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ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Image quality monitoring using spread spectrum watermarking
An improved blind image quality assessment scheme that is based on the Watson's just noticeable difference (JND) modulated spread spectrum watermarking, is proposed. For the ...
Ehsan Nezhadarya, Z. Jane Wang, Rabab K. Ward
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic discovery of image families: Global vs. local features
Gathering a large collection of images has been made quite easy by social and image sharing websites, e.g. flickr.com. However, using such collections faces the problem that they ...
Mohamed Aly, Peter Welinder, Mario E. Munich, Piet...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A food image recognition system with Multiple Kernel Learning
Since health care on foods is drawing people's attention recently, a system that can record everyday meals easily is being awaited. In this paper, we propose an automatic foo...
Taichi Joutou, Keiji Yanai
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Virtual resolution enhancement of scale invariant textured images using stochastic processes
We present a new method of magnification for textured images featuring scale invariance properties. The procedure preserves the visual aspect as well as the statistical properties...
Emilie Koenig, Pierre Chainais
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Shapes as empirical distributions
We address the problem of shape based classification. We interpret the shape of an object as a probability distribution governing the location of the points of the object. An imag...
Bernardo Rodrigues Pires, José M. F. Moura
ICIAR
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Invariant Shape Matching for Detection of Semi-local Image Structures
Abstract. Shape features applied to object recognition has been actively studied since the beginning of the field in 1950s and remain a viable alternative to appearance based metho...
Lech Szumilas, Horst Wildenauer, Allan Hanbury
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Image Classification to Improve Printing Quality of Mixed-Type Documents
Functional image classification is the assignment of different image types to separate classes to optimize their rendering for reading or other specific end task, and is an import...
Rafael Dueire Lins, Gabriel Pereira e Silva, Steve...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Identification of Very Similar Filled-in Forms with a Reject Option
In this work, a technique addressed to the reliable identification of very similar filled-in forms, with a reject option, is proposed. The method is based on the automatic detecti...
Joaquim Arlandis, Juan Carlos Pérez-Cortes,...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Simultaneous alignment and clustering for an image ensemble
Joint alignment for an image ensemble can rectify images in the spatial domain such that the aligned images are as similar to each other as possible. This important technology has...
Xiaoming Liu 0002, Yan Tong, Frederick W. Wheeler
ICB
2009
Springer
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Palm Vein Verification System Based on SIFT Matching
We present in this communication a new biometric system based on the use of hand veins acquired by an infrared imager. After the preprocessing stage and binarization, the vein imag...
Pierre-Olivier Ladoux, Christophe Rosenberger, Ber...