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A template consensus method for visual tracking
Visual tracking is a challenging problem in computer vision. Recently, correlation filter-based trackers have shown to provide excellent tracking performance. Inspired by a sample consensus approach proposed f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Face Morphing Attacks by Analyzing the Directed Distances of Facial Landmarks Shifts
Face morphing attacks create face images that are verifiable to multiple identities. Associating such images to identity documents lead to building faulty identity links, causing attacks on operations like bor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Minutiae-Based Gender Estimation for Full and Partial Fingerprints of Arbitrary Size and Shape
Since fingerprints are one of the most widely deployed biometrics, accurate fingerprint gender estimation can positively affect several applications. For example, in criminal investigations, gender classificat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prototy** Shape-Sensing Fabrics Through Physical Simulation
Embedding sensors into fabrics can leverage substantial improvements in application areas like working safety, 3D modeling or health-care, for example to recognize the risk of develo** skin ulcers. Finding a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Text Localization in Born-Digital Images of Advertisements
Localizing text in images is an important step in a number of applications and fundamental for optical character recognition. While born-digital text localization might look similar to other complex tasks in t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring Adversarial Examples
Failure cases of black-box deep learning, e.g. adversarial examples, might have severe consequences in healthcare. Yet such failures are mostly studied in the context of real-world images with calibrated attac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated Deep Neural Network for Defect Detection in Dynamic Textile Textures
This paper presents a comprehensive defect detection method for two common fabric defects groups. Most existing systems require textiles to be spread out in order to detect defects. This method can be applied ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web-Based Visualization Component for Geo-Information
Three-dimensional visualization of maps is becoming an increasingly important issue on the Internet. The growing computing power of consumer devices and the establishment of new technologies like HTML5 and Web...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Eliminating the Ground Reference for Wireless Electric Field Sensing
Capacitive systems are getting more and more attention these days. But many systems today like smart-phone screens, laptops, and non-mechanical buttons use capacitive techniques to measure events within severa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Surface Acoustic Arrays to Analyze Human Activities in Smart Environments
Smart Environments should be able to understand a user’s need without explicit interaction. In order to do that, one step is to build a system that is able to recognize and track some common activities of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visualization of Zoomable 2D Projections on the Web
The objective of the work is the research and development of a web-based visualization system for the creation and testing of zoomable projection cards. The basic idea is to project a multidimensional data set...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Step by Step: Early Detection of Diseases Using an Intelligent Floor
The development of sensor technologies in smart homes helps to increase user comfort or to create safety through the recognition of emergency situations. For example, lighting in the home can be controlled or ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Guidance to Find the Right Spot in Parameter Space
The last few decades brought upon a technological revolution that has been generating data by users with an ever increasing variety of digital devices, resulting in such an incredible volume of data, that we a...
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Article
Mutual Information-Based Tracking for Multiple Cameras and Multiple Planes
Based on mutual information (MI), this paper proposes a systematic analysis of tracking a multi-plane object with multiple cameras. Firstly, a geometric model consisting of a piecewise planar object and multip...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Exploratory Study on Electric Field Sensing
Electric fields are influenced by the human body and other conducting materials. Capacitive measurement techniques are used in touch-screens, in the automobile industry, and for presence and activity recogniti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
New Approach for Optimizing the Usage of Situation Recognition Algorithms Within IoT Domains
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) over the past few years enabled a lot of application domains. Due to the increasing number of IoT connected devices, the amount of generated data is increasing too. P...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
E-Textile Couch: Towards Smart Garments Integrated Furniture
Application areas like health-care and smart environments have greatly benefited from embedding sensors into every-day-objects, enabling for example sleep apnea detection. We propose to further integrate parts...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fiber Defect Detection of Inhomogeneous Voluminous Textiles
Quality assurance of dry cleaned industrial textiles is still a mostly manually operated task. In this paper, we present how computer vision and machine learning can be used for the purpose of automating defec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Indexing of Single and Multi-instance Iris Data Based on LSH-Forest and Rotation Invariant Representation
Indexing of iris data is required to facilitate fast search in large-scale biometric systems. Previous works addressing this issue were challenged by the tradeoffs between accuracy, computational efficacy, sto...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neighbor Distance Ratios and Dynamic Weighting in Multi-biometric Fusion
Multi-biometrics aims at building more accurate unified biometric decisions based on the information provided by multiple biometric sources. Information fusion is used to optimize the process of creating this ...
