In this paper we present WINDSURF (Wavelet-Based Indexing of Images Using Region Fragmentation), a new approach to content-based image retrieval. The method uses the wavelet trans...
Stefania Ardizzoni, Ilaria Bartolini, Marco Patell...
A method for color indexing is proposed that is based upon nonparametric statistical techniques. Nonparametrics compare the ordinal rankings of sample populations, and maintain the...
This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for solving the matting problem, i.e. extracting a foreground element from a background image by estimating an opacity for each pixel ...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Rich...
The study presented in this paper analyses descriptions extracted with MPEG-7-descriptors from visual content from the statistical point of view. Good descriptors should generate ...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new salient object segmentation method, which is based on combining a saliency measure with a conditional random field (CRF) model. The propo...
Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala, Mikko Salo, Janne Heikkil...