Abstract. One of the most widely applied techniques to deal with multiclass categorization problems is the pairwise voting procedure. Recently, this classical approach has been emb...
Abstract—A visual appearance of natural materials fundamentally depends on illumination conditions, which significantly complicates a real scene analysis. We propose textural fe...
This paper proposes an efficient skin-color and template based technique for automatic ear detection in a side face image. The technique first separates skin regions from nonski...
Abstract. This paper presents a method to decompose a field of surface normals (needle-map). A diffusion process is used to model the flow of height information induced by a fi...
Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality prints is t...
Sharat Chikkerur, Venu Govindaraju, Alexander N. C...