We propose a region-based foreground object segmentation method capable of dealing with image sequences containing noise, illumination variations and dynamic backgrounds (as often...
In automatic speech recognition, we are faced with a wellknown inconsistency: Bayes decision rule is usually used to minimize sentence (word sequence) error, whereas in practice w...
In this paper we learn a dissimilarity measure for categorical data, for effective classification of the data points. Each categorical feature (with values taken from a finite set...
Jierui Xie, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Mohammed J. Zak...
We propose here a general framework to address the question of trace operators on a dyadic tree. This work is motivated by the modeling of the human bronchial tree which, thanks t...
—Sensor deployment is a fundamental issue in a wireless sensor network, which often dictates the overall network performance. Previous studies on sensor deployment mainly focused...