Finding glass

• Published in: 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Vol. 2; pp. 973 - 979 vol. 2
• Main Authors: McHenry, K., Ponce, J., Forsyth, D.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Computed tomography; Computer science; Detectors; Displays; Glass; Image edge detection; Object detection; Shape; Surface texture; Switches

This paper addresses the problem of finding glass objects in images. Visual cues obtained by combining the systematic distortions in background texture occurring at the boundaries of transparent objects with the strong highlights typical of glass surfaces are used to train a hierarchy of classifiers...