Shape is an important cue for generic object recognition but can be insufficient without other cues such as object appearance. We explore a number of ways in which the geometric a...
Imaging in scattering media such as fog and water is important but challenging. Images suffer from poor visibility due to backscattering and signal attenuation. Most prior methods...
We introduce a discriminative hidden-state approach for the recognition of human gestures. Gesture sequences often have a complex underlying structure, and models that can incorpo...
Sy Bor Wang, Ariadna Quattoni, Louis-Philippe More...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...
A fundamental challenge in face recognition lies in determining what facial features are important for the identification of faces. In this paper, a novel face recognition framewo...