Awesome Deep Vision

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Table of Contents

• Papers
• ImageNet Classification
• Object Detection
• Object Tracking
• Low-Level Vision
• Edge Detection
• Semantic Segmentation
• Visual Attention and Saliency
• Object Recognition
• Understanding CNN
• Image Captioning
• Video Captioning
• Question Answering
• Other Topics
• Courses
• Books
• Videos
• Software
• Framework
• Applications
• Tutorials
• Blogs

Papers

ImageNet Classification

(from Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton, ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, NIPS, 2012.)

• Microsoft (PReLu/Weight Initialization) [Paper]
  • Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun, Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification, arXiv:1502.01852.
• Batch Normalization [Paper]
  • Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy, Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift, arXiv:1502.03167.
• GoogLeNet [Paper]
  • Christian Szegedy, Wei Liu, Yangqing Jia, Pierre Sermanet, Scott Reed, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Vincent Vanhoucke, Andrew Rabinovich, CVPR, 2015.
• VGG-Net [Web] [Paper]
• Karen Simonyan and Andrew Zisserman, Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Visual Recognition, ICLR, 2015.
• AlexNet [Paper]
  • Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton, ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, NIPS, 2012.

Object Detection

(from Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Jian Sun, Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks, arXiv:1506.01497.)

• OverFeat, NYU [Paper]
• Matthrew Zeiler, Rob Fergus, Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks, ECCV, 2014.
• R-CNN, UC Berkeley [Paper-CVPR14] [Paper-arXiv14]
• Ross Girshick, Jeff Donahue, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation, CVPR, 2014.
• SPP, Microsoft Research [Paper]
• Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun, Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition, ECCV, 2014.
• Fast R-CNN, Microsoft Research [[Paper]] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.08083)
• Ross Girshick, Fast R-CNN, arXiv:1504.08083.
• Faster R-CNN, Microsoft Research [[Paper]] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01497)
• Shaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick, Jian Sun, Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal Networks, arXiv:1506.01497.
• R-CNN minus R, Oxford [[Paper]] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06981)
• Karel Lenc, Andrea Vedaldi, R-CNN minus R, arXiv:1506.06981.

Object Tracking

• Seunghoon Hong, Tackgeun You, Suha Kwak, Bohyung Han, Online Tracking by Learning Discriminative Saliency Map with Convolutional Neural Network, arXiv:1502.06796. [Paper]
• Hanxi Li, Yi Li and Fatih Porikli, DeepTrack: Learning Discriminative Feature Representations by Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking, BMVC, 2014. [Paper]
• N Wang, DY Yeung, Learning a Deep Compact Image Representation for Visual Tracking, NIPS, 2013. [Paper]

Low-Level Vision

• Optical Flow (FlowNet) [Paper]
• Philipp Fischer, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Eddy Ilg, Philip Häusser, Caner Hazırbaş, Vladimir Golkov, Patrick van der Smagt, Daniel Cremers, Thomas Brox, FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks, arXiv:1504.06852.
• Super-Resolution (SRCNN) [Web] [Paper-ECCV14] [Paper-arXiv15][Paper ICONIP-2014]
  • Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang, Learning a Deep Convolutional Network for Image Super-Resolution, ECCV, 2014.
  • Chao Dong, Chen Change Loy, Kaiming He, Xiaoou Tang, Image Super-Resolution Using Deep Convolutional Networks, arXiv:1501.00092.
  • Osendorfer, Christian, Hubert Soyer, and Patrick van der Smagt, Image Super-Resolution with Fast Approximate Convolutional Sparse Coding, ICONIP, 2014.
• Compression Artifacts Reduction [Paper-arXiv15]
  • Chao Dong, Yubin Deng, Chen Change Loy, Xiaoou Tang, Compression Artifacts Reduction by a Deep Convolutional Network, arXiv:1504.06993.
• Non-Uniform Motion Blur Removal [Paper]
• Jian Sun, Wenfei Cao, Zongben Xu, Jean Ponce, Learning a Convolutional Neural Network for Non-uniform Motion Blur Removal, CVPR, 2015.
• Image Deconvolution [Web] [Paper]
• Li Xu, Jimmy SJ. Ren, Ce Liu, Jiaya Jia, Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Image Deconvolution, NIPS, 2014.
• Deep Edge-Aware Filter [Paper]
• Li Xu, Jimmy SJ. Ren, Qiong Yan, Renjie Liao, Jiaya Jia, Deep Edge-Aware Filters, ICML, 2015.
• Computing the Stereo Matching Cost with a Convolutional Neural Network [Paper]
• Jure Žbontar, Yann LeCun, Computing the Stereo Matching Cost with a Convolutional Neural Network, CVPR, 2015.

