Pattern Recognition, Volume 47

Volume 47, Number 1, January 2014

Special Issue Papers

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  Luís Gómez Déniz, Luis Álvarez, Julio Jacobo-Berlles, Marta Mejail:
  Special issue on computer vision applying pattern recognition techniques. 9-11
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  Bangalore Ravi Kiran, Jean Serra:
  Global-local optimizations by hierarchical cuts and climbing energies. 12-24
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  Asja Fischer, Christian Igel:
  Training restricted Boltzmann machines: An introduction. 25-39
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  B. John Oommen, Anu Thomas:
  "Anti-Bayesian" parametric pattern classification using order statistics criteria for some members of the exponential family. 40-55
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  Pablo Negri, Norberto A. Goussies, Pablo A. Lotito:
  Detecting pedestrians on a Movement Feature Space. 56-71
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  Mariano Tepper, Pablo Musé, Andrés Almansa, Marta Mejail:
  Finding contrasted and regular edges by a contrario detection of periodic subsequences. 72-79
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  Yu-Ting Li, Juan P. Wachs:
  HEGM: A hierarchical elastic graph matching for hand gesture recognition. 80-88
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  Miguel Alemán-Flores, Luis Álvarez, Luis Gómez, Pedro Henríquez, Luis Mazorra:
  Camera calibration in sport event scenarios. 89-95
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  César A. Astudillo, B. John Oommen:
  Self-organizing maps whose topologies can be learned with adaptive binary search trees using conditional rotations. 96-113
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  Noel Lopes, Bernardete Ribeiro:
  Towards adaptive learning with improved convergence of deep belief networks on graphics processing units. 114-127
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  Marianela Parodi, Juan Carlos Gómez:
  Legendre polynomials based feature extraction for online signature verification. Consistency analysis of feature combinations. 128-140
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  Leonardo Torres, Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna, Corina da Costa Freitas, Alejandro César Frery:
  Speckle reduction in polarimetric SAR imagery with stochastic distances and nonlocal means. 141-157
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  Mónica G. Larese, Rafael Namías, Roque M. Craviotto, Miriam R. Arango, Carina Gallo, Pablo M. Granitto:
  Automatic classification of legumes using leaf vein image features. 158-168
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  Annette Morales-González, Niusvel Acosta-Mendoza, Andrés Gago Alonso, Edel B. García Reyes, José Eladio Medina-Pagola:
  A new proposal for graph-based image classification using frequent approximate subgraphs. 169-177

Regular Papers

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  Feng Liu, David Zhang:
  3D fingerprint reconstruction system using feature correspondences and prior estimated finger model. 178-193
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  Malik Morshidi, Tardi Tjahjadi:
  Gravity optimised particle filter for hand tracking. 194-207
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  Carlos F. Benitez-Quiroz, Samuel Rivera, Paulo F. U. Gotardo, Aleix M. Martínez:
  Salient and non-salient fiducial detection using a probabilistic graphical model. 208-215
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  Panagiotis Papadakis:
  Enhanced pose normalization and matching of non-rigid objects based on support vector machine modelling. 216-227
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  Trung Ngo Thanh, Yasushi Makihara, Hajime Nagahara, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Yasushi Yagi:
  The largest inertial sensor-based gait database and performance evaluation of gait-based personal authentication. 228-237
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  Mathieu Barnachon, Saïda Bouakaz, Boubakeur Boufama, Erwan Guillou:
  Ongoing human action recognition with motion capture. 238-247
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  Oksana Samko, Yu-Kun Lai, A. David Marshall, Paul L. Rosin:
  Virtual unrolling and information recovery from scanned scrolled historical documents. 248-259
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  Christophe Moulin, Christine Largeron, Christophe Ducottet, Mathias Géry, Cécile Barat:
  Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis for text-image combination in multimedia information retrieval. 260-269
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  Carlos Lopez-Molina, Mikel Galar, Humberto Bustince Sola, Bernard De Baets:
  On the impact of anisotropic diffusion on edge detection. 270-281
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  The Anh Pham, Mathieu Delalandre, Sabine Barrat, Jean-Yves Ramel:
  Accurate junction detection and characterization in line-drawing images. 282-295
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  Dongjin Han, Hern-soo Hahn:
  Axis estimation and grouping of rotationally symmetric object segments. 296-312
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  Chao Rong Li, Jianping Li, Dapeng Gao, Bo Fu:
  Rapid-transform based rotation invariant descriptor for texture classification under non-ideal conditions. 313-325
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  Matthew Grum, Adrian G. Bors:
  3D modeling of multiple-object scenes from sets of images. 326-343
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  Bo Du, Liangpei Zhang:
  Target detection based on a dynamic subspace. 344-358
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  Chengjun Liu:
  Discriminant analysis and similarity measure. 359-367
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  Qing Yan, Yi Xu, Xiaokang Yang, Truong Nguyen:
  HEASK: Robust homography estimation based on appearance similarity and keypoint correspondences. 368-387
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  Le Thi Hoai An, Le Hoai Minh, Pham Dinh Tao:
  New and efficient DCA based algorithms for minimum sum-of-squares clustering. 388-401
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  Antonio Adán, Miguel Adán:
  Consensus strategy for clustering using RC-images. 402-417
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  Hongtao Lu, Zhenyong Fu, Xin Shu:
  Non-negative and sparse spectral clustering. 418-426
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  David Hanwell, Majid Mirmehdi:
  QUAC: Quick unsupervised anisotropic clustering. 427-440
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  Abhishek Singh, Rosha Pokharel, José C. Príncipe:
  The C-loss function for pattern classification. 441-453
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  Chenping Hou, Feiping Nie, Changshui Zhang, Dongyun Yi, Yi Wu:
  Multiple rank multi-linear SVM for matrix data classification. 454-469
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  Kyoungok Kim, Daewon Lee:
  Inductive manifold learning using structured support vector machine. 470-479
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  Bogdan Raducanu, Fadi Dornaika:
  Embedding new observations via sparse-coding for non-linear manifold learning. 480-492

Corrigedum

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  Norman Poh, Arun Ross, Weifeng Li, Josef Kittler:
  Corrigendum to "A user-specific and selective multimodal biometric fusion strategy by ranking subjects" [Pattern Recognition 46 (2013) 3341-3357]. 493

Volume 47, Number 2, February 2014

Face

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  Xiao Luan, Bin Fang, Linghui Liu, Weibin Yang, Jiye Qian:
  Extracting sparse error of robust PCA for face recognition in the presence of varying illumination and occlusion. 495-508
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  Yinjie Lei, Mohammed Bennamoun, Munawar Hayat, Yulan Guo:
  An efficient 3D face recognition approach using local geometrical signatures. 509-524
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  De-Qiang Li, Witold Pedrycz:
  A central profile-based 3D face pose estimation. 525-534
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  Meng Yang, Zhizhao Feng, Simon C. K. Shiu, Lei Zhang:
  Fast and robust face recognition via coding residual map learning based adaptive masking. 535-543
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  Abeer A. Mohamad Al-Shiha, Wai Lok Woo, Satnam Singh Dlay:
  Multi-linear neighborhood preserving projection for face recognition. 544-555
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  Kuong-Hon Pong, Kin-Man Lam:
  Multi-resolution feature fusion for face recognition. 556-567
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  Leonardo A. Cament, Luis E. Castillo, Juan P. Perez, Francisco J. Galdames, Claudio A. Perez:
  Fusion of local normalization and Gabor entropy weighted features for face identification. 568-577

