The use of salient regions is an increasingly popular approach to image retrieval. For situations where object retrieval is required and where the foreground and background can be ...
One of the fundamental challenges in designing an image retrieval system is choosing a method by which the images that match a given query are presented to the searcher. Traditiona...
In this paper, we propose a novel region-based active contour model for image segmentation with a variational level set formulation. By introducing a local binary fitting energy, ...
Chunming Li, Chiu-Yen Kao, John C. Gore, Zhaohua D...
We construct an image segmentation scheme that combines top-down (TD) with bottom-up (BU) processing. In the proposed scheme, segmentation and recognition are intertwined rather th...
—Illumination distortion due to uncontrolled lighting can severely degrade the color appearance of a photo. Frequently, the desired colors for objects in a newly taken query imag...
David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Gabriel Takacs...