1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2024 • Simon Varailhon, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) is a challenging problem in object detection, where a pre-trained source model is adapted to a new target domain without using any source domain data for privacy and efficiency reasons.
1 code implementation • 16 Aug 2024 • Muhammad Haseeb Aslam, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Eric Granger
However, PKD methods based on structural similarity are primarily confined to learning from a single joint teacher representation, which limits their robustness, accuracy, and ability to learn from diverse multimodal sources.
2 code implementations • 17 Jul 2024 • Nicolas Richet, Soufiane Belharbi, Haseeb Aslam, Meike Emilie Schadt, Manuela González-González, Gustave Cortal, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Marco Pedersoli, Alain Finkel, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
Our results indicate that multimodal textualization provides lower accuracy than feature-based models on C-EXPR-DB, where text transcripts are captured in the wild.
1 code implementation • 8 Jul 2024 • Shakeeb Murtaza, Marco Pedersoli, Aydin Sarraf, Eric Granger
Our TrCAM-V method allows training a localization network by sampling pseudo-pixels on the fly from these regions.
1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2024 • Soufiane Belharbi, Mara KM Whitford, Phuong Hoang, Shakeeb Murtaza, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Given the new SR-CACO-2 dataset, we also provide benchmarking results for 15 state-of-the-art methods that are representative of the main SISR families.
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2024 • Heitor R. Medeiros, David Latortue, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
Multimodal learning is a common way to leverage these modalities, where multiple modality-specific encoders and a fusion module are used to improve performance.
Ranked #1 on Object Detection on FLIR
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2024 • Alexis Guichemerre, Soufiane Belharbi, Tsiry Mayet, Shakeeb Murtaza, Pourya Shamsolmoali, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
A WSOL model initially trained on some labeled source image data can be adapted using unlabeled target data in cases of significant domain shifts caused by variations in staining, scanners, and cancer type.
1 code implementation • 15 Apr 2024 • Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
These bboxes are also employed to estimate the threshold from LOC maps, circumventing the need for test-set bbox annotations.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2024 • Heitor Rapela Medeiros, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Fidel Guerrero Pena, David Latortue, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
This paper focuses on adapting a large object detection model trained on RGB images to new data extracted from IR images with a substantial modality shift.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2024 • Mahdi Alehdaghi, Pourya Shamsolmoali, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
In particular, our method minimizes the cross-modal gap by identifying and aligning shared prototypes that capture key discriminative features across modalities, then uses multiple bridging steps based on this information to enhance the feature representation.
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2024 • Paul Waligora, Haseeb Aslam, Osama Zeeshan, Soufiane Belharbi, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Marco Pedersoli, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
Multimodal emotion recognition (MMER) systems typically outperform unimodal systems by leveraging the inter- and intra-modal relationships between, e. g., visual, textual, physiological, and auditory modalities.
1 code implementation • 14 Mar 2024 • Atif Belal, Akhil Meethal, Francisco Perdigon Romero, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
Domain adaptation methods for object detection (OD) strive to mitigate the impact of distribution shifts by promoting feature alignment across source and target domains.
1 code implementation • 1 Feb 2024 • Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
During training, this \au codebook is used, along with the input image expression label, and facial landmarks, to construct a \au heatmap that indicates the most discriminative image regions of interest w. r. t the facial expression.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2024 • Muhammad Haseeb Aslam, Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Koerich, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
Results show that our proposed method can outperform state-of-the-art privileged KD methods on these problems.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger, Michael Felsberg
Kernel methods are employed to simplify computations by approximating softmax but often lead to performance drops compared to softmax attention.
no code implementations • 12 Dec 2023 • Issam Serraoui, Eric Granger, Abdenour Hadid, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed
These representations are optimized for two tasks: estimating pain intensity and differentiating between genuine and simulated pain expressions.
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2023 • Muhammad Osama Zeeshan, Muhammad Haseeb Aslam, Soufiane Belharbi, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich, Marco Pedersoli, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
It efficiently leverages information from multiple source subjects (labeled source domain data) to adapt a deep FER model to a single target individual (unlabeled target domain data).
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER) +2
1 code implementation • 20 Nov 2023 • David Latortue, Moetez Kdayem, Fidel A Guerrero Peña, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
Object detection models are commonly used for people counting (and localization) in many applications but require a dataset with costly bounding box annotations for training.
