Volume 40, Number 1, January 2007

Classification

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  Guobin Ou, Yi Lu Murphey: Multi-class pattern classification using neural networks. 4-18
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  Wing W. Y. Ng, Andrés Dorado, Daniel S. Yeung, Witold Pedrycz, Ebroul Izquierdo: Image classification with the use of radial basis function neural networks and the minimization of the localized generalization error. 19-32
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  S. Y. Sohn, H. W. Shin: Experimental study for the comparison of classifier combination methods. 33-40
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  Daewon Lee, Jaewook Lee: Domain described support vector classifier for multi-classification problems. 41-51

Neural networks

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  César Hervás-Martínez, Francisco J. Martínez-Estudillo: Logistic regression using covariates obtained by product-unit neural network models. 52-64
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  Diaa Eldin M. Nassar, Hany H. Ammar: A neural network system for matching dental radiographs. 65-79
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  Nicolás García-Pedrajas, Domingo Ortiz-Boyer: A cooperative constructive method for neural networks for pattern recognition. 80-98

Handwriting

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  Ying Wen, Yue Lu, Pengfei Shi: Handwritten Bangla numeral recognition system and its application to postal automation. 99-107
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  Jaewon Sung, Daijin Kim: A background robust active appearance model using active contour technique. 108-120

Geometry, Shape

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  Osman Gokhan Sezer, Aytül Erçil, Aysin Ertüzün: Using perceptual relation of regularity and anisotropy in the texture with independent component model for defect detection. 121-133
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  Matthew Browne: A geometric approach to non-parametric density estimation. 134-140
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  Mohamed A. Khabou, Lotfi Hermi, Mohamed Ben Hadj Rhouma: Shape recognition using eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian. 141-153
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  Aamir Saeed Malik, Tae-Sun Choi: Consideration of illumination effects and optimization of window size for accurate calculation of depth map for 3D shape recovery. 154-170
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  Jorge Rivera-Rovelo, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano: Medical image segmentation, volume representation and registration using spheres in the geometric algebra framework. 171-188

Fingerprint

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  Farid Benhammadi, M. N. Amirouche, Hamid Hentous, Kadda Bey-Beghdad, Mohamed Aissani: Fingerprint matching from minutiae texture maps. 189-197
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  Sharat Chikkerur, Alexander N. Cartwright, Venu Govindaraju: Fingerprint enhancement using STFT analysis. 198-211

Face

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  Gautam Garai, B. B. Chaudhuri: A distributed hierarchical genetic algorithm for efficient optimization and pattern matching. 212-228
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  Guang Dai, Dit-Yan Yeung, Yuntao Qian: Face recognition using a kernel fractional-step discriminant analysis algorithm. 229-243

Image retrieval

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  Yanling Chi, Maylor K. H. Leung: ALSBIR: A local-structure-based image retrieval. 244-261
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  Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-Ying Ma: A survey of content-based image retrieval with high-level semantics. 262-282
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  Jau-Ling Shih, Chang-Hsing Lee, Jian Tang Wang: A new 3D model retrieval approach based on the elevation descriptor. 283-295
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  Rajashekhar, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Vinay P. Namboodiri: Retrieval of images of man-made structures based on projective invariance. 296-308

Affine Invariants

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  Chandan Gope, Nasser Kehtarnavaz: Affine invariant comparison of point-sets using convex hulls and hausdorff distances. 309-320

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  T. Ravindra Babu, M. Narasimha Murty, Vijay K. Agrawal: Classification of run-length encoded binary data. 321-323
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  Bo Ma, Hui-yang Qu, Hau-San Wong: Kernel clustering-based discriminant analysis. 324-327
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  Xichen Sun, Liwei Wang, Jufu Feng: Further results on the subspace distance. 328-329
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  Jian Cheng, Kongqiao Wang: Active learning for image retrieval with Co-SVM. 330-334
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  Huahua Wang, Yue Zhou, Xinliang Ge, Jie Yang: Subspace evolution analysis for face representation and recognition. 335-338
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  Dewen Hu, Guiyu Feng, Zongtan Zhou: Two-dimensional locality preserving projections (2DLPP) with its application to palmprint recognition. 339-342
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  Fei Qi, Qihe Li, Yupin Luo, Dongcheng Hu: Camera calibration with one-dimensional objects moving under gravity. 343-345
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  Qing-Bin Gao, Zheng-Zhi Wang: Center-based nearest neighbor classifier. 346-349

Volume 40, Number 2, February 2007

Nearest-Neighbor

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  Jim Z. C. Lai, Yi-Ching Liaw, Julie Liu: Fast k-nearest-neighbor search based on projection and triangular inequality. 351-359
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  Yong-Sheng Chen, Yi-Ping Hung, Ting-Fang Yen, Chiou-Shann Fuh: Fast and versatile algorithm for nearest neighbor search based on a lower bound tree. 360-375

Character Recognition

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  Michael Blumenstein, Xin Yu Liu, Brijesh Verma: An investigation of the modified direction feature for cursive character recognition. 376-388
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  Maya R. Gupta, Nathaniel P. Jacobson, Eric K. Garcia: OCR binarization and image pre-processing for searching historical documents. 389-397

K-means

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  Ran-Zan Wang, Yao-De Tsai: An image-hiding method with high hiding capacity based on best-block matching and k-means clustering. 398-409
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  Kuo-Liang Chung, Jhin-Sian Lin: Faster and more robust point symmetry-based K-means algorithm. 410-422

Recognition

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  Li Yu, David Zhang, Kuanquan Wang: The relative distance of key point based iris recognition. 423-430
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  E. P. Vivek, N. Sudha: Robust Hausdorff distance measure for face recognition. 431-442

Skew in Documents

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  Chien-Hsing Chou, Shih-Yu Chu, Fu Chang: Estimation of skew angles for scanned documents based on piecewise covering by parallelograms. 443-455
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  Bo Yuan, Chew Lim Tan: Convex hull based skew estimation. 456-475
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  Shih-Ming Pan, Kuo-Sheng Cheng: An evolution-based tabu search approach to codebook design. 476-491

