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PAA
2006
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A review on Gabor wavelets for face recognition
Due to the robustness of Gabor features against local distortions caused by variance of illumination, expression and pose, they have been successfully applied for face recognition....
LinLin Shen, Li Bai
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient median based clustering and classification techniques for protein sequences
Abstract In this paper, an efficient K-medians clustering (unsupervised) algorithm for prototype selection and Supervised K-medians (SKM) classification technique for protein seque...
P. A. Vijaya, M. Narasimha Murty, D. K. Subramania...
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
On poem recognition
Literature is one of the most significant forms of human culture. It represents a high level of intellectual activity. Humans write, read, and enjoy poems in different cultures. Th...
Hamid R. Tizhoosh, Rozita A. Dara
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Classifier-independent feature selection on the basis of divergence criterion
Feature selection aims to choose a feature subset that has the most discriminative information from the original feature set. In practical cases, it is preferable to select a featu...
Naoto Abe, Mineichi Kudo, Jun Toyama, Masaru Shimb...
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An empirical study of machine learning techniques for affect recognition in human-robot interaction
Abstract Given the importance of implicit communication in human interactions, it would be valuable to have this capability in robotic systems wherein a robot can detect the motiva...
Pramila Rani, Changchun Liu, Nilanjan Sarkar, Eric...
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Audio-visual sports highlights extraction using Coupled Hidden Markov Models
We present our studies on the application of Coupled Hidden Markov Models(CHMMs) to sports highlights extraction from broadcast video using both audio and video information. First,...
Ziyou Xiong
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic name extraction from degraded document images
The problem addressed in this paper is the automatic extraction of names from a document image. Our approach relies on the combination of two complementary analyses. First, the ima...
Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Pascal Vaillant, Aliette...
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An efficient segmentation-free approach to assist old Greek handwritten manuscript OCR
Recognition of old Greek manuscripts is essential for quick and efficient content exploitation of the valuable old Greek historical collections. In this paper, we focus on the prob...
Basilios Gatos, Kostas Ntzios, Ioannis Pratikakis,...
PAA
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Classifying image texture with statistical landscape features
This paper proposes to use three-dimensional information derived from the graph of an image function for texture description. The graph of an image function is a rumpled surface ap...
Cun Xu, Yan Chen