Abstract. In this paper we consider latent variable models and introduce a new U-likelihood concept for estimating the distribution over hidden variables. One can derive an estimat...
JaeMo Sung, Sung Yang Bang, Seungjin Choi, Zoubin ...
A serious problem in learning probabilistic models is the presence of hidden variables. These variables are not observed, yet interact with several of the observed variables. As s...
Gal Elidan, Noam Lotner, Nir Friedman, Daphne Koll...
There has been a concerted effort from the Video Retrieval community to develop tools that automate the annotation process of Sports video. In this paper, we provide an in-depth i...
Mark Baillie, Joemon M. Jose, Cornelis Joost van R...
This paper presents a hybrid approach for named entity (NE) tagging which combines Maximum Entropy Model (MaxEnt), Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and handcrafted grammatical rules. Eac...
This paper shows how to improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs) for phone classification by applying various speaker adaptation techniques. These include Maximum A Poste...
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Daniel Jurafs...