scholarly journals Person Retrieval in Surveillance Using Textual Query: A Review

Author(s):  
Hiren Galiyawala ◽  
Mehul S Raval

Recent advancement of research in biometrics, computer vision, and natural language processing has discovered opportunities for person retrieval from surveillance videos using textual query. The prime objective of a surveillance system is to locate a person using a description, e.g., a short woman with a pink t-shirt and white skirt carrying a black purse. She has brown hair. Such a description contains attributes like gender, height, type of clothing, colour of clothing, hair colour, and accessories. Such attributes are formally known as soft biometrics. They help bridge the semantic gap between a human description and a machine as a textual query contains the person’s soft biometric attributes. It is also not feasible to manually search through huge volumes of surveillance footage to retrieve a specific person. Hence, automatic person retrieval using vision and language-based algorithms is becoming popular. In comparison to other state-of-the-art reviews, the contribution of the paper is as follows: 1. Recommends most discriminative soft biometrics for specific challenging conditions. 2. Integrates benchmark datasets and retrieval methods for objective performance evaluation. 3. A complete snapshot of techniques based on features, classifiers, number of soft biometric attributes, type of the deep neural networks, and performance measures. 4. The comprehensive coverage of person retrieval from handcrafted features based methods to end-to-end approaches based on natural language description.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiren Galiyawala ◽  
Mehul S Raval

Recent advancement of research in biometrics, computer vision, and natural language processing has discovered opportunities for person retrieval from surveillance videos using textual query. The prime objective of a surveillance system is to locate a person using a description, e.g., a short woman with a pink t-shirt and white skirt carrying a black purse. She has brown hair. Such a description contains attributes like gender, height, type of clothing, colour of clothing, hair colour, and accessories. Such attributes are formally known as soft biometrics. They help bridge the semantic gap between a human description and a machine as a textual query contains the person’s soft biometric attributes. It is also not feasible to manually search through huge volumes of surveillance footage to retrieve a specific person. Hence, automatic person retrieval using vision and language-based algorithms is becoming popular. In comparison to other state-of-the-art reviews, the contribution of the paper is as follows: 1. Recommends most discriminative soft biometrics for specific challenging conditions. 2. Integrates benchmark datasets and retrieval methods for objective performance evaluation. 3. A complete snapshot of techniques based on features, classifiers, number of soft biometric attributes, type of the deep neural networks, and performance measures. 4. The comprehensive coverage of person retrieval from handcrafted features based methods to end-to-end approaches based on natural language description.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1012
Author(s):  
Jisu Hwang ◽  
Incheol Kim

Due to the development of computer vision and natural language processing technologies in recent years, there has been a growing interest in multimodal intelligent tasks that require the ability to concurrently understand various forms of input data such as images and text. Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) require the alignment and grounding of multimodal input data to enable real-time perception of the task status on panoramic images and natural language instruction. This study proposes a novel deep neural network model (JMEBS), with joint multimodal embedding and backtracking search for VLN tasks. The proposed JMEBS model uses a transformer-based joint multimodal embedding module. JMEBS uses both multimodal context and temporal context. It also employs backtracking-enabled greedy local search (BGLS), a novel algorithm with a backtracking feature designed to improve the task success rate and optimize the navigation path, based on the local and global scores related to candidate actions. A novel global scoring method is also used for performance improvement by comparing the partial trajectories searched thus far with a plurality of natural language instructions. The performance of the proposed model on various operations was then experimentally demonstrated and compared with other models using the Matterport3D Simulator and room-to-room (R2R) benchmark datasets.


Author(s):  
Saravanakumar Kandasamy ◽  
Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

Semantic similarity quantification between concepts is one of the inevitable parts in domains like Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Question Answering, etc. to understand the text and their relationships better. Last few decades, many measures have been proposed by incorporating various corpus-based and knowledge-based resources. WordNet and Wikipedia are two of the Knowledge-based resources. The contribution of WordNet in the above said domain is enormous due to its richness in defining a word and all of its relationship with others. In this paper, we proposed an approach to quantify the similarity between concepts that exploits the synsets and the gloss definitions of different concepts using WordNet. Our method considers the gloss definitions, contextual words that are helping in defining a word, synsets of contextual word and the confidence of occurrence of a word in other word’s definition for calculating the similarity. The evaluation based on different gold standard benchmark datasets shows the efficiency of our system in comparison with other existing taxonomical and definitional measures.


