AI
2002
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
2002
Springer
We present a simple general scheme for improving margins that is inspired on well known margin theory principles. The scheme is based on a sample re-weighting strategy. The very b...
RIAO
2000
14 years 1 months ago
2000
In this paper we present a new approach to classifying radiographs, which is the first important task of the IRMA system. Given an image, we compute posterior probabilities for ea...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
When dealing with pattern recognition problems one encounters different types of a-priori knowledge. It is important to incorporate such knowledge into the classification method ...
GW
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. We introduce the use of appearance-based features, and tangent distance or the image distortion model to account for image variability within the hidden Markov model emis...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
2008
IEEE
Figure-ground discrimination and distortion-tolerant recognition of color characters in scene images
14 years 6 months ago
This paper proposes a new technique of figureground discrimination of color characters in scene images following two steps. The first step is temporary binarization by selecting o...
ICIAP
2007
ACM
15 years 17 days ago
2007
ACM
In this paper, we propose the combination of the Self Organizing Map (SOM) and of the tangent distance for effective clustering in Document Image Analysis. The proposed model (SOM...
CVPR
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
We wish to match sets of images to sets of images where both sets are undergoing various distortions such as viewpoint and lighting changes. To this end we have developed a Joint ...