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MVA
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Enhancing Character Recognition by Optimizing Focal Length
This paper proposes to use zooming function of digital cameras for robust character recognition and to control focal length for improving the performance even in dim light conditi...
Takahiko Shimmura, Yoshinao Shiraki, Naoki Mukawa,...
CVPR
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Face Recognition for Film Character Retrieval in Feature-Length Films
The objective of this work is to recognize all the frontal faces of a character in the closed world of a movie or situation comedy, given a small number of query faces. This is ch...
Ognjen Arandjelovic, Andrew Zisserman
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-step active object tracking with entropy based optimal actions using the sequential Kalman filter
We describe an enhanced method for the selection of optimal sensor actions in a probabilistic state estimation framework. We apply this to the selection of optimal focal lengths f...
Benjamin Deutsch, Heinrich Niemann, Joachim Denzle...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Toward Coherent Object Detection And Scene Layout Understanding
Detecting objects in complex scenes while recovering the scene layout is a critical functionality in many vision-based applications. Inspired by the work of [18], we advocate the ...
Yingze Bao, Min Sun, Silvio Savarese
DAS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Whole-Book Recognition
We describe experimental results for unsupervised recognition of the textual contents of book-images using fully automatic mutual-entropy-based model adaptation. Each experiment s...
Pingping Xiu, Henry S. Baird