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In this paper, we study the salient object detection problem for images. We formulate this problem as a binary labeling task where we separate the salient object from the background. We propose a set of novel features, including multiscale contrast, center-surround histogram, and color spatial distribution, to describe a salient object locally, regionally, and globally. A conditional random field...
We present a novel approach to address the representation issue and the matching issue in face recognition (verification). Firstly, our approach encodes the micro-structures of the face by a new learning-based encoding method. Unlike many previous manually designed encoding methods (e.g., LBP or SIFT), we use unsupervised learning techniques to learn an encoder from the training examples, which can...
Image matting is of great importance in both computer vision and graphics applications. Most existing state-of-the-art techniques rely on large sparse matrices such as the matting Laplacian. However, solving these linear systems is often time-consuming, which is unfavored for the user interaction. In this paper, we propose a fast method for high quality matting. We first derive an efficient algorithm...
In this paper, we propose a simple but effective image prior - dark channel prior to remove haze from a single input image. The dark channel prior is a kind of statistics of the haze-free outdoor images. It is based on a key observation - most local patches in haze-free outdoor images contain some pixels which have very low intensities in at least one color channel. Using this prior with the haze...
In this paper, we address the issue of transducing the object cutout model from an example image to novel image instances. We observe that although object and background are very likely to contain similar colors in natural images, it is much less probable that they share similar color configurations. Motivated by this observation, we propose a local color pattern model to characterize the color configuration...
In this paper, we study the problem of subspace-based face recognition under scenarios with spatial misalignments and/or image occlusions. For a given subspace, the embedding of a new datum and the underlying spatial misalignment parameters are simultaneously inferred by solving a constrained lscr1 norm optimization problem, which minimizes the error between the misalignment-amended image and the...
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