Abstract. Fingerprints are considered to be unique because they contain various distinctive features, including minutiae, ridges, pores, etc. Some attempts have been made to model ...
This paper presents a novel face representation and recognition approach. The face image is first decomposed by multi-scale and multi-orientation Gabor filters and local binary ...
Zhen Lei, ShengCai Liao, Ran He, Matti Pietikä...
A feature extraction method using multi-frequency bands is proposed for face recognition, named as the Multi-band Gradient Component Pattern (MGCP). The MGCP captures discriminativ...
Yimo Guo, Jie Chen, Guoying Zhao, Matti Pietik&aum...
A novel feature extraction method, namely monogenic binary pattern (MBP), is proposed in this paper based on the theory of monogenic signal analysis, and the histogram of MBP (HMB...
Abstract. Rewriting of conjunctive queries using views has many applications in database and data integration. We investigate ways to improve performance of rewriting and propose a...