PR
2007
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2007
This study focuses on the segmentation and characterization of oil slicks on the sea surface from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations. In fact, an increase in viscosity du...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We propose a novel, local feature-based face representation method based on twostage subset selection where the first stage finds the informative regions and the second stage ...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We introduce a new graph cut for clustering which we call the Information Cut. It is derived using Parzen windowing to estimate an information theoretic distance measure between p...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
In this paper, a novel method for accurate subject tracking, by selecting only tracked subject boundary edges in a video stream with a changing background and moving camera, is pr...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Feature extraction is among the most important problems in face recognition systems. In this paper, we propose an enhanced kernel discriminant analysis (KDA) algorithm called kern...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Identification of local anisotropy and determination of principal axes is addressed through different methods that are designed to be tolerant to the non-smooth character of ima...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
In this paper, a novel automatic image annotation system is proposed, which integrates two sets of support vector machines (SVMs), namely the multiple instance learning (MIL)-base...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Image matching has been a central problem in computer vision and image processing for decades. Most of the previous approaches to image matching can be categorized into the intens...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is still an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality print...
PR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We propose a fast and robust skew estimation method for scanned documents that estimates skew angles based on piecewise covering of objects, such as textlines, figures, forms, or...