When glancing at a magazine, or browsing the Internet, we are continuously being exposed to photographs. Despite of this overflow of visual information, humans are extremely good...
This paper presents a new approach to discriminative modeling for classi cation and labeling. Our method, called Boosting on Multilevel Aggregates (BMA), adds a new class of hiera...
Assessing similarity between features is a key step in object recognition and scene categorization tasks. We argue that knowledge on the distribution of distances generated by sim...
Gertjan J. Burghouts, Arnold W. M. Smeulders, Jan-...
A face recognition system must recognize a face from a novel image despite the variations between images of the same face. A common approach to overcoming image variations because...
Abstract. This paper presents a method to segment the hand over complex backgrounds, such as the face. The similar colors and texture of the hand and face make the problem particul...