Semantic region labeling in outdoor scenes, e.g., identifying sky, grass, foliage, water, and snow, facilitates content-based image retrieval, organization, and enhancement. A maj...
Matthew R. Boutell, Jiebo Luo, Christopher M. Brow...
When constructing a classifier, the probability of correct classification of future data points should be maximized. We consider a binary classification problem where the mean and...
Gert R. G. Lanckriet, Laurent El Ghaoui, Chiranjib...
We propose a local, generative model for similarity-based classification. The method is applicable to the case that only pairwise similarities between samples are available. The c...
One problem of data-driven answer extraction in open-domain factoid question answering is that the class distribution of labeled training data is fairly imbalanced. This imbalance...
Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klako...
The goal of discriminant analysis is to obtain rules that describe the separation between groups of observations. Moreover it allows to classify new observations into one of the k...