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IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Face-to-Face Social Activity Detection Using Data Collected with a Wearable Device
In this work the feasibility of building a socially aware badge that learns from user activities is explored. A wearable multisensor device has been prototyped for collecting data ...
Pierluigi Casale, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Score Fusion by Maximizing the Area under the ROC Curve
Information fusion is currently a very active research topic aimed at improving the performance of biometric systems. This paper proposes a novel method for optimizing the paramete...
Mauricio Villegas, Roberto Paredes
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-spectral Texture Characterisation for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation
A multi-spectral texture characterisation model is proposed, the Multi-spectral Local Differences Texem – MLDT, as an affordable approach to be used in multi-spectral images that...
Filiberto Pla, Gema Gracia, Pedro García-Se...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Variable Order Finite-Context Models in DNA Sequence Coding
Abstract. Being an essential key in biological research, the DNA sequences are often shared between researchers and digitally stored for future use. As these sequences grow in volu...
Daniel A. Martins, António J. R. Neves, Arm...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Enhancing In-Vitro IVUS Data for Tissue Characterization
Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) data validation is usually performed by comparing post-mortem (in-vitro) IVUS data and corresponding histological analysis of the tissue, obtaining ...
Francesco Ciompi, Oriol Pujol, Oriol Rodriguez-Leo...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Gender Recognition from a Partial View of the Face Using Local Feature Vectors
This paper proposes a gender recognition scheme focused on local appearance-based features to describe the top half of the face. Due to the fact that only the top half of the face ...
Yasmina Andreu, Ramón Alberto Mollineda, Pe...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Toward Robust Myocardial Blush Grade Estimation in Contrast Angiography
Abstract. The assessment of Myocardial Blush Grade after primary angioplasty is a precious diagnostic tool to understand if the patient needs further medication or the use of speci...
Carlo Gatta, Juan Diego Gomez Valencia, Francesco ...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Smoothed Disparity Maps for Continuous American Sign Language Recognition
For the recognition of continuous sign language we analyse whether we can improve the results by explicitly incorporating depth information. Accurate hand tracking for sign languag...
Philippe Dreuw, Pascal Steingrube, Thomas Deselaer...
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Match Selection in Batch Mosaicing Using Mutual Information
Abstract. Large area photo-mosaics are widely used in many different applications such as optical mapping, panorama creation and autonomous vehicle navigation. When the trajectory...
Armagan Elibol, Nuno Gracias, Rafael García