In the automatic design of custom instruction set processors, there can be a very large set of potential custom instructions, from which a few instructions are required to be chos...
In this paper, we propose a word shape recognition method for retrieving image-based documents. Document images are segmented at the word level first. Then the proposed method det...
Conventional methods for recognizing multiple fonts and handwriting are generally robust against deformation but are weak against degradation. This paper proposes a category-depen...
To realize context aware applications for smart home environments, it is necessary to recognize function or usage of objects as well as categories of them. On conventional researc...
The user’s behavior and his interpretation of interactions with others is influenced by his cultural background, which provides a number of heuristics or patterns of behavior and...