Eye, fingerprint

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  Nenad Markus, Miroslav Frljak, Igor S. Pandzic, Jörgen Ahlberg, Robert Forchheimer:
  Eye pupil localization with an ensemble of randomized trees. 578-587
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  Daniel Peralta, Isaac Triguero, Raul Sánchez-Reillo, Francisco Herrera, José Manuel Benítez:
  Fast fingerprint identification for large databases. 588-602

Objects, paintings

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  Zhuhong Shao, Huazhong Shu, Jiasong Wu, Beijing Chen, Jean-Louis Coatrieux:
  Quaternion Bessel-Fourier moments and their invariant descriptors for object reconstruction and recognition. 603-611
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  Jiachuan Sheng, Jianmin Jiang:
  Recognition of Chinese artists via windowed and entropy balanced fusion in classification of their authored ink and wash paintings (IWPs). 612-622

Curve, spline, shape

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  Alexander Kolesnikov, Tuomo Kauranne:
  Unsupervised segmentation and approximation of digital curves with rate-distortion curve modeling. 623-633
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  Larissa Stanberry, Julian Besag:
  Boundary reconstruction in binary images using splines. 634-642
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  Makoto Hasegawa, Salvatore Tabbone:
  Amplitude-only log Radon transform for geometric invariant shape descriptor. 643-658
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  Laura Igual, Xavier Perez-Sala, Sergio Escalera, Cecilio Angulo, Fernando De la Torre:
  Continuous Generalized Procrustes analysis. 659-671

Font, handwriting

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  Mohammed Lutf, Xinge You, Yiu-ming Cheung, C. L. Philip Chen:
  Arabic font recognition based on diacritics features. 672-684
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  Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa:
  A robust method for coarse classifier construction from a large number of basic recognizers for on-line handwritten Chinese/Japanese character recognition. 685-693

Images, morphology, graph, visual search

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  Qing-Song Zeng, Jian-Huang Lai, Chang-Dong Wang:
  Multi-local model image set matching based on domain description. 694-704
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  Otávio Augusto Bizetto Penatti, Fernanda B. Silva, Eduardo Valle, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Ricardo da Silva Torres:
  Visual word spatial arrangement for image retrieval and classification. 705-720
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  Alexandru Caliman, Mihai Ivanovici, Noël Richard:
  Probabilistic pseudo-morphology for grayscale and color images. 721-735
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  Bo Jiang, Haifeng Zhao, Jin Tang, Bin Luo:
  A sparse nonnegative matrix factorization technique for graph matching problems. 736-747
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  Xianglong Liu, Junfeng He, Bo Lang:
  Multiple feature kernel hashing for large-scale visual search. 748-757

Dimensionality, 3D

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  Kyoungok Kim, Jaewook Lee:
  Sentiment visualization and classification via semi-supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction. 758-768
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  Hermilo Sánchez-Cruz, Hiram H. López-Valdez, Francisco J. Cuevas:
  A new relative chain code in 3D. 769-788

Discriminant analysis, clustering

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  Daqi Gao, Jun Ding, Changming Zhu:
  Integrated Fisher linear discriminants: An empirical study. 789-805
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  Haitao Zhao, Wai Keung Wong:
  Regularized discriminant entropy analysis. 806-819
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  Ping He, Xiao-hua Xu, Kongfa Hu, Ling Chen:
  Semi-supervised clustering via multi-level random walk. 820-832
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  Lucas Franek, Xiaoyi Jiang:
  Ensemble clustering by means of clustering embedding in vector spaces. 833-842

Classification, genetic algorithm

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  Hoel Le Capitaine:
  A unified view of class-selection with probabilistic classifiers. 843-853
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  Pierluigi Casale, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva:
  Approximate polytope ensemble for one-class classification. 854-864
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  Miguel Ángel Bautista, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Oriol Pujol:
  On the design of an ECOC-Compliant Genetic Algorithm. 865-884

Learning

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  Donghui Wang, Shu Kong:
  A classification-oriented dictionary learning model: Explicitly learning the particularity and commonality across categories. 885-898
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  Hao Lei, Kuizhi Mei, Nanning Zheng, Peixiang Dong, Ning Zhou, Jianping Fan:
  Learning group-based dictionaries for discriminative image representation. 899-913

Volume 47, Number 3, March 2014

Special Issue Papers

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  Sebastiano Impedovo, Cheng-Lin Liu, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  "Special Issue on Handwriting recognition and other PR applications". 915
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  Sebastiano Impedovo:
  More than twenty years of advancements on Frontiers in handwriting recognition. 916-928
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  Réjean Plamondon, Christian O'Reilly, Claudéric Ouellet-Plamondon:
  Strokes against stroke - strokes for strides. 929-944
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  Yi Tang, Sargur N. Srihari:
  Likelihood ratio estimation in forensic identification using similarity and rarity. 945-958
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  Adrien Delaye, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Contextual text/non-text stroke classification in online handwritten notes with conditional random fields. 959-968
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  Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo:
  Zoning methods for handwritten character recognition: A survey. 969-981
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  Bilan Zhu, Masaki Nakagawa:
  Building a compact online MRF recognizer for large character set by structured dictionary representation and vector quantization technique. 982-993
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  Toru Wakahara, Yukihiko Yamashita:
  k-NN classification of handwritten characters via accelerated GAT correlation. 994-1001
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  Sebastiano Impedovo, Francesco Maurizio Mangini, Donato Barbuzzi:
  A novel prototype generation technique for handwriting digit recognition. 1002-1010
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  Jan Richarz, Szilárd Vajda, Rene Grzeszick, Gernot A. Fink:
  Semi-supervised learning for character recognition in historical archive documents. 1011-1020
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  Muna Khayyat, Louisa Lam, Ching Y. Suen:
  Learning-based word spotting system for Arabic handwritten documents. 1021-1030
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  Jean-Paul van Oosten, Lambert Schomaker:
  Separability versus prototypicality in handwritten word-image retrieval. 1031-1038
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  Safwan Wshah, Gaurav Kumar, Venu Govindaraju:
  Statistical script independent word spotting in offline handwritten documents. 1039-1050
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  Konstantinos Zagoris, Ioannis Pratikakis, Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Basilis Gatos, Nikos Papamarkos:
  Distinction between handwritten and machine-printed text based on the bag of visual words model. 1051-1062
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  Marçal Rusiñol, Josep Lladós:
  Boosting the handwritten word spotting experience by including the user in the loop. 1063-1072
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  Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer, Markus Baumgartner, Horst Bunke:
  Keyword spotting for self-training of BLSTM NN based handwriting recognition systems. 1073-1082
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  Sargur N. Srihari, Kirsten Singer:
  Role of automation in the examination of handwritten items. 1083-1095
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  Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Volker Märgner, Gernot A. Fink:
  KHATT: An open Arabic offline handwritten text database. 1096-1112
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  Yuting Tao, Jian Yang, Heyou Chang:
  Enhanced iterative projection for subclass discriminant analysis under EM-alike framework. 1113-1125
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  Xiaotang Chen, Kaiqi Huang, Tieniu Tan:
  Object tracking across non-overlapping views by learning inter-camera transfer models. 1126-1137
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  Pengfei Hu, Wenju Liu, Wei Jiang, Zhanlei Yang:
  Latent topic model for audio retrieval. 1138-1143