Edge Detection

(from Gedas Bertasius, Jianbo Shi, Lorenzo Torresani, DeepEdge: A Multi-Scale Bifurcated Deep Network for Top-Down Contour Detection, CVPR, 2015.)

• Holistically-Nested Edge Detection [Paper]
• Saining Xie, Zhuowen Tu, Holistically-Nested Edge Detection, arXiv:1504.06375.
• DeepEdge [Paper]
• Gedas Bertasius, Jianbo Shi, Lorenzo Torresani, DeepEdge: A Multi-Scale Bifurcated Deep Network for Top-Down Contour Detection, CVPR, 2015.
• DeepContour [Paper]
• Wei Shen, Xinggang Wang, Yan Wang, Xiang Bai, Zhijiang Zhang, DeepContour: A Deep Convolutional Feature Learned by Positive-Sharing Loss for Contour Detection, CVPR, 2015.

Semantic Segmentation

(from Jifeng Dai, Kaiming He, Jian Sun, BoxSup: Exploiting Bounding Boxes to Supervise Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation, arXiv:1503.01640.)

• PASCAL VOC2012 Challenge Top 10 (14 Aug. 2015) (from PASCAL VOC2012 leaderboards)
• Adelaide
• Guosheng Lin, Chunhua Shen, Ian Reid, Anton van dan Hengel, Efficient piecewise training of deep structured models for semantic segmentation, arXiv:1504.01013. [Paper] (1st ranked in VOC2012)
• Guosheng Lin, Chunhua Shen, Ian Reid, Anton van den Hengel, Deeply Learning the Messages in Message Passing Inference, arXiv:1508.02108. [Paper] (4th ranked in VOC2012)
• BoxSup [Paper]
• Jifeng Dai, Kaiming He, Jian Sun, BoxSup: Exploiting Bounding Boxes to Supervise Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation, arXiv:1503.01640. (2nd ranked in VOC2012)
• Conditional Random Fields as Recurrent Neural Networks [Paper]
• Shuai Zheng, Sadeep Jayasumana, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Vibhav Vineet, Zhizhong Su, Dalong Du, Chang Huang, Philip H. S. Torr, Conditional Random Fields as Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1502.03240. (3rd ranked in VOC2012)
• DeepLab
• Liang-Chieh Chen, George Papandreou, Kevin Murphy, Alan L. Yuille, Weakly-and semi-supervised learning of a DCNN for semantic image segmentation, arXiv:1502.02734. [Paper] (5th ranked in VOC2012)
• POSTECH
• Hyeonwoo Noh, Seunghoon Hong, Bohyung Han, Learning Deconvolution Network for Semantic Segmentation, arXiv:1505.04366. [Paper] (6th ranked in VOC2012)
• Seunghoon Hong, Hyeonwoo Noh, Bohyung Han, Decoupled Deep Neural Network for Semi-supervised Semantic Segmentation, arXiv:1506.04924. [Paper]
• Joint Calibration [Paper]
• Holger Caesar, Jasper Uijlings, Vittorio Ferrari, Joint Calibration for Semantic Segmentation, arXiv:1507.01581.
• Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation [Paper-CVPR15] [Paper-arXiv15]
• Jonathan Long, Evan Shelhamer, Trevor Darrell, Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation, CVPR, 2015.
• Hypercolumn [Paper]
• Bharath Hariharan, Pablo Arbelaez, Ross Girshick, Jitendra Malik, Hypercolumns for Object Segmentation and Fine-Grained Localization, CVPR, 2015.
• Zoom-out [Paper]
• Mohammadreza Mostajabi, Payman Yadollahpour, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Feedforward Semantic Segmentation With Zoom-Out Features, CVPR, 2015.
• Deep Hierarchical Parsing
• Abhishek Sharma, Oncel Tuzel, David W. Jacobs, Deep Hierarchical Parsing for Semantic Segmentation, CVPR, 2015. [Paper]
• Learning Hierarchical Features for Scene Labeling [Paper-ICML12] [Paper-PAMI13]
• Clement Farabet, Camille Couprie, Laurent Najman, Yann LeCun, Scene Parsing with Multiscale Feature Learning, Purity Trees, and Optimal Covers, ICML, 2012.
• Clement Farabet, Camille Couprie, Laurent Najman, Yann LeCun, Learning Hierarchical Features for Scene Labeling, PAMI, 2013.

