1 We present a functional data analysis (FDA) based method to statistically model continuous signs of the American Sign Language (ASL) for use in the recognition of signs in contin...
Human behavior recognition is one of the most important and challenging objectives performed by intelligent vision systems. Several issues must be faced in this domain ranging fro...
It is well known that the main objective of conceptual retrieval models is to go beyond simple term matching by relaxing term independence assumption through concept recognition. ...
Databases of 3D shapes have become widespread for a variety of applications, and a key research problem is searching these databases for similar shapes. This paper introduces a me...
We consider the problem of detecting object contours in natural images. In many cases, local luminance changes turn out to be stronger in textured areas than on object contours. Th...