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CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The statistical modelling of fingerprint minutiae distribution with implications for fingerprint individuality studies
The spatial distribution of fingerprint minutiae is a core problem in the fingerprint individuality study, the cornerstone of the fingerprint authentication technology. Previously...
Jiansheng Chen, Yiu Sang Moon
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Deformable trellis: open contour tracking in bio-image sequences
This paper presents an open contour tracking method that employs an arc-emission Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The algorithm encodes the shape information of the structure in a spati...
Mehmet Emre Sargin, Alphan Altinok, Kenneth Rose, ...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A new Particle Filtering algorithm with structurally optimal importance function
Bayesian estimation in nonlinear stochastic dynamical systems has been addressed for a long time. Among other solutions, Particle Filtering (PF) algorithms propagate in time a Mon...
Boujemaa Ait-El-Fquih, François Desbouvries
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Text-independent voice conversion based on state mapped codebook
Voice conversion has become more and more important in speech technology, but most of current works have to use parallel utterances of both source and target speaker as the traini...
Meng Zhang, Jianhua Tao, Jilei Tian, Xia Wang
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Discriminative training by iterative linear programming optimization
In this paper, we cast discriminative training problems into standard linear programming (LP) optimization. Besides being convex and having globally optimal solution(s), LP progra...
Brian Mak, Benny Ng