Power efficiency has emerged as one of the main concerns in many digital design domains ranging from embedded and battery operated systems to data centers. …
Automated estimation of the geometry and appearance of surfaces from aerial imagery is an active research topic with applications in computer vision, remote sensing, robotics …
This thesis is dedicated to exploring compression methods for large dynamic scenes. The first part presents a case study of compressing aerial video using background …
This thesis develops novel algorithms to automate video analysis for fixed monocular surveillance cameras. Specifically, change detection algorithms are proposed to identify spatio-temporal locations in …
This thesis develops the multiple view geometry of arbitrary, piecewise differentiable curves using differential geometry, and the beginnings of a theory on general surfaces. These …
This thesis is concerned with estimating the time-varying 3-d surface geometry and surface appearance of dynamic scenes from images. An accurate reconstruction of a 4-d …
Recently, a new probabilistic representation for 3-d volumetric appearance modeling (VAM) has been developed. In this thesis, VAM is used to model background appearance of …
Microphone arrays have been used in many applications, such as: teleconferencing, speech recognition, talker characterization, speech enhancement, source localization and separation, etc. Despite the fast-paced …
One of the major challenges in computer vision is generic object recognition, which aims to delineate and identify the category of every object in an …
Thanks to the recent advances in computer science and engineering, computational algorithms to solve digitized jigsaw puzzles have been developed to assist people in assembling …