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ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Robust Infants Face Tracking Using Active Appearance Models: A Mixed-State CONDENSATION Approach
Abstract. In this paper a new extension of the CONDENSATION algorithm, with application to infants face tracking, will be introduced. In this work we address the problem of trackin...
Luigi Bagnato, Matteo Sorci, Gianluca Antonini, Gi...
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A GPU Framework for the Visualization and On-the-Fly Amplification of Real Terrains
This paper describes a GPU framework for the real-time visualization of natural textured terrains, as well as the steps that are needed to populate them on-the-fly with tens of tho...
Yacine Amara, Sylvain Meunier, Xavier Marsault
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Haptic Exploration of Mathematical Knots
We present a novel multi-modal haptic interface for sketching and exploring the structure and properties of mathematical knots. Our interface derives from the familiar pencil-and-p...
Hui Zhang 0006, Sidharth Thakur, Andrew J. Hanson
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic Image Representation for Content-Based Access to Personal Photo Album
Abstract. The proposed work exploits methods and techniques for automatic characterization of images for content-based access to personal photo libraries. Several techniques, even ...
Edoardo Ardizzone, Marco La Cascia, Filippo Vella
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Vision-Based Architecture for Intent Recognition
Abstract. Understanding intent is an important aspect of communication among people and is an essential component of the human cognitive system. This capability is particularly rel...
Alireza Tavakkoli, Richard Kelley, Christopher Kin...
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Lip Contour Segmentation Using Kernel Methods and Level Sets
This paper proposes a novel method for segmenting lips from face images or video sequences. A non-linear learning method in the form of an SVM classifier is trained to recognise l...
A. Khan, William J. Christmas, Josef Kittler
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Image and Volume Segmentation by Water Flow
Abstract. A general framework for image segmentation is presented in this paper, based on the paradigm of water flow. The major water flow attributes like water pressure, surface t...
Xin U. Liu, Mark S. Nixon
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Fuzzy Morphology for Edge Detection and Segmentation
Abstract. This paper proposes a new approach for structure based separation of image objects using fuzzy morphology. With set operators in fuzzy context, we apply an adaptive alpha...
Atif Bin Mansoor, Ajmal S. Mian, Adil Khan, Shoab ...
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On Shape-Mediated Enrolment in Ear Biometrics
Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their shape with increased age. Any automatic biometric system needs enrolment to extract the target a...
Banafshe Arbab-Zavar, Mark S. Nixon
ISVC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Shape and Depth from an Engineering Database
Content based image retrieval (CBIR), a technique which uses visual contents to search images from the large scale image databases, is an active area of research for the past decad...
Amit Jain, Ramanathan Muthuganapathy, Karthik Rama...