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SIGMOD
2005
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 8 months ago
Query-Sensitive Embeddings
A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
Vassilis Athitsos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George...
FGR
2006
IEEE
179views Biometrics» more  FGR 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
Articulated Hand Tracking by PCA-ICA Approach
—This paper introduces a new representation of hand motions for tracking and recognizing hand-finger gestures in an image sequence. A human hand has many joints, for example our ...
Makoto Kato, Yen-Wei Chen, Gang Xu
CVPR
2005
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Identifying Semantically Equivalent Object Fragments
We describe a novel technique for identifying semantically equivalent parts in images belonging to the same object class, (e.g. eyes, license plates, aircraft wings etc.). The vis...
Boris Epshtein, Shimon Ullman
W2GIS
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
Alistair J. Edwardes, Ross S. Purves
PAMI
2008
250views more  PAMI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Combined Top-Down/Bottom-Up Segmentation
We construct an image segmentation scheme that combines top-down (TD) with bottom-up (BU) processing. In the proposed scheme, segmentation and recognition are intertwined rather th...
Eran Borenstein, Shimon Ullman