—Inspired by Weber’s Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, called the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that hum...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Chu He, Guoying Zhao, Mat...
Median-shift is a mode seeking algorithm that relies on
computing the median of local neighborhoods, instead of
the mean. We further combine median-shift with Locality
Sensitive...
Visual categorization problems, such as object classification or action recognition,
are increasingly often approached using a detection strategy: a classifier function
is first ...
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Lorenzo Torresani, Fernando de l...
In this paper, we present a method for the fast and accurate computation of the local cross-correlation of 3D vectorial data. Given spherical patches of 3D vector fields, our meth...
Detecting events from web resources has attracted increasing research interests in recent years. Our focus in this paper is to detect events from photos on Flickr, an Internet ima...