Background: Feature selection is a pattern recognition approach to choose important variables according to some criteria in order to distinguish or explain certain phenomena (i.e....
In this paper, we propose the "Democratic Classifier", a simple, democracy-inspired patternbased classification algorithm that uses very short patterns for classificatio...
Recently, gender classification from face images has attracted a great deal of attention. It can be useful in many places. In this paper, a novel hybrid face coding method by fusi...
In this paper we propose and test the use of hierarchical clustering for feature selection. The clustering method is Ward's with a distance measure based on GoodmanKruskal ta...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...