Fitting

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  Pierre-Alain Laur, Richard Nock, Jean-Emile Symphor, Pascal Poncelet: Mining evolving data streams for frequent patterns. 492-503
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  Min Dai, Timothy S. Newman, Chunguang Ken Cao: Least-squares-based fitting of paraboloids. 504-515

Distortion

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  Tuan D. Pham: Spectral distortion measures for biological sequence comparisons and database searching. 516-529
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  T. Yung Kong, Punam K. Saha, Azriel Rosenfeld: Strongly normal sets of contractible tiles in N dimensions. 530-543
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  Sandra Bergonnier, François Hild, Stéphane Roux: Local anisotropy analysis for non-smooth images. 544-556

Noisy background

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  Jigang Xie, Zhengding Qiu: The effect of imbalanced data sets on LDA: A theoretical and empirical analysis. 557-562
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  P. Tsitsipis, A. Kontogeorgos, A. Hillaris, X. Moussas, C. Caroubalos, P. Preka-Papadema: Fast estimation of slopes of linear and quasi-linear structures in noisy background, using Fourier methods. 563-577
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  Guangyi Chen, Balázs Kégl: Image denoising with complex ridgelets. 578-585
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  Jason Denton, J. Ross Beveridge: An algorithm for projective point matching in the presence of spurious points. 586-595

Edge detection

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  Yu Qiao, Qingmao Hu, Guoyu Qian, Suhuai Luo, Wieslaw L. Nowinski: Thresholding based on variance and intensity contrast. 596-608
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  Chung-Chia Kang, Wen-June Wang: A novel edge detection method based on the maximizing objective function. 609-618
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  Yakoub Bazi, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Farid Melgani: Image thresholding based on the EM algorithm and the generalized Gaussian distribution. 619-634

Grey-level hit-or-miss modeling

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  Benoît Naegel, Nicolas Passat, Christian Ronse: Grey-level hit-or-miss transforms - Part I: Unified theory. 635-647
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  Benoît Naegel, Nicolas Passat, Christian Ronse: Grey-level hit-or-miss transforms - part II: Application to angiographic image processing. 648-658

Images

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  Bulent Bayraktar, Tytus Bernas, J. Paul Robinson, Bartek Rajwa: A numerical recipe for accurate image reconstruction from discrete orthogonal moments. 659-669
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  Huazhong Shu, Jian Zhou, Guo-Niu Han, Limin Luo, Jean-Louis Coatrieux: Image reconstruction from limited range projections using orthogonal moments. 670-680
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  Chi-Shiang Chan, Chin-Chen Chang: An efficient image authentication method based on Hamming code. 681-690
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  Bo Fu, Jianzhong Zhou, Yuhong Li, Guojun Zhang, Cheng Wang: Image analysis by modified Legendre moments. 691-704
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  Xudong Jiang: Extracting image orientation feature by using integration operator. 705-717
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  Da Deng: Content-based image collection summarization and comparison using self-organizing maps. 718-727
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  Xiaojun Qi, Yutao Han: Incorporating multiple SVMs for automatic image annotation. 728-741

3-D

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  Chen-Tsung Kuo, Shyi-Chyi Cheng: 3D model retrieval using principal plane analysis and dynamic programming. 742-755
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  Artemy Baxansky, Nahum Kiryati: Calculating geometric properties of three-dimensional objects from the spherical harmonic representation. 756-770

Volume 40, Number 3, March 2007

Similarity

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  Fred Stentiford: Attention-based similarity. 771-783

Clustering

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  Ismo Kärkkäinen, Pasi Fränti: Gradual model generator for single-pass clustering. 784-795
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  Robert Jenssen, Deniz Erdogmus, Kenneth E. Hild II, Jose C. Principe, Torbjørn Eltoft: Information cut for clustering using a gradient descent approach. 796-806
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  Marcel Brun, Chao Sima, Jianping Hua, James Lowey, Brent Carroll, Edward Suh, Edward R. Dougherty: Model-based evaluation of clustering validation measures. 807-824
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  Weiling Cai, Songcan Chen, Daoqiang Zhang: Fast and robust fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms incorporating local information for image segmentation. 825-838

Kernels

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  Bertrand Zavidovique, Vito Di Gesù: The S-kernel: A measure of symmetry of objects. 839-852
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  Heeyoul Choi, Seungjin Choi: Robust kernel Isomap. 853-862
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  Heiko Hoffmann: Kernel PCA for novelty detection. 863-874
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  Nikolaos Nasios, Adrian G. Bors: Kernel-based classification using quantum mechanics. 875-889

Filtering

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  S. Rakshit, Ashish Ghosh, B. Uma Shankar: Fast mean filtering technique (FMFT). 890-897
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  Javad Sadri, Ching Y. Suen, Tien D. Bui: A genetic framework using contextual knowledge for segmentation and recognition of handwritten numeral strings. 898-919

Contours

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  Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Scott T. Acton: Affine and projective active contour models. 920-930
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  Myung-Cheol Roh, Tae-Yong Kim, Jihun Park, Seong-Whan Lee: Accurate object contour tracking based on boundary edge selection. 931-943
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  Alexander Akimov, Alexander Kolesnikov, Pasi Fränti: Lossless compression of map contours by context tree modeling of chain codes. 944-952

Support Vector Machines

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  Mathias M. Adankon, Mohamed Cheriet: Optimizing resources in model selection for support vector machine. 953-963
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  Shouxian Cheng, Frank Y. Shih: An improved incremental training algorithm for support vector machines using active query. 964-971
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  Qing Li, Licheng Jiao, Yingjuan Hao: Adaptive simplification of solution for support vector machine. 972-980

