Preserving topological properties of objects during thinning procedures is an important issue in the field of image analysis. In the case of 2-D digital images (i.e. images defi...
Visual search connects physical (offline) objects with (online) digital media. Using objects from the environment, like newspapers, magazines, books and posters, we can retrieve s...
Jamey Graham, Jorge Moraleda, Jonathan J. Hull, Ti...
We define a novel metric on the space of closed planar curves which decomposes into three intuitive components. According to this metric centroid translations, scale changes and ...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Andrea Mennucci, Stefano So...
Light spectroscopic methods are critical to advances in molecular characterization of disease processes. However, these methods have been limited to in-vitro or cell culture studi...
David Hattery, Moinuddin Hassan, Stavros Demos, Am...
When designing computer vision systems for the blind and visually impaired it is important to determine the orientation of the user relative to the scene. We observe that most ind...