In our paper we explore the application of the SIFT method on terrestrial laser scan data. The energy of the backscattered laser light is represented in a reflectance image. This representation of the data can be directly used with standard SIFT implementations. We show that the extracted features are good candidates for registration. Furthermore, we show that feature matching based on the feat...

Content-aware image retargeting has attracted substantial research interests in the related research community. However, so far there is still no method can preserve important image contents and structure well without introducing deformation. To address this problem, we propose a Saliency & Structure Preserving Multi-operator (SSPM) method. SSPM classifies images into three categories utilizing...

In this paper, we present a method that uses web photos for measuring frame interestingness of a travel video. Web photo collections, such as those on Flickr, tend to contain interesting images because their images are more carefully taken, composed, and selected. Because these photos have already been chosen as subjectively interesting, they serve as evidence that similar images are also inter...

Targets and objects registration and tracking in a sequence of images play an important role in various areas. One of the methods in image registration is feature-based algorithm which is accomplished in two steps. The first step includes finding features of sensed and reference images. In this step, a scale space is used to reduce the sensitivity of detected features to the scale changes. Afterw...

An effective rotation and scale invariant log-polar wavelet texture feature for image retrieval was proposed. The feature extraction process involves a log-polar transform followed by an adaptive row shift invariant wavelet packet transform. The log-polar transform converts a given image into a rotation and scale invariant but rowshifted image, which is then passed to the adaptive row shift inv...

Worldwide, law enforcement agencies are encountering a substantial increase in the number of illicit drug pills being circulated in our society. Identifying the source and manufacturer of these illicit drugs will help deter drug-related crimes. We have developed an automatic system, called Pill-ID to match drug pill images based on several features (i.e., imprint, color, and shape) of the table...

We present the results of our submission to the MediaEval 2012 Placing Task. We used a framework that combines language models and similarity search, which improves our system from last year by using a different feature selection technique, extending our similarity search, tapping into new types of information for videos without any tags and including the use of SIFT features.