Abstract. Discriminative and generative methods provide two distinct approaches to machine learning classification. One advantage of generative approaches is that they naturally mo...
Automated annotation of digital pictures has been a highly challenging problem for computer scientists since the invention of computers. The capability of annotating pictures by c...
We study the problem of automatically assigning appropriate music pieces to a picture or, in general, series of pictures. This task, commonly referred to as soundtrack suggestion,...
Motivated by the success of parts based representations in face detection we have attempted to address some of the problems associated with applying such a philosophy to the task ...
A variety of approaches exist to the automatic retrieval of the key part within a musical piece - its thumbnail. Most of these however do not use adequate modeling with respect to ...