Ear detection from a profile face image is an important step in many applications including biometric recognition. But accurate and rapid detection of the ear for real-time appli...
Syed M. S. Islam, Mohammed Bennamoun, Rowan Davies
Image data is as common as textual data in this digital world. There is an urgent demand of image management tools as efficient as those text search engines. Decades of research on...
The classification of general-purpose photographs into textured and non-textured images is critical for developing accurate content-based image retrieval systems for large-scale i...
Content-based image retrieval plays an important role in many multimedia applications. Images are typically retrieved based on a given sample image, a sketch or a simple descripti...
This paper summarizes our empirical study of cross-language and cross-media image retrieval at the CLEF image retrieval track (ImageCLEF2007). In this year, we participated in the ...