Pattern Recognition Blog

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Multi-modal (Audio, Text, Visual) Emotion Recognition Grant Awardee: Ronak Kosti Grant Duration: July-2020 to June-2021 Project Description We recognize people's emotions from their facial expressions, body posture, behavior and social interaction with other people. It is an essential ability wh...

Seven common mistakes that break your machine learning experiments' credibility Written by Andreas Maier Machine learning is a great tool that is revolutionizing our world right now. There are lots of great applications in which machine and in particular deep learning has shown to be way supe...

Written by Prathmesh Madhu Contribution This work exploits style transfer in combination with transfer learning to recognize characters in art historical images. Our approach focuses on recognizing two central characters in the "Annunciation of the Lord" scene from Art history, Mary and Gabri...

You think handwriting is unique and cannot be imitated? We show the contrary in our work. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first paper that synthesizes realistic Western cursive handwriting by mimicking the actual temporal writing process. Our method works nearly fully automatic, e.g. no manual cutting out of characters, and is able to render full lines instead of glyphs/words as in other works.

Give Known Operators a try! Written by Andreas Maier. I am sure that all of you love Deep Learning. A major issue is though that most cool Deep Learning solutions require vast amounts of data. It easily goes into millions of training examples. I particular, if you work in medical image proces...

Written by Andreas Maier. In the time of Corona Virus Quarantine, we have to spend much time at home and for many of us, it is difficult to entertain our kids. Often, we choose digital media as a means for distraction in order to survive the quarantine. Many parents are in fear that algorithms o...

Written by Andreas Maier. In the age of deep learning, data became an important resource to build powerful smart systems. In several fields, we already see that the amount of data that is required to build competitive systems is so large that it is virtually impossible for new players to enter t...