Regular Papers

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  Wanmu Liu, Sasan Mahmoodi, Tom Havelock, Michael J. Bennett:
  Robust similarity registration technique for volumetric shapes represented by characteristic functions. 1144-1158
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  Vincenzo Deufemia, Michele Risi, Genoveffa Tortora:
  Sketched symbol recognition using Latent-Dynamic Conditional Random Fields and distance-based clustering. 1159-1171
• 
  Lu Bai, Edwin R. Hancock:
  Depth-based complexity traces of graphs. 1172-1186
• 
  Soumen Bag, Gaurav Harit, Partha Bhowmick:
  Recognition of Bangla compound characters using structural decomposition. 1187-1201
• 
  Qiu-Feng Wang, Fei Yin, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Unsupervised language model adaptation for handwritten Chinese text recognition. 1202-1216
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  Vicent Alabau, Alberto Sanchís, Francisco Casacuberta:
  Improving on-line handwritten recognition in interactive machine translation. 1217-1228
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  Saeeda Naz, Khizar Hayat, Muhammad Imran Razzak, Muhammad Waqas Anwar, Sajjad Ahmad Madani, Samee Ullah Khan:
  The optical character recognition of Urdu-like cursive scripts. 1229-1248
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  Wen-Chung Chiang, Hsiu-Hsia Lin, Chiung-Shing Huang, Lun-Jou Lo, Shu-Yen Wan:
  The cluster assessment of facial attractiveness using fuzzy neural network classifier based on 3D Moiré features. 1249-1260
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  Yongchao Li, Cheng Cai, Guoping Qiu, Kin-Man Lam:
  Face hallucination based on sparse local-pixel structure. 1261-1270
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  Hui Fang, Neil Mac Parthaláin, Andrew J. Aubrey, Gary K. L. Tam, Rita Borgo, Paul L. Rosin, Philip W. Grant, A. David Marshall, Min Chen:
  Facial expression recognition in dynamic sequences: An integrated approach. 1271-1281
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  Anima Majumder, Laxmidhar Behera, Venkatesh K. Subramanian:
  Emotion recognition from geometric facial features using self-organizing map. 1282-1293
• 
  W. W. Kong, Surendra Ranganath:
  Towards subject independent continuous sign language recognition: A segment and merge approach. 1294-1308
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  Wencheng Yang, Jiankun Hu, Song Wang, Milos Stojmenovic:
  An alignment-free fingerprint bio-cryptosystem based on modified Voronoi neighbor structures. 1309-1320
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  Song Wang, Jiankun Hu:
  Design of alignment-free cancelable fingerprint templates via curtailed circular convolution. 1321-1329
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  Aissa Boulmerka, Mohand Saïd Allili, Samy Ait-Aoudia:
  A generalized multiclass histogram thresholding approach based on mixture modelling. 1330-1348
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  Yanzhi Chen, Xi Li, Anthony R. Dick, Rhys Hill:
  Ranking consistency for image matching and object retrieval. 1349-1360
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  Liang Sun, Hongwei Ge, Shinichi Yoshida, Yanchun Liang, Guozhen Tan:
  Support vector description of clusters for content-based image annotation. 1361-1374
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  Xi-Zhao Li, Simon Williams, Murk J. Bottema:
  Constructing and applying higher order textons: Estimating breast cancer risk. 1375-1382
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  Yuan Xie, Wensheng Zhang, Yanyun Qu, Yinghua Zhang:
  Discriminative subspace learning with sparse representation view-based model for robust visual tracking. 1383-1394
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  Bineng Zhong, Hongxun Yao, Sheng Chen, Rongrong Ji, Tat-Jun Chin, Hanzi Wang:
  Visual tracking via weakly supervised learning from multiple imperfect oracles. 1395-1410
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  Yunhao Yuan, Quan-Sen Sun, Hong-Wei Ge:
  Fractional-order embedding canonical correlation analysis and its applications to multi-view dimensionality reduction and recognition. 1411-1424
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  Hui Yan, Jian Yang:
  Joint Laplacian feature weights learning. 1425-1432
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  Di Zhang, Jiazhong He, Yun Zhao, Zhongliang Luo, Minghui Du:
  Global plus local: A complete framework for feature extraction and recognition. 1433-1442
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  Ahmad Ali Abin, Hamid Beigy:
  Active selection of clustering constraints: a sequential approach. 1443-1458
• 
  Koji Ouchi, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Mineichi Kudo:
  An efficient construction and application usefulness of rectangle greedy covers. 1459-1468
• 
  Jun Tang, Ling Shao, Xiantong Zhen:
  Robust point pattern matching based on spectral context. 1469-1484
• 
  Liang Liao, Yanning Zhang, Stephen John Maybank, Zhoufeng Liu:
  Intrinsic dimension estimation via nearest constrained subspace classifier. 1485-1493
• 
  Elena Montañés, Robin Senge, José Barranquero, José Ramón Quevedo, Juan José del Coz, Eyke Hüllermeier:
  Dependent binary relevance models for multi-label classification. 1494-1508
• 
  Kar-Ann Toh, Geok-Choo Tan:
  Exploiting the relationships among several binary classifiers via data transformation. 1509-1522
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  Minh Hoai Nguyen, Lorenzo Torresani, Fernando De la Torre, Carsten Rother:
  Learning discriminative localization from weakly labeled data. 1523-1534
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  Jesse Read, Luca Martino, David Luengo:
  Efficient monte carlo methods for multi-dimensional learning with classifier chains. 1535-1546

Volume 47, Number 4, April 2014

Face, hand

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  Fei Yin, Licheng Jiao, Fanhua Shang, Lin Xiong, Shasha Mao:
  Double linear regressions for single labeled image per person face recognition. 1547-1558
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  Weihua Ou, Xinge You, Dacheng Tao, Pengyue Zhang, Yuanyan Tang, Ziqi Zhu:
  Robust face recognition via occlusion dictionary learning. 1559-1572
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  Yuseok Ban, Sangki Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Kar-Ann Toh, Sangyoun Lee:
  Face detection based on skin color likelihood. 1573-1585
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  Jounghoon Beh, David K. Han, Hanseok Ko:
  Rule-based trajectory segmentation for modeling hand motion trajectory. 1586-1601

