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ACCV
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
MRF-Based Background Initialisation for Improved Foreground Detection in Cluttered Surveillance Videos
Abstract. Robust foreground object segmentation via background modelling is a difficult problem in cluttered environments, where obtaining a clear view of the background to model i...
Vikas Reddy, Conrad Sanderson, Andres Sanin, Brian...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
231views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
16 years 25 days ago
Accurate 3D ground plane estimation from a single image
— Accurate localization of landmarks in the vicinity of a robot is a first step towards solving the SLAM problem. In this work, we propose algorithms to accurately estimate the ...
Anoop Cherian, Vassilios Morellas, Nikolaos Papani...
PCM
2009
Springer
198views Multimedia» more  PCM 2009»
16 years 22 days ago
Concept-Specific Visual Vocabulary Construction for Object Categorization
Recently, the bag-of-words (BOW) based image representation is getting popular in object categorization. However, there is no available visual vocabulary and it has to be learned. ...
Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Hanqing Lu, So...
ICIP
2007
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Kernels on Bags of Fuzzy Regions for Fast Object retrieval
We propose in this paper a general kernel framework to deal with database object retrieval embedded in images with heterogeneous background. We use local features computed on fuzz...
Philippe Henri Gosselin, Matthieu Cord, Sylvie Phi...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Handwritten Word Image Retrieval with Synthesized Typed Queries
We propose a new method for handwritten word-spotting which does not require prior training or gathering examples for querying. More precisely, a model is trained "on the fly...
José A. Rodríguez-Serrano, Florent P...