Counting (identical) objects in images is a simple yet fundamental recognition task that requires exhaustive human effort. Automation of this task would reduce the human load sign...
Takumi Kobayashi, Tadaaki Hosaka, Shu Mimura, Taka...
Computer vision and pattern recognition systems play an important role in our lives by means of automated face detection, face and gesture recognition, and estimation of gender an...
Improving coding and spatial pooling for bag-of-words based feature design have gained a lot of attention in recent works addressing object recognition and scene classification. ...
This paper presents an Italic/Roman word type recognition system without a priori knowledge on the characters' font. This method aims at analyzing old documents in which char...
Visual dictionaries are widely employed in object recognition to map unordered bags of local region descriptors into feature vectors for image classification. Most visual dictiona...