Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
In this paper, we present a method that integrates cues from shading, shadow and specular reflections for estimating directional illumination in a textured scene. Texture poses a ...
Yuanzhen Li, Stephen Lin, Hanqing Lu, Heung-Yeung ...
Several geometric active contour models have been proposed for segmentation in computer vision. The essential idea is to evolve a curve (in 2D) or a surface (in 3D) under constrai...
Vision-based m,otion captu.ring of hand articulation i s - a ch,allengin,g task, since th,e hand presents a m,otion of high, degrees of freedom.. Model-based approach,es could he ...
Recent research in image sensors has produced cameras with very large fields of view. A n area of computer vision research which will benefit from this technology is the computati...