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ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Combining Face Verification Experts
We study the combination of face verification algorithms in order to improve the verification performance. Although the different face experts that we consider provide their outpu...
Jacek Czyz, Josef Kittler, Luc Vandendorpe
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Building the Topological Tree by Recursive FCM Color Clustering
In this paper we define a Topological Tree (TT) as a knowledge representation method that aims to describe important visual and spatial features of image regions, namely the color...
Rita Cucchiara, Costantino Grana, Andrea Prati, St...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Spatial Color Component Matching of Images
Color and color neighborhood statistics have been used extensively in image matching and retrieval. However, the effective incorporation of color layout information remains a chal...
Jianying Hu, Efstathios Hadjidemetriou
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
On the Performance of Wavelets for Handwritten Numerals Recognition
This paper validates a recognition system using bidimensional wavelet transforms as feature extractor and investigates the relevance of each subband image in the recognition proce...
João Marques de Carvalho, Robert Sabourin, ...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Automatic Visual Recognition of Armed Robbery
We propose a method by which to analyze silhouettes and recognize a classic holdup position of armed robbery. In such a situation, one actor levels his or her arm while another ac...
Jaime Dever, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Mubarak Shah
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Fast Extraction of Tubular and Tree 3D Surfaces with Front Propagation Methods
We present a new fast approach for surface segmentation of thin structures, like vessels and vascular trees, based on Fast Marching and Level Sets methods. Fast Marching allows se...
Thomas Deschamps, Laurent D. Cohen
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A Comparative Evaluation of Length Estimators
David Coeurjolly, Reinhard Klette
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Synergism in Low Level Vision
Guiding image segmentation with edge information is an often employed strategy in low level computer vision. To improve the trade-off between the sensitivity of homogeneous region...
Christopher M. Christoudias, Bogdan Georgescu, Pet...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Boosting and Structure Learning in Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Audio-Visual Speaker Detection
Bayesian networks are an attractive modeling tool for human sensing, as they combine an intuitive graphical representation with ef?cient algorithms for inference and learning. Ear...
Tanzeem Choudhury, James M. Rehg, Vladimir Pavlovi...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
The Trimmed Iterative Closest Point Algorithm
The problem of geometric alignment of two roughly preregistered, partially overlapping, rigid, noisy 3D point sets is considered. A new natural and simple, robustified extension o...
Dmitry Chetverikov, D. Svirko, Dmitry Stepanov, Pa...