Cascades of boosted ensembles have become popular in the object detection community following their highly successful introduction in the face detector of Viola and Jones [1]. In t...
S. Charles Brubaker, Matthew D. Mullin, James M. R...
Common visual codebook generation methods used in
a Bag of Visual words model, e.g. k-means or Gaussian
Mixture Model, use the Euclidean distance to cluster features
into visual...
Many techniques for improving search result quality have been proposed. Typically, these techniques increase average effectiveness by devising advanced ranking features and/or by...
Lidan Wang, Paul N. Bennett, Kevyn Collins-Thompso...
This paper compares two methods for object localization from contours: shape context and chamfer matching of templates. In the light of our experiments, we suggest improvements to...
Arasanathan Thayananthan, Bjoern Stenger, Philip H...
We describe how to teach deformable models to maximize image segmentation correctness based on user-specified criteria, and we present a method for evaluating which criteria work ...