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20172021
most citedSTAR: A Structure and Texture Aware Retinex Model

317 citations · 1.4k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CV2021★ 1 cited

Learning Multi-Granular Hypergraphs for Video-Based Person Re-Identification

Yichao Yan, Jie Qin1, Jiaxin Chen +4

Video-based person re-identification (re-ID) is an important research topic in computer vision. The key to tackling the challenging task is to exploit both spatial and temporal clu…

cs.CV2021★ 73 cited

Learning Multi-Attention Context Graph for Group-Based Re-Identification

Yichao Yan, Jie Qin, Bingbing Ni +6

Learning to re-identify or retrieve a group of people across non-overlapped camera systems has important applications in video surveillance. However, most existing methods focus on…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Anchor-Free Person Search

Yichao Yan, Jinpeng Li, Jie Qin +5

Person search aims to simultaneously localize and identify a query person from realistic, uncropped images, which can be regarded as the unified task of pedestrian detection and pe…

cs.CV2021

P2-Net: Joint Description and Detection of Local Features for Pixel and Point Matching

Bing Wang, Changhao Chen, Zhaopeng Cui +8

Accurately describing and detecting 2D and 3D keypoints is crucial to establishing correspondences across images and point clouds. Despite a plethora of learning-based 2D or 3D loc…

cs.LG2020★ 52 cited

Normalization Techniques in Training DNNs: Methodology, Analysis and Application

Lei Huang, Jie Qin, Yi Zhou +3

Normalization techniques are essential for accelerating the training and improving the generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs), and have successfully been used in various app…

cs.LG2020

Group Whitening: Balancing Learning Efficiency and Representational Capacity

Lei Huang, Yi Zhou, Li Liu +2

Batch normalization (BN) is an important technique commonly incorporated into deep learning models to perform standardization within mini-batches. The merits of BN in improving a m…

cs.LG2020★ 25 cited

On the Number of Linear Regions of Convolutional Neural Networks

H. Xiong, L. Huang, M. Yu +3

One fundamental problem in deep learning is understanding the outstanding performance of deep Neural Networks (NNs) in practice. One explanation for the superiority of NNs is that…

cs.CV2020★ 139 cited

Pyramidal Convolution: Rethinking Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Ionut Cosmin Duta, Li Liu, Fan Zhu +1

This work introduces pyramidal convolution (PyConv), which is capable of processing the input at multiple filter scales. PyConv contains a pyramid of kernels, where each level invo…

cs.CV2020★ 25 cited

Improved Residual Networks for Image and Video Recognition

Ionut Cosmin Duta, Li Liu, Fan Zhu +1

Residual networks (ResNets) represent a powerful type of convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, widely adopted and used in various tasks. In this work we propose an impro…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Controllable Orthogonalization in Training DNNs

Lei Huang, Li Liu, Fan Zhu +4

Orthogonality is widely used for training deep neural networks (DNNs) due to its ability to maintain all singular values of the Jacobian close to 1 and reduce redundancy in represe…

cs.CV2020

An Investigation into the Stochasticity of Batch Whitening

Lei Huang, Lei Zhao, Yi Zhou +3

Batch Normalization (BN) is extensively employed in various network architectures by performing standardization within mini-batches. A full understanding of the process has been a…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

Auto-Encoding Twin-Bottleneck Hashing

Yuming Shen, Jie Qin, Jiaxin Chen +5

Conventional unsupervised hashing methods usually take advantage of similarity graphs, which are either pre-computed in the high-dimensional space or obtained from random anchor po…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

Layer-wise Conditioning Analysis in Exploring the Learning Dynamics of DNNs

Lei Huang, Jie Qin, Li Liu +2

Conditioning analysis uncovers the landscape of an optimization objective by exploring the spectrum of its curvature matrix. This has been well explored theoretically for linear mo…

cs.CV2019★ 260 cited

RANet: Ranking Attention Network for Fast Video Object Segmentation

Ziqin Wang, Jun Xu, Li Liu +2

Despite online learning (OL) techniques have boosted the performance of semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) methods, the huge time costs of OL greatly restrict their pr…

math.OC2019★ 1 cited

Fast Large-Scale Discrete Optimization Based on Principal Coordinate Descent

Huan Xiong, Mengyang Yu, Li Liu +3

Binary optimization, a representative subclass of discrete optimization, plays an important role in mathematical optimization and has various applications in computer vision and ma…

cs.CV2019★ 5 cited

Embarrassingly Simple Binary Representation Learning

Yuming Shen, Jie Qin, Jiaxin Chen +2

Recent binary representation learning models usually require sophisticated binary optimization, similarity measure or even generative models as auxiliaries. However, one may wonder…

cs.CV2019★ 192 cited

Noisy-As-Clean: Learning Self-supervised Denoising from the Corrupted Image

Jun Xu, Yuan Huang, Ming-Ming Cheng +4

Supervised deep networks have achieved promisingperformance on image denoising, by learning image priors andnoise statistics on plenty pairs of noisy and clean images. Unsupervised…

cs.CV2019★ 94 cited

NLH: A Blind Pixel-level Non-local Method for Real-world Image Denoising

Yingkun Hou, Jun Xu, Mingxia Liu +4

Non-local self similarity (NSS) is a powerful prior of natural images for image denoising. Most of existing denoising methods employ similar patches, which is a patch-level NSS pri…

cs.CV2019★ 317 cited

STAR: A Structure and Texture Aware Retinex Model

Jun Xu, Yingkun Hou, Dongwei Ren +5

Retinex theory is developed mainly to decompose an image into the illumination and reflectance components by analyzing local image derivatives. In this theory, larger derivatives a…

cs.IR2019★ 6 cited

Dynamically Visual Disambiguation of Keyword-based Image Search

Yazhou Yao, Zeren Sun, Fumin Shen +6

Due to the high cost of manual annotation, learning directly from the web has attracted broad attention. One issue that limits their performance is the problem of visual polysemy.…

cs.CV2019★ 175 cited

iSAID: A Large-scale Dataset for Instance Segmentation in Aerial Images

Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Akshita Gupta +7

Existing Earth Vision datasets are either suitable for semantic segmentation or object detection. In this work, we introduce the first benchmark dataset for instance segmentation i…

cs.CV2019★ 12 cited

Iterative Normalization: Beyond Standardization towards Efficient Whitening

Lei Huang, Yi Zhou, Fan Zhu +2

Batch Normalization (BN) is ubiquitously employed for accelerating neural network training and improving the generalization capability by performing standardization within mini-bat…

cs.CV2018★ 4 cited

Highly-Economized Multi-View Binary Compression for Scalable Image Clustering

Zheng Zhang, Li Liu, Jie Qin +5

How to economically cluster large-scale multi-view images is a long-standing problem in computer vision. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a novel approach named Highly-econom…

cs.CV2017★ 3 cited

Towards Automatic Construction of Diverse, High-quality Image Dataset

Yazhou Yao, Jian Zhang, Fumin Shen +4

The availability of labeled image datasets has been shown critical for high-level image understanding, which continuously drives the progress of feature designing and models develo…