In a blog post earlier on this busy blogging week (hard to tell I'm spending a lot of time rotting in airports/hotels, no?), I introduced some of the difficulties in image clustering, or aggregation. This post introduces some of the broad approaches used to solve such imaging challenges. Broadly...
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09-20-2008
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Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, image transformation, exposure, contrast, machine vision, pattern matching, image modeling, segmentation, image processing, templates, steganography, image understanding
"Imaging" is a broad term meaning the ability to transform, interpret and/or associate an image. Sounds pretty easy, right? But when you consider what is actually involved, it's pretty hard. Most modern digital cameras (and other photo-capture devices) are packed with a host of "automatic"...
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09-18-2008
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Filed under: security, authentication, forensics, inspection, imaging, Sao Paulo, Morumbi bridge, GPS, image transformation, exposure, contrast
Hi, all I have been and am currently attending a couple of conferences last week and this. The IS&T sponsored NIP24 conference was last week. Please see http://www.imaging.org/conferences/NIP_DF2008/index.cfm for information. In particular, the Security & Forensic Printing session featured (links...
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09-16-2008
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Filed under: security printing, security, brand protection, copying, forensics, copy-detection, DocEng, layout, MICR, conductive inks, OCR, optical character recognition, IS&T, NIP24, imaging, watermarking, document engineering, ACM