Pattern Recognition, Volume 44

Volume 44, Number 1, January 2011

Colour image, texture

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  Khang Siang Tan, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa:
  Color image segmentation using histogram thresholding - Fuzzy C-means hybrid approach. 1-15
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  Imtnan-Ul-Haque Qazi, Olivier Alata, Jean-Christophe Burie, Ahmed Moussa, Christine Fernandez-Maloigne:
  Choice of a pertinent color space for color texture characterization using parametric spectral analysis. 16-31

Dominant points, curves

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  Thanh Phuong Nguyen, Isabelle Debled-Rennesson:
  A discrete geometry approach for dominant point detection. 32-44
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  Ángel Carmona-Poyato, Rafael Medina Carnicer, Francisco José Madrid-Cuevas, Rafael Muñoz-Salinas, Nicolás Luis Fernández García:
  A new measurement for assessing polygonal approximation of curves. 45-54

Clustering

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  Masud Moshtaghi, Timothy C. Havens, James C. Bezdek, Laurence Anthony F. Park, Christopher Leckie, Sutharshan Rajasegarar, James M. Keller, Marimuthu Palaniswami:
  Clustering ellipses for anomaly detection. 55-69
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  Adilson Elias Xavier, Vinicius Layter Xavier:
  Solving the minimum sum-of-squares clustering problem by hyperbolic smoothing and partition into boundary and gravitational regions. 70-77

Classifiers, ensembles

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  Nicos G. Pavlidis, Dimitris K. Tasoulis, Niall M. Adams, David J. Hand:
  lambda-Perceptron: An adaptive classifier for data streams. 78-96
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  Li Zhang, Weida Zhou:
  Sparse ensembles using weighted combination methods based on linear programming. 97-106

Face, behaviour

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  Rui Xiao, Qijun Zhao, David Zhang, Pengfei Shi:
  Facial expression recognition on multiple manifolds. 107-116
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  Chen Change Loy, Tao Xiang, Shaogang Gong:
  Detecting and discriminating behavioural anomalies. 117-132

Arabic script, bigram models

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  Ali Selamat, Choon-Ching Ng:
  Arabic script web page language identifications using decision tree neural networks. 133-144
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  Nikoletta Bassiou, Constantine Kotropoulos:
  Long distance bigram models applied to word clustering. 145-158

Kernel learning

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  Mehmet Gönen, Ethem Alpaydin:
  Regularizing multiple kernel learning using response surface methodology. 159-171

Volume 44, Number 2, February 2011

Image segmentation

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  Sitansu Kumar Das, Dipti Prasad Mukherjee:
  Parametric active membrane for segmentation of multiple objects in an image. 173-186

Color images

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  Liqiang Guo, Ming Zhu:
  Quaternion Fourier-Mellin moments for color images. 187-195

Skeleton, shape

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  Wei Shen, Xiang Bai, Rong Hu, Hongyuan Wang, Longin Jan Latecki:
  Skeleton growing and pruning with bending potential ratio. 196-209
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  Fei Mai, C. Q. Chang, Y. S. Hung:
  A subspace approach for matching 2D shapes under affine distortions. 210-221

Clustering

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  Liang Wang, Christopher Leckie, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, James C. Bezdek:
  Approximate pairwise clustering for large data sets via sampling plus extension. 222-235
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  Motoki Shiga, Ichigaku Takigawa, Hiroshi Mamitsuka:
  A spectral approach to clustering numerical vectors as nodes in a network. 236-251
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  Youngrok Lee, Jeonghwa Lee, Chi-Hyuck Jun:
  Stability-based validation of bicluster solutions. 252-264

Data reduction

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  Ata Kabán:
  On the distance concentration awareness of certain data reduction techniques. 265-277

Euclidean norm. density estimation

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  M. Emre Celebi, Fatih Celiker, Hassan A. Kingravi:
  On Euclidean norm approximations. 278-283
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  Gang Fu, Frank Y. Shih, Haimin Wang:
  A kernel-based parametric method for conditional density estimation. 284-294

