Pattern Recognition, Volume 48

Volume 48, Number 1, January 2015

Features

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  Shiping Wang, Witold Pedrycz, Qingxin Zhu, William Zhu:
  Subspace learning for unsupervised feature selection via matrix factorization. 10-19
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  Wankou Yang, Zhenyu Wang, Changyin Sun:
  A collaborative representation based projections method for feature extraction. 20-27

Classification, nearest neighbour

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  Mikel Galar, Alberto Fernández, Edurne Barrenechea, Francisco Herrera:
  DRCW-OVO: Distance-based relative competence weighting combination for One-vs-One strategy in multi-class problems. 28-42
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  Lixia Hu:
  A note on order statistics-based parametric pattern classification. 43-49
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  Xianchang Wang, Xiaodong Liu, Witold Pedrycz, Lishi Zhang:
  Fuzzy rule based decision trees. 50-59
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  Radu Timofte, Luc J. Van Gool:
  Iterative Nearest Neighbors. 60-72

Face, signature

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  Jaeik Jo, Hee-seung Choi, Ig-Jae Kim, Jaihie Kim:
  Single-view-based 3D facial reconstruction method robust against pose variations. 73-85
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  Ying-Han Pang, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Fu San Hiew:
  Locality Regularization Embedding for face verification. 86-102
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  Yasmine Guerbai, Youcef Chibani, Bilal Hadjadji:
  The effective use of the one-class SVM classifier for handwritten signature verification based on writer-independent parameters. 103-113

License plate, object

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  Shouyuan Yu, Baopu Li, Qi Zhang, Changchun Liu, Max Q.-H. Meng:
  A novel license plate location method based on wavelet transform and EMD analysis. 114-125
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  Se-In Jang, Kwontaeg Choi, Kar-Ann Toh, Andrew Beng Jin Teoh, Jaihie Kim:
  Object tracking based on an online learning network with total error rate minimization. 126-139

Line drawing, point sets

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  Hacer Yalim Keles, Sibel Tari:
  A robust method for scale independent detection of curvature-based criticalities and intersections in line drawings. 140-155
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  Yang Yang, Sim Heng Ong, Kelvin Weng Chiong Foong:
  A robust global and local mixture distance based non-rigid point set registration. 156-173

Image, web-image, scene

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  S. Hamid Amiri, Mansour Jamzad:
  Automatic image annotation using semi-supervised generative modeling. 174-188
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  Xiao-Feng Wang, Hai Min, Le Zou, Yi-Gang Zhang:
  A novel level set method for image segmentation by incorporating local statistical analysis and global similarity measurement. 189-204
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  Ning Zhou, Jianping Fan:
  Automatic image-text alignment for large-scale web image indexing and retrieval. 205-219
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  Xida Chen, Yee-Hong Yang:
  Scene adaptive structured light using error detection and correction. 220-230

Sparse, Dimensionality reduction

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  Zheng Pan, Changshui Zhang:
  Relaxed sparse eigenvalue conditions for sparse estimation via non-convex regularized regression. 231-243
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  Gang Wu, Wei Xu, Huan Leng:
  Inexact and incremental bilinear Lanczos components algorithms for high dimensionality reduction and image reconstruction. 244-263

Learning, ROC curve

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  Veronika Cheplygina, David M. J. Tax, Marco Loog:
  Multiple instance learning with bag dissimilarities. 264-275
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  Shijun Wang, Diana Li, Nicholas Petrick, Berkman Sahiner, Marius George Linguraru, Ronald M. Summers:
  Optimizing area under the ROC curve using semi-supervised learning. 276-287

Volume 48, Number 2, February 2015

Special Section on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition 2013; Edited by Professor Walter Kropatsch, Dr. Nicole M. Artner, Dr. Yll Haxhimusa, Professor Xiaoyi Jiang