Handwriting

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  Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy: On-line signature recognition based on VQ-DTW. 981-992
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  Berkant Savas, Lars Eldén: Handwritten digit classification using higher order singular value decomposition. 993-1003
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  Vladimir Pervouchine, Graham Leedham: Extraction and analysis of forensic document examiner features used for writer identification. 1004-1013

Algorithms

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  Shyong Jian Shyu: Image encryption by random grids. 1014-1031
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  Zhizheng Liang, David Zhang, Pengfei Shi: The theoretical analysis of GLRAM and its applications. 1032-1041
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  Antonio Robles-Kelly, Edwin R. Hancock: A Riemannian approach to graph embedding. 1042-1056
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  Alessandra Lumini, Loris Nanni: An improved BioHashing for human authentication. 1057-1065
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  P.-C. Chung, C.-L. Huang, E.-L. Chen: A region-based selective optical flow back-projection for genuine motion vector estimation. 1066-1077
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  Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Pedro Gómez Vilda: An improved watershed algorithm based on efficient computation of shortest paths. 1078-1090

Modeling

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  Hanzi Wang, David Suter: A consensus-based method for tracking: Modelling background scenario and foreground appearance. 1091-1105
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  P. Kakumanu, Sokratis Makrogiannis, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis: A survey of skin-color modeling and detection methods. 1106-1122
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  Joon-Hyuk Chang, Saeed Gazor, Nam Soo Kim, Sanjit K. Mitra: Multiple statistical models for soft decision in noisy speech enhancement. 1123-1134

Applications

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  Stéphane Derrode, Grégoire Mercier: Unsupervised multiscale oil slick segmentation from SAR images using a vector HMC model. 1135-1147
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  Ricardo J. Ferrari, Hong Zhang, C. Ronald Kube: Real-time detection of steam in video images. 1148-1159

Volume 40, Number 4, April 2007

Matching

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  Dinggang Shen: Image registration by local histogram matching. 1161-1172
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  Chyuan-Huei Thomas Yang, Shang-Hong Lai, Long-Wen Chang: Hybrid image matching combining Hausdorff distance with normalized gradient matching. 1173-1181

Texture

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  Kin-On Cheng, Ngai-Fong Law, Wan-Chi Siu: Multiscale directional filter bank with applications to structured and random texture retrieval. 1182-1194
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  Célia A. Zorzo Barcelos, Márcio J. R. Ferreira, Mylene L. Rodrigues: Retrieval of textured images through the use of quantization and modal analysis. 1195-1206
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  Soo Chang Kim, Tae Jin Kang: Texture classification and segmentation using wavelet packet frame and Gaussian mixture model. 1207-1221
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  Alessandro Leone, Cosimo Distante: Shadow detection for moving objects based on texture analysis. 1222-1233

Moments

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  Pew-Thian Yap, Paramesran Raveendran: Eigenmoments. 1234-1244
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  Ziliang Ping, Haiping Ren, Jian Zou, Yunlong Sheng, Wurigen Bo: Generic orthogonal moments: Jacobi-Fourier moments for invariant image description. 1245-1254

Skeletonization

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  Wooi-Boon Goh, Kai-Yun Chan: The multiresolution gradient vector field skeleton. 1255-1269
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  Feng Zhao, Xiaoou Tang: Preprocessing and postprocessing for skeleton-based fingerprint minutiae extraction. 1270-1281

Curves

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  Alexander Kolesnikov, Pasi Fränti: Polygonal approximation of closed discrete curves. 1282-1293
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  Gudrun Wagenknecht: A contour tracing and coding algorithm for generating 2D contour codes from 3D classified objects. 1294-1306

Segmentation

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  Andrea Colombari, Andrea Fusiello, Vittorio Murino: Segmentation and tracking of multiple video objects. 1307-1317
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  Mustafa Ozden, Ediz Polat: A color image segmentation approach for content-based image retrieval. 1318-1325
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  XiaoFu He, Pengfei Shi: A new segmentation approach for iris recognition based on hand-held capture device. 1326-1333

Watermarking

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  Qijun Zhao, Hongtao Lu: PCA-based web page watermarking. 1334-1341
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  Chaur-Heh Hsieh, Chi-Jen Liao: A novel image watermarking scheme based on amplitude attack. 1342-1354
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  Jau-Ji Shen, Po-Wei Hsu: A robust associative watermarking technique based on similarity diagrams. 1355-1367

Applications

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  B. Zhang, Youfu Li, Yihong Wu: Self-recalibration of a structured light system via plane-based homography. 1368-1377
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  Gui Gao, Gangyao Kuang, Qi Zhang, Deren Li: Fast detecting and locating groups of targets in high-resolution SAR images. 1378-1384

Rapid and Brief Communications

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  Niall Rooney, David W. Patterson: A weighted combination of stacking and dynamic integration. 1385-1388
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  Julian Fiérrez-Aguilar, Javier Ortega-Garcia, Doroteo Torre Toledano, Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez: Biosec baseline corpus: A multimodal biometric database. 1389-1392

Volume 40, Number 5, May 2007

Tree

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  Andrea Torsello, Edwin R. Hancock: Graph embedding using tree edit-union. 1393-1405
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  M. K. M. Rahman, Wang Pi Yang, Tommy W. S. Chow, Sitao Wu: A flexible multi-layer self-organizing map for generic processing of tree-structured data. 1406-1424
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  Yujian Li: A clustering algorithm based on maximal theta-distant subtrees. 1425-1431

Feature Extraction

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  Lik-Kwan Shark, Andrey A. Kurekin, Bogdan J. Matuszewski: Development and evaluation of fast branch-and-bound algorithm for feature matching based on line segments. 1432-1450
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  Bryan W. Scotney, Sonya A. Coleman: Improving angular error via systematically designed near-circular Gaussian-based feature extraction operators. 1451-1465
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  Takahiro Toyoda, Osamu Hasegawa: Extension of higher order local autocorrelation features. 1466-1473

