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ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Segmentation Of Trabecular Bones From Vertebral Bodies In Volumetric Ct Spine Images
We present a 3D segmentation technique of trabecular (cancellous) bones in CT images of Vertebral bodies (VBs). In order to be used for Bone Mineral Density (BMD) measurements, th...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Seed Image Selection In Interactive Cosegmentation
Interactive image segmentation is a powerful paradigm that allows users to direct the segmentation algorithm towards a desired output. However, marking scribbles on multiple image...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Security Evaluation Of Informed Watermarking Schemes
In this paper, security evaluation of an important watermarking class based on quantization is given. Theoretical developments and practical simulations are used to measure the se...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Secure Distortion Computation Among Untrusting Parties Using Homomorphic Encryption
Alice and Bob possess sequences xn and yn respectively and would like to compute d(xn , yn ) where d(., .) is a distortion measure. However, Alice and Bob do not trust each other ...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scaling Peer-to-peer Video-on-demand Systems Using Helpers
The throughput of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems is typically capped by the users' aggregate upload bandwidth [1]. The drastic increase in the popularity of...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scale-space Method Of Image Ringing Estimation
Suppression of ringing effect is a challenging problem. It is mainly caused by absence of effective methods of ringing artifact detection. In this paper we introduce a ringing est...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scale-robust Feature Extraction For Face Recognition
In video surveillance, the sizes of face images are very small. However, few works have been done to investigate scalerobust face recognition. Our experiments on appearancebased m...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Saliency-enhanced Image Aesthetics Class Prediction
We present a saliency-enhanced method for the classification of professional photos and snapshots. First, we extract the salient regions from an image by utilizing a visual salien...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Saliency Detection For Content-aware Image Resizing
Content aware image re-targeting methods aim to arbitrarily change image aspect ratios while preserving visually prominent features. To determine visual importance of pixels, exis...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Robust Visual Tracking Based On Simplified Biologically Inspired Features
We address the problem of robust appearance-based visual tracking. First, a set of simplified biologically inspired features (SBIF) is proposed for object representation and the B...