Person ID, pedestrian

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  Chunxiao Liu, Shaogang Gong, Chen Change Loy:
  On-the-fly feature importance mining for person re-identification. 1602-1615
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  Yun-Fu Liu, Jing-Ming Guo, Che-Hao Chang:
  Low resolution pedestrian detection using light robust features and hierarchical system. 1616-1625
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  Xu Yan, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Shishir K. Shah:
  Modeling local behavior for predicting social interactions towards human tracking. 1626-1641

Handwriting, Document

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  Francisco Zamora-Martínez, Volkmar Frinken, Salvador España Boquera, María José Castro Bleda, Andreas Fischer, Horst Bunke:
  Neural network language models for off-line handwriting recognition. 1642-1652
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  Li Liu, Yue Lu, Ching Y. Suen:
  Near-duplicate document image matching: A graphical perspective. 1653-1663

Features, similarity, clustering

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  Matthias Reif, Faisal Shafait:
  Efficient feature size reduction via predictive forward selection. 1664-1673
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  Yuan Yan Tang, Tian Xia, Yantao Wei, Hong Li, Luoqing Li:
  Hierarchical kernel-based rotation and scale invariant similarity. 1674-1688
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  Anandarup Roy, Swapan K. Parui:
  Pair-copula based mixture models and their application in clustering. 1689-1697

Discriminant analysis, classification

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  Lin Zhu, De-Shuang Huang:
  A Rayleigh-Ritz style method for large-scale discriminant analysis. 1698-1708
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  Jian Zhang, Jian Yang:
  Linear reconstruction measure steered nearest neighbor classification framework. 1709-1720

Surface, object

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  Eduardo Lemus, Ernesto Bribiesca, Edgar Garduño:
  Representation of enclosing surfaces from simple voxelized objects by means of a chain code. 1721-1730
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  Navjot Singh, Rinki Arya, R. K. Agrawal:
  A novel approach to combine features for salient object detection using constrained particle swarm optimization. 1731-1739
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  Hsin-Ho Yeh, Keng-Hao Liu, Chu-Song Chen:
  Salient object detection via local saliency estimation and global homogeneity refinement. 1740-1750

Denoising, affine, colour

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  Zhonggui Sun, Songcan Chen, Lishan Qiao:
  A general non-local denoising model using multi-kernel-induced measures. 1751-1763
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  Zhaozhong Wang, Lianrui Fu, Y. F. Li:
  Unified detection of skewed rotation, reflection and translation symmetries from affine invariant contour features. 1764-1776
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  Xiaodong Yue, Duoqian Miao, Longbing Cao, Qiang Wu, Yufei Chen:
  An efficient color quantization based on generic roughness measure. 1777-1789

Volume 47, Number 5, May 2014

Action, motion

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  Xiaobin Zhu, Jing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Changsheng Li, Hanqing Lu:
  Sparse representation for robust abnormality detection in crowded scenes. 1791-1799
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  Salah Althloothi, Mohammad H. Mahoor, Xiao Zhang, Richard M. Voyles:
  Human activity recognition using multi-features and multiple kernel learning. 1800-1812
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  Jungchan Cho, Minsik Lee, Hyung Jin Chang, Songhwai Oh:
  Robust action recognition using local motion and group sparsity. 1813-1825
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  Yingya Su, Qingjie Zhao, Liujun Zhao, Dongbing Gu:
  Abrupt motion tracking using a visual saliency embedded particle filter. 1826-1834

Face

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  Hui-Dong Liu, Ming Yang, Yang Gao, Yilong Yin, Liang Chen:
  Bilinear discriminative dictionary learning for face recognition. 1835-1845
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  Rakesh Mehta, Jirui Yuan, Karen O. Egiazarian:
  Face recognition using scale-adaptive directional and textural features. 1846-1858
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  Shaohua Wan, J. K. Aggarwal:
  Spontaneous facial expression recognition: A robust metric learning approach. 1859-1868
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  Vilas H. Gaidhane, Yogesh V. Hote, Vijander Singh:
  An efficient approach for face recognition based on common eigenvalues. 1869-1879

Word spotting, symbol, handwriting

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  Heng Zhang, Da-Han Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Character confidence based on N-best list for keyword spotting in online Chinese handwritten documents. 1880-1890
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  Su Yang:
  Spectra of shape contexts: An application to symbol recognition. 1891-1903
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  Xiang-Dong Zhou, Yan-Ming Zhang, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang, Cheng-Lin Liu:
  Minimum-risk training for semi-Markov conditional random fields with application to handwritten Chinese/Japanese text recognition. 1904-1916

Images, food, SAR, ultrasound

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  LingFeng Wang, Chunhong Pan:
  Robust level set image segmentation via a local correntropy-based K-means clustering. 1917-1925
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  Zhigang Tu, Nico Van der Aa, Coert Van Gemeren, Remco C. Veltkamp:
  A combined post-filtering method to improve accuracy of variational optical flow estimation. 1926-1940
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  Luciano Oliveira, Victor Costa, Gustavo Neves, Talmai Oliveira, Eduardo Jorge, Miguel Gustavo Lizárraga:
  A mobile, lightweight, poll-based food identification system. 1941-1952
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  Giorgio Licciardi, Ruggero Giuseppe Avezzano, Fabio Del Frate, Giovanni Schiavon, Jocelyn Chanussot:
  A novel approach to polarimetric SAR data processing based on Nonlinear PCA. 1953-1967
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  Ruben Machucho-Cadena, Jorge Rivera-Rovelo, Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano:
  Geometric techniques for 3D tracking of ultrasound sensor, tumor segmentation in ultrasound images, and 3D reconstruction. 1968-1987

Features, similarity, clustering

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  Olcay Taner Yildiz:
  On the feature extraction in discrete space. 1988-1993
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  Takumi Kobayashi:
  Kernel-based transition probability toward similarity measure for semi-supervised learning. 1994-2010
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  Hong Zeng, Yiu-ming Cheung:
  Learning a mixture model for clustering with the completed likelihood minimum message length criterion. 2011-2030
• 
  Dominik Olszewski, Branko Ster:
  Asymmetric clustering using the alpha-beta divergence. 2031-2041
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  Phen-Lan Lin, Po-Whei Huang, Chun-Hung Kuo, Y. H. Lai:
  A size-insensitive integrity-based fuzzy c-means method for data clustering. 2042-2056

Bayesian networks, classification, boosting

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  Guang Feng, Jiadong Zhang, Stephen Shaoyi Liao:
  A novel method for combining Bayesian networks, theoretical analysis, and its applications. 2057-2069
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  Sebastián Maldonado, Julio López:
  Imbalanced data classification using second-order cone programming support vector machines. 2070-2079
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  Antonio Fernández-Baldera, Luis Baumela:
  Multi-class boosting with asymmetric binary weak-learners. 2080-2090