1 code implementation • 10 Oct 2023 • Masih Aminbeidokhti, Fidel A. Guerrero Peña, Heitor Rapela Medeiros, Thomas Dubail, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
However, this holds for standard in-domain settings, in which the training and test data follow the same distribution.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2023 • Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Aydin Sarraf, Eric Granger
Subsequently, these proposals are used as pseudo-labels to train our new transformer-based WSOL model designed to perform classification and localization tasks.
1 code implementation • 7 Oct 2023 • Heitor Rapela Medeiros, Fidel A. Guerrero Pena, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Thomas Dubail, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
This model produces a new image representation that enhances objects of interest in the scene and greatly improves detection performance.
1 code implementation • 26 Sep 2023 • Atif Belal, Akhil Meethal, Francisco Perdigon Romero, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
Given the use of prototypes, the number of parameters required for our PMT method does not increase significantly with the number of source domains, thus reducing memory issues and possible overfitting.
Multi-Source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation object-detection +2
1 code implementation • 9 Aug 2023 • Akhil Meethal, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
One of the important bottlenecks in training modern object detectors is the need for labeled images where bounding box annotations have to be produced for each object present in the image.
Ranked #1 on Object Detection on VisDrone - 10% labeled data
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2023 • Mahdi Alehdaghi, Arthur Josi, Pourya Shamsolmoali, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
In this paper, the Adaptive Generation of Privileged Intermediate Information training approach is introduced to adapt and generate a virtual domain that bridges discriminant information between the V and I modalities.
1 code implementation • 30 Apr 2023 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger
Given the recent advances with image-generating algorithms, deep image completion methods have made significant progress.
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2023 • Arthur Josi, Mahdi Alehdaghi, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
For realistic evaluation of multimodal (and cross-modal) V-I person ReID models, we propose new challenging corrupted datasets for scenarios where V and I cameras are co-located (CL) and not co-located (NCL).
1 code implementation • 17 Apr 2023 • R Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
In video-based emotion recognition (ER), it is important to effectively leverage the complementary relationship among audio (A) and visual (V) modalities, while retaining the intra-modal characteristics of individual modalities.
1 code implementation • 16 Mar 2023 • Soufiane Belharbi, Shakeeb Murtaza, Marco Pedersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
This paper proposes a novel CAM method for WSVOL that exploits spatiotemporal information in activation maps during training without constraining an object's position.
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2023 • Akhil Meethal, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
Detecting objects in aerial images is challenging because they are typically composed of crowded small objects distributed non-uniformly over high-resolution images.
Ranked #2 on Object Detection on VisDrone-DET2019
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Fidel A. Guerrero Peña, Heitor Rapela Medeiros, Thomas Dubail, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
The recent emergence of new algorithms for permuting models into functionally equivalent regions of the solution space has shed some light on the complexity of error surfaces, and some promising properties like mode connectivity.
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2022 • Arthur Josi, Mahdi Alehdaghi, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
Several deep learning models have been proposed for visible-infrared (V-I) person ReID to recognize individuals from images captured using RGB and IR cameras.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2022 • Djebril Mekhazni, Maximilien Dufau, Christian Desrosiers, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger
In this scenario, the ReID model must adapt to a complex target domain defined by a network of diverse video cameras based on tracklet information.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2022 • Thomas Dubail, Fidel Alejandro Guerrero Peña, Heitor Rapela Medeiros, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli
In intelligent building management, knowing the number of people and their location in a room are important for better control of its illumination, ventilation, and heating with reduced costs and improved comfort.
1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2022 • Mahdi Alehdaghi, Arthur Josi, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
% This paper introduces a novel approach for a creating intermediate virtual domain that acts as bridges between the two main domains (i. e., RGB and IR modalities) during training.
1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2022 • R Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
In this paper, we focus on dimensional ER based on the fusion of facial and vocal modalities extracted from videos, where complementary audio-visual (A-V) relationships are explored to predict an individual's emotional states in valence-arousal space.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2022 • Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Aydin Sarraf, Eric Granger
Then, foreground and background pixels are sampled from these regions in order to train a WSOL model for generating activation maps that can accurately localize objects belonging to a specific class.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2022 • Shakeeb Murtaza, Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Aydin Sarraf, Eric Granger
In this paper, we propose a method to train deep weakly-supervised object localization (WSOL) models based only on image-class labels to locate object with high confidence.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2022 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Swagatam Das, Eric Granger, Salvador Garcia
Capsule networks (CapsNets) aim to parse images into a hierarchy of objects, parts, and their relations using a two-step process involving part-whole transformation and hierarchical component routing.
