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Summary form only given. Automation of image processing, analysis, estimating and understanding is one of the crucial points of theoretical computer science having decisive importance for applications, in particular, for diversification of solvable problem types and for increasing the efficiency of problem solving. Automation of image mining is one of the most important strategic goals in image analysis,...
Face recognition is nowadays one of the most challenging biometric modalities for the identification of individuals. In the last two decades several experimental as well as commercial systems have been developed exploiting different physical properties of the face image. Either being based on processing 2D or 3D information all these methods perform a face classification of the individuals based on...
A new feature descriptor is presented for object and scene recognition. The new approach, called CDIKP, uniquely combines the scale-invariant feature detection with a robust projection kernel technique to produce highly efficient feature representation. The produced feature descriptors are highly-compact in comparisons to the state-of-the-art, do not require any pretraining step, and show superior...
A method to compute a linear medial representation of a complex surface in the 3D discrete space is presented. The method involves voxel classification, surface labeling, anchor point detection, and voxel removal.
In this paper, we present an efficient discriminative method for human pose estimation. This method learns a direct mapping from visual observations to human body configurations. The framework requires that the visual features should be powerful enough to discriminate the subtle differences between similar human poses. We propose to describe the image features using salient interest points that are...
This paper proposes a new framework to image segmentation which combines edge- and region-based information with spectral techniques through the morphological algorithm of watersheds. A pre-processing step is used to reduce the spatial resolution without losing important image information. An initial partitioning of the image into primitive regions is set by applying a rainfalling watershed algorithm...
This paper proposes to characterize the fingerprint orientation using a novel topological representation, which transforms the orientation field into a map composed of a set of geometric objects and analyzes the properties of each geometric object based on two assumptions: regional coherence assumption and convexity assumption. Different from prior works on fingerprint orientation analysis, this approach...
In this paper, a novel multi-cue collaborative kernel tracking algorithm is proposed. A new constraint based on the property of cross ratio invariant enables tracking of objects insensitive to complex motions, including scale changes, rotation and especially views changes, without labeling and training. Meanwhile, invariant moments are introduced into the kernel based tracking method as the shape...
Simple binary patterns have been successfully used for extracting feature representations for visual object classification. In this paper, we present a method to learn a set of discriminative tri-value patterns for projecting high dimensional raw visual inputs into a low dimensional subspace for tasks such as face detection. Unlike previous methods that use predefined simple transform bases to generate...
In content based image retrieval, the success of any distance-based indexing scheme depends critically on the quality of the chosen distance metric. We propose in this paper a kernel-based similarity approach working on sets of vectors to represent images. We introduce a method for fast approximate similarity search in large image databases with our kernel-based similarity metric. We evaluate our...
Discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is sensitive to the translation/shift of input signals, so its effectiveness could be negatively impacted when we encounter translation among signals. To deal with such drawbacks, this paper proposes redundant DWT(RDWT) based method to achieve image registration, translation invariant wavelet feature extraction and face recognition. We select a representative face...
Traditional face superresolution methods treat face images as 1D vectors and apply PCA on the set of these 1D vectors to learn the face subspace. Zhang et al [7] proposed Two-directional two-dimensional PCA (2D)2-PCA for efficient face representation and recognition where images are treated as matrices instead of vectors. In this paper, we present a two-step algorithm for face superresolution. In...
Group action recognition in soccer videos is a challenging problem due to the difficulties of group action representation and camera motion estimation. This paper presents a novel approach for recognizing group action with a moving camera. In our approach, ego-motion is estimated by the Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi feature sets on successive frames. The optical flow is then computed on compensated frames....
In this paper, a colour text/graphics segmentation is proposed. Firstly, it takes advantage of colour properties by computing a relevant hybrid colour model. Then an edge detection is performed to construct a binary image composed of contour information. From this contour image, connected components are classified according to a graph representation. Text and graphic diversity is taken into account...
This paper presents a novel algorithm for unsupervised texture segmentation. We incorporate a set of texture features under a segmentation framework, based on the active contour without edges model with level set representation and a connected component filtering strategy. The experiments performed show that, it can be used for segmentation of multiple-textured images, with a segmentation quality...
We present a novel formulation of non-Abelian invariant feature detection. By choosing suitable measuring functions, we show that the measuring space and the corresponding feature space are equivariant with respect to the SL(2, Ropf) Lie transformation group. This group is non-Abelian and may be decomposed via the Iwasawa decomposition into meaningful transformations on images. We calculate the induced...
This paper details a fully automated face authentication system using low-cost near infrared imaging. The image normalization step consists of eye center localization, scale correction and orientation correction. This paper investigates the comparison and combination of four face matchers on the automatically normalized face images: elastic bunch graph matching (EBGM), trace transform, PCA, and LDA...
In a wide range of color-related computer vision applications, researchers tried to select one of the conventional color spaces as the optimum one. This paper, however, addresses the problem of how to learn an optimum color space from the given training sample set. We seek a set of optimal coefficients to combine the R, G and B components based on a discriminant criterion and then gain one discriminant...
We propose a method for recognizing human actions in videos. Inspired from the recent bag-of-words approaches, we represent actions as documents consisting of words, where a word refers to the pose in a frame. Histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) features are used to describe poses, which are then vector quantized to obtain pose-words. As an alternative to bag-of-words approaches, that only represent...
We have considered a problem of continuous piecewise linear approximation of the digital curves with a minimum number of the line segments. Fast sub-optimal algorithm for constrained piecewise linear approximation is suggested to construct continuous piecewise linear representation of the input curve for a given error bound. The proposed fast sub-optimal algorithm can be used in combination with reduced-search...
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