The structural similarity (SSIM) index has been shown to be a good perceptual image quality predictor. In many real-world applications such as network visual communications, howev...
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel method for online writer identification. Traditional methods make use of the distribution of directions in handwritten traces. The novelty o...
In this paper, we present a method for binary image comparison. For binary images, intensity information is poor and shape extraction is often difficult. Therefore binary images h...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
The Visual Thesaurus is a new query approach when no starting image is available. It is a concise representation of all similar regions in a panel of visual patches; the user arra...