The automatic transcription of broadcast news and meetings involves the segmentation, identification and tracking of speaker turns during each session, which is known as speaker di...
Abstract. A vision based head tracking approach is presented, combining foreground information with an elliptical head model based on the integration of gradient and skin-color inf...
This paper introduces multi-scale tree-based approaches to image segmentation, using Rissanen's coding theoretic minimum description length (MDL) principle to penalize overly...
Background subtraction is commonly used to detect foreground objects in video surveillance. Traditional background subtraction methods are usually based on the assumption that the...
We propose in this work a method for detecting faces in colour images with complex backgrounds. The approach starts with the transformation of the image pixels from the RGB colour...