Content based image retrieval (CBIR) has been well studied in the computer vision and multimedia community. Content free image retrieval (CFIR) methods, and their complementary cha...
Histograms of orientations and the statistics derived from them have proven to be effective image representations for various recognition tasks. In this work we attempt to improve...
Abstract. The scale invariant property of an ensemble of natural images is examined which motivates a new early visual representation termed the higher order pyramid. The represent...
This paper presents a new Sobel-LBP, an extension of existing Local Binary Pattern (LBP), for facial image representation. The face image is filtered by Sobel operator to enhance ...
We use a simple modification to a conventional SLR camera to capture images of several hundred scenes in colour (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR). We show that the addition of near-i...