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ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improved Blur Insensitivity for Decorrelated Local Phase Quantization
This paper presents a novel blur tolerant decorrelation scheme for local phase quantization (LPQ) texture descriptor. As opposed to previous methods, the introduced model can be a...
Janne Heikkilä, Ville Ojansivu, Esa Rahtu
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Probabilistic Models of Contours
We present a methodology for learning spline-based probabilistic models for sets of contours, proposing a new Monte Carlo variant of the EM algorithm to estimate the parameters of...
Laure Amate, Maria João Rendas
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Lipreading: A Graph Embedding Approach
In this paper, we propose a novel graph embedding method for the problem of lipreading. To characterize the temporal connections among video frames of the same utterance, a new di...
Ziheng Zhou, Guoying Zhao, Matti Pietikäinen
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Incremental Distance Transforms (IDT)
Abstract--A new generic scheme for incremental implementations of distance transforms (DT) is presented: Incremental Distance Transforms (IDT). This scheme is applied on the citybl...
Theo Schouten, Egon L. Van Den Broek
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Gaze Probing: Event-Based Estimation of Objects Being Focused On
We propose a novel method to estimate the object that a user is focusing on by using the synchronization between the movements of objects and a user's eyes as a cue. We first ...
Ryo Yonetani, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takatsugu Hirayam...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Simultaneous Segmentation and Modelling of Signals Based on an Equipartition Principle
We propose a general framework for simultaneous segmentation and modelling of signals based on an Equipartition Principle (EP). According to EP, the signal is divided into segment...
Costas Panagiotakis, G. Tziritas
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Noise-Robust Voice Activity Detector Based on Hidden Semi-Markov Models
This paper concentrates on speech duration distributions that are usually invariant to noises and proposes a noise-robust and real-time voice activity detector (VAD) using the hid...
Xianglong Liu, Yuan Liang, Yihua Lou, He Li, Baoso...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Fence Removal from Multi-Focus Images
—When an image of a scene is captured by a camera through a fence, a blurred fence image interrupts objects in the scene. In this paper, we propose a method for a fence removal f...
Atsushi Yamashita, Akiyoshi Matsui, Toru Kaneko
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Human Daily Activities Indexing in Videos from Wearable Cameras for Monitoring of Patients with Dementia Diseases
Our research focuses on analysing human activities according to a known behaviorist scenario, in case of noisy and high dimensional collected data. The data come from the monitori...
Svebor Karaman, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Remi Megret, ...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
Towards a More Realistic Appearance-Based Gait Representation for Gender Recognition
A realistic appearance-based representation of sideview gait sequences is here introduced. It is based on a prior method where a set of appearance-based features of a gait sample ...
Raúl Martín-Félez, Ramón A. Mollineda, J. Salv...