The paper is devoted to the problem of estimating the number of people visible in a camera. It uses as features a portion of foreground pixels in each cell of a rectangular grid. ...
clustering of documents according to sharing of topics at multiple levels of abstraction. Given a corpus of documents, a posterior inference algorithm finds an approximation to a ...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...
Twitter, a micro-blogging service, provides users with a framework for writing brief, often-noisy postings about their lives. These posts are called "Tweets." In this pa...
The growing movement of biologically inspired design is driven in part by the need for sustainable development and in part by the recognition that nature could be a source of inno...
This paper presents a user recommendation system that recommends to a user new friends having similar interests. We automatically discover users’ interests using Latent Dirichle...