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ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
String Extraction From Color Airline Coupon Image Using Statistical Approach
A novel technique is presented in this paper to extract strings in color images of both Business Settlement Plan (BSP) and non-BSP airline coupon. The essential concept is to remo...
Yi Li, Zhiyan Wang, Haizan Zeng
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Usage of needle maps and shadows to overcome depth edges in depth map reconstruction
Photometric stereo is a method of recovering surface normals (needle map) from images. The surface integral of surface normals is used to reconstruct a depth map; however, the dep...
Koh Kakusho, Koki Hamada, Masaaki Iiyama, Michihik...
MICCAI
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Two-Level Approach Towards Semantic Colon Segmentation: Removing Extra-Colonic Findings
Abstract. Computer aided detection (CAD) of colonic polyps in computed tomographic colonography has tremendously impacted colorectal cancer diagnosis using 3D medical imaging. It i...
Le Lu, Matthias Wolf, Jianming Liang, Murat Dundar...
ICCV
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
What Characterizes a Shadow Boundary under the Sun and Sky?
Despite decades of study, robust shadow detection remains difficult, especially within a single color image. We describe a new approach to detect shadow boundaries in images of o...
Xiang Huang, Gang Hua, Jack Tumblin, Lance William...
ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
People identification using shadow dynamics
People identification has numerous applications, ranging from surveillance/security to robotics. Face and body movement/gait biometrics are the most important tools for this task....
Yumi Iwashita, Adrian Stoica, Ryo Kurazume