Fingerprint matching is still a challenging problem for reliable person authentication because of the complex distortions involved in two impressions of the same finger. In this p...
The state of the art in visual object retrieval from large databases is achieved by systems that are inspired by text retrieval. A key component of these approaches is that local ...
James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef S...
Color is known to be highly discriminative for many object recognition tasks, but is difficult to infer from uncontrolled images in which the illuminant is not known. Traditional...
Trevor Owens, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell, Ayan Ch...
We present a novel statistical texture descriptor employing level-crossing statistics. Images are first mapped into 1D signals using space-filling curves, such as Peano or Hilbert...
Carlos Santamaria, Miroslaw Bober, Wieslaw Szajnow...
We introduce a novel nonrigid 2D image registration method that establishes dense and accurate correspondences across images without the need of any manual intervention. Our key in...