Contrary to popular belief, despite decades of research in fingerprints, reliable fingerprint recognition is an open problem. Extracting features out of poor quality prints is t...
Sharat Chikkerur, Venu Govindaraju, Alexander N. C...
Extracting sentiment from text is a hard semantic problem. We develop a methodology for extracting small investor sentiment from stock message boards. The algorithm comprises di...
Feature misalignment in object detection refers to
the phenomenon that features which re up in some
positive detection windows do not re up in other pos-
itive detection windo...
Zhe Lin (University of Maryland at College Park), ...
Higher order spatial features, such as doublets or
triplets have been used to incorporate spatial information
into the bag-of-local-features model. Due to computational
limits, ...
This paper presents a nonparametric discriminant HMM
and applies it to facial expression recognition. In the proposed
HMM, we introduce an effective nonparametric output
probabi...
Lifeng Shang (The University of Hong Kong), Kwok-P...