A patent always contains some images along with the text. Many text based systems have been developed to search the patent database. In this paper, we describe PATSEEK that is an ...
Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image datab...
We query Web Image search engines with words (e.g., spring) but need images that correspond to particular senses of the word (e.g., flexible coil). Querying with polysemous words ...
We introduce an algorithm for the automatic computation of global parameterizations on arbitrary simplicial 2manifolds, whose parameter lines are guided by a given frame field, f...
Knowing the background image of a video scene simplifies the general video-object segmentation problem and therefore it is required by several automatic segmentation algorithms. T...
Dirk Farin, Peter H. N. de With, Wolfgang Effelsbe...