To bridge the semantic gap in content-based image retrieval, detecting meaningful visual entities (e.g. faces, sky, foliage, buildings etc) in image content and classifying images...
NPCEditor is a system for building and deploying virtual characters capable of engaging a user in spoken dialog on a limited domain. The dialogue may take any form as long as the ...
This paper presents an approach for classifying students in order to predict their final grade based on features extracted from logged data in an education web-based system. A comb...
"Pattern recognition techniques are concerned with the theory and algorithms of putting abstract objects, e.g., measurements made on physical objects, into categories. Typical...
We present a hierarchical generative model for object recognition that is constructed by weakly-supervised learning. A key component is a novel, adaptive patch feature whose width...