We propose a real-time retrieval method for document images in various languages. In this method, queries are images of documents captured by a web-camera. The document images cor...
Human-area segmentation is a major issue in video surveillance. Many existing methods estimate individual human areas from the foreground area obtained by background subtraction, ...
Abstract-- We aim for content-based image retrieval of textured objects in natural scenes under varying illumination and viewing conditions. To achieve this, image retrieval is bas...
We introduce a novel invertible transform for two-dimensional data which has the objective of reordering the matrix so it will improve its (lossless) compression at later stages. T...
This paper presents the first participation of the University of Ottawa group in the Photo Retrieval task at Image CLEF 2008. Our system uses Lucene for text indexing and LIRE for ...