Pattern Recognition, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, January 2006

Clustering

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  Miin-Shen Yang, Kuo-Lung Wu:
  Unsupervised possibilistic clustering. 5-21
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  Huaijun Qiu, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Graph matching and clustering using spectral partitions. 22-34
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  Oleg S. Pianykh:
  Analytically tractable case of fuzzy c-means clustering. 35-46

Mathematics

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  Guobao Wang, Shigang Wang:
  Recursive computation of Tchebichef moment and its inverse transform. 47-56
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  Yalin Wang, Ihsin T. Phillips, Robert M. Haralick:
  Document zone content classification and its performance evaluation. 57-73
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  Guanyu Yang, Huazhong Shu, Christine Toumoulin, Guo-Niu Han, Limin Luo:
  Efficient Legendre moment computation for grey level images. 74-80

Learning

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  Jian Cheng, Qingshan Liu, Hanqing Lu, Yen-Wei Chen:
  Ensemble learning for independent component analysis. 81-88
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  Ilya Blayvas, Alfred M. Bruckstein, Ron Kimmel:
  Efficient computation of adaptive threshold surfaces for image binarization. 89-101

Handwriting & Fingerprints

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  Jun Li, Wei-Yun Yau, Han Wang:
  Constrained nonlinear models of fingerprint orientations with prediction. 102-114
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  Claus Bahlmann:
  Directional features in online handwriting recognition. 115-125

View

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  Andrea Bottino, Aldo Laurentini:
  What's NEXT? An interactive next best view approach. 126-132

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  Daoqiang Zhang, Songcan Chen, Zhi-Hua Zhou:
  Learning the kernel parameters in kernel minimum distance classifier. 133-135
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  Hong Tang, Tao Fang, Pengfei Shi:
  Laplacian linear discriminant analysis. 136-139
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  Daoqiang Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Songcan Chen:
  Diagonal principal component analysis for face recognition. 140-142
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  Ying Jie, Yuan Yi Fang, Zhang Renjie, Song Qifa:
  Fingerprint minutiae matching algorithm for real time system. 143-146
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  Daniel J. Mashao, Marshalleno Skosan:
  Combining classifier decisions for robust speaker identification. 147-155
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  Hong Tang, Tao Fang, Pengfei Shi:
  Nonlinear discriminant mapping using the Laplacian of a graph. 156-159

Volume 39, Number 2, February 2006

Part Special Issue: Complexity Reduction

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  Francesc J. Ferri, José Salvador Sánchez, Filiberto Pla:
  Complexity reduction in efficient prototype-based classification. 161-163
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  David Masip, Jordi Vitrià:
  Boosted discriminant projections for nearest neighbor classification. 164-170
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  Eva Gómez-Ballester, Luisa Micó, José Oncina:
  Some approaches to improve tree-based nearest neighbour search algorithms. 171-179
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  Roberto Paredes, Enrique Vidal:
  Learning prototypes and distances: A prototype reduction technique based on nearest neighbor error minimization. 180-188
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  Elzbieta Pekalska, Robert P. W. Duin, Pavel Paclík:
  Prototype selection for dissimilarity-based classifiers. 189-208

Regular Papers

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  Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen:
  Prototype reduction schemes applicable for non-stationary data sets. 209-222
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  Norman Poh, Samy Bengio:
  Database, protocols and tools for evaluating score-level fusion algorithms in biometric authentication. 223-233
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  Rishi Jobanputra, David A. Clausi:
  Preserving boundaries for image texture segmentation using grey level co-occurring probabilities. 234-245
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  Jong Kwan Lee, Timothy S. Newman, G. Allen Gary:
  Oriented connectivity-based method for segmenting solar loops. 246-259
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  Peichung Shih, Chengjun Liu:
  Face detection using discriminating feature analysis and Support Vector Machine. 260-276
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  Peg Howland, Jianlin Wang, Haesun Park:
  Solving the small sample size problem in face recognition using generalized discriminant analysis. 277-287
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  Conrad Sanderson, Samy Bengio, Yongsheng Gao:
  On transforming statistical models for non-frontal face verification. 288-302
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  Shiqian Wu, Lijun Jiang, Shoulie Xie, Allen C. B. Yeo:
  A robust method for detecting facial orientation in infrared images. 303-309

