Huge amount of manual efforts are required to annotate large image/video archives with text annotations. Several recent works attempted to automate this task by employing supervis...
In many Web applications, such as blog classification and newsgroup classification, labeled data are in short supply. It often happens that obtaining labeled data in a new domain ...
Learning graphical models with hidden variables can offer semantic insights to complex data and lead to salient structured predictors without relying on expensive, sometime unatta...
In many image retrieval applications, the mapping between highlevel semantic concept and low-level features is obtained through a learning process. Traditional approaches often as...
Online image repositories such as Flickr contain hundreds of millions of images and are growing quickly. Along with that the needs for supporting indexing, searching and browsing ...