Several authors have suggested viewing boosting as a gradient descent search for a good fit in function space. At each iteration observations are re-weighted using the gradient of...
This paper introduces a semi-supervised distance metric learning algorithm which uses pair-wise equivalence (similarity and dissimilarity) constraints to improve the original dist...
The spatial distribution and time course of electrical signals in neurons have important theoretical and practical consequences. Because it is difficult to infer how neuronal form...
Nicholas T. Carnevale, Kenneth Y. Tsai, Brenda J. ...
Tasks of data mining and information retrieval depend on a good distance function for measuring similarity between data instances. The most effective distance function must be for...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning generic visual vocabulary. We use diffusion maps to au-tomatically learn a semantic visual vocabulary from ab-undant quantiz...
Jingen Liu (University of Central Florida), Yang Y...