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ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient user preference predictions using collaborative filtering
Two major challenges in collaborative filtering are the efficiency of the algorithms and the quality of the recommendations. A variety of machine learning methods have been applie...
C. Lee Giles, Yang Song
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Image objects and multi-scale features for annotation detection
This paper investigates several issues in the problem of detecting handwritten markings, or annotations, on printed documents. One issue is to define the appropriate units over wh...
Eric Saund, Jindong Chen, Yizhou Wang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Preliminary approach on synthetic data sets generation based on class separability measure
Usually, performance of classifiers is evaluated on real-world problems that mainly belong to public repositories. However, we ignore the inherent properties of these data and how...
Núria Macià, Ester Bernadó-Ma...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
On averaging face images for recognition under pose variations
Recently, psychological studies showed that averaging human face images greatly improves the performance of face recognition under various pose, illumination, expression, and/or a...
Sanqiang Zhao, Xiaozheng Zhang, Yongsheng Gao
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Fingerprint indexing based on composite set of reduced SIFT features
Most of current fingerprint indexing schemes utilize features based on global textures and minutiae structures. To extend the existing technology of feature extraction, this paper...
Xin Shuai, Chao Zhang, Pengwei Hao
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Bregman distance to L1 regularized logistic regression
In this work we investigate the relationship between Bregman distances and regularized Logistic Regression model. We present a detailed study of Bregman Distance minimization, a f...
Mithun Das Gupta, Thomas S. Huang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Human appearance matching across multiple non-overlapping cameras
In this paper, we present a new solution to the problem of appearance matching across multiple nonoverlapping cameras. Objects of interest, pedestrians are represented by a set of...
Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan, Yinghao Cai
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
SVMs, Gaussian mixtures, and their generative/discriminative fusion
We present a new technique that employs support vector machines and Gaussian mixture densities to create a generative/discriminative joint classifier. In the past, several approac...
Georg Heigold, Hermann Ney, Thomas Deselaers
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Fast and regularized local metric for query-based operations
To learn a metric for query?based operations, we combine the concept underlying manifold learning algorithms and the minimum volume ellipsoid metric in a unified algorithm to find...
Frank P. Ferrie, Karim T. Abou-Moustafa