69 research outputs found
Combining Local Appearance and Holistic View: Dual-Source Deep Neural Networks for Human Pose Estimation
We propose a new learning-based method for estimating 2D human pose from a
single image, using Dual-Source Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DS-CNN).
Recently, many methods have been developed to estimate human pose by using pose
priors that are estimated from physiologically inspired graphical models or
learned from a holistic perspective. In this paper, we propose to integrate
both the local (body) part appearance and the holistic view of each local part
for more accurate human pose estimation. Specifically, the proposed DS-CNN
takes a set of image patches (category-independent object proposals for
training and multi-scale sliding windows for testing) as the input and then
learns the appearance of each local part by considering their holistic views in
the full body. Using DS-CNN, we achieve both joint detection, which determines
whether an image patch contains a body joint, and joint localization, which
finds the exact location of the joint in the image patch. Finally, we develop
an algorithm to combine these joint detection/localization results from all the
image patches for estimating the human pose. The experimental results show the
effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing to the state-of-the-art
human-pose estimation methods based on pose priors that are estimated from
physiologically inspired graphical models or learned from a holistic
perspective.Comment: CVPR 201
Exploring the Relationship of Personality and Social Support Types among College Students
This study investigated the relationship between Big Five personality traits and social support types among college students. Data was collected from 189 university students from a research institution in the US. Findings indicated that learners who have Agreeableness and Extraversion personality traits seek for more broadly social support resources in college study and life. Additionally, learners who have Neuroticism traits are negatively associated with all social support resources. It is expected that this study would assist college faculty and student affairs professionals to better understand the differences of personality traits among college students and craft feasible strategies so as to encourage these students to seek sufficient social support resources on their personal development. Keywords: Big Five personality, college students, social support, higher education DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-31-03 Publication date: November 30th 202
Co-interest Person Detection from Multiple Wearable Camera Videos
Wearable cameras, such as Google Glass and Go Pro, enable video data
collection over larger areas and from different views. In this paper, we tackle
a new problem of locating the co-interest person (CIP), i.e., the one who draws
attention from most camera wearers, from temporally synchronized videos taken
by multiple wearable cameras. Our basic idea is to exploit the motion patterns
of people and use them to correlate the persons across different videos,
instead of performing appearance-based matching as in traditional video
co-segmentation/localization. This way, we can identify CIP even if a group of
people with similar appearance are present in the view. More specifically, we
detect a set of persons on each frame as the candidates of the CIP and then
build a Conditional Random Field (CRF) model to select the one with consistent
motion patterns in different videos and high spacial-temporal consistency in
each video. We collect three sets of wearable-camera videos for testing the
proposed algorithm. All the involved people have similar appearances in the
collected videos and the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the
proposed algorithm.Comment: ICCV 201
Exploring Robust Features for Improving Adversarial Robustness
While deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized many fields, their
fragility to carefully designed adversarial attacks impedes the usage of DNNs
in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we strive to explore the robust
features which are not affected by the adversarial perturbations, i.e.,
invariant to the clean image and its adversarial examples, to improve the
model's adversarial robustness. Specifically, we propose a feature
disentanglement model to segregate the robust features from non-robust features
and domain specific features. The extensive experiments on four widely used
datasets with different attacks demonstrate that robust features obtained from
our model improve the model's adversarial robustness compared to the
state-of-the-art approaches. Moreover, the trained domain discriminator is able
to identify the domain specific features from the clean images and adversarial
examples almost perfectly. This enables adversarial example detection without
incurring additional computational costs. With that, we can also specify
different classifiers for clean images and adversarial examples, thereby
avoiding any drop in clean image accuracy.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Exploring the Characteristics of Adults’ Online Learning Activities: a Case Study of EdX Online Institute
Online learning has become a prevailing trend among adult learners. Therefore, this study investigated the learning time preference and the relationship between the course completion and learning activities among adult learners based on data from one online learning platform. Results indicate that a periodical fluctuation of participating online course study exists among adult learners. Additionally, the activity of posting on the discussion board is a main learning activity factor that influences their online course completion. It is expected that this study would help online learning system designers, education administrators and instructors to better understand the characteristics of adult learners and their learning activities to provide better accessibility and flexibility in online learning environments for them
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