In this paper, we propose a novel appearance-based representation, called Structured Ordinal Feature (SOF). SOF is a binary string encoded by combining eight ordinal blocks in a ci...
ShengCai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xiaotong Yuan...
Abstract Investigating a data set of the critical size makes a classification task difficult. Studying dissimilarity data refers to such a problem, since the number of samples equa...
Elzbieta Pekalska, Marina Skurichina, Robert P. W....
Existing feature extraction methods explore either global statistical or local geometric information underlying the data. In this paper, we propose a general framework to learn fea...
Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha, Shaohua Kevin Zhou...
The success of kernel methods including support vector machines (SVMs) strongly depends on the design of appropriate kernels. While initially kernels were designed in order to han...
Online image repositories such as Flickr contain hundreds of millions of images and are growing quickly. Along with that the needs for supporting indexing, searching and browsing ...