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ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Scene Text Extraction with Edge Constraint and Text Collinearity
In this paper, we propose a framework for isolating text regions from natural scene images. The main algorithm has two functions: it generates text region candidates, and it veriï...
Seonghun Lee, Kyomin Jung, Jin Hyung Kim
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Perceived Age Estimation under Lighting Condition Change by Covariate Shift Adaptation
—Over the recent years, a great deal of effort has been made to age estimation from face images. It has been reported that age can be accurately estimated under controlled enviro...
Kazuya Ueki, Masashi Sugiyama, Yasuyuki Ihara
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Non-Parametric 3D Shape Warping
— A method is presented for non-rigid alignment of a source shape to a target shape through estimating and interpolating point-wise correspondences between their surfaces given a...
Ulrich Hillenbrand
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
PILL-ID: Matching and Retrieval of Drug Pill Imprint Images
—Automatic illicit drug pill matching and retrieval is becoming an important problem due to an increase in the number of tablet type illicit drugs being circulated in our society...
Young-Bum Lee, Unsang Park, Anil Jain
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Fast Multi-view Disparity Estimation for Multi-view Video Systems
Disparity estimation can be used to eliminate redundancy among different views in multi-view video compression to obtain high compression efficiency. However, the problem of high c...
Gangyi Jiang, Mei Yu, Feng Shao, You Yang, Haitao ...
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Constrained Region-Growing and Edge Enhancement Towards Automated Semantic Video Object Segmentation
Most existing object segmentation algorithms suffer from a so-called under-segmentation problem, where parts of the segmented object are missing and holes often occur inside the ob...
L. Gao, J. Jiang, S. Y. Yang
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Adaptative Road Lanes Detection and Classification
Abstract. This paper presents a Road Detection and Classification algorithm for Driver Assistance Systems (DAS), which tracks several road lanes and identifies the type of lane bou...
Juan Manuel Collado, Cristina Hilario, Arturo de l...
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Robust Analysis of Silhouettes by Morphological Size Distributions
We address the topic of real-time analysis and recognition of silhouettes. The method that we propose first produces object features obtained by a new type of morphological operato...
Olivier Barnich, Sébastien Jodogne, Marc Va...
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Context-Based Scene Recognition Using Bayesian Networks with Scale-Invariant Feature Transform
Scene understanding is an important problem in intelligent robotics. Since visual information is uncertain due to several reasons, we need a novel method that has robustness to the...
Seung-Bin Im, Sung-Bae Cho
ACIVS
2006
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Affine Epipolar Direction from Two Views of a Planar Contour
Most approaches to camera motion estimation from image sequences require matching the projections of at least 4 non-coplanar points in the scene. The case of points lying on a plan...
Maria Alberich-Carramiñana, Guillem Aleny&a...