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ICB
2007
Springer
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Factorial Hidden Markov Models for Gait Recognition
Gait recognition is an effective approach for human identification at a distance. During the last decade, the theory of hidden Markov models (HMMs) has been used successfully in th...
Changhong Chen, Jimin Liang, Haihong Hu, Licheng J...
ICB
2007
Springer
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Color Face Tensor Factorization and Slicing for Illumination-Robust Recognition
In this paper we present a face recognition method based on multiway analysis of color face images, which is robust to varying illumination conditions. Illumination changes cause l...
Yong-Deok Kim, Seungjin Choi
ICB
2007
Springer
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Optimal Decision Fusion for a Face Verification System
Fusion is a popular practice to increase the reliability of the biometric verification. In this paper, optimal fusion at decision level by AND rule and OR rule is investigated. Bot...
Qian Tao, Raymond N. J. Veldhuis
ICB
2007
Springer
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Coarse Iris Classification by Learned Visual Dictionary
Abstract. In state-of-the-art iris recognition systems, the input iris image has to be compared with a large number of templates in database. When the scale of iris database increa...
Xianchao Qiu, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan
ICB
2007
Springer
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Hardening Fingerprint Fuzzy Vault Using Password
Security of stored templates is a critical issue in biometric systems because biometric templates are non-revocable. Fuzzy vault is a cryptographic framework that enables secure te...
Karthik Nandakumar, Abhishek Nagar, Anil K. Jain
ICB
2007
Springer
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Keypoint Identification and Feature-Based 3D Face Recognition
We present a feature-based 3D face recognition algorithm and propose a keypoint identification technique which is repeatable and identifies keypoints where shape variation is high ...
Ajmal S. Mian, Mohammed Bennamoun, Robyn A. Owens
ICB
2007
Springer
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Tracking and Recognition of Multiple Faces at Distances
Many applications require tracking and recognition of multiple faces at distances, such as in video surveillance. Such a task, dealing with non-cooperative objects is more challeng...
Rong Liu, Xiufeng Gao, Rufeng Chu, XiangXin Zhu, S...
ICB
2007
Springer
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Super-Resolved Faces for Improved Face Recognition from Surveillance Video
Characteristics of surveillance video generally include low resolution and poor quality due to environmental, storage and processing limitations. It is extremely difficult for comp...
Frank Lin, Clinton Fookes, Vinod Chandran, Sridha ...
ICB
2007
Springer
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Online Text-Independent Writer Identification Based on Stroke's Probability Distribution Function
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel method for online writer identification. Traditional methods make use of the distribution of directions in handwritten traces. The novelty o...
Bangyu Li, Zhenan Sun, Tieniu Tan
ICB
2007
Springer
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Face Recognition with Local Gabor Textons
This paper proposes a novel face representation and recognition method based on local Gabor textons. Textons, defined as a vocabulary of local characteristic features, are a good d...
Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Rufeng Chu, XiangXin Zhu