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2007
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The Distribution Family of Similarity Distances
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-...
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SODA
2008
ACM
144views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
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Fast dimension reduction using Rademacher series on dual BCH codes
The Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform (FJLT) was recently discovered by Ailon and Chazelle as a novel technique for performing fast dimension reduction with small distortion fr...
Nir Ailon, Edo Liberty
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NIPS
2007
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A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
RIAO
2007
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Investigating Retrieval Performance with Manually-Built Topic Models
Modeling text with topics is currently a popular research area in both Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (IR). Most of this research has focused on automatic methods thou...
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
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RSS
2007
173views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
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Mapping Large Loops with a Single Hand-Held Camera
— This paper presents a method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), relying on a monocular camera as the only sensor, which is able to build outdoor, closed-loop map...
Laura A. Clemente, Andrew J. Davison, Ian D. Reid,...
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