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In this paper, a new method of hand gesture recognition is proposed. First, the hand region is separated based on the depth information. Then the wavelet feature is calculated by enforcing the wavelet invariant moments of the hand region, and the distance feature is extracted by calculating the distance from fingers to hand centroid. Next, a feature vector which is composed of wavelet invariant moments...
With the extensive use of sophisticated image editing software, it has become easy to manipulate digital images without any visually visible clue. Copy-move is a special type of image forgery performed by copying a part of the image and pasting anywhere else in the same image. We proposed a passive image authentication technique to determine the copy-move forgery. First, the method divides the image...
Key frame extraction is a crucial step in content-based video retrieval. To accurately describe character of frames, various features like color, texture, shape can be integrated and used for key frame extraction. In this paper, we proposed an improved two-phase approach of key frame extraction based on entropy and perceptual hash. It weakens the threshold's direct influence on final results, and...
We present a method for removing specular highlight reflections in facial images that may contain varying illumination colors. This is accurately achieved through the use of physical and statistical properties of human skin and faces. We employ a melanin and hemoglobin based model to represent the diffuse color variations in facial skin, and utilize this model to constrain the highlight removal solution...
We present a method for radiometric calibration of cameras from a single image that contains a human face. This technique takes advantage of a low-rank property that exists among certain skin albedo gradients because of the pigments within the skin. This property becomes distorted in images that are captured with a non-linear camera response function, and we perform radiometric calibration by solving...
With the further and faster urbanization, here come the advent and development of intelligent public transportation system. The identification of the traffic signs, as a key component of the intelligent transit system, has a prospect of widespread use in self-driving and driver assistance system. The paper focuses on the classification and identification of traffic signs based on the researches on...
Environmental Microorganisms (EMs) are very diverse and live in every part of the biosphere (rivers, forests, mountains, etc.), playing critical roles in earth's biogeochemical cycles as they are responsible for the decomposition of waste. Currently, a lot of manual efforts through morphological analysis using microscopes have been put on looking for EMs; however, these methods are expensive and time-consuming...
The exponential growth of online videos imposes urgent demands on near-duplicate video detection. Near-duplicate keyframe detection is at the base of near-duplicate video detection. In this paper, based on the analysis of the state-of-the-art of near-duplicate keyframe detection, GrayScale Pyramid (GSP) is processed for improving the global feature of color histogram. By constructing the spatial pyramid...
We present a method for symmetric stereo matching in which outliers from occlusions, texture-less regions, and repeated patterns are handled in a soft and adaptive manner. Rather than making binary outlier decisions, our model incorporates continuous-valued confidence weights that account for outlier likelihood, to promote robustness in disparity estimation. In contrast to previous outlier labeling...
Cartoon image annotation and retrieval is critical for cartoonists to effectively and efficiently make cartoons by reusing existing cartoon data. To successfully achieve these tasks, it is essential to build an abundant cartoon database first and then annotate and retrieve them efficiently. This paper studies and realizes a cartoon images annotation and retrieval system which supports interactive...
Speed and precision are important for object detection algorithms. In this paper, a novel object detection algorithm based on color histogram and adaptive bandwidth mean shift is proposed. The algorithm is capable of detecting objects rapidly and precisely. It is composed of two stages: a rough detection stage and a precise detection stage. At the rough detection stage, histogram back projection and...
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