Abstract. In this paper, we present an image retrieval system that employs both the color and spatial information of images to facilitate the retrieval process. The basic unit used...
Abstract—This paper introduces a novel examplar-based inpainting algorithm through investigating the sparsity of natural image patches. Two novel concepts of sparsity at the patc...
—Patch-based face recognition is a recent method which uses the idea of analyzing face images locally, in order to reduce the effects of illumination changes and partial occlusio...
This paper proposes a new hybrid handwritten signature verification system where the on-line reference data acquired through a digitizing tablet serves as the basis for the segmen...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...