Abstract--The emerging video coding standard MPEG-4 enables various content-based functionalities for multimedia applications. To support such functionalities, as well as to improv...
In this paper, we present an automatic statistical approach for extracting 3D blood vessels from time-of-flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) data. The voxels of the d...
M. Sabry Hassouna, Aly A. Farag, Stephen Hushek, T...
Belief propagation (BP) is an effective algorithm for solving energy minimization problems in computer vision. However, it requires enormous memory, bandwidth, and computation beca...
Chao-Chung Cheng, Chia-Kai Liang, Homer H. Chen, L...
We present a novel multi-view stereo method designed
for image-based rendering that generates piecewise planar
depth maps from an unordered collection of photographs.
First a di...
Sudipta N. Sinha, Drew Steedly and Richard Szelisk...
Most of the online multimedia collections, such as picture galleries or video archives, are categorized in a fully manual process, which is very expensive and may soon be infeasib...