Volume 47, Number 6, June 2014

Features, edges, shape

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  Jing Chai, Hongtao Chen, Lixia Huang, Fanhua Shang:
  Maximum margin multiple-instance feature weighting. 2091-2103
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  Suman Kumar Maji, Hussein M. Yahia:
  Edges, transitions and criticality. 2104-2115
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  Xinggang Wang, Bin Feng, Xiang Bai, Wenyu Liu, Longin Jan Latecki:
  Bag of contour fragments for robust shape classification. 2116-2125
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  Yonghuai Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Luigi De Dominicis, Baihua Li:
  Using retinex for point selection in 3D shape registration. 2126-2142

Clustering, classification, SVM

• 
  Ruochen Liu, Yangyang Chen, Licheng Jiao, Yangyang Li:
  A particle swarm optimization based simultaneous learning framework for clustering and classification. 2143-2152
• 
  Aditya Tayal, Thomas F. Coleman, Yuying Li:
  Primal explicit max margin feature selection for nonlinear support vector machines. 2153-2164
• 
  Naimul Mefraz Khan, Riadh Ksantini, Imran Shafiq Ahmad, Ling Guan:
  Covariance-guided One-Class Support Vector Machine. 2165-2177
• 
  Amin Zollanvari, Edward R. Dougherty:
  Moments and root-mean-square error of the Bayesian MMSE estimator of classification error in the Gaussian model. 2178-2192
• 
  Francesco Ciompi, Oriol Pujol, Petia Radeva:
  ECOC-DRF: Discriminative random fields based on error correcting output codes. 2193-2204

Palmprint, body

• 
  Ramachandra Raghavendra, Christoph Busch:
  Novel image fusion scheme based on dependency measure for robust multispectral palmprint recognition. 2205-2221
• 
  Stefan Duffner, Jean-Marc Odobez:
  Leveraging colour segmentation for upper-body detection. 2222-2230

Font, character, word, writer

• 
  Hamzah Luqman, Sabri A. Mahmoud, Sameh Awaida:
  KAFD Arabic font database. 2231-2240
• 
  Kuniyoshi Hayashi:
  Influence functions for a linear subspace method. 2241-2254
• 
  Andrew J. Newell, Lewis D. Griffin:
  Writer identification using oriented Basic Image Features and the Delta encoding. 2255-2265

Objects

• 
  Huiguang Yang, Narendra Ahuja:
  Automatic segmentation of granular objects in images: Combining local density clustering and gradient-barrier watershed. 2266-2279
• 
  Sergio Garrido-Jurado, Rafael Muñoz-Salinas, Francisco José Madrid-Cuevas, Manuel Jesús Marín-Jiménez:
  Automatic generation and detection of highly reliable fiducial markers under occlusion. 2280-2292

Ranking

• 
  Jim Jing-Yan Wang, Halima Bensmail:
  Unified framework for representing and ranking. 2293-2300

Corrigendum

• 
  Anu Thomas, B. John Oommen:
  Corrigendum to three papers that deal with "Anti"-Bayesian Pattern Recognition [Pattern Recognition]. 2301-2302

Volume 47, Number 7, July 2014

Special Issue Papers

• 
  Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percannella, Paolo Soda, Mario Vento:
  Special issue on the analysis and recognition of indirect immuno-fluorescence images. 2303-2304
• 
  Pasquale Foggia, Gennaro Percannella, Alessia Saggese, Mario Vento:
  Pattern recognition in stained HEp-2 cells: Where are we now? 2305-2314
• 
  Arnold Wiliem, Conrad Sanderson, Yongkang Wong, Peter Hobson, Rodney F. Minchin, Brian C. Lovell:
  Automatic classification of Human Epithelial type 2 cell Indirect Immunofluorescence images using Cell Pyramid Matching. 2315-2324
• 
  Yan Yang, Arnold Wiliem, Azadeh Alavi, Brian C. Lovell, Peter Hobson:
  Visual learning and classification of human epithelial type 2 cell images through spontaneous activity patterns. 2325-2337
• 
  Violet Snell, William J. Christmas, Josef Kittler:
  HEp-2 fluorescence pattern classification. 2338-2347
• 
  Masoud Faraki, Mehrtash Tafazzoli Harandi, Arnold Wiliem, Brian C. Lovell:
  Fisher tensors for classifying human epithelial cells. 2348-2359
• 
  Gennady V. Ponomarev, Vladimir L. Arlazarov, Mikhail S. Gelfand, Marat D. Kazanov:
  ANA HEp-2 cells image classification using number, size, shape and localization of targeted cell regions. 2360-2366
• 
  Ilias Theodorakopoulos, Dimitris Kastaniotis, George Economou, Spiros Fotopoulos:
  HEp-2 cells classification via sparse representation of textural features fused into dissimilarity space. 2367-2378
• 
  Xiangfei Kong, Kuan Li, Jingjing Cao, Qingxiong Yang, Liu Wenyin:
  HEp-2 cell pattern classification with discriminative dictionary learning. 2379-2388
• 
  Santa Di Cataldo, Andrea Bottino, Ihtesham Ul Islam, Tiago Figueiredo Vieira, Elisa Ficarra:
  Subclass Discriminant Analysis of morphological and textural features for HEp-2 staining pattern classification. 2389-2399
• 
  Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang:
  HEp-2 cell image classification with multiple linear descriptors. 2400-2408
• 
  Roman Stoklasa, Tomás Majtner, David Svoboda:
  Efficient k-NN based HEp-2 cells classifier. 2409-2418
• 
  LinLin Shen, Jiaming Lin, Shengyin Wu, Shiqi Yu:
  HEp-2 image classification using intensity order pooling based features and bag of words. 2419-2427
• 
  Ryusuke Nosaka, Kazuhiro Fukui:
  HEp-2 cell classification using rotation invariant co-occurrence among local binary patterns. 2428-2436

Regular Papers

• 
  Yu Qian Zhao, Xiao-Hong Wang, Xiaofang Wang, Frank Y. Shih:
  Retinal vessels segmentation based on level set and region growing. 2437-2446
• 
  Xiaoshuang Shi, Yujiu Yang, Zhenhua Guo, Zhihui Lai:
  Face recognition by sparse discriminant analysis via joint L_{2, 1}-norm minimization. 2447-2453
• 
  Zexuan Ji, Jinyao Liu, Guo Cao, Quan-Sen Sun, Qiang Chen:
  Robust spatially constrained fuzzy c-means algorithm for brain MR image segmentation. 2454-2466
• 
  Giovanni Palma, Isabelle Bloch, Serge Muller:
  Detection of masses and architectural distortions in digital breast tomosynthesis images using fuzzy and a contrario approaches. 2467-2480
• 
  Verónica Bolón-Canedo, Iago Porto-Díaz, Noelia Sánchez-Maroño, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos:
  A framework for cost-based feature selection. 2481-2489
• 
  Vicente Palazón-González, Andrés Marzal, Juan Miguel Vilar:
  On hidden Markov models and cyclic strings for shape recognition. 2490-2504
• 
  Grigorios Tzortzis, Aristidis Likas:
  The MinMax k-Means clustering algorithm. 2505-2516
• 
  Jing Chai, Xinghao Ding, Hongtao Chen, Tingyu Li:
  Multiple-instance discriminant analysis. 2517-2531
• 
  Zhunga Liu, Quan Pan, Jean Dezert, Grégoire Mercier:
  Credal classification rule for uncertain data based on belief functions. 2532-2541
• 
  Jianhua Xu:
  Multi-label core vector machine with a zero label. 2542-2557
• 
  Begüm Demir, Lorenzo Bruzzone:
  A multiple criteria active learning method for support vector regression. 2558-2567

