Various problems in machine learning, databases, and statistics involve pairwise distances among a set of objects. It is often desirable for these distances to satisfy the propert...
People-Finder Systems are knowledge repositories that attempt to manage knowledge by holding pointers to experts who possess specific knowledge within an organization. This paper ...
—This paper proposes a dominant color based vector quantization algorithm that automatically categorizes image regions. In contrast to the conventional vector quantization algori...
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a widely-used tool for obtaining low-rank approximations of nonnegative data such as digital images, audio signals, textual data, financ...
—This paper presents a method to find salient image points in images with regular patterns based on deviations from the overall manifold structure. The two main contributions ar...