Classification

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  Shihao Ji, Lawrence Carin: Cost-sensitive feature acquisition and classification. 1474-1485
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  Hao Du, Yan Qiu Chen: Rectified nearest feature line segment for pattern classification. 1486-1497
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  Hatem A. Fayed, Sherif Hashem, Amir F. Atiya: Self-generating prototypes for pattern classification. 1498-1509
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  Qian Du: Unsupervised real-time constrained linear discriminant analysis to hyperspectral image classification. 1510-1519

Learning

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  Berk Gökberk, M. Okan Irfanoglu, Lale Akarun, Ethem Alpaydin: Learning the best subset of local features for face recognition. 1520-1532
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  Songcan Chen, Zhe Wang, Yongjun Tian: Matrix-pattern-oriented Ho-Kashyap classifier with regularization learning. 1533-1543
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  Shuangshuang Dai, Atam P. Dhawan: Adaptive learning for event modeling and characterization. 1544-1555
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  Danijel Skocaj, Ales Leonardis, Horst Bischof: Weighted and robust learning of subspace representations. 1556-1569

Face Recognition

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  Xiao-Sheng Zhuang, Dao-Qing Dai: Improved discriminate analysis for high-dimensional data and its application to face recognition. 1570-1578
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  Hongchuan Yu, Mohammed Bennamoun: Complete invariants for robust face recognition. 1579-1591
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  Chunghoon Kim, Chong-Ho Choi: Image covariance-based subspace method for face recognition. 1592-1604
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  Sang-Woong Lee, Song-Hyang Moon, Seong-Whan Lee: Face recognition under arbitrary illumination using illuminated exemplars. 1605-1620

Security System

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  Rong-Jian Chen, Jui-Lin Lai: Image security system using recursive cellular automata substitution. 1621-1631

Discussion

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  Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz: A comment on: "A one-dimensional analysis for the probability of error of linear classifiers for normally distributed classes" by Rueda. 1632-1633

Volume 40, Number 6, June 2007

Contour

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  K. W. Sum, Paul Y. S. Cheung: Boundary vector field for parametric active contours. 1635-1645
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  Yoshihiro Kato, Teruaki Hirano, Osamu Nakamura: Fast template matching algorithm for contour images based on its chain coded description applied for human face identification. 1646-1659
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  Hermilo Sánchez-Cruz, Ernesto Bribiesca, Ramón M. Rodríguez-Dagnino: Efficiency of chain codes to represent binary objects. 1660-1674
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  Lilian Buzer: A simple algorithm for digital line recognition in the general case. 1675-1684

Color

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  Chi-Yuan Lin, Chin-Hsing Chen: An invisible hybrid color image system using spread vector quantization neural networks with penalized FCM. 1685-1694

Vision

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  Shyi-Chyi Cheng, Chen-Tsung Kuo, Hong-Jay Chen: Visual object retrieval via block-based visual-pattern matching. 1695-1710
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  Guoping Qiu, Jeremy Morris, Xunli Fan: Visual guided navigation for image retrieval. 1711-1721

Clustering

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  Y.-K. Hu, Y. P. Hu: Global optimization in clustering using hyperbolic cross points. 1722-1733
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  Konstantinos Blekas, Isaac E. Lagaris: Newtonian clustering: An approach based on molecular dynamics and global optimization. 1734-1744

Statistics

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  Michael K. Ng, Elaine Y. Chan, Meko M. C. So, Wai-Ki Ching: A semi-supervised regression model for mixed numerical and categorical variables. 1745-1752
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  Marco Loog: On an alternative formulation of the Fisher criterion that overcomes the small sample problem. 1753-1755
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  Xiangru Li, Zhanyi Hu, Fuchao Wu: A note on the convergence of the mean shift. 1756-1762

Motion

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  Nikolaos V. Boulgouris, Zhiwei X. Chi: Human gait recognition based on matching of body components. 1763-1770
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  Ju Han, Bir Bhanu: Fusion of color and infrared video for moving human detection. 1771-1784
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  Fei Qi, Qihe Li, Yupin Luo, Dongcheng Hu: Constraints on general motions for camera calibration with one-dimensional objects. 1785-1792

Fingerprint

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  Manhua Liu, Xudong Jiang, Alex ChiChung Kot: Efficient fingerprint search based on database clustering. 1793-1803
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  Xuchu Wang, Jianwei Li, Yanmin Niu: Definition and extraction of stable points from fingerprint images. 1804-1815

Handwriting

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  Fabien Lauer, Ching Y. Suen, Gérard Bloch: A trainable feature extractor for handwritten digit recognition. 1816-1824
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  Subhadip Basu, Chitrita Chaudhuri, Mahantapas Kundu, Mita Nasipuri, Dipak Kumar Basu: Text line extraction from multi-skewed handwritten documents. 1825-1839
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  Madasu Hanmandlu, O. V. Ramana Murthy: Fuzzy model based recognition of handwritten numerals. 1840-1854

Volume 40, Number 7, July 2007

Segmentation

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  Xi-Wen Zhang, Michael R. Lyu, Guo-zhong Dai: Extraction and segmentation of tables from Chinese ink documents based on a matrix model. 1855-1867
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  Xiao-nian Wang, Zu-ren Feng, Miao Zhang: A new segmentation method for phase change thermography sequence. 1868-1878
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  Pilar Merchán, Antonio Adán: Exploration trees on highly complex scenes: A new approach for 3D segmentation. 1879-1898

Shape

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  César A. B. Castañón, Jane S. Fraga, Sandra Fernandez, Arthur Gruber, Luciano da F. Costa: Biological shape characterization for automatic image recognition and diagnosis of protozoan parasites of the genus Eimeria. 1899-1910
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  Naif Alajlan, Ibrahim El Rube, Mohamed S. Kamel, George H. Freeman: Shape retrieval using triangle-area representation and dynamic space warping. 1911-1920
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  Wei-Song Lin, Chun-Hsiung Fang: Synthesized affine invariant function for 2D shape recognition. 1921-1928

