In many situations it is convenient to represent pictorial data in the form of contours. It may become necessary to compress such contour data for efficient storage and transmissi...
This paper extends our previous work on feature transformationbased support vector machines for speaker recognition by proposing a joint MAP adaptation of feature transformation (...
The SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) descriptor is a widely used method for matching image features. However, perfect scale invariance can not be achieved in practice becau...
Atypical behaviours are the basis of a valuable knowledge in domains related to security (e.g. fraud detection for credit card [1], cyber security [4] or safety of critical systems...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...