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EDBT
2004
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Computing and Handling Cardinal Direction Information
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
Spiros Skiadopoulos, Christos Giannoukos, Panos Va...
ICCS
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Approximation Algorithms to Minimum Vertex Cover Problems on Polygons and Terrains
We propose an anytime algorithm to compute successively better approximations of the optimum of Minimum Vertex Guard. Though the presentation is focused on polygons, the work may b...
Ana Paula Tomás, António Leslie Baju...
CVPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Detecting and Reading Text in Natural Scenes
This paper gives an algorithm for detecting and reading text in natural images. The algorithm is intended for use by blind and visually impaired subjects walking through city scen...
Xiangrong Chen, Alan L. Yuille
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Unscented Message Passing for Arbitrary Continuous Variables in Bayesian Networks
Since Bayesian network (BN) was introduced in the field of artificial intelligence in 1980s, a number of inference algorithms have been developed for probabilistic reasoning. Ho...
Wei Sun, Kuo-Chu Chang
ICIP
2000
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Low-Complexity Face-Assisted Video Coding
This paper presents a novel face-assisted video coding scheme to enhance the visual quality of the face regions in video telephony applications. A skin-color based face detection ...
Chia-Wen Lin, Yao-Jen Chang, Yung-Chang Chen