Pattern Recognition, Volume 126

Volume 126, June 2022

Machine learning

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  Qingbei Guo, Xiaojun Wu, Josef Kittler, Zhiquan Feng:
  Differentiable neural architecture learning for efficient neural networks. 108448

Innovative Applications of Pattern Recognition

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  Nora Horanyi, Kedi Xia, Kwang Moo Yi, Abhishake Kumar Bojja, Ales Leonardis, Hyung Jin Chang:
  Repurposing existing deep networks for caption and aesthetic-guided image cropping. 108485

Special Section on Masked Face Recognition and Touchless Biometrics at the time of COVID-19

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  Yuxuan Zhang, Xin Wang, M. Saad Shakeel, Hao Wan, Wenxiong Kang:
  Learning upper patch attention using dual-branch training strategy for masked face recognition. 108522

Innovative Applications of Pattern Recognition

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  Zhengquan Piao, Junbo Wang, Linbo Tang, Baojun Zhao, Wenzheng Wang:
  AccLoc: Anchor-Free and two-stage detector for accurate object localization. 108523

Various applications

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  Osman Tursun, Simon Denman, Sridha Sridharan, Ethan Goan, Clinton Fookes:
  An efficient framework for zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval. 108528

Special Section on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications

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  Vladimir Vovk:
  Universal predictive systems. 108536

Structural pattern recognition, network and graph methods

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  Shunxing Chen, Linxin Zheng, Guobao Xiao, Zhen Zhong, Jiayi Ma:
  CSDA-Net: Seeking reliable correspondences by channel-Spatial difference augment network. 108539

Features

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  Lixin Yuan, Guoqiang Yang, Qian Xu, Tong Lu:
  Discriminative feature selection with directional outliers correcting for data classification. 108541

Special Section on Modeling and Learning for Matching: Models, Methods and Applications

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  Huai Qin, Changqian Yu, Changxin Gao, Nong Sang:
  D2T: A Framework For transferring detection to tracking. 108544

Objects and image analysis

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  Zuopeng Yang, Pengbo Wang, Tianshu Chu, Jie Yang:
  Human-Centric Image Captioning. 108545
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  Hao Yang, Xiuxiu Chu, Li Zhang, Yunda Sun, Dong Li, Stephen J. Maybank:
  QuadNet: Quadruplet loss for multi-view learning in baggage re-identification. 108546
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  Jia Qin, Huihui Bai, Yao Zhao:
  Multi-level augmented inpainting network using spatial similarity. 108547
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  Vishnu Chalavadi, Jeripothula Prudviraj, Rajeshreddy Datla, Ch. Sobhan Babu, Krishna Mohan C:
  mSODANet: A network for multi-scale object detection in aerial images using hierarchical dilated convolutions. 108548
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  Mengxing Yang, Yuan Yuan, Ganchao Liu:
  SDUNet: Road extraction via spatial enhanced and densely connected UNet. 108549

Clustering

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  Danyang Wu, Wei Chang, Jitao Lu, Feiping Nie, Rong Wang, Xuelong Li:
  Adaptive-order proximity learning for graph-based clustering. 108550

Machine learning

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  Tharindu Fernando, Sridha Sridharan, Simon Denman, Clinton Fookes:
  Split 'n' merge net: A dynamic masking network for multi-task attention. 108551

Human movements and activities

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  Beihao Xia, Conghao Wong, Qinmu Peng, Wei Yuan, Xinge You:
  CSCNet: Contextual semantic consistency network for trajectory prediction in crowded spaces. 108552

Classifiers and classification

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  Thomas Giorginis, Stefanos Ougiaroglou, Georgios Evangelidis, Dimitris A. Dervos:
  Fast data reduction by space partitioning via convex hull and MBR computation. 108553

Special Section on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications

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  Ulf Johansson, Cecilia Sönströd, Tuwe Löfström, Henrik Boström:
  Rule extraction with guarantees from regression models. 108554

Various applications

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  Yue Pang, Xiangdong Zhou, Junqi Zhang, Quan Sun, Jianbin Zheng:
  Hierarchical electricity time series prediction with cluster analysis and sparse penalty. 108555

Bio-medical patterns

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  Haozhe Jia, Weidong Cai, Heng Huang, Yong Xia:
  Learning multi-scale synergic discriminative features for prostate image segmentation. 108556

Special Section on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications

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  Yuri Kalnishkan:
  Prediction with expert advice for a finite number of experts: A practical introduction. 108557

Various applications

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  Ganggang Dong, Hongwei Liu:
  A hierarchical receptive network oriented to target recognition in SAR images. 108558

Structural pattern recognition, network and graph methods

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  Usman Ali, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood:
  Energy minimization for image focus volume in shape from focus. 108559

