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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
CVPR
2010
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Features Using Video
We present an algorithm that learns invariant features from real data in an entirely unsupervised fashion. The principal benefit of our method is that it can be applied without hu...
David Stavens, Sebastian Thrun
CVPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Real-time global localization with a pre-built visual landmark database
In this paper, we study how to build a vision-based system for global localization with accuracies within 10cm. for robots and humans operating both indoors and outdoors over wide...
Zhiwei Zhu, Taragay Oskiper, Supun Samarasekera, R...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Ten-fold Improvement in Visual Odometry Using Landmark Matching
Our goal is to create a visual odometry system for robots and wearable systems such that localization accuracies of centimeters can be obtained for hundreds of meters of distance ...
Zhiwei Zhu, Taragay Oskiper, Supun Samarasekera, R...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Challenge: mobile optical networks through visual MIMO
Mobile optical communications has so far largely been limited to short ranges of about ten meters, since the highly directional nature of optical transmissions would require costl...
Ashwin Ashok, Marco Gruteser, Narayan Mandayam, Ja...