People take more and more photos at different time and different events, however, these photos are often put into one giant folder and they are seldom annotated or organized. As t...
In this paper, we propose examining the participants in various meetings or communications within a social network, and using sequential inference based on these participant lists...
Abstract— We propose a novel hierarchical structured prediction approach for ranking images of faces based on attributes. We view ranking as a bipartite graph matching problem; l...
Coarse-to-fine approaches use sequences of increasingly fine approximations to control the complexity of inference and learning. These techniques are often used in NLP and visio...
Abstract—Contour features play an important role in object recognition. Psychological experiments have shown that maximum-curvature points are most distinctive along a contour [6...