Abstract. Bag-of-words representation with visual keypoints has recently emerged as an attractive approach for video search. In this paper, we study the degree of improvement when ...
Abstract. The paper presents an evaluation of both head pose and visual focus of attention (VFOA) estimation algorithms in a meeting room environment. Head orientation is estimated...
Abstract-- In this paper, we introduce a new skeleton pruning method based on contour partitioning. Any contour partition can be used, but the partitions obtained by Discrete Curve...
In this paper we report on an interdisciplinary course "Computing and Art" taught at the Sabanci University, Istanbul for the first time in fall of 2004. We also present...
Non-linear subspaces derived using kernel methods have been found to be superior compared to linear subspaces in modeling or classification tasks of several visual phenomena. Such...