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CVPR
2010
IEEE
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A Steiner Tree approach to efficient object detection
We propose an approach to speeding up object detection, with an emphasis on settings where multiple object classes are being detected. Our method uses a segmentation algorithm to ...
Olga Russakovsky, Quoc Le, Andrew Ng
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Tracking with Local Spatio-Temporal Motion Patterns in Extremely Crowded Scenes
Tracking individuals in extremely crowded scenes is a challenging task, primarily due to the motion and appearance variability produced by the large number of people within the sc...
Louis Kratz, Ko Nishino
CVPR
2010
IEEE
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AAM based Face Tracking with Temporal Matching and Face Segmentation
Active Appearance Model (AAM) based face tracking has advantages of accurate alignment, high efficiency, and effectiveness for handling face deformation. However, AAM suffers fro...
Lin Liang
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Parallel Graph-cuts by Adaptive Bottom-up Merging
Graph-cuts optimization is prevalent in vision and graphics problems. It is thus of great practical importance to parallelize the graph-cuts optimization using today’s ubiquitou...
Jiangyu Liu, Jian Sun
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Learning to Recognize Shadows in Monochromatic Natural Images
This paper addresses the problem of recognizing shadows from monochromatic natural images. Without chromatic information, shadow classification is very challenging because the in...
Jiejie Zhu, Kegan Samuel, Syed Zain Masood, Marsha...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Context-Constrained Hallucination for Image Super-Resolution
This paper proposes a context-constrained hallucination approach for image super-resolution. Through building a training set of high-resolution/low-resolution image segment pairs,...
Jian Sun, Jiejie Zhu, Marshall Tappen
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Pareto Discriminant Analysis
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a popular tool for multiclass discriminative dimensionality reduction. However, LDA suffers from two major problems: (1) It only optimizes th...
Karim Abou-Moustafa, Fernando De la Torre, Frank F...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Globally Optimal Data-Driven Approach for Image Distortion Estimation
Image alignment in the presence of non-rigid distortions is a challenging task. Typically, this involves estimating the parameters of a dense deformation field that warps a disto...
Yuandong Tian, Srinivasa Narasimhan
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Morphable Reflectance Fields for Enhancing Face Recognition
In this paper, we present a novel framework to address the confounding effects of illumination variation in face recognition. By augmenting the gallery set with realistically re...
Ritwik Kumar, Michael Jones, Tim Marks
CVPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
SPEC Hashing: Similarity Preserving algorithm for Entropy-based Coding
Searching approximate nearest neighbors in large scale high dimensional data set has been a challenging problem. This paper presents a novel and fast algorithm for learning binary...
Ruei-Sung Lin, David Ross, Jay Yagnik