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SIBGRAPI
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Simulation and Rendering of Opus Palladium 3D Mosaics
Mosaic sculptures are a form of art where the sculpture is made from a collection of individual elements called tiles which are distributed over the surface of a given 3D shape. T...
Vladimir Alves dos Passos, Marcelo Walter
ICPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous Inference of View and Body Pose using Torus Manifolds
Inferring 3D body pose as well as viewpoint from a single silhouette image is a challenging problem. We present a new generative model to represent shape deformations according to...
Ahmed M. Elgammal, Chan-Su Lee
NIPS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Nonrigid Structure from Motion in Trajectory Space
Existing approaches to nonrigid structure from motion assume that the instantaneous 3D shape of a deforming object is a linear combination of basis shapes, which have to be estima...
Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Sheikh, Sohaib Khan, Takeo Kana...
EMMCVPR
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Complex Wave Representation of Distance Transforms
The complex wave representation (CWR) converts unsigned 2D distance transforms into their corresponding wave functions. The underlying motivation for performing this maneuver is as...
Karthik S. Gurumoorthy, Anand Rangarajan, Arunava ...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Discriminatory Power of Handwritten Words for Writer Recognition
Analysis of allographs (characters) and allograph combinations (words) is the key for the identification/verification of a writer's handwriting. While allographs are usually ...
Bin Zhang, Catalin I. Tomai, Sargur N. Srihari