Viola and Jones (VJ) cascade classification methods have proven to be very successful in detecting objects belonging to a single class -- e.g., faces. This paper addresses the mor...
Ahmed M. Elgammal, Ramana Isukapalli, Russell Grei...
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) for Kmeans clustering. Instead of the widely applied stringof-group-numbers encoding, we encode the prototypes of the clusters into th...
Increasing applications are demanding effective and efficient support to perform retrieval in large collections of digital images. The work presented here is an early stage resear...
Giovanna Castellano, Gianluca Sforza, Maria Alessa...
User modeling for information retrieval has mostly been studied to improve the effectiveness of information access in centralized repositories. In this paper we explore user model...
Recently, the bag of visual words based image representation is getting popular in object category recognition. Since the codebook of the bag-of-words (BOW) based image representa...
Chunjie Zhang, Jing Liu, Yi Ouyang, Qi Tian, Hanqi...