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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Lexicon-based offline recognition of Amharic words in unconstrained handwritten text
This paper describes an offline handwriting recognition system for Amharic words based on lexicon. The system computes direction fields of scanned handwritten documents, from whic...
Yaregal Assabie, Josef Bigün
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-cue collaborative kernel tracking with cross ratio invariant constraint
In this paper, a novel multi-cue collaborative kernel tracking algorithm is proposed. A new constraint based on the property of cross ratio invariant enables tracking of objects i...
Hanqing Lu, Jian Cheng, Lili Ma
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
GPS coordinate estimation from calibrated cameras
We present a novel application where, using only three points from the shadow trajectory of an object, one can accurately determine the geo-location of the camera, up to a longitu...
Hassan Foroosh, Imran N. Junejo
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Analysis of human behaviour in front of a target scene
In this paper we present an application of computer vision techniques to obtain specific information about the behaviour of the people passing in front of a target scene. This is ...
Adel Lablack, Chabane Djeraba
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A new approach to 3D shape recovery of local planar surface patches from shift-variant blurred images
A new approach is presented for 3D shape recovery of local planar surface patches from two shift/spacevariant defocused images. It is based on a recently proposed technique for in...
Murali Subbarao, Xue Tu, Youn-sik Kang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Hand motion expertise analysis using dynamic hierarchical activity modeling and isomap
Several domains such as sports, surgery, dance etc. are characterized by a significant influence of expertise of the performer on the motion pattern and style. The retrieval of ex...
Kanav Kahol, Mithra Vankipuram
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Comparative analysis of registration based and registration free methods for cancelable fingerprint biometrics
Cancelable biometric systems are gaining in popularity for use in person authentication for applications where the privacy and security of biometric templates are important consid...
Achint Oommen Thomas, Nalini K. Ratha, Jonathan H....
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tailoring text for automatic layouting of newspaper pages
We consider layouting news articles on a page as a cutting and packing problem with output maximization. We propose to tailor news articles by employing automatic summarization to...
Leonhard Hennig, Thomas Strecker
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Spatio-temporal 3D pose estimation and tracking of human body parts using the Shape Flow algorithm
In this contribution we introduce the Shape Flow algorithm (SF), a novel method for spatio-temporal 3D pose estimation of a 3D parametric curve. The SF is integrated into a tracki...
Markus Hahn, Lars Krüger, Christian Wöhl...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Phase-adaptive image signal fusion using complex-valued wavelets
This paper presents a novel method for medical image signal fusion using complex-valued wavelets to enhance the information content in the fused signal from a perceptual manner. T...
Alexander Wong, David A. Clausi, Paul W. Fieguth