Background subtraction is the first step of many video surveillance applications. What is considered background varies by application, and may include regular, systematic, or comp...
Robert Pless, John Larson, Scott Siebers, Ben West...
The goal of motion segmentation and layer extraction can be viewed as the detection and localization of occluding surfaces. A feature that has been shown to be a particularly stro...
We describe a probabilistic framework for recognizing human activities in monocular video based on simple silhouette observations in this paper. The methodology combines kernel pr...
Strong lighting is common in natural scenes yet is often viewed as a nuisance for object pose estimation and tracking. In human shape and pose estimation, cast shadows can be conf...
Alexandru O. Balan, Michael J. Black, Horst W. Hau...
We explore the problem of classifying images by the object categories they contain in the case of a large number of object categories. To this end we combine three ingredients: (i...