A new scheme for the optimization of codebook sizes for HMMs and the generation of HMM ensembles is proposed in this paper. In a discrete HMM, the vector quantization procedure and...
Albert Hung-Ren Ko, Robert Sabourin, Alceu de Souz...
Recent advances in on-line data capturing technologies and its widespread deployment in devices like PDAs and notebook PCs is creating large amounts of handwritten data that need ...
The visual appearance of an image is closely associated with its low-level features. Identifying the set of features that best characterizes the image is useful for tasks such as ...
This paper illustrates a method, called heat, for image indexing based on texture information. The texture's partitioning element is first put into 1-D form and then its Hier...
In this paper, we present a general architecture and a new retrieval method for an educational system that is based on a knowledge base of existing recorded lectures. The extracti...