Common representations for scenes and objects

Visual Perception: Objects and Scenes

Learning to Look around Objects for Top-View Representations of Outdoor Scenes

Given a single RGB image of a complex outdoor road scene in the perspective view, we address the novel problem of estimating an occlusion-reasoned semantic scene layout in the top-view. This challenging problem not only requires an accurate understanding of both the 3D geometry and the semantics of the visible scene, but also of occluded areas. We propose a convolutional neural network that lea...

Incidental visual memory for objects in scenes

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the existence of incidentally acquired, long-term, detailed visual memory for objects embedded in previously viewed scenes. Participants performed intentional memorization and incidental visual search learning tasks while viewing photographs of real-world scenes. A visual memory test for previously viewed objects from these scenes then followed. P...

Background Mosaicing for Scenes with Moving Objects

The general problem of mosaicing is to create a single seamless image by aligning a series of spatially overlapped images. The result is an image with a field of view greater than that of a single image. This paper proposes a framework for creating a panoramic view representing the background of a given image sequence, by discarding the foreground objects. Our system performs motion estimation ...

Environmental Objects for Authoring Procedural Scenes

We propose a novel approach for authoring large scenes with automatic enhancement of objects to create geometric decoration details such as snow cover, icicles, fallen leaves, grass tufts, or even trash. We introduce environmental objects that extend an input object geometry with a set of procedural effects that defines how the object reacts to the environment, and by a set of scalar fields tha...