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ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Efficient Search and Verification for Function Based Classification from Real Range Images
In this work we propose a probabilistic model for generic object classification from raw range images. Our approach supports a validation process in which classes are verified usi...
Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni, Octavian Soldea
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Estimation of Ball Route under Overlapping with Players and Lines in Soccer Video Image Sequence
This paper deals with the analysis of broadcast soccer video. To recognize interesting events such as a goal, estimation of ball movements is necessary. It is, however, sometimes ...
Jun Miura, Takumi Shimawaki, Takuro Sakiyama, Yosh...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fingerprint Image Enhancement Based on Skin Profile Approximation
The performance of the fingerprint identification and verification systems relies heavily on the quality of the input fingerprint images. In this paper, we propose an effective im...
Venu Govindaraju, Zhixin Shi
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Video Completion for Perspective Camera Under Constrained Motion
This paper presents a novel technique to fill in missing background and moving foreground of a video captured by a static or moving camera. Different from previous efforts which a...
Yuping Shen, Fei Lu, Xiaochun Cao, Hassan Foroosh
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Finding Text in Natural Scenes by Figure-Ground Segmentation
Much past research on finding text in natural scenes uses bottom-up grouping processes to detect candidate text features as a first processing step. While such grouping procedures...
Huiying Shen, James Coughlan
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Face Recognition Robust to Head Pose from One Sample Image
Most face recognition systems only work well under quite constrained environments. In particular, the illumination conditions, facial expressions and head pose must be tightly con...
Brian C. Lovell, Shaokang Chen, Ting Shan
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Pixel-Accurate Representation and Evaluation of Page Segmentation in Document Images
This paper presents a new representation and evaluation procedure of page segmentation algorithms and analyzes six widely-used layout analysis algorithms using the procedure. The ...
Daniel Keysers, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Minutiae-based Fingerprint Matching Using Subset Combination
In this paper, we propose an effective fingerprint matching algorithm based on ridge count matching and minutiae subset combination. In the algorithm, the orientation-based ridge ...
Feng Zhao, Lifeng Sha, Xiaoou Tang
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Emotion Recognition Based on Joint Visual and Audio Cues
Recent technological advances have enabled human users to interact with computers in ways previously unimaginable. Beyond the confines of the keyboard and mouse, new modalities fo...
Nicu Sebe, Ira Cohen, Theo Gevers, Thomas S. Huang
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Split & Merge Approach to Metric-Topological Map-Building
We present a novel split and merge based method for dividing a given metric map into distinct regions, thus effectively creating a topological map on top of a metric one. The init...