JPEG2000 is a highly scalable compression standard, allowing access to image representations with a reduced resolution, a reduced quality or confined to a spatial region of intere...
Images are being produced and made available in ever increasing numbers; but how can we find images "like this one" that are of interest to us? Many different systems hav...
In low-resolution images, people at large distance appear very small and we may be interested in detecting the subject’s face for recognition or analysis. However, recent face de...
Abstract--Sparse representations of signals have drawn considerable interest in recent years. The assumption that natural signals, such as images, admit a sparse decomposition over...
There is currently much interest in the organization and content-based querying image databases. The usual hypothesis is that image similarity can be characterized evel features, ...