A directional spatial relationship to a reference object (e.g., "east of the post office") can be represented by a spatial template. The template partitions the space in...
Natural scene images coming usually from lowresolution sensors in embedded context suffer from low text recognition results. Due to several types of degradations, existing algorit...
A new method for noise reduction using spatiotemporal smoothing is presented in this paper. The method is developed especially for reducing the noise that arises when acquiring vi...
In many situations it is convenient to represent pictorial data in the form of contours. It may become necessary to compress such contour data for efficient storage and transmissi...