no code implementations • 29 Jan 2024 • María Leyva-Vallina, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
Visual place recognition is a critical task in computer vision, especially for localization and navigation systems.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Maria Leyva-Vallina, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
Motivated by the fact that two images of the same place only partially share visual cues due to camera pose differences, we deploy an automatic re-annotation strategy to re-label VPR datasets.
Ranked #1 on Visual Place Recognition on MSLS
1 code implementation • 11 Mar 2021 • María Leyva-Vallina, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
We propose a Generalized Contrastive loss (GCL) function that relies on image similarity as a continuous measure, and use it to train a siamese CNN.
Ranked #3 on Visual Place Recognition on Mapillary test
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Nicola Strisciuglio, George Azzopardi, Nicolai Petkov
The rectified responses of the push and pull filter pairs are then combined by a linear function.
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2020 • Rafael Brandt, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
Efficient yet accurate extraction of depth from stereo image pairs is required by systems with low power resources, such as robotics and embedded systems.
no code implementations • 28 Jun 2019 • Maria Leyva-Vallina, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
In this paper we propose an extended version of the TB-Places data set, which is designed for testing algorithms for visual place recognition.
no code implementations • 10 May 2019 • Estefania Talavera, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva
The routine of a person is defined by the occurrence of activities throughout different days, and can directly affect the person's health.
no code implementations • 10 May 2019 • Estefania Talavera, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva
Nowadays, there is an upsurge of interest in using lifelogging devices.
no code implementations • 10 May 2019 • Estefania Talavera, Petia Radeva, Nicolai Petkov
The availability and use of egocentric data are rapidly increasing due to the growing use of wearable cameras.
no code implementations • 10 May 2019 • Estefania Talavera, Alexandre Cola, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva
We propose a model that enables us to evaluate and visualize social traits obtained by analysing social interactions appearance within egocentric photostreams.
no code implementations • 10 May 2019 • Estefania Talavera, Maria Leyva-Vallina, Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker, Domenec Puig, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva
Recent studies have shown that the environment where people eat can affect their nutritional behaviour.
no code implementations • 29 Jan 2019 • Nicola Strisciuglio, Manuel Lopez-Antequera, Nicolai Petkov
We propose a new layer in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to increase their robustness to several types of noise perturbations of the input images.
no code implementations • 21 Jan 2019 • Nicola Strisciuglio, Mario Vento, Nicolai Petkov
We construct a set of COPE feature extractors, configured on a number of training patterns.
1 code implementation • 26 Nov 2018 • Nicola Strisciuglio, George Azzopardi, Nicolai Petkov
This type of inhibition allows for sharper detection of the patterns of interest and improves the quality of delineation especially in images with spurious texture.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2017 • Alessia Saggese, Nicola Strisciuglio, Mario Vento, Nicolai Petkov
Starting from this consideration, we propose a trainable pose detector, that can be configured on a prototype skeleton in an automatic configuration process.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2017 • Nicola Strisciuglio, George Azzopardi, Nicolai Petkov
The detection of curvilinear structures is an important step for various computer vision applications, ranging from medical image analysis for segmentation of blood vessels, to remote sensing for the identification of roads and rivers, and to biometrics and robotics, among others.
no code implementations • 24 Jul 2017 • Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov
Delineation of line patterns in images is a basic step required in various applications such as blood vessel detection in medical images, segmentation of rivers or roads in aerial images, detection of cracks in walls or pavements, etc.
no code implementations • 29 Mar 2017 • Estefania Talavera, Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva
Lifelogging is a process of collecting rich source of information about daily life of people.
no code implementations • 27 May 2015 • Ruben Gomez-Ojeda, Manuel Lopez-Antequera, Nicolai Petkov, Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez
In order for the network to learn the desired invariances, we train it with triplets of images selected from datasets which present a challenging variability in visual appearance.