Pattern Recognition, Volume 113

Volume 113, May 2021

Special Section on AI for Combating COVID-2019

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  Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, M. Shamim Hossain:
  MetaCOVID: A Siamese neural network framework with contrastive loss for n-shot diagnosis of COVID-19 patients. 107700

Clustering

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  Jie Zhou, Witold Pedrycz, Xiaodong Yue, Can Gao, Zhihui Lai, Jun Wan:
  Projected fuzzy C-means clustering with locality preservation. 107748
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  Chong Peng, Qian Zhang, Zhao Kang, Chenglizhao Chen, Qiang Cheng:
  Kernel two-dimensional ridge regression for subspace clustering. 107749
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  Chaoyu Gong, Zhi-gang Su, Pei-hong Wang, Qian Wang:
  An evidential clustering algorithm by finding belief-peaks and disjoint neighborhoods. 107751

Objects and image analysis

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  Qiang Zhang, Fan Wang, Yongjiang Luo, Jungong Han:
  Exploring a unified low rank representation for multi-focus image fusion. 107752

Machine learning

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  Jiani Liu, Ce Zhu, Zhen Long, Huyan Huang, Yipeng Liu:
  Low-rank tensor ring learning for multi-linear regression. 107753

Face and biometrics

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  Shishi Qiao, Ruiping Wang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen:
  Deep video code for efficient face video retrieval. 107754

Objects and image analysis

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  Yang Zheng, Hong Fu, Ruimin Li, Tai-Chiu Hsung, Zongxi Song, Desheng Wen:
  Deep neural network oriented evolutionary parametric eye modeling. 107755
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  Qian Yu, Yang Gao, Yefeng Zheng, Jianbing Zhu, Yakang Dai, Yinghuan Shi:
  Crossover-Net: Leveraging vertical-horizontal crossover relation for robust medical image segmentation. 107756
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  Zhou Huang, Huai-Xin Chen, Tao Zhou, Yun-Zhi Yang, Chang-Yin Wang, Bi-Yuan Liu:
  Contrast-weighted dictionary learning based saliency detection for VHR optical remote sensing images. 107757

Kernel methods and manifold learning

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  Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Jie Zhou, Yudong Chen, Zhihui Lai, Qinghua Hu:
  Low-rank adaptive graph embedding for unsupervised feature extraction. 107758

Various applications

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  Francisco Barranco, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Eduardo Ros:
  Joint direct estimation of 3D geometry and 3D motion using spatio temporal gradients. 107759
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  Xiwu Zhang, Lei Wang, Yan Su:
  Visual place recognition: A survey from deep learning perspective. 107760

Special Section on Explainable Deep Learning for Efficient and Robust Pattern Recognition

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  Hongyuan Yu, Yan Huang, Lihong Pi, Chengquan Zhang, Xuan Li, Liang Wang:
  End-to-end video text detection with online tracking. 107791

Machine learning

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  Yu Song, Changsheng Chen:
  MPPCANet: A feedforward learning strategy for few-shot image classification. 107792
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  Chao Han, Deyun Zhou, Yu Xie, Maoguo Gong, Yu Lei, Jiao Shi:
  Collaborative representation with curriculum classifier boosting for unsupervised domain adaptation. 107802

Special Section on Weakly Supervised Learning on Big Vision Data

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  Yanli Ji, Yang Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Tatsuya Harada:
  View-invariant action recognition via Unsupervised AttentioN Transfer (UANT). 107807

Special Section on Pattern Recognition Methods for Bridging the Vision-Language Gap in Multimodal Data Analysis

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  Jianlong Wu, Xingxu Xie, Liqiang Nie, Zhouchen Lin, Hongbin Zha:
  Reconstruction regularized low-rank subspace learning for cross-modal retrieval. 107813

Classifiers and classification

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  Yongcong Luo, Jing Ma, Chai Kiat Yeo:
  BCMM: A novel post-based augmentation representation for early rumour detection on social media. 107818

