Appearance Models (AM) are commonly used to model appearance and shape variation of objects in images. In particular, they have proven useful to detection, tracking, and synthesis...
Fernando De la Torre, Alvaro Collet, Manuel Quero,...
The world is covered with millions of webcams. Some are private, but many transmit everything in their field of view over the internet 24 hours a day. A web search finds public we...
Yael Pritch, Alex Rav-Acha, Avital Gutman, Shmuel ...
Free-form deformations (FFD) constitute an important geometric shape modification method that has been extensively investigated for computer animation and geometric modelling. In t...
Piecewise constant and piecewise smooth Mumford-Shah (MS) models have been widely studied and used for image segmentation. More complicated than piecewise constant MS, global Gaus...
?We present a method to automatically localize captions in JPEG compressed images and the I-frames of MPEG compressed videos. Caption text regions are segmented from background ima...