Hidden Markov models

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  Sotirios Chatzis, Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos:
  A variational Bayesian methodology for hidden Markov models utilizing Student's-t mixtures. 295-306

Discriminant analysis, support vector

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  Senjian An, Wanquan Liu, Svetha Venkatesh, Hong Yan:
  Unified formulation of linear discriminant analysis methods and optimal parameter selection. 307-319
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  Guang-Xin Huang, Huafu Chen, Zhongli Zhou, Feng Yin, Ke Guo:
  Two-class support vector data description. 320-329

Random forests, ROC manifold

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  Antanas Verikas, Adas Gelzinis, Marija Bacauskiene:
  Mining data with random forests: A survey and results of new tests. 330-349
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  Christine M. Schubert, Steven N. Thorsen, Mark E. Oxley:
  The ROC manifold for classification systems. 350-362

Document, signature

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  Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet:
  Beyond pixels and regions: A non-local patch means (NLPM) method for content-level restoration, enhancement, and reconstruction of degraded document images. 363-374
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  Jesús Francisco Vargas-Bonilla, Miguel Angel Ferrer-Ballester, Carlos Manuel Travieso-González, Jesús B. Alonso:
  Off-line signature verification based on grey level information using texture features. 375-385

Face, fingerprint

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  Kwontaeg Choi, Kar-Ann Toh, Hyeran Byun:
  Realtime training on mobile devices for face recognition applications. 386-400
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  Ramachandra Raghavendra, Bernadette Dorizzi, Ashok Rao, G. Hemantha Kumar:
  Particle swarm optimization based fusion of near infrared and visible images for improved face verification. 401-411
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  Jae Young Choi, Yong Man Ro, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis:
  A comparative study of preprocessing mismatch effects in color image based face recognition. 412-430
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  Suksan Jirachaweng, Zujun Hou, Wei-Yun Yau, Vutipong Areekul:
  Residual orientation modeling for fingerprint enhancement and singular point detection. 431-442

Motion

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  Meng-Fen Ho, Chuan-Yu Tseng, Cheng-Chang Lien, Chung-Lin Huang:
  A multi-view vision-based hand motion capturing system. 443-453
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  Luca Zappella, Xavier Lladó, Edoardo Provenzi, Joaquim Salvi:
  Enhanced Local Subspace Affinity for feature-based motion segmentation. 454-470

Plagiarism

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  Haijun Zhang, Tommy W. S. Chow:
  A coarse-to-fine framework to efficiently thwart plagiarism. 471-487

Discussion: ellipse detector

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  Armando Manuel Fernandes:
  Discussion on paper "A Robust Real-Time Ellipse Detector" by Zhang and Liu. 488-489

Volume 44, Number 3, March 2011

Binarization, texture segmentation

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  Marte A. Ramírez-Ortegón, Edgar A. Duéñez-Guzmán, Raúl Rojas, Erik Cuevas:
  Unsupervised measures for parameter selection of binarization algorithms. 491-502
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  Shoudong Han, Wenbing Tao, Xianglin Wu:
  Texture segmentation using independent-scale component-wise Riemannian-covariance Gaussian mixture model in KL measure based multi-scale nonlinear structure tensor space. 503-518

Face

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  Haifeng Hu:
  Augmented DT-CWT feature based classification using Regularized Neighborhood Projection Discriminant Analysis for face recognition. 519-531
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  Bongjin Jun, Taewan Kim, Daijin Kim:
  A compact local binary pattern using maximization of mutual information for face analysis. 532-543
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  Xiaoming Peng, Mohammed Bennamoun, Ajmal S. Mian:
  A training-free nose tip detection method from face range images. 544-558

Lip reading, speech

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  Jongju Shin, Jin Lee, Daijin Kim:
  Real-time lip reading system for isolated Korean word recognition. 559-571
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  Moataz M. H. El Ayadi, Mohamed S. Kamel, Fakhri Karray:
  Survey on speech emotion recognition: Features, classification schemes, and databases. 572-587

