Statistical approaches to document indexing and retrieval date back to the beginning of automation. This paper considers early ideas, how they developed, their status now, and the...
— Active contours are very widely used in computer vision problems. Their usage has a typical problem, that of bunching together of curve points. This becomes apparent especially...
Population size plays a major role in determining the performance of any biometric authentication system, particularly when such systems are used for civilian applications. In thi...
Curvature is a frequently used property in two-dimensional (2D) shape analysis, directly or for derived features such as corners or convex and concave arcs. This paper presents cur...