Traditional content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems often fail to meet a user's need due to the `semantic gap' between the extracted features of the systems and the...
We present a new method for multi-object segmentation in a maximum a posteriori estimation framework. Our method is motivated by the observation that neighboring or coupling objec...
In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative language model, which can be applied quite generally. Compared to the well known N-gram language models, discriminative language m...
—The use of vital signs as a biometric is a potentially viable approach in a variety of application scenarios such as security and personalized health care. In this paper, a nove...
Codebook-based representations are widely employed in the classification of complex objects such as images and documents. Most previous codebook-based methods construct a single c...
Wei Zhang, Akshat Surve, Xiaoli Fern, Thomas G. Di...