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ICBA
2004
Springer
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Combining Fingerprint and Voiceprint Biometrics for Identity Verification: an Experimental Comparison
Combining multiple biometrics may enhance the performance of personal authentication system in accuracy and reliability. In this paper, we compare 13 combination methods in the con...
Yuan Wang, Yunhong Wang, Tieniu Tan
ECML
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using String Kernels to Identify Famous Performers from Their Playing Style
Abstract. In this paper we show a novel application of string kernels: that is to the problem of recognising famous pianists from their style of playing. The characterstics of perf...
Craig Saunders, David R. Hardoon, John Shawe-Taylo...
CIKM
2004
Springer
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Hierarchical document categorization with support vector machines
Automatically categorizing documents into pre-defined topic hierarchies or taxonomies is a crucial step in knowledge and content management. Standard machine learning techniques ...
Lijuan Cai, Thomas Hofmann
TSD
2005
Springer
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A Passage Retrieval System for Multilingual Question Answering
In this paper we present a new Question Answering (QA) system based on redundancy and a new Passage Retrieval (PR) method oriented to QA. We suppose that in a large enough document...
José Manuel Gómez Soriano, Manuel Mo...
MLMI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Dominance Detection in Meetings Using Easily Obtainable Features
We show that, using a Support Vector Machine classifier, it is possible to determine with a 75% success rate who dominated a particular meeting on the basis of a few basic feature...
Rutger Rienks, Dirk Heylen
ISNN
2005
Springer
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Scaling the Kernel Function to Improve Performance of the Support Vector Machine
Abstract. The present study investigates a geometrical method for optimizing the kernel function of a support vector machine. The method is an improvement of the one proposed in [4...
Peter Williams, Sheng Li, Jianfeng Feng, Si Wu
ICIAR
2005
Springer
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On the Individuality of the Iris Biometric
We consider quantitatively establishing the discriminative power of iris biometric data. It is difficult, however, to establish that any biometric modality is capable of distingui...
Sungsoo Yoon, Seung-Seok Choi, Sung-Hyuk Cha, Yill...
ADMA
2005
Springer
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A New Support Vector Machine for Data Mining
Abstract. This paper proposes a new support vector machine (SVM) with a robust loss function for data mining. Its dual optimal formation is also constructed. A gradient based algor...
Haoran Zhang, Xiaodong Wang, Changjiang Zhang, Xiu...
ISM
2005
IEEE
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Investigation of Combining SVM and Decision Tree for Emotion Classification
This paper discusses the use of a combination of support vector machine and decision tree learning for recognizing four emotions in speech, which are Neutral, Angry, Lombard, and ...
Thao Nguyen, Mingkun Li, Iris Bass, Ishwar K. Seth...
ICMCS
2005
IEEE
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Event detection based on generic characteristics of field-sports
In this paper we propose a generic framework for event detection in broadcast video of multiple different field-sports. Features indicating significant events are selected, and ro...
David A. Sadlier, Noel E. O'Connor