Sign board detection is important for such computer vision applications as video surveillance and content based visual information retrieval. Previous researches on this topic foc...
The 1D barcode is a ubiquitous labeling technology, with symbologies such as UPC used to label approximately 99% of all packaged goods in the US. It would be very convenient for c...
In this paper, we describe a new region-based approach to active contours for segmenting images composed of two or three types of regions characterizable by a given statistic. The...
We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...
In this paper, we propose a new technique to perform figure-ground segmentation in image sequences of moving objects under varying illumination conditions. Unlike most of the alg...
Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris...