PR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Quadratic classifier with modified quadratic discriminant function (MQDF) has been successfully applied to recognition of handwritten characters to achieve very good performance. ...
PR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
In this paper, we present a new text line detection method for unconstrained handwritten documents. The proposed technique is based on a strategy that consists of three distinct s...
PR
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
The randomness of iris pattern makes it one of the most reliable biometric traits. On the other hand, the complex iris image structure and the various sources of intra-class varia...
PR
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
This paper proposes a real-time 3D head tracking method that can handle large rotation and translation. To achieve this goal, we incorporate the following three approaches into th...
PR
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
We present a method for object class detection in images based on global shape. A distance measure for elastic shape matching is derived, which is invariant to scale and rotation,...
PR
2008
13 years 12 months ago
2008
We describe an annealing procedure that computes the normalized N-cut of a weighted graph G. The first phase transition computes the solution of the approximate normalized 2-cut p...
PR
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
This paper presents a Hierarchical Context Hidden Markov Model (HC-HMM) for behavior understanding from video streams in a nursing center. The proposed HC-HMM infers elderly behav...
PR
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
In this paper, we propose a new context-based method for object recognition. We first introduce a neuro-physiologically motivated visual part detector. We found that the optimal f...
PR
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
The error correcting output codes (ECOC) technique is a useful way to extend any binary classifier to the multiclass case. The design of an ECOC matrix usually considers an a prio...
PR
2008
14 years 11 days ago
2008
In this paper we propose a two-dimensional (2D) Laplacianfaces method for face recognition. The new algorithm is developed based on two techniques, i.e., locality preserved embedd...