Consists of two parts - the first contains the basic theory of wavelet analysis and the second includes applications of wavelet theory to pattern recognition. This book provides a bibliography of 170 references including the theory and applications of wavelet analysis to pattern recognition.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2008, held in Havana, Cuba, in September 2008. This title also includes papers that are organized in sections on signal analysis for characterization and filtering, analysis of shape and texture, analysis of speech and language, and data mining.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, ICISP 2008, held in Cherbourg-Octeville, France, in July 2008. This work selects 48 revised full papers and 22 revised poster papers that are organized in topical sections on image filtering, image segmentation and computer vision.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2008, held in Povoa do Varzim, Portugal, in June 2008. This work also includes papers that are organized in topical sections on image restoration and enhancement, image and video segmentation, and non-linear image processing.
Constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Security and Digital Forensics, ISDF 2009, which was held in September 2009 in London, United Kingdom. These 19 papers present several security, identity and forensics challenges across the globe to address better the gap in the digital economy market.
Offers an overview of theories, methodologies, and developments in the field of statistical learning and statistical analysis for visual pattern modeling and computing. This book describes a theoretical foundation, offers a summary of advances, and presents typical issues to be considered in making a real system for visual information processing.
This edition has been completely revised, enlarged and formatted in two colour. It is a systematic account of the major topics in pattern recognition, based on the fundamental principles. It includes extensive examples and exercises, and is accompanied by a solutions manual.
Here is a different approach to pattern recognition systems, in which users of a system are involved during the recognition process, and examines a range of advanced multimodal interactions between machine and users, including handwriting, speech and gesture.
Constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of two co-located events: the Second International Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2007, and the 5th Rich Transcription 2007 Meeting Recognition evaluation, RT 2007, held in succession in Baltimore, MD, USA, in May 2007.
This book explores advances in social media modeling and social media computing research, organized and presented according to current principles and practices. Coverage includes system design, analytic tools, access control for privacy and security and more.
Includes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009. This title contains sections on computer graphics; visualization; feature extraction and matching; medical imaging; motion; virtual reality; face processing; and, reconstruction.
This volume describes the application of pattern recognition and classification approaches. Methods include handwriting recognition, medical image analysis and interpretation, development of cognitive systems for image computer understanding, moving object detection, and more.
Provides coverage of the major concepts, topics, and security methods associated with fingerprint recognition. This work features chapters covering sensor technology, performance evaluation, standards, and securing fingerprint systems. It is suitable for biometric security professionals, researchers, developers and systems administrators.
This first book to introduce the fundamentals of biometrics; it covers common modalities including fingerprint, face, iris, hand geometry, signature and voice. Exercises help readers gain experience in designing computer programs for biometric applications.
This book provides a unified framework describing how rough-fuzzy computing techniques can be formulated and used in building efficient pattern recognition models. Based on the existing as well as new results, the book is structured according to the major phases of a pattern recognition system (e.g.
Constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, held in Washington, DC, USA, August 7-8, 2008. This title includes papers that are organized in topical sections on trends and challenges; scanner, printer, and prints; human identification; shoeprints; linguistics;decision making and search; and speech analysis.
Recent years have seen significant growth in biometric research and the development of innovative sensors, new algorithms, test methodologies and novel applications. For this book, prominent biometrics researchers describe the fundamentals and the latest innovations in their area of expertise.
Recent years have seen significant growth in biometric research and the development of innovative sensors, new algorithms, test methodologies and novel applications. For this book, prominent biometrics researchers describe the fundamentals and the latest innovations in their area of expertise.
Offers an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. This book covers three main topics: key biometric technologies, design and management issues, and the performance evaluation of biometric systems for personal verification/identification.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2008, held in Leipzig, Germany in July 2008. This work is organized in topical sections on lifescience and biotechnological applications for data mining, clustering and classification, association rule mining, e-mail, Web mining and information retrieval.
Vein pattern recognition (VPR) is quickly taking root around the world and may soon dominate applications where people focus is key. This book takes a look at biometrics in general and at vein pattern recognition specifically. It discusses the emergence of this technology and evaluates its capabilities and benefits.
Begins with an introductory chapter for those who are new to the field. This work covers in three sections topics such as: basic aspects of face processing from human to computer, face modeling from computational and physiological points of view, and tackles the advanced methods, which include illumination, pose, expression, and more.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2009, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2009. This work contains papers that are organized in topical sections on ECOC boosting and bagging, MCS in remote sensing, unbalanced data and decision templates, concept drift and SVM ensembles.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2009, held in Alghero, Italy, June 2-5, 2009. This book presents 36 revised full papers and 93 revised poster papers that were reviewed and selected from 250 submissions.
Constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Similarity Based Pattern Recognition, SIMBAD 2011, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2011. The contributions are organized in topical sections on dissimilarity characterization and analysis; generative models of similarity data; graph-based and relational models; and more.
This book considers biometric technology in all its broad aspects, integrating the concept seamlessly into mainstream IT while discussing legal, political and societal factors, including the cultural attitudes and the societal impact of identity management.
This book covers hybrid intelligent systems using type-2 fuzzy logic and modular neural networks for pattern recognition applications. Includes basic theory, use of type-2 fuzzy models, optimization of type-2 fuzzy systems and modular neural networks and more.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2009, held in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal in June 2009. This title presents 33 revised full papers and 29 revised poster papers together with 3 invited talks that were reviewed and selected from 106 submissions.