We propose the use of imaging polarimetry for general photography, which is a relatively young technique allowing the determination of polarized components of the light coming from extended objects or scenes. In this ...
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This paper presents an adaptive framework for live video analysis. The activities of surveillance subjects are described using a spatio-temporal vocabulary learned from recurrent motion patterns. The repetitive nature...
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We propose a new approach to the hand pose estimation problem using only volume information. We describe a thermal and color image-based approach to generate silhouettes of the hand with which voxel images are produce...
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Accurate segmentation of foreground objects in video scenes is critical for assuring reliable performance of vision systems for object tracking and situational awareness in outdoor scenes. Most existing techniques for...
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The Distributed Interactive Video Array (DIVA) system is developed to provide a large-scale, redundant cluster of video streams to observe a remote scene and to supply automatic focus of-attentian with event-driven se...
Key-point based techniques have demonstrated a good performance for recognition of various objects in numerous computervision applications. This paper investigates the use of some of the most popular key-point descri...
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(纸本)9789897580901
Key-point based techniques have demonstrated a good performance for recognition of various objects in numerous computervision applications. This paper investigates the use of some of the most popular key-point descriptors for face recognition. The emphasis is put on the experimental performance evaluation of the key-point based face recognition methods against some of the most popular and best performing techniques, utilising both global (Eigenfaces) and local (LBP, Gabor filters) information extracted from the whole face image. Most of the results reported in literature so far, on the use of the key-points descriptors for the face recognition, concluded that the methods based on processing of the full face image have somewhat better performances than methods using exclusively key-points. The results reported in this paper suggest that the performance of the key-point based methods could be at least comparable to the leading "whole face" methods and are often better suited to handle face recognition in practical applications, as they do not require face image co-registration, and perform well even with significantly occluded faces.
This paper presents a general framework for live video analysis. The activities of surveillance subjects are described using a spatio-temporal vocabulary learned from recurrent motion patterns. The repetitive nature o...
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Awareness to a vehicle's surrounding is necessary for safe driving. Current surround technologies focus on the detection of obstacles in hard-to-view places but may neglect temporal information. This paper seeks t...
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Asserting the inherent topology of the environment perceived by a robot is a key prerequisite of high-level decision making. This is achieved through the construction of a concise representation of the environment tha...
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(纸本)9789898425980
Asserting the inherent topology of the environment perceived by a robot is a key prerequisite of high-level decision making. This is achieved through the construction of a concise representation of the environment that endows a robot with the ability to operate in a coarse-to-fine strategy. In this paper, we propose a novel topological segmentation method of generic metric maps operating concurrently as a path-planning algorithm. First, we apply a Gaussian Distance Transform on the map that weighs points belonging to free space according to the proximity of the surrounding free area in a noise resilient mode. We define a region as the set of all the points that locally converge to a common point of maximum space clearance and employ a weighed meanshift gradient ascent onto the kernel space clearance density in order to detect the maxima that characterize the regions. The spatial intra-connectivity of each cluster is ensured by allowing only for linearly unobstructed mean-shifts which in parallel serves as a path-planning algorithm by concatenating the consecutive mean-shift vectors of the convergence paths. Experiments on structured and unstructured environments demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of the proposed approach.
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Abd-Almageed, WaelSmith, ChristopherRobotics
Artificial Intelligence and Vision Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of New Mexico United States
In this paper, a new technique for object classification from silhouettes is presented. Hidden Markov Models are used as a classification mechanism. Through a set of experiments, we show the validity of our approach a...
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(纸本)1889335185
In this paper, a new technique for object classification from silhouettes is presented. Hidden Markov Models are used as a classification mechanism. Through a set of experiments, we show the validity of our approach and show its invariance under severe rotation conditions. Also, a comparison with other techniques that use Hidden Markov Models for object classification from silhouettes is presented.
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