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ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Spatial Color Component Matching of Images
Color and color neighborhood statistics have been used extensively in image matching and retrieval. However, the effective incorporation of color layout information remains a chal...
Jianying Hu, Efstathios Hadjidemetriou
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Performance of Wavelets for Handwritten Numerals Recognition
This paper validates a recognition system using bidimensional wavelet transforms as feature extractor and investigates the relevance of each subband image in the recognition proce...
João Marques de Carvalho, Robert Sabourin, ...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automatic Visual Recognition of Armed Robbery
We propose a method by which to analyze silhouettes and recognize a classic holdup position of armed robbery. In such a situation, one actor levels his or her arm while another ac...
Jaime Dever, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Mubarak Shah
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast Extraction of Tubular and Tree 3D Surfaces with Front Propagation Methods
We present a new fast approach for surface segmentation of thin structures, like vessels and vascular trees, based on Fast Marching and Level Sets methods. Fast Marching allows se...
Thomas Deschamps, Laurent D. Cohen
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Evaluation of Length Estimators
David Coeurjolly, Reinhard Klette
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Synergism in Low Level Vision
Guiding image segmentation with edge information is an often employed strategy in low level computer vision. To improve the trade-off between the sensitivity of homogeneous region...
Christopher M. Christoudias, Bogdan Georgescu, Pet...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Boosting and Structure Learning in Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Audio-Visual Speaker Detection
Bayesian networks are an attractive modeling tool for human sensing, as they combine an intuitive graphical representation with ef?cient algorithms for inference and learning. Ear...
Tanzeem Choudhury, James M. Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovi...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Trimmed Iterative Closest Point Algorithm
The problem of geometric alignment of two roughly preregistered, partially overlapping, rigid, noisy 3D point sets is considered. A new natural and simple, robustified extension o...
Dmitry Chetverikov, D. Svirko, Dmitry Stepanov, Pa...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Robust Contrast-Invariant EigenDetection
We achieve two goals in this paper: (1) to build a novel appearance-based object representation that takes into account variations in contrast often found in training images; (2) ...
Chakra Chennubhotla, Allan D. Jepson, John Midgley
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fingerprint Enhancement with Dyadic Scale-Space
Fingerprint enhancement is a critical step in automatic fingerprint verification system. Most of the existing enhancement uses a set of contextual filters to enhance fingerprint. ...
Jiangang Cheng, Jie Tian, Tanghui Zhang