3D, graph, convex hull

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  Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet, Michel Jordan, Laurent Najman, Jean Cousty:
  Artwork 3D model database indexing and classification. 588-597
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  Bing-Kun Bao, Bingbing Ni, Yadong Mu, Shuicheng Yan:
  Efficient region-aware large graph construction towards scalable multi-label propagation. 598-606
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  Jorge López Lázaro, Álvaro Barbero Jiménez, José R. Dorronsoro:
  Clipping algorithms for solving the nearest point problem over reduced convex hulls. 607-614

Remote sensing, action search

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  Ujjwal Maulik, Debasis Chakraborty:
  A self-trained ensemble with semisupervised SVM: An application to pixel classification of remote sensing imagery. 615-623
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  Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Xiaoshuai Sun:
  Actor-independent action search using spatiotemporal vocabulary with appearance hashing. 624-638

Distance metric, signature

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  Yaoliang Yu, Jiayan Jiang, Liming Zhang:
  Distance metric learning by minimal distance maximization. 639-649
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  Heiko Claussen, Justinian Rosca, Robert I. Damper:
  Signature extraction using mutual interdependencies. 650-661

Clustering, data condensation

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  Rudi Cilibrasi, Paul M. B. Vitányi:
  A Fast Quartet tree heuristic for hierarchical clustering. 662-677
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  François Petitjean, Alain Ketterlin, Pierre Gançarski:
  A global averaging method for dynamic time warping, with applications to clustering. 678-693
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  Selim Mimaroglu, Ertunc Erdil:
  Combining multiple clusterings using similarity graph. 694-703
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  Konstantinos Nikolaidis, John Yannis Goulermas, Q. H. Wu:
  A class boundary preserving algorithm for data condensation. 704-715

Kernel, classification

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  Gyeongyong Heo, Paul D. Gader:
  Robust kernel discriminant analysis using fuzzy memberships. 716-723
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  Florian Brucker, Fernando Benites, Elena P. Sapozhnikova:
  Multi-label classification and extracting predicted class hierarchies. 724-738

Volume 44, Number 4, April 2011

Images & color

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  Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris:
  Content-based binary image retrieval using the adaptive hierarchical density histogram. 739-750
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  Hung-Hsu Tsai, Chi-Chih Liu:
  Wavelet-based image watermarking with visibility range estimation based on HVS and neural networks. 751-763
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  Jinzhong Yang, James P. Williams, Yiyong Sun, Rick S. Blum, Chenyang Xu:
  A robust hybrid method for nonrigid image registration. 764-776
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  Xiangyang Wang, Ting Wang, Juan Bu:
  Color image segmentation using pixel wise support vector machine classification. 777-787
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  Hideki Noda, Michiharu Niimi:
  Local MAP estimation for quality improvement of compressed color images. 788-793

Scene & object tracking

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  Kazuhiro Hotta:
  Local autocorrelation of similarities with subspaces for shift invariant scene classification. 794-799
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  Nicole M. Artner, Adrian Ion, Walter G. Kropatsch:
  Multi-scale 2D tracking of articulated objects using hierarchical spring systems. 800-810

Edges, features & shape

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  Ruichu Cai, Zhenjie Zhang, Zhifeng Hao:
  BASSUM: A Bayesian semi-supervised method for classification feature selection. 811-820
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  Sonya A. Coleman, Bryan W. Scotney, Shanmugalingam Suganthan:
  Multi-scale edge detection on range and intensity images. 821-838
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  Rashid Minhas, Abdul Adeel Mohammed, Q. M. Jonathan Wu:
  Shape from focus using fast discrete curvelet transform. 839-853

Clustering

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  Mihaela Breaban, Henri Luchian:
  A unifying criterion for unsupervised clustering and feature selection. 854-865
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  Adil M. Bagirov, Julien Ugon, Dean Webb:
  Fast modified global k-means algorithm for incremental cluster construction. 866-876

Discriminant analysis & classification

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  Haihong Zhang, Cuntai Guan, Yuanqing Li:
  A linear discriminant analysis method based on mutual information maximization. 877-885
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  José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Alberto Suárez:
  Network-based sparse Bayesian classification. 886-900
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  Isaac Triguero, Salvador García, Francisco Herrera:
  Differential evolution for optimizing the positioning of prototypes in nearest neighbor classification. 901-916

