: Generic systems for content-based image retrieval (CBIR), such as QBIC [7] cannot be used to solve domain-specific image retrieval problems, as for example, the identification of...
This contribution proposes a compositionality architecture for visual object categorization, i.e., learning and recognizing multiple visual object classes in unsegmented, cluttered...
—Detecting objects in cluttered scenes and estimating articulated human body parts from 2D images are two challenging problems in computer vision. The difficulty is particularly...
— A novel approach is presented which aims at building autonomously visual models of unknown objects, using a humanoid robot. Although good methods have been proposed for the spe...
The appearance of surface texture as it varies with angular changes of view and illumination is becoming an increasingly important research topic. The bidirectional texture functi...