Pattern Recognition, Volume 117

Volume 117, September 2021

Objects and image analysis

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  Wanxuan Lu, Dong Gong, Kun Fu, Xian Sun, Wenhui Diao, Lingqiao Liu:
  Boundarymix: Generating pseudo-training images for improving segmentation with scribble annotations. 107924

Classifiers and classification

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  Baoquan Zhang, Ka-Cheong Leung, Xutao Li, Yunming Ye:
  Learn to abstract via concept graph for weakly-supervised few-shot learning. 107946

Features

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  Yun Liu, Xiaoming Zhang, Qianyun Zhang, Chaozhuo Li, Feiran Huang, Xianghong Tang, Zhoujun Li:
  Dual self-attention with co-attention networks for visual question answering. 107956

Clustering

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  Yan Ge, Pan Peng, Haiping Lu:
  Mixed-order spectral clustering for complex networks. 107964

Objects and image analysis

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  Quan Wu, Guili Xu, Yuehua Cheng, Zhengsheng Wang, Zhenhua Li:
  Deformed contour segment matching for multi-source images. 107968

Bio-medical patterns

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  Yinghua Fu, Jie Chen, Jiang Li, Dongyan Pan, Xuezheng Yue, Yiming Zhu:
  Optic disc segmentation by U-net and probability bubble in abnormal fundus images. 107971

Handwriting and document analysis

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  Sheng He, Lambert Schomaker:
  GR-RNN: Global-context residual recurrent neural networks for writer identification. 107975

Machine learning

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  Ming Zhang, Xuefei Zhe, Shifeng Chen, Hong Yan:
  Deep center-based dual-constrained hashing for discriminative face image retrieval. 107976

Clustering

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  Ye Zhu, Kai Ming Ting, Mark J. Carman, Maia Angelova:
  CDF Transform-and-Shift: An effective way to deal with datasets of inhomogeneous cluster densities. 107977

Classifiers and classification

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  Qiushi Shi, Rakesh Katuwal, Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan, Muhammad Tanveer:
  Random vector functional link neural network based ensemble deep learning. 107978

Handwriting and document analysis

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  Ning Lu, Wenwen Yu, Xianbiao Qi, Yihao Chen, Ping Gong, Rong Xiao, Xiang Bai:
  MASTER: Multi-aspect non-local network for scene text recognition. 107980

Classifiers and classification

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  Abhik Ghosh, Rita SahaRay, Sayan Chakrabarty, Sayan Bhadra:
  Robust generalised quadratic discriminant analysis. 107981

Bio-medical patterns

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  Debamita Kumar, Pradipta Maji:
  Rough-Bayesian approach to select class-pair specific descriptors for HEp-2 cell staining pattern recognition. 107982

Structural pattern recognition, network and graph methods

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  Wei Chen, Yu Liu, Erwin M. Bakker, Michael S. Lew:
  Integrating information theory and adversarial learning for cross-modal retrieval. 107983

Clustering

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  Hanjia Gao, Zhengjian Bai, Weiguo Gao, Shuqin Zhang:
  Penalized -regression-based bicluster localization. 107984

Objects and image analysis

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  Yunyun Yang, Ruofan Wang, Xiu Shu, Chong Feng, Ruicheng Xie, Wenjing Jia, Chunming Li:
  Level set framework with transcendental constraint for robust and fast image segmentation. 107985

Features

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  Gang Wang, Yufei Chen:
  Robust feature matching using guided local outlier factor. 107986

Clustering

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  Junpeng Tan, Zhijing Yang, Yongqiang Cheng, Jielin Ye, Bing Wang, Qingyun Dai:
  SRAGL-AWCL: A two-step multi-view clustering via sparse representation and adaptive weighted cooperative learning. 107987

Features

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  Yinan Guo, Zirui Zhang, Fengzhen Tang:
  Feature selection with kernelized multi-class support vector machine. 107988

Objects and image analysis

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  Érick Oliveira Rodrigues:
  An efficient and locality-oriented Hausdorff distance algorithm: Proposal and analysis of paradigms and implementations. 107989
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  Joo Dong Yun, Yunho Kim:
  Two-stage adaptive random Fourier sampling method for image reconstruction. 107990

Features

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  Yinqi Chen, Huicheng Zheng, Yiyan Ma, Zhiwei Yan:
  Image stitching based on angle-consistent warping. 107993

Machine learning

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  Wei Li, Alex Noel Joseph Raj, Tardi Tjahjadi, Zhemin Zhuang:
  Digital hair removal by deep learning for skin lesion segmentation. 107994

Various applications

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  Dong Liang, Bin Kang, Xinyu Liu, Pan Gao, Xiaoyang Tan, Shun'ichi Kaneko:
  Cross-scene foreground segmentation with supervised and unsupervised model communication. 107995

Clustering

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  Shudong Huang, Zhao Kang, Zenglin Xu, Quanhui Liu:
  Robust deep k-means: An effective and simple method for data clustering. 107996

Objects and image analysis

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  Kai Shuang, Zhiheng Lyu, Jonathan Loo, Wentao Zhang:
  Scale-balanced loss for object detection. 107997

Machine learning

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  Tusar Kanti Dash, Soumya Mishra, Ganapati Panda, Suresh Chandra Satapathy:
  Detection of COVID-19 from speech signal using bio-inspired based cepstral features. 107999