Pattern Recognition, Volume 47

Volume 47, Number 1, January 2014

Special Issue Papers

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  Luís Gómez Déniz, Luis Álvarez, Julio Jacobo-Berlles, Marta Mejail:
  Special issue on computer vision applying pattern recognition techniques. 9-11
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  Bangalore Ravi Kiran, Jean Serra:
  Global-local optimizations by hierarchical cuts and climbing energies. 12-24
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  Asja Fischer, Christian Igel:
  Training restricted Boltzmann machines: An introduction. 25-39
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  B. John Oommen, Anu Thomas:
  "Anti-Bayesian" parametric pattern classification using order statistics criteria for some members of the exponential family. 40-55
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  Pablo Negri, Norberto A. Goussies, Pablo A. Lotito:
  Detecting pedestrians on a Movement Feature Space. 56-71
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  Mariano Tepper, Pablo Musé, Andrés Almansa, Marta Mejail:
  Finding contrasted and regular edges by a contrario detection of periodic subsequences. 72-79
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  Yu-Ting Li, Juan P. Wachs:
  HEGM: A hierarchical elastic graph matching for hand gesture recognition. 80-88
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  Miguel Alemán-Flores, Luis Álvarez, Luis Gómez, Pedro Henríquez, Luis Mazorra:
  Camera calibration in sport event scenarios. 89-95
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  César A. Astudillo, B. John Oommen:
  Self-organizing maps whose topologies can be learned with adaptive binary search trees using conditional rotations. 96-113
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  Noel Lopes, Bernardete Ribeiro:
  Towards adaptive learning with improved convergence of deep belief networks on graphics processing units. 114-127
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  Marianela Parodi, Juan Carlos Gómez:
  Legendre polynomials based feature extraction for online signature verification. Consistency analysis of feature combinations. 128-140
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  Leonardo Torres, Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna, Corina da Costa Freitas, Alejandro César Frery:
  Speckle reduction in polarimetric SAR imagery with stochastic distances and nonlocal means. 141-157
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  Mónica G. Larese, Rafael Namías, Roque M. Craviotto, Miriam R. Arango, Carina Gallo, Pablo M. Granitto:
  Automatic classification of legumes using leaf vein image features. 158-168
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  Annette Morales-González, Niusvel Acosta-Mendoza, Andrés Gago Alonso, Edel B. García Reyes, José Eladio Medina-Pagola:
  A new proposal for graph-based image classification using frequent approximate subgraphs. 169-177

Regular Papers

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  Feng Liu, David Zhang:
  3D fingerprint reconstruction system using feature correspondences and prior estimated finger model. 178-193
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  Malik Morshidi, Tardi Tjahjadi:
  Gravity optimised particle filter for hand tracking. 194-207
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  Carlos F. Benitez-Quiroz, Samuel Rivera, Paulo F. U. Gotardo, Aleix M. Martínez:
  Salient and non-salient fiducial detection using a probabilistic graphical model. 208-215
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  Panagiotis Papadakis:
  Enhanced pose normalization and matching of non-rigid objects based on support vector machine modelling. 216-227
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  Trung Ngo Thanh, Yasushi Makihara, Hajime Nagahara, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Yasushi Yagi:
  The largest inertial sensor-based gait database and performance evaluation of gait-based personal authentication. 228-237
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  Mathieu Barnachon, Saïda Bouakaz, Boubakeur Boufama, Erwan Guillou:
  Ongoing human action recognition with motion capture. 238-247
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  Oksana Samko, Yu-Kun Lai, A. David Marshall, Paul L. Rosin:
  Virtual unrolling and information recovery from scanned scrolled historical documents. 248-259
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  Christophe Moulin, Christine Largeron, Christophe Ducottet, Mathias Géry, Cécile Barat:
  Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis for text-image combination in multimedia information retrieval. 260-269
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  Carlos Lopez-Molina, Mikel Galar, Humberto Bustince Sola, Bernard De Baets:
  On the impact of anisotropic diffusion on edge detection. 270-281
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  The Anh Pham, Mathieu Delalandre, Sabine Barrat, Jean-Yves Ramel:
  Accurate junction detection and characterization in line-drawing images. 282-295
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  Dongjin Han, Hern-soo Hahn:
  Axis estimation and grouping of rotationally symmetric object segments. 296-312
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  Chao Rong Li, Jianping Li, Dapeng Gao, Bo Fu:
  Rapid-transform based rotation invariant descriptor for texture classification under non-ideal conditions. 313-325
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  Matthew Grum, Adrian G. Bors:
  3D modeling of multiple-object scenes from sets of images. 326-343
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  Bo Du, Liangpei Zhang:
  Target detection based on a dynamic subspace. 344-358
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  Chengjun Liu:
  Discriminant analysis and similarity measure. 359-367
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  Qing Yan, Yi Xu, Xiaokang Yang, Truong Nguyen:
  HEASK: Robust homography estimation based on appearance similarity and keypoint correspondences. 368-387
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  Le Thi Hoai An, Le Hoai Minh, Pham Dinh Tao:
  New and efficient DCA based algorithms for minimum sum-of-squares clustering. 388-401
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  Antonio Adán, Miguel Adán:
  Consensus strategy for clustering using RC-images. 402-417
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  Hongtao Lu, Zhenyong Fu, Xin Shu:
  Non-negative and sparse spectral clustering. 418-426
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  David Hanwell, Majid Mirmehdi:
  QUAC: Quick unsupervised anisotropic clustering. 427-440
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  Abhishek Singh, Rosha Pokharel, José C. Príncipe:
  The C-loss function for pattern classification. 441-453
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  Chenping Hou, Feiping Nie, Changshui Zhang, Dongyun Yi, Yi Wu:
  Multiple rank multi-linear SVM for matrix data classification. 454-469
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  Kyoungok Kim, Daewon Lee:
  Inductive manifold learning using structured support vector machine. 470-479
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  Bogdan Raducanu, Fadi Dornaika:
  Embedding new observations via sparse-coding for non-linear manifold learning. 480-492

