The chapter describes visual classification by a hierarchy of semantic fragments. In fragment-based classification, objects within a class are represented by common sub-structures ...
In this paper we describe a new shape-from-shading method. We show how the parallel transport of surface normals can be used to impose curvature consistency and also to iterativel...
Interest point detection is an established method to select relevent image regions. Such techniques use features like corners or edges, which are known to indicate regions likely ...
A practical method for creating a high dimensional index structure that adapts to the data distribution and scales well with the database size, is presented. Typical media descrip...
Peng Wu, B. S. Manjunath, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
We present a new application area for biometric recognition: the identification of laboratory animals to replace today's invasive methods. Through biometric identification a ...