Abstract--Ear recognition, as a biometric, has several advantages. In particular, ears can be measured remotely and are also relatively static in size and structure for each indivi...
Cascades are a popular framework to speed up object detection systems. Here we focus on the first layers of a category independent object detection cascade in which we sample a l...
— In Handwritten Character Recognition, zoning is rigtly considered as one of the most effective feature extraction techniques. In the past, many zoning methods have been propose...
We propose semantic texton forests, efficient and powerful new low-level features. These are ensembles of decision trees that act directly on image pixels, and therefore do not ne...
In this paper, we present a patch-based regression framework for addressing the human age and head pose estimation problems. Firstly, each image is encoded as an ensemble of order...
Shuicheng Yan, Xi Zhou, Ming Liu, Mark Hasegawa-Jo...