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We present an approach for analyzing the visual aesthetic property of a handwritten document page which matches with human perception. We formulate the problem at two independent levels: (i) coarse level which deals with the overall layout, space usages between lines, words and margins, and (ii) fine level, which analyses the construction of each word and deals with the aesthetic properties of writing styles. We present our observations on multiple local and global features which can extract the aesthetic cues present in the handwritten documents.

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We propose a deep convolutional feature representation that achieves superior performance for word spotting and recognition for handwritten images. We focus on: -(i) enhancing the discriminative ability of the convolutional features using a reduced feature representation that can scale to large datasets, and (ii) enabling query-by-string by learning a common subspace for image and text using the embedded attribute framework. We present our results on popular datasets such as the IAM corpus and historical document collections from the Bentham and George Washington pages. On the challenging IAM dataset, we achieve a state of the art mAP of 91.58% on word spotting using textual queries and a mean word error rate of 6.69% for the word recognition task.

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Multilingual language processing tasks like statistical machine translation and cross language information retrieval rely mainly on availability of accurate parallel corpora. Manual construction of such corpus can be extremely expensive and time consuming. In this paper we present a simple yet efficient method to generate huge amount of reasonably accurate parallel corpus with minimal user efforts. We utilize the availability of large number of English books and their corresponding translations in other languages to build parallel corpus. Optical Character Recognizing systems are used to digitize such books. We propose a robust dictionary based parallel corpus generation system for alignment of multilingual text at different levels of granularity (sentence, paragraphs, etc). We show the performance of our proposed method on a manually aligned dataset of 300 Hindi-English sentences and 100 English-Malayalam sentences.

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Multilingual language processing tasks like statistical machine translation and cross language information retrieval rely mainly on availability of accurate parallel corpora. Manual construction of such corpus can be extremely expensive and time consuming. In this paper we present a simple yet efficient method to generate huge amount of reasonably accurate parallel corpus with minimal user efforts. We utilize the availability of large number of English books and their corresponding translations in other languages to build parallel corpus. Optical Character Recognizing systems are used to digitize such books. We propose a robust dictionary based parallel corpus generation system for alignment of multilingual text at different levels of granularity (sentence, paragraphs, etc). We show the performance of our proposed method on a manually aligned dataset of 300 Hindi-English sentences and 100 English-Malayalam sentences.

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Content based indexing is critical to the effective access of the multimedia data. To this end, visual data is often annotated with textual content for bridging the semantic gap. In this paper, we present a method to generate frame level fine grained annotations for a given video clip. Access to the frame level fine grained annotations lead to rich, dense and meaningful semantic associations between the text and video. This in turn makes the video retrieval systems more accurate. We demonstrate the use of probabilistic label consistent sparse coding and dictionary learning with a K-SVD algorithm to generate `fine grained' annotations for a class of videos - lawn tennis. The algorithm simultaneously learns a classifier and a dictionary to generate the frame level annotations for the tennis videos using available textual descriptions. The utility of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated on a publicly available tennis dataset …

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An examination of object recognition challenge leaderboards (ILSVRC, PASCAL-VOC) reveals that the top-performing classifiers typically exhibit small differences amongst themselves in terms of error rate/mAP. To better differentiate the top performers, additional criteria are required. Moreover, the (test) images, on which the performance scores are based, predominantly contain fully visible objects. Therefore, ‘harder’ test images, mimicking the challenging conditions (e.g. occlusion) in which humans routinely recognize objects, need to be utilized for benchmarking. To address the concerns mentioned above, we make two contributions. First, we systematically vary the level of local object-part content, global detail and spatial context in images from PASCAL VOC 2010 to create a new benchmarking dataset dubbed PPSS-12. Second, we propose an object-part based benchmarking procedure which quantifies classifiers’ robustness to a range of visibility and contextual settings. The benchmarking procedure relies on a semantic similarity measure that naturally addresses potential semantic granularity differences between the category labels in training and test datasets, thus eliminating manual mapping. We use our procedure on the PPSS-12 dataset to benchmark top-performing classifiers trained on the ILSVRC-2012 dataset. Our results show that the proposed benchmarking procedure enables additional differentiation among state-of-the-art object classifiers in terms of their ability to handle missing content and insufficient object detail. Given this capability for additional differentiation, our approach can potentially supplement existing benchmarking procedures used in object recognition challenge leaderboards.

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Vertical video editing is the process of digitally editing the image within the frame as opposed to horizontal video editing, which arranges the shots along a timeline. Vertical editing can be a time-consuming and error-prone process when using manual key-framing and simple interpolation. In this paper, we present a general framework for automatically computing a variety of cinematically plausible shots from a single input video suitable to the special case of live performances. Drawing on working practices in traditional cinematography, the system acts as a virtual camera assistant to the film editor, who can call novel shots in the edit room with a combination of high-level instructions and manually selected keyframes.

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We present an algorithm for automatic blur detection of document images using a novel approach based on edge intensity profiles. Our main insight is that the edge profiles are a strong indicator of the blur present in the image, with steep profiles implying sharper regions and gradual profiles implying blurred regions. Our approach first retrieves the profiles for each point of intensity transition (each edge point) along the gradient and then uses them to output a quantitative measure indicating the extent of blur in the input image. The real time performance of the proposed approach makes it suitable for most applications. Additionally, our method works for both hand written and digital documents and is agnostic to the font types and sizes, which gives it a major advantage over the currently prevalent learning based approaches. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments over two different datasets show that our method outperforms almost all algorithms in current state of the art by a significant margin, especially in cross dataset experiments.

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The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for processing crowd-sensed data. The method includes receiving the crowd-sensed data from a mobile device associated with a user. The crowd-sensed data corresponds to metadata of an event pertaining to an aberration in at least one of a public service, a public infrastructure, a private service, or a private infrastructure. Thereafter, the event may be prioritized based at least on a type of the event, a measure of impact of the event, or a measure of urgency to resolve the event. Further, a notification of the event may be transmitted to an organization responsible to at least resolve the event, based on the prioritizing, wherein the notification comprises at least the metadata.

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The task of automatic image annotation involves assigning relevant multiple labels/tags to query images based on their visual content. One of the key challenge in multi-label image annotation task is the class imbalance problem where frequently occurring labels suppress the participation of rarely occurring labels. In this paper, we propose to exploit the multi-scale behavior in hypergraph heat diffusion framework for the automatic image annotation task. The proposed novel technique enables to model the higher order relationship among images in the feature space and provides a multi-scale label diffusion mechanism to address the class imbalance problem in the data.