The task of identifying 3D objects in 2D images is difficult due to variation in objects' appearance with changes in pose and lighting. The task is further complicated by the...
We explore the possibility of recognizing the surface material from a single image with unknown illumination, given the shape of the surface. Model-based PCA is used to create a lo...
Abstract. This contribution proposes a compositional approach to visual object categorization of scenes. Compositions are learned from the Caltech 101 database1 intermediate abstra...
The Visual Thesaurus is a new query approach when no starting image is available. It is a concise representation of all similar regions in a panel of visual patches; the user arra...
The ability to automatically record the marks applied to paper documents on their electronic originals would preserve the information represented by those annotations. Users could...