Image annotation has been an active research topic in recent years due to its potentially large impact on both image understanding and Web image search. In this paper, we target a...
Xirong Li, Le Chen, Lei Zhang, Fuzong Lin, Wei-Yin...
—We propose an automatic approach to soft color segmentation, which produces soft color segments with an appropriate amount of overlapping and transparency essential to synthesiz...
We develop hierarchical, probabilistic models for objects, the parts composing them, and the visual scenes surrounding them. Our approach couples topic models originally developed...
Erik B. Sudderth, Antonio Torralba, William T. Fre...
We present a "parts and structure" model for object category recognition that can be learnt efficiently and in a semisupervised manner: the model is learnt from example ...
Abstract. The importance of spatial configuration information for object class recognition is widely recognized. Single isolated local appearance codes are often ambiguous. On the...