Directed graphical models with one layer of observed random variables and one or more layers of hidden random variables have been the dominant modelling paradigm in many research ...
We consider the problem of modeling annotated data—data with multiple types where the instance of one type (such as a caption) serves as a description of the other type (such as...
Scene content understanding facilitates a large number of applications, ranging from content-based image retrieval to other multimedia applications. Material detection refers to t...
Abstract--The automatic discovery of group conversational behavior is a relevant problem in social computing. In this paper, we present an approach to address this problem by defin...
This paper presents an interdisciplinary investigation of statistical information retrieval (IR) techniques for protein identification from tandem mass spectra, a challenging probl...