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CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive and constrained algorithms for inverse compositional Active Appearance Model fitting
Parametric models of shape and texture such as Active Appearance Models (AAMs) are diverse tools for deformable object appearance modeling and have found important applications in...
George Papandreou, Petros Maragos
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Reconstructing non-stationary articulated objects in monocular video using silhouette information
This paper presents an approach to reconstruct nonstationary, articulated objects from silhouettes obtained with a monocular video sequence. We introduce the concept of motion blu...
Saad M. Khan, Mubarak Shah
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Efficient object shape recovery via slicing planes
Recovering the three-dimensional (3D) object shape lies as an unresolved and active research topic on the crosssection of computer vision, photogrammetry and bioinformatics. Altho...
Po-Lun Lai, Alper Yilmaz
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Quasi-perspective projection with applications to 3D factorization from uncalibrated image sequences
The paper addresses the problem of factorization-based 3D reconstruction from uncalibrated image sequences. We propose a quasi-perspective projection model and apply the model to ...
Guanghui Wang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Guoqiang Sun
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Finding people in archive films through tracking
The goal of this work is to find all people in archive films. Challenges include low image quality, motion blur, partial occlusion, non-standard poses and crowded scenes. We base ...
Xiaofeng Ren
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
FusionFlow: Discrete-continuous optimization for optical flow estimation
Accurate estimation of optical flow is a challenging task, which often requires addressing difficult energy optimization problems. To solve them, most top-performing methods rely ...
Victor S. Lempitsky, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Edge descriptors for robust wide-baseline correspondence
This paper describes a method for finding wide-baseline correspondences between images at locations along gradient edges. We find edges in scale space using established methods an...
Jason Meltzer, Stefano Soatto
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
FuzzyMatte: A computationally efficient scheme for interactive matting
In this paper, we propose an online interactive matting algorithm, which we call FuzzyMatte. Our framework is based on computing the fuzzy connectedness (FC) [20] from each unknow...
Yuanjie Zheng, Chandra Kambhamettu, Jingyi Yu, Tho...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Action recognition by learning mid-level motion features
This paper presents a method for human action recognition based on patterns of motion. Previous approaches to action recognition use either local features describing small patches...
Alireza Fathi, Greg Mori
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Homography based multiple camera detection and tracking of people in a dense crowd
Tracking people in a dense crowd is a challenging problem for a single camera tracker due to occlusions and extensive motion that make human segmentation difficult. In this paper ...
Ran Eshel, Yael Moses