Multiscale, i.e. scale-space image analysis is a powerful framework for many image processing tasks. A fundamental issue with such scale-space techniques is the automatic selectio...
Human observers can easily assess the quality of a distorted image without examining the original image as a reference. By contrast, designing objective No-Reference (NR) quality ...
Modern video-based endoscopes offer physicians a wide-angle field of view for minimally-invasive procedures. Unfortunately, inherent barrel distortion prevents accurate perception...
Chao Zhang, James P. Helferty, Geoffrey McLennan, ...
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic ...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...