L'objectif de ce travail est de mettre en évidence l’intérêt d’utiliser des modélisations du système visuel humain pour développer des outils de traitement...

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July 15 – August 12, Bogazici University CampuseNTERFACE'07 took place in Istanbul, at the campus of the Bogazici University. The one month long workshop was attended by 140 people. The workshop was organized around 12 well-defined projects, as...

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The problem addressed in this PhD thesis is how to offer an effective and efficient VR means of training in laparoscopic surgery. The question is to determine what makes it a useful didactic tool. This work is conceived to be a bridge between surgical...

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Extracting knowledge from images through feature extraction is a topic of paramount importance for the Image Processing and Computer Vision...

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July 17th – August 11th, Dubrovnik, CroatiaeNTERFACE '06, the second in the series of eNTERFACE workshops, was hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. A group of 63 international students from all over...

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Consciously or unconsciously, humans always pay attention to a wide variety of stimuli. Attention is part of daily life and it is the first step to understanding. The proposed thesis deals with a computational approach to the human...

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Feature extraction and, particularly, orientation estimation of multidimensional images is of paramount importance for the Image Processing and Computer Vision...

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Pulmonary embolism (PE) is an extremely common and highly lethal condition that is a leading cause of death in all age groups. Over the past 10 years, computed tomography (CT) scanners have gained acceptance as a minimally invasive method...

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In a society driven by visual information and with the drastic expansion of low-priced cameras, text recognition is nowadays a fast changing field. In particular, natural scene text understanding aiming at extracting text from daily images is the...

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In this book we address the problem of quality inspection of agricultural produce, more specifically apple fruits, based on multispectral image...

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This study proposes a new spectral representation called the Zeros of Z-Transform (ZZT), which is an all-zero representation of the z-transform of the signal. In addition, new chirp group delay processing techniques are developed for analysis...

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This thesis describes a task model-based approach for developing interactive systems, where task models succeeded in supporting the various phases of the software development life cycle: from design, to verification,  to...

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This book presents the SIMILAR European research consortium in the field, the work under way and the great challenges posed by the development of the future multimodal...

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What are eNTERFACE workshops?The eNTERFACE summer workshops ( www.enterface.net ), organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence, are a new type of European workshops. They aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized...

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New multimedia database search tools require rapidity, compression, image quality and copyright control. The two latter are often covered by embedding a hidden watermark signal in the multimedia content. More effective and recognized multimedia...

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This book addresses the problems of spoken dialogue system design and especially automatic learning of optimal strategies for man-machine dialogues. Besides the description of the learning methods, this text proposes a framework for...

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