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Master Thesis
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Rotation-Invariant and Scale-Invariant Texture Representation for Image Retrieval and Recognition, M.Sc. Thesis, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Sao Paulo - Brazil, (Dec. 2007) [ZIP].

Journals
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Neucimar J. Leite & Ricardo da S. Torres, Wavelet-based Feature Extraction for Fingerprint Image Retrieval, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Volume 227, Issue 2, pp. 294-307, 2009 [URL].
 
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, João Paulo Papa, Neucimar J. Leite, Ricardo da S. Torres & Alexandre Falcão, Learning how to extract rotation-invariant and scale-invariant features from texture images, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Machine Learning in Image Processing, 2008 [URL].
 
Jan C. Beeck Pepper, Javier A. Montoya Zegarra & Percy Pari, UML eXchange Format, Magazine of the Peruvian Computer Society (SPC Magazine), vol. 2, no. 3, July - August 2003.

Conferences
Thiago V. Spina, Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Fabio Andrijauskas, Fábio Faria, Carlos Zampieri, Sheila Pinto-Cáceres, Tiago Carvalho & Alexandre Falcão. A comparative study among pattern classifiers in interactive image segmentation, In: Proc. XXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI'09), pp.268-275, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2009. [URL].
 
Thiago V. Spina, Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Paulo Miranda & Alexandre Falcão. Improving user control with minimum involvement in user-guided segmentation by image foresting transform, In: International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), pp.971-978, Muenster, Germany, September 2009 [URL].
 
Thiago V. Spina, Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Alexandre Falcão, & Paulo Miranda Fast interactive segmentation of natural images using the Image Foresting Transform, In: International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp.998-1005, Santorini, Greece, July 2009 [URL].
 
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, João Paulo Papa, Neucimar J. Leite, Ricardo da S. Torres & Alexandre Falcão, Novel approaches for exclusive and continuous fingerprint classification, In: Pacific Rim Symposium on Image Video and Technology, pp.386-397, Tokyo, Japan, January 2009 [URL].
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Jan C. Beeck Pepper, Neucimar J. Leite, Ricardo da S. Torres & Alexandre Falcão, Combining global with local texture information for image retrieval applications, In: IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'08), pp.148-153, Berkeley, California, USA, December 2008 [URL].
 
Ricardo da S. Torres, Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Cristiano D. Ferreira, Jefersson Santos, Otávio Penatti, Fernanda Andaló & Jurandy Almeida, Recuperação de Imagens: Desafios e Novos Rumos, In: SEMISH 2008, Belém, Pará, Brazil. XXXV Seminário Integrado de Software e Hardware, 2008.
 
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, João Paulo Papa, Neucimar J. Leite, Ricardo da S. Torres & Alexandre Falcão, Rotation-invariant Texture Recognition, In: Third International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'07), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, November 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 4842.
pp. 193-204 [PDF].
 
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Neucimar J. Leite & Ricardo da S. Torres, Rotation-invariant and Scale-invariant Steerable Pyramid Decomposition for Texture Image Retrieval, In: Proc. XX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI'07), pp.121-128, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, October 2007 [URL]

Workshops
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Neucimar J. Leite & Ricardo da S. Torres, Multiresolution features for fingerpint image retrieval, In: Proc. Workshop of Theses and Dissertations of the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI'06), Manaus, October 2006.
[Abstract] [BibTeX entry] [PDF]
 
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Neucimar J. Leite & Ricardo da S. Torres, Efficient and effective content-based image retrieval framework for fingerprint databases, In: Proc. Workshop of Theses and Dissertations of the XXI Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD'06), Florianopolis, October 2006.
[Abstract] [BibTeX entry] [PDF]

Technical Reports
Javier A. Montoya Zegarra, Neucimar J. Leite & Ricardo da S. Torres, Wavelet-based Feature Extraction for Fingerprint Image Retrieval, Technical Report, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, IC-06-12, September 2006.
[Abstract] [BibTeX entry] [PostScript+gzip]

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