Motion

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  Hao Jiang, Mark S. Drew: Shadow resistant tracking using inertia constraints. 1929-1945
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  Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam, Mansour Jamzad: Motion blur identification in noisy images using mathematical models and statistical measures. 1946-1957
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  Caifeng Shan, Tieniu Tan, Yucheng Wei: Real-time hand tracking using a mean shift embedded particle filter. 1958-1970

Geometry

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  Fuchao Wu, Liang Wang, Zhanyi Hu: FOE estimation: Can image measurement errors be totally "corrected" by the geometric method? 1971-1980
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  D. Chaudhuri, A. Samal: A simple method for fitting of bounding rectangle to closed regions. 1981-1989
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  Yu Qiao, S. H. Ong: Arc-based evaluation and detection of ellipses. 1990-2003
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  Hossein Ragheb, Edwin R. Hancock: The modified Beckmann-Kirchhoff scattering theory for rough surface analysis. 2004-2020

Learning

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  Dit-Yan Yeung, Hong Chang, Guang Dai: Learning the kernel matrix by maximizing a KFD-based class separability criterion. 2021-2028
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  Jinwen Ma, Jianfeng Liu: The BYY annealing learning algorithm for Gaussian mixture with automated model selection. 2029-2037
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  Min-Ling Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou: ML-KNN: A lazy learning approach to multi-label learning. 2038-2048

Feature

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  K. M. Au, Ngai-Fong Law, Wan-Chi Siu: Unified feature analysis in JPEG and JPEG 2000-compressed domains. 2049-2062
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  Juan Xu, Opas Chutatape, Eric Sung, Ce Zheng, Paul Chew Tec Kuan: Optic disk feature extraction via modified deformable model technique for glaucoma analysis. 2063-2076

Object Recognition

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  Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, P. Yuan, Sokratis Makrogiannis: Object recognition using wavelets, L-G graphs and synthesis of regions. 2077-2096

Handwriting

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  Zhouchen Lin, Liang Wan: Style-preserving English handwriting synthesis. 2097-2109
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  Pradeep M. Patil, T. R. Sontakke: Rotation, scale and translation invariant handwritten Devanagari numeral character recognition using general fuzzy neural network. 2110-2117

Face

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  Sang-Il Choi, Chunghoon Kim, Chong-Ho Choi: Shadow compensation in 2D images for face recognition. 2118-2125

Volume 40, Number 8, August 2007

Part Special Issue on Visual Information Processing

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  Hong Yan, Jesse S. Jin, Zhi-Qiang Liu: Special section on visual information processing. 2127-2128
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  Lei Xu: A unified perspective and new results on RHT computing, mixture based learning, and multi-learner based problem solving. 2129-2153
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  Senjian An, Wanquan Liu, Svetha Venkatesh: Fast cross-validation algorithms for least squares support vector machine and kernel ridge regression. 2154-2162
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  Wen Fang, Kap Luk Chan: Incorporating shape prior into geodesic active contours for detecting partially occluded object. 2163-2172
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  Sijun Lu, Jian Zhang, David Dagan Feng: Detecting unattended packages through human activity recognition and object association. 2173-2184
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  Shuyuan Jin, Daniel S. Yeung, Xizhao Wang: Network intrusion detection in covariance feature space. 2185-2197

Regular Papers Classifier

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  Albert Hung-Ren Ko, Robert Sabourin, Alceu de Souza Britto Jr., Luiz S. Oliveira: Pairwise fusion matrix for combining classifiers. 2198-2210
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  Jung-Yi Lin, Hao-Ren Ke, Been-Chian Chien, Wei-Pang Yang: Designing a classifier by a layered multi-population genetic programming approach. 2211-2225
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  Gao Daqi, Li Chunxia, Yang Yunfan: Task decomposition and modular single-hidden-layer perceptron classifiers for multi-class learning problems. 2226-2236
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  David Milner, Shmuel Raz, Hagit Hel-Or, Daniel Keren, Eviatar Nevo: A new measure of symmetry and its application to classification of bifurcating structures. 2237-2250

Color

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  Jian Fu, H. John Caulfield: Designing spectral sensitivity curves for use with Artificial Color. 2251-2260
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  Jiann-Shu Lee, Yung-Ming Kuo, Pau-Choo Chung, E-Liang Chen: Naked image detection based on adaptive and extensible skin color model. 2261-2270

Texture

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  Fei Wu, Changshui Zhang, Jingrui He: An evolutionary system for near-regular texture synthesis. 2271-2282

Space

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  Julien Meynet, Vlad Popovici, Jean-Philippe Thiran: Face detection with boosted Gaussian features. 2283-2291
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  Qinran Chen, Wai-kuen Cham, Kar-kin Lee: Extracting eyebrow contour and chin contour for face recognition. 2292-2300
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  Christophe Lohou, Gilles Bertrand: Two symmetrical thinning algorithms for 3D binary images, based on P-simple points. 2301-2314

Speech

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  Johnny Mariéthoz, Samy Bengio: A kernel trick for sequences applied to text-independent speaker verification systems. 2315-2324
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  Lei Xie, Zhi-Qiang Liu: A coupled HMM approach to video-realistic speech animation. 2325-2340

Vision

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  Tiziana D'Orazio, Marco Leo, Cataldo Guaragnella, Arcangelo Distante: A visual approach for driver inattention detection. 2341-2355
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  Du-shiau Tsai, Tzungher Chen, Gwoboa Horng: A cheating prevention scheme for binary visual cryptography with homogeneous secret images. 2356-2366

