The most popular way to use probabilistic models in vision is first to extract some descriptors of small image patches or object parts using well-engineered features, and then to...
We present a new approximate inference algorithm for Deep Boltzmann Machines (DBM's), a generative model with many layers of hidden variables. The algorithm learns a separate...
The success of kernel methods including support vector machines (SVMs) strongly depends on the design of appropriate kernels. While initially kernels were designed in order to han...
Autoassociator is an important issue in concept learning, and the learned concept of a particular class can be used to distinguish the class from the others. For nonlinear autoass...
In recent years, large databases of natural images have
become increasingly popular in the evaluation of face and
object recognition algorithms. However, Pinto et al. previously
...