ICB
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Springer
We present in this communication a new biometric system based on the use of hand veins acquired by an infrared imager. After the preprocessing stage and binarization, the vein imag...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. Finding an image’s exact GPS location is a challenging computer vision problem that has many real-world applications. In this paper, we address the problem of finding ...
ECCV
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. This paper presents a simple, yet effective method of building a codebook for pairs of spatially close SIFT descriptors. Integrating such codebook into the popular bag-o...
SCIA
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
We propose reliable outdoor object detection on mobile phone imagery from off-the-shelf devices. With the goal to provide both robust object detection and reduction of computation...
ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
We present a new metric between histograms such as SIFT descriptors and a linear time algorithm for its computation. It is common practice to use the L2 metric for comparing SIFT d...
ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. We present an approach to determine the category and location of objects in images. It performs very fast categorization of each pixel in an image, a brute-force approach...
ICCV
2005
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
In this paper we compare the performance of local detectors and descriptors in the context of object class recognition. Recently, many detectors / descriptors have been evaluated ...
ICCV
2005
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
In this paper we propose an approach to vehicle classification under a mid-field surveillance framework. We develop a repeatable and discriminative feature based on edge points an...
CVPR
2006
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2006
IEEE
SIFT has been proven to be the most robust local invariant feature descriptor. SIFT is designed mainly for gray images. However, color provides valuable information in object desc...