For an image, texture unit (TU) is a small complete unit which characterizes the local texture of a given pixel and its neighborhood. Recently, TU-based approaches have been widel...
The structural similarity (SSIM) metric and its multi-scale extension (MS-SSIM) evaluate visual quality with a modied local measure of spatial correlation consisting of three c...
This paper presents a novel approach to automatically identify characters in films using audio visual cues and text analysis. The approach consists of three stages: (i) frontal f...
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Two Dimensional Locality Preserving Projection (2DLPP) is a recent extension of LPP, a popular face recognition algorithm. It has been shown that 2D-LPP performs better than PCA, ...