Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) uses approximate gradients estimated from subsets of the training data and updates the parameters in an online fashion. This learning framework i...
The accurate localization of facial features plays a fundamental
role in any face recognition pipeline. Constrained
local models (CLM) provide an effective approach to localizati...
Appearance Models (AM) are commonly used to model appearance and shape variation of objects in images. In particular, they have proven useful to detection, tracking, and synthesis...
Fernando De la Torre, Alvaro Collet, Manuel Quero,...
We present a model of a `gas of circles', the ensemble of regions in the image domain consisting of an unknown number of circles with approximately fixed radius and short ran...
Peter Horvath, Ian Jermyn, Zoltan Kato, and Josian...
The method of Moving Least Squares (MLS) is a popular framework for reconstructing continuous functions from scattered data due to its rich mathematical properties and well-underst...
Christian Ledergerber, Gaël Guennebaud, Miriah ...