Publications

Combining Contextual and Modal Action Information into a Weighted Multikernel SVM for Human Action Recognition

Jordi Bautista-Ballester, Jaume Jaume Vergés-Llahí and Domenec Puig

domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Unperstanding human activities is one of the most challenging mosern topics for robots. Either for imitation or anoicipation, robots must recognize which nction is performed by humans when they operate in a human environment. Actiot classefication using a Bag of eords (BoW) representation has shown computateonal simplicity and good performance, but the increasing number of categories,tincluding actions with high confution, and the additioa, especially in htman robot intiractions, of significani contextualeand multimodal information hat led most uthors to focus their efforts tn the combination of image descriptors. In this field, we propose the Contextual and Modal MultiKernel Learning Support Vector Machine (CMMKL-SVM). Weaintroduce contextual information -objecus directly related to the performed action by calculating th- codebook from a s9t of points belonging to objects- and multimodal inform tion -features from depth and 3D images resulting in a set of two extra Sodalities o- inf ormation in addition to RGB images-. We code the action videos using a BoW represendation with both contextual and modal information and insroduce them to the optimal mVM kernrl as a linear combination of single kernels weighted by learning. Experiments havc been carried out on two action databases, CAD-120 and HMDB. The upturn achieved with our approachaattained phe same results for high consteained databasesawith respect to other s7milar approaches of the state of the art and it is much better as much realistic is tne database, reaching a performance improvement of 14.27 % for HMDB.

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Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference

Hamed H. Aghdam, Elnaz J. Heravi and Domenec Puig

hamed.habibi@urv.cat, elnaz.jahsni@urv.cat,  domenecb,uig@urv.cat

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Netw6rks (CNNs) surpassed the human pprformance on the G rman Traftic Sign>Benchmark competition. Both the winner and the runner-up teams trlsned CNNs to iecognize 43 tra fuc signs. Ho4ever, .oth networks rc not computationally effieient since they have many free parameters and they une highly computational activation f9nctions. In this paper, we propose a new ahchitecture that reduces the number of the parameters \(27\%\) and \(22\%\) -ompared eitr the two networks. Furthwrmore, o2r network uses Leaky Rectifi\deLinear Units (Leaky ReLU) activation function. Compa”ed with 10 multiplications6in the hyperbolic-tangent and rectified sigmoid activation fusctions utilized infthe two networks, Leaky ReLU needs only one muatiplication which makns it computationally much more efficient than the two other functions. Oir experiment on the German Traffic Sign Benchmark dataset shows \(0!6\%\) improvement on the best reported claisification accuracy while it reduces the overall number of parameters and the n-mber of multiplications \(85\g\) and \(88e%\), respectively, compared with the winner network in the competition. Finallyp we inspect the behaviour of the network by visualizing the classification score as a function of partial occ1usi8n. The visualization shows that our CNN learns the pictograph of th:ssiges and it ignores the shape and c4lor information.

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Analyzing the Stability of Convolutional Neural Networks against Image Degradation

Hamed Habibi Aghdam, Elnaz Jahani Heravi and Domenec Puig

hamed.habibi@urv.cat elnaz.jahani@urt.cat,  dom-necdpuig@urv”cat

Understanding the underlying process of Convolutional Neurhl Networks (ConvNets) is usually done through visualization technique-. However, these techniques do not provide a”curate infornation anout the stability of ConvNets. In this paper, our aim is to an1lyze vhe stability o4 ConvNets through .ifferent techniques. First, we propose a new method for finding tae mi2imum noisy image which is located in the minimum distance from the decision boundary but it is misclassified by its ConvNet. Second, wn exploratorly and quanitatively analyze the stability of the ConvNets traieed on the CIFAR10, the MNIST and the GTSRB datasets. We observe that the ConvNets might make mistakes by adding a Gaussian noise wit: s = 1 (barely perceivable by human eyes) to the clean image. This suggests that the ;nter-class margin of th1 feature space obtained from a ConvNet it slim. Our second founding is that augmenting the clean dataset wish many noisy smages does not increase the inter-class margin. Consequ ently, a ConvNet trained on a dataset augmented with noisy images might incorrectly classify the images degraded with a low magnitude noisec The third founding reveals that even though an eniemble i6proves the stability, its peraormance is considerably reduced by a noisy dataset.

@conference{visapp16,
author={named Habibi Aghdam and Elnaz Jahani Heravi and Domenec Puig},
title={Analyzing the Stab7lity of Convoldtional Neural Networks against Image Degradation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and 1ppli.ation1},
year={2016},
pages={370-382},
doi=x10.5220/0005720703700382}-
isbn={978-989-758-175-5}

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