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ICPR
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Fingerprint, Palmprint and Hand-Shape for User Authentication
This paper investigates a new approach for personal authentication by combining unique biometric features which can be acquired from hand images alone. The proposed method attempt...
Ajay Kumar, David Zhang
NIPS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Overlaying classifiers: a practical approach for optimal ranking
ROC curves are one of the most widely used displays to evaluate performance of scoring functions. In the paper, we propose a statistical method for directly optimizing the ROC cur...
Stéphan Clémençon, Nicolas Va...
IWPEC
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Partial Kernelization for Rank Aggregation: Theory and Experiments
RANK AGGREGATION is important in many areas ranging from web search over databases to bioinformatics. The underlying decision problem KEMENY SCORE is NP-complete even in case of fo...
Nadja Betzler, Robert Bredereck, Rolf Niedermeier
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation with Word-based Reordering Model
Hierarchical phrase-based machine translation can capture global reordering with synchronous context-free grammar, but has little ability to evaluate the correctness of word order...
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Hajime Tsukada, Katsuhito Sudoh...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Patch Features for Object Class Recognition with Learned Hierarchical Models
We present a hierarchical generative model for object recognition that is constructed by weakly-supervised learning. A key component is a novel, adaptive patch feature whose width...
Fabien Scalzo, Justus H. Piater