This paper proposes a novel method for segmenting lips from face images or video sequences. A non-linear learning method in the form of an SVM classifier is trained to recognise l...
—Modeling natural and artificial systems has played a key role in various applications and has long been a task that has drawn enormous efforts. In this work, instead of explori...
Ronen Talmon, Dan Kushnir, Ronald R. Coifman, Isra...
Videotext refers to text superimposed on video frames. A videotext based Multimedia Description Scheme has recently been adopted into the MPEG-7 standard. A study of published wor...
Quantiles, also known as value-at-risk in financial applications, are important measures of random performance. Quantile sensitivities provide information on how changes in the i...
Distance-based methods in machine learning and pattern recognition have to rely on a metric distance between points in the input space. Instead of specifying a metric a priori, we...