Which one comes first: segmentation or recognition? We propose a unified framework for carrying out the two simultaneously and without supervision. The framework combines a fle...
In this paper, we present a novel approach to classify texture collections. This approach does not require experts to provide annotated training set. Given the image collection, w...
Lei Qin, Qingfang Zheng, Shuqiang Jiang, Qingming ...
Many photo agencies use the web to sell access to their image collections. Despite significant security measures, images may be stolen and distributed, making it necessary to det...
Markov networks are an effective tool for the difficult but important problem of recognizing people in consumer image collections. Given a small set of labeled faces, we seek to ...
The widespread availability of digital cameras and ubiquitous Internet access have facilitated the creation of massive image collections. These collections can be highly interconn...
The automatic computation of features for content-based image retrieval still has difficulties to represent the concepts the user has in mind. Whenever an additional learning stra...