PRL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
An automatic system to estimate the urbanization changes on the Belgian territory, using SPOT5 images and the National Geographic Institute vectorial database is proposed. The ima...
PRL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Approaches analyzing local characteristics of an image prevail in image restoration. However, they are less effective in cases of restoring images degraded by large size point spr...
PRL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
This paper proposes a new evolutionary region merging method in order to efficiently improve segmentation quality results. Our approach starts from an oversegmented image, which is...
PRL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Images secured from an astronomical telescope usually suffer from blur and from interference that scientists refer to as ``noise''. Therefore, good image restoration tec...
PR
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
9 Legendre orthogonal moments have been widely used in the field of image analysis. Because their computation by a direct method is very time expensive, recent efforts have been d...
PR
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Performance evaluation of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems is an important but still unsolved problem. The reason for its importance is that only performance evaluatio...
PAMI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Appearance-based methods, based on statistical models of the pixel values in an image (region) rather than geometrical object models, are increasingly popular in computer vision. I...
PAMI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
This paper addresses the problem of rotation estimation directly from images defined on the sphere and without correspondence. The method is particularly useful for the alignment ...
PAMI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Estimating human body poses in static images is important for many image understanding applications including semantic content extraction and image database query and retrieval. Th...
PAMI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
2006
This paper presents a family of techniques that we call congealing for modeling image classes from data. The idea is to start with a set of images and make them appear as similar a...