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A Nonlinear, Regularized, and Data-independent Modulation for Continuously Interactive Image Processing Network
Most studies on convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based image processing have proposed networks that can be optimized for a single level. Here, the term “level" refers to the specific objective defined for ea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Expanded Adaptive Scaling Normalization for End to End Image Compression
Recently, learning-based image compression methods that utilize convolutional neural layers have been developed rapidly. Rescaling modules such as batch normalization which are often used in convolutional neur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SPSN: Superpixel Prototype Sampling Network for RGB-D Salient Object Detection
RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) has been in the spotlight recently because it is an important preprocessing operation for various vision tasks. However, despite advances in deep learning-based methods, RG...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tackling Background Distraction in Video Object Segmentation
Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to densely track certain designated objects in videos. One of the main challenges in this task is the existence of background distractors that appear simila...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Learning Temporally Invariant and Localizable Features via Data Augmentation for Video Recognition
Deep-Learning-based video recognition has shown promising improvements along with the development of large-scale datasets and spatiotemporal network architectures. In image recognition, learning spatially inva...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
AIM 2020 Challenge on Image Extreme Inpainting
This paper reviews the AIM 2020 challenge on extreme image inpainting. This report focuses on proposed solutions and results for two different tracks on extreme image inpainting: classical image inpainting and...
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SSIM-based distortion metric for film grain noise in HEVC
In video coding, the sum of squared differences (SSD) is traditionally used for rate-distortion optimization (RDO). However, SSD has been known that has low correlation on subjective quality. In particular, fi...
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Open AccessFast intermode decision algorithm based on general and local residual complexity in H.264/AVC
The state-of-the-art video coding standard H.264/AVC achieves significant coding performance by adopting variable block sizes for motion estimation (ME) and mode decision. However, this technique brings out hi...
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Open Access3D hand tracking using Kalman filter in depth space
Hand gestures are an important type of natural language used in many research areas such as human-computer interaction and computer vision. Hand gestures recognition requires the prior determination of the han...
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Open AccessFace Recognition Incorporating Ancillary Information
Due to vast variations of extrinsic and intrinsic imaging conditions, face recognition remained to be a challenging computer vision problem even today. This is particularly true when the passive imaging approa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Face Recognition Based on Near-Infrared Light Using Mobile Phone
Recently, many companies have attempted to adopt biometric technology in their mobile phones. In this paper, we propose a new NIR (Near-Infra-Red) lighting face recognition method for mobile phones by using me...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust 3D Face Data Acquisition Using a Sequential Color-Coded Pattern and Stereo Camera System
This paper presents a robust 3D data acquisition method that uses a sequential color-coded pattern and a stereo camera system. In this system, one projector projects a pattern on an object and two cameras capt...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robust Design of Face Recognition Systems
Currently, most face recognition methods provide a number of parameters to be optimized, leaving the selection and optimization of the right parameter set is necessary for the implementation. The choice of the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Pose-Normalized 3D Face Modeling and Recognition Systems
Pose-variation factors present a big problem in 2D face recognition. To solve this problem, we designed a 3D face acquisition system which was able to generate multi-view images. However, this created another ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Rapid 3D Face Data Acquisition Using a Color-Coded Pattern and a Stereo Camera System
This paper presents a rapid 3D face data acquisition method that uses a color-coded pattern and a stereo camera system. The technique works by projecting a color coded pattern on an object and capturing two im...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3D Face Recognition Based on Facial Shape Indexes with Dynamic Programming
This paper describes a 3D face recognition method using facial shape indexes. Given an unknown range image, we extract invariant facial features based on the facial geometry. We estimate the 3D head pose using...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Invertible Watermarking Algorithm with Detecting Locations of Malicious Manipulation for Biometric Image Authentication
In this paper, we present a new method for authentication of biometric images. Our method uses an invertible watermark that can also detect malicious manipulations simultaneously. While virtually all watermark...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Quality VoD Service Architecture on Broadband Internet
In this paper, for broadband Internet users, high quality VOD (Video on Demand) service architecture including network and platform is presented. As the existing IP-network cannot provide a guaranteed bandwidt...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Face Retrieval Using 1st- and 2nd-order PCA Mixture Model
This paper deals with face retrieval using the 1st- and 2nd-order PCA mixture model. The well-known eigenface method uses one set of holistic facial features obtained by PCA. However, the single set of eigenfa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hierarchical Shot Clustering for Video Summarization
Digital video is rapidly becoming a communication medium for education, entertainment, and a variety of multimedia applications. With the size of the video collections growing to thousnads of hours, efficient ...
