We present an efficient method for learning part-based object class models from unsegmented images represented as sets of salient features. A model includes parts' appearance...
If all features causing heterogeneity were observed, a mixture of experts approach (Jacobs et al., 1991) is likely to be superior to using a single model. When unobserved or very n...
While mutual information-based methods have become popular for image registration, the question of what underlying feature to use is rarely discussed. Instead, it is implicitly as...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Many of today's Web applications support just simple trial-anderror retrievals: supply one set of parameters, obtain one set of results. For a user who wants to examine a num...