We introduce an efficient statistical modeling technique called Mixture of Principal Components (MPC). This model is a linear extension to the traditional Principal Component Anal...
Our goal is to automatically determine the cast of a feature-length film. This is challenging because the cast size is not known, with appearance changes of faces caused by extrin...
Multinomial distributions are often used to model text documents. However, they do not capture well the phenomenon that words in a document tend to appear in bursts: if a word app...
Rasmus Elsborg Madsen, David Kauchak, Charles Elka...
In object tracking, change of object aspect is a cause of failure due to significant changes of object appearances. The paper proposes an approach to this problem without a priori ...
Stone is widespread in its use as a building material and artistic medium. One of its most remarkable qualities is that it changes appearance as it interacts with the environment....
Julie Dorsey, Alan Edelman, Henrik Wann Jensen, Ju...