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ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
From SD to HD Television: Effects of H.264 Distortions Versus Display Size on Quality of Experience
High Definition Television (HDTV) is the new broadcasting system designed to take the place of Standard Definition Television (SDTV) at home in the near future. This system requir...
Stéphane Péchard, Mathieu Carnec, Pa...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Ultrasound Myocardial Tracking with Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion Assisted Initialization
Cardiac parameters such as end-systolic volume, ejection fraction and myocardial mass are essential to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Traditionally, ...
Alla Aksel, Robert L. Janiczek, John A. Hossack, B...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
On the Information Rate of the Plenoptic Function
We study the compression problem of visual scenes acquired with a camera for transmission or storage. Our proposed model is general and includes two well-known cases: that of vide...
Arthur L. da Cunha, Minh N. Do, Martin Vetterli
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Variational Approach for Shapes Registration Using Vector Maps
The main focus of this paper is the shape representation and registration using vector level set functions. This powerful representation is more flexible than conventional signed ...
Hossam E. Abd El Munim, Aly A. Farag
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Palmprint Recognition Algorithm using Phase-Based Image Matching
Koichi Ito, Takafumi Aoki, Hiroshi Nakajima, Koji ...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
An adaptive mixture color model for robust visual tracking
Global color characterization is a very powerful tool to model in a simple yet discriminant way the visual appearance of complex objects. A fixed reference model of this type can ...
Antoine Lehuger, Patrick Léchat, Patrick P&...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Light Weight Background Blurring for Video Conferencing Applications
Background blurring is an effective way to both preserving privacy and keeping communication effective during video conferencing. This paper proposes a light weight real-time algo...
Cha Zhang, Yong Rui, Li-wei He
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
A Lifting-Based Wavelet Transform Supporting Non-Dyadic Spatial Scalability
In subband image and video compression, the issue of dyadic spatial scalability with a downsizing ratio of 2:1 has already been widely investigated. In some application scenarios,...
Ruiqin Xiong, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu
ICIP
2006
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Coding Facial Expression with Oriented Steerable Filters
In this paper, facial expression is coded by steerable filters which are rotated very efficiently by taking a suitable linear combination of basis filters. Local features extracte...
Shuang Xu, Yunde Jia, Xiaoxun Zhang