Saliency is an important perceptual cue that occurs at different scales of resolution. Important attributes of saliency are symmetry, continuity, and closure. Detection of these a...
Bahram Parvin, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Qing Yan...
A feature extraction method using the chaincode representation of fingerprint ridge contours is presented for use by Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems. The representa...
Although the mechanisms of human visual understanding remain partially unclear, computational models inspired by existing knowledge on human vision have emerged and applied to seve...
Konstantinos Rapantzikos, Yannis S. Avrithis, Stef...
Abstract—Contour features play an important role in object recognition. Psychological experiments have shown that maximum-curvature points are most distinctive along a contour [6...
We propose a mesh segmentation algorithm via recursive bisection where at each step, a sub-mesh embedded in 3D is first spectrally projected into the plane and then a contour is ...