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James Thewlis

6 accepted papers

2022

VTC: Improving Video-Text Retrieval with User Comments

ECCV 2022poster

"Multi-modal retrieval is an important problem for many applications, such as recommendation and search. Current benchmarks and even datasets are often manually constructed and consist of mostly clean samples where all modalities are well-correlated with the content. Thus, current video-text retriev…

2019

Slim DensePose: Thrifty Learning From Sparse Annotations and Motion Cues

CVPR 2019oral

DensePose supersedes traditional landmark detectors by densely mapping image pixels to body surface coordinates. This power, however, comes at a greatly increased annotation cost, as supervising the model requires to manually label hundreds of points per pose instance. In this work, we thus seek met…

Cited by 40PDFScholar
2019

Unsupervised Learning of Landmarks by Descriptor Vector Exchange

ICCV 2019poster

Equivariance to random image transformations is an effective method to learn landmarks of object categories, such as the eyes and the nose in faces, without manual supervision. However, this method does not explicitly guarantee that the learned landmarks are consistent with changes between different…

Cited by 84PDFcodeScholar
2018

Modelling and unsupervised learning of symmetric deformable object categories

NeurIPS 2018poster

We propose a new approach to model and learn, without manual supervision, the symmetries of natural objects, such as faces or flowers, given only images as input. It is well known that objects that have a symmetric structure do not usually result in symmetric images due to articulation and perspecti…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2017

Unsupervised learning of object frames by dense equivariant image labelling

NeurIPS 2017oral

One of the key challenges of visual perception is to extract abstract models of 3D objects and object categories from visual measurements, which are affected by complex nuisance factors such as viewpoint, occlusion, motion, and deformations. Starting from the recent idea of viewpoint factorization,…

Cited by 113SourcePDFScholar