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ISCAS
2008
IEEE
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Human activity recognition for video surveillance
—This paper presents a novel approach for automatic recognition of human activities from video sequences. We first group features with high correlations into Category Feature Vec...
Weiyao Lin, Ming-Ting Sun, Radha Poovendran, Zheng...
DAGM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Localised Mixture Models in Region-Based Tracking
An important problem in many computer vision tasks is the separation of an object from its background. One common strategy is to estimate appearance models of the object and backgr...
Christian Schmaltz, Bodo Rosenhahn, Thomas Brox, J...
ACCV
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Levels of Details for Gaussian Mixture Models
Mixtures of Gaussians are a crucial statistical modeling tool at the heart of many challenging applications in computer vision and machine learning. In this paper, we first descri...
Vincent Garcia, Frank Nielsen, Richard Nock
IROS
2009
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
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Transferring embodied concepts between perceptually heterogeneous robots
— This paper explores methods and representations that allow two perceptually heterogeneous robots, each of which represents concepts via grounded properties, to transfer knowled...
Zsolt Kira
ICASSP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A generalized family of parameter estimation techniques
The Extended Baum-Welch (EBW) Transformations is one of a variety of techniques to estimate parameters of Gaussian mixture models. In this paper, we provide a theoretical framewor...
Dimitri Kanevsky, Tara N. Sainath, Bhuvana Ramabha...
KDD
2002
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
SyMP: an efficient clustering approach to identify clusters of arbitrary shapes in large data sets
We propose a new clustering algorithm, called SyMP, which is based on synchronization of pulse-coupled oscillators. SyMP represents each data point by an Integrate-and-Fire oscill...
Hichem Frigui
ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Growing Gaussian Mixture Models for Pose Invariant Face Recognition
A major challenge for face recognition algorithms lies in the variance faces undergo while changing pose. This problem is typically addressed by building view dependent models bas...
Ralph Gross, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Statistical Modeling Approach to Content Based Video Retrieval
Statistical modeling for content based retrieval is examined in the context of recent TREC Video benchmark exercise. The TREC Video exercise can be viewed as a test bed for evalua...
Milind R. Naphade, Sankar Basu, John R. Smith, Chi...
ICPR
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Visual Abstraction of Wildlife Footage Using Gaussian Mixture Models and the Minimum Description Length Criterion
bstraction of Wildlife Footage using Gaussian Mixture Models and the Minimum Description Length Criterion David Gibson Neill Campbell Barry Thomas Department of Computer Science Un...
David P. Gibson, Neill W. Campbell, Barry T. Thoma...
ICPR
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Robust Playfield Segmentation using MAP Adaptation
A vital task in sports video annotation is to detect and segment areas of the playfield. This is an important first step in player or ball tracking and detecting the location of t...
Jean-Marc Odobez, Mark Barnard