Skin segmentation is the cornerstone of many applications such as gesture recognition, face detection, and objectionable image filtering. In this paper, we attempt to address the ...
Junwei Han, George Awad, Alistair Sutherland, Hai ...
Skeletonization algorithms typically decompose an object’s
silhouette into a set of symmetric parts, offering a
powerful representation for shape categorization. However,
havi...
Alex Levinshtein, Sven Dickinson, Cristian Sminchi...
In this paper, an unsupervised learning algorithm, neighborhood linear embedding (NLE), is proposed to discover the intrinsic structures such as neighborhood relationships, global ...
Shuzhi Sam Ge, Feng Guan, Yaozhang Pan, Ai Poh Loh
In this paper, an image retrieval methodology suited for search in large collections of heterogeneous images is presented. The proposed approach employs a fully unsupervised segme...
Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Michael G...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...