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CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Generic Face Alignment using Boosted Appearance Model
This paper proposes a discriminative framework for efficiently aligning images. Although conventional Active Appearance Models (AAM)-based approaches have achieved some success, t...
Xiaoming Liu 0002
ISPD
2005
ACM
249views Hardware» more  ISPD 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
APlace: a general analytic placement framework
We streamline and extend APlace, the general analytic placement engine based on ideas of Naylor et al. [7] and described in [3, 4, 5]. Previous work explored the adaptability of A...
Andrew B. Kahng, Sherief Reda, Qinke Wang
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Wavelet encoding of BRDFs for real-time rendering
Acquired data often provides the best knowledge of a material’s bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). Its integration into most real-time rendering systems re...
Luc Claustres, Loïc Barthe, Mathias Paulin
CIMAGING
2009
265views Hardware» more  CIMAGING 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-object segmentation using coupled nonparametric shape and relative pose priors
We present a new method for multi-object segmentation in a maximum a posteriori estimation framework. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighboring or coupling objec...
Mustafa Gökhan Uzunbas, Octavian Soldea, M&uu...
TSP
2008
173views more  TSP 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Gaussian Mixture Modeling by Exploiting the Mahalanobis Distance
In this paper, the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for Gaussian mixture modeling is improved via three statistical tests. The first test is a multivariate normality criteri...
Dimitrios Ververidis, Constantine Kotropoulos