When designing computer vision systems for the blind and visually impaired it is important to determine the orientation of the user relative to the scene. We observe that most ind...
Abstract. There is a huge diversity of definitions of "visually meaningful" image segments, ranging from simple uniformly colored segments, textured segments, through sym...
Principal ComponentAnalysis (PCA) has been successfully applied to construct linear models of shape, graylevel, and motion. In particular, PCA has been widely used to model the var...
Visual surveillance applications such as object identification, object tracking, and anomaly detection require reliable motion detection as an initial processing step. Such a dete...
In this paper we explore H.264/AVC operating in intraframe mode to compress a mixed image, i.e. composed of text, graphics and pictures. Even though mixed contents (compound) docu...