A reliable system for visual learning and recognition should enable a selective treatment of individual parts of input data and should successfully deal with noise and occlusions....
In this paper we introduce a new deformable model, called eigensnake, for segmentation of elongated structures in a probabilistic framework. Instead of snake attraction by speci...
Hand biometrics, including fingerprint, palmprint, hand geometry and hand vein pattern, have obtained extensive attention in recent years. Physiologically, skin is a complex multi...
Deep belief nets have been successful in modeling handwritten characters, but it has proved more difficult to apply them to real images. The problem lies in the restricted Boltzma...
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Alex Krizhevsky, Geoffrey E....
Digital repositories raise the need for an effective and efficient retrieval of the stored material. In this paper we propose the intensive application of intelligent techniques t...
Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli, Teresa Maria A...