In this paper, we propose a topic detection method using a dialogue history for selecting a scene in the automatic interpretation system (Ikeda et al., 2002). The method uses a k-...
Segmentation of surgical devices in fluoroscopic images and in particular of guide-wires is a valuable element during surgery. In cardiac angioplasty, the problem is particularly ...
—Graphics artists commonly employ physically-based simulation for the generation of effects such as smoke, explosions, and similar phenomena. The task of finding the correct par...
In this paper, we propose a new approach for symbolic representation of off-line signatures based on relative distances between centroids useful for verification. Distances betwee...
Events and stories can be characterized by a set of descriptive, collocated keywords. Intuitively, documents describing the same event will contain similar sets of keywords, and t...