: The purpose of this paper is to explain variations in the divorce rates across prefectures in Japan over the period 1982 to 2002. This paper examines the various factors which ma...
Shape representation provides fundamental features for many applications in computer vision and it is known to be important cues for human vision. This paper presents an experiment...
Jonathan de Andrade Silva, Wesley Nunes Gonç...
Abstract. Recently, we have proposed a novel approach of texture analysis that has overcome most of the state-of-art methods. This method considers independent walkers, with a give...
Abstract. It has been shown that many kernel methods can be equivalently formulated as minimal-enclosing-ball (MEB) problems in certain feature space. Exploiting this reduction eff...
Emanuele Frandi, Maria Grazia Gasparo, Stefano Lod...
The sounds generated by a writing instrument provide a rich and under-utilized source of information for pattern recognition. We examine the feasibility of recognition of handwrit...
A novel algorithm is introduced to track multiple circular objects present in a video using Helmholtz perception principle. First, segmentation of circular objects in the video fra...