We investigate when sparse coding of sensory inputs can improve performance in a classification task. For this purpose, we use a standard data set, the MNIST database of handwritte...
We describe an unsupervised learning algorithm for extracting sparse and locally shift-invariant features. We also devise a principled procedure for learning hierarchies of invari...
Local features are widely used for content-based image retrieval and object recognition. We present an efficient method for encoding digital images suitable for local feature extr...
Mina Makar, Chuo-Ling Chang, David M. Chen, Sam S....
In this paper we present a method for learning classspecific
features for recognition. Recently a greedy layerwise
procedure was proposed to initialize weights of deep
belief ne...
Mohammad Norouzi (Simon Fraser University), Mani R...
Visual codebook based quantization of robust appearance descriptors extracted from local image patches is an effective means of capturing image statistics for texture analysis and...