Video-endoscopy (Figure 1), a mode of minimally invasive surgery, has proven to be significantly less invasive to the patient. However, it creates a much more complex operation env...
This paper compares two different local surface shape description methods. The general goal of surface shape description methods is to classify different surface shapes from range...
We present a new method for multi-object segmentation in a maximum a posteriori estimation framework. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighboring or coupling objec...
We present in this paper a novel approach for shape description based on kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). The strength of this method resides in the similarity (rotatio...
—We introduce quantization feature functions to represent continuous or large range discrete data into the symbolic CRF data representation. We show that doing this convertion in...