As the amount of available data continues to increase, more and more effective means for discovering important patterns and relationships within that data are required. Although t...
This paper describes a novel approach to named entity (NE) tagging on degraded documents. NE tagging is the process of identifying salient text strings in unstructured text, corre...
Image based mail piece identification is a new technology for optimizing the postal sorting process. Exploiting the mail piece surface uniqueness, characteristic features are used...
For the first time, we present an AM-FM image model that, in addition to being remarkably consistent with human visual perception, also provides perfect reconstruction of the imag...
—Automatic understanding of human behavior is an important and challenging objective in several surveillance applications. One of the main problems of this task consists in accur...