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In order to achieve higher accuracy of image recognition, deeper and wider networks have been used. However, when the network size gets bigger, its forward inference time also takes longer. To address this problem, we propose Deeply-Fused Branchy Network (DFB-Net) by adding small but complete side branches to the target baseline main branch. DFB-Net allows easy-to-discriminate samples to be classified faster. For hard-to-discriminate samples, DFB-Net makes probability fusion by averaging softmax probabilities to make collaborative predictions.

In a broad range of computer vision tasks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most prominent techniques due to their outstanding performance.
Yet it is not trivial to find the best performing network structure for a specific application because it is often unclear how the network structure relates to the network accuracy.
We propose an evolutionary algorithm-based framework to automatically optimize the CNN structure by means of hyper-parameters.

Real-world face recognition using a single sample per person (SSPP) is a challenging task. The problem is exacerbated if the conditions under which the gallery image and the probe set are captured are completely different. To address these issues from the perspective of domain adaptation, we introduce an SSPP domain adaptation network (SSPP-DAN). In the proposed approach, domain adaptation, feature extraction, and classification are performed jointly using a deep architecture with domain-adversarial training.

Deep network pruning is an effective method to reduce the storage and computation cost of deep neural networks when applying them to resource-limited devices. Among many pruning granularity, neuron level pruning will remove redundant neurons and filters in the model and result in thinner networks. In this paper, we propose a gradually global pruning scheme for neuron level pruning. In each pruning step, a small percent of neurons were selected and dropped across all layers in the model.

Automatically predicting age group from face images acquired in unconstrained conditions is an important and challenging task in many real-world applications. Nevertheless, the conventional methods with manually-designed features on in-the-wild benchmarks are unsatisfactory because of incompetency to tackle large variations in unconstrained images.

We introduce a new reference axis for leaf classification. The new reference axis, called a Mid-Leaf axis, is based on a quadratic curve that lies on the middle of a leaf. This curve is derived from three basic landmark points: an apex, a centroid, and a petiole. After mapping to a new plane based on this curve, leaf shape features are invariant under translation, rotation, scaling, and bending. We propose the leaf shape features based on partitioning the morphological features and the tangent’s direction angle of the leaf contour.

4D effects are physical effects simulated in sync with videos, movies, and games to augment the events occurring in a story or a virtual world. Types of 4D effects commonly used for the immersive media may include seat motion, vibration, flash, wind, water, scent, thunderstorm, snow, and fog. Currently, the recognition of physical effects from a video is mainly conducted by human experts. Although 4D effects are promising in giving immersive experience and entertainment, this manual production has been the main obstacle to faster and wider application of 4D effects.

In the demonstration, we would show our live and real-time parking space detection system. The detection function is founded on a video surveillance system built in an outdoor parking lot. As we might know, it is challenging to implement a practical vision system in an outdoor environment owing to the dramatic lighting changes and uncontrollable variations from weather conditions.

Vacant parking space detection is a challenging vision task due to outdoor lighting variation and perspective distortion. Previous methods found on camera geometry and projection matrix to select space image region for status classification. By utilizing suitable hand-crafted features, outdoor lighting variation and perspective distortion could be well handled. However, if also considering parking displacement, non-unified car size, and inter-object occlusion, we find the problem becomes more troublesome.