In traditional Information Retrieval (IR), user profiles are often represented by keyword/concepts space vectors or by some predefined categories. Unfortunately, this data is often...
This paper addresses the problem of discovering conversational group dynamics from nonverbal cues extracted from thin-slices of interaction. We first propose and analyze a novel t...
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
We consider two scenarios of naming people in databases of news photos with captions: (i) finding faces of a single person, and (ii) assigning names to all faces. We combine an in...
Matthieu Guillaumin, Thomas Mensink, Jakob J. Verb...
In recent years Kernel Principal Component Analysis (Kernel PCA) has gained much attention because of its ability to capture nonlinear image features, which are particularly impor...