Real-world face recognition systems are sometimes confronted with degraded face images, e.g., low-resolution, blurred, and noisy ones. Traditional two-step methods have limited per...
Online auction Web sites are fast changing, highly dynamic, and complex as they involve tremendous sellers and potential buyers, as well as a huge amount of items listed for biddi...
We present the Conformal Embedding Analysis (CEA) for feature extraction and dimensionality reduction. Incorporating both conformal mapping and discriminating analysis, CEA projec...
In this paper, we deal with the estimation of body and head poses (i.e orientations) in surveillance videos, and we make three main contributions. First, we address this issue as ...
The performance of graph based clustering methods critically depends on the quality of the distance function, used to compute similarities between pairs of neighboring nodes. In t...