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ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A Kernel-based Discrimination Framework for Solving Hypothesis Testing Problems with Application to Speaker Verification
Real-word applications often involve a binary hypothesis testing problem with one of the two hypotheses ill-defined and hard to be characterized precisely by a single measure. In ...
Yi-Hsiang Chao, Wei-Ho Tsai, Hsin-Min Wang, Ruei-C...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Defect detection in low-contrast glass substrates using anisotropic diffusion
In this research, we propose an anisotropic diffusion scheme to detect defects in low-contrast surface images and, especially, aim at glass substrates used in TFT-LCDs (Thin Film ...
Du-Ming Tsai, Shin-Min Chao, Yan-Hsin Tseng, Yuan-...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Physics-based Fusion of Multispectral Data for Improved Face Recognition
A novel physics-based fusion of multispectral images within the visual spectra is proposed for the purpose of improving face recognition under constant or varying illumination. Sp...
Andreas Koschan, Besma R. Abidi, Hong Chang, Mongi...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Descriptor-Based Observation Model for Visual Tracking
Varying illumination and partial occlusion are two main difficulties in visual tracking. Existing methods based on appearance information cannot solve these problems effectively s...
Chu-Song Chen, Wen-Yan Chang, Yi-Ping Hung
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Event Recognition with Fragmented Object Tracks
Complete and accurate video tracking is very difficult to achieve in practice due to long occlusions, traffic clutter, shadows and appearance changes. In this paper, we study the ...
Anthony Hoogs, Gianfranco Doretto, John Schmiedere...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A Novel Human Gait Recognition Method by Segmenting and Extracting the Region Variance Feature
Existing methods of gait recognition suffer from some shortcomings, which are discussed at the beginning of the full paper. In order to suppress these shortcomings as much as poss...
Yanmei Chai, Qing Wang, Jingping Jia, Rongchun Zha...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A Combined Bayesian Markovian Approach for Behaviour Recognition
Numerous techniques exist which can be used for the task of behavioural analysis and recognition. Common amongst these are Bayesian networks and Hidden Markov Models. Although the...
David Paul Young, James M. Ferryman, Nicholas L. C...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Camera Motion Quantification and Alignment
We propose a method to synchronize video sequences of distinct scenes captured by cameras undergoing similar motions. For the general camera motion and 3D scene, the camera ego-mo...
Hassan Foroosh, Jiangjian Xiao, Xiaochun Cao
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Self-Calibration Using Constant Camera Motion
This paper investigates using constant inter-frame motion for self-calibration from an image sequence of an object rotating around a single axis with varying camera internal param...
Hassan Foroosh, Jiangjian Xiao, Xiaochun Cao
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Synthesizing Reflections of Inserted Objects
The aim of reflection synthesis of inserted objects is to generate reflections which would be seen by the same camera capturing the target scene and be reflected by the true refle...
Hassan Foroosh, Xiaochun Cao