846 research outputs found
Vision-based Real-Time Aerial Object Localization and Tracking for UAV Sensing System
The paper focuses on the problem of vision-based obstacle detection and
tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle navigation. A real-time object
localization and tracking strategy from monocular image sequences is developed
by effectively integrating the object detection and tracking into a dynamic
Kalman model. At the detection stage, the object of interest is automatically
detected and localized from a saliency map computed via the image background
connectivity cue at each frame; at the tracking stage, a Kalman filter is
employed to provide a coarse prediction of the object state, which is further
refined via a local detector incorporating the saliency map and the temporal
information between two consecutive frames. Compared to existing methods, the
proposed approach does not require any manual initialization for tracking, runs
much faster than the state-of-the-art trackers of its kind, and achieves
competitive tracking performance on a large number of image sequences.
Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and superior performance of
the proposed approach.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
BPGrad: Towards Global Optimality in Deep Learning via Branch and Pruning
Understanding the global optimality in deep learning (DL) has been attracting
more and more attention recently. Conventional DL solvers, however, have not
been developed intentionally to seek for such global optimality. In this paper
we propose a novel approximation algorithm, BPGrad, towards optimizing deep
models globally via branch and pruning. Our BPGrad algorithm is based on the
assumption of Lipschitz continuity in DL, and as a result it can adaptively
determine the step size for current gradient given the history of previous
updates, wherein theoretically no smaller steps can achieve the global
optimality. We prove that, by repeating such branch-and-pruning procedure, we
can locate the global optimality within finite iterations. Empirically an
efficient solver based on BPGrad for DL is proposed as well, and it outperforms
conventional DL solvers such as Adagrad, Adadelta, RMSProp, and Adam in the
tasks of object recognition, detection, and segmentation
An Exploration on Deng Xiaoping’s Thought of Close Ties With the People During His Administration in Southwest China
From November 1949 to July 1952, Deng Xiaoping presided over Southwest China as the first secretary of the Southwest Bureau of CPC Central Committee. During this period, he proposed the judgment that “close ties with the people is the life of our party”, stressing that close ties with the people must establish a Marxist view of people and uphold the party’s fundamental purpose; adhere to realize, safeguard and develop the interests of the people; play the roles of people’s congress, people’s organization, party newspapers and journals to tie with the masses; reform the bad style and tendency of being isolated from the people by rectification. These ideas are Deng Xiaoping’s preliminary summary of CPC’s ruling law during his administration in Southwest China, and have an important reference for doing the party’s mass work in the new situation
Unsupervised Deep Feature Transfer for Low Resolution Image Classification
In this paper, we propose a simple while effective unsupervised deep feature
transfer algorithm for low resolution image classification. No fine-tuning on
convenet filters is required in our method. We use pre-trained convenet to
extract features for both high- and low-resolution images, and then feed them
into a two-layer feature transfer network for knowledge transfer. A SVM
classifier is learned directly using these transferred low resolution features.
Our network can be embedded into the state-of-the-art deep neural networks as a
plug-in feature enhancement module. It preserves data structures in feature
space for high resolution images, and transfers the distinguishing features
from a well-structured source domain (high resolution features space) to a not
well-organized target domain (low resolution features space). Extensive
experiments on VOC2007 test set show that the proposed method achieves
significant improvements over the baseline of using feature extraction.Comment: 4 pages, accepted to ICCV19 Workshop and Challenge on Real-World
Recognition from Low-Quality Images and Video
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