—Extracting a signature from a check with patterned background is a thorny problem in image segmentation. Methods based on threshold techniques often necessitate meticulous postp...
We are interested in a general alpha matting approach for the simultaneous extraction of multiple image layers; each layer may have disjoint segments for material matting not limi...
Our group within the University of Amsterdam participated in the large-scale visual concept detection task of ImageCLEF 2009. Our experiments focus on increasing the robustness of...
Koen E. A. van de Sande, Theo Gevers, Arnold W. M....
We present a region-based active contour detection algorithm
for objects that exhibit relatively homogeneous photometric
characteristics (e.g. smooth color or gray levels),
embe...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi, Stefano Soatto, Anthony Yez...
Coronary angiography has become an important tool in modern medicine by providing an additional modality for heart disease diagnostics. Even though the recorded images (or image s...
Istvan Nagy, Alois Knoll, Robert Bauernschmitt, Ev...