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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient video text detection using edge features
In this paper, we explore new edge features such as straightness for the elimination of non significant edges from the segmented text portion of a video frame to detect accurate b...
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Weihua Huang, Chew Lim ...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Using covariance matrices for unsupervised texture segmentation
In this paper we propose an efficient unsupervised texture segmentation method. We introduce the extension of a state-of-the-art segmentation algorithm, which is exclusively based...
Horst Bischof, Michael Donoser
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Fast and precise kinematic skeleton extraction of 3D dynamic meshes
Shape skeleton extraction is a fundamental preprocessing task in shape-based pattern recognition. This paper presents a new algorithm for fast and precise extraction of kinematic ...
Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Julien Tierny, Mohamed D...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Using an artificial imagination for texture retrieval
Our goal is to determine if artificially imagined or synthesized images can be beneficial to interactive visual search. We present a novel approach for using artificially imagined...
Bart Thomee, Mark J. Huiskes, Erwin M. Bakker, Mic...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Uncertainty minimization in multi-sensor localization systems using model selection theory
Belief propagation methods are the state-of-the-art with multi-sensor state localization problems. However, when localization applications have to deal with multi-modality sensors...
Andreas Koschan, David L. Page, Hamparsum Bozdogan...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
EK-SVD: Optimized dictionary design for sparse representations
Sparse representations using overcomplete dictionaries are used in a variety of field such as pattern recognition and compression. However, the size of dictionary is usually a tra...
Raazia Mazhar, Paul D. Gader
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
V-LGBP: Volume based local Gabor binary patterns for face representation and recognition
In this paper, we propose volume based local Gabor binary patterns (V-LGBP) for face representation and recognition. In our method, the Gabor feature set of each gray image is reg...
Shiguang Shan, Shufu Xie, Wen Gao, Xilin Chen
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
An evaluation survey of binarization algorithms on historical documents
Document binarization is an active research area for many years. There are many difficulties associated with satisfactory binarization of document images and especially in cases o...
Pavlos Stathis, Ergina Kavallieratou, Nikos Papama...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Incremental machine learning techniques for document layout understanding
In real-world Digital Libraries, Artificial Intelligence techniques are essential for tackling the automatic document processing task with sufficient flexibility. The great variab...
Floriana Esposito, Marenglen Biba, Stefano Ferilli...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Directionality measurement and illumination estimation of 3D surface textures by using mojette transform
This paper presents a new approach to measure texture directions and estimate illumination tilt angle of 3D surface textures by using mojette transform. Feature vectors are genera...
Florent Autrusseau, Junyu Dong, Lin Qi, Peng Jia