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2000
IEEE
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Tracking Humans from a Moving Platform
Research at the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Maryland has focussed on developing algorithms and systems that can look at humans and recognize their activities i...
Larry S. Davis, Vasanth Philomin, Ramani Duraiswam...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Tandem Fusion of Nearest Neighbor Editing and Condensing Algorithms - Data Dimensionality Effects
In this paper, the effect of the dimensionality of data sets on the exploitation of synergy among known nearest neighbor (NN) editing and condensing tools is analyzed using a synt...
Belur V. Dasarathy, José Salvador Sá...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Improving Arc Detection in Graphics Recognition
In the context of graphics recognition, arc detection consists in the extraction of circles and arcs from the image of a graphics document or from the segments yielded by its vect...
Gérald Masini, Karl Tombre, Philippe Dosch
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Invariant Image Object Recognition Using Mixture Densities
In this paper we present a mixture density based approach to invariant image object recognition. We start our experiments using Gaussian mixture densities within a Bayesian classi...
Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney, Jörg Dahmen, Mar...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Nanometer-Scale Height Measurements in Micromachined Picoliter Vials Based on Interference Fringe Analysis
Micromachined picoliter vials in silicon dioxide with a typical depth of 6.0?m are filled with a liquid sample. Epiilluminated microscopic imaging during evaporation of the liquid...
L. R. Van den Doel, Lucas J. van Vliet, K. T. Hjel...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A Concurrent Region Growing Algorithm Guided by Circumscribed Contours
Image segmentation of natural scenes constitutes a major problem in Machine Vision. This paper presents a new proposal for the image segmentation problem which has been based on t...
Xavier Cufí, Xavier Muñoz, Jordi Fre...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Optimal Color Composition Matching of Images
Color features are among the most important features used in image database retrieval, especially in cases where no additional semantic information is available. Due to its compac...
Jianying Hu, Aleksandra Mojsilovic
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Accuracy Improvement of Slant Estimation for Handwritten Words
Handwritten words are usually slant or Italicized due to the mechanism of handwriting and the personality. In order to improve the accuracy of character segmentation and recogniti...
Yimei Ding, Fumitaka Kimura, Yasuji Miyake, Malaya...
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
IRIS - An Image Recognition and Interpretation System for the Dutch Postbank
KPN Research has developed an all-purpose check recognition system for the Dutch Postbank. This Image Recognition and Interpretation System (IRIS) is the result of more than thirt...
I. L. Dijkstra, N. Smits
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
OCR with No Shape Training
We present a document-specific OCR system and apply it to a corpus of faxed business letters. Unsupervised classification of the segmented character bitmaps on each page, using a ...
Tin Kam Ho, George Nagy