Blob trackers have become increasingly powerful in recent years largely due to the adoption of statistical appearance models which allow effective background subtraction and robus...
This paper proposes a robust estimation and validation framework for characterizing local structures in a positive multi-variate continuous function approximated by a Gaussian-base...
Viola and Jones (VJ) cascade classification methods have proven to be very successful in detecting objects belonging to a single class -- e.g., faces. This paper addresses the mor...
Ahmed M. Elgammal, Ramana Isukapalli, Russell Grei...
— As growing power dissipation and thermal effects disrupted the rising clock frequency trend and threatened to annul Moore’s law, the computing industry has switched its route...
Abstract— Man-made real-world environments are dominated by planar surfaces many of which constitute behaviorrelevant entities. Thus, the ability to perceive planar surfaces is v...