Traditional image retrieval methods require a "query image" to initiate a search for members of an image category. However, when the image database is unstructured, and ...
We propose an approach for detecting objects in large-scale range datasets that combines bottom-up and top-down processes. In the bottom-up stage, fast-to-compute local descriptors...
Alexander Patterson, Philippos Mordohai, Kostas Da...
Specular reflections present difficulties for many areas of computer vision such as stereo and segmentation. To separate specular and diffuse reflection components, previous approa...
Stephen Lin, Yuanzhen Li, Sing Bing Kang, Xin Tong...
In this paper we address the problem of organizing hidden-Web databases. Given a heterogeneous set of Web forms that serve as entry points to hidden-Web databases, our goal is to ...
Histogram Intersection (HI) kernel has been recently introduced for image recognition tasks. The HI kernel is proved to be positive definite and thus can be used in Support Vector ...
Sabri Boughorbel, Jean-Philippe Tarel and Nozha Bo...