Rocchio’s similarity-based relevance feedback algorithm, one of the most important query reformation methods in information retrieval, is essentially an adaptive supervised lear...
In this paper we redefine and generalize the classic k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) voting rule in a Bayesian maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) framework. Therefore, annotated examples are u...
Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Ba...
Abstract. Shape features applied to object recognition has been actively studied since the beginning of the field in 1950s and remain a viable alternative to appearance based metho...
This paper presents a robust automatic shape classifier using modular wavelet networks (MWNs). A shape descriptor is constructed based on a combination of global geometric features...
Akshaya Kumar Mishra, Paul W. Fieguth, David A. Cl...
We study the standard retrieval task of ranking a fixed set of items given a previously unseen query and pose it as the half transductive ranking problem. The task is transductive...
Bing Bai, Jason Weston, David Grangier, Ronan Coll...