A novel representation of fingerprint image based on Line-Segment features which are extracted from a bank of Gabor-filtered fingerprint images is proposed in this paper. In the feature matching stage, quadrangles constructed with Perpendicularity Line-Segments are used to obtain the alignment parameters. Compared with the existing representations of fingerprint, line-Segment based representati...

December 13-15, 2007: Firenze, Italy, ed. by C. Manfredi, ISBN 978 88-8453-673-3 (print) ISBN 978-88-8453-674-7 (online) © Firenze university press, 2007. Abstract: The approximate entropy of vowel phonation spectra has been used to reveal two normal voicing groups in healthy males. An analysis of the corresponding open and closed quotients for the groups shows the first with balanced quotients...

Sequential optimality conditions provide adequate theoretical tools to justify stopping criteria for nonlinear programming solvers. Here, nonsmooth approximate gradient projection and complementary approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions are presented. These sequential optimality conditions are satisfied by local minimizers of optimization problems independently of the fulfillment of constrai...