Much research effort on Automatic Image Annotation
(AIA) has been focused on Generative Model, due to its
well formed theory and competitive performance as compared
with many we...
Scalable image retrieval systems usually involve hierarchical quantization of local image descriptors, which produces a visual vocabulary for inverted indexing of images. Although ...
Rongrong Ji (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xing...
Burstiness, a phenomenon initially observed in text re-
trieval, is the property that a given visual element appears
more times in an image than a statistically independent
mode...
This paper introduces a new shape matching algorithm for computing correspondences between 3D surfaces that have undergone (approximately) isometric deformations. The new approach ...
Art Tevs (Max Planck Institute Informatik), Martin...
Face recognition algorithms need to deal with variable
lighting conditions. Near infrared (NIR) image based face
recognition technology has been proposed to effectively
overcome...