Abstract. This work proposes a family of language-independent semantic kernel functions defined for individuals in an ontology. This allows exploiting wellfounded kernel methods fo...
In the design of multimedia systems, one of the important issues is how to deal with "Kansei" of human beings. The concept of "Kansei" in Japanese includes sev...
Abstract-- This paper presents an edge-directed image interpolation algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the edge directions are implicitly estimated with a statistical-based appr...
In this work we propose a model (in)validation approach to gait recognition, using a system that tries to discriminate specific activities of people. The recognition process depar...
In this paper, a novel spatial feature, namely maximum distance-gradient-magnitude (MDGM), is defined for registration tasks. For each voxel in an image, the MDGM feature encodes s...