The bag-of-words approach has become increasingly attractive in the fields of object category recognition and scene classification, witnessed by some successful applications [5, 7...
Abstract. Most current approaches to recognition aim to be scaleinvariant. However, the cues available for recognizing a 300 pixel tall object are qualitatively different from tho...
We present an active learning approach to choose image annotation requests among both object category labels and the objects’ attribute labels. The goal is to solicit those labe...
Consider the task of a mobile robot autonomously navigating through an environment while detecting and mapping objects of interest using a noisy object detector. The robot must re...
Nearest-neighbor queries are an important query type for commonly used feature databases. In many different application areas, e.g. sensor databases, location based services or fac...