Volume 40, Number 9, September 2007

Feature Analysis

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  Adas Gelzinis, Antanas Verikas, Marija Bacauskiene: Increasing the discrimination power of the co-occurrence matrix-based features. 2367-2372
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  Chi-Ho Tsang, Sam Kwong, Hanli Wang: Genetic-fuzzy rule mining approach and evaluation of feature selection techniques for anomaly intrusion detection. 2373-2391
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  Ying-Ho Liu, Chin-Chin Lin, Wen-Hsiung Lin, Fu Chang: Accelerating feature-vector matching using multiple-tree and sub-vector methods. 2392-2399
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  Leonid V. Tsap, Mark A. Duchaineau, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Min C. Shin: Data-driven feature modeling, recognition and analysis in a discovery of supersonic cracks in multimillion-atom simulations. 2400-2407

Color

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  Bibhas Chandra Dhara, Bhabatosh Chanda: Color image compression based on block truncation coding using pattern fitting principle. 2408-2417

Geometry

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  Yonghuai Liu: A mean field annealing approach to accurate free form shape matching. 2418-2436
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  Panagiotis Papadakis, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Perantonis, Theoharis Theoharis: Efficient 3D shape matching and retrieval using a concrete radialized spherical projection representation. 2437-2452
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  Céline Fouard, Robin Strand, Gunilla Borgefors: Weighted distance transforms generalized to modules and their computation on point lattices. 2453-2474
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  Tae-Kyun Kim, Ognjen Arandjelovic, Roberto Cipolla: Boosted manifold principal angles for image set-based recognition. 2475-2484

Models

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  Georg Langs, Philipp Peloschek, Rene Donner, Horst Bischof: Multiple appearance models. 2485-2495
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  Tomer Amiaz, Eyal Lubetzky, Nahum Kiryati: Coarse to over-fine optical flow estimation. 2496-2503
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  Ilkay Ulusoy, Edwin R. Hancock: A statistical approach to sparse multi-scale phase-based stereo. 2504-2520
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  Yves Caron, Pascal Makris, Nicole Vincent: Use of power law models in detecting region of interest. 2521-2529

Algorithms

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  Hongqing Zhu, Huazhong Shu, Ting Xia, Limin Luo, Jean-Louis Coatrieux: Translation and scale invariants of Tchebichef moments. 2530-2542
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  Hong Qiao, Yan-Guo Wang, Bo Zhang: A simple decomposition algorithm for support vector machines with polynomial-time convergence. 2543-2549
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  T. Warren Liao: A clustering procedure for exploratory mining of vector time series. 2550-2562

Applications

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  Toby H. W. Lam, Raymond S. T. Lee, David Zhang: Human gait recognition by the fusion of motion and static spatio-temporal templates. 2563-2573
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  Jin Chu Wu, Charles L. Wilson: Nonparametric analysis of fingerprint data on large data sets. 2574-2584
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  Xiaoxun Zhang, Yunde Jia: A linear discriminant analysis framework based on random subspace for face recognition. 2585-2591
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  Fei Ma, Mariusz Bajger, John P. Slavotinek, Murk J. Bottema: Two graph theory based methods for identifying the pectoral muscle in mammograms. 2592-2602

Rapid and Brief Communication

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  Shung-Yung Lung: Wavelet feature domain adaptive noise reduction using learning algorithm for text-independent speaker recognition. 2603-2606

Volume 40, Number 10, October 2007

Statistics

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  Billur Barshan, Tayfun Aytaç, Çagri Yüzbasioglu: Target differentiation with simple infrared sensors using statistical pattern recognition techniques. 2607-2620
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  Teresa León, P. Zuccarello, Guillermo Ayala, Esther de Ves, Juan Domingo: Applying logistic regression to relevance feedback in image retrieval systems. 2621-2632

Learning

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  Qing Tao, Gao-wei Wu, Jue Wang: Learning linear PCA with convex semi-definite programming. 2633-2640
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  Guoping Qiu, Jiang Duan, Graham D. Finlayson: Learning to display high dynamic range images. 2641-2655
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  Punam K. Saha, Bipul Das, Felix W. Wehrli: An object class-uncertainty induced adaptive force and its application to a new hybrid snake. 2656-2671

Clustering

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  Robert M. Haralick, Rave Harpaz: Linear manifold clustering in high dimensional spaces by stochastic search. 2672-2684
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  Defeng Wang, Lin Shi, Daniel S. Yeung, Eric C. C. Tsang, Pheng-Ann Heng: Ellipsoidal support vector clustering for functional MRI analysis. 2685-2695

Genetic Programming

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  Liang Zhang, Asoke K. Nandi: Neutral offspring controlling operators in genetic programming. 2696-2705

Subtraction

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  Yu-Ting Chen, Chu-Song Chen, Chun-Rong Huang, Yi-Ping Hung: Efficient hierarchical method for background subtraction. 2706-2715

Geometry

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  Fadi Dornaika: Self-calibration of a stereo rig using monocular epipolar geometries. 2716-2729
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  Sarbajit Pal, Pankaj Ganguly, P. K. Biswas: Cubic Bézier approximation of a digitized curve. 2730-2741
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  Hongdong Li, Richard I. Hartley: Conformal spherical representation of 3D genus-zero meshes. 2742-2753
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  Paul Morrison, Ju Jia Zou: Triangle refinement in a constrained Delaunay triangulation skeleton. 2754-2765
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  Genyun Sun, Qinhuo Liu, Qiang Liu, Changyuan Ji, Xiaowen Li: A novel approach for edge detection based on the theory of universal gravity. 2766-2775

Secret

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  Daoshun Wang, Lei Zhang, Ning Ma, Xiaobo Li: Two secret sharing schemes based on Boolean operations. 2776-2785

Face

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  Fei Wang, Jingdong Wang, Changshui Zhang, James T. Kwok: Face recognition using spectral features. 2786-2797
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  Stefanos Zafeiriou, Anastasios Tefas, Ioannis Pitas: The discriminant elastic graph matching algorithm applied to frontal face verification. 2798-2810

Signature

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  G. K. Gupta, R. C. Joyce: Using position extrema points to capture shape in on-line handwritten signature verification. 2811-2817
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  Boaz J. Super: Knowledge-based part correspondence. 2818-2825

