Fast schemes for computing similarities between Gaussian HMMs and their applications in texture image classification

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1984-1993

  Chen, Ling ^a   Man, Hong ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (Spain)

^c ECE Department   (Spain)

^d School of Engineering   (Spain)

^e IEEE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bhattacharyya affinity; Hidden Markov model; Kernel method; Similarity measure; Texture classification

Indexed keywords

BHATTACHARYA AFFINITY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KERNEL METHOD; SIMILARITY MEASURES; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 28844432422     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.1984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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