The appearance of an object depends on both the viewpoint from which it is observed and the light sources by which it is illuminated. If the appearance of two objects is never iden...
We develope a technique to perform e cient and accurate matching to detect the occurences of a template in a scene. The template may describe an object or a textured surface. Repr...
Histogram Intersection (HI) kernel has been recently introduced for image recognition tasks. The HI kernel is proved to be positive definite and thus can be used in Support Vector ...
Sabri Boughorbel, Jean-Philippe Tarel and Nozha Bo...
Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
Semantic event recognition based only on vision cues has had limited success on unconstrained still pictures. Metadata related to picture taking provides contextual cues independe...