Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality prints is t...
Sharat Chikkerur, Venu Govindaraju, Alexander N. C...
Classifying pictures into one of several semantic categories is a classical image understanding problem. In this paper, we present a stratified approach to both binary (outdoor-in...
This paper investigates novel LBP-guided active contour approaches to texture segmentation. The Local Binary Pattern (LBP) operator is well suited for texture representation, comb...
Michalis A. Savelonas, Dimitrios K. Iakovidis, Dim...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how to efficiently and effectively extract a rich class of low-rank textures in a 3D scene from 2D images despite significant distortion and warpin...
This paper presents a system that detects humans climbing fences. After extracting a binary blob contour, the system models the human with an extended star-skeleton representation...