This paper develops an unsupervised discriminant projection (UDP) technique for feature extraction. UDP takes the local and non-local information into account, seeking to find a p...
Judging similarities among objects, events, and experiences is one of the most basic cognitive abilities, allowing us to make predictions and generalizations. The main assumption ...
—Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a signicant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images a...
Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev S...
Domain specific entity recognition often relies on domain-specific knowledge to improve system performance. However, such knowledge often suffers from limited domain portability a...
A number of recent systems for unsupervised featurebased learning of object models take advantage of cooccurrence: broadly, they search for clusters of discriminative features tha...