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Learning Active Basis Models by EM-Type Algorithms
EM algorithm is a convenient tool for maximum likelihood model fitting when
the data are incomplete or when there are latent variables or hidden states. In
this review article we explain that EM algorithm is a natural computational
scheme for learning image templates of object categories where the learning is
not fully supervised. We represent an image template by an active basis model,
which is a linear composition of a selected set of localized, elongated and
oriented wavelet elements that are allowed to slightly perturb their locations
and orientations to account for the deformations of object shapes. The model
can be easily learned when the objects in the training images are of the same
pose, and appear at the same location and scale. This is often called
supervised learning. In the situation where the objects may appear at different
unknown locations, orientations and scales in the training images, we have to
incorporate the unknown locations, orientations and scales as latent variables
into the image generation process, and learn the template by EM-type
algorithms. The E-step imputes the unknown locations, orientations and scales
based on the currently learned template. This step can be considered
self-supervision, which involves using the current template to recognize the
objects in the training images. The M-step then relearns the template based on
the imputed locations, orientations and scales, and this is essentially the
same as supervised learning. So the EM learning process iterates between
recognition and supervised learning. We illustrate this scheme by several
experiments.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-STS281 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Robust Temporally Coherent Laplacian Protrusion Segmentation of 3D Articulated Bodies
In motion analysis and understanding it is important to be able to fit a
suitable model or structure to the temporal series of observed data, in order
to describe motion patterns in a compact way, and to discriminate between them.
In an unsupervised context, i.e., no prior model of the moving object(s) is
available, such a structure has to be learned from the data in a bottom-up
fashion. In recent times, volumetric approaches in which the motion is captured
from a number of cameras and a voxel-set representation of the body is built
from the camera views, have gained ground due to attractive features such as
inherent view-invariance and robustness to occlusions. Automatic, unsupervised
segmentation of moving bodies along entire sequences, in a temporally-coherent
and robust way, has the potential to provide a means of constructing a
bottom-up model of the moving body, and track motion cues that may be later
exploited for motion classification. Spectral methods such as locally linear
embedding (LLE) can be useful in this context, as they preserve "protrusions",
i.e., high-curvature regions of the 3D volume, of articulated shapes, while
improving their separation in a lower dimensional space, making them in this
way easier to cluster. In this paper we therefore propose a spectral approach
to unsupervised and temporally-coherent body-protrusion segmentation along time
sequences. Volumetric shapes are clustered in an embedding space, clusters are
propagated in time to ensure coherence, and merged or split to accommodate
changes in the body's topology. Experiments on both synthetic and real
sequences of dense voxel-set data are shown. This supports the ability of the
proposed method to cluster body-parts consistently over time in a totally
unsupervised fashion, its robustness to sampling density and shape quality, and
its potential for bottom-up model constructionComment: 31 pages, 26 figure
Learning to Select Pre-Trained Deep Representations with Bayesian Evidence Framework
We propose a Bayesian evidence framework to facilitate transfer learning from
pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our framework is
formulated on top of a least squares SVM (LS-SVM) classifier, which is simple
and fast in both training and testing, and achieves competitive performance in
practice. The regularization parameters in LS-SVM is estimated automatically
without grid search and cross-validation by maximizing evidence, which is a
useful measure to select the best performing CNN out of multiple candidates for
transfer learning; the evidence is optimized efficiently by employing Aitken's
delta-squared process, which accelerates convergence of fixed point update. The
proposed Bayesian evidence framework also provides a good solution to identify
the best ensemble of heterogeneous CNNs through a greedy algorithm. Our
Bayesian evidence framework for transfer learning is tested on 12 visual
recognition datasets and illustrates the state-of-the-art performance
consistently in terms of prediction accuracy and modeling efficiency.Comment: Appearing in CVPR-2016 (oral presentation
Object Tracking with Multiple Instance Learning and Gaussian Mixture Model
Recently, Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) technique has been introduced for object tracking\linebreak applications, which has shown its good performance to handle drifting problem. While some instances in positive bags not only contain objects, but also contain the background, it is not reliable to simply assume that each feature of instances in positive bags obeys a single Gaussian distribution. In this paper, a tracker based on online multiple instance boosting has been developed, which employs Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and single Gaussian distribution respectively to model features of instances in positive and negative bags. The differences between samples and the model are integrated into the process of updating the parameters for GMM. With the Haar-like features extracted from the bags, a set of weak classifiers are trained to construct a strong classifier, which is used to track the object location at a new frame. And the classifier can be updated online frame by frame. Experimental results have shown that our tracker is more stable and efficient when dealing with the illumination, rotation, pose and appearance changes
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