Since its birth, more than five decades ago, one of the biggest challenges of artificial intelligence remained the building of intelligent machines. Despite amazing advancements, ...
Histogram Intersection (HI) kernel has been recently introduced for image recognition tasks. The HI kernel is proved to be positive definite and thus can be used in Support Vector ...
Sabri Boughorbel, Jean-Philippe Tarel and Nozha Bo...
Extending recognition to uncontrolled situations is a key challenge for practical face recognition systems. Finding efficient and discriminative facial appearance descriptors is c...
Close-up (CU) is a photographic technique which tightly frames a person or an object. In movies, it is applied to guide audience attention and to evoke audience emotion. In this p...
Huiying Liu, Min Xu, Qingming Huang, Jesse S. Jin,...
Background: Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a feature extraction method that has the property of intuitive part-based representation of the original features. This uniqu...