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ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 11 months ago
PIP: A Database System for Great and Small Expectations
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
Oliver Kennedy, Christoph Koch
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A database centric view of semantic image annotation and retrieval
We introduce a new model for semantic annotation and retrieval from image databases. The new model is based on a probabilistic formulation that poses annotation and retrieval as c...
Gustavo Carneiro, Nuno Vasconcelos
ICIP
2002
IEEE
15 years 23 days ago
Likelihood normalization for face authentication in variable recording conditions
In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of two likelihood normalization techniques, the Background Model Set (BMS) and the Universal Background Model (UBM), for improving perf...
Kuldip K. Paliwal, Conrad Sanderson
PAMI
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Bayes Classification of Online Arabic Characters by Gibbs Modeling of Class Conditional Densities
This study investigates Bayes classification of online Arabic characters using histograms of tangent differences and Gibbs modeling of the class-conditional probability density fun...
Neila Mezghani, Amar Mitiche, Mohamed Cheriet
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Towards a Better Understanding of the Performance of Latent Fingerprint Recognition in Realistic Forensic Conditions
Abstract-- This work studies the performance of a stateof-the-art fingerprint recognition technology, in several practical scenarios of interest in forensic casework. First, the di...
Maria Puertas, Daniel Ramos, Julian Fiérrez...