Because of the fast increasing number of movies and long time span each movie lasts, novel methods should be developed to help users browse movies and find their desired clips eff...
Camera assignment and hand-off are some of the key image processing problems in a video network. In this paper, we propose a new approach for camera assignment and handoff in a vi...
This paper presents a new biometric identifier, namely finger-knuckle-print (FKP), for personal identity authentication. First a specific data acquisition device is constructed to...
This paper presents a new approach for segmenting a video sequence containing dynamic textures. The proposed method is based on a 2D+T curvelet transform and an octree hierarchica...
A view-dependent geometry coding of 3D scenes defined by sets of semi-regular meshes is presented. The objective is to reduce the quantity of significant data to store when visual...
Natural image matting is an extremely challenging image processing problem due to its ill-posed nature. It often requires skilled user interaction to aid definition of foreground ...
Muhammad Sarim, Adrian Hilton, Jean-Yves Guillemau...
This paper describes a new method to automatically improve scene lighting for video conferencing by learning the photometric mapping between a lower exposure and desired exposure ...
Gathering a large collection of images has been made quite easy by social and image sharing websites, e.g. flickr.com. However, using such collections faces the problem that they ...
Mohamed Aly, Peter Welinder, Mario E. Munich, Piet...