Visual Attention and Saliency

(from Nian Liu, Junwei Han, Dingwen Zhang, Shifeng Wen, Tianming Liu, Predicting Eye Fixations using Convolutional Neural Networks, CVPR, 2015.)

• Mr-CNN [Paper]
• Nian Liu, Junwei Han, Dingwen Zhang, Shifeng Wen, Tianming Liu, Predicting Eye Fixations using Convolutional Neural Networks, CVPR, 2015.
• Learning a Sequential Search for Landmarks [Paper]
• Saurabh Singh, Derek Hoiem, David Forsyth, Learning a Sequential Search for Landmarks, CVPR, 2015.
• Multiple Object Recognition with Visual Attention [Paper]
• Jimmy Lei Ba, Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Multiple Object Recognition with Visual Attention, ICLR, 2015.
• Recurrent Models of Visual Attention [Paper]
• Volodymyr Mnih, Nicolas Heess, Alex Graves, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Recurrent Models of Visual Attention, NIPS, 2014.

Object Recognition

• Weakly-supervised learning with convolutional neural networks [Paper]
• Maxime Oquab, Leon Bottou, Ivan Laptev, Josef Sivic, Is object localization for free? – Weakly-supervised learning with convolutional neural networks, CVPR, 2015.
• FV-CNN [Paper]
• Mircea Cimpoi, Subhransu Maji, Andrea Vedaldi, Deep Filter Banks for Texture Recognition and Segmentation, CVPR, 2015.

Understanding CNN

(from Aravindh Mahendran, Andrea Vedaldi, Understanding Deep Image Representations by Inverting Them, CVPR, 2015.)

• Equivariance and Equivalence of Representations [Paper]
• Karel Lenc, Andrea Vedaldi, Understanding image representations by measuring their equivariance and equivalence, CVPR, 2015.
• Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled [Paper]
• Anh Nguyen, Jason Yosinski, Jeff Clune, Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled:High Confidence Predictions for Unrecognizable Images, CVPR, 2015.
• Understanding Deep Image Representations by Inverting Them [Paper]
• Aravindh Mahendran, Andrea Vedaldi, Understanding Deep Image Representations by Inverting Them, CVPR, 2015.

Image Captioning

(from Andrej Karpathy, Li Fei-Fei, Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Description, CVPR, 2015.)

