PRL
2007
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2007
Blob-like structures occur often in nature, where they aid in cueing and the pre-attentive process. These structures often overlap, form perceptual boundaries, and are heterogeneo...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
One of the most widely used approaches in the context of object recognition across illumination changes consists in comparing the images by means of the intersection between invar...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
In this paper we develop a theory for characterizing how deformable a shape is given a sequence of its observations. We define a term called ‘‘deformability index’’ (DI) ...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Abstract – In this paper we seek a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) of the classconditional densities for plug-in Bayes classification. We propose a method for setting the number of ...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
In this paper, we tackle the problem of matching of objects in video in the context of the rough indexing paradigm. The approach developed is based on matching of region adjacency...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
We present a method for initialising the K-means clustering algorithm. Our method hinges on the use of a kd-tree to perform a density estimation of the data at various locations. ...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
A very large dataset of handwritten Farsi digits is introduced. Binary images of 102,352 digits were extracted from about 12,000 registration forms of two types, filled by B.Sc. ...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Accurate rigid and non-rigid tracking of faces is a challenging task in computer vision. Recently, appearance-based 3D face tracking methods have been proposed. These methods can ...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Government agencies are investing a considerable amount of resources into improving security systems as result of recent terrorist events that dangerously exposed flaws and weakn...
PRL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Current approaches for the prediction of functional relations from gene expression data often do not have a clear methodology for extracting features and are not accompanied by a ...