Privacy is an enormous problem in online social networking sites. While sites such as Facebook allow users fine-grained control over who can see their profiles, it is difficult ...
Distance functions are an important component in many learning applications. However, the correct function is context dependent, therefore it is advantageous to learn a distance f...
Recognition-by-components is one of the possible strategies proposed for object recognition by the brain, but little is known about the low-level mechanism by which the parts of o...
Using statistical textons for texture classification has shown great success recently. The maximal response 8 (MR8) method, which extracts an 8-dimensional feature set from 38 filt...
Recent works in object recognition often use visual words, i.e. vector quantized local descriptors extracted from the images. In this paper we present a novel method to build such ...