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2022 • Soufiane Belharbi, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Our proposed TCAM method achieves a new state-of-art in WSVOL accuracy, and visual results suggest that it can be adapted for subsequent tasks like visual object tracking and detection.
no code implementations • 20 May 2022 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger, Huiyu Zhou
Skin lesion detection in dermoscopic images is essential in the accurate and early diagnosis of skin cancer by a computerized apparatus.
no code implementations • 12 May 2022 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger, Jocelyn Chanussot, Jie Yang
In IPSSD, single-shot detector is adopted combined with an image pyramid network to extract semantically strong features for generating candidate regions.
1 code implementation • 12 May 2022 • Soufiane Belharbi, Jérôme Rony, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Our method is composed of two networks: a localizer that yields segmentation mask, followed by a classifier.
1 code implementation • 12 May 2022 • Félix Remigereau, Djebril Mekhazni, Sajjad Abdoli, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Rafael M. O. Cruz, Eric Granger
Despite the recent success of deep learning architectures, person re-identification (ReID) remains a challenging problem in real-word applications.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2022 • Akhil Meethal, Marco Pedersoli, Zhongwen Zhu, Francisco Perdigon Romero, Eric Granger
Semi- and weakly-supervised learning have recently attracted considerable attention in the object detection literature since they can alleviate the cost of annotation needed to successfully train deep learning models.
1 code implementation • 28 Mar 2022 • R. Gnana Praveen, Wheidima Carneiro de Melo, Nasib Ullah, Haseeb Aslam, Osama Zeeshan, Théo Denorme, Marco Pedersoli, Alessandro Koerich, Simon Bacon, Patrick Cardinal, Eric Granger
Specifically, we propose a joint cross-attention model that relies on the complementary relationships to extract the salient features across A-V modalities, allowing for accurate prediction of continuous values of valence and arousal.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2022 • Wheidima Carneiro de Melo, Eric Granger, Miguel Bordallo Lopez
Our extensive experiments on challenging datasets show that the DMSN-C block is effective for depression detection, whereas the DMSN-A block is efficient for pain estimation.
no code implementations • 7 Mar 2022 • Madhu Kiran, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Rajat Sahay, Rafael Menelau Oliveira E Cruz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
Results indicate that integrating our proposed method into state-of-art adaptive Siamese trackers can increase the potential benefits of a template update strategy, and significantly improve performance.
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2022 • Madhu Kiran, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Rajat Sahay, Rafael Menelau Oliveira E Cruz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
This paper proposes a model adaptation method for Siamese trackers that uses a generative model to produce a synthetic template from the object search regions of several previous frames, rather than directly using the tracker output.
1 code implementation • 7 Jan 2022 • Soufiane Belharbi, Marco Pedersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
The CNN is exploited to collect both positive and negative evidence at the pixel level to train the decoder.
1 code implementation • 9 Nov 2021 • R. Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
Results indicate that our cross-attentional A-V fusion model is a cost-effective approach that outperforms state-of-the-art fusion approaches.
1 code implementation • 15 Sep 2021 • Soufiane Belharbi, Aydin Sarraf, Marco Pedersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Interpolation is required to restore full size CAMs, yet it does not consider the statistical properties of objects, such as color and texture, leading to activations with inconsistent boundaries, and inaccurate localizations.
1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2021 • Imtiaz Masud Ziko, Malik Boudiaf, Jose Dolz, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
Surprisingly, we found that even standard clustering procedures (e. g., K-means), which correspond to particular, non-regularized cases of our general model, already achieve competitive performances in comparison to the state-of-the-art in few-shot learning.
1 code implementation • 13 Apr 2021 • Madhu Kiran, R Gnana Praveen, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Soufiane Belharbi, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
Hence, our proposed student-teacher framework is trained to address the occlusion problem by matching the distributions of between- and within-class distances (DCDs) of occluded samples with that of holistic (non-occluded) samples, thereby using the latter as a soft labeled reference to learn well separated DCDs.
1 code implementation • 13 Apr 2021 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Madhu Kiran, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
Recent advances in unsupervised domain adaptation have significantly improved the recognition accuracy of CNNs by alleviating the domain shift between (labeled) source and (unlabeled) target data distributions.