Author(s):  
Janjanam Prabhudas ◽  
C. H. Pradeep Reddy

The enormous increase of information along with the computational abilities of machines created innovative applications in natural language processing by invoking machine learning models. This chapter will project the trends of natural language processing by employing machine learning and its models in the context of text summarization. This chapter is organized to make the researcher understand technical perspectives regarding feature representation and their models to consider before applying on language-oriented tasks. Further, the present chapter revises the details of primary models of deep learning, its applications, and performance in the context of language processing. The primary focus of this chapter is to illustrate the technical research findings and gaps of text summarization based on deep learning along with state-of-the-art deep learning models for TS.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhibin Guan ◽  
Kang Liu ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Xu Qian ◽  
Tongkai Ji

Image caption generation is attractive research which focuses on generating natural language sentences to describe the visual content of a given image. It is an interdisciplinary subject combining computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). The existing image captioning methods are mainly focused on generating the final image caption directly, which may lose significant identification information of objects contained in the raw image. Therefore, we propose a new middle-level attribute-based language retouching (MLALR) method to solve this problem. Our proposed MLALR method uses the middle-level attributes predicted from the object regions to retouch the intermediate image description, which is generated by our language generation model. The advantage of our MLALR method is that it can correct descriptive errors in the intermediate image description and make the final image caption more accurate. Moreover, evaluation using benchmark datasets—MSCOCO, Flickr8K, and Flickr30K—validated the impressive performance of our MLALR method with evaluation metrics—BLEU, METEOR, ROUGE-L, CIDEr, and SPICE.


Author(s):  
Rahul Sharan Renu ◽  
Gregory Mocko

The objective of this research is to investigate the requirements and performance of parts-of-speech tagging of assembly work instructions. Natural Language Processing of assembly work instructions is required to perform data mining with the objective of knowledge reuse. Assembly work instructions are key process engineering elements that allow for predictable assembly quality of products and predictable assembly lead times. Authoring of assembly work instructions is a subjective process. It has been observed that most assembly work instructions are not grammatically complete sentences. It is hypothesized that this can lead to false parts-of-speech tagging (by Natural Language Processing tools). To test this hypothesis, two parts-of-speech taggers are used to tag 500 assembly work instructions (obtained from the automotive industry). The first parts-of-speech tagger is obtained from Natural Language Processing Toolkit (nltk.org) and the second parts-of-speech tagger is obtained from Stanford Natural Language Processing Group (nlp.stanford.edu). For each of these taggers, two experiments are conducted. In the first experiment, the assembly work instructions are input to the each tagger in raw form. In the second experiment, the assembly work instructions are preprocessed to make them grammatically complete, and then input to the tagger. It is found that the Stanford Natural Language Processing tagger with the preprocessed assembly work instructions produced the least number of false parts-of-speech tags.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debanjan Mahata ◽  
John Kuriakose ◽  
Rajiv Ratn Shah ◽  
Roger Zimmermann

Keyphrase extraction is a fundamental task in natural language processing that facilitates mapping of documents to a set of representative phrases. In this paper, we present an unsupervised technique (Key2Vec) that leverages phrase embeddings for ranking keyphrases extracted from scientific articles. Specifically, we propose an effective way of processing text documents for training multi-word phrase embeddings that are used for thematic representation of scientific articles and ranking of keyphrases extracted from them using theme-weighted PageRank. Evaluations are performed on benchmark datasets producing state-of-the-art results.


Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shaowei Chen ◽  
Bingquan Wang ◽  
Jiaxin Zhang ◽  
Na Li ◽  
...  

Joint entity and relation extraction is critical for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, which has attracted increasing research interest. However, it is still faced with the challenges of identifying the overlapping relation triplets along with the entire entity boundary and detecting the multi-type relations. In this paper, we propose an attention-based joint model, which mainly contains an entity extraction module and a relation detection module, to address the challenges. The key of our model is devising a supervised multi-head self-attention mechanism as the relation detection module to learn the token-level correlation for each relation type separately. With the attention mechanism, our model can effectively identify overlapping relations and flexibly predict the relation type with its corresponding intensity. To verify the effectiveness of our model, we conduct comprehensive experiments on two benchmark datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art performances.


Author(s):  
Ningyu Zhang ◽  
Shumin Deng ◽  
Xu Cheng ◽  
Xi Chen ◽  
Yichi Zhang ◽  
...  

Previous research has demonstrated the power of leveraging prior knowledge to improve the performance of deep models in natural language processing. However, traditional methods neglect the fact that redundant and irrelevant knowledge exists in external knowledge bases. In this study, we launched an in-depth empirical investigation into downstream tasks and found that knowledge-enhanced approaches do not always exhibit satisfactory improvements. To this end, we investigate the fundamental reasons for ineffective knowledge infusion and present selective injection for language pretraining, which constitutes a model-agnostic method and is readily pluggable into previous approaches. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our approach can enhance state-of-the-art knowledge injection methods.


1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 01-07 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.J. Kuperman ◽  
C. Friedman ◽  
G. Hripcsak

Abstract:While natural language processing systems are beginning to see clinical use, it remains unclear whether they can be disseminated effectively through the health care community. MedLEE, a general-purpose natural language processor developed for Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, was compared to physicians' ability to detect seven clinical conditions in 200 Brigham and Women's Hospital chest radiograph reports. Using the system on the new institution's reports resulted in a small but measurable drop in performance (it was distinguishable from physicians at p = 0.011). By making adjustments to the interpretation of the processor's coded output (without changing the processor itself), local behavior was better accommodated, and performance improved so that it was indistinguishable from the physicians. Pairs of physicians disagreed on at least one condition for 22% of reports; the source of disagreement appeared to be interpretation of findings, gauging likelihood and degree of disease, and coding errors.


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