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PR
2007
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An elastic partial shape matching technique
We consider the problem of partial shape matching. We propose to transform shapes into sequences and utilize an algorithm that determines a subsequence of a target sequence that b...
Longin Jan Latecki, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Qia...
PR
2007
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Active learning for image retrieval with Co-SVM
In relevance feedback algorithms, selective sampling is often used to reduce the cost of labeling and explore the unlabeled data. In this paper, we proposed an active learning alg...
Jian Cheng, Kongqiao Wang
PPL
2007
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Scheduling Algorithms for Data Redistribution and Load-Balancing on Master-Slave Platforms
In this work we are interested in the problem of scheduling and redistributing data on master-slave platforms. We consider the case were the workers possess initial loads, some of...
Loris Marchal, Veronika Rehn, Yves Robert, Fr&eacu...
PAMI
2007
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Tracking Deforming Objects Using Particle Filtering for Geometric Active Contours
—Tracking deforming objects involves estimating the global motion of the object and its local deformations as a function of time. Tracking algorithms using Kalman filters or part...
Yogesh Rathi, Namrata Vaswani, Allen Tannenbaum, A...
PAMI
2007
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Weighted Graph Cuts without Eigenvectors A Multilevel Approach
—A variety of clustering algorithms have recently been proposed to handle data that is not linearly separable; spectral clustering and kernel k-means are two of the main methods....
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Yuqiang Guan, Brian Kulis
PAMI
2007
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An Efficient Multimodal 2D-3D Hybrid Approach to Automatic Face Recognition
—We present a fully automatic face recognition algorithm and demonstrate its performance on the FRGC v2.0 data. Our algorithm is multimodal (2D and 3D) and performs hybrid (featu...
Ajmal S. Mian, Mohammed Bennamoun, Robyn A. Owens
PAMI
2007
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Gaussian Mean-Shift Is an EM Algorithm
The mean-shift algorithm, based on ideas proposed by Fukunaga and Hostetler (1975), is a hill-climbing algorithm on the density defined by a finite mixture or a kernel density e...
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán
PAMI
2007
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Toward Objective Evaluation of Image Segmentation Algorithms
—Unsupervised image segmentation is an important component in many image understanding algorithms and practical vision systems. However, evaluation of segmentation algorithms thu...
Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Caroline Pantofaru, Martial ...
PAMI
2007
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Appearance Characterization of Linear Lambertian Objects, Generalized Photometric Stereo, and Illumination-Invariant Face Recogn
Traditional photometric stereo algorithms employ a Lambertian reflectance model with a varying albedo field and involve the appearance of only one object. In this paper, we gene...
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Gaurav Aggarwal, Rama Chellapp...
PAMI
2007
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Graph Embedding and Extensions: A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction
—Over the past few decades, a large family of algorithms—supervised or unsupervised; stemming from statistics or geometry theory—has been designed to provide different soluti...
Shuicheng Yan, Dong Xu, Benyu Zhang, HongJiang Zha...