In this paper we present an improved Active Shape Model (ASM) for facial features extraction. The original ASM developed by Cootes et al. [1] suffers from factors such as, poor mod...
Mohammad H. Mahoor, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, A-Nass...
Uploading tourist photos is a popular activity on photo sharing platforms. These photographs and their associated metadata (tags, geo-tags, and temporal information) should be use...
Surveys are an important part of marketing and customer relationship management, and open answers (i.e., answers to open questions) in particular may contain valuable information ...
There is a significant need to extract and analyse the text in images on Web documents, for effective indexing, semantic analysis and even presentation by non-visual means (e.g....
In many situations, individuals or groups of individuals are faced with the need to examine sets of documents to achieve understanding of their structure and to locate relevant in...
Alneu de Andrade Lopes, Roberto Pinho, Fernando Vi...