Evaluation in visual information retrieval is usually performed by executing test queries and calculating recall and precision based on predefined media collections and ground tru...
With inspiration from psychophysical researches of the human visual system we propose a novel method for performance evaluation of contour based shape recognition algorithms. We u...
Delivering digitally a realistic appearance of materials is one of the most difficult tasks of computer vision. Accurate representation of surface texture can be obtained by means ...
The Visual Thesaurus is a new query approach when no starting image is available. It is a concise representation of all similar regions in a panel of visual patches; the user arra...
—CENTRIST (CENsus TRansform hISTogram), a new visual descriptor for recognizing topological places or scene categories, is introduced in this paper. We show that place and scene ...