While Boltzmann Machines have been successful at unsupervised learning and density modeling of images and speech data, they can be very sensitive to noise in the data. In this pap...
Yichuan Tang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Geoffrey E. Hi...
Many traditional methods for shape classification involve
establishing point correspondences between shapes to
produce matching scores, which are in turn used as similarity
meas...
This paper describes a face detection approach via learning local features. The key idea is that local features, being manifested by a collection of pixels in a local region, are ...
Xiangrong Chen, Lie Gu, Stan Z. Li, HongJiang Zhan...
This paper proposes a new Bayesian framework for solving the matting problem, i.e. extracting a foreground element from a background image by estimating an opacity for each pixel ...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Brian Curless, David Salesin, Rich...
For Motion Picture Special Effects, it is often necessary to take a source image of an actor, segment the actor from the unwanted background, and then composite over a new backgro...