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CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Bilayer Segmentation of Live Video
This paper presents an algorithm capable of real-time separation of foreground from background in monocular video sequences. Automatic segmentation of layers from colour/contrast ...
Antonio Criminisi, Geoffrey Cross, Andrew Blake, V...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Element-Free Elastic Models for Volume Fitting and Capture
We present a new method of fitting an element-free volumetric model to a sequence of deforming surfaces of a moving object. Given a sequence of visual hulls, we iteratively fit an...
Jaeil Choi, Andrzej Szymczak, Greg Turk, Irfan A. ...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Composite Templates for Cloth Modeling and Sketching
Cloth modeling and recognition is an important and challenging problem in both vision and graphics tasks, such as dressed human recognition and tracking, human sketch and portrait...
Hong Chen, Zijian Xu, Ziqiang Liu, Song Chun Zhu
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Mesostructure from Specularity
We describe a simple and robust method for surface mesostructure acquisition. Our method builds on the observation that specular reflection is a reliable visual cue for surface me...
Tongbo Chen, Michael Goesele, Hans-Peter Seidel
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Graph Laplacian Kernels for Object Classification from a Single Example
Classification with only one labeled example per class is a challenging problem in machine learning and pattern recognition. While there have been some attempts to address this pr...
Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Searching Off-line Arabic Documents
Currently an abundance of historical manuscripts, journals, and scientific notes remain largely unaccessible in library archives. Manual transcription and publication of such docu...
Jim Chan, Celal Ziftci, David A. Forsyth
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Vertical Parallax from Moving Shadows
This paper presents a method for capturing and computing 3D parallax. 3D parallax, as used here, refers to vertical offset from the ground plane, height. The method is based on an...
Yaron Caspi, Michael Werman
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Acceleration Strategies for Gaussian Mean-Shift Image Segmentation
Gaussian mean-shift (GMS) is a clustering algorithm that has been shown to produce good image segmentations (where each pixel is represented as a feature vector with spatial and r...
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Structure from Motion with Known Camera Positions
The wide availability of GPS sensors is changing the landscape in the applications of structure from motion techniques for localization. In this paper, we study the problem of est...
Rodrigo L. Carceroni, Ankita Kumar, Kostas Daniili...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 4 days ago
Modeling and Classifying Breast Tissue Density in Mammograms
We present a new approach to model and classify breast parenchymal tissue. Given a mammogram, first, we will discover the distribution of the different tissue densities in an unsu...
Anna Bosch, Arnau Oliver, Joan Martí, Xavie...