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With the increased use of 3D shape objects in a wide range of fields, photo-based 3D shape retrieval has recently attracted attention. Photo-based 3D shape retrieval is a newly developed search technique to retrieve 3D shape objects using a 2D photo image as the search query. We report the development of a benchmark dataset for evaluating the search performance of a photo-based 3D shape retrieval...
The interest point (IP) matching algorithms match the points either locally or spatially. We propose a local-spatial IP matching algorithm usable for articulated human body tracking. The local-based stage finds matched IP pairs of two reference and target IP lists using a local-feature-descriptors-based matching method. Then, the spatial-based stage recovers more matched pairs from the remaining unmatched...
Manual annotation of images is usually a mandatory task in many applications where no knowledge about the image is available. In presence of huge number of images, this task becomes very tedious and prone to human errors. In this paper, we contribute in automatic annotation of ancient manuscripts by discovering manuscript calligraphy. Ancient manuscripts count a very large number of Persian and Maghrebi...
Recent research in texture-based ear recognition also indicates that ear detection and texture-based ear recognition are robust against signal degradation and encoding artefacts. Based on these findings, we further investigate and compare the performance of texture descriptors for ear recognition and seek to explore possibilities to complement texture descriptors with depth information. On the basis...
Nowadays, content-based image-retrieval techniques constitute powerful tools for archiving and mining of large remote sensing image databases. High spatial resolution images are complex and differ widely in their content, even in the same category. All images are more or less textured and structured. If the image to recognize is somewhat or very structured, a shape feature will be somewhat or very...
In content-based image retrieval, and for this critical issue of image feature fusion, paper proposes a new method to determine the weights for multi-feature fusion. In this paper, color histogram, color correlogram, gray level co-occurrence matrix, Tamura and Hu moments, this five kinds of feature extraction method was adopted. Firstly, use these five features conducted single feature retrieval on...
Core region detection of handwritten cursive words is an important step towards their automatic recognition. Several preprocessing operations such as height normalization, slant estimation etc. Are often based on this core region. This is particularly useful for word recognition of major Indian scripts, which have large character sets. The main parts of majority of these characters belong to the core...
In this paper we evaluate the influence of the selection of key points and the associated features in the performance of word spotting processes. In general, features can be extracted from a number of characteristic points like corners, contours, skeletons, maxima, minima, crossings, etc. A number of descriptors exist in the literature using different interest point detectors. But the intrinsic variability...
In this article, we describe our recent study of a novel combination of two feature vectors for holistic recognition of offline handwritten word images. In the literature, both contour and skeleton based feature representations have been studied for offline handwriting recognition purpose. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no such study in which combination of the two feature representations...
This paper proposes a hierachical method for traffic sign detection by employing extreme learning machine (ELM) whose infrastructure is a single-hidden-layer feedforward network. This proposed method consists of three modules: Coarse detection module, fine detection module and candidates clustering module. Histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) and color histogram are used as features of signs. This...
Categorizing free-hand human sketches has profound implications in applications such as human computer interaction and image retrieval. The task is non-trivial due to the iconic nature of sketches, signified by large variances in both appearance and structure when compared with photographs. One of the most fundamental problems is how to effectively describe a sketch image. Many existing descriptors,...
In this paper, we propose an integrated approach for human detection in surveillance video. In our approach, the moving object is extracted by background subtraction, and the background model is updated by the first order recurrence filter. Then, two complementary shape features are extracted for moving object classification. They are contour-based description: Fourier descriptor and region-based...
We report our ongoing research on an application-independent and segmentation-free approach for spotting queries in document images. Built on our earlier work reported in [1][2], this paper introduces an image processing approach that finds occurrences of a query, which is a multi-part object, in a document image, through 5 steps: (1) Preprocessing for image normalization and connected components...
Most of the open challenges in person re-identification arise from the large variations of human appearance and from the different camera views that may be involved, making pure feature matching an unreliable solution. To tackle these challenges state-of-the-art methods assume that a unique inter-camera transformation of features undergoes between two cameras. However, the combination of view points,...
Recently introduced high-accuracy RGB-D cameras are capable of providing high quality three-dimension information (color and depth information) easily. The overall shape of the object can be understood by acquiring depth information. However, conventional methods adopted this camera use depth information only to extract the local feature. To improve the object recognition accuracy, in our approach,...
The timely and accurate identification of plant species is a persistent challenge as pressure from human activity threatens global flora biodiversity. Most existing research on computer based plant species identification has focused on using leaf contour, signature and spectral analysis techniques alongside textural properties of the leaf lamina. However, these global feature based methods often suffer...
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in developing methods for 3D face recognition. However, 3D scans often suffer from the problems of missing parts, large facial expressions, and occlusions. In this paper, we propose a novel general approach to deal with the 3D face recognition problem by making use of multiple keypoint descriptors (MKD) and the sparse representation-based classifier (SRC)...
Automated clump decomposition is essential for single cell based analysis of fluorescent microscopy images. This paper presents a new method for automatically splitting clumps of cell nuclei in fluorescence microscopy images. Nuclei are first segmented using histogram concavity analysis. Clumps of nuclei are detected by fitting an ellipse to the segmented objects and examining objects where the fitted...
Article deals with current situation of the histogram use. Overwhelming majority of ELINT systems applies histogram depiction in their analytic displays. Significant majority of distinguished radar signals experts use their advantageous function. This contribution shows breaking approach in histogram description via Gaussian function. Particular parts are aimed into creation of data library. This...
We present a new method for automatic classification of indirect immunoflourescence images of HEp-2 cells into different staining pattern classes. Our method is based on a new texture measure called shape index histograms that captures second-order image structure at multiple scales. Moreover, we introduce a spatial decomposition scheme which is radially symmetric and suitable for cell images. The...
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