{"title":"Low-Resolution Chinese Character Recognition of Vehicle License Plate Based on ALBP and Gabor Filters","authors":"Ye Wang, Honggang Zhang, Xu Fang, Jun Guo","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.104","url":null,"abstract":"Low-resolution Chinese character recognition of vehicle license plate is always a difficult problem. On the basic of existing Local Binary Patterns(LBP) operator, we propose a powerful and low-computation advanced LBP(ALBP)operator as feature extraction, and apply into Chinese character recognition for the first time. As local feature extraction operater, it produces a feature excursion for characters of barycenter departure. Therefore we use the advantage of global analysis of Gabor filters, construct Gabor filters to recognize characters of barycenter departure. The experimental results show the method is robust against low quality Chinese characters and more adaptive than conventional approach both on preciseness and recognition speed.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"25 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131056460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Small Sample Prediction of Financial Crisis","authors":"Sankha Pallab Saha","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.102","url":null,"abstract":"Prediction of financial crisis is a challenging problem in financial research. On the basis of the information provided by financial statements, companies are usually classified into two groups, e.g., the groups of solvent and insolvent companies. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), logistic regression and artificial neural network (ANN) are the most common statistical tools used for this classification. LDA and logistic regression separate the two groups using a hyperplane, and they provide good lower dimensional view of class separability. However, these methods are not robust against outliers and they also get affected by deviations from underlying model assumptions. Moreover, if the number of observations is small compared to the dimension of the measurement vector, these classical methods may lead to poor classification. On the contrary, ANN is more flexible and does not make any assumption about the population structure. But, it separates the competing populations using a complex surface. So, we sacrifice the lower dimensional view and the interpretability of the result, which are often the major concern in financial analysis. In this article, we propose to use a semiparametric method which preserves the interpretability and the lower dimensional view of class separability, but at the same time it is robust against outliers and capable to work well in high dimension and low sample size set up. We use two real life financial data sets to show the utility of this semiparametric method.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132105259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cast Shadow Removal Using Time and Exposure Varying Images","authors":"Pankaj Rajan, Wei Yan","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.105","url":null,"abstract":"Shadows are the natural accomplice of objects. As such, they have affected various algorithms dealing with image segmentation, object tracking and recognition. A lot of research has been focused on removing shadows from images while preserving the information available in the shadow region. In this paper, we present a simple yet robust algorithm for cast shadow removal utilizing images taken at different times with different exposures. While different exposures allow good recovery of shadow regions, the time-varying feature is used to suppress the shadow edges.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128450006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Separation of Foreground Text from Complex Background in Color Document Images","authors":"S. Nirmala, P. Nagabhushan","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.26","url":null,"abstract":"Reading of the foreground text is difficult in documents having multi colored complex background. Automatic foreground text separation in such document images is very much essential for smooth reading of the document contents. In this paper we propose a hybrid approach which combines connected component analysis and an unsupervised thresholding for separation of text from the complex background. The proposed approach identifies the candidate text regions based on edge detection followed by a connected component analysis. Because of background complexity it is also possible that a non text region may be identified as a text region. To overcome this problem we extract texture features of connected components and analyze the feature values. Finally the threshold value for each detected text region is derived automatically from the data of corresponding image region to perform foreground separation. The proposed approach can handle document images with varying background of multiple colors. Also it can handle foreground text of any color, font and size. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm detects on an average 97.8% of text regions in the source document. Readability of the extracted foreground text is illustrated through OCRing.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117082996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Accuracy of Discovered Knowledge through Direct Interaction and Cohesion-based Framework: A Study in Cell Cycle Data of Yeast","authors":"R. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.90","url":null,"abstract":"Association mining tasks, when put to microarray data, normal trend is to highlight amount of discovered knowledge while quality analysis goes to backseat. Ideally, two more information is equally important: a) accuracy of knowledge extracted in a rule with respect to known biological functions, and b) predictability of biological interactions from discovered rules. Most of the support and/or confidence-based techniques address only predictability or neither of them. It requires tedious post-processing to unearth the actually interesting ones from the bulky output set. In the present work, we exploit the notion of direct interaction (DI) and cohesion to develop a sound methodology for binding genes under common affinity groups and mine intra-group associations. To evaluate soundness, we apply the method in cell cycle data of yeast and analyze result with the help of known biological interactions in BIND. We found impressive values for both accuracy and predictability.