This paper presents an efficient and homogeneous paradigm for automatic acquisition and recognition of nonparametric shapes. Acquisition time varies from linear to cubic in the nu...
In the design of multimedia systems, one of the important issues is how to deal with "Kansei" of human beings. The concept of "Kansei" in Japanese includes sev...
Numerous raster maps are available on the Internet, but the geographic coordinates of the maps are often unknown. In order to determine the precise location of a raster map, we ex...
Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock, Ching-Chien Chen
Abstract— Mobile robots rely on their ability of scene recognition to build a topological map of the environment and perform location-related tasks. In this paper, we describe a ...
We present a novel human posture recognition method using convex programming based matching schemes. Instead of trying to segment the object from the background, we develop a nove...