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CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Resolving the Generalized Bas-Relief Ambiguity by Entropy Minimization
It is well known in the photometric stereo literature that uncalibrated photometric stereo, where light source strength and direction are unknown, can recover the surface geometry...
Neil G. Alldrin, Satya P. Mallick, David J. Kriegm...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Real-Time License Plate Recognition on an Embedded DSP-Platform
In this paper we present a full-featured license plate detection and recognition system. The system is implemented on an embedded DSP platform and processes a video stream in real...
Clemens Arth, Florian Limberger, Horst Bischof
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Estimating Scale of a Scene from a Single Image Based on Defocus Blur and Scene Geometry
Using an imaging system in which the image plane can be tilted with respect to the optical axis of the lens, the image of a large-scale scene that appears to be a miniature to hum...
Takayuki Okatani, Koichiro Deguchi
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Global Optimization for Shape Fitting
We propose a global optimization framework for 3D shape reconstruction from sparse noisy 3D measurements frequently encountered in range scanning, sparse featurebased stereo, and ...
Victor S. Lempitsky, Yuri Boykov
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
P3 & Beyond: Solving Energies with Higher Order Cliques
In this paper we extend the class of energy functions for which the optimal -expansion and -swap moves can be computed in polynomial time. Specifically, we introduce a class of hi...
Pushmeet Kohli, M. Pawan Kumar, Philip H. S. Torr
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Robust Metric Reconstruction from Challenging Video Sequences
Although camera self-calibration and metric reconstruction have been extensively studied during the past decades, automatic metric reconstruction from long video sequences with va...
Guofeng Zhang, Xueying Qin, Wei Hua, Tien-Tsin Won...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Tracking Large Variable Numbers of Objects in Clutter
We propose statistical data association techniques for visual tracking of enormously large numbers of objects. We do not assume any prior knowledge about the numbers involved, and...
Margrit Betke, Diane E. Hirsh, Angshuman Bagchi, N...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
A Multi-Scale Tikhonov Regularization Scheme for Implicit Surface Modelling
Kernel machines have recently been considered as a promising solution for implicit surface modelling. A key challenge of machine learning solutions is how to fit implicit shape mo...
Jianke Zhu, Steven C. H. Hoi, Michael R. Lyu
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Discriminant Additive Tangent Spaces for Object Recognition
Pattern variation is a major factor that affects the performance of recognition systems. In this paper, a novel manifold tangent modeling method called Discriminant Additive Tange...
Liang Xiong, Jianguo Li, Changshui Zhang
CVPR
2007
IEEE
15 years 5 days ago
Skin Detail Analysis for Face Recognition
This paper presents a novel framework to localize in a photograph prominent irregularities in facial skin, in particular nevi (moles, birthmarks). Their characteristic configurati...
Jean-Sebastien Pierrard, Thomas Vetter