As computers become ubiquitous in our every day lives, providing a means for true user empowerment will become crucial. Techniques which allow dynamic reuse and composition of exi...
This paper presents an efficient inference algorithm of conditional random fields (CRFs) for large-scale data. Our key idea is to decompose the output label state into an active s...
From conventional wisdom and empirical studies of annotated data, it has been shown that visual statistics such as object frequencies and segment sizes follow power law distributi...
Alex Shyr, Trevor Darrell, Michael Jordan, Raquel ...
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
Recognizing and localizing specular (or mirror-like) surfaces from a single image is a great challenge to computer vision. Unlike other materials, the appearance of a specular sur...