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ICML
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Learning instance specific distances using metric propagation
In many real-world applications, such as image retrieval, it would be natural to measure the distances from one instance to others using instance specific distance which captures ...
De-Chuan Zhan, Ming Li, Yu-Feng Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Fast solvers and efficient implementations for distance metric learning
In this paper we study how to improve nearest neighbor classification by learning a Mahalanobis distance metric. We build on a recently proposed framework for distance metric lear...
Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Semi-supervised distance metric learning for Collaborative Image Retrieval
Typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) solutions with regular Euclidean metric usually cannot achieve satisfactory performance due to the semantic gap challenge. Hence, rele...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Wei Liu, Shih-Fu Chang
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Illumination and Person-Insensitive Head Pose Estimation Using Distance Metric Learning
Head pose estimation is an important task for many face analysis applications, such as face recognition systems and human computer interactions. In this paper we aim to address the...
Xianwang Wang, Xinyu Huang, Jizhou Gao, Ruigang Ya...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Learning the distance metric in a personal ontology
Personal ontology construction is the task of sorting through relevant materials, identifying the main topics and concepts, and organizing them to suit personal needs. Automatic c...
Hui Yang, Jamie Callan