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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Robust region-based background subtraction and shadow removing using color and gradient information
In this paper, a novel algorithm for foreground detection and shadow removal is presented. The proposed method employs a region-based approach by processing two foregrounds result...
Mohammad Izadi, Parvaneh Saeedi
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
3D face recognition with the average-half-face
We present a promising analysis on using the pattern of symmetry in the face to increase the accuracy of three-dimensional face recognition. We introduce the concept of the ‘ave...
Josh Harguess, Shalini Gupta, Jake K. Aggarwal
112
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Detecting queues at vending machines: A statistical layered approach
This paper presents a method for monitoring activities at a ticket vending machine in a video-surveillance context. Rather than relying on the output of a tracking module, which i...
Xavier Naturel, Jean-Marc Odobez
79
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Estimating 3D fibre orientation in volume images
Fibre orientation is an important structural property of fibre-based materials. For example, in paper the orientation of the fibres influences the dimensional strength of the s...
Maria Axelsson
80
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Non-Abelian invariant feature detection
We present a novel formulation of non-Abelian invariant feature detection. By choosing suitable measuring functions, we show that the measuring space and the corresponding feature...
Yaniv Gur, Nir A. Sochen
89
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Illumination transition image: Parameter-based illumination estimation and re-rendering
Varying illumination condition is a challenging problem for face recognition and synthesis. The illumination re-rendering technique allows aligning the illumination effects of fac...
Jianyi Liu, Nanning Zheng, Lei Xiong, Gaofeng Meng...
94
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Fast approximate kernel-based similarity search for image retrieval task
In content based image retrieval, the success of any distance-based indexing scheme depends critically on the quality of the chosen distance metric. We propose in this paper a ker...
David Gorisse, Matthieu Cord, Frédér...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised mammograms segmentation
We present a multiscale unsupervised segmenter for automatic detection of potentially cancerous regions of interest containing fibroglandular tissue in digital screening mammogra...
Michal Haindl, Stanislav Mikes
72
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A new HMM for on-line character recognition using pen-direction and pen-coordinate features
A new hidden Markov model (HMM) is proposed for on-line character recognition using two typical features, pen-direction feature and pen-coordinate feature. These two features are ...
Yoshinori Katayama, Seiichi Uchida, Hiroaki Sakoe
98
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ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Online personal identification in night using multiple face representations
This paper details a fully automated face authentication system using low-cost near infrared imaging. The image normalization step consists of eye center localization, scale corre...
Ajay Kumar, T. Srikanth