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IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Parallel Perceptrons, Activation Margins and Imbalanced Training Set Pruning
A natural way to deal with training samples in imbalanced class problems is to prune them removing redundant patterns, easy to classify and probably over represented, and label noi...
Iván Cantador, José R. Dorronsoro
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Person-Independent Visual Sign Language Recognition
Sign language recognition constitutes a challenging field of research in computer vision. Common problems like overlap, ambiguities, and minimal pairs occur frequently and require...
Jörg Zieren, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Extended Bi-gram Features in Text Categorization
Usually, in traditional text categorization systems based on Vector Space Model, there is no context information in a feature vector, which limited the performance of the system. T...
Xian Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Appearance-Based Recognition of Words in American Sign Language
In this paper, we present how appearance-based features can be used for the recognition of words in American sign language (ASL) from a video stream. The features are extracted wit...
Morteza Zahedi, Daniel Keysers, Hermann Ney
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Stochastic Approach to Wilson's Editing Algorithm
Abstract. Two extensions of the original Wilson’s editing method are introduced in this paper. These new algorithms are based on estimating probabilities from the k-nearest neigh...
Fernando Vázquez, José Salvador S&aa...
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Solving Particularization with Supervised Clustering Competition Scheme
The process of mixing labelled and unlabelled data is being recently studied in semi-supervision techniques. However, this is not the only scenario in which mixture of labelled and...
Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multispectral Image Segmentation by Energy Minimization for Fruit Quality Estimation
Abstract. This article presents the results of an unsupervised segmentation algorithm in multispectral images. The algorithm uses a minimization function which takes into account e...
Adolfo Martínez Usó, Filiberto Pla, ...
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Extracting Motion Features for Visual Human Activity Representation
This paper presents a technique to characterize human actions in visual surveillance scenarios in order to describe, in a qualitative way, basic human movements in general imaging ...
Filiberto Pla, Pedro Canotilho Ribeiro, José...
IBPRIA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Texture Recognition Using Normal Flow and Texture Regularity
The processing, description and recognition of dynamic (time-varying) textures are new exciting areas of texture analysis. Many real-world textures are dynamic textures whose retri...
Renaud Péteri, Dmitry Chetverikov