Corrigedum

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  Norman Poh, Arun Ross, Weifeng Li, Josef Kittler:
  Corrigendum to "A user-specific and selective multimodal biometric fusion strategy by ranking subjects" [Pattern Recognition 46 (2013) 3341-3357]. 493

Volume 47, Number 2, February 2014

Face

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  Xiao Luan, Bin Fang, Linghui Liu, Weibin Yang, Jiye Qian:
  Extracting sparse error of robust PCA for face recognition in the presence of varying illumination and occlusion. 495-508
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  Yinjie Lei, Mohammed Bennamoun, Munawar Hayat, Yulan Guo:
  An efficient 3D face recognition approach using local geometrical signatures. 509-524
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  De-Qiang Li, Witold Pedrycz:
  A central profile-based 3D face pose estimation. 525-534
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  Meng Yang, Zhizhao Feng, Simon C. K. Shiu, Lei Zhang:
  Fast and robust face recognition via coding residual map learning based adaptive masking. 535-543
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  Abeer A. Mohamad Al-Shiha, Wai Lok Woo, Satnam Singh Dlay:
  Multi-linear neighborhood preserving projection for face recognition. 544-555
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  Kuong-Hon Pong, Kin-Man Lam:
  Multi-resolution feature fusion for face recognition. 556-567
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  Leonardo A. Cament, Luis E. Castillo, Juan P. Perez, Francisco J. Galdames, Claudio A. Perez:
  Fusion of local normalization and Gabor entropy weighted features for face identification. 568-577

Eye, fingerprint

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  Nenad Markus, Miroslav Frljak, Igor S. Pandzic, Jörgen Ahlberg, Robert Forchheimer:
  Eye pupil localization with an ensemble of randomized trees. 578-587
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  Daniel Peralta, Isaac Triguero, Raul Sánchez-Reillo, Francisco Herrera, José Manuel Benítez:
  Fast fingerprint identification for large databases. 588-602

Objects, paintings

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  Zhuhong Shao, Huazhong Shu, Jiasong Wu, Beijing Chen, Jean-Louis Coatrieux:
  Quaternion Bessel-Fourier moments and their invariant descriptors for object reconstruction and recognition. 603-611
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  Jiachuan Sheng, Jianmin Jiang:
  Recognition of Chinese artists via windowed and entropy balanced fusion in classification of their authored ink and wash paintings (IWPs). 612-622

Curve, spline, shape

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  Alexander Kolesnikov, Tuomo Kauranne:
  Unsupervised segmentation and approximation of digital curves with rate-distortion curve modeling. 623-633
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  Larissa Stanberry, Julian Besag:
  Boundary reconstruction in binary images using splines. 634-642
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  Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone:
  Amplitude-only log Radon transform for geometric invariant shape descriptor. 643-658
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  Laura Igual, Xavier Perez-Sala, Sergio Escalera, Cecilio Angulo, Fernando De la Torre:
  Continuous Generalized Procrustes analysis. 659-671

Font, handwriting

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  Mohammed Lutf, Xinge You, Yiu-ming Cheung, C. L. Philip Chen:
  Arabic font recognition based on diacritics features. 672-684
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  Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa:
  A robust method for coarse classifier construction from a large number of basic recognizers for on-line handwritten Chinese/Japanese character recognition. 685-693

