In several video surveillance applications, such as the detection of abandoned/stolen objects or parked vehicles, the detection of stationary foreground objects is a critical task...
This paper presents a new document image binarization technique that segments the text from badly degraded historical document images. The proposed technique makes use of the imag...
When comparing different methods for face detection or localization, one realizes that just simply comparing the reported results is misleading as, even if the results are reporte...
In this paper we present a comparative evaluation of four popular interactive segmentation algorithms. The evaluation was carried out as a series of user-experiments, in which par...
Abstract. In object-oriented or object-relational databases such as multimedia databases or most XML databases, access patterns are not static, i.e., applications do not always acc...