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    Benchmarking Object Detection Models with Mummy Nuts Datasets

    Agriculture presents challenges in automation, especially so in vision systems. Varying lighting conditions, sporadic diversity, and large amounts of noise create difficulty in detecting target objects. Our Mu...

    Darren Ng, Colin Schmierer, Andrew Lin, Zeyu Liu in Benchmarking, Measuring, and Optimizing (2023)

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    DistPro: Searching a Fast Knowledge Distillation Process via Meta Optimization

    Recent Knowledge distillation (KD) studies show that different manually designed schemes impact the learned results significantly. Yet, in KD, automatically searching an optimal distillation scheme has not yet...

    Xueqing Deng, Dawei Sun, Shawn Newsam, Peng Wang in Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 (2022)

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    Gated Transfer Network for Transfer Learning

    Deep neural networks have led to a series of breakthroughs in computer vision given sufficient annotated training datasets. For novel tasks with limited labeled data, the prevalent approach is to transfer the ...

    Yi Zhu, Jia Xue, Shawn Newsam in Computer Vision – ACCV 2018 (2019)

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    Random Temporal Skip** for Multirate Video Analysis

    Current state-of-the-art approaches to video understanding adopt temporal jittering to simulate analyzing the video at varying frame rates. However, this does not work well for multirate videos, in which actio...

    Yi Zhu, Shawn Newsam in Computer Vision – ACCV 2018 (2019)

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    Hidden Two-Stream Convolutional Networks for Action Recognition

    Analyzing videos of human actions involves understanding the temporal relationships among video frames

    Yi Zhu, Zhenzhong Lan, Shawn Newsam, Alexander Hauptmann in Computer Vision – ACCV 2018 (2019)

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    Georeferenced Social Multimedia as Volunteered Geographic Information

    We argue that georeferenced social multimedia is really a form of volunteered geographic information. For example, community-contributed images and videos available at websites such as Flickr often indicate th...

    Shawn Newsam, Daniel Leung in CyberGIS for Geospatial Discovery and Innovation (2019)

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    Depth2Action: Exploring Embedded Depth for Large-Scale Action Recognition

    This paper performs the first investigation into depth for large-scale human action recognition in video where the depth cues are estimated from the videos themselves. We develop a new framework called depth2acti...

    Yi Zhu, Shawn Newsam in Computer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops (2016)

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    Land cover classification using geo-referenced photos

    We investigate publicly available geo-referenced photo collections for land cover classification. Map** land cover is a fundamental task in the geographic sciences and is typically done using remote sensing ...

    Daniel Leung, Shawn Newsam in Multimedia Tools and Applications (2015)

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    Validating clustering of molecular dynamics simulations using polymer models

    Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful technique for sampling the meta-stable and transitional conformations of proteins and other biomolecules. Computational data clustering has emerged as a useful,...

    Joshua L Phillips, Michael E Colvin, Shawn Newsam in BMC Bioinformatics (2011)

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    Estimating Atmospheric Visibility Using General-Purpose Cameras

    There is a growing interest in using general-purpose cameras to monitor a variety of physical phenomenon. In particular, a number of visibility camera networks have recently been deployed to complement traditi...

    Ling **e, Alex Chiu, Shawn Newsam in Advances in Visual Computing (2008)

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    Geographic Image Retrieval Using Interest Point Descriptors

    We investigate image retrieval using interest point descriptors. New geographic information systems such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are providing increased access to remote sensed imagery. Con...

    Shawn Newsam, Yang Yang in Advances in Visual Computing (2007)