We compare in this study two image restoration approaches for the pre-processing of printed documents: namely the Non-local Means filter and a total variation minimization approac...
Specular flow is an important class of optical flow whose utility in visual tasks has gained much interest in contemporary vision research. Unfortunately, however, reliably estima...
Nearest neighbor queries are important in many settings, including spatial databases (Find the k closest cities) and multimedia databases (Find the k most similar images). Previou...
Gaussian blurring mean-shift (GBMS) is a nonparametric clustering algorithm, having a single bandwidth parameter that controls the number of clusters. The algorithm iteratively sh...
Google’s project to digitize five of the world's greatest libraries will dramatically extend their search engine reach in the future. Current search-engine philosophy, which...