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IEEEIAS
2007
IEEE
16 years 19 days ago
Generative Models for Fingerprint Individuality using Ridge Types
Generative models of pattern individuality attempt to represent the distribution of observed quantitative features, e.g., by learning parameters from a database, and then use such...
Gang Fang, Sargur N. Srihari, Harish Srinivasan
ICPR
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Wavelet Based Texture Classification
Textures are one of the basic features in visual searching and computational vision. In the literature, most of the attention has been focussed on the texture features with minima...
Nicu Sebe, Michael S. Lew
CC
2007
Springer
123views System Software» more  CC 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
An Improved Analysis of Linear Mergers
Mergers are procedures that, with the aid of a short random string, transform k (possibly dependent) random sources into a single random source, in a way that ensures that if one ...
Zeev Dvir, Amir Shpilka
KDD
2003
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
Assessment and pruning of hierarchical model based clustering
The goal of clustering is to identify distinct groups in a dataset. The basic idea of model-based clustering is to approximate the data density by a mixture model, typically a mix...
Jeremy Tantrum, Alejandro Murua, Werner Stuetzle
FGR
2004
IEEE
167views Biometrics» more  FGR 2004»
15 years 10 months ago
Adaptive Learning of an Accurate Skin-Color Model
Due to variations of lighting conditions, camera hardware settings, and the range of skin coloration among human beings, a pre-defined skin-color model cannot accurately capture t...
Qiang Zhu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ching-Tung Wu, Yi-Leh...