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117247006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parallel Point Symmetry Based Clustering for Gene Microarray Data","authors":"Anasua Sarkar, U. Maulik","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.40","url":null,"abstract":"Point symmetry-based clustering is an important unsupervised learning tool for recognizing symmetrical convex or non-convex shaped clusters, even in the microarray datasets. To enable fast clustering of this large data, in this article, a distributed space and time-efficient scalable parallel approach for point symmetry-based K-means algorithm has been proposed. A natural basis for analyzing gene expression data using this symmetry-based algorithm, is to group together genes with similar symmetrical patterns of expression. This new parallel implementation satisfies the quadratic reduction in timing, as well as the space and communication overhead reduction without sacrificing the quality of clustering solution. The parallel point symmetry based K-means algorithm is compared with another newly implemented parallel symmetry-based K-means and existing parallel K-means over four artificial, real-life and benchmark microarray datasets, to demonstrate its superiority,both in timing and validity.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115565225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saving Electrical Power in a Surveillance Environment","authors":"Souvik Sen, A. Das, S. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.38","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a smart video surveillance system with real-time moving object (primarily human) detection and identification for solving the problem of excessive power consumption in indoor public places. The proposed detection system is able to handle several known constraints such as changing illumination conditions, occlusion, clutter or even irrelevant extraneous motion. It keeps track of the number of humans in the vicinity and takes measures to gradually increase or decrease the luminosity depending on the number of people within its sight.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115597428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Face Tracking Based on 3D Positional Hypothesis","authors":"Yuzuko Utsumi, Y. Iwai, M. Yachida","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.32","url":null,"abstract":"Probabilistic and statistical model analysis methods based on the Bayesian approach have recently been applied to face tracking. Here, we propose a face tracking method based on a Bayesian framework of image sequences. We assume that an observed space is three-dimensional (3D) and model facial shape, rotation and translation in 3D. A 3D positional hypothesis is generated using the facial translation model. The likelihood of facial existence is calculated from the output of the classifier learned using the AdaBoost M1algorithm. The results of an experiment show the efficiency of the proposed method for face tracking.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125052946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esakkirajan Sankaralingam, Veerakumar Thangaraj, P. Navaneethan
{"title":"Best Basis Selection Using Singular Value Decomposition","authors":"Esakkirajan Sankaralingam, Veerakumar Thangaraj, P. Navaneethan","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.13","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new idea of best basis selection through singular value decomposition. Wavelet and Wavelet Packet Transform are efficient tools to represent the image. Wavelet Packet Transform is a generalization of wavelet transform which is more adaptive than the wavelet transform because it offers a rich library of bases from which the best one can be chosen for a certain class of images with a specified cost function. Wavelet packet decomposition yields a redundant representation of the image. The problem of wavelet packet image coding consists of considering all possible wavelet packet bases in the library, and choosing the one that gives the best coding performance. In this work, Singular Value Decomposition is used as a tool to select the best basis. Experimental results have demonstrated the validity of the approach.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116401656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive Objects Tracking by Using Statistical Features Shape Modeling and Histogram Analysis","authors":"C. Spampinato","doi":"10.1109/ICAPR.2009.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAPR.2009.106","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel method for object tracking using an adaptive algorithm based on statistical analysis of objects shape. To track objects in video sequence, we use a sys-tem that combines two algorithms: a histogram analysis algorithm and a statistical shape features modeling algorithm. The main improvement of the proposed system with respect to the others present in literature is that we do nonuse any a priori knowledge about how objects look like.This no apriori model has been carried out by computinga model that takes into account the statistical behavior of the most important objects features over the whole video frames. Moreover, an adaptive mechanism allows us tore set the statistical model creation when such a model is too much dissimilar from the real blobs features. Experiments on some real world dif¿cult scenarios of low resolu-tion videos and in unconstrained environments demonstrate the very promising results achieved.","PeriodicalId":443926,"journal":{"name":"2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132175722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}