Image preprocessing stage (also known as iris segmentation) is the first step of the iris recognition process and determines its accuracy. In this paper, we propose a method for ir...
Abstract. This paper is concerned itself with the analysis of the twophase Mumford-Shah model also known as the active contour without edges model introduced by Chan and Vese. It c...
This paper proposes a clustering method SOMAK, which is composed by Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) followed by the Ant K-means (AK) algorithm. The aim of this method is not to find an...
Jefferson R. Souza, Teresa Bernarda Ludermir, Lean...
We describe the Open Mind Initiative, a framework for large-scale collaborative efforts in building components of "intelligent" systems that address common-sense reasoni...
In traditional data clustering, similarity of a cluster of objects is measured by pairwise similarity of objects in that cluster. We argue that such measures are not appropriate f...