This paper introduces “Flocks of Features,” a fast tracking method for non-rigid and highly articulated objects such as hands. It combines KLT features and a learned foregroun...
Abstract. Even a relatively unstructured captioned image set depicting a variety of objects in cluttered scenes contains strong correlations between caption words and repeated visu...
In this paper, we propose a new object detection method that does not need a learning mechanism. Given a hand-drawn model as a query, we can detect and locate objects that are sim...
Chih-Wen Su, Mark Liao, Yu-Ming Liang, Hsiao-Rong ...
Visual recognition faces the difficult problem of recognizing objects despite the multitude of their appearances. Ample neuroscientific evidence shows that the cortex uses a topogr...
In this paper we consider the task of matching patterns, as occur in hand-drawn symbols and schematic diagrams, by their parts and relationships. Of particular interest for comput...