We describe an unsupervised method to segment objects detected in images using a novel variant of an interest point template, which is very efficient to train and evaluate. Once a...
Himanshu Arora, Nicolas Loeff, David A. Forsyth, N...
This paper studies global ranking problem by learning to rank methods. Conventional learning to rank methods are usually designed for `local ranking', in the sense that the r...
Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu, Xu-Dong Zhang, De-Sheng Wang...
We present a new semi-supervised training procedure for conditional random fields (CRFs) that can be used to train sequence segmentors and labelers from a combination of labeled a...
Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-Hoon Lee, Russell Gre...
The detection of prosodic characteristics is an important aspect of both speech synthesis and speech recognition. Correct placement of pitch accents aids in more natural sounding ...
This paper describes a new toolkit - SCARF - for doing speech recognition with segmental conditional random fields. It is designed to allow for the integration of numerous, possib...