We use segmentations to match images by shape. To address the unreliability of segmentations, we give a closed form approximation to an average over all segmentations. Our techniqu...
In this paper we present a new scheme for detection and tracking of specific objects in a knowledge-based framework. The scheme uses a supervised learning method: Support Vector M...
Lionel Carminati, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Christian J...
This paper is concerned with the topic of personalized news assembly at the set-top box, based on augmented video. This is video complemented with additional information that is s...
Norman Haas, Ruud M. Bolle, Nevenka Dimitrova, Ang...
Skin color is an important feature of faces. Various applications benefit from robust skin color detection. Depending on camera settings, illumination, shadows, people's tans...
Multimodal distribution fitting is an important task in pattern recognition. For instance, the predetection which is the preliminary stage that limits image areas to be processed i...