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FOCS
1993
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An On-Line Algorithm for Improving Performance in Navigation
We consider the following scenario. A point robot is placed at some start location ¡ in a 2dimensional scene containing oriented rectangular obstacles. The robot must repeatedly ...
Avrim Blum, Prasad Chalasani
COMPGEOM
2003
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Polygon decomposition based on the straight line skeleton
We propose a novel type of decomposition for polygonal shapes. It is thought that, for the task of object recognition, the human visual system uses a part-based representation. De...
Mirela Tanase, Remco C. Veltkamp
FGR
2004
IEEE
231views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
A Boosted Classifier Tree for Hand Shape Detection
The ability to detect a persons unconstrained hand in a natural video sequence has applications in sign language, gesture recognition and HCI. This paper presents a novel, unsuper...
Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden
MM
2005
ACM
215views Multimedia» more  MM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
OpenVIDIA: parallel GPU computer vision
Graphics and vision are approximate inverses of each other: ordinarily Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are used to convert “numbers into pictures” (i.e. computer graphics). I...
James Fung, Steve Mann
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient position-independent iconic search using an R-theta index
An iconic image database is a collection of symbolic images where each image is a collection of labeled point features called icons. A method is presented to support fast position...
Charles Ben Cranston, Hanan Samet