A Question Answering (QA) system aims to return exact answers to natural language questions. While today information retrieval techniques are quite successful at locating within l...
Abstract. Being able to find the silhouette of an object is a very important front-end processing step for many high-level computer vision techniques, such as Shape-from-Silhouette...
Abstract— This paper describes a method for removing adherent noises from image sequences. In outdoor environments, it is often the case that scenes taken by a camera are deterio...
In this paper, a method for extracting influences of specular reflection and shade from multiple color images is described. As regards extraction, the di-chromatic reflection mode...
Local features are widely used for content-based image retrieval and object recognition. We present an efficient method for encoding digital images suitable for local feature extr...
Mina Makar, Chuo-Ling Chang, David M. Chen, Sam S....