It is a challenging and important task to retrieve images from a large and highly varied image data set based on their visual contents. Problems like how to fill the semantic gap b...
In this paper, we report the results of a comparative study on skin-color models generally used for facial region location. These include two 2D Gaussian models developed in normal...
Juwei Lu, Qian Gu, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, Ji...
The Hidden Markov Model (HMM) has been widely used in many applications such as speech recognition. A common challenge for applying the classical HMM is to determine the structure...
We introduce a nonparametric representation for graphical model on trees which expresses marginals as Hilbert space embeddings and conditionals as embedding operators. This formul...
We apply a novel theoretical approach to better understand the behaviour of different types of bare-bones PSOs. It avoids many common but unrealistic assumptions often used in an...