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AVBPA
2005
Springer
460views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2005»
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Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance
The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fi...
Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain
AVBPA
2005
Springer
315views Biometrics» more  AVBPA 2005»
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Multi-resolution Histograms of Local Variation Patterns (MHLVP) for Robust Face Recognition
This paper presents a novel approach to face recognition, named Multi-resolution Histograms of Local Variation Patterns (MHLVP), in which face images are represented as the concate...
Wenchao Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Hongming Zhang, Wen ...
COSIT
2005
Springer
185views GIS» more  COSIT 2005»
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3D Topographic Data Modelling: Why Rigidity Is Preferable to Pragmatism
In this paper two concepts for modelling 3D topography are introduced. The first concept is a very pragmatic approach of 3D modelling, trying to model as much as possible in (less...
Friso Penninga
SSD
2005
Springer
150views Database» more  SSD 2005»
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Opportunistic Data Dissemination in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
In this paper we examine the dissemination of availability reports about resources in mobile peer-to-peer networks, where moving objects communicate with each other via short-range...
A. Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu
WADS
2005
Springer
149views Algorithms» more  WADS 2005»
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Balanced Aspect Ratio Trees Revisited
Spatial databases support a variety of geometric queries on point data such as range searches, nearest neighbor searches, etc. Balanced Aspect Ratio (BAR) trees are hierarchical sp...
Amitabh Chaudhary, Michael T. Goodrich