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ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Robust License-Plate Extraction Method under Complex Image Conditions
A robust approach for extracting car license plate from images with complex background and relatively poor quality is presented in this paper. The approach focuses on dealing with...
Sunghoon Kim, Daechul Kim, Younbok Ryu, Gyeonghwan...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Usefulness of Boundary Sequences in Computing Shape Features for Arbitrary Shaped Regions
A boundary sequence is a good representation of arbitrary shaped regions, but not directly used in computing shape features such as area, centroid, orientation, and so forth. In t...
Seongok Kim, Sungyoung Kim, Jongmin Kim, Minhwan K...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Multicue MRF Image Segmentation: Combining Texture and Color Features
Herein, we propose a new Markov random field (MRF) image segmentation model which aims at combining color and texture features. The model has a multi-layer structure: Each feature...
Zoltan Kato, Ting-Chuen Pong, Song Guo Qiang
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
VizWear-Active: Distributed Monte Carlo Face Tracking for Wearable Active Cameras
In this paper, we discuss a Distributed Monte Carlo (DMC) tracking method which achieves real-time and accurate face tracking for wearable active vision systems. The DMC is an ext...
Takekazu Kato, Takeshi Kurata, Katsuhiko Sakaue
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Word Segmentation of Printed Text Lines Based on Gap Clustering and Special Symbol Detection
This paper proposes a word segmentation method for machine-printed text lines. It utilizes gaps and special symbols as delimiters between words. A gap clustering technique is used...
Soo-Hyung Kim, Chang Bu Jeong, Hee K. Kwag, Ching ...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Robust Affine Motion Estimation in Joint Image Space Using Tensor Voting
Robustness of parameter estimation relies on discriminating inliers from outliers within the set of correspondences. In this paper, we present a method using tensor voting to elim...
Eun-Young Kang, Gérard G. Medioni, Isaac Co...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Registration for Stereo Vision-Based Augmented Reality Based on Extendible Tracking of Markers and Natural Features
This paper describes a method to extend the registration range of a vision-based augmented reality (AR) system. We propose to use natural feature points contained in images captur...
Masayuki Kanbara, Naokazu Yokoya, Haruo Takemura
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Painter Identification Using Local Features and Naive Bayes
The goal of this paper is to offer a framework for image classification "by type". For example, one may want to classify an image of a certain office as man-made ? as op...
Daniel Keren
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Integrated Event Recognition from Multiple Sources
This paper proposes a system architecture for event recognition that integrates information from multiple sources (e.g., gesture and speech recognition from distributed sensors in...
Hiroaki Kawashima, Takashi Matsuyama
ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Illumination Invariant Segmentation of Spatio-Temporal Images by Spatio-Temporal Markov Random Field Model
For many years, object tracking in images has suffered from the problems of occlusions and illumination effects. In order to resolve occlusion problems, we have been proposing the...
Shunsuke Kamijo, Katsushi Ikeuchi, Masao Sakauchi