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MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Automatic Face Recognition System in the Near Infrared Spectrum
Face recognition is a challenging visual classification task, especially when the lighting conditions can not be controlled. In this paper, we present an automatic face recognitio...
Shuyan Zhao, Rolf-Rainer Grigat
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Diagnosis of Lung Nodule Using Reinforcement Learning and Geometric Measures
This paper uses a set of 3D geometric measures with the purpose of characterizing lung nodules as malignant or benign. Based on a sample of 36 nodules, 29 benign and 7 malignant, t...
Aristófanes Corrêa Silva, Valdeci Rib...
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Clustering Large Dynamic Datasets Using Exemplar Points
In this paper we present a method to cluster large datasets that change over time using incremental learning techniques. The approach is based on the dynamic representation of clus...
William Sia, Mihai M. Lazarescu
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Linear Manifold Clustering
In this paper we describe a new cluster model which is based on the concept of linear manifolds. The method identifies subsets of the data which are embedded in arbitrary oriented...
Robert M. Haralick, Rave Harpaz
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
CorePhrase: Keyphrase Extraction for Document Clustering
Abstract. The ability to discover the topic of a large set of text documents using relevant keyphrases is usually regarded as a very tedious task if done by hand. Automatic keyphra...
Khaled M. Hammouda, Diego N. Matute, Mohamed S. Ka...
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Visual Feature Hierarchies
We propose an unsupervised, probabilistic method for learning visual feature hierarchies. Starting from local, low-level features computed at interest point locations, the method c...
Fabien Scalzo, Justus H. Piater
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Supervised Evaluation of Dataset Partitions: Advantages and Practice
In the context of large databases, data preparation takes a greater importance : instances and explanatory attributes have to be carefully selected. In supervised learning, instanc...
Sylvain Ferrandiz, Marc Boullé
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Multivariate Discretization by Recursive Supervised Bipartition of Graph
Abstract. In supervised learning, discretization of the continuous explanatory attributes enhances the accuracy of decision tree induction algorithms and naive Bayes classifier. M...
Sylvain Ferrandiz, Marc Boullé
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Using Clustering to Learn Distance Functions for Supervised Similarity Assessment
Assessing the similarity between objects is a prerequisite for many data mining techniques. This paper introduces a novel approach to learn distance functions that maximizes the c...
Christoph F. Eick, Alain Rouhana, Abraham Bagherje...
MLDM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Low-Level Cursive Word Representation Based on Geometric Decomposition
Abstract. An efficient low-level word image representation plays a crucial role in general cursive word recognition. This paper proposes a novel representation scheme, where a word...
Jian-xiong Dong, Adam Krzyzak, Ching Y. Suen, Domi...