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ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Visual Orientation in the Sewer Adaptation to the Environment
Most biological systems employ visually acquired information for their locomotion. In the course of evolutionary history, the visual system of organisms has evolved to be adapted ...
Marina Kolesnik
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Fractional Component Analysis (FCA) for Mixed Signals
This paper proposes the fractional component analysis (FCA), whose goal is to decompose the observed signal into component signals and recover their fractions. The uniqueness of o...
Asanobu Kitamoto
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic Model-Based Detection of Bent-Double Radio Galaxies
We describe an application of probabilistic modeling to the problem of recognizing radio galaxies with a bentdouble morphology. The type of galaxies in question contain distinctiv...
Sergey Kirshner, Igor V. Cadez, Padhraic Smyth, Ch...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Integrated Approach of Multiple Face Detection for Video Surveillance
For applications such as video surveillance and human computer interface, we propose an efficiently integrated method to detect and track faces. Various visual cues are combined t...
Tae-Kyun Kim, Sung-Uk Lee, Jong Ha Lee, Seok-Cheol...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Handwritten Character Recognition Based on Structural Characteristics
In this paper a handwritten character recognition algorithm based on structural characteristics, histograms and profiles, is presented. The well-known horizontal and vertical hist...
Ergina Kavallieratou, Nikos Fakotakis, George K. K...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
A Robust License-Plate Extraction Method under Complex Image Conditions
A robust approach for extracting car license plate from images with complex background and relatively poor quality is presented in this paper. The approach focuses on dealing with...
Sunghoon Kim, Daechul Kim, Younbok Ryu, Gyeonghwan...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Usefulness of Boundary Sequences in Computing Shape Features for Arbitrary Shaped Regions
A boundary sequence is a good representation of arbitrary shaped regions, but not directly used in computing shape features such as area, centroid, orientation, and so forth. In t...
Seongok Kim, Sungyoung Kim, Jongmin Kim, Minhwan K...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Multicue MRF Image Segmentation: Combining Texture and Color Features
Herein, we propose a new Markov random field (MRF) image segmentation model which aims at combining color and texture features. The model has a multi-layer structure: Each feature...
Zoltan Kato, Ting-Chuen Pong, Song Guo Qiang
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
VizWear-Active: Distributed Monte Carlo Face Tracking for Wearable Active Cameras
In this paper, we discuss a Distributed Monte Carlo (DMC) tracking method which achieves real-time and accurate face tracking for wearable active vision systems. The DMC is an ext...
Takekazu Kato, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Word Segmentation of Printed Text Lines Based on Gap Clustering and Special Symbol Detection
This paper proposes a word segmentation method for machine-printed text lines. It utilizes gaps and special symbols as delimiters between words. A gap clustering technique is used...
Soo-Hyung Kim, Chang Bu Jeong, Hee K. Kwag, Ching ...