Humans have abstract models for object classes which helps recognize previously unseen instances, despite large intra-class variations. Also objects are grouped into classes based...
Humans have used sketching to depict our visual world since prehistoric times. Even today, sketching is possibly the only rendering technique readily available to all humans. This...
In previous work we have presented a prototype of an assistant system for the blind that can be used for self-localization and interactive object identification of static objects ...
A robot’s ability to assist humans in a variety of tasks, e.g. in search and rescue or in a household, heavily depends on the robot’s reliable recognition of the objects in th...
Detection of objects is in general a computationally demanding task. To simplify the problem it is of interest to utilize contextual information and perform a staggered recognitio...