We review the history of modeling score distributions, focusing on the mixture of normal-exponential by investigating the theoretical as well as the empirical evidence supporting i...
Informal communication (e-mail, bulletin boards) poses a difficult learning environment because traditional grammatical and lexical information are noisy. Other information is nec...
In this paper we investigate alternative designs of a Radial Basis Function Network acting as classifier in a face recognition system. Input to the RBF network is the projections ...
Carlos E. Thomaz, Raul Queiroz Feitosa, Alvaro Vei...
This article contributes a generic model of topic models. To define the problem space, general characteristics for this class of models are derived, which give rise to a represent...
Tree-structured probabilistic models admit simple, fast inference. However, they are not well suited to phenomena such as occlusion, where multiple components of an object may dis...