Abstract— Separate processing of local luminance and contrast in biological visual systems has been argued to be due to the independence of these two properties in natural image ...
—Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a signicant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images a...
Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev S...
A popular framework for the interpretation of image sequences is based on the layered model; see e.g. Wang and Adelson [8], Irani et al. [2]. Jojic and Frey [3] provide a generativ...
Semantic inference is a core component of many natural language applications. In response, several researchers have developed algorithms for automatically learning inference rules...
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...