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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Using SIFT features in palmprint authentication
As a new branch of biometrics, palmprint authentication has attracted increasing amount of attention because palmprints are abundant of line features so that low resolution images...
Jiansheng Chen, Yiu Sang Moon
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The polar distance transform by fast-marching
Image analysis tools that process the image using polar coordinates are needed to avoid the interpolation from polar to cartesian coordinates. We present a tool for analysing and ...
Robin Strand, Kristin Norell
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Challenging issues in iterative intelligent medical search
Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Graph cut based deformable model with statistical shape priors
This paper presents a novel graph cut based segmentation approach with shape priors. The model incorporates statistical shape prior information with the active contour without edg...
Noha Youssry El-Zehiry, Adel Elmaghraby
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Noise robust voice detector for speaker recognition
The effect of additive noise in a speaker recognition system is well known to be a crucial problem in real life applications. In a speaker recognition system, if the test utteranc...
Gabriel Hernández, José R. Calvo, Ra...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Gene function prediction using protein domain probability and hierarchical Gene Ontology information
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a controlled vocabulary of terms to describe protein functions. It also includes a hierarchical description of the relationships among the terms in the f...
Jaehee Jung, Michael R. Thon
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive semantic Bayesian framework for image attention
Image attention is the basic technique for many computer vision applications. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Bayesian framework to detect the image attention in color image...
Wei Zhang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Guanghui Wang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Kernel Bisecting k-means clustering for SVM training sample reduction
This paper presents a new algorithm named Kernel Bisecting k-means and Sample Removal (KBK-SR) as a sampling preprocessing for SVM training to improve the scalability. The novel c...
Xiao-Zhang Liu, Guo-Can Feng
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A computer vision based camera pedestal's vertical motion control
. Traditional camera pedestals are manually operated. Our long term goal is to construct a fully autonomous pedestal system which can respond to changes in a scene and mimicking t...
Richard Yi Da Xu, Joshua M. Brown, Jason M. Traish...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tracking human body by using particle filter Gaussian process Markov-switching model
The goal of this article is to present an effective and robust tracking algorithm for nonlinear feet motion by deploying particle filter integrated with Gaussian process latent v...
Jing Wang, Hong Man, Yafeng Yin