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AVBPA
2003
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Feature Extraction Using a Chaincoded Contour Representation of Fingerprint Images
A feature extraction method using the chaincode representation of fingerprint ridge contours is presented for use by Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems. The representa...
Venu Govindaraju, Zhixin Shi, John Schneider
IPMI
2001
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Feature Enhancement in Low Quality Images with Application to Echocardiography
In this paper we propose a novel approach to feature enhancement to enhance the quality of noisy images. Our approach is based on a phase-based feature detection algorithm, followe...
Djamal Boukerroui, J. Alison Noble, Michael Brady
MM
2010
ACM
190views Multimedia» more  MM 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic skin enhancement with visible and near-infrared image fusion
Skin tones, portraits in particular, are of critical importance in photography and video, but a number of factors, such as pigmentation irregularities (e.g., moles, freckles), irr...
Sabine Süsstrunk, Clément Fredembach, ...
PCM
2004
Springer
97views Multimedia» more  PCM 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Frequency Weighting and Selective Enhancement for MPEG-4 Scalable Video Coding
In MPEG-4 scalable video coding, only a small portion of input data is coded in the base layer, and most signal components remain in enhancement layers. In this paper, we propose a...
Seung Hwan Kim, Yo-Sung Ho
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Time-dependent visual adaptation for fast realistic image display
Human vision takes time to adapt to large changes in scene intensity, and these transient adjustments have a profound effect on visual appearance. This paper offers a new operator...
Sumanta N. Pattanaik, Jack Tumblin, Yangli Hector ...