EUSFLAT
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and hard clustering are the most common tools for data partitioning. However, the presence of noisy observations in the data may cause generation of completely ...
DICTA
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Abstract. Mahalanobis distance has already proved its strength in human skin detection using a set of skin values. We present this work that uses automatic skin detection after an ...
CSSE
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Based on the analysis of color histogram for image retrieval, a new descriptor, bit-plane distribution entropy (BPDE), is proposed in this paper. The image is firstly divided into ...
ICIAP
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1999
ACM
In this paper a new learning algorithm is proposed with the purpose of texture segmentation. The algorithm is a competitive clustering scheme with two specific features: elliptic...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
The Mahalanobis metric was proposed by extending the Mahalanobis distance to provide a probabilistic distance for a non-normal distribution. The Mahalanobis metric equation is a n...
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper considers a method for learning a distance metric in a fingerprinting system which identifies a query content by measuring the distance between the fingerprint of th...
MICCAI
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
We present a novel technique for the automatic formation of vascular trees from segmented tubular structures. Our method combines a minimum spanning tree algorithm with a minimizat...