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ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Multimodal Signature Method: An Efficiency and Sensitivity Study
The multimodal neighbourhood signature (MNS) method has given acceptable results both for the colour-based image retrieval and the object recognition task. Local colour content is...
Dimitri Koubaroulis, Jiri Matas, Josef Kittler
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Online Distance Recovery for a Sewer Inspection Robot
An algorithm for online distance computation based on images taken in a sewer by a robot-inspector is presented. Modern concrete sewers are made of standard cylindrical pipes sepa...
Marina Kolesnik, Gregory Baratoff
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automated Generation of Representations in Vision
Hans Knutsson, Mats T. Andersson, Magnus Borga, Jo...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Self-Calibration of a Stereo Rig in a Planar Scene by Data Combination
We present a very simple and effective method for eliminating the degeneracy inherent in a planar scene, and demonstrate its performance in a useful application -- that of binocul...
Joss Knight, Ian D. Reid
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Evaluation of Curve Length Measurements
This paper compares two techniques for measuring the length of a digital curve. Both techniques (digital straight segment approximation, minimum length polygon) are known to be co...
Reinhard Klette, Ben Yip
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Quick 3D-2D Registration Method for a Wide-Range of Applications
Amethod for quick determination of the position and pose of a 3D free-form object with respect to its 2D projective image(s) is proposed. It is a precondition of the method that a...
Yasuyo Kita, Nobuyuki Kita, Dale L. Wilson, J. Ali...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Visual Attention Control for Nuclear Power Plant Inspection
Industrial inspection robots, which are to move around a nuclear power plant and carry out inspection tasks, must follow a given route while observing static and dynamic features ...
Nobuyuki Kita
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Two Stage Defect Recognition Method for Parquet Slab Grading
This paper demonstrates the use of a simple but effective color-based inspection method in parquet slab grading. The approach is to divide the image to small rectangular regions a...
Hannu Kauppinen
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Precise Hand-printed Character Recognition Using Elastic Models via Nonlinear Transformation
Distorted character recognition is a difficult but inevitable problem in hand-printed character recognition. In this paper, we propose a character recognition method using elastic...
Tsuyoshi Kato, Shinichiro Omachi, Hirotomo Aso