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  Qijun Zhao, Hongtao Lu, David Zhang:
  A fast evolutionary pursuit algorithm based on linearly combining vectors. 310-312
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  Eduardo Gasca, José Salvador Sánchez, R. Alonso:
  Eliminating redundancy and irrelevance using a new MLP-based feature selection method. 313-315

Volume 39, Number 3, March 2006

Document

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  Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Perantonis:
  Adaptive degraded document image binarization. 317-327

Learning

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  B. John Oommen, Luis Rueda:
  Stochastic learning-based weak estimation of multinomial random variables and its applications to pattern recognition in non-stationary environments. 328-341
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  Yiqiang Zhan, Dinggang Shen:
  An adaptive error penalization method for training an efficient and generalized SVM. 342-350
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  Kuo-Lung Wu, Miin-Shen Yang:
  Alternative learning vector quantization. 351-362

Geometry

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  Sukhamay Kundu:
  Conflating two polygonal lines. 363-372
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  Gaoyu Xiao, S. H. Ong, Kelvin W. C. Foong:
  Registration of partially overlapping surfaces by rejection of false point correspondences. 373-383
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  Carlos Sagüés, A. C. Murillo, F. Escudero, José Jesús Guerrero:
  From lines to epipoles through planes in two views. 384-393
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  Jae-Hak Kim, Joon H. Han:
  Outlier correction from uncalibrated image sequence using the Triangulation method. 394-404
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  Olivier Cuisenaire:
  Locally adaptable mathematical morphology using distance transformations. 405-416

Statistics

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  Jigang Wang, Predrag Neskovic, Leon N. Cooper:
  Neighborhood size selection in the k-nearest-neighbor rule using statistical confidence. 417-423
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  Christine Smyth, Danny Coomans, Yvette Everingham:
  Clustering noisy data in a reduced dimension space via multivariate regression trees. 424-431

Face

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  Stefano Arca, Paola Campadelli, Raffaella Lanzarotti:
  A face recognition system based on automatically determined facial fiducial points. 432-443
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  Alessandro Colombo, Claudio Cusano, Raimondo Schettini:
  3D face detection using curvature analysis. 444-455
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  Liwei Wang, Xiao Wang, Jufu Feng:
  Subspace distance analysis with application to adaptive Bayesian algorithm for face recognition. 456-464

Finger and Palmprints

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  Xuejun Tan, Bir Bhanu:
  Fingerprint matching by genetic algorithms. 465-477
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  Adams Wai-Kin Kong, David Zhang, Mohamed Kamel:
  Palmprint identification using feature-level fusion. 478-487
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  Loris Nanni, Alessandra Lumini:
  FuzzyBagging: A novel ensemble of classifiers. 488-490
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  Bo Ma, Hau-San Wong:
  2D clustering based discriminant analysis for 3D head model classification. 491-494
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  Alessandra Lumini, Loris Nanni:
  A clustering method for automatic biometric template selection. 495-497

Volume 39, Number 4, April 2006

Graph-based Representations

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  Luc Brun, Mario Vento:
  Preface. 499-500
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  Lakshman Prasad, Alexei N. Skourikhine:
  Vectorized image segmentation via trixel agglomeration. 501-514
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  Luc Brun, Walter G. Kropatsch:
  Contains and inside relationships within combinatorial pyramids. 515-526
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  Carine Grasset-Simon, Guillaume Damiand, Pascal Lienhardt:
  nD generalized map pyramids: Definition, representations and basic operations. 527-538
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  Miguel Angel Lozano, Francisco Escolano:
  Protein classification by matching and clustering surface graphs. 539-551
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  Tibério S. Caetano, Terry Caelli:
  Approximating the problem, not the solution: An alternative view of point set matching. 552-561
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  Donatello Conte, Pasquale Foggia, Jean-Michel Jolion, Mario Vento:
  A graph-based, multi-resolution algorithm for tracking objects in presence of occlusions. 562-572
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  Horst Bunke, Peter J. Dickinson, Christophe Irniger, Miro Kraetzl:
  Recovery of missing information in graph sequences by means of reference pattern matching and decision tree learning. 573-586

