We assess the applicability of several popular learning methods for the problem of recognizing generic visual categories with invariance to pose, lighting, and surrounding clutter...
Active learning has been shown as a key technique for improving content-based image retrieval (CBIR) performance. Among various methods, support vector machine (SVM) active learni...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Michael R....
We present a novel structure learning method, Max Margin AND/OR Graph (MM-AOG), for parsing the human body into parts and recovering their poses. Our method represents the human b...
Long Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, Yifei Lu, Chenxi Lin, Alan...
We have created the first image search engine based entirely on faces. Using simple text queries such as "smiling men with blond hair and mustaches," users can search thr...
Classifying materials from their appearance is a challenging problem, especially if illumination and pose conditions are permitted to change: highlights and shadows caused by 3D st...
Eric Hayman, Barbara Caputo, Mario Fritz, Jan-Olof...