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JMLR
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Domain Adaptation: A Small Sample Statistical Approach
We study the prevalent problem when a test distribution differs from the training distribution. We consider a setting where our training set consists of a small number of sample d...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sham M. Kakade, Dean P. Fost...
EDBT
2011
ACM
225views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
12 years 8 months ago
On (not) indexing quadratic form distance by metric access methods
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
Tomás Skopal, Tomás Bartos, Jakub Lo...
ICCV
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Non-rigid object localization and segmentation using eigenspace representation
This paper presents a novel non-rigid object localization and segmentation algorithm using an eigenspace representation. Previous approaches to eigenspace methods for object track...
Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela
ML
2008
ACM
110views Machine Learning» more  ML 2008»
13 years 2 months ago
A theory of learning with similarity functions
Kernel functions have become an extremely popular tool in machine learning, with an attractive theory as well. This theory views a kernel as implicitly mapping data points into a ...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Nathan Srebro
JCC
2002
73views more  JCC 2002»
13 years 4 months ago
Linear scaling approaches to quantum macromolecular similarity: Evaluating the similarity function
: The evaluation of the electron density based similarity function scales quadratically with respect to the size of the molecules for simplified, atomic shell densities. Due to the...
Pere Constans
IJCV
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Correspondence-free Structure from Motion
We present a novel approach for the estimation of 3D-motion directly from two images using the Radon transform. The feasibility of any camera motion is computed by integrating over...
Ameesh Makadia, Christopher Geyer, Kostas Daniilid...
ACIVS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient and Flexible Cluster-and-Search for CBIR
Content-Based Image Retrieval is a challenging problem both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we present a flexible cluster-and-search approach that is able ...
Anderson Rocha, Jurandy Almeida, Mario A. Nascimen...
APWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
An Incremental Prefix Filtering Approach for the All Pairs Similarity Search Problem
Given a set of records, a threshold value t and a similarity function, we investigate the problem of finding all pairs of records such that similarity between each pair is above t....
Hoang Thanh Lam, Dinh Viet Dung, Raffaele Perego, ...
SIGMOD
1999
ACM
112views Database» more  SIGMOD 1999»
13 years 8 months ago
A New Method for Similarity Indexing of Market Basket Data
In recent years, many data mining methods have been proposed for finding useful and structured information from market basket data. The association rule model was recently propos...
Charu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu
ECCV
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Learning a Fine Vocabulary
We present a novel similarity measure for bag-of-words type large scale image retrieval. The similarity function is learned in an unsupervised manner, requires no extra space over ...