Regular papers Clarification

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  Licheng Jiao, Qing Li:
  Kernel matching pursuit classifier ensemble. 587-594
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  Xiao Wang, Han Wang:
  Classification by evolutionary ensembles. 595-607
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  Matti Aksela, Jorma Laaksonen:
  Using diversity of errors for selecting members of a committee classifier. 608-623
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  Chien-Hsing Chou, Chin-Chin Lin, Ying-Ho Liu, Fu Chang:
  A prototype classification method and its use in a hybrid solution for multiclass pattern recognition. 624-634
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  Chang Yin Zhou, Yan Qiu Chen:
  Improving nearest neighbor classification with cam weighted distance. 635-645

Application

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  Heng-Da Cheng, Xiangjun Shi, Rui Min, Liming Hu, Xiaopeng Cai, H. N. Du:
  Approaches for automated detection and classification of masses in mammograms. 646-668
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  Cheng-Lin Liu, Hiroshi Sako:
  Class-specific feature polynomial classifier for pattern classification and its application to handwritten numeral recognition. 669-681
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  Andrey Temko, Climent Nadeu:
  Classification of acoustic events using SVM-based clustering schemes. 682-694
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  Haim H. Permuter, Joseph M. Francos, Ian Jermyn:
  A study of Gaussian mixture models of color and texture features for image classification and segmentation. 695-706

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  Xiao-Yuan Jing, Hau-San Wong, David Zhang:
  Face recognition based on 2D Fisherface approach. 707-710
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  Loris Nanni:
  Comparison among feature extraction methods for HIV-1 protease cleavage site prediction. 711-713
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  Alessandra Lumini, Loris Nanni:
  Two-class fingerprint matcher. 714-716
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  Ke Lu, Jidong Zhao, Deng Cai:
  An algorithm for semi-supervised learning in image retrieval. 717-720
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  P. Nagabhushan, D. S. Guru, B. H. Shekar:
  Visual learning and recognition of 3D objects using two-dimensional principal component analysis: A robust and an efficient approach. 721-725
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  Kuntal Ghosh, Sandip Sarkar, Kamales Bhaumik:
  Proposing new methods in low-level vision from the Mach band illusion in retrospect. 726-730
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  Zhiyong Liu, Hong Qiao, Lei Xu:
  Multisets mixture learning-based ellipse detection. 731-735
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  Guorui Feng, Ling-ge Jiang, Dong-Jian Wang, Chen He:
  Erratum to: Quickly tracing detection for spread spectrum watermark based on effect estimation of the affine transformation [Pattern Recognition 38 (12) 2530]. 736

Volume 39, Number 5, May 2006

Classification

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  Naoto Abe, Mineichi Kudo:
  Non-parametric classifier-independent feature selection. 737-746
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  Mehmet Kerem Müezzinoglu, Jacek M. Zurada:
  RBF-based neurodynamic nearest neighbor classification in real pattern space. 747-760

Cluster

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  Pasi Fränti, Olli Virmajoki:
  Iterative shrinking method for clustering problems. 761-775
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  Helena Brás Silva, Paula Brito, Joaquim Pinto da Costa:
  A partitional clustering algorithm validated by a clustering tendency index based on graph theory. 776-788
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  Gaurav Harit, Santanu Chaudhury:
  Clustering in video data: Dealing with heterogeneous semantics of features. 789-811

