In this paper, we propose a novel appearance-based representation, called Structured Ordinal Feature (SOF). SOF is a binary string encoded by combining eight ordinal blocks in a ci...
ShengCai Liao, Zhen Lei, Stan Z. Li, Xiaotong Yuan...
Evaluating the similarity of images and their descriptors by employing discriminative learners has proven itself to be an effective face recognition paradigm. In this paper we sho...
Traditionally, direct marketing companies have relied on pre-testing to select the best offers to send to their audiences. Companies systematically dispatch the offers under consid...
Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Gio...
Manifold learning is an effective methodology for extracting nonlinear structures from high-dimensional data with many applications in image analysis, computer vision, text data a...
Abstract. We present a comparative study on how to use discriminative learning methods such as classification, regression, and ranking to address deformable shape segmentation. Tra...
Jingdan Zhang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Dorin Comaniciu...