Biometric systems are designed to identify a person based on physiological or behavioral characteristics. In order to predict the utility of a particular image for identification,...
Energy-efficient image communication is one of the most important goals for a large class of current and future sensor network applications. This paper presents a quantitative com...
Dong-U Lee, Hyungjin Kim, Steven Tu, Mohammad H. R...
It is well known that in professional TV show filming, stage lighting has to be carefully designed in order to make the host and the scene look visually appealing. The lighting a...
This paper presents a reduced-reference image quality assessment scheme using distributed source coding for remotely monitoring image quality. In our scheme, an image server extra...
Keiichi Chono, Yao-Chung Lin, David P. Varodayan, ...
This paper summarizes a study carried out on data from the Face Recognition Vendor Test 2006 (FRVT 2006). The finding of greatest practical importance is the discovery of a stron...
J. Ross Beveridge, Geof H. Givens, P. Jonathon Phi...
Abstract. Ultramicroscopy, a novel optical tomographic imaging modality related to fluorescence microscopy, allows to acquire cross-sectional slices of small specially prepared bio...
Wolfgang Wein, Moritz Blume, Ulrich Leischner, Han...
: Lossy transform compression of images is successful and widespread. The JPEG standard uses the discrete cosine transform on blocks of the image and a bit allocation process that ...
Alfred M. Bruckstein, Robert J. Holt, Arun N. Netr...
The quantization parameter (QP) has a very important impact on the compression rate in H.264. In this paper we show that in order to achieve efficient rate-control coding a good e...