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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Estimation of Arbitrary Camera Motion in MPEG Videos
Several algorithms have been proposed to solve the problem of camera motion estimation in digital videos. However, the distinction between translation along the xaxis (y-axis) and...
Ralph Ewerth, Martin Schwalb, Paul Tessmann, Bernd...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Improving Cut Detection in MPEG Videos by GOP-Oriented Frame Difference Normalization
The detection of abrupt shot changes ("cuts") in videos is a basic step in video content analysis. Many cut detection algorithms based on histogram differences have been...
Bernd Freisleben, Ralph Ewerth
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Automated Visual Identification of Characters in Situation Comedies
The objectives of the work described in this paper are simply stated: given examples of a particular person and an unlabelled video, we wish to find every instance of that person ...
Andrew Zisserman, Mark Everingham
ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Perceptual Grouping for Contour Extraction
This paper describes an algorithm that efficiently groups line segments into perceptually salient contours in complex images. A measure of affinity between pairs of lines is used ...
Francisco J. Estrada, Allan D. Jepson