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  Mario Vento:
  A long trip in the charming world of graphs for Pattern Recognition. 291-301
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  Christine Solnon, Guillaume Damiand, Colin de la Higuera, Jean-Christophe Janodet:
  On the complexity of submap isomorphism and maximum common submap problems. 302-316
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  Nicholas Dahm, Horst Bunke, Terry Caelli, Yongsheng Gao:
  Efficient subgraph matching using topological node feature constraints. 317-330
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  Andreas Fischer, Ching Y. Suen, Volkmar Frinken, Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke:
  Approximation of graph edit distance based on Hausdorff matching. 331-343
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  Lu Bai, Luca Rossi, Andrea Torsello, Edwin R. Hancock:
  A quantum Jensen-Shannon graph kernel for unattributed graphs. 344-355
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  Benoit Gaüzère, Pierre-Anthony Grenier, Luc Brun, Didier Villemin:
  Treelet kernel incorporating cyclic, stereo and inter pattern information in chemoinformatics. 356-367
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  Samuel de Sousa, Walter G. Kropatsch:
  Graph-based point drift: Graph centrality on the registration of point-sets. 368-379
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  Zhengwang Wu, Xiaoyi Jiang, Nanning Zheng, Yuehu Liu, Da-Chuan Cheng:
  Exact solution to median surface problem using 3D graph search and application to parameter space exploration. 380-390
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  Harish Chintakunta, Thanos Gentimis, Rocío González-Díaz, Maria Jose Jimenez, Hamid Krim:
  An entropy-based persistence barcode. 391-401

Regular Papers

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  Zhiyang Li, Wenyu Qu, Junjie Cao, Heng Qi, Milos Stojmenovic:
  ECDS: An effective shape signature using electrical charge distribution on the shape. 402-410
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  Tommaso De Marco, Dario Cazzato, Marco Leo, Cosimo Distante:
  Randomized circle detection with isophotes curvature analysis. 411-421
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  Tak-Wai Hui, Ronald Chung:
  Determining shape and motion from monocular camera: A direct approach using normal flows. 422-437
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  Pengfei Zhu, Wangmeng Zuo, Lei Zhang, Qinghua Hu, Simon C. K. Shiu:
  Unsupervised feature selection by regularized self-representation. 438-446
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  Jin Xie, Lei Zhang, Jane You, Simon C. K. Shiu:
  Effective texture classification by texton encoding induced statistical features. 447-457
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  Salman H. Khan, Muhammad Ali Akbar, Farrukh Shahzad, Muddassar Farooq, Zeashan H. Khan:
  Secure biometric template generation for multi-factor authentication. 458-472
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  Hye-Wuk Jung, Jee-Hyong Lee:
  Noisy and incomplete fingerprint classification using local ridge distribution models. 473-484
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  Min Xian, Yingtao Zhang, Heng-Da Cheng:
  Fully automatic segmentation of breast ultrasound images based on breast characteristics in space and frequency domains. 485-497
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  Zhiwu Lu, Liwei Wang:
  Learning descriptive visual representation for image classification and annotation. 498-508
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  Abdeslam Hmimid, Mhamed Sayyouri, Hassan Qjidaa:
  Fast computation of separable two-dimensional discrete invariant moments for image classification. 509-521
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  Shaohui Mei, Genliang Guan, Zhiyong Wang, Shuai Wan, Mingyi He, David Dagan Feng:
  Video summarization via minimum sparse reconstruction. 522-533
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  Yousri Kessentini, Thomas Burger, Thierry Paquet:
  A Dempster-Shafer Theory based combination of handwriting recognition systems with multiple rejection strategies. 534-544
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  Marçal Rusiñol, David Aldavert, Ricardo Toledo, Josep Lladós:
  Efficient segmentation-free keyword spotting in historical document collections. 545-555
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  Rim Slama, Hazem Wannous, Mohamed Daoudi, Anuj Srivastava:
  Accurate 3D action recognition using learning on the Grassmann manifold. 556-567
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  Luís Santos, Kamrad Khoshhal, Jorge Dias:
  Trajectory-based human action segmentation. 568-579
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  Shun Zhang, Jinjun Wang, Zelun Wang, Yihong Gong, Yuehu Liu:
  Multi-target tracking by learning local-to-global trajectory models. 580-590
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  José Barranquero, Jorge Díez, Juan José del Coz:
  Quantification-oriented learning based on reliable classifiers. 591-604
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  Zhiwu Lu, Liwei Wang:
  Noise-robust semi-supervised learning via fast sparse coding. 605-612

