Sciweavers

ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Earth Mover Distance on superpixels
Earth Mover Distance (EMD) is a popular distance to compute distances between Probability Density Functions (PDFs). It has been successfully applied in a wide selection of problem...
Sylvain Boltz, Frank Nielsen, Stefano Soatto
SODA
2008
ACM
89views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Earth mover distance over high-dimensional spaces
The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two equalsize sets of points in Rd is defined to be the minimum cost of a bipartite matching between the two pointsets. It is a natural metr...
Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Robert Krauthgamer
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
178views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
On the Earth Mover's Distance as a histogram similarity metric for image retrieval
In this paper, the performance of the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) vs χ2 distance as histogram similarity metrics for image retrieval is evaluated experimentally. Ground truth ...
Zhenghua Yu, Gunawan Herman
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
250views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Video News Story Tracking based on Earth Mover'S Distance
This paper proposes an adaptive system for video news story tracking based on the Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD). When an interesting story appears in the news, it is flagged man...
Mats Uddenfeldt, Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsum...
ISCAS
2008
IEEE
136views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Spatial-temporal consistent labeling for multi-camera multi-object surveillance systems
Abstract—For an intelligent multi-camera multi-object surveillance system, object correspondence across time and space is important to many smart visual applications. In this pap...
Jing-Ying Chang, Tzu-Heng Wang, Shao-Yi Chien, Lia...