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CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
Two-person interaction detection using body-pose features and multiple instance learning
Human activity recognition has potential to impact a wide range of applications from surveillance to human computer interfaces to content based video retrieval. Recently, the rapi...
Kiwon Yun, Jean Honorio, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, ...
TOG
2012
245views Communications» more  TOG 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
How do humans sketch objects?
Humans have used sketching to depict our visual world since prehistoric times. Even today, sketching is possibly the only rendering technique readily available to all humans. This...
Mathias Eitz, James Hays, Marc Alexa
JMLR
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A metric learning perspective of SVM: on the relation of LMNN and SVM
Support Vector Machines, SVMs, and the Large Margin Nearest Neighbor algorithm, LMNN, are two very popular learning algorithms with quite different learning biases. In this paper...
Huyen Do, Alexandros Kalousis, Jun Wang, Adam Wozn...
AUSAI
2011
Springer
13 years 13 days ago
Automatically Measuring the Quality of User Generated Content in Forums
The amount of user generated content on the Web is growing and identifying high quality content in a timely manner has become a problem. Many forums rely on its users to manually r...
Kevin Chai, Chen Wu, Vidyasagar Potdar, Pedram Hay...
AAAI
2011
13 years 14 days ago
Improving Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines Through Unlabeled Instances Selection
Semi-supervised support vector machines (S3VMs) are a kind of popular approaches which try to improve learning performance by exploiting unlabeled data. Though S3VMs have been fou...
Yu-Feng Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou
ICCV
2011
IEEE
13 years 14 days ago
Viewpoint-Aware Object Detection and Pose Estimation
We describe an approach to category-level detection and viewpoint estimation for rigid 3D objects from single 2D images. In contrast to many existing methods, we directly integrat...
Daniel Glasner, Meirav Galun, Sharon Alpert, Ronen...
SDM
2011
SIAM
232views Data Mining» more  SDM 2011»
13 years 3 months ago
A Sequential Dual Method for Structural SVMs
In many real world prediction problems the output is a structured object like a sequence or a tree or a graph. Such problems range from natural language processing to computationa...
Shirish Krishnaj Shevade, Balamurugan P., S. Sunda...
EUROCON
2011
281views Hardware» more  EUROCON 2011»
13 years 4 months ago
Browsing videos by automatically detected audio events
—This paper focuses on Audio Event Detection (AED), a research area which aims to substantially enhance the access to audio in multimedia content. With the ever-growing quantity ...
Virginia Barbosa, Thomas Pellegrini, Miguel Bugalh...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Learning sparse models for a dynamic Bayesian network classifier of protein secondary structure
Background: Protein secondary structure prediction provides insight into protein function and is a valuable preliminary step for predicting the 3D structure of a protein. Dynamic ...
Zafer Aydin, Ajit Singh, Jeff Bilmes, William Staf...
AI
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Using a Heterogeneous Dataset for Emotion Analysis in Text
In this paper, we adopt a supervised machine learning approach to recognize six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise) using a heterogeneous emotion...
Soumaya Chaffar, Diana Inkpen