Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for classification tasks produce sparse models by maximizing the margin. Two limitations of this technique are considered in this work: firstly, th...
Different features carry more or less rich and varied pieces of information to characterize a pattern. The fusion of these different sources of information can provide an opportun...
—A method for detection of tree branches and leaves in video is proposed. It is observed that the motion vectors of tree branches and leaves exhibit random motion. On the other h...
The Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been an active research area. Given a collection of images, it is to retrieve the images based on a query image, which is specified by...
—Dimensionality reduction is essential in text mining since the dimensionality of text documents could easily reach several tens of thousands. Most recent efforts on dimensionali...