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CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Visible Surface Reconstruction from Normals with Discontinuity Consideration
Given a dense set of imperfect normals obtained by photometric stereo or shape from shading, this paper presents an optimization algorithm which alternately optimizes until conver...
Tai-Pang Wu, Chi-Keung Tang
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Kernel Uncorrelated and Orthogonal Discriminant Analysis: A Unified Approach
Several kernel algorithms have recently been proposed for nonlinear discriminant analysis. However, these methods mainly address the singularity problem in the high dimensional fe...
Tao Xiong, Jieping Ye, Vladimir Cherkassky
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
In Situ Evaluation of Tracking Algorithms Using Time Reversed Chains
Automatic evaluation of visual tracking algorithms in the absence of ground truth is a very challenging and important problem. In the context of online appearance modeling, there ...
Hao Wu, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Rama Chellappa
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Image representations beyond histograms of gradients: The role of Gestalt descriptors
Histograms of orientations and the statistics derived from them have proven to be effective image representations for various recognition tasks. In this work we attempt to improve...
Stanley M. Bileschi, Lior Wolf
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Utilizing Variational Optimization to Learn Markov Random Fields
Markov Random Field, or MRF, models are a powerful tool for modeling images. While much progress has been made in algorithms for inference in MRFs, learning the parameters of an M...
Marshall F. Tappen