Volume 47, Number 8, August 2014

Features, moments, skeleton

• 
  Claudio Ceruti, Simone Bassis, Alessandro Rozza, Gabriele Lombardi, Elena Casiraghi, Paola Campadelli:
  DANCo: An intrinsic dimensionality estimator exploiting angle and norm concentration. 2569-2581
• 
  Jens Kersten:
  Simultaneous feature selection and Gaussian mixture model estimation for supervised classification problems. 2582-2595
• 
  Haitao Hu, Ya-dong Zhang, Chao Shao, Quan Ju:
  Orthogonal moments based on exponent functions: Exponent-Fourier moments. 2596-2606
• 
  Jianning Xu:
  A generalized morphological skeleton transform using both internal and external skeleton points. 2607-2620

Banknote OCR, handwritten documents, signature

• 
  Bo-Yuan Feng, Mingwu Ren, Xu-Yao Zhang, Ching Y. Suen:
  Automatic recognition of serial numbers in bank notes. 2621-2634
• 
  Marte A. Ramírez-Ortegón, Lilia L. Ramírez-Ramírez, Volker Märgner, Ines Ben Messaoud, Erik Cuevas, Raúl Rojas:
  An analysis of the transition proportion for binarization in handwritten historical documents. 2635-2651
• 
  Krzysztof Cpalka, Marcin Zalasinski, Leszek Rutkowski:
  New method for the on-line signature verification based on horizontal partitioning. 2652-2661

Face, biometrics, human action

• 
  Ognjen Arandjelovic:
  Hallucinating optimal high-dimensional subspaces. 2662-2672
• 
  J. A. Unar, Woo Chaw Seng, Almas Abbasi:
  A review of biometric technology along with trends and prospects. 2673-2688
• 
  Xiangrong Zhang, Hao Yang, Licheng Jiao, Yang Yang, Feng Dong:
  Laplacian group sparse modeling of human actions. 2689-2701

Clustering, classification

• 
  Jonathan R. Wells, Kai Ming Ting, Takashi Washio:
  LiNearN: A new approach to nearest neighbour density estimator. 2702-2720
• 
  Walter J. Scheirer, Michael J. Wilber, Michael Eckmann, Terrance E. Boult:
  Good recognition is non-metric. 2721-2731

Imaging, segmentation

• 
  Eckart Michaelsen, Jochen Meidow:
  Stochastic reasoning for structural pattern recognition: An example from image-based UAV navigation. 2732-2744
• 
  Cheolkon Jung, Meng Jian, Juan Liu, Licheng Jiao, Yanbo Shen:
  Interactive image segmentation via kernel propagation. 2745-2755

Lane mark, surface

• 
  Pei-Chen Wu, Chin-Yu Chang, Chang-Hong Lin:
  Lane-mark extraction for automobiles under complex conditions. 2756-2767
• 
  Ran Song, Yonghuai Liu, Ralph R. Martin, Paul L. Rosin:
  Scan integration as a labelling problem. 2768-2782

Volume 47, Number 9, September 2014

Face, eye

• 
  Panagiotis Perakis, Theoharis Theoharis, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris:
  Feature fusion for facial landmark detection. 2783-2793
• 
  Xi Peng, Lei Zhang, Zhang Yi, Kok Kiong Tan:
  Learning locality-constrained collaborative representation for robust face recognition. 2794-2806
• 
  Reza Shoja Ghiass, Ognjen Arandjelovic, Abdelhakim Bendada, Xavier Maldague:
  Infrared face recognition: A comprehensive review of methodologies and databases. 2807-2824
• 
  Fengyi Song, Xiaoyang Tan, Xue Liu, Songcan Chen:
  Eyes closeness detection from still images with multi-scale histograms of principal oriented gradients. 2825-2838

Ship, text, anomaly

• 
  Zhaoying Liu, Fugen Zhou, Xiaowu Chen, Xiangzhi Bai, Changming Sun:
  Iterative infrared ship target segmentation based on multiple features. 2839-2852
• 
  Cunzhao Shi, Chunheng Wang, Baihua Xiao, Song Gao, Jinlong Hu:
  End-to-end scene text recognition using tree-structured models. 2853-2866
• 
  Sutharshan Rajasegarar, Alexander Gluhak, Muhammad Ali Imran, Michele Nati, Masud Moshtaghi, Christopher Leckie, Marimuthu Palaniswami:
  Ellipsoidal neighbourhood outlier factor for distributed anomaly detection in resource constrained networks. 2867-2879

Images, texture, scene

• 
  Minwoo Park, Jiebo Luo, Robert T. Collins, Yanxi Liu:
  Estimating the camera direction of a geotagged image using reference images. 2880-2893
• 
  Shibai Yin, Xiangmo Zhao, Weixing Wang, Minglun Gong:
  Efficient multilevel image segmentation through fuzzy entropy maximization and graph cut optimization. 2894-2907
• 
  Michel Jourlin, E. Couka, B. Abdallah, Joris Corvo, Josselin Breugnot:
  Asplünd's metric defined in the Logarithmic Image Processing (LIP) framework: A new way to perform double-sided image probing for non-linear grayscale pattern matching. 2908-2924
• 
  Esther de Ves, Daniel G. Acevedo, Ana M. C. Ruedin, Xaro Benavent:
  A statistical model for magnitudes and angles of wavelet frame coefficients and its application to texture retrieval. 2925-2939
• 
  Liyuan Li, Weixun Goh, Joo-Hwee Lim, Sinno Jialin Pan:
  Extended Spectral Regression for efficient scene recognition. 2940-2951
• 
  Zhangjian Ji, Weiqiang Wang:
  Detect foreground objects via adaptive fusing model in a hybrid feature space. 2952-2961

3D, graphs

• 
  Bo Yang, Wai-Keung Wong, Chao Liu, Philippe Poignet:
  3D soft-tissue tracking using spatial-color joint probability distribution and thin-plate spline model. 2962-2973
• 
  Lai Kang, Lingda Wu, Yee-Hong Yang:
  Robust multi-view L₂ triangulation via optimal inlier selection and 3D structure refinement. 2974-2992
• 
  Sofiane Lagraa, Hamida Seba, Riadh Khennoufa, Abir M'Baya, Hamamache Kheddouci:
  A distance measure for large graphs based on prime graphs. 2993-3005

