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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
CDIKP: A highly-compact local feature descriptor
A new feature descriptor is presented for object and scene recognition. The new approach, called CDIKP, uniquely combines the scale-invariant feature detection with a robust proje...
Quan Wang, Suya You, Yun-Ta Tsai
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Probabilistic tracking on Riemannian manifolds
The covariance region descriptor recently proposed in [1] has been proved robust and versatile for a modest computational cost. The covariance matrix enables efficient fusion of d...
Bo Wu, Hanqing Lu, Jia Liu, Yi Wu
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Human action recognition with line and flow histograms
We present a compact representation for human action recognition in videos using line and optical flow histograms. We introduce a new shape descriptor based on the distribution of...
Nazli Ikizler, Pinar Duygulu, Ramazan Gokberk Cinb...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Selecting relevant features for human motion recognition
Recently, there is a growing interest in automatic recognition of human motion for applications, such as humanoid robots, human activity monitoring, and surveillance. In this pape...
Dirk Gehrig, Tanja Schultz
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Improved document image binarization by using a combination of multiple binarization techniques and adapted edge information
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for document image binarization. The proposed method is mainly based on the combination of several stateof-the-art binarization methodo...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Wire detection in low-altitude, urban, and low-quality video frames
We introduce a novel wire detection algorithm for use in low altitude urban aircraft reconnaissance. A line profile model is described and effectively used to discriminate wires f...
Dmitry B. Goldgof, Joshua Candamo
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Fake fingertip generation from a minutiae template
This work reports a preliminary study on the vulnerability evaluation of fingerprint verification systems to direct attacks carried out with fake fingertips created from minutiae ...
Alessandra Lumini, Davide Maltoni, Javier Galbally...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Collaborate ball and player trajectory extraction in broadcast soccer video
Enormous accessible broadcast soccer videos demand an efficient ball and player trajectory extraction framework to represent the tactic semantics for the automatic analysis. Camer...
Yi Zhang, Hanqing Lu, Changsheng Xu
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Head pose estimation: Classification or regression?
Head pose estimation has many useful applications in practice. How to estimate the head pose automatically and robustly is still a challenging problem. In pose estimation, differe...
Charles R. Dyer, Guodong Guo, Thomas S. Huang, Yun...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Illumination invariants based on Markov random fields
We propose textural features, which are invariant to illumination spectrum and extremely robust to illumination direction. They require only a single training image per texture an...
Pavel Vacha, Michal Haindl