CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Inspired by Weber's Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that human percept...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
We propose a new method to partition an unlabeled dataset, called Discriminative Context Partitioning (DCP). It is motivated by the idea of splitting the dataset based only on how...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Spatial priors play crucial roles in many high-level vision tasks, e.g. scene understanding. Usually, learning spatial priors relies on training a structured output model. In this...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper, we address the problem of classifying image sets, each of which contains images belonging to the same class but covering large variations in, for instance, viewpoin...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Periodicity is at the core of the recognition of many actions. This paper takes the following steps to detect and measure periodicity. 1) We establish a conceptual framework of cl...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Segmenting arbitrary unions of linear subspaces is an important tool for computer vision tasks such as motion and image segmentation, SfM or object recognition. We segment subspac...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Spatial pyramid matching (SPM) is a simple yet effective approach to compute similarity between images. Similarity kernels at different regions and scales are usually fused by som...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a novel graph based clustering approach with satisfactory clustering performance and low computational cost. It consists of two main steps: tree fitting...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
The spatial distribution of fingerprint minutiae is a core problem in the fingerprint individuality study, the cornerstone of the fingerprint authentication technology. Previously...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
We propose a shape population metric that reflects the interdependencies between points observed in a set of examples. It provides a notion of topology for shape and appearance m...