The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiven...
Savvas A. Chatzichristofis, Konstantinos Zagoris, ...
In this paper we address the problem of image retrieval from millions of database images. We improve the vocabulary tree based approach by introducing contextual weighting of loca...
Xiaoyu Wang, Ming Yang, Timothee Cour, Shenghuo Zh...
This paper presents a real-time face detection algorithm. It improves state-of-the-art 2D object detection techniques by additionally evaluating a disparity map, which is estimate...
This paper studies joint security and robustness enhancement of quantization based data embedding for multimedia authentication applications. We present analysis showing that thro...
Stripes are common sub-structures of text characters, and the scale of these stripes varies little within a word. This scale consistency thus provides us with a useful feature for...