In the Shape from Shading methods, an extended approach named Uni-directional Photometric Flow Fields is proposed in this paper. The reflectance property of the surface material i...
We consider regions of images that exhibit smooth statistics, and pose the question of characterizing
the “essence” of these regions that matters for visual recognition. Ideal...
Ganesh Sundaramoorthi (UCLA), Peter Petersen (UCLA...
Many of the recently popular shape based category recognition methods require stable, connected and labeled edges as input. This paper introduces a novel method to find the most st...
Michael Donoser, Hayko Riemenschneider and Horst B...
As camera resolution increases, high-speed non-contact text capture through a digital camera is opening up a new channel for text capture and understanding. Unfortunately, the cap...
Weighted graph matching is a good way to align a pair of shapes represented by a set of descriptive local features; the set of correspondences produced by the minimum cost matchin...