Visual data comprises of multi-scale and inhomogeneous signals. In this paper, we exploit these characteristics and develop an adaptive data approximation technique based on a hie...
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for document image binarization. The proposed method is mainly based on the combination of several stateof-the-art binarization methodo...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...
A feature extraction method using the chaincode representation of fingerprint ridge contours is presented for use by Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems. The representa...
Holistic representations of natural scenes are an effective and powerful source of information for semantic classification and analysis of arbitrary images. Recently, the frequenc...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...
A new method for noise reduction using spatiotemporal smoothing is presented in this paper. The method is developed especially for reducing the noise that arises when acquiring vi...