Abstract. Given an image, digital matting consists in extracting a foreground element from the background. Standard methods are initialized with a trimap, a partition of the image ...
Capturing detailed surface geometry currently requires specialized equipment such as laser range scanners, which despite their high accuracy, leave gaps in the surfaces that must ...
Mashhuda Glencross, Gregory J. Ward, Francho Melen...
Augmented Reality has now progressed to the point where real-time applications are being considered and needed. At the same time it is important that synthetic elements are render...
Lip reading provides useful information in speech perception and language understanding, especially when the auditory speech is degraded. However, many current automatic lip readi...
Uwe Meier, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Jie Yang, Alex Wai...
Three-dimensional (3D) image acquisition systems are rapidly becoming more affordable, especially systems based on commodity electronic cameras. At the same time, personal compute...