Images, morphology, graph, visual search

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  Qing-Song Zeng, Jian-Huang Lai, Chang-Dong Wang:
  Multi-local model image set matching based on domain description. 694-704
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  Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, Fernanda B. Silva, Eduardo Valle, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Ricardo da Silva Torres:
  Visual word spatial arrangement for image retrieval and classification. 705-720
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  Alexandru Caliman, Mihai Ivanovici, Noël Richard:
  Probabilistic pseudo-morphology for grayscale and color images. 721-735
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  Bo Jiang, Haifeng Zhao, Jin Tang, Bin Luo:
  A sparse nonnegative matrix factorization technique for graph matching problems. 736-747
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  Xianglong Liu, Junfeng He, Bo Lang:
  Multiple feature kernel hashing for large-scale visual search. 748-757

Dimensionality, 3D

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  Kyoungok Kim, Jaewook Lee:
  Sentiment visualization and classification via semi-supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction. 758-768
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  Hermilo Sánchez-Cruz, Hiram H. López-Valdez, Francisco J. Cuevas:
  A new relative chain code in 3D. 769-788

Discriminant analysis, clustering

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  Daqi Gao, Jun Ding, Changming Zhu:
  Integrated Fisher linear discriminants: An empirical study. 789-805
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  Haitao Zhao, Wai Keung Wong:
  Regularized discriminant entropy analysis. 806-819
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  Ping He, Xiao-hua Xu, Kongfa Hu, Ling Chen:
  Semi-supervised clustering via multi-level random walk. 820-832
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  Lucas Franek, Xiaoyi Jiang:
  Ensemble clustering by means of clustering embedding in vector spaces. 833-842

Classification, genetic algorithm

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  Hoel Le Capitaine:
  A unified view of class-selection with probabilistic classifiers. 843-853
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  Pierluigi Casale, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva:
  Approximate polytope ensemble for one-class classification. 854-864
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  Miguel Ángel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Oriol Pujol:
  On the design of an ECOC-Compliant Genetic Algorithm. 865-884

Learning

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  Donghui Wang, Shu Kong:
  A classification-oriented dictionary learning model: Explicitly learning the particularity and commonality across categories. 885-898
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  Hao Lei, Kuizhi Mei, Nanning Zheng, Peixiang Dong, Ning Zhou, Jianping Fan:
  Learning group-based dictionaries for discriminative image representation. 899-913

Volume 47, Number 3, March 2014

Special Issue Papers

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  Sebastiano Impedovo, Cheng-Lin Liu, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  "Special Issue on Handwriting recognition and other PR applications". 915
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  Sebastiano Impedovo:
  More than twenty years of advancements on Frontiers in handwriting recognition. 916-928
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  Réjean Plamondon, Christian O'Reilly, Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon:
  Strokes against stroke - strokes for strides. 929-944
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  Yi Tang, Sargur N. Srihari:
  Likelihood ratio estimation in forensic identification using similarity and rarity. 945-958
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  Adrien Delaye, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Contextual text/non-text stroke classification in online handwritten notes with conditional random fields. 959-968
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  Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  Zoning methods for handwritten character recognition: A survey. 969-981
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  Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa:
  Building a compact online MRF recognizer for large character set by structured dictionary representation and vector quantization technique. 982-993
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  Toru Wakahara, Yukihiko Yamashita:
  k-NN classification of handwritten characters via accelerated GAT correlation. 994-1001
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  Sebastiano Impedovo, Francesco Maurizio Mangini, Donato Barbuzzi:
  A novel prototype generation technique for handwriting digit recognition. 1002-1010
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  Jan Richarz, Szilárd Vajda, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink:
  Semi-supervised learning for character recognition in historical archive documents. 1011-1020
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  Muna Khayyat, Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen:
  Learning-based word spotting system for Arabic handwritten documents. 1021-1030
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  Jean-Paul van Oosten, Lambert Schomaker:
  Separability versus prototypicality in handwritten word-image retrieval. 1031-1038
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  Safwan Wshah, Gaurav Kumar, Venu Govindaraju:
  Statistical script independent word spotting in offline handwritten documents. 1039-1050
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  Konstantinos Zagoris, Ioannis Pratikakis, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Basilis Gatos, Nikos Papamarkos:
  Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed text based on the bag of visual words model. 1051-1062
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  Marçal Rusiñol, Josep Lladós:
  Boosting the handwritten word spotting experience by including the user in the loop. 1063-1072
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  Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Markus Baumgartner, Horst Bunke:
  Keyword spotting for self-training of BLSTM NN based handwriting recognition systems. 1073-1082
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  Sargur N. Srihari, Kirsten Singer:
  Role of automation in the examination of handwritten items. 1083-1095
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  Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Volker Märgner, Gernot A. Fink:
  KHATT: An open Arabic offline handwritten text database. 1096-1112
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  Yuting Tao, Jian Yang, Heyou Chang:
  Enhanced iterative projection for subclass discriminant analysis under EM-alike framework. 1113-1125
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  Xiaotang Chen, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan:
  Object tracking across non-overlapping views by learning inter-camera transfer models. 1126-1137
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  Pengfei Hu, Wenju Liu, Wei Jiang, Zhanlei Yang:
  Latent topic model for audio retrieval. 1138-1143