Volume 48, Number 3, March 2015

Special Issue Papers

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  Djamel Bouchaffra, Mohamed Cheriet, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Diane Beck:
  Machine learning and pattern recognition models in change detection. 613-615
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  Boualem Boashash, Ghasem Azemi, Nabeel Ali Khan:
  Principles of time-frequency feature extraction for change detection in non-stationary signals: Applications to newborn EEG abnormality detection. 616-627
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  Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Ibrahim Khalil, Zahir Tari, Sebti Foufou, Abdelaziz Bouras:
  A context-aware approach for long-term behavioural change detection and abnormality prediction in ambient assisted living. 628-641
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  Nazre Batool, Rama Chellappa:
  Fast detection of facial wrinkles based on Gabor features using image morphology and geometric constraints. 642-658
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  Haider Raza, Girijesh Prasad, Yuhua Li:
  EWMA model based shift-detection methods for detecting covariate shifts in non-stationary environments. 659-669
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  Tae-Koo Kang, In-Hwan Choi, Myo-Taeg Lim:
  MDGHM-SURF: A robust local image descriptor based on modified discrete Gaussian-Hermite moment. 670-684
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  Ganchao Liu, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, Hua Zhong, Shuang Wang:
  A new patch based change detector for polarimetric SAR data. 685-695
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  Arash Gharehbaghi, Per Ask, Ankica Babic:
  A pattern recognition framework for detecting dynamic changes on cyclic time series. 696-708
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  Iván Huerta, Marco Pedersoli, Jordi Gonzàlez, Alberto Sanfeliu:
  Combining where and what in change detection for unsupervised foreground learning in surveillance. 709-719
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  Jonathan Boisvert, Marc-Antoine Drouin, Pierre-Marc Jodoin:
  High-speed transition patterns for video projection, 3D reconstruction, and copyright protection. 720-731

Regular Papers

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  Dong Li, Kin-Man Lam:
  Design and learn distinctive features from pore-scale facial keypoints. 732-745
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  Baiqiang Xia, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Hassen Drira, Mohamed Daoudi, Lahoucine Ballihi:
  Combining face averageness and symmetry for 3D-based gender classification. 746-758
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  David Rim, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Fannie Puech, Christopher J. Pal:
  Learning from weakly labeled faces and video in the wild. 759-771
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  Jiayi Ma, Ji Zhao, Yong Ma, Jinwen Tian:
  Non-rigid visible and infrared face registration via regularized Gaussian fields criterion. 772-784
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  Kuizhi Mei, Ji Zhang, Guohui Li, Bao Xi, Nanning Zheng, Jianping Fan:
  Training more discriminative multi-class classifiers for hand detection. 785-797
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  Sruti Das Choudhury, Tardi Tjahjadi:
  Robust view-invariant multiscale gait recognition. 798-811
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  Ali Emami, Mehrtash Tafazzoli Harandi, Farhad Dadgostar, Brian C. Lovell:
  Novelty detection in human tracking based on spatiotemporal oriented energies. 812-826
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  Ursina Caluori, Klaus Simon:
  DETEXTIVE optical character recognition with pattern matching on-the-fly. 827-836
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  Nina S. T. Hirata, Frank D. Julca-Aguilar:
  Matching based ground-truth annotation for online handwritten mathematical expressions. 837-848
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  Yousef Elarian, Irfan Ahmad, Sameh Awaida, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Abdelmalek B. C. Zidouri:
  An Arabic handwriting synthesis system. 849-861
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  Nabin Sharma, Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Umapada Pal, Michael Blumenstein, Chew Lim Tan:
  Piece-wise linearity based method for text frame classification in video. 862-881
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  Hang Chang, Quan Wen, Bahram Parvin:
  Coupled segmentation of nuclear and membrane-bound macromolecules through voting and multiphase level set. 882-893
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  Ramesh Bharath, Cheng Xiang, Tong Heng Lee:
  Shape classification using invariant features and contextual information in the bag-of-words model. 894-906
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  Yang Cong, Shuai Wang, Ji Liu, Jun Cao, Yunsheng Yang, Jiebo Luo:
  Deep sparse feature selection for computer aided endoscopy diagnosis. 907-917
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  Gerhard X. Ritter, José Angel Nieves-Vazquez, Gonzalo Urcid:
  A simple statistics-based nearest neighbor cluster detection algorithm. 918-932
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  Marzie Zarinbal, Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi, I. Burhan Türksen:
  Relative entropy collaborative fuzzy clustering method. 933-940
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  Alexander Kolesnikov, Elena Trichina, Tuomo Kauranne:
  Estimating the number of clusters in a numerical data set via quantization error modeling. 941-952
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  Ahmad Ali Abin, Hamid Beigy:
  Active constrained fuzzy clustering: A multiple kernels learning approach. 953-967
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  Yujian Li, Qiangkui Leng:
  Alternating multiconlitron: A novel framework for piecewise linear classification. 968-975
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  Mojtaba Seyedhosseini, Tolga Tasdizen:
  Disjunctive normal random forests. 976-983
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  Jalal A. Nasiri, Nasrollah Moghadam Charkari, Saeed Jalili:
  Least squares twin multi-class classification support vector machine. 984-992
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  Priyanka Mukhopadhyay, Bidyut B. Chaudhuri:
  A survey of Hough Transform. 993-1010
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  Taisong Jin, Jun Yu, Jane You, Kun Zeng, Cuihua Li, Zhengtao Yu:
  Low-rank matrix factorization with multiple Hypergraph regularizer. 1011-1022

