In this paper we propose a novel image restoration method that effectively combines a particle filter with wavelet shrinkage to achieve robust performance against inhomogeneous no...
Yan Zhai, Mark B. Yeary, Victor E. DeBrunner, Jose...
Lagrangian minimization is one of the most powerful tools for Rate-Distortion optimal coding mode selection. However, in the latest video compression standard H.264/AVC, the total...
In local feature?based face recognition systems, the topographical locations of feature extractors directly affect the discriminative power of a recognizer. Better recognition acc...
With recent advances in temporal and spatiotemporal databases, user demands are becoming more complex. As a result, simple queries are replaced by complex multitemporal query scen...
Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefani...
In this paper, we present the tools standardized by MPEG-7 for describing the semantics of multimedia. In particular, we the Abstraction Model, entities, attributes and relations ...
A. Murat Tekalp, Ahmet Ekin, Alesandro Bugatti, An...