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Explainable AI (XAI) is the study on how humans can be able to understand the cause of a model’s prediction. In this work, the problem of interest is Scene Text Recognition (STR) Explainability, using XAI to understand the cause of an STR model’s prediction. Recent XAI literatures on STR only provide a simple analysis and do not fully explore other XAI

This paper presents a new reinforcement-based method for video thumbnail selection (called RL-DiVTS), that relies on estimates of the aesthetic quality, representativeness and visual diversity of a small set of selected frames, made with

Thermal facial imagery offers valuable insight into physiological states such as inflammation and stress by detecting emitted radiation in the infrared spectrum, which is unseen in the visible spectra. Telemedicine applications could benefit from thermal imagery, but conventional computers are reliant on RGB cameras and lack thermal sensors. As a result, we propose the Visible-to-Thermal Facial GAN (VTF-GAN) that is specifically designed to generate high-resolution thermal faces by learning both the spatial and frequency domains of facial regions, across spectra.

In recent years, automotive radar has become an integral part of the advanced safety sensor stack. Although radar gives a significant advantage over a camera or Lidar, it suffers from poor angular resolution, unwanted noises and significant object smearing across the angular bins, making radar-based object detection challenging. We propose a novel radar-based object detection utilizing a deep learning-based super-resolution (DLSR) model. Due to the unavailability of low-high resolution radar data pair, we first simulate the data to train a DLSR model.

This paper proposes a multichannel method for discriminative region localization in Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) tasks. In one channel, processing the phase and amplitude of 2-D Fourier spectra generate a modified form of the original image, used later for a pixel-wise optimal local entropy analysis. The other channel implements a class activation map (CAM) and Global Average Pooling (GAP) for object localization. We combine the channels linearly to form the final localized version of the COD images.

This paper proposes a multichannel method for discriminative region localization in Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) tasks. In one channel, processing the phase and amplitude of 2-D Fourier spectra generate a modified form of the original image, used later for a pixel-wise optimal local entropy analysis. The other channel implements a class activation map (CAM) and Global Average Pooling (GAP) for object localization. We combine the channels linearly to form the final localized version of the COD images.

The importance of document digitization has increased due to recent technological advancements, including in the medical field. Digitization of medical records plays a vital role in the healthcare sector as it helps expedite emergency treatment. Due to the scarcity of published studies and public German textual resources, a medical records database with German handwriting was collected and digitized.

Text-based pedestrian search (TBPS) aims at retrieving target persons from the image gallery through descriptive text queries. Despite remarkable progress in recent state-of-the-art approaches, previous works still struggle to efficiently extract discriminative features from multi-modal data. To address the problem of cross-modal fine-grained text-to-image, we proposed a novel Siamese Contrastive Language-Image Model (SiamCLIM).

Vehicles suddenly exiting road-side parking constitute a hazardous situation for vehicle drivers as well as for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV). In order to improve the awareness of road users, we propose an original cooperative information system based on image processing to monitor vehicles parked on the road-side and on communication for sending early warning to vehicles on the road about vehicles leaving their parking space.

Neural network based image compression has made significant progress in recent years. The learned image codecs are commonly reported to outperform their conventional counterparts in perceptual quality. Despite the superior performance, the learned image codecs are much more complex to decode, which hinders their usage in practice. Without a significant advance in hardware capability, the conventional image codec will likely remain a primary component for large scale image services. It is therefore desirable to improve the quality of conventional image codecs.