110 views179 votes14 years 11 months ago ICASSP 2011»
In this paper, we propose examining the participants in various meetings or communications within a social network, and using sequential inference based on these participant lists...
Most of existing crowd simulation algorithms focus on the moving trajectories of individual agents, while collective group formations are often roughly learned from video examples...
175 views221 votes14 years 7 months ago ICCV 2011»
We present a method whereby an embodied agent using visual perception can efficiently create a model of a local indoor environment from its experience of moving within it. Our me...
164 views212 votes14 years 7 months ago ICCV 2011»
The mean is often the most important statistic of a dataset as it provides a single point that summarizes the entire set. While the mean is readily defined and computed in Euclid...
Recommender Systems (RS) suggests to users items they will like based on their past opinions. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most used technique to assess user similarity bet...
292 views250 votes14 years 3 months ago WACV 2012»
We present a novel algorithm, Compact Kd-Trees (CompactKdt), that achieves state-of-the-art performance in searching large scale object image collections. The algorithm uses an or...
261 views232 votes13 years 10 months ago CVPR 2012»
Stereopsis provides an additional depth cue and plays an important role in the human vision system. This paper explores stereopsis for saliency analysis and presents two approache...
225 views232 votes13 years 10 months ago CVPR 2012»
Camera spectral sensitivity plays an important role for various color-based computer vision tasks. Although several methods have been proposed to estimate it, their applicability ...
229 views226 votes13 years 10 months ago CVPR 2012»
Modeling representations of image patches that are quasi-invariant to spatial deformations is an important problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a novel concept, t...
288 views292 votes13 years 10 months ago CVPR 2012»
Active range acquisition systems such as light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and time-of-flight (TOF) cameras achieve high depth resolution but suffer from poor spatial resolutio...