Face verification has many potential applications including
filtering and ranking image/video search results on
celebrities. Since these images/videos are taken under uncontrolle...
Xiaogang Wang (MIT), Cha Zhang (Microsoft Research...
AdaBoost and support vector machines (SVM) algorithms are commonly used in the field of object recognition. As classifiers, their classification performance is sensitive to affect...
A multiclass classification problem can be reduced to a collection of binary problems with the aid of a coding matrix. The quality of the final solution, which is an ensemble of b...
Term-based representations of documents have found widespread use in information retrieval. However, one of the main shortcomings of such methods is that they largely disregard le...
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...