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Paper:TP-P7.11
Session:Image and Video Modeling
Time:Tuesday, October 10, 14:20 - 17:00
Presentation: Poster
Topic: Image & Video Modeling: Other
Title: A PROFILE HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SHAPE
Authors: Rui Huang; Rutgers University 
 Vladimir Pavlovic; Rutgers University 
 Dimitris Metaxas; Rutgers University 
Abstract: In this paper we propose a new framework for modeling 2D shapes. A shape is first described by a sequence of local features (e.g., curvature) of the shape boundary. The resulting description is then used to build a Profile Hidden Markov Model (PHMM) representation of the shape. PHMMs are a particular type of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) with special states and architecture that can tolerate considerable shape contour perturbations, including rigid and non-rigid deformations, occlusions and missing contour parts. Different from traditional HMM-based shape models, the sparseness of the PHMM structure allows efficient inference and learning algorithms for shape modeling and analysis. The new framework can be applied to a wide range of problems, from shape matching and classification to shape segmentation. Our experimental results show the effectiveness and robustness of this new approach in the three application domains.