In this paper we present a symmetry-based approach which can be used to detect humans and to extract biometric characteristics from video image-sequences. The method employs a simp...
Image-based object modeling has emerged as an important computer vision application. Typically, the process starts with the acquisition of the image views of an object. These view...
—This paper presents an Improved Snake Model (ISM) effective for performing fast image segmentation. The work takes advantage of two well-known snake models of Balloon [1] and GG...
In this paper, we address two closely related visual tracking problems: 1) localizing a target's position in low or moderate resolution videos and 2) segmenting a target'...
For the conventional downscaling video transcoder. the video server would be to first decompress the video, perform the downscaling operation in the pixel domain. and then recompr...