Images secured from an astronomical telescope usually suffer from blur and from interference that scientists refer to as ``noise''. Therefore, good image restoration tec...
Night surveillance is a challenging task because of low brightness, low contrast, low Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and low appearance information. Most existing models for night su...
We present an appearance-based user interface for artists to efficiently design customized image-based lighting environments. 1 Our approach avoids typical iterations of paramete...
Makoto Okabe, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Li Shen, Takeo ...
The appearance of a rough surface is affected by the direction from which it is lit and texture classifiers should account for this. We propose a classifier that is robust to ligh...
Mike J. Chantler, Ged McGunnigle, A. Penirschke, M...
The advantages of object-oriented (OO) programming are well-known. Nevertheless, distributed OO middleware systems (OOM) such as CORBA, DCOM or Java RMI have not been widely adopt...