In this paper we study face recognition across ages within a real passport photo verification task. First, we propose using the gradient orientation pyramid for this task. Discard...
Maximum-Likelihod Linear Regression (MLLR) transform coefficients have shown to be useful features for text-independent speaker recognition systems. These use MLLR coefficients ...
This paper explores whether features of structured writing can serve to discriminate users of handheld devices such as Palm PDAs. Biometric authentication would obviate the need t...
Rachel R. M. Roberts, Roy A. Maxion, Kevin S. Kill...
Frequent failures are becoming a serious concern to the community of high-end computing, especially when the applications and the underlying systems rapidly grow in size and compl...
— Due to the abundant application background, the optimization of maintenance problem has been extensively studied in the past decades. Besides the well-known difficulty of larg...