Segmentation

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  Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, Abhir Bhalerao:
  The Bhattacharyya space for feature selection and its application to texture segmentation. 812-826
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  Dong Hwan Kim, Il Dong Yun, Sang Uk Lee:
  Boundary-trimmed 3D triangular mesh segmentation based on iterative merging strategy. 827-838

Shape

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  Chul-Hyun Park, Joon-Jae Lee, Mark J. T. Smith, Kil-Houm Park:
  Singular point detection by shape analysis of directional fields in fingerprints. 839-855
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  Jovisa D. Zunic, Lazar Kopanja, Jonathan E. Fieldsend:
  Notes on shape orientation where the standard method does not work. 856-865

Color

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  Shyong Jian Shyu:
  Efficient visual secret sharing scheme for color images. 866-880
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  Naofumi Wada, Shun'ichi Kaneko, Tomoyuki Takeguchi:
  Using color reach histogram for object search in colour and/or depth scene. 881-888

Images

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  A. W. K. Tang, T. P. Ng, Y. S. Hung, Cheung H. Leung:
  Projective reconstruction from line-correspondences in multiple uncalibrated images. 889-896
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  Julia Vogel, Bernt Schiele:
  Performance evaluation and optimization for content-based image retrieval. 897-909
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  Sang-Woong Lee, Ho-Choul Jung, Bon-Woo Hwang, Seong-Whan Lee:
  Authenticating corrupted photo images based on noise parameter estimation. 910-920

Applications

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  Francesc Serratosa, Alberto Sanfeliu:
  Signatures versus histograms: Definitions, distances and algorithms. 921-934
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  Dan Yu, Farook Sattar, Braham Barkat:
  Multiresolution fragile watermarking using complex chirp signals for content authentication. 935-952
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  Stefan Leyk, Ruedi Boesch, Robert Weibel:
  Saliency and semantic processing: Extracting forest cover from historical topographic maps. 953-968
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  Nikolaos V. Boulgouris, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Dimitrios Hatzinakos:
  Gait recognition using linear time normalization. 969-979
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  Hong Guo, Asoke K. Nandi:
  Breast cancer diagnosis using genetic programming generated feature. 980-987
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  Hui Jiang, Chong-Wah Ngo, Hung-Khoon Tan:
  Gestalt-based feature similarity measure in trademark database. 988-1001

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  Hui Gao, James W. Davis:
  Why direct LDA is not equivalent to LDA. 1002-1006
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  Dit-Yan Yeung, Hong Chang:
  Extending the relevant component analysis algorithm for metric learning using both positive and negative equivalence constraints. 1007-1010

Volume 39, Number 6, June 2006

Kernal

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  Hongfang Wang, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Correspondence matching using kernel principal components analysis and label consistency constraints. 1012-1025
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  Yong Xu, David Zhang, Zhong Jin, Miao Li, Jing-Yu Yang:
  A fast kernel-based nonlinear discriminant analysis for multi-class problems. 1026-1033

Hough Transforms

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  J. Cha, Rufus H. Cofer, Samuel P. Kozaitis:
  Extended Hough transform for linear feature detection. 1034-1043

Mura Detection

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  Kazutaka Taniguchi, Kunio Ueta, Shoji Tatsumi:
  A mura detection method. 1044-1052

Embedding

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  Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung:
  Robust locally linear embedding. 1053-1065

Entropy

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  Liangfeng Guo, Marc Garland:
  The use of entropy minimization for the solution of blind source separation problems in image analysis. 1066-1073

Rule Based

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  Zhouchen Lin, Rongrong Wang, Heung-Yeung Shum:
  Rule-based cleanup of on-line English ink notes. 1074-1087
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  Saravana Kumar, Sim Heng Ong, Surendra Ranganath, Tan Ching Ong, Fook Tim Chew:
  A rule-based approach for robust clump splitting. 1088-1098

Skeletionization

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  Paul Morrison, Ju Jia Zou:
  Skeletonization based on error reduction. 1099-1109

Eye Detection

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  Jiatao Song, Zheru Chi, Jilin Liu:
  A robust eye detection method using combined binary edge and intensity information. 1110-1125