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2021 • R. Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of weakly supervised learning (WSL) approaches for facial behavior analysis with both categorical as well as dimensional labels along with the challenges and potential research directions associated with it.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2021 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Atif Belal, Madhu Kiran, Jose Dolz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
Our proposed approach is compared against state-of-the-art methods for compression and STDA of CNNs on the Office31 and ImageClef-DA image classification datasets.
1 code implementation • 26 Dec 2020 • Pourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger, Huiyu Zhou, Ruili Wang, M. Emre Celebi, Jie Yang
However, there is a lack of comprehensive review in this field, especially lack of a collection of GANs loss-variant, evaluation metrics, remedies for diverse image generation, and stable training.
2 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Jérôme Rony, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed
Our attack enjoys the generality of penalty methods and the computational efficiency of distance-customized algorithms, and can be readily used for a wide set of distances.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2020 • Thomas Teixeira, Eric Granger, Alessandro Lameiras Koerich
In this paper, we investigate the suitability of state-of-the-art deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for continuous emotion recognition using long video sequences captured in-the-wild.
2 code implementations • 14 Nov 2020 • Soufiane Belharbi, Jérôme Rony, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
We propose novel regularization terms, which enable the model to seek both non-discriminative and discriminative regions, while discouraging unbalanced segmentations.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2020 • Théo Ayral, Marco Pedersoli, Simon Bacon, Eric Granger
The proposed softmax strategy provides several advantages: a reduced computational complexity due to efficient clip sampling, and an improved accuracy since temporal weighting focuses on more relevant clips during both training and inference.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2020 • Gnana Praveen R, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
The WSDA-OR model enforces ordinal relationships among the intensity levels as-signed to the target sequences, and associates multiple relevant frames to sequence-level labels (instead of a single frame).
1 code implementation • 10 Oct 2020 • Soufiane Belharbi, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
CNN visualization and interpretation methods, like class-activation maps (CAMs), are typically used to highlight the image regions linked to class predictions.
1 code implementation • 13 Aug 2020 • R. Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
Estimation of pain intensity from facial expressions captured in videos has an immense potential for health care applications.
no code implementations • 9 Aug 2020 • Madhu Kiran, Amran Bhuiyan, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Mehrsan Javan, Ismail Ben Ayed, Eric Granger
Our Mutual Attention network relies on the joint spatial attention between image and optical flow features maps to activate a common set of salient features across them.
Optical Flow Estimation Video-Based Person Re-Identification
2 code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Djebril Mekhazni, Amran Bhuiyan, George Ekladious, Eric Granger
We argue that for pair-wise matchers that rely on metric learning, e. g., Siamese networks for person ReID, the unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) objective should consist in aligning pair-wise dissimilarity between domains, rather than aligning feature representations.
1 code implementation • 14 Jul 2020 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Atif Belal, Madhu Kiran, Jose Dolz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Eric Granger
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) seeks to alleviate the problem of domain shift between the distribution of unlabeled data from the target domain w. r. t.
Ranked #3 on Multi-target Domain Adaptation on Office-31
2 code implementations • 28 Jun 2020 • Imtiaz Masud Ziko, Jose Dolz, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
Our transductive inference does not re-train the base model, and can be viewed as a graph clustering of the query set, subject to supervision constraints from the support set.
2 code implementations • 16 May 2020 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Eric Granger, Madhu Kiran, Jose Dolz, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin
In both datasets, results indicate that our method can achieve the highest level of accuracy while requiring a comparable or lower time complexity.
1 code implementation • MIDL 2019 • Hoel Kervadec, Jose Dolz, Shan-Shan Wang, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
Particularly, we leverage a classical tightness prior to a deep learning setting via imposing a set of constraints on the network outputs.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Malik Boudiaf, Jérôme Rony, Imtiaz Masud Ziko, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli, Pablo Piantanida, Ismail Ben Ayed
Second, we show that, more generally, minimizing the cross-entropy is actually equivalent to maximizing the mutual information, to which we connect several well-known pairwise losses.
Ranked #12 on Metric Learning on CARS196 (using extra training data)
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2020 • George Ekladious, Hugo Lemoine, Eric Granger, Kaveh Kamali, Salim Moudache
To this end, a dual-triplet loss is introduced for metric learning, where two triplets are constructed using video data from a source camera, and a new target camera.
