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ICCV
2009
IEEE
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Beyond the Euclidean distance: Creating effective visual codebooks using the histogram intersection kernel
Common visual codebook generation methods used in a Bag of Visual words model, e.g. k-means or Gaussian Mixture Model, use the Euclidean distance to cluster features into visual...
Jianxin Wu, James M. Rehg
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Mining models of human activities from the web
The ability to determine what day-to-day activity (such as cooking pasta, taking a pill, or watching a video) a person is performing is of interest in many application domains. A ...
Mike Perkowitz, Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fish...
AND
2009
13 years 4 months ago
Discovering voter preferences in blogs using mixtures of topic models
In this paper we propose a new approach to capture the inclination towards a certain election candidate from the contents of blogs and to explain why that inclination may be so. T...
Pradipto Das, Rohini K. Srihari, Smruthi Mukund
UAI
2003
13 years 7 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...

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Hunting Nessie -- Real-Time Abnormality Detection from Webcams
We present a data-driven, unsupervised method for unusual scene detection from static webcams. Such time-lapse data is usually captured with very low or varying framerate. This ...
Michael D. Breitenstein, Helmut Grabner, Luc Van G...