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AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Fingerprint Classification with Combinations of Support Vector Machines
Abstract. We report about some experiments on the fingerprint database NIST-4 using different combinations of Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. Images have been preprocesse...
Yuan Yao, Paolo Frasconi, Massimiliano Pontil
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Pose-Independent Face Identification from Video Sequences
A scheme for pose-independent face recognition is presented. An "unwrapped" texture map is constructed from a video sequence using a texture-from-motion approach, which ...
Michael C. Lincoln, Adrian F. Clark
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Face Identification and Verification via ECOC
We propose a novel approach to face identification and verification based on the Error Correcting Output Coding (ECOC) classifier design concept. In the training phase the client s...
Josef Kittler, Reza Ghaderi, Terry Windeatt, Jiri ...
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Robust Face Detection Using the Hausdorff Distance
Abstract. The localization of human faces in digital images is a fundamental step in the process of face recognition. This paper presents a shape comparison approach to achieve fas...
Oliver Jesorsky, Klaus J. Kirchberg, Robert Frisch...
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Extended Model-Based Automatic Gait Recognition of Walking and Running
Gait is an emerging biometric. Current systems are either holistic or feature based and have been demonstrated to be able to recognise people by the way they walk. This paper descr...
Chew-Yean Yam, Mark S. Nixon, John N. Carter
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Using Mixture Covariance Matrices to Improve Face and Facial Expression Recognitions
In several pattern recognition problems, particularly in image recognition ones, there are often a large number of features available, but the number of training samples for each p...
Carlos E. Thomaz, Duncan Fyfe Gillies, Raul Queiro...
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Hand Recognition Using Implicit Polynomials and Geometric Features
Person identification and verification using biometric methods is getting more and more important in today’s information society; resulting in increased utilization of systems th...
Cenker Öden, Aytül Erçil, Vedat T...
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Fingerprint Classification by Combination of Flat and Structural Approaches
Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli, Paolo Frasconi
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Information Fusion in Biometrics
User verification systems that use a single biometric indicator often have to contend with noisy sensor data, restricted degrees of freedom, non-universality of the biometric tra...
Arun Ross, Anil K. Jain, Jian Zhong Qian
AVBPA
2001
Springer
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Speaker Discriminative Weighting Method for VQ-Based Speaker Identification
: We consider the matching function in vector quantization based speaker identification system. The model of a speaker is a codebook generated from the set of feature vectors from ...
Tomi Kinnunen, Pasi Fränti