Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...
A combination of query-by-visual-example (QBVE) and semantic retrieval (SR), denoted as query-by-semantic-example (QBSE), is proposed. Images are labeled with respect to a vocabula...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos, Pedro J. Moren...
We propose a novel approach to improve the distinctiveness of local image features without significantly affecting their robustness with respect to image deformations. Local image...
This paper addresses the general 3-D rigid motion problem, where the point correspondences and the motion parameters between two sets of 3-D points are to be recovered. The existe...
Xiaoguang Wang, Yong-Qing Cheng, Robert T. Collins...
Most illuminant estimation algorithms work with the assumption of one specific type of the light source (e.g. point light source or directional light source). This assumption brin...