Pattern Recognition Class Talks - 2004

"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."

Mark Twain

March 22

1. Jean Herbiere - Mine Detection
   

March 24

1. Michel Langlois - E-mail Classification
2. Marc Lanctot - Automatic Soccer Video Analysis and Summarization
   
3. Philippe Kunzle - Recognition of Pedestrians
4. Danielle Macnevin - Facial Expression Recognition: A Clustering Based Approach

March 29 - Second Midterm Exam

March 31

1. Andrew Royes - Speaker Verification Using Committee Neural Networks
2. Jeremie Juban - Gesture Recognition Using Bezier Curves
3. Shu Yue Yun - Document Image Recognition Based on Template Matching of Component Block Projections
4. Lili Sang - Establishing Handwriting Individuality Using Pattern Recognition Techniques

April 5

1. Frank Riggi - Bayesian Reasoning on Qualitative Descriptions from Images and Speech
2. Yunjun Liu - Jigsaw-puzzle Solving with Curve Matching
3. Sumedha Ahuja - A Correlation-Based Fingerprint Verification System
4. course evaluations

April 7

1. Juan Zhang - Discriminant Isometric Mapping for Face Recognition
2. Edith Law - Automatic Extraction and Description of Human Gait Models for Recognition Purposes
3. Seung Hyun Park - Singer  Identification in Popular Music
   
4. Hani Ezzadeen - Multispectral Magnetic Resonance Image Analysis Using Principal Component and Linear Discriminant Analysis

April 13  

1. Junaed Sattar - Device Control using Gestures Sensed from EMG
2. Justin Colannino - Measuring Music Similarity from Music Scores
3. Rola Harmouche - Classifications of Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis
4. Rafa Absar - Frontal-View Face Detection and Facial Feature Using Color and Morphological Operations