Search Results for author: Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Found 30 papers, 1 papers with code

Binary Neural Networks for Memory-Efficient and Effective Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

1 code implementation1 Oct 2020 Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to propose binary neural networks for solving the visual place recognition problem effectively under changing conditions and with significantly reduced resource requirements.

Visual Place Recognition

Material Classification in the Wild: Do Synthesized Training Data Generalise Better than Real-World Training Data?

no code implementations9 Nov 2017 Grigorios Kalliatakis, Anca Sticlaru, George Stamatiadis, Shoaib Ehsan, Ales Leonardis, Juergen Gall, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

We question the dominant role of real-world training images in the field of material classification by investigating whether synthesized data can generalise more effectively than real-world data.

General Classification Material Classification

Performance Characterization of Image Feature Detectors in Relation to the Scene Content Utilizing a Large Image Database

no code implementations24 Sep 2017 Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Ales Leonardis, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research.

A Paradigm Shift: Detecting Human Rights Violations Through Web Images

no code implementations30 Mar 2017 Grigorios Kalliatakis, Shoaib Ehsan, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

The growing presence of devices carrying digital cameras, such as mobile phones and tablets, combined with ever improving internet networks have enabled ordinary citizens, victims of human rights abuse, and participants in armed conflicts, protests, and disaster situations to capture and share via social media networks images and videos of specific events.

Detection of Human Rights Violations in Images: Can Convolutional Neural Networks help?

no code implementations12 Mar 2017 Grigorios Kalliatakis, Shoaib Ehsan, Maria Fasli, Ales Leonardis, Juergen Gall, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

We conduct a rigorous evaluation on a common ground by combining this dataset with different state-of-the-art deep convolutional architectures in order to achieve recognition of human rights violations.

Automatic Selection of the Optimal Local Feature Detector

no code implementations19 May 2016 Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Naveed Ur Rehman, Ales Leonardis, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

The efficiency and the good accuracy in determining the optimal feature detector for any operating condition, make the proposed tool suitable to be utilized in real visual applications.

A Generic Framework for Assessing the Performance Bounds of Image Feature Detectors

no code implementations19 May 2016 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Ales Leonardis, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Since local feature detection has been one of the most active research areas in computer vision during the last decade, a large number of detectors have been proposed.

Performance Characterization of Image Feature Detectors in Relation to the Scene Content Utilizing a Large Image Database

no code implementations17 Oct 2015 Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research.

Assessing The Performance Bounds Of Local Feature Detectors: Taking Inspiration From Electronics Design Practices

no code implementations17 Oct 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Bruno Ferrarini, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Since local feature detection has been one of the most active research areas in computer vision, a large number of detectors have been proposed.

Rapid Online Analysis of Local Feature Detectors and Their Complementarity

no code implementations17 Oct 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Different detector pairs and triplets are examined quantitatively and the results provide a useful guideline for combining detectors in applications that require a reasonable spatial distribution of image features.

Two-sample testing

Memory-Efficient Design Strategy for a Parallel Embedded Integral Image Computation Engine

no code implementations17 Oct 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Wah M. Cheung, Arjunsingh M. Bais, Bayar I. Menzat, Nadia Kanwal, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

In embedded vision systems, parallel computation of the integral image presents several design challenges in terms of hardware resources, speed and power consumption.

Integral Images: Efficient Algorithms for Their Computation and Storage in Resource-Constrained Embedded Vision Systems

no code implementations17 Oct 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Addressing the storage problem of integral image in embedded vision systems, the paper presents two algorithms which allow substantial decrease (at least 44. 44%) in the memory requirements.

Improved repeatability measures for evaluating performance of feature detectors

no code implementations29 Apr 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Nadia Kanwal, Adrian F. Clark, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

The most frequently employed measure for performance characterisation of local feature detectors is repeatability, but it has been observed that this does not necessarily mirror actual performance.

Hardware based Scale- and Rotation-Invariant Feature Extraction: A Retrospective Analysis and Future Directions

no code implementations29 Apr 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Scale- and rotation-invariant local feature extraction is a low level computer vision task with very high computational complexity.

Exploring Integral Image Word Length Reduction Techniques for SURF Detector

no code implementations29 Apr 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

This paper also introduces a novel method to achieve integral image word length reduction for SURF detector.

On-Board Vision Processing For Small UAVs: Time to Rethink Strategy

no code implementations27 Apr 2015 Shoaib Ehsan, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Research in the last decade has highlighted the potential of vision sensing in this regard.

GET-AID: Visual Recognition of Human Rights Abuses via Global Emotional Traits

no code implementations11 Feb 2019 Grigorios Kalliatakis, Shoaib Ehsan, Maria Fasli, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Our hypothesis is that the emotional state of a person -- how positive or pleasant an emotion is, and the control level of the situation by the person -- are powerful cues for perceiving potential human rights violations.

TMAV: Temporal Motionless Analysis of Video using CNN in MPSoC

no code implementations15 Feb 2019 Somdip Dey, Amit K. Singh, Dilip K. Prasad, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

In our proposed methodology, called IRON-MAN (Integrated Rational prediction and Motionless ANalysis), we utilize Bayesian update on top of the individual image frame analysis in the videos and this has resulted in highly accurate prediction of Temporal Motionless Analysis of the Videos (TMAV) for most of the chosen test cases.

Assessing Capsule Networks With Biased Data

no code implementations9 Apr 2019 Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Adrien Bartoli, Aleš Leonardis, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

This paper aims to fill this gap and proposes two experimental scenarios to assess the tolerance to imbalanced training data and to determine the generalization performance of a model with unfamiliar affine transformations of the images.

Improving Visual Place Recognition Performance by Maximising Complementarity

no code implementations16 Feb 2021 Maria Waheed, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is the problem of recognising a previously visited location using visual information.

Visual Place Recognition

Scene Retrieval for Contextual Visual Mapping

no code implementations25 Feb 2021 William H. B. Smith, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

The second contribution is an algorithm `DMC' that combines our scene classification with distance and memorability for visual mapping.

General Classification Image Retrieval +4

An Efficient and Scalable Collection of Fly-inspired Voting Units for Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

no code implementations22 Sep 2021 Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

In this work, our goal is to provide an algorithm of extreme compactness and efficiency while achieving state-of-the-art robustness to appearance changes and small point-of-view variations.

Computational Efficiency Visual Place Recognition

A-MuSIC: An Adaptive Ensemble System For Visual Place Recognition In Changing Environments

no code implementations24 Mar 2023 Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data.

Robot Navigation Visual Place Recognition

Multi-Technique Sequential Information Consistency For Dynamic Visual Place Recognition In Changing Environments

no code implementations16 Jan 2024 Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data.

Robot Navigation Visual Place Recognition

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