290 views181 votes15 years 2 months ago ECCV 2010»
Time synchronization of video sequences in a multi-camera system is necessary for successfully analyzing the acquired visual information. Even if synchronization is established, it...
Alpha matting refers to the problem of softly extracting the foreground from an image. Given a trimap (specifying known foreground/background and unknown pixels), a straightforwar...
As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing...
121 views120 votes14 years 11 months ago TOG 2010»
It is often important for designers and photographers to convey or enhance desired color themes in their work. A color theme is typically defined as a template of colors and an as...
293 views179 votes14 years 8 months ago CVPR 2011»
People detection is an important task for a wide range of applications in computer vision. State-of-the-art methods learn appearance based models requiring tedious collection and ...
110 views116 votes14 years 8 months ago ICASSP 2011»
In this paper, we propose examining the participants in various meetings or communications within a social network, and using sequential inference based on these participant lists...
Most of existing crowd simulation algorithms focus on the moving trajectories of individual agents, while collective group formations are often roughly learned from video examples...
175 views164 votes14 years 5 months ago ICCV 2011»
We present a method whereby an embodied agent using visual perception can efficiently create a model of a local indoor environment from its experience of moving within it. Our me...
164 views153 votes14 years 5 months ago ICCV 2011»
The mean is often the most important statistic of a dataset as it provides a single point that summarizes the entire set. While the mean is readily defined and computed in Euclid...
123 views175 votes15 years 10 months ago SAC 2005»
Recommender Systems (RS) suggests to users items they will like based on their past opinions. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most used technique to assess user similarity bet...