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ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Initialization Techniques for Segmentation with the Chan-Vese Model
This paper introduces an effective initialization approach for segmentation using the Chan-Vese model. The initial curve is found by searching among the extremals of the fidelity ...
Jan Erik Solem, Niels Chr. Overgaard, Anders Heyde...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Geodesic Curves for Analysis of Continuous Implicit Shapes
A method is proposed for performing shape analysis of m-surfaces, e.g. planar curves and surfaces, with a geometric interpretation. The analysis uses an implicit surface represent...
Jan Erik Solem
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Measurement Function Design for Visual Tracking Applications
Extracting human postural information from video sequences has proved a difficult research question. The most successful approaches to date have been based on particle filtering, ...
Andrew W. B. Smith, Brian C. Lovell
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Recognizing Expressions in a New Database Containing Played and Natural Expressions
We describe a new expression database which contains video sequences of both played and natural expressions and an expression classification system based on warped optical flow fi...
James Skelley, Robert Fischer, Arup Sarma, Bernd H...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient Search and Verification for Function Based Classification from Real Range Images
In this work we propose a probabilistic model for generic object classification from raw range images. Our approach supports a validation process in which classes are verified usi...
Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni, Octavian Soldea
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Estimation of Ball Route under Overlapping with Players and Lines in Soccer Video Image Sequence
This paper deals with the analysis of broadcast soccer video. To recognize interesting events such as a goal, estimation of ball movements is necessary. It is, however, sometimes ...
Jun Miura, Takumi Shimawaki, Takuro Sakiyama, Yosh...
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ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Fingerprint Image Enhancement Based on Skin Profile Approximation
The performance of the fingerprint identification and verification systems relies heavily on the quality of the input fingerprint images. In this paper, we propose an effective im...
Venu Govindaraju, Zhixin Shi
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ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Video Completion for Perspective Camera Under Constrained Motion
This paper presents a novel technique to fill in missing background and moving foreground of a video captured by a static or moving camera. Different from previous efforts which a...
Yuping Shen, Fei Lu, Xiaochun Cao, Hassan Foroosh
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Finding Text in Natural Scenes by Figure-Ground Segmentation
Much past research on finding text in natural scenes uses bottom-up grouping processes to detect candidate text features as a first processing step. While such grouping procedures...
Huiying Shen, James Coughlan
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Face Recognition Robust to Head Pose from One Sample Image
Most face recognition systems only work well under quite constrained environments. In particular, the illumination conditions, facial expressions and head pose must be tightly con...
Brian C. Lovell, Shaokang Chen, Ting Shan