It is a challenging and important task to retrieve images from a large and highly varied image data set based on their visual contents. Problems like how to fill the semantic gap b...
The usefulness of a video database relies on whether the video of interest can be easily located. To allow exploring, browsing, and retrieving videos according to their visual con...
Yap-Peng Tan, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Peter J. Ramadg...
The compression of video can reduce the accuracy of post-compression tracking algorithms. This is problematic for centralized applications such as traffic surveillance systems, wh...
Eren Soyak, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Aggelos K. Kats...
See www.research.microsoft.com/jojic/epitome.htm for videos, comparisons and applications. We present novel simple appearance and shape models that we call epitomes. The epitome o...
This paper presents a new technique for rendering bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) at different levels of detail (LODs). Our method first decomposes each BTF image into mul...