From skeletons to bone graphs: Medial abstraction for object recognition

26th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Macrini, Diego ^a   Siddiqi, Kaleem ^b   Dickinson, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPROVED STABILITY; POSE-ESTIMATION; SHAPE-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION; SHOCK GRAPHS;

ABSTRACTING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BONE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL THEORY; DEFORMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 51949119609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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