In this paper we present an improved Active Shape Model (ASM) for facial features extraction. The original ASM developed by Cootes et al. [1] suffers from factors such as, poor mod...
Mohammad H. Mahoor, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, A-Nass...
Recently, the bag-of-words (BOW) based image representation is getting popular in object categorization. However, there is no available visual vocabulary and it has to be learned. ...
Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Hanqing Lu, So...
Image spam is a new obfuscating method which spammers invented to more effectively bypass conventional text based spam filters. In this paper, we extract local invariant features ...
Haiqiang Zuo, Weiming Hu, Ou Wu, Yunfei Chen, Guan...
We present a hierarchical feature fusion model for image classification that is constructed by an evolutionary learning algorithm. The model has the ability to combine local patch...
Fabien Scalzo, George Bebis, Mircea Nicolescu, Lea...
This paper presents an orientation operator to extract image local orientation features. We show that a proper employment of image integration leads to an unbiased orientation est...