During last years, local image descriptors have received much attention because of their efficiency for several computer vision tasks such as image retrieval, image comparison, fea...
Linear and affine subspaces are commonly used to describe appearance of objects under different lighting, viewpoint, articulation, and identity. A natural problem arising from the...
Shape indexing is a way of making rapid associations between features detected in an image and object models that could have produced them. When model databases are large, the use...
Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
Given some of the recent advances in Distributed Hash Table (DHT) based Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems we ask the following questions: Are there applications where unstructured querie...