Machine learning

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  Fanfan Ji, Hui Shuai, Xiao-Tong Yuan:
  A globally convergent approximate Newton method for non-convex sparse learning. 108560

Special Section on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications

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  Alexander Gammerman, Vladimir Vovk, Marco Cristani:
  Special Issue on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications: Preface. 108561

Machine learning

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  Imam Mustafa Kamal, Hyerim Bae:
  Super-encoder with cooperative autoencoder networks. 108562

Human movements and activities

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  Bin Sun, Dehui Kong, Shaofan Wang, Jinghua Li, Baocai Yin, Xiaonan Luo:
  GAN for vision, KG for relation: A two-stage network for zero-shot action recognition. 108563

Machine learning

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  Zhe Wang, Qida Dong, Wei Guo, Dongdong Li, Jing Zhang, Wenli Du:
  Geometric imbalanced deep learning with feature scaling and boundary sample mining. 108564

Handwriting and document analysis

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  Zhenrong Zhang, Jianshu Zhang, Jun Du, Fengren Wang:
  Split, Embed and Merge: An accurate table structure recognizer. 108565

Features

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  Yuang Shi, Chen Zu, Mei Hong, Luping Zhou, Lei Wang, Xi Wu, Jiliu Zhou, Daoqiang Zhang, Yan Wang:
  ASMFS: Adaptive-similarity-based multi-modality feature selection for classification of Alzheimer's disease. 108566

Face and biometrics

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  Yifan Chen, Han Wang, Xiaolu Sun, Bin Fan, Chu Tang, Hui Zeng:
  Deep attention aware feature learning for person re-Identification. 108567

Classifiers and classification

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  Junhui Yin, Siqing Zhang, Jiyang Xie, Zhanyu Ma, Jun Guo:
  Unsupervised person re-identification via simultaneous clustering and mask prediction. 108568

Face and biometrics

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  Yichen Lu, Weihong Deng:
  Transferring discriminative knowledge via connective momentum clustering on person re-identification. 108569

Objects and image analysis

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  Xiaohang Fu, Lei Bi, Ashnil Kumar, Michael J. Fulham, Jinman Kim:
  An attention-enhanced cross-task network to analyse lung nodule attributes in CT images. 108576

Various applications

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  Wei Sun, Dong Gong, Javen Qinfeng Shi, Anton van den Hengel, Yanning Zhang:
  Video super-resolution via mixed spatial-temporal convolution and selective fusion. 108577
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  Hao Wang, Guosheng Lin, Steven C. H. Hoi, Chunyan Miao:
  Decomposing generation networks with structure prediction for recipe generation. 108578

Human movements and activities

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  Chen Wang, Feng Zhang, Xiatian Zhu, Shuzhi Sam Ge:
  Low-resolution human pose estimation. 108579

Face and biometrics

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  Yu-Hsuan Huang, Homer H. Chen:
  Deep face recognition for dim images. 108580

Special Section on Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization and Its Applications

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  Junchi Yu, Tingyang Xu, Yu Rong, Junzhou Huang, Ran He:
  Structure-aware conditional variational auto-encoder for constrained molecule optimization. 108581

Classifiers and classification

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  Shuaiyuan Du, Chaoyi Hong, Yinpeng Chen, Zhiguo Cao, Ziming Zhang:
  Class-attribute inconsistency learning for novelty detection. 108582

Machine learning

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  Shiluo Huang, Zheng Liu, Wei Jin, Ying Mu:
  Bag dissimilarity regularized multi-instance learning. 108583

Classifiers and classification

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  Siyu Liu, Xuehua Song, Zhongchen Ma, Ernest Domanaanmwi Ganaa, Xiangjun Shen:
  MoRE: Multi-output residual embedding for multi-label classification. 108584
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  Qin Li, Huihui He, Hong Lai, Tie Cai, Qianqian Wang, Quanxue Gao:
  Enhanced nuclear norm based matrix regression for occluded face recognition. 108585

Special Section on Meta-learning for Image/Video Segmentation

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  Shuai Luo, Yujie Li, Pengxiang Gao, Yichuan Wang, Seiichi Serikawa:
  Meta-seg: A survey of meta-learning for image segmentation. 108586

Objects and image analysis

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  Xingyu Jiang, Yifan Xia, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Jiayi Ma:
  Robust image matching via local graph structure consensus. 108588

Classifiers and classification

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  Chen Wang, Guohua Peng, Bernard De Baets:
  Class-specific discriminative metric learning for scene recognition. 108589
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  Yukun Zhang, Xiansheng Guo, Lin Li, Nirwan Ansari:
  Deep knowledge integration of heterogeneous features for domain adaptive SAR target recognition. 108590