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FOCS
1993
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
An On-Line Algorithm for Improving Performance in Navigation
We consider the following scenario. A point robot is placed at some start location ¡ in a 2dimensional scene containing oriented rectangular obstacles. The robot must repeatedly ...
Avrim Blum, Prasad Chalasani
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Polygon decomposition based on the straight line skeleton
We propose a novel type of decomposition for polygonal shapes. It is thought that, for the task of object recognition, the human visual system uses a part-based representation. De...
Mirela Tanase, Remco C. Veltkamp
99
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FGR
2004
IEEE
231views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
15 years 4 months ago
A Boosted Classifier Tree for Hand Shape Detection
The ability to detect a persons unconstrained hand in a natural video sequence has applications in sign language, gesture recognition and HCI. This paper presents a novel, unsuper...
Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden
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MM
2005
ACM
215views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
15 years 6 months ago
OpenVIDIA: parallel GPU computer vision
Graphics and vision are approximate inverses of each other: ordinarily Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are used to convert “numbers into pictures” (i.e. computer graphics). I...
James Fung, Steve Mann
GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Efficient position-independent iconic search using an R-theta index
An iconic image database is a collection of symbolic images where each image is a collection of labeled point features called icons. A method is presented to support fast position...
Charles Ben Cranston, Hanan Samet