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PAMI
2008
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14 years 11 days ago
Tied Factor Analysis for Face Recognition across Large Pose Differences
Face recognition algorithms perform very unreliably when the pose of the probe face is different from the gallery face: typical feature vectors vary more with pose than with identi...
Simon J. D. Prince, James H. Elder, Jonathan Warre...
MMS
2008
14 years 11 days ago
Semantic interactive image retrieval combining visual and conceptual content description
We address the challenge of semantic gap reduction for image retrieval through an improved SVM-based active relevance feedback framework, together with a hybrid visual and concept...
Marin Ferecatu, Nozha Boujemaa, Michel Crucianu
ICPR
2010
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
Images in News
A system, called NewsStand, is introduced that automatically extracts images from news articles. The system takes RSS feeds of news article and applies an online clustering algori...
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet
MM
2010
ACM
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14 years 18 days ago
Sonify your face: facial expressions for sound generation
We present a novel visual creativity tool that automatically recognizes facial expressions and tracks facial muscle movements in real time to produce sounds. The facial expression...
Roberto Valenti, Alejandro Jaimes, Nicu Sebe
NC
1998
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14 years 1 months ago
Auditory Stimulus Discrimination from MEG Data
We consider Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data in a signal detection framework. Our data set consists of responses evoked by the voiced syllables /b
Tuomas J. Lukka, Bernd Schoner, Alec Marantz
ESANN
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Improving a statistical language model by modulating the effects of context words
We show how to improve a state-of-the-art neural network language model that converts the previous "context" words into feature vectors and combines these feature vectors...
Zhang Yuecheng, Andriy Mnih, Geoffrey E. Hinton
ADC
2003
Springer
115views Database» more  ADC 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Document Classification via Structure Synopses
Information available in the Internet is frequently supplied simply as plain ascii text, structured according to orthographic and semantic conventions. Traditional document classi...
Liping Ma, John Shepherd, Anh Nguyen
IDMS
1997
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
System for Screening Objectionable Images Using Daubechies' Wavelets and Color Histograms
Abstract. This paper describes WIPETM (Wavelet Image Pornography Elimination), an algorithm capable of classifying an image as objectionable or benign. The algorithm uses a combina...
James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein
WSOM
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Optimal Combination of SOM Search in Best-Matching Units and Map Neighborhood
Abstract. The distribution of a class of objects, such as images depicting a specific topic, can be studied by observing the best-matching units (BMUs) of the objects’ feature v...
Mats Sjöberg, Jorma Laaksonen
MM
2003
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Foreground object detection from videos containing complex background
This paper proposes a novel method for detection and segmentation of foreground objects from a video which contains both stationary and moving background objects and undergoes bot...
Liyuan Li, Weimin Huang, Irene Y. H. Gu, Qi Tian