In many vision problems, we want to infer two (or more) hidden factors which interact to produce our observations. We may want to disentangle illuminant and object colors in color...
We examine clarification dialogue, a mechanism for refining user questions with follow-up questions, in the context of open domain Question Answering systems. We develop an algori...
Head pose is an important indicator of a person's focus of attention. Also, head pose estimation can be used as the front-end analysis for multi-view face analysis. For examp...
This paper details the results of a Face Authentication Test (FAT2004) [2] held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. The contest was held ...
Kieron Messer, Josef Kittler, Mohammad Sadeghi, Mi...
Local tag structures have become frequent through Web 2.0: Users "tag" their data without specifying the underlying semantics. Every user annotates items in an individual...