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ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Maximally Stable Local Description for Scale Selection
Scale and affine-invariant local features have shown excellent performance in image matching, object and texture recognition. This paper optimizes keypoint detection to achieve sta...
Cordelia Schmid, Gyuri Dorkó
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Alignment Between 3-D Data and Articulated Shapes with Bending Surfaces
In this paper we address the problem of aligning 3-D data with articulated shapes. This problem resides at the core of many motion tracking methods with applications in human motio...
Guillaume Dewaele, Frederic Devernay, Radu Horaud,...
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Fast Line Segment Based Dense Stereo Algorithm Using Tree Dynamic Programming
Many traditional stereo correspondence methods emphasized on utilizing epipolar constraint and ignored the information embedded in inter-epipolar lines. Actually some researchers h...
Yi Deng, Xueyin Lin
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Resolution-Aware Fitting of Active Appearance Models to Low Resolution Images
Abstract. Active Appearance Models (AAM) are compact representations of the shape and appearance of objects. Fitting AAMs to images is a difficult, non-linear optimization task. Tr...
Göksel Dedeoglu, Simon Baker, Takeo Kanade
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Studying Aesthetics in Photographic Images Using a Computational Approach
Aesthetics, in the world of art and photography, refers to the principles of the nature and appreciation of beauty. Judging beauty and other aesthetic qualities of photographs is a...
Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Ze Wan...
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Human Detection Using Oriented Histograms of Flow and Appearance
Detecting humans in films and videos is a challenging problem owing to the motion of the subjects, the camera and the background and to variations in pose, appearance, clothing, il...
Navneet Dalal, Bill Triggs, Cordelia Schmid
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Extending Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis with the Weighted Pairwise Chernoff Criterion
Many linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and kernel Fisher discriminant analysis (KFD) methods are based on the restrictive assumption that the data are homoscedastic. In this paper...
Guang Dai, Dit-Yan Yeung, Hong Chang
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Degen Generalized Cylinders and Their Properties
Generalized cylinder (GC) has played an important role in computer vision since it was introduced in the 1970s. While studying GC models in human visual perception of shapes from c...
Liangliang Cao, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Statistical Priors for Efficient Combinatorial Optimization Via Graph Cuts
Abstract. Bayesian inference provides a powerful framework to optimally integrate statistically learned prior knowledge into numerous computer vision algorithms. While the Bayesian...
Daniel Cremers, Leo Grady
ECCV
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Robust Visual Tracking for Multiple Targets
We address the problem of robust multi-target tracking within the application of hockey player tracking. The particle filter technique is adopted and modified to fit into the multi...
Yizheng Cai, Nando de Freitas, James J. Little