The wide-baseline stereo problem, i.e. the problem of establishing correspon-dences between a pair of images taken from different viewpoints is studied. A new set of image elements that are put into correspondence, the so called extremal regions, is introduced. Extremal regions possess highly de

We assess the applicability of several popular learning methods for the problem of recognizing generic visual categories with invariance to pose, lighting, and surrounding clutter. A large dataset comprising stereo image pairs of 50 uniform-colored toys under 36 angles, 9 azimuths, and 6 lighting

The invariants of a pair of quadratic forms and a pair of coplanar conies are revisited following [1, 5, 2]. For a given pair of conies, with their associated matrices Ci and C2, we show that Trace(Cj 1 Ci), Trac^C ^ 1 C2) and |Ci |/|C21 are only invariants of associated quadratic forms

expressions for intersection pairings on moduli spaces of flat connections on a two dimensional surface. The latter expressions agree, for gauge group SU(2), with formulas obtained recently by several methods. This paper will be devoted to a renewed study of two dimensional Yang-Mills theory without matter, a

In this paper we simplify and extend the Eta pairing, originally discovered in the setting of supersingular curves by Barreto et al., to ordinary curves. Furthermore, we show that by swapping the arguments of the Eta pairing, one obtains a very efficient algorithm resulting in a speed-up of a

that measurement prediction errors are correlated. This leads to easily accepting incorrect matchings when clutter or vehicle errors increase. We propose a new measurement of the joint compatibility of a set of pairings that successfully rejects spurious matchings. We show experimentally that this restrictive

of uv is typically defined as II,,vll + c for a constant 2 <_ t ~ < 5 and c> O. The minimum power topology Gm is the smallest subgraph of Gt that contains the shortest paths between all pairs of nodes, i.e., the union of all shortest paths. In this paper, we described a distributed position

In a desarguesian projective plane we discuss those degenerate conics whose parameters have degree two over the centre of the underlying skew field. Such degenerate conics are closely related with Baer subplanes. This relationship enables us to improve and reformulate in a geometric language some

The joint invariants of a pair of coplanar conics has been widely used in recent vision literature. In this paper, the algebraic invariant of a pair of non-coplanar conics in space is concerned. The algebraic invariant of a pair of non-coplanar conics is first derived from the invariant algebra

some new ideas for efficient implementations, and show some empirical results indicating its practicality in solving highly degenerate problems. 1 Introduction A pair (A; R) of real matrices A and R is said to be a double description pair or simply a DD pair if the relationship Ax 0 if and only if x