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ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Gesture-based video summarization
A novel method for summarizing videos of gestures is presented. The gestures performed by the hands and the head are extracted through skin color segmentation and represented throu...
Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos, Anastasios D. Doulamis, ...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Nonparametric clustering using quantum mechanics
This paper introduces a new nonparametric estimation approach that can be used for data that is not necessarily Gaussian distributed. The proposed approach employs the Shr?odinger...
Nikolaos Nasios, Adrian G. Bors
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Spatio-temporal attention model for video content analysis
This paper presents a new model of human attention that allows salient areas to be extracted from video frames. As automatic understanding of video semantic content is still far fr...
Mickael Guironnet, Nathalie Guyader, Denis Pelleri...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Dense discontinuous optical flow via contour-based segmentation
We propose a new algorithm for dense optical flow computation. Dense optical flow schemes are challenged by the presence of motion discontinuities. In state of the art optical flo...
Tomer Amiaz, Nahum Kiryati
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Parameter estimation of multi-dimensional hidden Markov models - a scalable approach
Parameter estimation is a key computational issue in all statistical image modeling techniques. In this paper, we explore a computationally efficient parameter estimation algorith...
Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li, James Ze Wang
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Color embedding into gray images
Ricardo L. de Queiroz, Karen M. Braun
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Flow lookup and biological motion perception
Optical flow in monocular video can serve as a key for recognizing and tracking the three-dimensional pose of human subjects. In comparison with prior work using silhouettes as a ...
Nicholas R. Howe
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
System analysis of VLSI architecture for motion-compensated temporal filtering
The Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF) is an innovative prediction scheme for video coding and has become the core technology of the coming video coding standard, MPEG21...
Ching-Yeh Chen, Chao-Tsung Huang, Yi-Hua Chen, Chu...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Augmented particle filtering for efficient visual tracking
Visual tracking is one of the key tasks in computer vision. The particle filter algorithm has been extensively used to tackle this problem due to its flexibility. However the conv...
Chunhua Shen, Michael J. Brooks, Anton van den Hen...
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Gradation approximation for vector based compression of comic images
In this paper, we propose a method to vectorize comic images including halftone dots. Our method can prevent the jaggy and moire phenomena when the images are enlarged and shrank....
Kei Kawamura, Yuki Yamamoto, Hiroshi Watanabe