We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...
We describe a visualization application intended for operational use in formulating business strategy in the customer service arena. The visualization capability provided in this ...
Scale and affine-invariant local features have shown excellent performance in image matching, object and texture recognition. This paper optimizes keypoint detection to achieve sta...
Event/object classification and recognition is an extremely challenging problem, particularly when the query or stored data undergo an affine transformation due to camera motion. ...
Abstract. In this paper a rigorous mathematical framework of deterministic annealing and mean-field approximation is presented for a general class of partitioning, clustering and ...