One of the first steps of any visual system is that of locating suitable interest points, ‘salient regions’, in the scene, to detect events, and eventually to direct gaze towa...
Objects in the world can be arranged into a hierarchy based on their semantic meaning (e.g. organism ? animal ? feline ? cat). What about defining a hierarchy based on the visual ...
Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Andrew Zisserman, W...
We describe a vision system that monitors activity in a site over extended periods of time. The system uses a distributed set of sensors to cover the site, and an adaptive tracker...
W. Eric L. Grimson, Chris Stauffer, R. Romano, L. ...
Most current image retrieval systems and commercial search engines use mainly text annotations to index and retrieve WWW images. This research explores the use of machine learning...
In this paper, we address the problem of automatically detecting and tracking a variable number of persons in complex
scenes using a monocular, potentially moving, uncalibrated ca...
Michael D. Breitenstein, Fabian Reichlin, Bastian ...