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2002
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Retinal Blood Vessel Extraction by Using Multi-resolution Matched Filtering and Directional Region Growing Segmentation
Anew method to extract retinal blood vessels from a colour fundus image is described. Digital colour h d u s images are contrast enhanced in order to obtain sharp edges. The green...
Mitsutoshi Himaga, David Usher, James F. Boyce
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2002
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Recognition of 3-D Free-form Objects Using Distance-supported Shape Index
In this paper, we present an approach to incorporating partial geometric information into a local feature-based The distance-supported shape index is proposed for the representatio...
Dong-O Kim, Sang Wook Lee, Rae-Hong Park
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2002
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Automatic Feature Extraction from non-uniform Finger Vein Image and its Application to Personal Identification
A new method to extract vein patterns from an unclear finger image is proposed. Finger vein pattern can be used for personal identification technology. The finger vein image that ...
Naoto Miura, Akio Nagasaka, Takafumi Miyatake
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2002
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3-Dimensional Tracking of Multiple Object Motions from Multi-view Images by Mixed-state CONDENSATION Algorithm
In this paper, we propose an efficient method for tracking multiple objects, which deals with occlusion situations in an image. We use Shape from silhouettes method to reconstruct...
Koichiro Deguchi, Koji Hamasaki, Taira Nakajima, T...
MVA
2002
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Application to the Traffic Occlusion with Multiple Views
Recently, since the traffic is increasing every year, the problems of traffic jam and accidents, and so on, are increasing, it is required that the ITS (Intelligent Transport Syst...
Tameharu Hasegawa, Heitoh Zen
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2002
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Improved Adaptive Mixture Learning for Robust Video Background Modeling
2 Related Works Gaussian mixtures are often used for data modeling in many real-time applications such as video background modeling and speaker direction tracking. The real-time a...
Dar-Shyang Lee
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2002
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Contour Extraction in Medical Images Using B-Snake Model
In this paper, a close-form B-snake model is presented for contour extraction in medical images. Based on our previous research work [lo], the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) h...
Yue Wang, Eam Khwang Teoh
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2002
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Identifying Body Parts of Multiple People in Multi-Camera Images
In order to track and recognize the movements of multiple people using multiple cameras, each person needs to be segmented and identified in the image of each camera. We propose a...
Masafumi Tominaga, Hitoshi Hongo, Hiroyasu Koshimi...
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2002
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Constituting Feasible Folding Operation Using Incomplete Crease Information
This paper proposes a novel approach to constituting all the feasible ways of folding, based on crease infomation obtained from an image of illustrations of general origami drill ...
Hiroshi Shimanuki, Jien Kato, Toyohide Watanabe