Word segmentation is a critical stage towards word and character recognition as well as word spotting and mainly concerns two basic aspects, distance computation and gap classific...
—Inspired by Weber’s Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, called the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that hum...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Chu He, Guoying Zhao, Mat...
In this paper a new content-based copy identification method for video sequences is presented. It is robust to a number of image transformations and particulary robust to compress...
Ehsan Maani, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Aggelos K. Kat...
A crucial preprocessing stage in applications such as OCR is text extraction from mixed-type documents. The present work, in contrast to most until now, successfully faces the pro...
An appearance-based face authentication system integrating 2D color or intensity images and 3D data is presented in this paper. The proposed system is based on a low-cost 3D and c...