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CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Granularity-tunable Gradients Partition (GGP) Descriptors for Human Detection
This paper proposes a novel descriptor, granularitytunable gradients partition (GGP), for human detection. The concept granularity is used to define the spatial and angular unce...
Yazhou Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Shigu...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
An Empirical Study of Context in Object Detection
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the role of context in a contemporary, challenging object detection task – the PASCAL VOC 2008. Previous experiments with context...
Alexei A. Efros, Derek Hoiem, James Hays, Martial ...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Visibility Constraints on Features of 3D Objects
To recognize three-dimensional objects it is important to model how their appearances can change due to changes in viewpoint. A key aspect of this involves understanding which o...
Ronen Basri, Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, Ross B. Girshi...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Convexity and Bayesian Constrained Local Models
The accurate localization of facial features plays a fundamental role in any face recognition pipeline. Constrained local models (CLM) provide an effective approach to localizati...
Ulrich Paquet (Imense Ltd)
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Projective Least-Squares: Global Solutions with Local Optimization
Recent work in multiple view geometry has focused on obtaining globally optimal solutions at the price of computational time efciency. On the other hand, traditional bundle adj...
Carl Olsson, Fredrik Kahl, Richard I. Hartley
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Revisit of Generative Model for Automatic Image Annotation using Markov Random Fields
Much research effort on Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) has been focused on Generative Model, due to its well formed theory and competitive performance as compared with many we...
Yu Xiang (Fudan University), Xiangdong Zhou (Fudan...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Vocabulary Hierarchy Optimization for Effective and Transferable Retrieval
Scalable image retrieval systems usually involve hierarchical quantization of local image descriptors, which produces a visual vocabulary for inverted indexing of images. Although ...
Rongrong Ji (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xing...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
On the burstiness of visual elements
Burstiness, a phenomenon initially observed in text re- trieval, is the property that a given visual element appears more times in an image than a statistically independent mode...
Herve Jegou (INRIA), Matthijs Douze (INRIA), Corde...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Isometric Registration of Ambiguous and Partial Data
This paper introduces a new shape matching algorithm for computing correspondences between 3D surfaces that have undergone (approximately) isometric deformations. The new approach ...
Art Tevs (Max Planck Institute Informatik), Martin...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Coupled Spectral Regression for Matching Heterogeneous Faces
Face recognition algorithms need to deal with variable lighting conditions. Near infrared (NIR) image based face recognition technology has been proposed to effectively overcome...
Stan Z. Li, Zhen Lei