Foveation principles suggested by natural vision systems enable the construction of a proper mask that may modulate the coefficients given by the Discrete Wavelet Transform of an ...
Lips segmentation is a very important step in many applications such as automatic speech reading, MPEG-4 compression, special effects, facial analysis and emotion recognition. In ...
Christian Bouvier, Pierre-Yves Coulon, Xavier Mald...
Blobworld is a system for image retrieval based on nding coherent image regions which roughly correspond to objects. Each image is automatically segmented into regions blobs"...
Chad Carson, Megan Thomas, Serge Belongie, Joseph ...
Region-based functionality offered by the MPEG-4 video compression standard is also appealing for still images, for example to permit object-based queries of a still-image database...
The compression of video can reduce the accuracy of tracking algorithms, which is problematic for centralized applications that rely on remotely captured and compressed video for ...
Eren Soyak, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Aggelos K. Kats...