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This comprehensive handbook addresses the sophisticated forensic threats and challenges that have arisen in the modern digital age, and reviews the new computing solutions that have been proposed to t
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This volume presents a comprehensive treatment of Riemannian geometry as a mathematical and computational framework for many problems in machine learning, statistics, optimization, and computer vision
This authoritative collection introduces the reader to the state of the art in iris recognition technology. Topics and features: presents work from an international selection of preeminent researchers
The recent availability of large-scale geo-tagged images on social and photo-sharing websites has spurred a growing interest in developing automatic methods for image geolocalization. The challenges o
This ground-breaking text/reference divergesfrom the traditional view that computer vision (for image analysis) and stringprocessing (for text mining) are separate and unrelated fields of study,propou
This text reviews the fundamental theory and latest methods for including contextual information in fusion process design and implementation. Chapters are contributed by the foremost international exp
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This book presents a systematic introduction to the latest developments in video text detection. Opening with a discussion of the underlying theory and a brief history of video text detection, the tex
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Presenting the first definitive study of the subject, this Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing reviews the state of the art in covert attacks against biometric systems and in deriving countermeasures
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This book presents a comprehensive overview of medical image analysis. Practical in approach, the text is uniquely structured by potential applications. Features: presents learning objectives, exercis
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This book places the formalism of Markov chain and hidden Markov models at the very center of its examination of current pattern recognition systems, demonstrating how the models can be used in a rang
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This book describes the latest developments in nonlinear methods and their application in fault diagnosis. It details advances in machine learning theory and contains numerous case studies with real-w
Decision forests (also known as random forests) are an indispensable tool for automatic image analysis. This practical and easy-to-follow text explores the theoretical underpinnings of decision forest
This book surveys the state of the art in multidimensional, physically-correct visual texture modeling. Features: reviews the entire process of texture synthesis, including material appearance represe
