During face-to-face interactions, listeners use backchannel feedback such as head nods as a signal to the speaker that the communication is working and that they should continue sp...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Iwan de Kok, Jonathan Grat...
Most of the online multimedia collections, such as picture galleries or video archives, are categorized in a fully manual process, which is very expensive and may soon be infeasib...
The Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition communities are facing two challenges: solving the normalization problem, and solving the deep learning problem. The normalization pro...
We present a variational Bayesian framework for performing inference, density estimation and model selection in a special class of graphical models--Hidden Markov Random Fields (H...
Li Cheng, Feng Jiao, Dale Schuurmans, Shaojun Wang
Markov random fields (MRFs) are popular and generic probabilistic models of prior knowledge in low-level vision. Yet their generative properties are rarely examined, while applica...