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ICML
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Dirichlet aggregation: unsupervised learning towards an optimal metric for proportional data
Proportional data (normalized histograms) have been frequently occurring in various areas, and they could be mathematically abstracted as points residing in a geometric simplex. A...
Hua-Yan Wang, Hongbin Zha, Hong Qin
ICIP
2009
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Efficient Distance Estimation For Fitting Implicit Quadric Surfaces
This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the shortest Euclidean distance from a given point to the corresponding implicit quadric fitting surface. It first estimates t...
Angel D. Sappa, Mohammad Rouhani
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COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Metric Learning for Synonym Acquisition
The distance or similarity metric plays an important role in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of a number of metr...
Nobuyuki Shimizu, Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa,...
ICML
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Information-theoretic metric learning
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative e...
Jason V. Davis, Brian Kulis, Prateek Jain, Suvrit ...
CAIP
2009
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Human Age Estimation by Metric Learning for Regression Problems
Abstract. The estimation of human age from face images is an interesting problem in computer vision. We proposed a general distance metric learning scheme for regression problems, ...
Yangjing Long