Recently, the bag-of-words approach has been successfully applied to automatic image annotation, object recognition, etc. The method needs to first quantize an image using the vis...
Segmentation of video foreground objects from background has many important applications, such as human computer interaction, video compression, multimedia content editing and man...
The popular bag-of-features representation for object recognition collects signatures of local image patches and discards spatial information. Some have recently attempted to at l...
An object seen from different viewpoints results in differently deformed images. Affine-invariant shape classification must classify correctly the object, disregarding its viewpoi...
A fingerprinting design extracts discriminating features, called fingerprints. The extracted features are unique and specific to each image/video. The visual hash is usually a glo...