Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vijendran, M., Li, F. W., & Shum, H. P. (2023). Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 5 VISAPP: VISAPP (250-261). https://doi.org/10.5220/0011776600003417

It is difficult to train classifiers on paintings collections due to model bias from domain gaps and data bias from the uneven distribution of artistic styles. Previous techniques like data distillation, traditional data augmentation and style transf... Read More about Tackling Data Bias in Painting Classification with Style Transfer.

Unifying Human Motion Synthesis and Style Transfer with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Chang, Z., Findlay, E. J., Zhang, H., & Shum, H. P. (2023). Unifying Human Motion Synthesis and Style Transfer with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - GRAPP (64-74). https://doi.org/10.5220/0011631000003417

Generating realistic motions for digital humans is a core but challenging part of computer animations and games, as human motions are both diverse in content and rich in styles. While the latest deep learning approaches have made significant advancem... Read More about Unifying Human Motion Synthesis and Style Transfer with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.

Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Li, L., Shum, H. P., & Breckon, T. P. (2023). Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation. In 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00903

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semisupervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains such as auton... Read More about Less is More: Reducing Task and Model Complexity for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation.

Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gaus, Y., Bhowmik, N., Issac-Medina, B., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Shum, H., & Breckon, T. (2023). Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery. In 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW59228.2023.00301

Anomaly detection is a classical problem within automated visual surveillance, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when operational data availability is highly biased towards one class (normal) due to both insufficient sample siz... Read More about Region-based Appearance and Flow Characteristics for Anomaly Detection in Infrared Surveillance Imagery.

Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Networks for Action Quality Assessment (2023)
Journal Article
Zhou, K., Ma, Y., Shum, H. P., & Liang, X. (2023). Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Networks for Action Quality Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSVT.2023.3281413

Action quality assessment (AQA) automatically evaluates how well humans perform actions in a given video, a technique widely used in fields such as rehabilitation medicine, athletic competitions, and specific skills assessment. However, existing work... Read More about Hierarchical Graph Convolutional Networks for Action Quality Assessment.

INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, S., Atapour-Abarghouei, A., Ho, E. S., & Shum, H. P. (2023). INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network. Software impacts, 17, Article 100517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2023.100517

We present a software that predicts non-cleft facial images for patients with cleft lip, thereby facilitating the understanding, awareness and discussion of cleft lip surgeries. To protect patients’ privacy, we design a software framework using image... Read More about INCLG: Inpainting for Non-Cleft Lip Generation with a Multi-Task Image Processing Network.

Focalized Contrastive View-invariant Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Recognition (2023)
Journal Article
Men, Q., Ho, E. S., Shum, H. P., & Leung, H. (2023). Focalized Contrastive View-invariant Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Recognition. Neurocomputing, 537, 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2023.03.070

Learning view-invariant representation is a key to improving feature discrimination power for skeleton-based action recognition. Existing approaches cannot effectively remove the impact of viewpoint due to the implicit view-dependent representations.... Read More about Focalized Contrastive View-invariant Learning for Self-supervised Skeleton-based Action Recognition.

A Video-Based Augmented Reality System for Human-in-the-Loop Muscle Strength Assessment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis (2023)
Journal Article
Zhou, K., Cai, R., Ma, Y., Tan, Q., Wang, X., Li, J., …Liang, X. (2023). A Video-Based Augmented Reality System for Human-in-the-Loop Muscle Strength Assessment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(5), 2456-2466. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2023.3247092

As the most common idiopathic inflammatory myopathy in children, juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is characterized by skin rashes and muscle weakness. The childhood myositis assessment scale (CMAS) is commonly used to measure the degree of muscle invol... Read More about A Video-Based Augmented Reality System for Human-in-the-Loop Muscle Strength Assessment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis.