In this paper we propose a novel method for demographic classification and present an image retrieval system that can retrieve facial images by demographic information that includ...
While scanning pages from a thick, bound book, there are two sources of distortion in the document images: 1) shade along the book `spine', and 2) warping of the book surface...
Most illuminant estimation algorithms worked on point light sources or directional light sources. Little attempt has been made, however, to estimate area light sources. In this pa...
Two-dimensional and three-dimensional coordinate systems are the basic graphics symbols in many graphical documents. A robust coordinate system detection scheme is needed in order...
Multimodal distribution fitting is an important task in pattern recognition. For instance, the predetection which is the preliminary stage that limits image areas to be processed i...