With the popularity of "bag of visual terms" representations of images, many text indexing techniques have been applied in large-scale image retrieval systems. However, ...
Xiao Zhang, Zhiwei Li, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma, Heu...
A robust segmentation is the most important part of an automatic character recognition system (e.g. document processing, license plate recognition etc.). In our contribution we pr...
A robust character region identification approach is proposed here to deal with cover images using a differential top-hat transformation (DTT). The DTT is derived from morphologica...
A histogram-based method for the interpretation of three-dimensional (3D) point clouds is introduced, where point clouds represent the surface of a scene of multiple objects and ba...
In this paper we address the problem of detecting shots of subjects that are interviewed in news sequences. This is useful since usually these kinds of scenes contain important an...