Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this p...
Huiying Liu, Min Xu, Qingming Huang, Jesse S. Jin,...
—Object detection is challenging when the object class exhibits large within-class variations. In this work, we show that foreground-background classification (detection) and wit...
Quan Yuan, Ashwin Thangali, Vitaly Ablavsky, Stan ...
Off-line trained class-specific object detectors are designed to detect any instance of the class in a given image or video sequence. In the context of object tracking, however, o...
We present a simple, principled approach to detecting foreground objects in video sequences in real-time. Our method is based on an on-line discriminative learning technique that ...
Li Cheng, Shaojun Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Terry Cae...
Learning dominant motion patterns or activities from a video is an important surveillance problem, especially in crowded environments like markets, subways etc., where tracking of...