• UCLA / Baidu [Paper]
  • Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Alan L. Yuille, Explain Images with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1410.1090.
• Toronto [Paper]
  • Ryan Kiros, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, Unifying Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Multimodal Neural Language Models, arXiv:1411.2539.
• Berkeley [Paper]
  • Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell, Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, arXiv:1411.4389.
• Google [Paper]
  • Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, Dumitru Erhan, Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator, arXiv:1411.4555.
• Stanford [Web] [Paper]
  • Andrej Karpathy, Li Fei-Fei, Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Description, CVPR, 2015.
• UML / UT [Paper]
  • Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney, Kate Saenko, Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, NAACL-HLT, 2015.
• CMU / Microsoft [Paper-arXiv] [Paper-CVPR]
  • Xinlei Chen, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Learning a Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation, arXiv:1411.5654.
  • Xinlei Chen, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Mind’s Eye: A Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation, CVPR 2015
• Microsoft [Paper]
  • Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Forrest Iandola, Rupesh Srivastava, Li Deng, Piotr Dollár, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Margaret Mitchell, John C. Platt, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Geoffrey Zweig, From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back, CVPR, 2015.
• Univ. Montreal / Univ. Toronto [Web] [Paper]
  • Kelvin Xu, Jimmy Lei Ba, Ryan Kiros, Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, Yoshua Bengio, Show, Attend, and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention, arXiv:1502.03044 / ICML 2015
• Idiap / EPFL / Facebook [Paper]
  • Remi Lebret, Pedro O. Pinheiro, Ronan Collobert, Phrase-based Image Captioning, arXiv:1502.03671 / ICML 2015
• UCLA / Baidu [Paper]
  • Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhiheng Huang, Alan L. Yuille, Learning like a Child: Fast Novel Visual Concept Learning from Sentence Descriptions of Images, arXiv:1504.06692
• MS + Berkeley
  • Jacob Devlin, Saurabh Gupta, Ross Girshick, Margaret Mitchell, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Exploring Nearest Neighbor Approaches for Image Captioning, arXiv:1505.04467 [Paper]
  • Jacob Devlin, Hao Cheng, Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Geoffrey Zweig, Margaret Mitchell, Language Models for Image Captioning: The Quirks and What Works, arXiv:1505.01809 [Paper]
• Adelaide [Paper]
  • Qi Wu, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel, Lingqiao Liu, Anthony Dick, Image Captioning with an Intermediate Attributes Layer, arXiv:1506.01144
• Tilburg [Paper]
  • Grzegorz Chrupala, Akos Kadar, Afra Alishahi, Learning language through pictures, arXiv:1506.03694
• Univ. Montreal [Paper]
  • Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks, arXiv:1507.01053
• Cornell [Paper]
  • Jack Hessel, Nicolas Savva, Michael J. Wilber, Image Representations and New Domains in Neural Image Captioning, arXiv:1508.02091

Video Captioning

• Berkeley [Web] [Paper]
  • Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell, Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, CVPR, 2015.
• UT / UML / Berkeley [Paper]
  • Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney, Kate Saenko, Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1412.4729.
• Microsoft [Paper]
  • Yingwei Pan, Tao Mei, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, Yong Rui, Joint Modeling Embedding and Translation to Bridge Video and Language, arXiv:1505.01861.
• UT / Berkeley / UML [Paper]
  • Subhashini Venugopalan, Marcus Rohrbach, Jeff Donahue, Raymond Mooney, Trevor Darrell, Kate Saenko, Sequence to Sequence--Video to Text, arXiv:1505.00487.
• Univ. Montreal / Univ. Sherbrooke [Paper]
  • Li Yao, Atousa Torabi, Kyunghyun Cho, Nicolas Ballas, Christopher Pal, Hugo Larochelle, Aaron Courville, Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure, arXiv:1502.08029
• MPI / Berkeley [Paper]
  • Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach, Bernt Schiele, The Long-Short Story of Movie Description, arXiv:1506.01698
• Univ. Toronto / MIT [Paper]
  • Yukun Zhu, Ryan Kiros, Richard Zemel, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Raquel Urtasun, Antonio Torralba, Sanja Fidler, Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books, arXiv:1506.06724
• Univ. Montreal [Paper]
  • Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks, arXiv:1507.01053

Question Answering

(from Stanislaw Antol, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Margaret Mitchell, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Devi Parikh, VQA: Visual Question Answering, CVPR, 2015 SUNw:Scene Understanding workshop)

