In this work we introduce a new distance estimation technique by boosting and we apply it to the K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier (KNN). Instead of applying AdaBoost to a typical cla...
Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases. For computers the equivalent of `society' is...
A novel algorithm is proposed to learn pattern similarities for texture image retrieval. Similar patterns in di erent texture classes are grouped into a cluster in the feature spac...
Head pose estimation is an important task for many face analysis applications, such as face recognition systems and human computer interactions. In this paper we aim to address the...
The importance of learning distance functions is gradually being acknowledged by the machine learning community, and different techniques are suggested that can successfully learn ...