In many applications involving multi-media data, the definition of similarity between items is integral to several key tasks, including nearest-neighbor retrieval, classification,...
Writer independent handwriting recognition systems are limited in their accuracy, primarily due the large variations in writing styles of most characters. Samples from a single ch...
Since code revisions reflect the extent of human involvement in the software development process, revision histories reveal the interactions and interfaces between developers and...
We investigate the problem of automatically labelling faces of characters in TV or movie material with their names, using only weak supervision from automaticallyaligned subtitle ...
In this paper, it is shown how to extract a hypothesis with small risk from the ensemble of hypotheses generated by an arbitrary on-line learning algorithm run on an independent an...