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ICIP
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic Business Card Scanning with a Camera
In this paper, we present a system to automatically extract, rectify and enhance business card images. First the business card image patch is automatically segmented by minimizing...
Gang Hua, Zicheng Liu, Zhengyou Zhang, Ying Wu
ICIP
2001
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Region-based color image indexing and retrieval
In this paper a region-based color image indexing and retrieval algorithm is presented. As a basis for the indexing, a novel K-Means segmentation algorithm is used, modified so as...
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Evagelia Triantafillou, Mich...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic generation of HMM topology for sign language recognition
Sign language is used for communicating to people with hearing difficulties. Recogntion of a sign language image sequence is challenging because of the variety of hand shapes and ...
Tadashi Matsuo, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada
ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
White-space models for offline Arabic handwriting recognition
We propose to explicitly model white-spaces for Arabic handwriting recognition within different writing variants. Position-dependent character shapes in Arabic handwriting allow f...
Philippe Dreuw, Stephan Jonas, Hermann Ney
ICPR
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Measurement Function Design for Visual Tracking Applications
Extracting human postural information from video sequences has proved a difficult research question. The most successful approaches to date have been based on particle filtering, ...
Andrew W. B. Smith, Brian C. Lovell