Camera

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  Zhaozheng Hu, Zheng Tan: Depth recovery and affine reconstruction under camera pure translation. 2826-2836
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  Jianbo Su: Camera calibration based on receptive fields. 2837-2845

Application

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  Marco Cococcioni, Beatrice Lazzerini, Francesco Marcelloni: Estimating the concentration of optically active constituents of sea water by Takagi-Sugeno models with quadratic rule consequents. 2846-2860
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  Shuo Li, Thomas Fevens, Adam Krzyzak, Chao Jin, Song Li: Semi-automatic computer aided lesion detection in dental X-rays using variational level set. 2861-2873

Graph

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  Huaijun Qiu, Edwin R. Hancock: Graph simplification and matching using commute times. 2874-2889

Volume 40, Number 11, November 2007

Color

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  Mark Grundland, Neil A. Dodgson: Decolorize: Fast, contrast enhancing, color to grayscale conversion. 2891-2896

Mathematics

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  Venkatesh Rajagopalan, Asok Ray, Rohan Samsi, Jeffrey Mayer: Pattern identification in dynamical systems via symbolic time series analysis. 2897-2907
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  Yong Kui Liu, Wei Wei, Peng Jie Wang, Borut Zalik: Compressed vertex chain codes. 2908-2913
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  Erchan Aptoula, Sébastien Lefèvre: A comparative study on multivariate mathematical morphology. 2914-2929
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  Akira Tanaka, Hideyuki Imai, Mineichi Kudo, Masaaki Miyakoshi: Integrated kernels and their properties. 2930-2938

Classification

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  Hyunsoo Kim, Barry L. Drake, Haesun Park: Multiclass classifiers based on dimension reduction with generalized LDA. 2939-2945
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  Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen: On using prototype reduction schemes to optimize dissimilarity-based classification. 2946-2957
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  Chunghoon Kim, Chong-Ho Choi: A discriminant analysis using composite features for classification problems. 2958-2966
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  Sadik Kara, Mustafa Okandan: Atrial fibrillation classification with artificial neural networks. 2967-2973

Segmentation

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  Jean-François Dufourd: Design and formal proof of a new optimal image segmentation program with hypermaps. 2974-2993
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  Chin-Chuan Han, Chang-Hsing Lee, Wen-Li Peng: Hand radiograph image segmentation using a coarse-to-fine strategy. 2994-3004
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  Li Ma, Richard C. Staunton: A modified fuzzy C-means image segmentation algorithm for use with uneven illumination patterns. 3005-3011
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  Daehwan Kim, Jinyoung Song, Daijin Kim: Simultaneous gesture segmentation and recognition based on forward spotting accumulative HMMs. 3012-3026

Speech

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  Marcos Faúndez-Zanuy, Martin Hagmüller, Gernot Kubin: Speaker identification security improvement by means of speech watermarking. 3027-3034

Clustering

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  Kuo-Lung Wu, Miin-Shen Yang: Mean shift-based clustering. 3035-3052
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  Hichem Frigui, Cheul Hwang, Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee: Clustering and aggregation of relational data with applications to image database categorization. 3053-3068

Matching

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  Longin Jan Latecki, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Qiang Wang, Deguang Yu: An elastic partial shape matching technique. 3069-3080
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  Jian Yao, Wai-kuen Cham: Robust multi-view feature matching from multiple unordered views. 3081-3099

Contours

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  Qiling Tang, Nong Sang, Tianxu Zhang: Extraction of salient contours from cluttered scenes. 3100-3109

Learning

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  Ing-Jr Ding: Incremental MLLR speaker adaptation by fuzzy logic control. 3110-3119
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  Hee-Deok Yang, Seong-Whan Lee: Reconstruction of 3D human body pose from stereo image sequences based on top-down learning. 3120-3131
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  Jung-Hsien Chiang, Zong-Xian Yin: Unsupervised minor prototype detection using an adaptive population partitioning algorithm. 3132-3145

Fingerprint

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  Loris Nanni, Alessandra Lumini: A hybrid wavelet-based fingerprint matcher. 3146-3151
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  Tadej Savic, Nikola Pavesic: Personal recognition based on an image of the palmar surface of the hand. 3152-3163
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  Xuchu Wang, Jianwei Li, Yanmin Niu: Fingerprint matching using OrientationCodes and PolyLines. 3164-3177

Face

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  Yueting Zhuang, Jian Zhang, Fei Wu: Hallucinating faces: LPH super-resolution and neighbor reconstruction for residue compensation. 3178-3194
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  Yan Tong, Yang Wang, Zhiwei Zhu, Qiang Ji: Robust facial feature tracking under varying face pose and facial expression. 3195-3208
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  Xiao-Yuan Jing, Yong-Fang Yao, David Zhang, Jing-Yu Yang, Miao Li: Face and palmprint pixel level fusion and Kernel DCV-RBF classifier for small sample biometric recognition. 3209-3224
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  Hyung-Soo Lee, Daijin Kim: Robust face tracking by integration of two separate trackers: Skin color and facial shape. 3225-3235

Genetics

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  Zexuan Zhu, Yew-Soon Ong, Manoranjan Dash: Markov blanket-embedded genetic algorithm for gene selection. 3236-3248
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  Jie Li, Xianglong Tang, Wei Zhao, Jianhua Huang: A new framework for identifying differentially expressed genes. 3249-3262

Statistics

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  B. John Oommen, Sang-Woon Kim, Geir Horn: On the estimation of independent binomial random variables using occurrence and sequential information. 3263-3276
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  Isabelle Abraham, Romain Abraham, Agnès Desolneux, S. Li-Thiao-Te: Significant edges in the case of non-stationary Gaussian noise. 3277-3291
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  Jigang Xie, Zhengding Qiu, Zhenjiang Miao, Yanqiang Zhang: Bootstrap FDA for counting positives accurately in imprecise environments. 3292-3298

