The paper presents an edit-distance model that can be used for the approximate matching of contiguous and non-contiguous timed strings is presented. The model extends the concept of the weighted string-edit distance by introducing timed edit operations and by making the edit costs time dependent. Special attention is paid to the timed null symbols that are associated with the timed insertions and deletions. The usefulness of the presented model is demonstrated on the classification of phone-recognition errors using the TIMIT speech database.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6651220
The paper presents a novel method for face recognition based on the Gabor-wavelet representation of face images and the kernel partial-least-squares discrimination (KPLSD) algorithm. In the first step a set of forty Gabor wavelets is used to extract facial features, while in the second step the KPLSD technique is used For optimal performance, the KPLSD-based transformation is implemented using the recently proposed fractional-power-polynomial models. The experimental results based on the XM2VTS and ORL databases show that the GKPLSD approach outperforms other preouoviusly used methods.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6950740
In this paper we present a novel palm-print feature-extraction approach which deals with the presented problem by employing the 2D phase congruency model for line-feature-extraction. The proposed approach first computes a set of phase congruency features from a palm-print image and subsequently performs linear discriminant analysis on the computed features to represent them in a more compact manner. The approach was tested on two contrasting databases, namely, on the FE-LUKS and on the PolyU database. Encouraging results were achieved on both databases.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7142484
In this paper, feature-extraction methods based on Principal Component Analysis, Most Discriminant Features, and Regularized-Direct Linear Discriminant Analysis are tested and compared in an experimental finger-based personal authentication system. The system is multimodal and based on features extracted from eight regions of the hand: four fingerprints (the prints of the finger tips) and four digitprints (the prints of the fingers between the first and third phalanges). All of the regions are extracted from one-shot grey-level images of the palmar surface of four fingers of the right hand.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7205716
This article presents a formal model of the knowledge representation scheme based on the fuzzy Petri net (FPN) theory. The model is represented as a 13-tuple consisting of the components of the FPN, two functions that give semantic meanings to the scheme and a set of contradictions. For the scheme, called the knowledge representation scheme based on the fuzzy Petri nets theory the fuzzy inheritance and fuzzy recognition-inference procedures based on the dynamical properties of the FPN, are described in detail.
COBISS.SI-ID: 6904148