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ECSQARU
2005
Springer
16 years 6 days ago
Nonlinear Deterministic Relationships in Bayesian Networks
In a Bayesian network with continuous variables containing a variable(s) that is a conditionally deterministic function of its continuous parents, the joint density function for t...
Barry R. Cobb, Prakash P. Shenoy
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Optimizing the Number of States, Training Iterations and Gaussians in an HMM-based Handwritten Word Recognizer
In off-line handwriting recognition, classifiers based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) have become very popular. However, while there exist well-established training algorithms, s...
Simon Günter, Horst Bunke
DIAL
2006
IEEE
129views Image Analysis» more  DIAL 2006»
15 years 10 months ago
Ink recognition based on statistical classification methods
Statistical classification methods can be applied on images of historical manuscript in order to characterize the various kinds of inks used. As these methods do not require destr...
Vasiliki Kokla, Alexandra Psarrou, Vassilis Konsta...
BMVC
2001
15 years 9 months ago
A SOM Based Approach to Skin Detection with Application in Real Time Systems
A large body of human image processing techniques use skin detection as a first primitive for subsequent feature extraction. Well established methods of colour modelling, such as...
David A. Brown, Ian Craw, Julian Lewthwaite
NIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Sampling Methods for Unsupervised Learning
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...
Robert Fergus, Andrew Zisserman, Pietro Perona