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CRV
2008
IEEE
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A Cue to Shading: Elongations near Intensity Maxima
The human visual system is often able to recognize shading patterns and to discriminate them from surface reflectance patterns. To understand how this ability is possible, we inv...
Daria Gipsman, Michael S. Langer
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Segmentation of Rectangular Objects Lying on an Unknown Background in a Small Preview Scan Image
We describe a method to segment rectangular objects that lie on a slightly textured background of an a-priori unknown colour. Our contribution consists of a fast and accurate back...
Michael Guerzhoy, Hui Zhou
CRV
2008
IEEE
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3D Human Motion Tracking Using Dynamic Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
We propose a generative statistical approach to human motion modeling and tracking that utilizes probabilistic latent semantic (PLSA) models to describe the mapping of image featu...
Kooksang Moon, Vladimir Pavlovic
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Deforestation: Extracting 3D Bare-Earth Surface from Airborne LiDAR Data
Bare-earth identification selects points from a LiDAR point cloud so that they can be interpolated to form a representation of the ground surface from which structures, vegetatio...
Wei-Lwun Lu, James J. Little, Alla Sheffer, Hongbo...
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Robust Real-Time Bi-Layer Video Segmentation Using Infrared Video
In this paper, we propose a novel method for the automatic segmentation of a foreground layer from a natural scene in real time by fusing infrared, color and edge information. Thi...
Qiong Wu, Pierre Boulanger, Walter F. Bischof
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Fast Normal Map Acquisition Using an LCD Screen Emitting Gradient Patterns
We propose an efficient technique for normal map acquisition, using a cheap and easy to build setup. Our setup consists solely of off-the-shelf components, such as an LCD screen,...
Yannick Francken, Chris Hermans, Tom Cuypers, Phil...
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Realtime Visualization of Monocular Data for 3D Reconstruction
Methods for reconstructing photorealistic 3D graphics models from images or video are appealing applications of computer vision. Such methods rely on good input image data, but th...
Adam Rachmielowski, Neil Birkbeck, Martin Jäg...
CRV
2008
IEEE
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An Iterative Approach to Improved Local Phase Coherence Estimation
This paper introduces a novel iterative approach to estimating local phase coherence in situations characterized by low signal-to-noise ratios. Local phase coherence is used for a...
Alexander Wong
CRV
2008
IEEE
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Multiple View Integration and Display Using Virtual Mirrors
This paper describes a technique, called V-Mirroring, for integrating videos taken from different cameras with different viewpoints of the same scene. The term V-Mirroring stems f...
Carmen E. Au, James J. Clark