Estimating human age automatically via facial image analysis has lots of potential real-world applications, such as human computer interaction and multimedia communication. However...
Guodong Guo, Yun Fu, Charles R. Dyer, Thomas S. Hu...
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
Background: Support Vector Machines (SVMs) ? using a variety of string kernels ? have been successfully applied to biological sequence classification problems. While SVMs achieve ...
In this paper, the proposed LIPED (LIfe Profile based Event Detection) employs the concept of life profiles to predict the activeness of event for effective event detection. A gro...
We propose an online topic model for sequentially analyzing the time evolution of topics in document collections. Topics naturally evolve with multiple timescales. For example, so...