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WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Detection of Signs with Affine Transformation
In this paper, we propose an approach for detecting signs from natural scenes. The approach efficiently embeds multiresolution, adaptive search, and affine rectification algorithm...
Xilin Chen, Jie Yang, Jing Zhang, Alex Waibel
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The Droplet Virtual Brush for Chinese Calligraphic Character Modeling
This paper proposes a virtual brush model based on droplet operation and its application on retrieving character outlines and character modeling in Chinese calligraphy style. In t...
Xiaofeng Mi, Jie Xu, Min Tang, Jinxiang Dong
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Development and Analysis of a Real-Time Human Motion Tracking System
This paper describes a method for tracking human body motion from multiple views in real-time. The method extracts silhouettes in each view using background subtraction, and then ...
Jason P. Luck, Christian Debrunner, William Hoff, ...
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Retrieving Faces by the PIFS Fractal Code
The use of fractals in computer graphics and vision in modeling unstructured images, and compressing images, is well known. However, the use of fractals for indexing images in con...
Sharat Chandran, Soumitra Kar
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A model-driven method of estimating the state of clothes for manipulating it
Aiming at manipulating clothes, a model-driven method of estimating the state of hanging clothes is proposed. We suppose a system consisting of two manipulators and a camera. The ...
Yasuyo Kita, Nobuyuki Kita
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Appearance-based Eye Gaze Estimation
We present a method for estimating eye gaze direction, which represents a departure from conventional eye gaze estimation methods, the majority of which are based on tracking spec...
Kar-Han Tan, David J. Kriegman, Narendra Ahuja
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Pose Estimation of Complex 3D Building Models
3D models of urban sites with geometry and facade textures are needed for many planning and visualization applications. Approximate 3D wireframe model can be derived from aerial i...
Sung Chun Lee, Soon Ki Jung, Ramakant Nevatia
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Fingerprint Verification Using Genetic Algorithms
Fingerprint matching is still a challenging problem for reliable person authentication because of the complex distortions involved in two impressions of the same finger. In this p...
Xuejun Tan, Bir Bhanu
WACV
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Using attribute trees to analyse auroral appearance over Canada
Modern space research uses both satellite-born and ground-based instruments to measure the near-Earth space environment. Studying the auroral display provides information of the e...
Mikko T. Syrjäsuo, Eric F. Donovan, Markus Pe...