Variations in illumination can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of an object in an image. In this paper, we propose how to deal with illumination variations in eigenspace ...
When building an application that requires object class recognition, having enough data to learn from is critical for good performance, and can easily determine the success or fai...
We present a fast and efficient geometric re-ranking method that can be incorporated in a feature based image-based retrieval system that utilizes a Vocabulary Tree (VT). We form ...
Sam S. Tsai, David Chen, Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Cha...
Abstract—Contour features play an important role in object recognition. Psychological experiments have shown that maximum-curvature points are most distinctive along a contour [6...
In this chapter, we aim to connect the areas of object categorization and figure-ground segmentation. We present a novel method for the categorization of unfamiliar objects in diff...