Image matching is a fundamental task of many problems in computer vision. This paper presents a novel local feature descriptor based on the gradient distance and orientation histo...
Patch descriptors are used for a variety of tasks ranging from finding corresponding points across images, to describing object category parts. In this paper, we propose an image ...
Automatic face sketch synthesis has important applications in law enforcement and digital entertainment. Although great progress has been made in recent years, previous methods onl...
Recognizing and localizing objects is a classical problem in computer vision that is an important stage for many automated systems. In order to perform object recognition many res...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...