We describe our experiments for the Image CLEF medical retrieval task. Our efforts were focused on the initial visual search. A content based approach was followed. We used textur...
Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, St...
A feature extraction method using the chaincode representation of fingerprint ridge contours is presented for use by Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems. The representa...
Palette re-ordering is a well known and very effective approach for improving the compression of color-indexed images. If the spatial distribution of the indexes in the image is s...
Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Rundo, Filippo Stan...
In this paper we describe a new method for improving the representation of textures in blends of multiple images based on a Markov Random Field (MRF) algorithm. We show that direc...
Abstract Image denoising is the process of removing the noise that perturbs image analysis methods. In some applications like segmentation or registration, denoising is intended to...
Fernanda Palhano Xavier de Fontes, Guillermo Andra...