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The outlier removal methods are usually based on Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) for capturing context, which neglect the underlying motion information in images. Recently, CNN-based methods have attempted to address this issue by estimating motion fields and have made significant progress. However, CNNs tend to diminish the discontinuities of motion fields, making it difficult for the network to cap...Show More
Object detection in scenes captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an active research area. However, the performance and efficiency of current small object detection models for UAV images are far from reaching the desired level. The inherent limitations of the features of the small objects themselves and the inconsistency of the contextual information in the feature maps lead to a degradati...Show More
The pavement defect detection is challenging due to the diverse defects and their unpredictable formations. Current methods often struggle to perform well in situations with complex pavement backgrounds and weak textures, a problem that arises from the interference of various pavement information. We proposed an unsupervised pavement defect detection method with a multiscale gradient selection-bas...Show More
Motion segmentation is an essential task in artificial intelligence and computer vision. However, scene motion in real-world intelligent systems usually integrates multiple types of models, so specifying only one type of basic model may lead to the failure of scene-motion segmentation tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient heterogeneous model-fitting-based motion segmentation metho...Show More
Establishing dense correspondences between semantically similar images is a challenging task. Cost aggregation is a crucial step in finding correct dense correspondences, with the goal of optimizing the initial correlation map thereby removing the ambiguity of the correspondences. Current approaches use transformer architectures for cost aggregation, which lack local priors to adequately capture t...Show More
The success of most robust model estimation methods heavily relies on their used data sampling algorithms. This letter proposes a novel sampling algorithm, called Guided Sampling by Neighborhood Information and Matching Scores (NIMS), to efficiently sample promising hypotheses for fitting multi-structure data. Specifically, NIMS follows a specific sampling process. First, the proposed NIMS randoml...Show More
As a promising biometric identification technology, finger vein recognition has gained considerable attention in the field of information security due to its inherent advantages, such as living body recognition, noncontact operation, and high security. However, the existing models often focus on pairwise matching of low-contrast infrared finger vein images, overlooking the underlying relationships...Show More
Novelty detection of leukocyte images aims to learn effective data description from in-distribution leukocyte samples and detect out-of-distribution ones that deviate from the expected patterns. Recently, the methods of fine-tuning on the pretrained model have demonstrated excellent performance in novelty detection. However, those methods are prone to collapse or feature deterioration due to the t...Show More
Robust model fitting is a critical technique for artificial intelligence. The performance of most robust model fitting techniques heavily depends on the use of sampling algorithms. In this paper, we propose an efficient guided sampling algorithm for multi-structure data by using the neighborhood consensus and the residual sorting. Specifically, a Neighborhood Consensus based Strategy (NCS) is firs...Show More
Establishing superior-quality correspondences in an image pair is pivotal to many subsequent computer vision tasks. Using Euclidean distance between correspondences to find neighbors and extract local information is a common strategy in previous works. However, most such works ignore similar sparse semantics information between two given images and cannot capture local topology among correspondenc...Show More
In this letter, we propose a remote sensing image matching method that is simple yet efficient to deal with different deformations. Inspired by the region growing strategy used in image segmentation, we integrate the motion consistency into the general region growing pipeline from a novel perspective. Specifically, we first obtain a subset with a high ratio inlier as the seed correspondence set. T...Show More
In this paper, a new robust model fitting method is proposed to efficiently segment multistructure data even when they are heavily contaminated by outliers. The proposed method is composed of three steps: first, a conventional greedy search strategy is employed to generate (initial) model hypotheses based on the sequential “fit-and-remove” procedure because of its computational efficiency. Second,...Show More
The performance of many robust model fitting techniques is largely dependent on the quality of the generated hypotheses. In this paper, we propose a novel guided sampling method, called accelerated guided sampling (AGS), to efficiently generate the accurate hypotheses for multistructure model fitting. Based on the observations that residual sorting can effectively reveal the data relationship (i.e...Show More
Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) is a popular feature extraction. However, FPN and its variants do not investigate the influence of resolution information and semantic information in the object detection. Thus, FPN and its variants cannot detect some objects on challenging images. In this paper, based on FPN, we propose to use gaussian kernel function to assign different weight values to semantic in...Show More
The key to computer-based image recognition is to distinguish salient objects from the image background. However, it is still challenging to detect salient region when an object significantly touches the image boundaries. In this study, we present a novel salient region detection method based on a color space volume and a novel weighted saliency probability to address the issue. First, we propose ...Show More
We present a novel algorithm (DAM) for deterministic motion trajectory segmentation by using epipolar geometry and adaptive kernel-scale voting. DAM is based on geometric models and exploits the information derived from superpixels to deterministically construct a set of initial correlation matrices. Then DAM introduces a novel adaptive kernel-scale voting scheme to measure each initial correlatio...Show More
Robust model fitting is an important task for modern electronic industries. In this paper, an efficient robust model-fitting method is proposed to estimate model hypotheses for multistructure data with high outlier rates. The proposed method consists mainly of two steps. First, an improved greedy search strategy is used to generate model hypotheses. Different from the conventional greedy search st...Show More
This paper proposes a robust model fitting method, called Outliers Removed via Spectral Clustering (ORSC), to estimate multiple inlier structures in the presence of a large number of outliers. The basic idea is to cast each data point to the conceptual space, where the distance distribution of inliers and outliers from the origin is significantly different. Therefore, all the points can be classif...Show More
Non-rigid point set registration is a fundamental problem in many fields related to computer vision, medical image processing, and pattern recognition. In this paper, we develop a new point set registration method by using an adaptive weighted objective function, which formulates the alignment of two point sets as a mixture model estimation problem. The correspondences and the transformation are j...Show More
Motion segmentation is an important task for intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, inspired by the fact that a feature point trajectory can be sparsely represented as a combination of several feature point trajectories that share coherent transformations, an efficient and effective motion segmentation method with a sparsity constraint is proposed. Specifically, we first propose an acc...Show More
Hypothesis generation is crucial to many robust model fitting methods. In this paper, we propose an effective hypothesis generation method by adopting conditional sampling with local constraints. We choose data to generate hypotheses according to sampling weights, which are computed according to ordered residual indices. To sample a minimal subset, we randomly choose a seed datum, compute sampling...Show More