Machine learning

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  Pablo Moreno-Muñoz, David Ramírez, Antonio Artés-Rodríguez:
  Change-point detection in hierarchical circadian models. 107820

Features

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  Morteza Ghahremani, Yitian Zhao, Bernard Tiddeman, Yonghuai Liu:
  Interwoven texture-based description of interest points in images. 107821

Special Section on AI for Combating COVID-2019

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  Baofu Fang, Gaofei Mei, Xiaohui Yuan, Le Wang, Zaijun Wang, Junyang Wang:
  Visual SLAM for robot navigation in healthcare facility. 107822

Special Section on Graph-based Methods for Large Scale Financial and Business Data Analysis

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  Zongxi Li, Haoran Xie, Guandong Xu, Qing Li, Mingming Leng, Chi Zhou:
  Towards purchase prediction: A transaction-based setting and a graph-based method leveraging price information. 107824

Special Section on Deep relational learning in visual recognition, understanding, and reasoning

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  Hanliang Jiang, Fuhao Shen, Fei Gao, Weidong Han:
  Learning efficient, explainable and discriminative representations for pulmonary nodules classification. 107825

Special Section on AI for Combating COVID-2019

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  Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao, Tao Zhou, Jinming Dong, Yu Zhang:
  Momentum contrastive learning for few-shot COVID-19 diagnosis from chest CT images. 107826

Special Section on Deep relational learning in visual recognition, understanding, and reasoning

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  Xin Xu, Lei Liu, Xiaolong Zhang, Weili Guan, Ruimin Hu:
  Rethinking data collection for person re-identification: active redundancy reduction. 107827

Special Section on AI for Combating COVID-2019

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  Kelei He, Wei Zhao, Xingzhi Xie, Wen Ji, Mingxia Liu, Zhenyu Tang, Yinghuan Shi, Feng Shi, Yang Gao, Jun Liu, Junfeng Zhang, Dinggang Shen:
  Synergistic learning of lung lobe segmentation and hierarchical multi-instance classification for automated severity assessment of COVID-19 in CT images. 107828

Special Section on Pattern Recognition Methods for Bridging the Vision-Language Gap in Multimodal Data Analysis

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  Ning Xu, Hongshuo Tian, Yanhui Wang, Weizhi Nie, Dan Song, An-An Liu, Wu Liu:
  Coupled-dynamic learning for vision and language: Exploring Interaction between different tasks. 107829

Special Section on Explainable Deep Learning for Efficient and Robust Pattern Recognition

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  Jacson Rodrigues Correia da Silva, Rodrigo Ferreira Berriel, Claudine Badue, Alberto F. De Souza, Thiago Oliveira-Santos:
  Copycat CNN: Are random non-Labeled data enough to steal knowledge from black-box models? 107830

Special Section on Weakly Supervised Learning on Big Vision Data

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  Xiaoyu Zhang, Haichao Shi, Changsheng Li, Peng Li, Zekun Li, Peng Ren:
  Weakly-supervised action localization via embedding-modeling iterative optimization. 107831

Handwriting and document analysis

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  Ahmed Cheikhrouhou, Yousri Kessentini, Slim Kanoun:
  Multi-task learning for simultaneous script identification and keyword spotting in document images. 107832

Machine learning

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  Jiaqi Lv, Tianran Wu, Cheng-Lun Peng, Yunpeng Liu, Ning Xu, Xin Geng:
  Compact learning for multi-label classification. 107833

Features

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  Yongjun Zhang, Dong Wei, Yansheng Li:
  AG3line: Active grouping and geometry-gradient combined validation for fast line segment extraction. 107834

Special Section on Deep relational learning in visual recognition, understanding, and reasoning

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  Aitzol Elu, Gorka Azkune, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Aitor Soroa, Eneko Agirre:
  Inferring spatial relations from textual descriptions of images. 107847