In this paper, we tackle the problem of characterizing the aesthetic appeal of consumer videos and automatically classifying them into high or low aesthetic appeal. First, we condu...
We introduce an algorithm to estimate the optimal exposure parameters from the analysis of a single, possibly under- or over-exposed, image. This algorithm relies on a new quantita...
The popular bag-of-words paradigm for action recognition tasks is based on building histograms of quantized features, typically at the cost of discarding all information about rela...
Grouping and Abstraction Using Simple Part Models Pablo Sala and Sven Dickinson Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, Canada We address the problem of ...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel pixelwise representation for visual tracking that models both the spatial structure and dynamics of a target in a unified fashion. The represe...