Regular Papers

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  Wanmu Liu, Sasan Mahmoodi, Tom Havelock, Michael J. Bennett:
  Robust similarity registration technique for volumetric shapes represented by characteristic functions. 1144-1158
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  Vincenzo Deufemia, Michele Risi, Genoveffa Tortora:
  Sketched symbol recognition using Latent-Dynamic Conditional Random Fields and distance-based clustering. 1159-1171
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  Lu Bai, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Depth-based complexity traces of graphs. 1172-1186
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  Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, Partha Bhowmick:
  Recognition of Bangla compound characters using structural decomposition. 1187-1201
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  Qiu-Feng Wang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Unsupervised language model adaptation for handwritten Chinese text recognition. 1202-1216
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  Vicent Alabau, Alberto Sanchís, Francisco Casacuberta:
  Improving on-line handwritten recognition in interactive machine translation. 1217-1228
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  Saeeda Naz, Khizar Hayat, Muhammad Imran Razzak, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Sajjad Ahmad Madani, Samee Ullah Khan:
  The optical character recognition of Urdu-like cursive scripts. 1229-1248
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  Wen-Chung Chiang, Hsiu-Hsia Lin, Chiung-Shing Huang, Lun-Jou Lo, Shu-Yen Wan:
  The cluster assessment of facial attractiveness using fuzzy neural network classifier based on 3D Moiré features. 1249-1260
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  Yongchao Li, Cheng Cai, Guoping Qiu, Kin-Man Lam:
  Face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure. 1261-1270
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  Hui Fang, Neil Mac Parthaláin, Andrew J. Aubrey, Gary K. L. Tam, Rita Borgo, Paul L. Rosin, Philip W. Grant, A. David Marshall, Min Chen:
  Facial expression recognition in dynamic sequences: An integrated approach. 1271-1281
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  Anima Majumder, Laxmidhar Behera, Venkatesh K. Subramanian:
  Emotion recognition from geometric facial features using self-organizing map. 1282-1293
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  W. W. Kong, Surendra Ranganath:
  Towards subject independent continuous sign language recognition: A segment and merge approach. 1294-1308
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  Wencheng Yang, Jiankun Hu, Song Wang, Milos Stojmenovic:
  An alignment-free fingerprint bio-cryptosystem based on modified Voronoi neighbor structures. 1309-1320
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  Song Wang, Jiankun Hu:
  Design of alignment-free cancelable fingerprint templates via curtailed circular convolution. 1321-1329
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  Aissa Boulmerka, Mohand Saïd Allili, Samy Ait-Aoudia:
  A generalized multiclass histogram thresholding approach based on mixture modelling. 1330-1348
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  Yanzhi Chen, Xi Li, Anthony R. Dick, Rhys Hill:
  Ranking consistency for image matching and object retrieval. 1349-1360
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  Liang Sun, Hongwei Ge, Shinichi Yoshida, Yanchun Liang, Guozhen Tan:
  Support vector description of clusters for content-based image annotation. 1361-1374
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  Xi-Zhao Li, Simon Williams, Murk J. Bottema:
  Constructing and applying higher order textons: Estimating breast cancer risk. 1375-1382
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  Yuan Xie, Wensheng Zhang, Yanyun Qu, Yinghua Zhang:
  Discriminative subspace learning with sparse representation view-based model for robust visual tracking. 1383-1394
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  Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Sheng Chen, Rongrong Ji, Tat-Jun Chin, Hanzi Wang:
  Visual tracking via weakly supervised learning from multiple imperfect oracles. 1395-1410
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  Yunhao Yuan, Quan-Sen Sun, Hong-Wei Ge:
  Fractional-order embedding canonical correlation analysis and its applications to multi-view dimensionality reduction and recognition. 1411-1424
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  Hui Yan, Jian Yang:
  Joint Laplacian feature weights learning. 1425-1432
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  Di Zhang, Jiazhong He, Yun Zhao, Zhongliang Luo, Minghui Du:
  Global plus local: A complete framework for feature extraction and recognition. 1433-1442
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  Ahmad Ali Abin, Hamid Beigy:
  Active selection of clustering constraints: a sequential approach. 1443-1458
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