We consider visual category recognition in the framework of measuring similarities, or equivalently perceptual distances, to prototype examples of categories. This approach is qui...
Alexander C. Berg, Hao Zhang 0003, Jitendra Malik,...
A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...
Abstract. We introduce the use of appearance-based features, and tangent distance or the image distortion model to account for image variability within the hidden Markov model emis...
Philippe Dreuw, Daniel Keysers, Thomas Deselaers, ...
The MPEG-7 dominant color descriptor (DCD) is an effective, compact, and intuitive representation of salient colors in an image region and is very useful for contentbased image re...
One of the key problems in appearance-based vision is understanding how to use a set of labeled images to classify new images. Classification systems that can model human performa...