generic
sketch-based image retrieval or its fine-grained counterpart. In contrast to
other methods that learn a different model per task, object category, or
domain, we use the same network throughout all our experiments, achieving
state-of-the-art results in multiple benchmarks.Comment: ECCV 201
Connectivity-Enforcing Hough Transform for the Robust Extraction of Line Segments
Global voting schemes based on the Hough transform (HT) have been widely used
to robustly detect lines in images. However, since the votes do not take line
connectivity into account, these methods do not deal well with cluttered
images. In opposition, the so-called local methods enforce connectivity but
lack robustness to deal with challenging situations that occur in many
realistic scenarios, e.g., when line segments cross or when long segments are
corrupted. In this paper, we address the critical limitations of the HT as a
line segment extractor by incorporating connectivity in the voting process.
This is done by only accounting for the contributions of edge points lying in
increasingly larger neighborhoods and whose position and directional content
agree with potential line segments. As a result, our method, which we call
STRAIGHT (Segment exTRAction by connectivity-enforcInG HT), extracts the
longest connected segments in each location of the image, thus also integrating
into the HT voting process the usually separate step of individual segment
extraction. The usage of the Hough space mapping and a corresponding
hierarchical implementation make our approach computationally feasible. We
present experiments that illustrate, with synthetic and real images, how
STRAIGHT succeeds in extracting complete segments in several situations where
current methods fail.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
A survey of visual preprocessing and shape representation techniques
Many recent theories and methods proposed for visual preprocessing and shape representation are summarized. The survey brings together research from the fields of biology, psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, and most recently, neural networks. It was motivated by the need to preprocess images for a sparse distributed memory (SDM), but the techniques presented may also prove useful for applying other associative memories to visual pattern recognition. The material of this survey is divided into three sections: an overview of biological visual processing; methods of preprocessing (extracting parts of shape, texture, motion, and depth); and shape representation and recognition (form invariance, primitives and structural descriptions, and theories of attention)
Picasso, Matisse, or a Fake? Automated Analysis of Drawings at the Stroke Level for Attribution and Authentication
This paper proposes a computational approach for analysis of strokes in line
drawings by artists. We aim at developing an AI methodology that facilitates
attribution of drawings of unknown authors in a way that is not easy to be
deceived by forged art. The methodology used is based on quantifying the
characteristics of individual strokes in drawings. We propose a novel algorithm
for segmenting individual strokes. We designed and compared different
hand-crafted and learned features for the task of quantifying stroke
characteristics. We also propose and compare different classification methods
at the drawing level. We experimented with a dataset of 300 digitized drawings
with over 80 thousands strokes. The collection mainly consisted of drawings of
Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse, and Egon Schiele, besides a small number of
representative works of other artists. The experiments shows that the proposed
methodology can classify individual strokes with accuracy 70%-90%, and
aggregate over drawings with accuracy above 80%, while being robust to be
deceived by fakes (with accuracy 100% for detecting fakes in most settings)
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