Sciweavers

2396 search results - page 443 / 480
» The LIFEdb database in 2006
Sort
View
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A document-centric approach to static index pruning in text retrieval systems
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
CIVR
2006
Springer
121views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Finding Faces in Gray Scale Images Using Locally Linear Embeddings
The problem of face detection remains challenging because faces are non-rigid objects that have a high degree of variability with respect to head rotation, illumination, facial exp...
Samuel Kadoury, Martin D. Levine
CIVR
2006
Springer
117views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Video Clip Matching Using MPEG-7 Descriptors and Edit Distance
Abstract. Video databases require that clips are represented in a compact and discriminative way, in order to perform efficient matching and retrieval of documents of interest. We ...
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Walter Nunziati
CLEAR
2006
Springer
109views Biometrics» more  CLEAR 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
Evaluation of Head Pose Estimation for Studio Data
This paper introduces our head pose estimation system that localizes nose-tip of the faces and estimates head poses in studio quality pictures. After the nose-tip in the training d...
Jilin Tu, Yun Fu, Yuxiao Hu, Thomas S. Huang
DAGM
2006
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Visual Hand Posture Recognition in Monocular Image Sequences
We present a model-based method for hand posture recognition in monocular image sequences that measures joint angles, viewing angle, and position in space. Visual markers in form o...
Thorsten Dick, Jörg Zieren, Karl-Friedrich Kr...