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ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Structure in Errors: A Case Study in Fingerprint Verification
Measuring the accuracy of biometrics systems is important. Accuracy estimates depend very much on the quality of the test data that are used. Including poor quality data will degr...
Sharath Pankanti, Nalini K. Ratha, Ruud M. Bolle
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
An Evaluation of the WPE Algorithm Using Tangent Distance
Weighting Prototype Editing (WPE) is a novel approach to edit a given set of prototypes so that the resulting set can outperform the original one in terms of the Nearest Neighbor ...
Roberto Paredes Palacios, Enrique Vidal, Daniel Ke...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Tracking Hands and Objects for an Intelligent Video Production System
We propose a novel method for detecting hands and hand-held objects in desktop manipulation situations. In order to achieve robust tracking under few constraints, we use multiple ...
Motoyuki Ozeki, Masatsugu Itoh, Yuichi Nakamura, Y...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Comparison of Colour Spaces for Optic Disc Localisation in Retinal Images
The location of the optic disc is of critical importance in retinal image analysis. In this work we improve on an approach introduced in [3] who localised an optic disc region thr...
Alireza Osareh, Majid Mirmehdi, Barry T. Thomas, R...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Feature Selection Using Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms for Handwritten Digit Recognition
This paper discusses the use of genetic algorithm for feature selection for handwriting recognition. Its novelty lies in the use of a multi-objective genetic algorithms where sens...
Luiz E. Soares de Oliveira, Robert Sabourin, Fl&aa...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Robust Text Detection from Binarized Document Images
Many document images are rich in color and have complex background. To detect text from them, a standard approach utilizes both color and binary information. This often leads to t...
Oleg Okun, Yu Yan, Matti Pietikäinen
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Outex- New Framework for Empirical Evaluation of Texture Analysis Algorithms
Jaakko Viertola, Juha Kyllönen, Matti Pietik&...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic Tracking of Local Myocardial Motion by Correlation Weighted Velocity Method
In this paper, we propose a new method for automatically tracking the motion of local region in left ventricular myocardium by means of ultrasonic pulsed Doppler signal. This meth...
Wataru Ohyama, Tetsushi Wakabayashi, Fumitaka Kimu...