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MVA
2007
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Extraction of Corresponding Points from Stereo Images by Using Intersections of Segments
In many applications, it is necessary to extract corresponding points automatically. In this study, we present a method of extracting corresponding points automatically from stere...
Hiroshi Unno, Keikichi Hayashibe, Hitoshi Saji
MVA
2007
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Periodic Pattern Inspection Using Convolution Masks
A two-dimensional (2-D) convolution mask is proposed for detecting the location of irregularities and defects in a periodic two-dimensional signal or image. In this approach, defe...
Y. S. Weng, Ming-Hwei Perng
MVA
2007
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Identifying Hand Gesture Images by Using Genetic Algorithms
A genetic algorithm (GA) is an optimization algorithm that simulates the hereditary phenomenon of natural life. Although GA has been applied to image processing, it has not been s...
Tetsuji Kobayashi, Norifumi Machida
MVA
2007
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Iris Tracking for Generating Novel Facial Interface Media
We took the face, especially eye or eye gaze, into consideration for discussing the non-verbal interface media. We first proposed a passive eye-camera system based on the facial i...
Takuma Funahashi, Takayuki Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Kosh...
MVA
2007
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Linear Tracking of Pose and Facial Features
We present an approach for simultaneous monocular 3D face pose and facial animation tracking. The pose and facial features are estimated from observed raw brightness shape-free 2D...
José Alonso Ybáñez Zepeda, Fr...
MVA
2007
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Using Space-Time Interest Points for Video Sequence Synchronization
We introduce an algorithm for synchronizing two video sequences recorded by stationary cameras. It extends common RANSAC-based approaches that recover either a homography or a fun...
Daniel Wedge, Du Huynh, Peter Kovesi
MVA
2007
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Represent Image Contents Using Curves and Chain Code
This paper presents a new approach to extracting and representing structural features of images. The approach is based on both a region-based analysis and a contour-based analysis...
Pornchai Mongkolnam, Chakarida Nukoolkit, Thanee D...
MVA
2007
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Propagation of Uncertainty in Landmark Based Self-localization of Autonomous Mobile Robots
This paper presents uncertainty propagation in landmark based position estimation methods. Analysis of two methods has been carried out where robot position is estimated by detect...
Abdul Bais, Robert Sablatnig, Yahya M. Khawaja, Gr...
MVA
2007
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Fisher Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Pairwise Weighting
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a powerful feature extraction method for finding parts-based, linear representations of non-negative data . Inherently, it is unsupervis...
Xi Li, Kazuhiro Fukui
MVA
2007
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A Facial Sketch Animation Generator for Mobile Communication
The ability to analyze and reproduce specific-person facial expression is an important multimedia content service for mobile communication. In this paper, a novel three-layer faci...
Yuehu Liu, Yuanqi Su, Yang Yang, Fengjuan Wang, Ma...