Curve evolution implementations [3][23] [25] of the Mumford-Shah functional [16] are of broad interest in image segmentation. These implementations, however, have initialization p...
Yongsheng Pan, J. Douglas Birdwell, Seddik M. Djou...
Although it has been studied for years by the computer vision and machine learning communities, image annotation is still far from practical. In this paper, we propose a novel atte...
Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang 0001, Xirong Li, Wei-Ying...
Using statistical textons for texture classification has shown great success recently. The maximal response 8 (MR8) method, which extracts an 8-dimensional feature set from 38 filt...
Local descriptors are increasingly used for the task of object recognition because of their perceived robustness with respect to occlusions and to global geometrical deformations....
The massive distribution of the crawling task can lead to inefficient exploration of the same portion of the Web. We propose a technique to guide crawlers exploration based on the...