Online social networks are a growing internet phenomenon: they connect millions of individuals through sharing of common interests, political and religious views, careers, etc. So...
Given a dense set of imperfect normals obtained by photometric stereo or shape from shading, this paper presents an optimization algorithm which alternately optimizes until conver...
In this paper we introduce a framework for automated text recognition from images. We first describe a simple but efficient text detection and recognition method based on analysis...
In this work, we propose novel results for the optimization of divergences within the framework of region-based active contours. We focus on parametric statistical models where th...
As relational database management systems are applied to non-traditional domains such as scientific data management, there is an increasing need to support queries with semantics ...