Retrieval

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  Shyh Wei Teng, Guojun Lu: Image indexing and retrieval based on vector quantization. 3299-3316

Mining

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  Jianying Hu, Aleksandra Mojsilovic: High-utility pattern mining: A method for discovery of high-utility item sets. 3317-3324

Volume 40, Number 12, December 2007

Classification

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  Francesco Bianconi, Antonio Fernández: Evaluation of the effects of Gabor filter parameters on texture classification. 3325-3335
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  Igor Zingman, Ron Meir, Ran El-Yaniv: Size-density spectra and their application to image classification. 3336-3348
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  Yunlei Li, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Dick de Ridder, Marcel J. T. Reinders: Classification in the presence of class noise using a probabilistic Kernel Fisher method. 3349-3357
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  Yanmin Sun, Mohamed S. Kamel, Andrew K. C. Wong, Yang Wang: Cost-sensitive boosting for classification of imbalanced data. 3358-3378
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  Hong-Qiang Wang, Hau-San Wong, De-Shuang Huang, Jun Shu: Extracting gene regulation information for cancer classification. 3379-3392
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  D. Napoletani, Daniele C. Struppa, T. Sauer, V. Morozov, N. Vsevolodov, C. Bailey: Functional dissipation microarrays for classification. 3393-3400
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  Enwang Zhou, Alireza Khotanzad: Fuzzy classifier design using genetic algorithms. 3401-3414
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  Ping Zhang, Tien D. Bui, Ching Y. Suen: A novel cascade ensemble classifier system with a high recognition performance on handwritten digits. 3415-3429

Clustering

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  Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Sriparna Saha: GAPS: A clustering method using a new point symmetry-based distance measure. 3430-3451
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  William-Chandra Tjhi, Lihui Chen: Possibilistic fuzzy co-clustering of large document collections. 3452-3466

Segmentation

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  Nathalie Richard, Michel Dojat, Catherine Garbay: Distributed Markovian segmentation: Application to MR brain scans. 3467-3480
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  Shi-Lin Wang, Wing Hong Lau, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Shu Hung Leung: Robust lip region segmentation for lip images with complex background. 3481-3491
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  Han-Ming Wu, Henry Horng-Shing Lu: Iterative sliced inverse regression for segmentation of ultrasound and MR images. 3492-3502

Digital Recognition

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  Xuan Wang, Bin Xiao, Jian-Feng Ma, Xiu-Li Bi: Scaling and rotation invariant analysis approach to object recognition based on Radon and Fourier-Mellin transforms. 3503-3508

Modeling

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  Qinghua Hu, Zongxia Xie, Daren Yu: Hybrid attribute reduction based on a novel fuzzy-rough model and information granulation. 3509-3521
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  Di Xiao, Wan Sing Ng, Charles B. Tsang, Udantha R. Abeyratne: A region and gradient based active contour model and its application in boundary tracking on anal canal ultrasound images. 3522-3539
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  Hakan Altinçay: Decision trees using model ensemble-based nodes. 3540-3551

Imaging

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  Yann Leydier, Frank Lebourgeois, Hubert Emptoz: Text search for medieval manuscript images. 3552-3567
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  Andrea Garzelli, Filippo Nencini: Panchromatic sharpening of remote sensing images using a multiscale Kalman filter. 3568-3577
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  Olivier Strauss, Frederic Comby: Variable structuring element based fuzzy morphological operations for single viewpoint omnidirectional images. 3578-3596
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  Khalid M. Hosny: Exact Legendre moment computation for gray level images. 3597-3605
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  Yixiong Liang, Chengrong Li, Weiguo Gong, Yingjun Pan: Uncorrelated linear discriminant analysis based on weighted pairwise Fisher criterion. 3606-3615

Learning

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  Shung-Yung Lung: Efficient text independent speaker recognition with wavelet feature selection based multilayered neural network using supervised learning algorithm. 3616-3620
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  Bin Li, Xiangyang Xue, Jianping Fan: A robust incremental learning framework for accurate skin region segmentation in color images. 3621-3632

Visualization

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  Shyong Jian Shyu, Shih-Yu Huang, Yeuan-Kuen Lee, Ran-Zan Wang, Kun Chen: Sharing multiple secrets in visual cryptography. 3633-3651
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  Sian-Jheng Lin, Ja-Chen Lin: VCPSS: A two-in-one two-decoding-options image sharing method combining visual cryptography (VC) and polynomial-style sharing (PSS) approaches. 3652-3666
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  Ram Bhuwan Pandit, Juming Tang, Frank Liu, Galina Mikhaylenko: A computer vision method to locate cold spots in foods in microwave sterilization processes. 3667-3676
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  Reza Hoseinnezhad, Alireza Bab-Hadiashar: Consistency of robust estimators in multi-structural visual data segmentation. 3677-3690

Color

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  Chen-Tsung Kuo, Shyi-Chyi Cheng: Fusion of color edge detection and color quantization for color image watermarking using principal axes analysis. 3691-3704
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  Ju Yong Chang, Kyoung Mu Lee, Sang Uk Lee: Stereo matching using iterative reliable disparity map expansion in the color-spatial-disparity space. 3705-3713
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  Hideki Noda, Michiharu Niimi: Colorization in YCbCr color space and its application to JPEG images. 3714-3720

Character Recognition

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  Francesco Camastra: A SVM-based cursive character recognizer. 3721-3727

Rough Sets

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  Qinghua Hu, Daren Yu, Zongxia Xie, Xiaodong Li: EROS: Ensemble rough subspaces. 3728-3739

Watermarking

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  Yongqing Xin, Simon X. Liao, Miroslaw Pawlak: Circularly orthogonal moments for geometrically robust image watermarking. 3740-3752
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  Yi-Ta Wu, Frank Y. Shih: Digital watermarking based on chaotic map and reference register. 3753-3763
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  Boaz J. Super: Erratum to "Knowledge-based part correspondence": [Pattern Recognition 40 (10) 2818-2825]. 3764