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ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient Coding of Stroke-Rendered Paintings
There are more and more applications of nonphotorealistic rendered images, sketches and drawings. Several techniques for generating such imagery are widely known. The stochastic p...
Levente Kovács, Tamás Szirány...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Entropy-Based Measures for Clustering and SOM Topology Preservation Applied to Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval
Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) addresses the problem of finding images relevant to the users' information needs, based principally on low-level visual features for whic...
Markus Koskela, Jorma Laaksonen, Erkki Oja
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Global Localization and Relative Pose Estimation Based on Scale-Invariant Features
The capability of maintaining the pose of the mobile robot is central for basic navigation and map building tasks. In this paper we describe a vision-based hybrid localization sch...
Jana Kosecka, Xiaolong Yang
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Competitive Coding Scheme for Palmprint Verification
There is increasing interest in the development of reliable, rapid and non-intrusive security control systems. Among the many approaches, biometrics such as palmprints provide hig...
Adams Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Analysis of Rotational Robustness of Hand Detection with a Viola-Jones Detector
The research described in this paper analyzes the in-plane rotational robustness of the Viola-Jones object detection method when used for hand appearance detection. We determine t...
Mathias Kölsch, Matthew Turk
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Enhancements for Local Feature Based Image Classification
Using local features with nearest neighbor search and direct voting obtains excellent results for various image classification tasks. In this work we decompose the method into its...
Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney, Roberto Paredes, Tobi...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Action and Simultaneous Multiple-Person Identification Using Cubic Higher-Order Local Auto-Correlation
We propose a new method ? Cubic Higher-order Local Auto-Correlation (CHLAC) ? to address three-way data analysis. This method is a natural extension of Higherorder Local Auto-Corr...
Nobuyuki Otsu, Takumi Kobayashi
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Stealth Vision for Protecting Privacy
We propose an anonymous video capturing system, called "Stealth Vision", that protects the privacy of objects by fading out their appearance. In order to avoid difficult...
Itaru Kitahara, Kiyoshi Kogure, Norihiro Hagita
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A Deformable Model Driven Method for Handling Clothes
A model-driven method for handling clothes by two manipulators based on observation with stereo cameras is proposed. The task considered in this paper is to hold up a specific par...
Yasuyo Kita, Fuminori Saito, Nobuyuki Kita
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Discrimination of Machine-Printed from Handwritten Text Using Simple Structural Characteristics
In this paper, we present a trainable approach to discriminate between machine-printed and handwritten text. An integrated system able to localize text areas and split them in tex...
Efstathios Stamatatos, Ergina Kavallieratou