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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
SCIA
2005
Springer
186views Image Analysis» more  SCIA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Levelset and B-Spline Deformable Model Techniques for Image Segmentation: A Pragmatic Comparative Study
Deformable contours are now widely used in image segmentation, using different models, criteria and numeric schemes. Some theoretical comparisons between few deformable model met...
Diane Lingrand, Johan Montagnat
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
164views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
Semantic event detection for consumer photo and video collections
The automatic detection of semantic events in users’ image and video collections is an important technique for content management and retrieval. In this paper we propose a novel...
Wei Jiang, Alexander C. Loui
PAMI
2007
214views more  PAMI 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
2D Affine-Invariant Contour Matching Using B-Spline Model
—This paper presents a new affine-invariant matching algorithm based on B-Spline modeling, which solves the problem of the nonuniqueness of B-Spline in curve matching. This metho...
Yue Wang, Eam Khwang Teoh
CAIP
2007
Springer
101views Image Analysis» more  CAIP 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Target Positioning with Dominant Feature Elements
We propose a dominant-feature based matching method for capturing a target in a video sequence through the dynamic decomposition of the target template. The target template is segm...
Zhuan Qing Huang, Zhuhan Jiang