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ICVS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
White-Box Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms through Explicit Decision-Making
Traditionally computer vision and pattern recognition algorithms are evaluated by measuring differences between final interpretations and ground truth. These black-box evaluations ...
Richard Zanibbi, Dorothea Blostein, James R. Cordy
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Relevant and Redundant Feature Analysis with Ensemble Classification
— Feature selection and ensemble classification increase system efficiency and accuracy in machine learning, data mining and biomedical informatics. This research presents an ana...
Rakkrit Duangsoithong, Terry Windeatt
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Skin-Color and Template Based Technique for Automatic Ear Detection
This paper proposes an efficient skin-color and template based technique for automatic ear detection in a side face image. The technique first separates skin regions from nonski...
Surya Prakash, Umarani Jayaraman, Phalguni Gupta
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Upper and Lower Grey-Level Adaptive Morphological Operators
Morphological operators designed for grey-scale functions process every points of the space identically whatever their luminance. In many situations however, it is interesting to ...
Corinne Vachier
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Saving Electrical Power in a Surveillance Environment
—This paper proposes a smart video surveillance system with real-time moving object (primarily human) detection and identification for solving the problem of excessive power con...
Souvik Sen, Amit Kumar Das, Shyama Prosad Chowdhur...
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Color Image Retrieval Using M-Band Wavelet Transform Based Color-Texture Feature
—Feature Extraction algorithm is a very important component of any retrieval scheme. We propose M-band Wavelet Transform based feature extraction algorithm in this paper. The MxM...
Malay Kumar Kundu, Priyank Bagrecha
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Hierarchical Local Maps for Robust Approximate Nearest Neighbor Computation
In this paper, we propose a novel method for fast nearest neighbors retrieval in non-Euclidean and non-metric spaces. We organize the data into a hierarchical fashion that preserv...
Pratyush Bhatt, Anoop M. Namboodiri
ICAPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Distraction Free Evolution of Active Contours
We propose a novel energy term to make the curve evolution quite robust to spurious edges. The physical intuition behind the formulation is that an object edge is generally contin...
Viswanathan Srikrishnan, Subhasis Chaudhuri
GBRPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Annotated Contraction Kernels for Interactive Image Segmentation
This article shows how the interactive segmentation tool termed “Active Paintbrush” and a fully automatic region merging can both be based on the theoretical framework of contr...
Hans Meine
GBRPR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Edition within a Graph Kernel Framework for Shape Recognition
A large family of shape comparison methods is based on a medial axis transform combined with an encoding of the skeleton by a graph. Despite many qualities this encoding of shapes ...
François-Xavier Dupé, Luc Brun