PAC-MDP algorithms approach the exploration-exploitation problem of reinforcement learning agents in an effective way which guarantees that with high probability, the algorithm pe...
We present a mobile product recognition system for the camera-phone. By snapping a picture of a product with a camera-phone, the user can retrieve online information of the produc...
Sam S. Tsai, David M. Chen, Vijay Chandrasekhar, G...
The problem of joint modeling the text and image components of multimedia documents is studied. The text component is represented as a sample from a hidden topic model, learned wi...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Cov...
While there have been research efforts in organizing largescale web videos into topics, efficient browsing of web video topics remains a challenging problem not yet addressed. The...
Juan Cao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yongdong Zhang, Dongming ...
Discovering common objects that appear frequently in a number of images is a challenging problem, due to (1) the appearance variations of the same common object and (2) the enormo...