- Advanced Image Processing Techniques
- Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
- Advanced Vision and Imaging
- Image and Signal Denoising Methods
- Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques
- Image Processing Techniques and Applications
- Image Enhancement Techniques
- Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Human Pose and Action Recognition
- Radiology practices and education
- Blind Source Separation Techniques
- COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Human Motion and Animation
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
- 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
University of Alberta
2021
Canadian VIGOUR Centre
2021
Queen Mary University of London
2015-2017
Background subtraction is a fundamental video analysis technique that consists of creation background model allows distinguishing foreground pixels. We present new method in which the image sequence assumed to be made up sum low-rank matrix and dynamic tree-structured sparse matrix. The decomposition task then solved using our approximated Robust Principal Component Analysis (ARPCA) an extension RPCA can handle camera motion noise. Our dynamically estimates support regions via superpixel...
There is a crucial need for quick testing and diagnosis of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lung ultrasound an imaging modality that cost-effective, widely accessible, can be used to diagnose acute respiratory distress syndrome in with COVID-19. It find important characteristics images, including A-lines, B-lines, consolidation, pleural effusion, which all inform clinician monitoring diagnosing disease. With use portable transducers, lung images easily acquired, however, are often poor...
Decomposition of a video scene into background and foreground is an old problem, for which novel approaches in the last years have been proposed. The robust subspace approach based on low-rank plus sparse matrix decomposition has shown great ability to identify static parts from moving objects sequences. However, those models are still insufficient realistic environments. In this paper, we propose modified approximated PCA algorithm that can handle cameras takes advantage block structure...
This paper presents an approximated Robust Principal Component Analysis (ARPCA) framework for recovery of a set linearly correlated images. Our algorithm seeks optimal solution decomposing batch realistic unaligned and corrupted images as the sum low-rank sparse corruption matrix, while simultaneously aligning according to image transformations. extremely challenging optimization problem has been reduced solving number convex programs, that minimize Frobenius norm l <sub...
Video analysis often begins with background subtraction, which consists of creation a model that allows distinguishing foreground pixels. Recent evaluation subtraction techniques demonstrated there are still considerable challenges facing these methods. Processing per-pixel basis from the is not only time-consuming but also can dramatically affect region detection, if cohesion and contiguity considered in model. We present new method we regard image sequence to be made up sum low-rank matrix...
We introduce a new synthetic data generator PSP-HDRI$+$ that proves to be superior pre-training alternative ImageNet and other large-scale counterparts. demonstrate with our will yield more general model performs better than alternatives even when tested on out-of-distribution (OOD) sets. Furthermore, using ablation studies guided by person keypoint estimation metrics an off-the-shelf architecture, we show how manipulate further improve performance.
The research reported in this paper addresses the fundamental task of separation locally moving or deforming image areas from a static globally background. It builds on latest developments field robust principal component analysis, specifically, recently practical solutions for long-standing problem recovering low-rank and sparse parts large matrix made up sum these two components. This article few critical issues including: embedding global motion parameters decomposition model, i.e.,...
In recent years, person detection and human pose estimation have made great strides, helped by large-scale labeled datasets. However, these datasets had no guarantees or analysis of activities, poses, context diversity. Additionally, privacy, legal, safety, ethical concerns may limit the ability to collect more data. An emerging alternative real-world data that alleviates some issues is synthetic creation generators incredibly challenging prevents researchers from exploring their usefulness....
Sparse coding-based algorithms have been successfully applied to the single-image super resolution problem. Conventional multi-image super-resolution (SR) incorporate auxiliary frames into model by a registration process using subpixel block matching that are computationally expensive. This becomes increasingly important as super-resolving UHD video content with existing sparse-based SR approaches become less efficient. In order fully utilize spatio-temporal information, we propose novel...
We present a novel human body model formulated by an extensive set of anthropocentric measurements, which is capable generating wide range shapes and poses. The proposed enables direct modeling specific identities through deep generative architecture, can produce humans in any arbitrary pose. It the first its kind to have been trained end-to-end using only synthetically generated data, not provides highly accurate mesh representations but also allows for precise anthropometry body. Moreover,...
We explore the problem of subspace clustering.Given a set data samples approximately drawn from union multiple subspaces, our goal is to cluster into respective and also remove possible outliers.We propose an Approximated Robust PCA Clustering (ARPCAC) method that involves extracting point trajectories only induced by object motion, pool all motions objects camera then projecting them onto 5-dimensional space, using PowerFactorization.Our algorithm can be used segment in video furthermore,...