Recent initiatives like the Million Book Project and Google Print Library Project have already archived several million books in digital format, and within a few years a significa...
Xiaoyue Wang, Lexiang Ye, Eamonn J. Keogh, Christi...
This paper proposes a new concept in hierarchical representations that exploits features of different granularity and specificity coming from all layers of the hierarchy. The conc...
Abstract. Figure/ground assignment is a key step in perceptual organization which assigns contours to one of the two abutting regions, providing information about occlusion and all...
A key ingredient in the design of visual object classification
systems is the identification of relevant class specific
aspects while being robust to intra-class variations. Whil...
Recently, evolutionary computation has been successfully integrated into statistical learning methods. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) using evolution strategies for its optimizati...