This article proposes a method for learning object templates
composed of local sketches and local textures, and
investigates the relative importance of the sketches and textures
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Haifeng Gong, Song Chun Zhu, Ying Nian Wu, Zhangzh...
Edge detection is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet it remains a very challenging task. It is difficult since often the decision for an edge cannot be made ...
For many supervised learning problems, we possess prior knowledge about which features yield similar information about the target variable. In predicting the topic of a document, ...
Ted Sandler, John Blitzer, Partha Pratim Talukdar,...
Visual codebook based quantization of robust appearance descriptors extracted from local image patches is an effective means of capturing image statistics for texture analysis and...
Objects in the world can be arranged into a hierarchy based on their semantic meaning (e.g. organism ? animal ? feline ? cat). What about defining a hierarchy based on the visual ...
Josef Sivic, Bryan C. Russell, Andrew Zisserman, W...