Volume 48, Number 4, April 2015

Special Issue Papers

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  José Francisco Martínez Trinidad, Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, Joaquín Salas Rodríguez, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja:
  Pattern recognition applications in computer vision and image analysis. 1025-1026
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  Virginio Cantoni, Chiara Galdi, Michele Nappi, Marco Porta, Daniel Riccio:
  GANT: Gaze analysis technique for human identification. 1027-1038
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  Samuele Salti, Alioscia Petrelli, Federico Tombari, Nicola Fioraio, Luigi di Stefano:
  Traffic sign detection via interest region extraction. 1039-1049
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  Diego Gragnaniello, Giovanni Poggi, Carlo Sansone, Luisa Verdoliva:
  Local contrast phase descriptor for fingerprint liveness detection. 1050-1058
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  James Duyck, Chelsea Finn, Andy Hutcheon, Pablo Vera Alfaro, Joaquín Salas, Sai Ravela:
  Sloop: A pattern retrieval engine for individual animal identification. 1059-1073
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  Sara Iodice, Alfredo Petrosino:
  Salient feature based graph matching for person re-identification. 1074-1085
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  Giovanni Maria Farinella, Daniele Ravì, Valeria Tomaselli, Mirko Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato:
  Representing scenes for real-time context classification on mobile devices. 1086-1100
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  Oleg Starostenko, Claudia Cruz-Perez, Fernando Uceda-Ponga, Vicente Alarcón Aquino:
  Breaking text-based CAPTCHAs with variable word and character orientation. 1101-1112
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  Bok-Suk Shin, Diego Caudillo, Reinhard Klette:
  Evaluation of two stereo matchers on long real-world video sequences. 1113-1124
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  Wilfrido Gómez-Flores, Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira, Antonio Fernando Catelli Infantosi:
  Improving classification performance of breast lesions on ultrasonography. 1125-1136
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  Juan A. Ramirez-Quintana, Mario Ignacio Chacon Murguia:
  Self-adaptive SOM-CNN neural system for dynamic object detection in normal and complex scenarios. 1137-1149
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  Helena Molina-Abril, Pedro Real Jurado, Akira Nakamura, Reinhard Klette:
  Connectivity calculus of fractal polyhedrons. 1150-1160
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  Edgar Roman-Rangel, Stéphane Marchand-Maillet:
  Shape-based detection of Maya hieroglyphs using weighted bag representations. 1161-1173
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  Olivier Kihl, David Picard, Philippe Henri Gosselin:
  A unified framework for local visual descriptors evaluation. 1174-1184
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  Alicia Fernández, Alvaro Gómez, Federico Lecumberry, Alvaro Pardo, Ignacio Ramírez:
  Pattern Recognition in Latin America in the "Big Data" Era. 1185-1196

