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BMVC
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A Qualitative, Multi-scale Grammar For Image Description and Analysis
A qualitative image description grammar with automatic image fitting and object modelling algorithms is presented. The grammar is based on assigning a square sub-region of an imag...
Derek R. Magee
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
TINA 2001: The Closed Loop 3D Model Matcher
This paper discusses advances made to the 3D geometrical model matching system within the TINA machine vision environment over the last 10 years including the recent inclusion of ...
A. J. Lacey, Neil A. Thacker, Patrick Courtney, St...
BMVC
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Face Verification Algorithms using Appearance Models
Statistical models of shape and appearance have been successfully used in face modeling, tracking and synthesis. In this paper we describe experiments using appearance models for ...
H. Kang, Timothy F. Cootes, Christopher J. Taylor
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical Combination of Object Models using Mutual Information
Combining different and complementary object models promises to increase the robustness and generality of today’s computer vision algorithms. This paper introduces a new method ...
Hannes Kruppa, Bernt Schiele
BMVC
2002
13 years 11 months ago
g-HDAF Multiresolution Deformable Models for Shape Modeling and Reconstruction
In this paper, we construct a new class of deformable models using new biorthogonal wavelets, named Generalized Hermite Distributed Approximating Functional (g-HDAF) Wavelets. The...
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Emmanuel Papadakis, Lixin S...
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Illumination technique for optical dynamic range compression and offset reduction
This paper presents a novel illumination technique for image processing in environmentswhich are characterized by large intensity fluctuations and hence a high optical dynamic ra...
C. Koch, S.-B. Park, Tim J. Ellis, A. Georgiadis
BMVC
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Detecting Planes In An Uncalibrated Image Pair
Plane detection is a prerequisite to a wide variety of vision tasks. This paper proposes a novel method that exploits results from projective geometry to automatically detect plan...
Manolis I. A. Lourakis, Antonis A. Argyros, Stelio...
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Tracking Mammographic Structures Over Time
A method to correspond linear structures in mammographic images is presented. Our approach is based on automatically establishing correspondence between linear structures which ap...
Robert Marti, Reyer Zwiggelaar, Caroline M. E. Rub...
BMVC
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous Tracking of Both Hands by Estimation of Erroneous Observations
The articulate motion of the hand makes it very difficult to track the hands while performing a gesture. Simultaneous tracking of both hands needs to deal with large interframe v...
James P. Mammen, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Tushar Agrawa...
BMVC
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Real-time gesture recognition using deterministic boosting
A gesture recognition system which can reliably recognize single-hand gestures in real time on a 600Mhz notebook computer is described. The system has a vocabulary of 46 gestures ...
Raymond Lockton, Andrew W. Fitzgibbon