In this paper, we address the issue of extracting contour of the object with a specific shape. A hierarchical graphical model is proposed to represent shape variations. A complex ...
This paper presents a novel face representation and recognition approach. The face image is first decomposed by multi-scale and multi-orientation Gabor filters and local binary ...
Zhen Lei, ShengCai Liao, Ran He, Matti Pietikä...
The conventional method of generating a basis that is optimally adapted (in MSE) for representation of an ensemble of signals is Principal Component Analysis (PCA). A more ambitio...
Rosa M. Figueras i Ventura, Umesh Rajashekar, Zhou...
This work investigates the use of nonlinear dependencies in natural image sequence statistics to learn higher-order structures in natural videos. We propose a two-layer model that...
Palmprint-based personal identification, as a new member in the biometrics family, has become an active research topic in recent years. Although great progress has been made, how ...