Abstract. This work focuses on characterizing scenery images. We semantically divide the objects in natural landscape scenes into background and foreground and show that the shapes...
—In this paper, we propose a novel predictive model, active volume model (AVM), for object boundary extraction. It is a dynamic “object” model whose manifestation includes a ...
Human Visual attention (HVA) is an important strategy to focus on specific information while observing and understanding visual stimuli. HVA involves making a series of fixations ...
Harish Katti, Subramanian Ramanathan, Mohan S. Kan...
In this paper, we focus on the problem of detecting/
matching a query object in a given image. We propose a
new algorithm, shape band, which models an object within
a bandwidth ...
Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and Tec...
Maritime assets such as merchant and navy ships, ports, and harbors, are targets of terrorist attacks as evidenced by the USS Cole bombing. Conventional methods of securing maritim...