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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
SITS: A Hierarchical Nonparametric Model using Speaker Identity for Topic Segmentation in Multiparty Conversations
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
CORR
2002
Springer
126views Education» more  CORR 2002»
14 years 7 days ago
Unsupervised Discovery of Morphemes
We present two methods for unsupervised segmentation of words into morphemelike units. The model utilized is especially suited for languages with a rich morphology, such as Finnis...
Mathias Creutz, Krista Lagus
NIPS
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes Using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes
We develop a statistical framework for the simultaneous, unsupervised segmentation and discovery of visual object categories from image databases. Examining a large set of manuall...
Erik B. Sudderth, Michael I. Jordan
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Geometrically Guided Fuzzy C-Means Clustering for Multivariate Image Segmentation
Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering is an unsupervised clustering technique and is often used for the unsupervised segmentation of multivariate images. The segmentation of the image in...
J. C. Noordam, W. H. A. M. Van den Broek, Lutgarde...
CIVR
2004
Springer
166views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Object Segmentation and Ontologies for MPEG-2 Video Indexing and Retrieval
Abstract. A novel approach to object-based video indexing and retrieval is presented, employing an object segmentation algorithm for the real-time, unsupervised segmentation of com...
Vasileios Mezaris, Michael G. Strintzis
KES
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Random Germs and Stochastic Watershed for Unsupervised Multispectral Image Segmentation
This paper extends the use of stochastic watershed, recently introduced by Angulo and Jeulin [1], to unsupervised segmentation of multispectral images. Several probability density ...
Guillaume Noyel, Jesús Angulo, Dominique Je...
ACCV
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Natural Image Segmentation with Adaptive Texture and Boundary Encoding
We present a novel algorithm for unsupervised segmentation of natural images that harnesses the principle of minimum description length (MDL). Our method is based on observations ...
Shankar Rao, Hossein Mobahi, Allen Y. Yang, Shanka...
CVPR
2010
IEEE
1341views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised Detection and Segmentation of Identical Objects
We address an unsupervised object detection and segmentation problem that goes beyond the conventional assumptions of one-to-one object correspondences or model-test settings betwe...
Minsu Cho (Seoul National University), Young Min S...
ICIP
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Texture-Based Segmentation of Satellite Weather Imagery
Unsupervised segmentation of weather images into features that correspond to physical storms is a fundamental and difficult problem. Treating an infrared satellite image as a Mark...
V. Lakshmanan, Victor E. DeBrunner, R. Rabin
ECCV
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Image Segmentation by Branch-and-Mincut
Efficient global optimization techniques such as graph cut exist for energies corresponding to binary image segmentation from lowlevel cues. However, introducing a high-level prior...
Victor S. Lempitsky, Andrew Blake, Carsten Rother