Regular Papers

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  Adrien Delaye, Kibok Lee:
  A flexible framework for online document segmentation by pairwise stroke distance learning. 1197-1210
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  Guoqiang Zhong, Mohamed Cheriet:
  Tensor representation learning based image patch analysis for text identification and recognition. 1211-1224
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  Yanwei Wang, Qiang Fu, Xiaoqing Ding, Changsong Liu:
  Importance sampling based discriminative learning for large scale offline handwritten Chinese character recognition. 1225-1234
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  S. Elaiwat, Mohammed Bennamoun, Farid Boussaïd, Amar A. El-Sallam:
  A Curvelet-based approach for textured 3D face recognition. 1235-1246
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  Wonjun Hwang, Xiangsheng Huang, Stan Z. Li, Junmo Kim:
  Face recognition using Extended Curvature Gabor classifier bunch. 1247-1260
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  Maria De Marsico, Michele Nappi, Daniel Riccio, Harry Wechsler:
  Robust face recognition after plastic surgery using region-based approaches. 1261-1276
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  Zhanpeng Zhang, Wei Zhang, Huijun Ding, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang:
  Hierarchical facial landmark localization via cascaded random binary patterns. 1277-1288
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  Trung Ngo Thanh, Yasushi Makihara, Hajime Nagahara, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Yasushi Yagi:
  Similar gait action recognition using an inertial sensor. 1289-1301
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  RaviKiran Krishnan, Sudeep Sarkar:
  Conditional distance based matching for one-shot gesture recognition. 1302-1314
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  Xiujun Zhang, Chen Xu, Min Li, Robert K. F. Teng:
  Study of visual saliency detection via nonlocal anisotropic diffusion equation. 1315-1327
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  Chi-Ho Chan, Fei Yan, Josef Kittler, Krystian Mikolajczyk:
  Full ranking as local descriptor for visual recognition: A comparison of distance metrics on s_n. 1328-1336
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  Chen Xia, Fei Qi, Guangming Shi, Pengjin Wang:
  Nonlocal center-surround reconstruction-based bottom-up saliency estimation. 1337-1348
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  Kaspar Riesen, Horst Bunke:
  Improving bipartite graph edit distance approximation using various search strategies. 1349-1363
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  Francesc Serratosa, Xavier Cortés:
  Interactive graph-matching using active query strategies. 1364-1373
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  Dong Liang, Shun'ichi Kaneko, Manabu Hashimoto, Kenji Iwata, Xinyue Zhao:
  Co-occurrence probability-based pixel pairs background model for robust object detection in dynamic scenes. 1374-1390
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  Attila Tanács, Joakim Lindblad, Natasa Sladoje, Zoltan Kato:
  Estimation of linear deformations of 2D and 3D fuzzy objects. 1391-1403
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  Abdul Nurunnabi, Geoff A. W. West, David Belton:
  Outlier detection and robust normal-curvature estimation in mobile laser scanning 3D point cloud data. 1404-1419
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  Wendy Aguilar, Ernesto Bribiesca:
  Symmetry detection in 3D chain coded discrete curves and trees. 1420-1439
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  Chang Liu, Weiduo Hu:
  Ellipse fitting for imaged cross sections of a surface of revolution. 1440-1454
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  Guojun Gan, Michael Kwok-Po Ng:
  Subspace clustering using affinity propagation. 1455-1464
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  Kadim Tasdemir, Berna Yalçin, Isa Yildirim:
  Approximate spectral clustering with utilized similarity information using geodesic based hybrid distance measures. 1465-1477
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  Frank de Morsier, Devis Tuia, Maurice Borgeaud, Volker Gass, Jean-Philippe Thiran:
  Cluster validity measure and merging system for hierarchical clustering considering outliers. 1478-1489
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  Changming Zhu, Daqi Gao:
  Improved multi-kernel classification machine with Nyström approximation technique. 1490-1509
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  Jorge López Lázaro, José R. Dorronsoro:
  Linear convergence rate for the MDM algorithm for the Nearest Point Problem. 1510-1522
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  Enrique Leyva, Antonio González Muñoz, Raúl Pérez:
  Three new instance selection methods based on local sets: A comparative study with several approaches from a bi-objective perspective. 1523-1537
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  Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Alex Pappachen James:
  Sparse distributed localized gradient fused features of objects. 1538-1546
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  Hai Min, Wei Jia, Xiao-Feng Wang, Yang Zhao, Rong-Xiang Hu, Yue-Tong Luo, Feng Xue, Jing-Ting Lu:
  An Intensity-Texture model based level set method for image segmentation. 1547-1562
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  Minyoung Kim:
  Greedy approaches to semi-supervised subspace learning. 1563-1570
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  Bin Xiao, Weisheng Li, Guo-Yin Wang:
  Errata and comments on "Orthogonal moments based on exponent functions: Exponent-Fourier moments". 1571-1573
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  David Emms, Simone Severini, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Corrigendum to "Coined quantum walks lift the cospectrality of graphs and trees" [Pattern Recognition 42 (9) (2009) 1988-2002]. 1574-1575

Volume 48, Number 5, May 2015

Classification & discriminant analysis

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  Husheng Guo, Wenjian Wang:
  An active learning-based SVM multi-class classification model. 1577-1597
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  Miguel Carrasco, Julio López Hernandez, Sebastián Maldonado:
  A multi-class SVM approach based on the l₁-norm minimization of the distances between the reduced convex hulls. 1598-1607
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