Machine Learning: Theory and Applications Handbook of Statistics Series

1. The Sequential Bootstrap2. The Cross-Entropy Method for Estimation3. The Cross-Entropy Method for Optimization4. Probability Collectives in Optimization5. Bagging, Boosting, and Random Forests Using R6. Matching Score Fusion Methods7. Statistical Methods on Special Manifolds for Image and Video Understanding8. Dictionary-based Methods for Object Recognition9. Conditional Random Fields for Scene Labeling10. Shape Based Image Classification and Retrieval11. Visual Search: A Large-Scale Perspective12. Video Activity Recognition by Luminance Differential Trajectory and Aligned Projection Distance13. Soft Biometrics for Surveillance: An Overview14. A User Behavior Monitoring and Profiling Scheme for Masquerade Detection 15. Application of Bayesian Graphical Models to Iris Recognition16. Learning Algorithms for Document Layout Analysis17. Hidden Markov Models for Off-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition18. Machine Learning in Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition19. Manifold learning for the shape-based recognition of historical Arabic documents20. Query Suggestion with Large Scale Data

• Very relevant to current research challenges faced in various fields
• Self-contained reference to machine learning
• Emphasis on applications-oriented techniques