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CVPR
2011
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Auxiliary Visual Words Discovery for Large-Scale Image Object Retrieval
Image object retrieval – locating image occurrences of specific objects in large-scale image collections – is essential for manipulating the sheer amount of photos. Current s...
Yin-Hsi Kuo, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Wen-Huang Cheng, Yi-H...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Livenotes: a system for cooperative and augmented note-taking in lectures
We describe Livenotes, a shared whiteboard system and educational practice that uses wireless communication and tablet computing to support real-time conversations within small gr...
Matthew Kam, Jingtao Wang, Alastair Iles, Eric Tse...
ICIP
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Robust skin segmentation using neighborhood information
Skin detection or segmentation is employed in many tasks related to the detection and tracking of humans and human-body parts. However, skin detection is not robust enough for dea...
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Perceptual Distance Normalization for Appearance Detection
In this paper we develop a novel contrast-invariant appearance detection model. The goal is to classify object-specific images (e.g. face images) from generic background patches. ...
Allan D. Jepson, Chakra Chennubhotla
ICIP
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Extraction Of Contextual Information For Automotive Applications
In the near future automatic systems able to detect the traffic situation and to understand driver behavior and intent will probably become vehicles tool to improve driver safety....