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FGR
2008
IEEE
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Unsupervised clustering for google searches of celebrity images
How do we identify images of the same person in photo albums? How can we find images of a particular celebrity using web image search engines? These types of tasks require solvin...
Alex Holub, Pierre Moreels, Pietro Perona
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Object image retrieval by exploiting online knowledge resources
We describe a method to retrieve images found on web pages with specified object class labels, using an analysis of text around the image and of image appearance. Our method dete...
Gang Wang, David A. Forsyth
CBMS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Using the Grid for Enhancing the Performance of a Medical Image Search Engine
— In this paper we show how Grid computing can be used to improve the operation of a medical image search system. The paper introduces the basic principles of a content-based ima...
Mikko Juhani Pitkänen, Xin Zhou, Antti Eero J...
BMEI
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On Image Registration in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Image registration is used in many fields for mapping one image to another. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications, one of the main uses is for correction of motionindu...
Peihua Qiu, Tram Nguyen
MM
2009
ACM
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Web image mining towards universal age estimator
In this paper, we present an automatic web image mining system towards building a universal human age estimator based on facial information, which is applicable to all ethnic grou...
Bingbing Ni, Zheng Song, Shuicheng Yan
MM
2009
ACM
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Visual summaries of popular landmarks from community photo collections
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
Wei-Chao Chen, Agathe Battestini, Natasha Gelfand,...
MM
2009
ACM
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Semi-supervised topic modeling for image annotation
We propose a novel technique for semi-supervised image annotation which introduces a harmonic regularizer based on the graph Laplacian of the data into the probabilistic semantic ...
Yuanlong Shao, Yuan Zhou, Xiaofei He, Deng Cai, Hu...
MM
2009
ACM
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Label to region by bi-layer sparsity priors
In this work, we investigate how to automatically reassign the manually annotated labels at the image-level to those contextually derived semantic regions. First, we propose a bi-...
Xiaobai Liu, Bin Cheng, Shuicheng Yan, Jinhui Tang...
SCIA
2009
Springer
120views Image Analysis» more  SCIA 2009»
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Spatio-temporal Super-Resolution Using Depth Map
This paper describes a spatio-temporal super-resolution method using depth maps for static scenes. In the proposed method, the depth maps are used as the parameters to determine th...
Yusaku Awatsu, Norihiko Kawai, Tomokazu Sato, Naok...
SCIA
2009
Springer
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Recognition of Protruding Objects in Highly Structured Surroundings by Structural Inference
Recognition of objects in highly structured surroundings is a challenging task, because the appearance of target objects changes due to fluctuations in their surroundings. This ma...
Vincent Frans van Ravesteijn, Frans M. Vos, Lucas ...