Text-line

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  Alireza Alaei, Umapada Pal, P. Nagabhushan:
  A new scheme for unconstrained handwritten text-line segmentation. 917-928

Face, palmprint & gait

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  Michal Kawulok, Jing Wu, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Supervised relevance maps for increasing the distinctiveness of facial images. 929-939
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  David Zhang, Qijun Zhao, Fangmei Chen:
  Quantitative analysis of human facial beauty using geometric features. 940-950
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  Claudio A. Perez, Leonardo A. Cament, Luis E. Castillo:
  Methodological improvement on local Gabor face recognition based on feature selection and enhanced Borda count. 951-963
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  Wangmeng Zuo, Feng Yue, David Zhang:
  On accurate orientation extraction and appropriate distance measure for low-resolution palmprint recognition. 964-972
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  Toby H. W. Lam, King Hong Cheung, James N. K. Liu:
  Gait flow image: A silhouette-based gait representation for human identification. 973-987
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  Changhong Chen, Jimin Liang, Xiuchang Zhu:
  Gait recognition based on improved dynamic Bayesian networks. 988-995

Comment

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  Huafeng Qin, Lan Qin, Yantao Li:
  A comment on: "Fast and numerically stable methods for the computation of Zernike moments" by Singh et al. [Pattern Recognition, 43(2010), Pages 2497-2506]. 996-997

Volume 44, Number 5, May 2011

Image segmentation

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  (Withdrawn) A framework with modified fast FCM for brain MR images segmentation. 999-1013

Clustering

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  Dario García-García, Emilio Parrado-Hernández, Fernando Díaz-de-María:
  State-space dynamics distance for clustering sequential data. 1014-1022

Fusion, features, classification

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  Tuan D. Pham:
  Fuzzy posterior-probabilistic fusion. 1023-1030
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  Yunhao Yuan, Quan-Sen Sun, Qiang Zhou, De-Shen Xia:
  A novel multiset integrated canonical correlation analysis framework and its application in feature fusion. 1031-1040
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  Tzu-Tsung Wong, Liang-Hao Chang:
  Individual attribute prior setting methods for naïve Bayesian classifiers. 1041-1047

Scene

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  Andrea Bottino, Aldo Laurentini:
  A nearly optimal algorithm for covering the interior of an Art Gallery. 1048-1056

Document

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  Horst Bunke, Kaspar Riesen:
  Recent advances in graph-based pattern recognition with applications in document analysis. 1057-1067

Face, hand

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  Ajmal S. Mian:
  Online learning from local features for video-based face recognition. 1068-1075
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  Ramachandra Raghavendra, Bernadette Dorizzi, Ashok Rao, G. Hemantha Kumar:
  Designing efficient fusion schemes for multimodal biometric systems using face and palmprint. 1076-1088
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  Zhiquan Feng, Bo Yang, Yuehui Chen, Yanwei Zheng, Tao Xu, Yi Li, Ting Xu, Deliang Zhu:
  Features extraction from hand images based on new detection operators. 1089-1105

Pedestrian

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  P. Assheton, A. Hunter:
  A shape-based voting algorithm for pedestrian detection and tracking. 1106-1120
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  Guoyun Lian, Jian-Huang Lai, Wei-Shi Zheng:
  Spatial-temporal consistent labeling of tracked pedestrians across non-overlapping camera views. 1121-1136

Multidimensional scaling

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  Jigang Sun, Malcolm K. Crowe, Colin Fyfe:
  Extending metric multidimensional scaling with Bregman divergences. 1137-1154

Volume 44, Number 6, June 2011

Image retrieval, multiple views

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  Ke Lu, Jidong Zhao, Yue Wu:
  Hessian optimal design for image retrieval. 1155-1161
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  Jianchun Zhang, Daoqiang Zhang:
  A novel ensemble construction method for multi-view data using random cross-view correlation between within-class examples. 1162-1171

Edit distance, learning

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  Silvia García-Díez, François Fouss, Masashi Shimbo, Marco Saerens:
  A sum-over-paths extension of edit distances accounting for all sequence alignments. 1172-1182
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  Nizar Bouguila:
  Bayesian hybrid generative discriminative learning based on finite Liouville mixture models. 1183-1200

