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CVPR
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Earth Mover's Distance metric
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) approximates a given data matrix as a product of two low rank nonnegative matrices, usually by minimizing the L2 or the KL distance between ...
Roman Sandler, Michael Lindenbaum
TIP
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Optimum design of chamfer distance transforms
—The distance transform has found many applications in image analysis. Chamfer distance transforms are a class of discrete algorithms that offer a good approximation to the desir...
Muhammad Akmal Butt, Petros Maragos
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast solvers and efficient implementations for distance metric learning
In this paper we study how to improve nearest neighbor classification by learning a Mahalanobis distance metric. We build on a recently proposed framework for distance metric lear...
Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul
ECCV
2008
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Illumination and Person-Insensitive Head Pose Estimation Using Distance Metric Learning
Head pose estimation is an important task for many face analysis applications, such as face recognition systems and human computer interactions. In this paper we aim to address the...
Xianwang Wang, Xinyu Huang, Jizhou Gao, Ruigang Ya...
SODA
2008
ACM
200views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Clustering for metric and non-metric distance measures
We study a generalization of the k-median problem with respect to an arbitrary dissimilarity measure D. Given a finite set P, our goal is to find a set C of size k such that the s...
Marcel R. Ackermann, Johannes Blömer, Christi...