Background: Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is an unsupervised learning technique that has been applied successfully in several fields, including signal processing, face re...
Abstract--With the increased presence of digital imaging devices, there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from pas...
Retrieving images from very large collections, using image content as a key, is becoming an important problem. Users prefer to ask for pictures using notions of content that are st...
David A. Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Thomas K. Leung,...
We have previously tried to explain perceptual inference and learning under a free-energy principle that pursues Helmholtz's agenda to understand the brain in terms of energy ...
Karl J. Friston, Jean Daunizeau, James Kilner, Ste...
Graphical models have become the basic framework for topic based probabilistic modeling. Especially models with latent variables have proved to be effective in capturing hidden str...