Face and facial feature detection plays an important role in various applications such as human computer interaction, video surveillance, face tracking, and face recognition. Effi...
A new method for text detection and recognition in natural scene images is presented in this paper. In the detection process, color, texture, and OCR statistic features are combin...
This paper describes a method to identify partially occluded shapes which are randomly oriented in 3D space. The goal is to match the object contour present in an image with an ob...
Image restoration using resolution expansion is important in many areas of image processing. This paper introduces a restoration method for low-resolution text images which produce...
The Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) model was introduced by 7) as a probabilistic re-formulation of the self-organizing map (SOM). It offers a number of advantages compared ...