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ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Precise head segmentation on arbitrary backgrounds
We propose a method for segmentation of frontal human portraits from arbitrary unknown backgrounds. Semantic information is used to project the face into a normalized reference fr...
David C. Schneider, Benjamin Prestele, Peter Eiser...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Improving the quality of depth image based rendering for 3D Video systems
In 3D Video (3DV) applications, a reduced number of views plus depth maps are transmitted or stored. When there is a need to render virtual views in between the actual views, the ...
Zefeng Ni, Dong Tian, Sitaram Bhagavathy, Joan Lla...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Retrieving dental radiographs for post-mortem identification
Automating the process of postmortem identification of deceased individuals based on dental characteristics is receiving increased attention. With the large number of victims enco...
Ayman Abaza, Arun Ross, Hany H. Ammar
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Image quality monitoring using spread spectrum watermarking
An improved blind image quality assessment scheme that is based on the Watson's just noticeable difference (JND) modulated spread spectrum watermarking, is proposed. For the ...
Ehsan Nezhadarya, Z. Jane Wang, Rabab K. Ward
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Simplification of color images using semi-flat morphological operators and statistical metrics
The aim of this study is to propose an algorithm for simplifying color images. The assumption is made that a set of reference colors is available and that this set indicates which...
Arnaud Garcia, Corinne Vachier
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive correlation estimation for general Wyner-Ziv video coding
Wyner-Ziv video coding (WZVC) is a new paradigm for video compression with the prediction frames possibly only available at the decoder. It exploits the statistics between the sou...
Xiaopeng Fan, Oscar C. Au, Ngai-Man Cheung
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic texture synthesis using a spatial temporal descriptor
Dynamic textures are image sequences with visual pattern repetition in time and space, such as smoke, flames, moving objects and so on. Dynamic texture synthesis is to provide a c...
Yimo Guo, Guoying Zhao, Jie Chen, Matti Pietik&aum...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Single image defocus map estimation using local contrast prior
Image defocus estimation is useful for several applications including deblurring, blur magnification, measuring image quality, and depth of field segmentation. In this paper, we p...
Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Utilizing affective analysis for efficient movie browsing
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...
Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao, ...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Task-oriented camera assignment in a video network
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...
Yiming Li, Bir Bhanu