Big little icons

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Computer icons are small artificial images designed to be perceived with minimal ambiguity by the human visual system. In order to make them easier to perceive by visually impaired people, we propose a solution to the superresolution problem for color bitmap icons in a manner that exploits the unique characteristics of this medium versus that of generic low resolution natural imagery. We propose an MRF-based solution that incorporates local models of luminance and color perception which lays the basis for a snake-based vectorization of the icon and demonstrates encouraging performance on a diverse set of icons.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
ISSN2160-7508
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005 - Workshops - San Diego, United States
Duration: 21 Sep 200523 Sep 2005

Conference

Conference2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005 - Workshops
CountryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period21/09/200523/09/2005

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was funded by the UCSD division of Calit2, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, NSF-CAREER #0448615, DOE/LLNL contract no. W-7405-ENG-48 (subcontracts B542001 and B547328), and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. The authors would also like to thank S. Agarwal, K. Branson, S. Das-gupta and A. Rabinovich for helpful discussions.

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