One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
Following Daubert in 1993, forensic evidence based on fingerprints was first challenged in the 1999 case of USA vs. Byron Mitchell, and subsequently, in 20 other cases involving...
Many approaches to learning classifiers for structured objects (e.g., shapes) use generative models in a Bayesian framework. However, state-of-the-art classifiers for vectorial d...
Fine-grained categorization refers to the task of classifying objects that belong to the same basic-level class (e.g. different bird species) and share similar shape or visual app...
Our eyes collect a considerable amount of information when we use them to look at objects. In particular, eye movement allows us to gaze at an object and shows our level of intere...