1 code implementation • 3 Dec 2019 • Akhil Meethal, Marco Pedersoli, Soufiane Belharbi, Eric Granger
Weakly supervised object localization is a challenging task in which the object of interest should be localized while learning its appearance.
1 code implementation • 25 Nov 2019 • Soufiane Belharbi, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
We propose a new constrained-optimization formulation for deep ordinal classification, in which uni-modality of the label distribution is enforced implicitly via a set of inequality constraints over all the pairs of adjacent labels.
Ranked #1 on Historical Color Image Dating on HCI (MAE metric)
1 code implementation • 31 Oct 2019 • Fania Mokhayeri, Kaveh Kamali, Eric Granger
This allows generating realistic synthetic face images that reflects capture conditions in the target domain while controlling the GAN output to generate faces under desired pose conditions.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2019 • Madhu Kiran, Vivek Tiwari, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Eric Granger
However, bounding boxes provided by a state-of-the-art detector are noisy, due to changes in appearance, background and occlusion, which can cause the tracker to drift.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2019 • R. Gnana Praveen, Eric Granger, Patrick Cardinal
Automatic pain assessment has an important potential diagnostic value for populations that are incapable of articulating their pain experiences.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2019 • Fania Mokhayeri, Eric Granger
In order to account for non-linear variations due to pose, a paired sparse representation model is introduced allowing for joint use of variational information and synthetic face images.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2019 • Masih Aminbeidokhti, Marco Pedersoli, Patrick Cardinal, Eric Granger
Video-based emotion recognition is a challenging task because it requires to distinguish the small deformations of the human face that represent emotions, while being invariant to stronger visual differences due to different identities.
1 code implementation • 8 Sep 2019 • Jérôme Rony, Soufiane Belharbi, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Four key challenges are identified for the application of deep WSOL methods in histology -- under/over activation of CAMs, sensitivity to thresholding, and model selection.
1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2019 • Soufiane Belharbi, Jérôme Rony, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed, Luke McCaffrey, Eric Granger
Pointwise localization allows more precise localization and accurate interpretability, compared to bounding box, in applications where objects are highly unstructured such as in medical domain.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2019 • Juan D. S. Ortega, Mohammed Senoussaoui, Eric Granger, Marco Pedersoli, Patrick Cardinal, Alessandro L. Koerich
This paper presents a novel deep neural network (DNN) for multimodal fusion of audio, video and text modalities for emotion recognition.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2019 • Hugo Masson, Amran Bhuiyan, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Mehrsan Javan, Parthipan Siva, Ismail Ben Ayed, Eric Granger
Then, these techniques are analysed according to their pruningcriteria and strategy, and according to different scenarios for exploiting pruningmethods to fine-tuning networks to target domains.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2019 • Xiaoting Wu, Eric Granger, Xiaoyi Feng
Then, early and late fusion methods are evaluated on the TALKIN dataset for the study of kinship verification with both face and voice modalities.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2019 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Eric Granger, Madhu Kiran, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin, Marco Pedersoli
Although deep neural networks (NNs) have achievedstate-of-the-art accuracy in many visual recognition tasks, the growing computational complexity and energy con-sumption of networks remains an issue, especially for ap-plications on platforms with limited resources and requir-ing real-time processing.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2019 • Imtiaz Masud Ziko, Eric Granger, Jing Yuan, Ismail Ben Ayed
We derive a general tight upper bound based on a concave-convex decomposition of our fairness term, its Lipschitz-gradient property and the Pinsker's inequality.
1 code implementation • 10 Apr 2019 • Hoel Kervadec, Jose Dolz, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
This study investigates a curriculum-style strategy for semi-supervised CNN segmentation, which devises a regression network to learn image-level information such as the size of a target region.
1 code implementation • 8 Apr 2019 • Hoel Kervadec, Jose Dolz, Jing Yuan, Christian Desrosiers, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
While sub-optimality is not guaranteed for non-convex problems, this result shows that log-barrier extensions are a principled way to approximate Lagrangian optimization for constrained CNNs via implicit dual variables.
5 code implementations • 17 Dec 2018 • Hoel Kervadec, Jihene Bouchtiba, Christian Desrosiers, Eric Granger, Jose Dolz, Ismail Ben Ayed
We propose a boundary loss, which takes the form of a distance metric on the space of contours, not regions.
