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ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Discriminant and Invariant Color Model for Tracking under Abrupt Illumination Changes
The output from a color imaging sensor, or apparent color, can change considerably due to illumination conditions and scene geometry changes. In this work we take into account the...
Jorge Scandaliaris, Alberto Sanfeliu
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
One-Lead ECG-based Personal Identification Using Ziv-Merhav Cross Parsing
The advance of falsification technology increases security concerns and gives biometrics an important role in security solutions. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an emerging biometr...
David Pereira Coutinho, Ana L. N. Fred, Már...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Attribute Threshold Selection for Blood Vessel Enhancement
Attribute filters allow enhancement and extraction of features without distorting their borders, and never introduce new image features. These are highly desirable properties in bi...
Fred N. Kiwanuka, Michael H. F. Wilkinson
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
3D Face Decomposition and Region Selection Against Expression Variations
3D face recognition exploits shape information as well as texture information in 2D systems. The use of whole 3D face is sensitive to some undesired situations like expression var...
Göksel Günlü, Hasan S. Bilge
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Learning Virtual HD Model for Bi-model Emotional Speaker Recognition
Pitch mismatch between training and testing is one of the important factors causing the performance degradation of the speaker recognition system. In this paper, we adopted the mis...
Ting Huang, Yingchun Yang
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Steerable Filtering Using Novel Circular Harmonic Functions with Application to Edge Detection
In this paper, we perform approximate steering of the elongated 2D Hermite-Gauss functions with respect to rotations and provide a compact analytical expressions for the related ba...
Giuseppe Papari, Patrizio Campisi, Nicolai Petkov
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Word Clustering Using PLSA Enhanced with Long Distance Bigrams
Probabilistic latent semantic analysis is enhanced with long distance bigram models in order to improve word clustering. The long distance bigram probabilities and the interpolate...
Nikoletta Bassiou, Constantine Kotropoulos
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
A Practical Heterogeneous Classifier for Relational Databases
Most enterprise data is distributed in multiple relational databases with expert-designed schema. Using traditional single-table machine learning techniques over such data not onl...
Geetha Manjunath, M. Narasimha Murty, Dinkar Sitar...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Block Pyramid Based Adaptive Quantization Watermarking for Multimodal Biometric Authentication
This paper proposes a novel robust watermarking scheme to embed fingerprint minutiae into face images for multimodal biometric authentication. First, a block pyramid is layered ac...
Bin Ma, ChunLei Li, Yunhong Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang,...
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Visual Recognition of Types of Structural Corridor Landmarks Using Vanishing Points Detection and Hidden Markov Models
In this paper, to provide a robot with information relative to structure of its environment, we propose a method to recognize types of structural corridor landmarks such as T-junct...
Youngbin Park, Sung Su Kim, Il Hong Suh