Similarity, clustering

• 
  Jisung Yoo, Sung Soo Hwang, Seong-Dae Kim, MyungSeok Ki, Jihun Cha:
  Scale-invariant template matching using histogram of dominant gradients. 3006-3018
• 
  Yi C. Feng, Meng-Hui Lim, Pong C. Yuen:
  Masquerade attack on transform-based binary-template protection based on perceptron learning. 3019-3033
• 
  Pasi Fränti, Mohammad Rezaei, Qinpei Zhao:
  Centroid index: Cluster level similarity measure. 3034-3045
• 
  Jacek Tabor, Przemyslaw Spurek:
  Cross-entropy clustering. 3046-3059
• 
  Hong Jia, Yiu-ming Cheung, Jiming Liu:
  Cooperative and penalized competitive learning with application to kernel-based clustering. 3060-3069
• 
  Vidar Vikjord, Robert Jenssen:
  Information theoretic clustering using a k-nearest neighbors approach. 3070-3081
• 
  Marcelo Rodrigo Portela Ferreira, Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho:
  Kernel-based hard clustering methods in the feature space with automatic variable weighting. 3082-3095

Classification, SVM, deep belief network

• 
  Hong Jiang, Long Xu, Kun Zhan:
  Joint tracking and classification based on aerodynamic model and radar cross section. 3096-3105
• 
  Ran Wang, Sam Kwong:
  Active learning with multi-criteria decision making systems. 3106-3119
• 
  Leijun Li, Qinghua Hu, Xiangqian Wu, Daren Yu:
  Exploration of classification confidence in ensemble learning. 3120-3131
• 
  Thanh Minh Nguyen, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Hui Zhang:
  Bounded generalized Gaussian mixture model. 3132-3142
• 
  Zhanyu Ma, Pravin Kumar Rana, Jalil Taghia, Markus Flierl, Arne Leijon:
  Bayesian estimation of Dirichlet mixture model with variational inference. 3143-3157
• 
  Yuan-Hai Shao, Wei-Jie Chen, Jing-Jing Zhang, Zhen Wang, Nai-Yang Deng:
  An efficient weighted Lagrangian twin support vector machine for imbalanced data classification. 3158-3167
• 
  Huaxiang Zhang, Linlin Cao, Shuang Gao:
  A locality correlation preserving support vector machine. 3168-3178
• 
  Nan-Nan Ji, Jiang-She Zhang, Chun-Xia Zhang:
  A sparse-response deep belief network based on rate distortion theory. 3179-3191

Volume 47, Number 10, October 2014

Feature analysis, edge, object

• 
  Ran Su, Changming Sun, Chao Zhang, Tuan D. Pham:
  A new method for linear feature and junction enhancement in 2D images based on morphological operation, oriented anisotropic Gaussian function and Hessian information. 3193-3208
• 
  Ahror Belaid, Djamal Boukerroui:
  A new generalised α scale spaces quadrature filters. 3209-3224
• 
  Leandro A. F. Fernandes, Manuel M. Oliveira:
  Handling uncertain data in subspace detection. 3225-3241

Object representation, detection

• 
  Ernesto Bribiesca, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras:
  2D tree object representation via the slope chain code. 3242-3253
• 
  Bo Li, Xi Song, Tianfu Wu, Wenze Hu, Mingtao Pei:
  Coupling-and-decoupling: A hierarchical model for occlusion-free object detection. 3254-3264

Point, image segmentation, retrieval

• 
  Jacqueline Christmas, Richard M. Everson, James Bell, C. Peter Winlove:
  Inexact Bayesian point pattern matching for linear transformations. 3265-3275
• 
  Stuart Golodetz, C. Nicholls, Irina Voiculescu, Stephen Cameron:
  Two tree-based methods for the waterfall. 3276-3292
• 
  Xingyuan Wang, Zongyu Wang:
  The method for image retrieval based on multi-factors correlation utilizing block truncation coding. 3293-3303

Fingerprint, palmprint, face, and action

• 
  Weixin Bian, Yonglong Luo, Deqin Xu, Qingying Yu:
  Fingerprint ridge orientation field reconstruction using the best quadratic approximation by orthogonal polynomials in two discrete variables. 3304-3313
• 
  Xiangqian Wu, Qiushi Zhao, Wei Bu:
  A SIFT-based contactless palmprint verification approach using iterative RANSAC and local palmprint descriptors. 3314-3326
• 
  Yan Liang, Jian-Huang Lai, Pong C. Yuen, Wilman W. W. Zou, Zemin Cai:
  Face hallucination with imprecise-alignment using iterative sparse representation. 3327-3342
• 
  Guodong Guo, Alice Lai:
  A survey on still image based human action recognition. 3343-3361

Clustering and matching

• 
  Zhiwen Yu, Le Li, Yunjun Gao, Jane You, Jiming Liu, Hau-San Wong, Guoqiang Han:
  Hybrid clustering solution selection strategy. 3362-3375
• 
  Mikko I. Malinen, Radu Mariescu-Istodor, Pasi Fränti:
  K-means^⁎: Clustering by gradual data transformation. 3376-3386
• 
  Toshiaki Kondo:
  Gradient orientation pattern matching with the Hamming distance. 3387-3404

Neural networks, classification, and ensemble learning

• 
  Shangfei Wang, Jun Wang, Zhaoyu Wang, Qiang Ji:
  Enhancing multi-label classification by modeling dependencies among labels. 3405-3413
• 
  Yunong Zhang, Yonghua Yin, Dongsheng Guo, Xiaotian Yu, Lin Xiao:
  Cross-validation based weights and structure determination of Chebyshev-polynomial neural networks for pattern classification. 3414-3428
• 
  Le Zhang, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan:
  Random Forests with ensemble of feature spaces. 3429-3437
• 
  Alexandra M. Carvalho, Pedro Adão, Paulo Mateus:
  Hybrid learning of Bayesian multinets for binary classification. 3438-3450
• 
  Lin Li, Rustam Stolkin, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, Shuang Wang:
  A compressed sensing approach for efficient ensemble learning. 3451-3465

Query, Arabic word description

• 
  Giorgos Tolias, Hervé Jégou:
  Visual query expansion with or without geometry: Refining local descriptors by feature aggregation. 3466-3476
• 
  Youssouf Chherawala, Mohamed Cheriet:
  Arabic word descriptor for handwritten word indexing and lexicon reduction. 3477-3486

Volume 47, Number 11, November 2014

Face

• 
  Yan Yan, Hanzi Wang, David Suter:
  Multi-subregion based correlation filter bank for robust face recognition. 3487-3501
• 
  Zhonglong Zheng, Mudan Yu, Jiong Jia, Huawen Liu, Daohong Xiang, Xiaoqiao Huang, Jie Yang:
  Fisher discrimination based low rank matrix recovery for face recognition. 3502-3511
• 
  Jun Yu, Richang Hong, Meng Wang, Jane You:
  Image clustering based on sparse patch alignment framework. 3512-3519
• 
  Jingang Shi, Xin Liu, Chun Qi:
  Global consistency, local sparsity and pixel correlation: A unified framework for face hallucination. 3520-3534

