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ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic coefficient selection in Weighted Maximum Margin Criterion
Zhengdong Cheng, Bin Shen, Xiang Fan, Yu-Jin Zhang
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fingerprint alignment using special ridges
Fingerprint is one of the biometrics used to identify a person. Alignment is an important step in fingerprint recognition, affecting greatly the speed and accuracy of matching. Ei...
Chunfeng Hu, Jianping Yin, En Zhu, Hui Chen, Yong ...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Pattern vectors from the Ihara zeta function
This paper shows how to construct pattern vectors from the Ihara zeta function for the purposes of characterizing graph structures. To avoid the risk of sampling the meaningless i...
Peng Ren, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Measuring skin reflectance parameters
Matthew P. Dickens, William A. P. Smith, Hossein R...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Flexible object recognition in cluttered scenes using relative point distribution models
This paper introduces an edge-based object recognition method that is robust with respect to clutter, occlusion and object deformations. The method combines the use of local featu...
Alexandros Bouganis, Murray Shanahan
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Gesture recognition using sparse code of Hierarchical SOM
Atsushi Shimada, Rin-ichiro Taniguchi
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Spectral aggregation for clustering ensemble
Since a large number of clustering algorithms exist, aggregating different clustered partitions into a single consolidated one to obtain better results has become an important pro...
Xi Wang, Chunyu Yang, Jie Zhou
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-stage branch-and-bound for maximum variance disparity clustering
A split-and-merge framework based on a maximum variance criterion is proposed for disparity clustering. The proposed algorithm transforms low-level stereo disparity information to...
Ninad Thakoor, Venkat Devarajan, Jean Gao
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Computational approaches for real-time extraction of soft biometrics
Soft biometrics, as a prescreening filter, contribute to a much smaller candidate pool and allow the overall query to perform better and faster. In this paper, we focus on the eff...
Yang Ran, Gavin Rosenbush, Qinfen Zheng
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An experimental study of graph classification using prototype selection
Andreas Fischer, Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke