In the framework of a face verification system using local features and a Gaussian Mixture Model based classifier, we address the problem of non-frontal face verification (when on...
Random access is a desirable feature in many video communication systems. Intra pictures have been conventionally used as random access points, but correct picture content can als...
For almost a decade, Content-Based Image Retrieval has been an active research area, yet one fundamental problem remains largely unsolved: how to measure perceptual similarity. To...
We show how the symmetry of motion can be extracted by using the Generalised Symmetry Operator for analysing motion and for gait recognition. This operator, rather than relying on...
James B. Hayfron-Acquah, Mark S. Nixon, John N. Ca...
In this work we tackle the open problem of self-join size (SJS) estimation in a large-scale Distributed Data System, where tuples of a relation are distributed over data nodes whic...