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CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Globally Optimal Data-Driven Approach for Image Distortion Estimation
Image alignment in the presence of non-rigid distortions is a challenging task. Typically, this involves estimating the parameters of a dense deformation field that warps a disto...
Yuandong Tian, Srinivasa Narasimhan
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Morphable Reflectance Fields for Enhancing Face Recognition
In this paper, we present a novel framework to address the confounding effects of illumination variation in face recognition. By augmenting the gallery set with realistically re...
Ritwik Kumar, Michael Jones, Tim Marks
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
SPEC Hashing: Similarity Preserving algorithm for Entropy-based Coding
Searching approximate nearest neighbors in large scale high dimensional data set has been a challenging problem. This paper presents a novel and fast algorithm for learning binary...
Ruei-Sung Lin, David Ross, Jay Yagnik
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Efficiently Selecting Regions for Scene Understanding
Recent advances in scene understanding and related tasks have highlighted the importance of using regions to reason about high-level scene structure. Typically, the regions are ...
M. Pawan Kumar, Daphne Koller
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Data Fusion through Cross-modality Metric Learning using Similarity-Sensitive Hashing
Visual understanding is often based on measuring similarity between observations. Learning similarities specific to a certain perception task from a set of examples has been show...
Michael Bronstein, Alexander Bronstein, Nikos Para...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
3D Shape Scanning with a Time-of-Flight Camera
We describe a method for 3D object scanning by aligning depth scans that were taken from around an object with a time-of-flight camera. These ToF cameras can measure depth scans ...
Christian Theobalt, Yan Cui, Sebastian Schuon, Seb...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Diffusion Approach to Seeded Image Segmentation
Seeded image segmentation is a popular type of supervised image segmentation in computer vision and image processing. Previous methods of seeded image segmentation treat the image...
Juyong Zhang, Jianmin Zheng, Jianfei Cai
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Unified Real-Time Tracking and Recognition with Rotation-Invariant Fast Features
We present a method that unifies tracking and video content recognition with applications to Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR). We introduce the Radial Gradient Transform (RGT) and ...
Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Sam Tsai, Dav...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Sufficient Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Sequence Classification
When classifying high-dimensional sequence data, traditional methods (e.g., HMMs, CRFs) may require large amounts of training data to avoid overfitting. In such cases dimensional...
Alex Shyr, Raquel Urtasun, Michael Jordan
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient Action Spotting based on a Spacetime Oriented Structure Representation
This paper addresses action spotting, the spatiotemporal detection and localization of human actions in video. A novel compact local descriptor of video dynamics in the context of...
Konstantinos Derpanis, Mikhail Sizintsev, Kevin Ca...