In order to index Web images, the whole associated texts are partitioned into a sequence of text blocks, then the local relevance of a term to the corresponding image is calculated...
In infrared astronomy, an observed image from a chop and nod process can be considered as the result of passing the original image through a highpass filter. Here we propose a rest...
Jian-Feng Cai, Raymond H. Chan, Lixin Shen, Zuowei...
In this paper, we propose a new technique to perform figure-ground segmentation in image sequences of moving objects under varying illumination conditions. Unlike most of the alg...
Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris...
We consider the problem of detecting object contours in natural images. In many cases, local luminance changes turn out to be stronger in textured areas than on object contours. Th...
The peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications are becoming increasingly popular and account for more than 70% of the Internet's bandwidth usage. Measurement studies show th...