The task of searching and recognizing objects in images has become an important research topic in the area of image processing and computer vision. Looking for similar images in large datasets given an input query and ...

This paper proposes a service-oriented architecture for video analysis which separates object detection from event recognition. Our aim is to introduce new tools to be considered in the pathway towards Cognitive Vision as ...

Computer Vision problems applied to visual surveillance have been studied for several years aiming at finding accurate and efficient solutions. The main goal of such systems is to analyze the scene focusing on the detection ...

The recognition of gestures corresponds to a mathematical interpretation of a human motion by a machine. It involves different aspects and parts of human body, such as variations in the positioning of hands and arms, ...

This paper proposes novel exclusive and continuous approaches to guide the search and the retrieval in fingerprint image databases. Both approaches are useful to perform a coarse level classification of fingerprint images ...