Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
Segmentation involves separating an object from the background. In this work, we propose a novel segmentation method combining image information with prior shape knowledge, within...
Samuel Dambreville, Yogesh Rathi, Allen Tannenbaum
Abstract. This paper presents anovel variational method forimage segmentation that uni es boundary and region-based information sources under the Geodesic Active Region framework. ...
Annotations of multimedia documents typically have been pursued in two different directions. Either previous approaches have focused on low level descriptors, such as dominant colo...
Stephan Bloehdorn, Kosmas Petridis, Carsten Saatho...
We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...