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ACCV
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Latent Gaussian Mixture Regression for Human Pose Estimation
Discriminative approaches for human pose estimation model the functional mapping, or conditional distribution, between image features and 3D pose. Learning such multi-modal models ...
Yan Tian, Leonid Sigal, Hernán Badino, Fern...
CORR
2010
Springer
238views Education» more  CORR 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Face Identification by SIFT-based Complete Graph Topology
This paper presents a new face identification system based on Graph Matching Technique on SIFT features extracted from face images. Although SIFT features have been successfully us...
Dakshina Ranjan Kisku, Ajita Rattani, Enrico Gross...
CVPR
1999
IEEE
1104views Computer Vision» more  CVPR 1999»
16 years 5 months ago
Geodesic Active Contours for Supervised Texture Segmentation
This paper presents a variational method for supervised texture segmentation, which is based on ideas coming from the curve propagation theory. We assume that a preferable texture...
Nikos Paragios, Rachid Deriche
JOTA
2011
149views more  JOTA 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Globally Convergent Cutting Plane Method for Nonconvex Nonsmooth Minimization
: Nowadays, solving nonsmooth (not necessarily differentiable) optimization problems plays a very important role in many areas of industrial applications. Most of the algorithms d...
Napsu Karmitsa, Mario Tanaka Filho, José He...
UAI
2003
15 years 4 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...