Shape symmetry is an important cue for image understanding. In the absence of more detailed prior shape information, segmentation can be significantly facilitated by symmetry. How...
In this paper, we address a novel problem of automatically creating a picture collage from a group of images. Picture collage is a kind of visual image summary -- to arrange all i...
Jingdong Wang, Long Quan, Jian Sun, Xiaoou Tang, H...
In this paper, we propose a novel local steerable phase (LSP) feature extracted from the face image using steerable filter for face representation and recognition. Steerable filte...
We describe a probabilistic framework for recognizing human activities in monocular video based on simple silhouette observations in this paper. The methodology combines kernel pr...
This paper describes a novel hand-based verification system based on palm-finger segmentation and fusion. The proposed system operates on 2D hand images acquired by placing the ha...
Gholamreza Amayeh, George Bebis, Ali Erol, Mircea ...