Tracking

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  Fang-Hsuan Cheng, Yu-Liang Chen:
  Real time multiple objects tracking and identification based on discrete wavelet transform. 1126-1139

Fingerprint

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  Jung-Hwan Shin, Hui-Yeoun Hwang, Sung-Il Chien:
  Detecting fingerprint minutiae by run length encoding scheme. 1140-1154

Hiding

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  Chin-Chen Chang, Chi-Shiang Chan, Yi-Hsuan Fan:
  Image hiding scheme with modulus function and dynamic programming strategy on partitioned pixels. 1155-1167
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  Suk-Ling Li, Kai-Chi Leung, L. M. Cheng, Chi-Kwong Chan:
  A novel image-hiding scheme based on block difference. 1168-1176

Learning

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  Tsung I. Lin, Jack C. Lee, Hsiu J. Ho:
  On fast supervised learning for normal mixture models with missing information. 1177-1187
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  Bin Luo, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock:
  A spectral approach to learning structural variations in graphs. 1188-1198

Application

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  Qing Tao, Gao-wei Wu, Jue Wang:
  The theoretical analysis of FDA and applications. 1199-1204
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  Carlos Oscar Sánchez Sorzano, E. Ortiz, M. López, Javier Rodrigo:
  Improved Bayesian image denoising based on wavelets with applications to electron microscopy. 1205-1213

Volume 39, Number 7, July 2006

Classification

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  Alok Sharma, Kuldip K. Paliwal, Godfrey C. Onwubolu:
  Class-dependent PCA, MDC and LDA: A combined classifier for pattern classification. 1215-1229
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  Mingkun Li, Ishwar K. Sethi:
  Confidence-based classifier design. 1230-1240
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  Umut Ozertem, Deniz Erdogmus, Robert Jenssen:
  Spectral feature projections that maximize Shannon mutual information with class labels. 1241-1252

Cluster

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  Hong Chang, Dit-Yan Yeung:
  Locally linear metric adaptation with application to semi-supervised clustering and image retrieval. 1253-1264
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  Kamal Hammouche, Moussa Diaf, Jack-Gérard Postaire:
  A clustering method based on multidimensional texture analysis. 1265-1277
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  Yan Yang, Mohamed S. Kamel:
  An aggregated clustering approach using multi-ant colonies algorithms. 1278-1289

Vision

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  Ilkka Autio:
  Using natural class hierarchies in multi-class visual classification. 1290-1299
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  Ching-Nung Yang, Tse-Shih Chen:
  Reduce shadow size in aspect ratio invariant visual secret sharing schemes using a square block-wise operation. 1300-1314
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  Richard J. Hathaway, James C. Bezdek, Jacalyn M. Huband:
  Scalable visual assessment of cluster tendency for large data sets. 1315-1324

Support Vector Machine

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  Luis González Abril, Cecilio Angulo, Francisco Velasco Morente, Andreu Català:
  Dual unification of bi-class support vector machine formulations. 1325-1332
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  Yi Liu, Yuan F. Zheng:
  FS_SFS: A novel feature selection method for support vector machines. 1333-1345

Review

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  Pekka Paalanen, Joni-Kristian Kamarainen, Jarmo Ilonen, Heikki Kälviäinen:
  Feature representation and discrimination based on Gaussian mixture model probability densities - Practices and algorithms. 1346-1358
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  Adams Wai-Kin Kong, King Hong Cheung, David Zhang, Mohamed S. Kamel, Jane You:
  An analysis of BioHashing and its variants. 1359-1368

Application

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  Ali Shahidi Zandi, Mohammad Hassan Moradi:
  Quantitative evaluation of a wavelet-based method in ventricular late potential detection. 1369-1379
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  Yann Frauel, Octavio Quesada, Ernesto Bribiesca:
  Detection of a polymorphic Mesoamerican symbol using a rule-based approach. 1380-1390

Rapid and Brief Communications

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