This paper presents a user-steered segmentation algorithm based on the livewire paradigm. Livewire is an image-feature driven method that finds the optimal path between user-selec...
Lauren O'Donnell, Carl-Fredrik Westin, W. Eric L. ...
In this paper, we present a new approach to extracting the target text line from a document image captured by a pen scanner. Given the binary image, a set of possible text lines a...
Aesthetics, in the world of art and photography, refers to the principles of the nature and appreciation of beauty. Judging beauty and other aesthetic qualities of photographs is a...
Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Ze Wan...
Rate shaping plays an important role in transmitting compressed video on a network with dynamic bandwidth. In this paper, we present a scheme for rate shaping JPEG/MPEG-precompres...
Content-based image retrieval methods based on the Euclidean metric expect the feature space to be isotropic. They suer from unequal dierential relevance of features in comput...