: The k nearest neighbor classification (k-NN) is a very simple and popular method for classification. However, it suffers from a major drawback, it assumes constant local class po...
We propose to use high-level visual information to improve illuminant estimation. Several illuminant estimation approaches are applied to compute a set of possible illuminants. Fo...
Joost van de Weijer, Cordelia Schmid, Jakob J. Ver...
We propose a new technique for fusing multiple cues to robustly segment an object from its background in video sequences that suffer from abrupt changes of both illumination and p...
Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Alberto Sanfeliu, Dimitris...
The concept of the Logarithm of the Odds (LogOdds) is frequently used in areas such as artificial neural networks, economics, and biology. Here, we utilize LogOdds for a shape repr...
Kilian M. Pohl, John W. Fisher III, Martha Elizabe...
Multinomial distributions over words are frequently used to model topics in text collections. A common, major challenge in applying all such topic models to any text mining proble...