Brain Lesion Segmentation From Mri Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation +4
5 code implementations • 23 Nov 2018 • Jérôme Rony, Luiz G. Hafemann, Luiz S. Oliveira, Ismail Ben Ayed, Robert Sabourin, Eric Granger
Research on adversarial examples in computer vision tasks has shown that small, often imperceptible changes to an image can induce misclassification, which has security implications for a wide range of image processing systems.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2018 • Imtiaz Masud Ziko, Eric Granger, Ismail Ben Ayed
Furthermore, we show that the density modes can be obtained as byproducts of the assignment variables via simple maximum-value operations whose additional computational cost is linear in the number of data points.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2018 • Frank Hafner, Amran Bhuiyan, Julian F. P. Kooij, Eric Granger
Person re-identification is a key challenge for surveillance across multiple sensors.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2018 • Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Eric Granger, Madhu Kiran, Louis-Antoine Blais-Morin
Detecting faces and heads appearing in video feeds are challenging tasks in real-world video surveillance applications due to variations in appearance, occlusions and complex backgrounds.
no code implementations • 28 May 2018 • Jose Dolz, Xiaopan Xu, Jerome Rony, Jing Yuan, Yang Liu, Eric Granger, Christian Desrosiers, Xi Zhang, Ismail Ben Ayed, Hongbing Lu
Precise segmentation of bladder walls and tumor regions is an essential step towards non-invasive identification of tumor stage and grade, which is critical for treatment decision and prognosis of patients with bladder cancer (BC).
4 code implementations • 12 May 2018 • Hoel Kervadec, Jose Dolz, Meng Tang, Eric Granger, Yuri Boykov, Ismail Ben Ayed
To the best of our knowledge, the method of [Pathak et al., 2015] is the only prior work that addresses deep CNNs with linear constraints in weakly supervised segmentation.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2018 • Saman Bashbaghi, Eric Granger, Robert Sabourin, Mostafa Parchami
In video-based FR systems, facial models of target individuals are designed a priori during enrollment using a limited number of reference still images or video data.
1 code implementation • 6 Jan 2018 • Fania Mokhayeri, Eric Granger, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau
A compact set of synthetic faces is generated that resemble individuals of interest under the capture conditions relevant to the OD.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2017 • Ahmad Chaddad, Behnaz Naisiri, Marco Pedersoli, Eric Granger, Christian Desrosiers, Matthew Toews
This paper proposes a principled information theoretic analysis of classification for deep neural network structures, e. g. convolutional neural networks (CNN).
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2017 • Marc-André Carbonneau, Eric Granger, Ghyslain Gagnon
In such cases, active learning (AL) can reduce labeling costs for training a classifier by querying the expert to provide the labels of most informative instances.
1 code implementation • 29 Jun 2017 • Tanushri Chakravorty, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Eric Granger
This paper addresses the problem of appearance matching across different challenges while doing visual face tracking in real-world scenarios.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2017 • Roghayeh Soleymani, Eric Granger, Giorgio Fumera
Results show that PBoost can outperform state of the art techniques in terms of both accuracy and complexity over different levels of imbalance and overlap between classes.
2 code implementations • 7 Feb 2017 • Tanushri Chakravorty, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Eric Granger
In this paper, an online adaptive model-free tracker is proposed to track single objects in video sequences to deal with real-world tracking challenges like low-resolution, object deformation, occlusion and motion blur.
2 code implementations • 11 Dec 2016 • Marc-André Carbonneau, Veronika Cheplygina, Eric Granger, Ghyslain Gagnon
Multiple instance learning (MIL) is a form of weakly supervised learning where training instances are arranged in sets, called bags, and a label is provided for the entire bag.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2016 • Marc-André Carbonneau, Eric Granger, Yazid Attabi, Ghyslain Gagnon
The number of features, and difficulties linked to the feature extraction process are greatly reduced as only one type of descriptors is used, for which the 6 parameters can be tuned automatically.
no code implementations • 18 Aug 2014 • George S. Eskander, Robert Sabourin, Eric Granger
An offline signature-based fuzzy vault (OSFV) is a bio-cryptographic implementation that uses handwritten signature images as biometrics instead of traditional passwords to secure private cryptographic keys.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2014 • Tanushri Chakravorty, Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau, Eric Granger
To achieve a global affine transformation that maximises the overlapping of infrared and visible foreground pixels, the matched keypoints of each local shape polygon are stored temporally in a buffer for a few number of frames.