Search algorithms incorporating some form of topic model have a long history in information retrieval. For example, cluster-based retrieval has been studied since the 60s and has ...
Abstract—Following the trend of “segmentation for recognition”, we present 2LDA, a novel generative model to automatically segment an image in 2 segments, background and fore...
Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Vittorio Murino
Recently the "bag of words" model becomes popular in the approaches to object recognition. These approaches model an image as a collection of local patches called "...
—Inferring latent structures from observations helps to model and possibly also understand underlying data generating processes. A rich class of latent structures are the latent ...
This paper explores topic aspect (i.e., subtopic or facet) classification for English and Chinese collections. The evaluation model assumes a bilingual user who has found document...