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An increasing number of social networking platforms are giving users the option to endorse entities that they find appealing, such as videos, photos, or even other users. We defin...
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— In this paper, we present a new approach for automatic car detection from aerial images. The system exploits a robust machine learning method known as boosting for efficient c...
Thuy Thi Nguyen, Helmut Grabner, Horst Bischof, B....
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