In recent work, we presented a correspondence-based approach for real-time retrieval from databases of 2-D shapes. The system performs with high speed and accuracy relative to other published systems as measured on a ...
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In recent work, we presented a correspondence-based approach for real-time retrieval from databases of 2-D shapes. The system performs with high speed and accuracy relative to other published systems as measured on a widely used benchmark dataset. In this paper, we test the generalization accuracy of the approach;i.e., its ability to correctly retrieve shapes from a shape database when the query shapes are not contained in the database. The experimental results show that the system's accuracy on novel inputs is nearly as high as its accuracy on shapes that are already contained in the database, demonstrating that the approach has good generalization accuracy. This result provides additional support for the use of the proposed approach for shape retrieval and object recognition applications.
We present the design and implementation of an activity recognition system in wide area aerial video surveillance using Entity Relationship Models (ERM). In this approach, finding an activity is equivalent to sending ...
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The hero jumped down the wall, escalated the hill, slid down the rock, climbed the stairs and finally left the vilain behind...In this classical scene, the hero has to move on different types of terrain. Recreating su...
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(纸本)9781450347266
The hero jumped down the wall, escalated the hill, slid down the rock, climbed the stairs and finally left the vilain behind...In this classical scene, the hero has to move on different types of terrain. Recreating such a varied spectrum of terrains in a theater scene still remains a challenge.
This paper presents a new framework for a multi-stage multi-view approach for human interactions and activity analysis. The analysis is performed in a distributed vision system that synergistically integrate track- an...
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This paper presents an new framework for homographybased analysis of pedestrian-vehicle activity in crowded scenes. Planar homography constraint is exploited to extract view-invariant object features including footage...
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Facial expressions are a rich source of communicative information about human behavior and emotion. This paper presents a real-time system for recognition and imitation of facial expressions in the context of affectiv...
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(纸本)9781467363587
Facial expressions are a rich source of communicative information about human behavior and emotion. This paper presents a real-time system for recognition and imitation of facial expressions in the context of affective Human Robot Interaction. The proposed method achieves a fast and robust facial feature extraction based on consecutively applying filters to the gradient image. An efficient Gabor filter is used, along with a set of morphological and convolutional filters to reduce the noise and the light dependence of the image acquired by the robot. Then, a set of invariant edge-based features are extracted and used as input to a Dynamic Bayesian Network classifier in order to estimate a human emotion. The output of this classifier updates a geometric robotic head model, which is used as a bridge between the human expressiveness and the robotic head. Experimental results demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the proposed approach compared to similar systems.
In this paper, we present a new dichromatic-based method for estimating illuminant chromaticity using a single image. In the proposed method, specular pixels are roughly extracted from an input image and projected int...
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Consumer devices with stereo cameras have become popular because of their low-cost depth sensing capability. However, those systems usually suffer from low imaging quality and inaccurate depth acquisition under low-li...
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(纸本)9781467388511
Consumer devices with stereo cameras have become popular because of their low-cost depth sensing capability. However, those systems usually suffer from low imaging quality and inaccurate depth acquisition under low-light conditions. To address the problem, we present a new stereo matching method with a color and monochrome camera pair. We focus on the fundamental trade-off that monochrome cameras have much better light-efficiency than color-filtered cameras. Our key ideas involve compensating for the radiometric difference between two crossspectral images and taking full advantage of complementary data. Consequently, our method produces both an accurate depth map and high-quality images, which are applicable for various depth-aware image processing. Our method is evaluated using various datasets and the performance of our depth estimation consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
In robotics, homing can be defined as that behavior which enables a robot to return to its initial (home) position, after traveling a certain distance along an arbitrary path. Odometry has traditionally been used for ...
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In robotics, homing can be defined as that behavior which enables a robot to return to its initial (home) position, after traveling a certain distance along an arbitrary path. Odometry has traditionally been used for the implementation of such a behavior, but it has been shown to be an unreliable source of information. In this work, a novel method for visual homing is proposed, based on a panoramic camera. As the robot departs from its initial position, it tracks characteristic features of the environment (corners). As soon as homing is activated, the robot selects intermediate target positions on the original path. These intermediate positions (IPs) are then visited sequentially, until the home position is reached. For the robot to move between two consecutive IPs, it is only required to establish correspondence among at least three corners. This correspondence is obtained through a feature tracking mechanism. The proposed homing scheme is based on the extraction of very low-level sensory information, namely the bearing angles of corners, and has been implemented on a robotic platform. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves homing with a remarkable accuracy, which is not affected by the distance travelled by the robot.
We propose an efficient method for model-based 3D tracking of hand articulations observed from an egocentric viewpoint that aims at supporting the manipulation of virtual objects. Previous modelbased approaches optimi...
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