Abstract. For a number of problems, such as ontology learning or image labeling, we need to handle uncertainty and inconsistencies in an appropriate way. Fuzzy and Probabilistic De...
Stefan Scheglmann, Carsten Saathoff, Steffen Staab
This paper presents a multi-scale generative model for representing animate shapes and extracting meaningful parts of objects. The model assumes that animate shapes (2D simple clo...
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
We consider the problem of recognizing 3-D objects from 2-D images using geometric models and assuming different viewing angles and positions. Our goal is to recognize and localize...
This paper shows that the accuracy of learned text classifiers can be improved by augmenting a small number of labeled training documents with a large pool of unlabeled documents. ...
Kamal Nigam, Andrew McCallum, Sebastian Thrun, Tom...