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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Text Detection from Natural Scene Images: Towards a System for Visually Impaired Persons
We propose a system that reads the text encountered in natural scenes with the aim to provide assistance to the visually impaired persons. This paper describes the system design a...
Nobuo Ezaki, Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker
ICB
2007
Springer
482views Biometrics» more  ICB 2007»
16 years 5 days ago
Outdoor Face Recognition Using Enhanced Near Infrared Imaging
In this paper, we present a robust and accurate system for outdoor (as well as indoor) face recognition, based on a recently developed enhanced near-infrared (ENIR) imaging device....
Dong Yi, Rong Liu, Rufeng Chu, Rui Wang, Dong Liu,...
PCM
2001
Springer
223views Multimedia» more  PCM 2001»
15 years 10 months ago
VizWear: Toward Human-Centered Interaction through Wearable Vision and Visualization
Abstract. In this paper, we discuss the development of wearable systems which we collectively term VizWear. Vision plays an important role in both people's and computers'...
Takeshi Kurata, Takashi Okuma, Masakatsu Kourogi, ...
IVC
2000
188views more  IVC 2000»
15 years 5 months ago
Face recognition by statistical analysis of feature detectors
A successful face recognition system calculates similarity of face images based on the activation of multiscale and multiorientation Gabor kernels, but without utilizing any stati...
Peter Kalocsai, Christoph von der Malsburg, J. Hor...
FLAIRS
2004
15 years 7 months ago
An Active Architecture for Managing Events in Pervasive Computing Environments
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...
Edwin Wong, Lisa J. Burnell, Charles Hannon