• Virginia Tech / MSR [Web] [Paper]
  • Stanislaw Antol, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Margaret Mitchell, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Devi Parikh, VQA: Visual Question Answering, CVPR, 2015 SUNw:Scene Understanding workshop.
• MPI / Berkeley [Web] [Paper]
  • Mateusz Malinowski, Marcus Rohrbach, Mario Fritz, Ask Your Neurons: A Neural-based Approach to Answering Questions about Images, arXiv:1505.01121.
• Toronto [Paper] [Dataset]
  • Mengye Ren, Ryan Kiros, Richard Zemel, Image Question Answering: A Visual Semantic Embedding Model and a New Dataset, arXiv:1505.02074 / ICML 2015 deep learning workshop.
• Baidu / UCLA [Paper] [Dataset]
  • Hauyuan Gao, Junhua Mao, Jie Zhou, Zhiheng Huang, Lei Wang, Wei Xu, Are You Talking to a Machine? Dataset and Methods for Multilingual Image Question Answering, arXiv:1505.05612.

Other Topics

• Surface Normal Estimation [Paper]
• Xiaolong Wang, David F. Fouhey, Abhinav Gupta, Designing Deep Networks for Surface Normal Estimation, CVPR, 2015.
• Action Detection [Paper]
• Georgia Gkioxari, Jitendra Malik, Finding Action Tubes, CVPR, 2015.
• Crowd Counting [Paper]
• Cong Zhang, Hongsheng Li, Xiaogang Wang, Xiaokang Yang, Cross-scene Crowd Counting via Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, CVPR, 2015.
• 3D Shape Retrieval [Paper]
• Fang Wang, Le Kang, Yi Li, Sketch-based 3D Shape Retrieval using Convolutional Neural Networks, CVPR, 2015.
• Generate image [Paper]
• Alexey Dosovitskiy, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Thomas Brox, Learning to Generate Chairs with Convolutional Neural Networks, CVPR, 2015.

Courses

• Deep Vision
• [Stanford] CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
• [CUHK] ELEG 5040: Advanced Topics in Signal Processing(Introduction to Deep Learning)
• More Deep Learning
• [Stanford] CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
• [Oxford] Deep Learning by Prof. Nando de Freitas
• [NYU] Deep Learning by Prof. Yann LeCun

Books

• Free Online Books
• Deep Learning by Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow and Aaron Courville
• Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen
• Deep Learning Tutorial by LISA lab, University of Montreal

Videos

• Talks
• Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning By Andrew Ng
• Recent Developments in Deep Learning By Geoff Hinton
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning by Yann LeCun
• Deep Learning of Representations by Yoshua bengio
• Courses
• Deep Learning Course – Nando de Freitas@Oxford

Software

Framework

• Torch7: Deep learning library in Lua, used by Facebook and Google Deepmind [Web]
• Caffe: Deep learning framework by the BVLC [Web]
• Theano: Mathematical library in Python, maintained by LISA lab [Web]
  • Theano-based deep learning libraries: Pylearn2, Blocks, Keras, Lasagne
• MatConvNet: CNNs for MATLAB [Web]

Applications

• Adversarial Training
• Code and hyperparameters for the paper "Generative Adversarial Networks" [Web]
• Understanding and Visualizing
• Source code for "Understanding Deep Image Representations by Inverting Them," CVPR, 2015. [Web]
• Semantic Segmentation
• Source code for the paper "Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation," CVPR, 2014. [Web]
• Source code for the paper "Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation," CVPR, 2015. [Web]
• Super-Resolution
• Image Super-Resolution for Anime-Style-Art [Web]
• Edge Detection
• Source code for the paper "DeepContour: A Deep Convolutional Feature Learned by Positive-Sharing Loss for Contour Detection," CVPR, 2015. [Web]

Tutorials

• [CVPR 2014] Tutorial on Deep Learning in Computer Vision
• [CVPR 2015] Applied Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Torch

Blogs

• Deep down the rabbit hole: CVPR 2015 and beyond@Tombone's Computer Vision Blog
• CVPR recap and where we're going@Zoya Bylinskii (MIT PhD Student)'s Blog
• Facebook's AI Painting@Wired
• Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks@Google Research