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ICIP
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Affine-invariant modeling of shape-appearance images applied on sign language handshape classification
We propose a novel affine-invariant modeling of hand shapeappearance images, which offers a compact and descriptive representation of the hand configurations. Our approach combine...
Anastasios Roussos, Stavros Theodorakis, Vassilis ...
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
164views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Audio-based classification of speaker characteristics
The human voice is primarily a carrier of speech, but it also contains non-linguistic features unique to a speaker and indicative of various speaker demographics, e.g. gender, nat...
Promiti Dutta, Alexander Haubold
CVPR
2011
IEEE
1473views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 2011»
14 years 6 months ago
Object Recognition with Hierarchical Kernel Descriptors
Kernel descriptors provide a unified way to generate rich visual feature sets by turning pixel attributes into patch-level features, and yield impressive results on many object rec...
Liefeng Bo, Kevin Lai, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
CVPR
2011
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Connecting Non-Quadratic Variational Models and MRFs
Spatially-discrete Markov random fields (MRFs) and spatially-continuous variational approaches are ubiquitous in low-level vision, including image restoration, segmentation, opti...
Kevin Schelten, Stefan Roth
ORGSCI
2010
92views more  ORGSCI 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Are Technology-Intensive Industries More Dynamically Competitive? No and Yes
A growing body of research in management and related public policy fields concludes that the 1980s and 1990s saw greater dynamic competition throughout technology−intensive (“...
Paul M. Vaaler, Gerry McNamara