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PCM
2004
Springer
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Preprocessing of Depth and Color Information for Layered Depth Image Coding
The layered depth image (LDI) is a popular approach to represent three-dimensional objects with complex geometry for image-based rendering (IBR). LDI contains several attribute val...
Seung-Uk Yoon, Sung-Yeol Kim, Yo-Sung Ho
PCM
2004
Springer
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Image Registration Using Triangular Mesh
Image registration is a fundamental problem in the area of computer vision and has been extensively researched. Different image registration algorithm has its pros and cons. Unlik...
Ben Yip, Jesse S. Jin
PCM
2004
Springer
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Spatial Histogram Features for Face Detection in Color Images
This paper presents a novel face detection approach in color images. We employ spatial histograms as robust features for face detection. The spatial histograms consist of marginal ...
Hongming Zhang, Debin Zhao
PCM
2004
Springer
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Applying Linux High-Availability and Load Balancing Servers for Video-on-Demand (VOD) Systems
In this research paper, we integrate and implement High-Availability (HA) and Load-Balancing technologies to clusters of workstations, increasing both the availability and scalabil...
Chao-Tung Yang, Ko-Tzu Wang, Kuan-Ching Li, Liang-...
PCM
2004
Springer
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Easy and Convincing Ear Modeling for Virtual Human
In this paper, we describe the human ear creation in a system for 3-D photorealistic face modeling from frontal and profile images taken by an uncalibrated handheld digital camera...
Hui Zhang, In Kyu Park
PCM
2004
Springer
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Optimum End-to-End Distortion Estimation for Error Resilient Video Coding
End-to-end distortion estimation plays an important role in error-resilient video coding. The intuitive method is to simulate the decoding process many times at the encoder, as use...
Yuan Zhang, Qingming Huang, Yan Lu, Wen Gao
PCM
2004
Springer
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Key Techniques of Bit Rate Reduction for H.264 Streams
In previous techniques of bit rate reduction transcoding, reusing the mode of the input MB is widely adopted. However, directly re-using the mode of input MB will cause additional ...
Peng Zhang, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao
PCM
2004
Springer
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Vision-Based Sign Language Recognition Using Sign-Wise Tied Mixture HMM
Abstract. In this paper, a new sign-wise tied mixture HMM (SWTMHMM) is proposed and applied in vision-based sign language recognition (SLR). In the SWTMHMM, the mixture densities o...
Liangguo Zhang, Gaolin Fang, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen, ...
PCM
2004
Springer
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Gabor-Kernel Fisher Analysis for Face Recognition
Kernel based methods have been of wide concern in the field of machine learning. This paper proposes a novel Gabor-Kernel Fisher analysis method (G-EKFM) for face recognition, whi...
Baochang Zhang
PCM
2004
Springer
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Fast and Robust Short Video Clip Search for Copy Detection
Query by video clip (QVC) has attracted wide research interests in multimedia information retrieval. In general, QVC may include feature extraction, similaritymeasure,databaseorgan...
Junsong Yuan, Ling-Yu Duan, Qi Tian, Surendra Rang...