Handbook of Statistics: Machine Learning: Theory and Applications

Content: 
Handbook of Statistics
Pages i-iii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors: Vol. 31
Pages xi-xiii

Preface to Handbook Volume – 31
Page xv

Introduction
Pages xvii-xxiii

Chapter 1 - The Sequential Bootstrap
Pages 2-18
P.K. Pathak, C.R. Rao

Chapter 2 - The Cross-Entropy Method for Estimation
Pages 19-34
Dirk P. Kroese, Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Peter W. Glynn

Chapter 3 - The Cross-Entropy Method for Optimization
Pages 35-59
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese, Reuven Y. Rubinstein, Pierre L’Ecuyer

Chapter 4 - Probability Collectives in Optimization
Pages 61-99
David H. Wolpert, Stefan R. Bieniawski, Dev G. Rajnarayan

Chapter 5 - Bagging, Boosting, and Random Forests Using R
Pages 101-149
Hansen Bannerman-Thompson, M. Bhaskara Rao, Subramanyam Kasala

Chapter 6 - Matching Score Fusion Methods
Pages 151-175
Sergey Tulyakov, Venu Govindaraju

Chapter 7 - Statistical Methods on Special Manifolds for Image and Video Understanding
Pages 178-201
Pavan Turaga, Rama Chellappa, Anuj Srivastava

Chapter 8 - Dictionary-Based Methods for Object Recognition∗
Pages 203-225
Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa

Chapter 9 - Conditional Random Fields for Scene Labeling
Pages 227-247
Ifeoma Nwogu, Venu Govindaraju

Chapter 10 - Shape-Based Image Classification and Retrieval
Pages 249-267
N. Mohanty, A. Lee-St. John, R. Manmatha, T.M. Rath

Chapter 11 - Visual Search: A Large-Scale Perspective
Pages 269-297
Robinson Piramuthu, Anurag Bhardwaj, Wei Di, Neel Sundaresan

Chapter 12 - Video Activity Recognition by Luminance Differential Trajectory and Aligned Projection Distance
Pages 300-325
Haomian Zheng, Zhu Li, Yun Fu, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Jane You

Chapter 13 - Soft Biometrics for Surveillance: An Overview
Pages 327-352
D.A. Reid, S. Samangooei, C. Chen, M.S. Nixon, A. Ross

Chapter 14 - A User Behavior Monitoring and Profiling Scheme for Masquerade Detection
Pages 353-379
Ashish Garg, Shambhu Upadhyaya, Kevin Kwiat

Chapter 15 - Application of Bayesian Graphical Models to Iris Recognition
Pages 381-398
B.V.K. Vijaya Kumar, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti, Jonathon M. Smereka, Jason Thornton, Marios Savvides

Chapter 16 - Learning Algorithms for Document Layout Analysis
Pages 400-419
Simone Marinai

Chapter 17 - Hidden Markov Models for Off-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition
Pages 421-442
Andreas Fischer, Volkmar Frinken, Horst Bunke

Chapter 18 - Machine Learning in Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition
Pages 443-469
Utkarsh Porwal, Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur

Chapter 19 - Manifold Learning for the Shape-Based Recognition of Historical Arabic Documents
Pages 471-491
Mohamed Cheriet, Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Ehsan Arabnejad, Guoqiang Zhong

Chapter 20 - Query Suggestion with Large Scale Data
Pages 493-518
Nish Parikh, Gyanit Singh, Neel Sundaresan

Subject Index
Pages 519-525