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ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Learning Wormholes for Sparsely Labelled Clustering
Distance functions are an important component in many learning applications. However, the correct function is context dependent, therefore it is advantageous to learn a distance f...
Eng-Jon Ong, Richard Bowden
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Affine Invariant Information Embedment for Accurate Camera-Based Character Recognition
Recognizing characters in a scene image taken by a digital camera has been studied for decades. However, it is still a challenging problem to achieve high accuracy. In this paper,...
Shinichiro Omachi, Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchid...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Optimal Estimation of Perspective Camera Pose
In this paper we propose a practical and efficient method for finding the globally optimal solution to the problem of camera pose estimation for calibrated cameras. While traditio...
Carl Olsson, Fredrik Kahl, Magnus Oskarsson
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A new approach to the classification of mammographic masses and normal breast tissue
A new approach to mammographic mass detection is presented in this paper. Although different algorithms have been proposed for such a task, most of them are application dependent....
Arnau Oliver, Joan Martí, Robert Marti, Ann...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Robust 3D Head Tracking Using Camera Pose Estimation
In this report we present a robust method to recover 3D position and orientation (pose) of a moving head using a single stationary camera. Head pose is recovered by formulating th...
Ehud Rivlin, Shay Ohayon
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Improving human activity detection by combining multi-dimensional motion descriptors with boosting
A new, combined human activity detection method is proposed. Our method is based on Efros et al.'s motion descriptors[2] and Ke et al.'s event detectors[3]. Since both m...
Josef Kittler, Seiji Ishikawa, Takehito Ogata, Wil...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Speaker Verification Using A Novel Set of Dynamic Features
Dynamic cepstral features such as delta and deltadelta cepstra have been shown to play an essential role in capturing the transitional characteristics of the speech signal. In thi...
Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Julien Epps, Mohaddeseh N...
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Biometrics based Asymmetric Cryptosystem Design Using Modified Fuzzy Vault Scheme
We propose a novel biometrics cryptosystem where one can send and receive secure information using just the fingerprints. This cryptosystem is a judicious blend of the asymmetric ...
Abhishek Nagar, Santanu Chaudhury
ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
View Dependent Enhancement of the Dynamic Range of Video
There are many applications for computer vision where a scene observed contains a wide range of brightness. Often, the low dynamic range of a camera limits the accuracy of informa...
Matti Niskanen