In this paper, we consider the incoherence problem of the visual words in bag-of-words vocabularies. Different from existing work, which performs assignment of words based solely ...
We present a novel data-driven algorithm that leverages online image repositories such as Flickr for automatically generating tourist maps. Our hypothesis is that, given a large e...
A key component of a mobile robot system is the ability to localize itself accurately and, simultaneously, to build a map of the environment. Most of the existing algorithms are b...
This work is motivated by the need for visual information extraction and management in the growing field of content based image retrieval from medical archives. In particular it f...
Modeling and recognizing landmarks at world-scale is a
useful yet challenging task. There exists no readily available
list of worldwide landmarks. Obtaining reliable visual
mode...
Yantao Zheng, Ming Zhao 0003, Yang Song, Hartwig A...