Abstract. A critical step in automatic fingerprint recognition is the accurate segmentation of fingerprint images. The objective of fingerprint segmentation is to decide which part...
Stochastic context-free grammars (SCFGs) have long been recognized as useful for a large variety of tasks including natural language processing, morphological parsing, speech reco...
In order to search corpora written in two or more languages, the simplest and most efficient approach is to translate the query submitted into the required language(s). To achieve...
The divide-and-conquer principle is a majoi paradigm of algorithms design. Corresponding cost functions satisfy recurrences that directly reflect the decomposition mechanism used i...
A great number of documents are scanned and archived in the form of digital images in digital libraries, to make them available and accessible in the Internet. Information retriev...