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Emotion recognition is challenging due to the emotional gap between emotions and audio–visual features. Motivated by the powerful feature learning ability of deep neural networks, this paper proposes to bridge the emotional gap by using a hybrid deep model, which first produces audio–visual segment features with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and 3D-CNN, then fuses audio–visual segment features in a Deep Belief Networks (DBNs). The proposed method is trained in two stages. First, CNN and 3D-CNN models pre-trained on corresponding large-scale image and video classification tasks are fine-tuned on emotion recognition tasks to learn audio and visual segment features, respectively. Second, the outputs of CNN and 3D-CNN models are combined into a fusion network built with a DBN model. The fusion network is trained to jointly learn a discriminative audio–visual segment feature representation. After average-pooling segment features learned by DBN to form a fixed-length global video feature, a linear Support Vector Machine is used for video emotion classification. Experimental results on three public audio–visual emotional databases, including the acted RML database, the acted eNTERFACE05 database, and the spontaneous BAUM-1s database, demonstrate the promising performance of the proposed method. To the best of our knowledge, this is an early work fusing audio and visual cues with CNN, 3D-CNN, and DBN for audio–visual emotion recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gait recognition is an important biometric technology that allows for the remote collection of stakeholders' characteristics, without requiring their explicit cooperation. It has gained considerable attention in the fields of criminal investigation and intelligent security. Previous studies have shown that local gait features can enhance gait recognition performance by improving robustness to disturbances. However, global gait features also play a crucial role in gait recognition. Many researchers have utilized convolutional operations to extract global features, but these operations tend to focus on features within the receptive field, neglecting those outside of it. Therefore, the potential of global gait features has not been fully explored. In this paper, we propose a gait recognition framework based on vision transformers, aiming to enhance the extraction of global gait features. We introduce an adaptive multi-frame global feature mapping (AMGM) method to address the challenge of inconsistent feature dimensions caused by variations in the number of gait frames when fusing global and local features. We evaluate our model on the latest datasets, and the experimental results demonstrate a significant breakthrough. Notably, our model achieves state-of-the-art recognition accuracy, particularly in scenarios where subjects are wearing coats. Additionally, our model achieves remarkable improvements in recognition accuracy through training with small sample sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims at precisely estimating human perceived image quality with no access to a reference. Recently, several attempts have been made to develop BIQA methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs). Although these methods obtained promising performance, they have some limitations: (1) their DNN models are actually ”shallow” in term of depth; and (2) these methods typically use the output of the last layer in the DNN model as the feature representation for quality prediction. Since the representation depth has been demonstrated beneficial for various vision tasks, it is significant to explore very deep networks for learning BIQA models. Besides, the information in the last layer may unduly generalize over local artifacts which are highly related to quality degradation. On the contrary, intermediate layers may be sensitive to local degradations but will not capture high-level semantics. Thus, reasoning at multiple levels of representation is necessary in the IQA task. In this paper, we propose to extract multi-level representations from a very deep DNN model for learning an effective BIQA model, and consequently present a simple but extraordinarily effective BIQA framework, codenamed BLINDER ( BLind Image quality predictioN via multi-level DEep Representations ). Thorough experiments have been conducted on five standard databases, which show that a significant improvement can be achieved by adopting multi-level deep representations. Besides, BLINDER considerably outperforms previous state-of-the-art BIQA methods for authentically distorted images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]