Sciweavers

2463 search results - page 357 / 493
» Compressing Pattern Databases
Sort
View
AUTOID
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Statistical Models for Assessing the Individuality of Fingerprints
Following Daubert in 1993, forensic evidence based on fingerprints was first challenged in the 1999 case of USA vs. Byron Mitchell, and subsequently, in 20 other cases involving...
Sarat C. Dass, Yongfang Zhu, Anil K. Jain
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Fast Vector Matching Methods and Their Applications to Handwriting Recognition
A common practice in pattern recognition is to classify an unknown object by matching its feature vector with all the feature vectors stored in a database. When the number of clas...
Ying-Ho Liu, Wen-Hsiung Lin, Fu Chang, Chin-Chin L...
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
BulQA: Bulgarian-Bulgarian Question Answering at CLEF 2005
This paper describes the architecture of a Bulgarian–Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The system relies on a partially parsed corpus for answer extraction. The que...
Kiril Ivanov Simov, Petya Osenova
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Fast Surface Grading Using Color Statistics in the CIE Lab Space
In this paper we approach the problem of fast surface grading of flat pieces decorated with random patterns. The proposed method is based on the use of global statistics of color ...
Fernando López, José Miguel Valiente...
AVBPA
2003
Springer
133views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2003»
14 years 2 months ago
Visual Analysis of the Use of Mixture Covariance Matrices in Face Recognition
The quadratic discriminant (QD) classifier has proved to be simple and effective in many pattern recognition problems. However, it requires the computation of the inverse of the sa...
Carlos E. Thomaz, Duncan Fyfe Gillies