Segmentation of ancient documents is challenging. In the worst cases, text characters become fragmented as the results of strong degradation processes. New active contour methods ...
Detection of visually salient image regions is useful for
applications like object segmentation, adaptive compression,
and object recognition. In this paper, we introduce
a meth...
Radhakrishna Achanta, Sheila S. Hemami, Francisco ...
We introduce in this paper two probabilistic reasoning models (PRM-1 and PRM-2) which combine the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique and the Bayes classifier and show th...
In this paper, an efficient global algorithm for vectorizing line drawings is presented. It first extracts a seed segment of a graphic entity from a raster image to obtain its dir...
Jiqiang Song, Feng Su, Jibing Chen, Chiew-Lan Tai,...
Recent work in object categorization often uses local image descriptors such as SIFT to learn and detect object categories. Such descriptors explicitly code local appearance and h...