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DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling Image Context Using Object Centered Grid
Abstract--Context plays a valuable role in any image understanding task confirmed by numerous studies which have shown the importance of contextual information in computer vision t...
Sobhan Naderi Parizi, Ivan Laptev, Alireza Tavakol...
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Video Surveillance: Legally Blind?
This paper shows that most surveillance cameras fall well short of providing sufficient image quality, in both spatial resolution and colour reproduction, for the reliable identifi...
Peter Kovesi
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Single Image Dehazing Using Geometry
Images captured in foggy weather conditions exhibit losses in quality which are dependent on distance. If the depth and atmospheric conditions are known, one can enhance the images...
Peter Carr, Richard Hartley
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Simultaneous Computation of Motion Detection and Optical Flow for Object Tracking
Abstract--Object tracking systems require accurate segmentation of the objects from the background for effective tracking. Motion segmentation or optical flow can be used to segmen...
Simon Denman, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Dense Correspondence Extraction in Difficult Uncalibrated Scenarios
Abstract--The relationship between multiple cameras viewing the same scene may be discovered automatically by finding corresponding points in the two views and then solving for the...
Ruan Lakemond, Clinton Fookes, Sridha Sridharan
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
SIFTing the Relevant from the Irrelevant: Automatically Detecting Objects in Training Images
Many state-of-the-art object recognition systems rely on identifying the location of objects in images, in order to better learn its visual attributes. In this paper, we propose fo...
Edmond Zhang, Michael Mayo
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic Image Retrieval Using Region Based Inverted File
Image data is as common as textual data in this digital world. There is an urgent demand of image management tools as efficient as those text search engines. Decades of research on...
Dengsheng Zhang, Md. Monirul Islam, Guojun Lu, Jin...
DICTA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Multivariate Skew t Mixture Models: Applications to Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting Data
In many applied problems in the context of pattern recognition, the data often involve highly asymmetric observations. Normal mixture models tend to overfit when additional compone...
Kui Wang, Shu-Kay Ng, Geoffrey J. McLachlan
DICTA
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Categorization of Image Regions Using Dominant Color Based Vector Quantization
—This paper proposes a dominant color based vector quantization algorithm that automatically categorizes image regions. In contrast to the conventional vector quantization algori...
Md. Monirul Islam, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu
DICTA
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Algebraic Curve Fitting Support Vector Machines
An algebraic curve is defined as the zero set of a multivariate polynomial. We consider the problem of fitting an algebraic curve to a set of vectors given an additional set of v...
Christian J. Walder, Brian C. Lovell, Peter J. Koo...