Edge, graph, sketch

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  Rafael Medina Carnicer, Rafael Muñoz-Salinas, Enrique Yeguas-Bolivar, L. Díaz-Más:
  A novel method to look for the hysteresis thresholds for the Canny edge detector. 1201-1211
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  Amin Mantrach, Nicolas van Zeebroeck, Pascal Francq, Masashi Shimbo, Hugues Bersini, Marco Saerens:
  Semi-supervised classification and betweenness computation on large, sparse, directed graphs. 1212-1224
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  Relja Arandjelovic, Tevfik Metin Sezgin:
  Sketch recognition by fusion of temporal and image-based features. 1225-1234

Classification, classifiers

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  Chih-Cheng Chang, Li-Jen Chien, Yuh-Jye Lee:
  A novel framework for multi-class classification via ternary smooth support vector machine. 1235-1244
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  Shasha Mao, Licheng Jiao, Lin Xiong, Shuiping Gou:
  Greedy optimization classifiers ensemble based on diversity. 1245-1261

Age estimation

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  Sung Eun Choi, Youn Joo Lee, Sung Joo Lee, Kang Ryoung Park, Jaihie Kim:
  Age estimation using a hierarchical classifier based on global and local facial features. 1262-1281

Documents

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  Partha Pratim Roy, Umapada Pal, Josep Lladós:
  Document seal detection using GHT and character proximity graphs. 1282-1295

Object, motion

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  Xinyue Zhao, Yutaka Satoh, Hidenori Takauji, Shun'ichi Kaneko, Kenji Iwata, Ryushi Ozaki:
  Object detection based on a robust and accurate statistical multi-point-pair model. 1296-1311
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  Sangwoon Yun, Hyenkyun Woo:
  Linearized proximal alternating minimization algorithm for motion deblurring by nonlocal regularization. 1312-1326

Heart disease

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  Kemal Polat, Salih Günes, Sülayman Tosun:
  Corrigendum to "Diagnosis of heart disease using artificial immune recognition system and fuzzy weighted pre-processing" [Pattern Recognition 39(11) (2006) 2186-2193]. 1327

Multispectral decomposition

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  Benjamin Perret, Vincent Mazet, Christophe Collet, Éric Slezak:
  Hierarchical multispectral galaxy decomposition using a MCMC algorithm with multiple temperature simulated annealing. 1328-1342

Volume 44, Number 7, July 2011

Feature extraction, PCA, clustering

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  Xin Jin, Shalabh Gupta, Kushal Mukherjee, Asok Ray:
  Wavelet-based feature extraction using probabilistic finite state automata for pattern classification. 1343-1356
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  Elnaz Barshan, Ali Ghodsi, Zohreh Azimifar, Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi:
  Supervised principal component analysis: Visualization, classification and regression on subspaces and submanifolds. 1357-1371
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  Mariano Tepper, Pablo Musé, Andrés Almansa, Marta Mejail:
  Automatically finding clusters in normalized cuts. 1372-1386

Classifiers, ensembles, SVM

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  Jian Yang, Lei Zhang, Jing-Yu Yang, David Zhang:
  From classifiers to discriminators: A nearest neighbor rule induced discriminant analysis. 1387-1402
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  Xin Fu, Qiang Shen:
  Fuzzy complex numbers and their application for classifiers performance evaluation. 1403-1417
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  Lalit Gupta, Srinivas Kota, Phani Yarlagadda, Dennis Molfese:
  Central-tendency estimation and nearest-estimate classification of event related potentials. 1418-1425
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  Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Gonzalo Martínez-Muñoz, Alberto Suárez:
  Inference on the prediction of ensembles of infinite size. 1426-1434
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  Sedat Ozer, Chi Hau Chen, Hakan A. Çirpan:
  A set of new Chebyshev kernel functions for support vector machine pattern classification. 1435-1447
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  Li Zhang, Weida Zhou:
  Density-induced margin support vector machines. 1448-1460

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