Support Vector Machines: Theory and Applications

From the contents: Support Vector Machines – An Introduction.- Multiple Model Estimation for Nonlinear Classification.- Componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines.- Active Support Vector Learning with Statistical Queries.- Local Learning vs. Global Learning: An Introduction to Maxi-Min Margin Machine.- Active-Set Methods for Support Vector Machines.- Theoretical and Practical Model Selection Methods for Support Vector Classifiers.- Adaptive Discriminant and Quasiconformal Kernel Nearest Neighbor Classification.- Improving the Performance of the Support Vector Machine: Two Geometrical Scaling Methods.- An Accelerated Robust Support Vector Machine Algorithm.- Fuzzy Support Vector Machines with Automatic Membership Setting.- Iterative Single Data Algorithm for Training Kernel Machines from Huge Data Sets: Theory and Performance.- Kernel Discriminant Learning with Application to Face Recognition.- Fast Color Texture-based Object Detection in Images: Application to License Plate Localization.