Most of the traditional methods for shape classification are based on contour. They often encounter difficulties when dealing with classes that have large nonlinear variability, es...
Xingwei Yang, Xiang Bai, Deguang Yu, Longin Jan La...
The emerging MPEG-7 standard embodies a visual descriptor that will be associated with the dominant colors of an image. In this contribution, a threshold adaptation method for reg...
This paper describes a new method for estimating the illumination distribution of a real scene from a radiance distribution inside shadows cast by an object in the scene. First, t...
This paper describes a novel methodology for implementing video search functions such as retrieval of near-duplicate videos and recognition of actions in surveillance video. Video...
We introduce a new interpretation of multiscale random fields (MSRFs) that admits efficient optimization in the framework of regular (single level) random fields (RFs). It is base...
Longin Jan Latecki, ChengEn Lu, Marc Sobel, Xiang ...