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ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Multimodal Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Human interfaces for computer graphics systems are now evolving towards a total multi-modal approach. Information gathered using visual, audio and motion capture systems are now b...
Taro Goto, Marc Escher, Christian Zanardi, Nadia M...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
3-D Image Models and Compression: Synthetic Hybrid or Natural Fit?
This paper highlights recent advancesin image compression aided by 3-D geometry information. As two examples, we present a model-aided video coder for efficient compression of hea...
Bernd Girod, Peter Eisert, Marcus A. Magnor, Eckeh...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Representing and Retrieving Regions Using Binary Partition Trees
This paper discusses the interest of Binary Partition Trees for image and region representation in the context of indexing and similarity based retrieval. Binary Partition Trees c...
Luis Garrido, Philippe Salembier, Josep R. Casas
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient Approximation of Gray-Scale Images Through Bounded Error Triangular Meshes
This paper presents an iterative algorithm for approximating gray-scale images with adaptive triangular meshes ensuring a given tolerance. At each iteration, the algorithm applies...
Angel Domingo Sappa, Boris Xavier Vintimilla, Migu...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Interactive Color Image Segmentation Editor Driven by Active Contour Model
A new general-purpose color image segmentation editor (CISE) for the purpose of extracting a semantic object is designed, implemented and tested on a number of various natural sce...
Jean Gao, Akio Kosaka, Avinash C. Kak
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Fade and Dissolve Detection in Uncompressed and Compressed Video Sequences
Automatic identification of special effects is a prerequisite for video indexing and intelligent video encoding. In this paper we present an algorithm for fade and dissolve scene ...
Warnakulasuriya Anil Chandana Fernando, Cedric Nis...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Wipe Scene Change Detection in Video Sequences
This paper presents a novel algorithm for wipe scene change detection in video sequences. In the proposed scheme, each image in the sequence is mapped to a reduced image. Then we ...
Warnakulasuriya Anil Chandana Fernando, Cedric Nis...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
A Model-Based Approach for Compression of Fingerprint Images
We proposea new ngerprint imagecompressionscheme based on the hybrid model of image. Our scheme uses the essential steps of a typical automated ngerprint identi cation system (AFI...
Fikret Erçal, Ilker Ersoy, Muhittin Gö...
ICIP
1999
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Rate-Distortion-Efficient Video Compression Using a 3-D Head Model
In this paper we combine model-based video synthesis with block-based motion-compensated prediction (MCP). Two frames are utilized far prediction where one frame is the previous d...
Peter Eisert, Thomas Wiegand, Bernd Girod