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2008
2008
Computation of a face attractiveness index based on neoclassical canons, symmetry, and golden ratios
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Analysis of attractiveness of faces has long been a topic of research. Literature has identified many different factors that can be related to attractiveness. In this research we ...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
In this paper, we present a new background estimation algorithm which effectively represents both background and foreground. The problem is formulated with a labeling problem over...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Clustering in gene expression data sets is a challenging problem. Different algorithms for clustering of genes have been proposed. However due to the large number of genes only a ...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
In this paper we address the task of writer identification of on-line handwriting captured from a whiteboard. Different sets of features are extracted from the recorded data and u...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Semantic-based image retrieval has attracted great interest in recent years. This paper proposes a region-based image retrieval system with high-level semantic learning. The key f...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Due to distortion, noise, segmentation errors, overlap, and occlusion of objects in digital images, it is usually impossible to extract complete object contours or to segment the ...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We describe Nonnegative Double Singular Value Decomposition (NNDSVD), a new method designed to enhance the initialization stage of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF). NNDSVD c...
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2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...
PR
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
This paper presents a novel set of geometric moments with symmetric kernel (SGM) obtained using an appropriate transformation of image coordinates. By using this image transformat...
