The output of image coding and rendering algorithms are presented on a diverse array of display devices. To evaluate these algorithms, image quality metrics should include more information about the spatial and chromatic properties of displays. To understand how to best incorporate such display information,…
A method of geodesic image and video processing is proposed. In an embodiment, the method uses a geodesic distance transform to construct an image filter. The filter can be used in a variety of image editing operations such as segmentation, denoising, texture smoothing, image stitching…
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This work investigates the use of Random Forests for class based pixel-wise segmentation of images. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, we show that apparently quite dissimilar classifiers (such as nearest neighbour matching to texton class histograms) can be mapped onto a Random…
Online camera recalibration is necessary for long-term deployment of computer vision systems. Existing algorithms assume that the source of recalibration information is a set of features in a general 3D scene; and that enough features are observed that the calibration problem is well-constrained. However; these…
The objective of this work is to automatically generate a large number of images for a specified object class (for example, penguin). A multi-modal approach employing both text, meta data and visual features is used to gather many, high-quality images from the Web. Candidate images…
In a video conferencing setting, people often use an elongated meeting table with the major axis along the camera direction. A standard wide-angle perspective image of this setting creates significant foreshortening, thus the people sitting at the far end of the table appear very small…
This paper presents an overview of our research project on digital preservation of cultural heritage objects and digital restoration of the original appearance of these objects. As an example of these objects, this project focuses on the preservation and restoration of the Great Buddhas. These…
This paper discusses the problem of severe pathological encoder-decoder IDCT drift in video compression coding when using a very small quantization step size and typical encoding techniques to encode video sequences with areas of completely static source content. We suggest that there are two ways…
This paper introduces the HD Photo coding technology developed by Microsoft Corporation. The storage format for this technology is now under consideration in the ITU-T/ISO/IEC JPEG committee as a candidate for standardization under the name JPEG XR. The technology was developed to address end-to-end digital…
This paper proposes a framework that achieves the Learning from Observation paradigm for learning dance motions. The framework enables a humanoid robot to imitate dance motions captured from human demonstrations. This study especially focuses on leg motions to achieve a novel attempt in which a…
