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CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Celtic Knots Colorization based on Color Harmony Principles
This paper proposes two simple and powerful algorithms to automatically paint Celtic knots with aesthetic colors. The shape of the knot is generated from its dual graph as present...
Caroline Larboulette
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Poetics of Simulation for Audiovisual Performance
Audiovisual performance is a fertile area for creative expression, an intersection of experimental cinema and computer music that has seen a groundswell of interest in recent year...
Randy Jones
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
An Information-Theoretic Ambient Occlusion
Ambient occlusion is a powerful technique that mimics indirect global illumination at a fraction of the cost. In this paper, we introduce a new ambient occlusion technique based o...
Francisco González, Mateu Sbert, Miquel Fei...
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Aesthetics of Graph Visualization
The discipline of graph visualization produces pictorial representations of node
Chris Bennett, Jody Ryall, Leo Spalteholz, Amy Goo...
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Bridge Project
Elif E. Ayiter
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Extracting the Essence from Sets of Images
We use a set of photographs showing similar scenes as a model for a single photograph this scene. A distance measure for this model is defined by correlating the neigborhoods of p...
Marc Alexa
CAE
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Aesthetics of Hand-Drawn vs. Computer-Generated Stippling
Recent work in non-photorealistic rendering has produced results comparable to hand-drawn artistic images. Inspiration for such techniques has come from many traditional artistic ...
Ross Maciejewski, Tobias Isenberg, William M. Andr...
SPIEVIP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Unconstrained license plate detection using the Hausdorff distance
This paper reports on a new technique for unconstrained license plate detection in a surveillance context. The proposed algorithm quickly finds license plates by performing the fo...
Marc Lalonde, Samuel Foucher, Langis Gagnon
SPIEVIP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Hyperspectral image segmentation, deblurring, and spectral analysis for material identification
An important aspect of spectral image analysis is identification of materials present in the object or scene being imaged. Enabling technologies include image enhancement, segment...
Fang Li, Michael K. Ng, Robert J. Plemmons, Sudhak...
SPIEVIP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic scene activity modeling for improving object classification
In video surveillance, automatic methods for scene understanding and activity modeling can exploit the high redundancy of object trajectories observed over a long period of time. ...
Samuel Foucher, Marc Lalonde, Langis Gagnon