This paper presents a new image segmentation framework which employs a shape prior in the form of an edge strength function to introduce a higher-level influence on the segmentati...
Transfer learning allows knowledge to be extracted from auxiliary domains and be used to enhance learning in a target domain. For transfer learning to be successful, it is critica...
ally related entity types, or classes, into higher level, more abstract types, as part of a hierarchical classi®cation scheme. graphy, generalization retains the notion of abstrac...
Cognitive systems are trained to recognise perceptually meaningful parts of an image. These regions contain some variation, i.e. local texture, and are roughly convex. We call suc...
A text retrieval method called the thematic geographical search method has been developed and applied to a Japanese encyclopedia called the World Encyclopædia. In this method, th...