Lane Detection: A Survey with New Results
Lane detection is essential for many aspects of autonomous driving, such as lane-based navigation and high-definition (HD) map modeling. Although lane detection is challenging especially with complex road conditions, considerable progress has been ...
Denoising Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping Renderings Using a Multi-Residual Network
Stochastic progressive photon mapping (SPPM) is one of the important global illumination methods in computer graphics. It can simulate caustics and specular-diffuse-specular lighting effects efficiently. However, as a biased method, it always ...
A Comprehensive Pipeline for Complex Text-to-Image Synthesis
Synthesizing a complex scene image with multiple objects and background according to text description is a challenging problem. It needs to solve several difficult tasks across the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. We ...
Two-Stream Temporal Convolutional Networks for Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition
With the growing popularity of somatosensory interaction devices, human action recognition is becoming attractive in many application scenarios. Skeleton-based action recognition is effective because the skeleton can represent the position and the ...
Reference Image Guided Super-Resolution via Progressive Channel Attention Networks
In recent years, the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for single image super-resolution (SISR) are becoming more and more complex, and it is more challenging to improve the SISR performance. In contrast, the reference image guided super-...
Automatic Video Segmentation Based on Information Centroid and Optimized SaliencyCut
We propose an automatic video segmentation method based on an optimized SaliencyCut equipped with information centroid (IC) detection according to level balance principle in physical theory. Unlike the existing methods, the image information of ...
EmotionMap: Visual Analysis of Video Emotional Content on a Map
Emotion plays a crucial role in gratifying users’ needs during their experience of movies and TV series, and may be underutilized as a framework for exploring video content and analysis. In this paper, we present EmotionMap, a novel way of ...
Distinguishing Computer-Generated Images from Natural Images Using Channel and Pixel Correlation
With the recent tremendous advances of computer graphics rendering and image editing technologies, computergenerated fake images, which in general do not reflect what happens in the reality, can now easily deceive the inspection of human visual ...
Next POI Recommendation Based on Location Interest Mining with Recurrent Neural Networks
In mobile social networks, next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is a very important function that can provide personalized location-based services for mobile users. In this paper, we propose a recurrent neural network (RNN)-based next POI ...
Word-Pair Relevance Modeling with Multi-View Neural Attention Mechanism for Sentence Alignment
Sentence alignment provides multi-lingual or cross-lingual natural language processing (NLP) applications with high-quality parallel sentence pairs. Normally, an aligned sentence pair contains multiple aligned words, which intuitively play ...
Cloaking Region Based Passenger Privacy Protection in Ride-Hailing Systems
With the quick development of the sharing economy, ride-hailing services have been increasingly popular worldwide. Although the service provides convenience for users, one concern from the public is whether the location privacy of passengers would ...
Deploy Efficiency Driven k-Barrier Construction Scheme Based on Target Circle in Directional Sensor Network
With the increasing demand for security, building strong barrier coverage in directional sensor networks is important for effectively detecting un-authorized intrusions. In this paper, we propose an efficient scheme to form the strong barrier ...
Data-Driven Approaches for Spatio-Temporal Analysis: A Survey of the State-of-the-Arts
With the advancement of telecommunications, sensor networks, crowd sourcing, and remote sensing technology in present days, there has been a tremendous growth in the volume of data having both spatial and temporal references. This huge volume of ...
A Survey on Performance Optimization of High-Level Synthesis Tools
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have recently evolved as a valuable component of the heterogeneous computing. The register transfer level (RTL) design flows demand the designers to be experienced in hardware, resulting in a possible failure ...