Human activities

• 
  Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone:
  Humans in groups: The importance of contextual information for understanding collective activities. 3535-3551
• 
  Huiyu Zhou, Minrui Fei, Abdul Hamid Sadka, Yi Zhang, Xuelong Li:
  Adaptive fusion of particle filtering and spatio-temporal motion energy for human tracking. 3552-3567
• 
  Wei Zeng, Cong Wang, Feifei Yang:
  Silhouette-based gait recognition via deterministic learning. 3568-3584

Object

• 
  Meng Wu, Jun Zhou, Jun Sun:
  Query-expanded collaborative representation based classification with class-specific prototypes for object recognition. 3585-3596
• 
  Tarik Ljouad, Aouatif Amine, Mohammed Rziza:
  A hybrid mobile object tracker based on the modified Cuckoo Search algorithm and the Kalman Filter. 3597-3613

Handwriting, near-duplicates

• 
  Oendrila Samanta, Ujjwal Bhattacharya, Swapan K. Parui:
  Smoothing of HMM parameters for efficient recognition of online handwriting. 3614-3629
• 
  Yanqiang Lei, Ligang Zheng, Jiwu Huang:
  Geometric invariant features in the Radon transform domain for near-duplicate image detection. 3630-3640

Kernel, classifiers

• 
  Jakramate Bootkrajang, Ata Kabán:
  Learning kernel logistic regression in the presence of class label noise. 3641-3655
• 
  Yanting Lu, Liantao Wang, Jianfeng Lu, Jingyu Yang, Chunhua Shen:
  Multiple kernel clustering based on centered kernel alignment. 3656-3664
• 
  Alceu S. Britto Jr., Robert Sabourin, Luiz E. Soares de Oliveira:
  Dynamic selection of classifiers - A comprehensive review. 3665-3680

Contour, ellipse

• 
  Siwei Liu, Frédéric Galland, Nicolas Bertaux:
  Fast nonparametric active contour adapted to quadratic inhomogeneous intensity fluctuations. 3681-3692
• 
  Michele Fornaciari, Andrea Prati, Rita Cucchiara:
  A fast and effective ellipse detector for embedded vision applications. 3693-3708

Dissimilarity, big data

• 
  Weiping Xu, Edwin R. Hancock, Richard C. Wilson:
  Ricci flow embedding for rectifying non-Euclidean dissimilarity data. 3709-3725
• 
  Xue-Qiang Zeng, Guo-Zheng Li:
  Incremental partial least squares analysis of big streaming data. 3726-3735

Volume 47, Number 12, December 2014

Face, biometrics

• 
  Weihong Deng, Jiani Hu, Xiuzhuang Zhou, Jun Guo:
  Equidistant prototypes embedding for single sample based face recognition with generic learning and incremental learning. 3738-3749
• 
  Dongoh Kang, Hu Han, Anil K. Jain, Seong-Whan Lee:
  Nighttime face recognition at large standoff: Cross-distance and cross-spectral matching. 3750-3766
• 
  Svebor Karaman, Giuseppe Lisanti, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Alberto Del Bimbo:
  Leveraging local neighborhood topology for large scale person re-identification. 3767-3778
• 
  Suresh Kumar Ramachandran Nair, Bir Bhanu, Subir Ghosh, Ninad S. Thakoor:
  Predictive models for multibiometric systems. 3779-3792

Gait, action

• 
  Raúl Martín-Félez, Tao Xiang:
  Uncooperative gait recognition by learning to rank. 3793-3806
• 
  Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong, Catherine Achard, Laurent Lucat:
  Simultaneous segmentation and classification of human actions in video streams using deeply optimized Hough transform. 3807-3818
• 
  Li Liu, Ling Shao, Feng Zheng, Xuelong Li:
  Realistic action recognition via sparsely-constructed Gaussian processes. 3819-3827

Objects, wood

• 
  Baojie Fan, Yang Cong, Yingkui Du:
  Discriminative multi-task objects tracking with active feature selection and drift correction. 3828-3840
• 
  Huiyan Wang, Xun Wang, Jia Zheng, John Robert Deller, Haoyu Peng, Leqing Zhu, Weigang Chen, Xiaolan Li, Riji Liu, Hujun Bao:
  Video object matching across multiple non-overlapping camera views based on multi-feature fusion and incremental learning. 3841-3851
• 
  Adrien Krähenbühl, Bertrand Kerautret, Isabelle Debled-Rennesson, Frédéric Mothe, Fleur Longuetaud:
  Knot segmentation in 3D CT images of wet wood. 3852-3869

Segmentation, features

• 
  V. P. Ananthi, Pagavathigounder Balasubramaniam, Chee Peng Lim:
  Segmentation of gray scale image based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets constructed from several membership functions. 3870-3880
• 
  Olga V. Senyukova:
  Segmentation of blurred objects by classification of isolabel contours. 3881-3889
• 
  Wenhao Shu, Hong Shen:
  Incremental feature selection based on rough set in dynamic incomplete data. 3890-3906
• 
  Yunhao Yuan, Quan-Sen Sun:
  Graph regularized multiset canonical correlations with applications to joint feature extraction. 3907-3919

Clustering, matching, classification

• 
  Mohammed Khalilia, James C. Bezdek, Mihail Popescu, James M. Keller:
  Improvements to the relational fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm. 3920-3930
• 
  Qingfeng Nie, Lizuo Jin, Shumin Fei:
  Probability estimation for multi-class classification using AdaBoost. 3931-3940
• 
  José A. Sáez, Joaquín Derrac, Julián Luengo, Francisco Herrera:
  Statistical computation of feature weighting schemes through data estimation for nearest neighbor classifiers. 3941-3948
• 
  Eric Chalmers, Marcin Mizianty, Eric C. Parent, Yan Yuan, Edmond Lou:
  Toward maximum-predictive-value classification. 3949-3958
• 
  Jun Du, Qiang Huo:
  An irrelevant variability normalization approach to discriminative training of multi-prototype based classifiers and its applications for online handwritten Chinese character recognition. 3959-3966

Word spotting

• 
  Jon Almazán, Albert Gordo, Alicia Fornés, Ernest Valveny:
  Segmentation-free word spotting with exemplar SVMs. 3967-3978

Retraction notice

• 
  Retraction notice to "A framework with modified fast FCM for brain MR images segmentation" [Pattern Recognit. 44/5 (2011) 999-1013]. 3979

Corrigendum

• 
  Jisung Yoo, Sung Soo Hwang, Seong-Dae Kim, MyungSeok Ki, Jihun Cha:
  Corrigendum to "Scale-invariant template matching using histogram of dominant gradients" [Pattern Recognit. 47/9 (2014) 3006-3018]. 3980